Klamath republican., October 07, 1909, Image 2

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the beginning of more projects than WILL CAPITAL BK INI RKANFt»? wlth thè laws applicabili thvreto."
So far as Ih«- increaso ls concvriied
H ere was likely to be mon«* yenough
l»r«-»ideiit Taft Will I rg<- Congr,»» to •o complete within a reasonable time.
Plan» tli<* Npringtiig of K It is slmply a caso ut Imokkeeplng. It
Authorize Bond Issu«* for th«-
infilets no addltlonal burdon; It per­
1« ltiers Spent Their Money.
Surprit»- on N'rge laimlow nera.
Completion of I*rujecta.
niila of no escati«- frolli ili«- ubllga-
The tiressure was doubtless gnat
« In ini IOO Shari-» Limit
iloti» heretofuro assume«!, and oppo
and the reclamation service yielded
The promoter« of the Hurgnln
In reference to the speech on con- to the pressure within the letter «»I
sitlon to It ls slmply Indicative of un
Week Idea uro filled with satisfaction
•ervatlon delivered by President Taft th«- law, and now finds itself In the
What are th«- stockholders of the «mreasonablo desìi«- to he "fornlnst"
and th«- merchants who backed Ihi-
at Spokane Tuesday, a communica­ situation described. The work has Water Users’ association going to do everythlng
proposition by the Issuance of a i'iil
tion from that city gives the follow­ I ven well done and reflects great when they meet on th«* 22d? That 1.«
logtle are glad they did SO. It WUH
ing:
credit upon the engineers who have the question that is agitating the
not expected that thus curly In th«-
In his speech President Taft de­ had charge of it.
minds of many nowadays, and Is be-
Miller A Lux had 800 beef and w«-«-k would the results of tile move
clared thai he would ask Congress to
llut something must be done to iug aske«l throughout tin- cou-.ity l-y
stock cattle pass through Merrill be felt, but yesterday und today th«-s«-
authorize the issuance of $10.000.000 it-lieve th»- present situation, which tin--«- v. ho ar«- Interested in th-- out-
Hebron yester- merchants have felt the benefits fol­
Friday for Mount
Jn bonds to complete the irrigation is one of disappointed hopes to nianv cont«- of that meeting. Whether th«-
Al
day to be shipped to their big ranch lowing upon the experiment.
projects already la-gun in the West . a--tilers upon the arid lands who vot«- will be in favor of increasing I
at Los llanos In Merced county, till. ready the people from the country
dnd on which work had been stopped coiinti-d upon an early completion -al th«* capital stock or otherwise It will
This makes nearly 4,000 head they have i-otuiuenced to take advantage
for lack of funds.
the projects undertaken and invest«-I leave two tactions in th«- county be­ 'have shipped out of th«- 10.000 bend of the bargains offered, mid have
lh*c la ration Cheer«-«!
i money and spent their time tic. I tween which th«- f«>eling is going to bought of the Heryford Lund and I'otue In goodly numbers to buy. If
This had been the hope of many I seemed to b«> no nearer th«- goal of be bitter. There is going to be a
Cattle company of Lakeview There th«- usual pere«’Utage of Increase con
settlers in the arid regions who had saibfatcory irrigation than they vei« finish fight. It will b«* 11 survival of will b«- about 4,000 mor«- to take sequent upon such events will be
the fittest, auti after the meeting
taken up lands in expectation of pro­ when the projects were begun.
away. The balance of th«- young manlfosti-d this week, then Thursday.
those in the saddle are going to de­
curing a supply of water to make VYill tsk Congress for Money.
stock will be wintered nt Chewaucmi Friday and Saturday should s«-«- lively
them fertile, and the president’s dec­
I think it wise to apply to congress man«! that their views be respected valley.
times In the business circles of the
I to the letter.
laration was enthusiastically cheered. for relief by urging the passage of
city.
Th«- same firm bought of Del Brut-
The president declared that many an enabling act which shall permit
One of the important points on tain. William Dobbins and Mr .lack-
That the people of the country are
newspapers had drawn unfair Infer­ the secretary of the interior to issue w hich there is going to be n most son of Paisley ubout “00 beef cattle, Interested lu th«- matter Is proven by
ences as to the attitude of his admin­ bonds in th«* sum of $10,000,000 or bitter struggle is the . voting of the which are now on th«- road to Mount the many inquiries that have been
istration on the general conservation mor«- to complete all th«* projects now- I number of shares of th«- sttM-khold- Hebron.
