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' Official Newspaper of Klamath County KLAMATH VOL. XI. REPUBLICAN. KLAMATH FALLS, KLAMATH COUNTY, OREGON, FEBRUARY 28, 1907. ENGINEER’S ESTIMATES Mr. Applegate Gives Facts and Fig ures in Reply to Mr. Taylor PRICE PAH) IS NOT EXORBITANT insuring its sale in small tract« to lioiw makers. f'liey ui«<> snrreii l«-r their contraci with Mr. Adams ui I r which tl.es.“ hinds weie to have > *• « li 111 igate'i from the Adams canal. Adams canal. Estimated cost to the builders, $72,875. lor the vein prioi to p.ircba-e by gov ernment, a little over 7 per cent on this amount als>ve exjienses. Cost to gov ernment $0)0,00“) netting a little mom than *'* p'-i cent on this amount the pas' season. Just reaching a point where it was l«issible to greatly imn-ase its reve nues. All land under it, including Mr. Adams’, subset il «'d to the Association and will pay its proportional part o: cost of project. Entire canal system to I h * used in g iVeinmeiit si stem without waste. I lie Keno Cut M ill take awa;. the entire water supply. Same must have been supplied nt expense of water users. Rights Were involved which might have meant almost en lie«““ liti gat ion and loss of time and c«m-e«pi"ii abandonment <»i the project. Ankeny-Henley Canal. Estimate« original eo-t to owners Official Newspaper of Klamath County NO. 48 NEW FACTOR IS LAUNCH Ei) TO ABOLISH POSTOFFICE Movement to Close Up Whitelake City and Change Route A movement La- been starte 1 to close the Wliitetake postollice and have the few p'-o| 1“ who now receive their mail there served from the Merrill office. Tiie matter has been taken up with the authoritie- in Washington. It won d seem that this is the last straw on the heavy load that has lieen weighting down this ill-fated enterprise. 8 nee the announcement that the South ern Pacific would huilii a line to Merrill a-t hope of anv rsissibilitv of re- Forma! Opening of the inland Empire Club Saturday Evening HAS AN IMPORTANT MISSION what they already had, namely, a vest Work under way on fencing and other ed right to thf use «4 205 second feet ot general improvements ami setting out of water. The governnient in quires tln-ii fruit and shade trees all denotes the cannl together with everything connect- tendency toward permanent and sub led therewith excepting the ?•)•'> second stantial improvements, making Die (tert ol wliter named; all their riparian driveways and highways more attrac I rights along Link river and Lake tive and the establishment of prece ¡Ewaiina; right of way lor canal pur- dents that will go far toward making i poses over all of their west side prop the Klamath Ba.-in numbered among erty and westsiders place a high valua the pleasant places in which to reside. tion upon their property, one of them The Adams dredger is widening the K i . amatii F ai . i . h , O hk ., Feb. 2<i, 190«. demanding $3500 for a small strip oi his railload grade south of the Macadam The Inland Empire club was ch ris E ditor Rm hi i < ax : — lot for the Keno canal); all rights of road and the main canal is nearing com tened last Saturday evening, ani! a I desire sufficient space in your news wav lor canals, etc., over 1200 acres < f pletion to the East, where large num splendid christening it was, too. < hith- paper for a short exposition on the sub other land; they are to pay their pro bers of teams are to lie seen moving to ered within the club rooms was practi ject of chiih I and reservoir site estimates portionate part of the cost of mainten and fro on the earthworks that are to cally every member of the organization, and purchases for the Klamath Project. ance of the Keno canal. Any water control the flood of water which will be augmented bv the members of the It is a matter of regret that there that is not used by them nmv be taken spread over broad fields by the irrigat Klamath Falls Military band, which should be any occasion for discussion of and disposed of by the government ors. It does one good to drive out along iurnished the music for the occasion. a subject that was satisfactorily disposed without notice or compensation. Tl e the country roads and see the fields The event was a memorable one, and of nearly two years ago; nor would United States may at any time, by giv when then green is just peeping through marked the real beginning of an organi there be anv were it not for certain agi ing six months’ notice, take all of the the earth. _______ _________ zation that will play a prominent part tators whoonaht to know better. 205 second feet of water mid substitute in the growth and prosperity not only Nome more statements and figures by therefor elect ric power or energy deliv of Klamath Falls but of the entire .1. Scott Taylor, published in last week’s ered bv wire. Klamath Basin. Republican and the Express, are looted The vote to date is as follow Now then, the 205 second feet of Occupying half of the third floor of witli amazement by those who are ac water is an actual light acquired by use ... 93 the Baldwin block, the club has head Mi-s Louise Sargeant............ . quainted with the facts in the case. and compliance of the law by the ... "8 quarters that are second to none out- Miss Stella Campbell................ This letter of Mr. Taylor’s purports to Moores, recognized by the government, ...47 side of Portland. And it has only be- Miss Archie Keesee.................. lie a reply to my communication on the and no legal power in the land can de All the late patterns in mercerized gun. The time is not far distant when subject appearing in The Republican of prive them of its use witnout due com drees goods at the Stilts’ Dry Goods Co the growth will make it necessary to the preceding week. | pensiition. The value of such right is acquire the entire third floor and tit it Cement sidewalks and crushed rock It is but fair to state that Mr. Taylor j mtie of our business ami ami makes not up in a manner that will bespeak the will be placed on several of the streets has had exceptional opportunities to one iota's difference m the cost of the wealth of the great section from which in the Hot Springs addition thie sum acquaint himself with every detail in project and the amount to be paid by the club takes its name. TlmuizF mer. ____ ____________ connect ion with the matter of discus- the water users. There is ample water scarcely started it has shown a vigl sion. 1' i“ therefore a-wumvd that h*. without it. making the piirchare of the that indicates that interest is not to b\ with this under water itself unnecessary. The only knows the truth, lacking, and with that as a barometer it standing I heiewith submit statements cost to the water users in connection is certrin to grow in ¡«jwer and influ Organize a State Society and Will and figures along with those of Mr. Tay with this agreement is the cost oi t) e ence each day. Boost Klamath County lor, a comparison of which will. I think, extra size of the canal to carry the 205 The social Saturday evening was enable anyone to measure the degree second feet of water a short distance to purely an informal affair, and as such The columbine was the flower, photos of credence to be placed upon what Mr. the point of diversion, an amount quite was thoroughly enjoyed by tlie large of mountain homes, mills, scenic spots Taylor says. insignificant in comparison with Mr. number of members attending, Card and remembered dells the subject of Referring to the cost to the govern Taylor’s $300,1)00 statement of cost to and other games were indulged in and conveisation, linked with personal rem ment of all the canals and reservoir the water users. The excavation made members further enlivened the occa sites in the Klamath Project, lie makes by Moore Bsothers in tlieir old canal iniscences, ami the cordial greetings BALDWIN BUILDING sion by gathering around the piano and the following statement: “Now what will all be utilized. Ttiis taken in con and cultivation of acquaintance between singing old college songs. The music Pome of the Inland Empire Club one hundred former residents of that were the engineers’ estimates of cost? nection with the concessions above furnished by the band was much ap- This building is typical of the spirit that is making the Klamath Basin the As near as we can ascertain they were enumerated will nearly, if not quite, s ate the crowning feature of the gather- ' preciated. great section that it is and the greater one that it will be. It is the only four less than $200,(M)0; mo $650,000 was (or offset the coat of delivery. I therefore i ur of Colorado people at A. O. U. W. About midnight lunch was served, story building in Southern Oregon. hall last night. Frank Ira White was will be) paid over and above the origi figure that the greater part of this item including salad, sandwiches, cake and nal estimates, and the Express was should be eliminated from Mr. Taylor's chairman of the meeting, w hich decided I coffee, followed by soft drinks and rather conservative in stating the statement. veurs prior ami up to time of purchase i suscitating the remains ot Whitelake unanimously upon a permanent organi cigars. amount at $400,000.” (Conservative The item of $10,000 for Keno Cut, J revenues paid above expenses an aver went glimmering. and now that the new zation to hold occasional social gather Though only a portion of the furnish seems to be rather an elastic term with move to strike oilt, also, on the ground age of r.earlv 7 percent on the alsive deal in transportation circles proposes ings and promote interest in Klamath ings are on hand, the rooms presented a Mr. Taylor.) that it is neither a reservoir site nor a amount. Cost to government $.50,000 to run a boat line to Merrill, there is by letters to Colorado friends with an comfortable, homelike appearance. The Following are estimates of cost of canal, unless Mr. Taylor is willing to in addition to recognition of vested little sunshine in store for the owners of I invitation that they come and receive floors are covered with small rugs, and canals and reservoir sites copied from include in his itemized statement the right to water for the irrigation of 179!) lots in what was to be the gem of sonth- some of the benefits that await all who writing and card tables are scattered the original “Estimates and report on cost of all rights of wav and waivers of acres, allowing that which they already ! ern Klamath. With the abolishing of locate in this basin. Houston’s orches- throughout the rooms, Most of the Klamath Project, April, 1906,” now on riparian lights throughout the entire had. This canal was essential to the the postoffice, Whitelake becomes t -a furnished music for the evening and leading magazines and many of the vocal selections were rendered by Oscar file in the office of the United States project. While we are at it let us look project and occupied a strategic posi ancient history. daily papers are to be found in the ______________________________ Reclamation Service at Klamath Falls, into this deal a little. Suppose we ap tion, the control of which made possible Wright and Miss Wright. There was a reading room. In the near future the magnificent spread in the dining room Oregon, which report and estimates ply to it the Taylor method of compu the acquisition of other properties need balance of the furnishings will be in I adjacent to the ball, and the ladies were were submitted to the Board of Con tation, system of reasoning, code of ed. Without it it would have been stalled, after which the acme of comfort, tendered the courtesy of the use of sulting Engineers of the Reclamation ethics and variety of conservatism. We much harder to have dealt with the convenience and pleasure will be found kitchen ami utensils of the Rebekahs. Service which met in Klamath Falls will assume that, aside from acquiring Klamath Canal Company. Realizing by the mnmbers. during the month of April 1905: There will be a permanent organiza the right to the use of all the land de this advantage, this company made the The membership of the club is now- Ch-nr Lake reservoir site... . $187,700 00 scribed in the agreement, we have se owners of the canal an offer of the same Remarkable Activity Prevalent in the tion of the Coloradans that will endeavor 77, and from present indications this Horse Fly reservoir site . .. . 20,894 00 cured control <>f the Klamath river over price paid by the government. to attract the interest and decision to Eastern Part of City will be greatlv increased in the near fu locate here of a great many people from Ankeny-Henley ditch............ 50,000 00 the land with its 60 foot fall. At this Klamath Canal. Total estimated ex ture. Klamath Falls and Klamath the irrigated districts of that state. The Ankeny-Henley vested water point the mean annual flow of the river penditures of company up to time of comity wishes the new organization right for 1799 acres........ 30,745 00 is perhaps 12’._. times the water owned purchase by United States, $83,538, a These days there is such activity plans for the society were delegated to God Speed, for it is fully realized that it. Klamath canal........................... 150,000 00 by Moore Brothers with double the fall. sum much less the Company’s estimate. around Klamath Falls that the average a committee consisting of eight mem will do much to build up one of the Mrs. A. W. Peil, Mrs. Adams ditch............................... 100,000 00 This gives 25 times the power and there Cost to government $1.50,000. The com citizen of the town does not realize the bers as follows: greatest sections on the Pacific ('oast. Van Brimmer ditch (water fore 25 times the value. 25 times $300,- pany had originally asked several times improvements under way or how much E. B. Hall, Miss Eliza Stilts, Messrs. E. The members of the Wowan’s Chris for 3368 acres).................. 57,559 00 000 is equal to $7,500,000, the present this amount, together with valuable is being done that will result, tn beauti B. Hall, John Stilts, F. I.. Wright, Moore Brothers’ rights on value of a $10,000 purchase, an amount concessions in the wav of water for fying the city and its vicinity. A Re Arthur C. Lewis and Frank Ira White. tian Temperance Union will hold their There were short talks by F. L. regular meeting Friday March 1st in the Klamath Lake.................. 15,000 00 more than ample to pay the cost power purposes, exclusive navigation publican representative had occasion Wright, R. W. Tower. F. C. Eldred. H. Baptist church, at 2:30 p. m. All are this week to make a trip out along the of the entile project including the privileges, etc. In order to save time Total.....................................$017,698 00 $650,000 “squandered” in the purchase and a little time might have cost the Macadam Road past Altamont and dis B. Wakefield, A. M. Worden, E. B. Hall invited. Emma Grigsby, Rec. Sec. N ote : A previous estimate on the 25c, 35c and 40c embroideries only of canals and reservoir sites. This is project) avoid long and expensive litiga covered several new residences that have and others, ami the occasion was marked Clear Lake property was $225,000, ex tion, and in justice to the dignity of the lately been completed o:> different parts by a degree of enthusiasm that bespeaks 16c per yard, Saturday, Feb. 23, at the high finance. ceeding the one given above It would seem hardly necessary to go United States Government, it was of the East Klamath Falls Tracts and good work in boosting Klamath, as the Boston Store. by........................................... 38,000 00 the same was noted toward the south membeis intend shall be the prime into further detail relative to cost of deemed advisable to pay this price. For bargains in city property see Right here I want to recall a little line of the same property, Sagebrush I object of the new society aside from cul Mark L. Burns. canal and reservoir sites, but for the in Making a grand total of.$655,698 00 It will be noted that there is a dffer- formation of the uninformed and the history in connection with this matter is being cleared in several places in tivating sociability and closer friend ence between M r. Taylor’s figures and misinformed, esjiecially, I shall discuss to illustrate the feeling of the people at order that the land may be brought ships between the former residents of those of the engineers’ of nearly half a the other purchases briefly. Most of the time. At the conference of the En under cultivation and other homes are the Centennial state. Saturday night the Horae Dramatic million dollars I Perhaps this is due to of the data is taken from the "Report gineers of the Reclamation Service and to be built. company will present the Southern com There is going to be something doing Seldon K. Ogle, who recently sold his by the Reclamation Service on the Board of Directors of the Water Users’ Mr. Taylor’s conservatism I edy drama in four acts-, entitled “The in the Hot Springs addition shortly. street, at residence property on Fifth association with the officials of the Klamath Project to the Klamath Water The Editor of the Express submits an Princess of Patches.” This will be one Bnv lots now and save from twenty-five itemized statement of cost amounting Users' association,” published and dis I Klamath Canal Company, April 14, the corner of Walnut, has completed of the best bills the company has pre to fifty per cent. to $851,500, adding thereto the follow seminated by the Water Users’ associa- I 1905, the Klamath Canal Company’s his new home, located on the Township sented. The usual cast of characters wdll offer to sell for $2.50,000 was rejected. Line a half mile East of the Macadam It is dollars to doughnuts and a mil appear in the play and new feature will printed by the tion. The same being ing: “That, Mr. Editor, is what the As a member of the conference, I well stockholders of the Water Users’asso Klamath Falls Express. remember the pressure that was brought road, and is rapidly making it a most lion to one shot that lots purchased now be beautiful illustrated songs between will show from one to three hundred the acts. Seats are now on sale at the to bear on us to give the company its attractive country place. site. Original Clear Lake resesvoir ciation will have to pay for canals ami John Matney, who built a new resi- per cent increase in value within two usual place. reservoir sites, eight hundred and fifty- estimated probable cost, 15,000 acres at price, or n little less if possible. I have not forgotten how we were condemned _________________ Actual cost for “holding up the project,” by some dence the past winter at the East side years. one thousand five hundred dollars.”(I!) $15 per acre, $225,000. Fine watch repairing. L. Alva Lewis. of Mills Ad lition, near the sanitarium $12.50 p««r acre. $187,500. A large pro- Another slight divergence! the very persons who now cry “graft” Pasture For Rent. Let us analyze an item or two in this portion <>f this laud is meadow, water and '‘exorbitant’' prices. The chief ob site of the Sisters’of St. Francis, lias i jector, himself, stated that lie would be sold the property to Charles E. Lewis One field, fenced, ..I «nit. 40 acres, and Statement: “Moore Brothers’ ditch, being controlled by dam. All riparian willing to give double the total price Regular meeting of Klamath lodge, one field fenied, about 120 acres. Apply 7,000 inches water for power, $300,01)0.” rights to water of (dear and Tide lakes paid for all canals and reservoir sites to who will soon occupy the home. Mr. Lands of the company on save a year's delay in the cun-«traction , Matney will probably build in another No. 13/. I. O. O. F., Saturday evening. to Hot Springs Improvement Co. (Whew!) A perusal of the contract acquired. March 2nd, at 7 :30 o’clock. There will lorn rtrin' and agreement between Moore Broth Tide lake (approximately 10,000 acres of the nrojert. Ciiitwoods Toilet cream will cure sun The Klamath Falls Express of Oeto-I Frank H. Hall, who recently pur- be work in the initatorv degree and a irrigable) subscribed to Water Users ’ ers and the United States, a copy of her 2.5, 190). says editorially: - “»d.-hased .......................... a hd’in Mill- s Addition, is pian bunch will be serve I. Visiting broth burn, tan and freckles. which is on file in the otlice of the association, thus paving about 1-20 of papei from the start upheld government j , Water User’s association, shows the the entire cost of the project; same irrigation for this section and wants to . ning to soon begin the erection of a ers cordially invited. By order of the i For choice farming and see A’ark L Burns. lodge committee. following facts: Moore Brothers retain land deeded in trust to the Association ee It a success, but when the Rec'nmn- residence. Complete History of Pur chase of Canals anil Wa ter Rights -- Erroneous Impressions Corrected. Can Lo Much to Pro- mote the Welfare of the Section From Which It Derives Its Name Tht CONTEST COLORADANS HEET CITY’S GROWTH TENDS EASTWARD At the Opera House I. O. O. F