■ mad«* regarding It
It Is a safe pre­
of natural resources.
projected.
These bonds should be | ers. Up until a few days ago It was
The Miller A Daley company of diction that If a fair hud been held
redtH-med from- the money paid into believed that then- would be no ques­ Lakeview are at Merrill with 5C-0 this year In connect Ion w It I i the Hur­
<\>nf«-rs With Ballinger.
The president sat up on hts train I th«- reclamation funds after the com­ tion raised on this point. It being cattle, which wore sold to Swanson gain W«-ek that the profits of th«-
generally admitted that the land­ A Son of Sacramento.
until after midnight dictating his pletion of the projects.
merchants of the town would have
From conversation with the sen­ owners would vote every acre of
speech. He consulted freely with Sec­
surpass«-«!
all records.
O. T. McKendree shipped eight
stock
they
owned,
whether
It
be
one
ators
who
have
visited
much
of
the
('Jose
watch
la being kept on th«-
retary Ballinger before beginning the
cars of lambs to Lewis Gerber of
share
or
ten
thousand.
But
th«*
op
­
work on the address and again when reclamation work and given an exam­
Sacramento and Comas A Co. f Oak matter, and If the merchants are sat-
Isfled that It Is a paying proposition
the rough draft had been completed ination to progress, I infer that such ponents of th«- increasing of the cap­ land from here last Tuesday.
a proposal as this seems to them to ital stock are not going to grant tin-
this morning.
Llebe Mitchell purchased
purchasi-d about they propose to make It a permanent
That portion of the president’s be the best way out of th«- present right without a fight, and it Is under­ C.30 cattle of Frank Grohs mid other Institution of the county seat. Sim­
speech referring to the reclamation 1 trouble, and I shall take pleasure in stood that word is being passed-down parties of the Lakevl«-w country las’ ilar «-vents have b«-en held by clth-s
recommending the passage of such a the lin«- that a legal loophole has been wick. This stock Is going to Gazelle throughout th«- United States, and
of arid lands is as folows:
The plan of the government to re­ remedial measure by the next con- discovered whereby only th«- 160
Horae«- Dunlap turned over about wherever one«- triad It has always
I
-shart-s
can
be
voted.
What
effect
this
claim the arid and semi-arid lands, gross.
4 00 head of stock cattle a few dayn b«-en continued, and Klamath county
misinformation
is
going
to
have
re-
should be no exception to the rule.
manifested in the reclamation act, has Urgent N«-e«l for Funds.
ago to Senutor W••«•«!.
been carried out most rapidly by the
No one can visit this Western coun­ , mains to be seen, but any man w ho
Lewis Gerber came to town Thurs- It would seem, therefore, that Bar­
¡remains away from the nn-eting on
bureau charged with its execution. 1 try without being overwhelmingly
day from Sprague river. He bought gain Week Is here to stay, anil lt It
permits such
had the honor the other day in Col­ convinced of the urgent necessity for.**1*8 account or w*1°
the Bloomingcamp Bros . Flnlw V does the merchants of the city will
him on«- way
the
proper
treatment
of
arid
and
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influence
orado of opening the most ambitious
Son an«l th«- George Boyd cattle for have much to congratulate t hem­
u|K.after the
semi-arid
lands
bv
the
extension
of-
or
other
will
wak-
of these projects—at least the most
later shipment. Mr Gerber n«s h«> selves on.
systems
of
Irrlgathm.
The
r.-sults
,in
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never saw so many stock cattb* l«*uv
difficult of them—the Gunnison tun­
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lied.” Every share of stock will be mg Klamath and Lake counties l>c-
I In- Pro|»-r Equipment
nel, which is to bring water into a in the productivity of the soil when
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, voted and can be legally. That is
iore. He predicts the running of big
valley in Colorado known as the Un- irrigated are marvelous. The mere
A Methodist bishup was recently a
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:the opinion of the leading lawyers of
bands of cattle will soon be u thin : guest nt th«- home of a fried who hud
compahgre valley, with some 150,000 fact that the reclamation service has
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! the city, and no amount of argument
of the past, as land Is becoming too two charming daughters On«- morn­
acres, and to put it in a condition to gone ahead too fast ought not to pre-
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is going to change* that law. Insofar
valuable.
vent coagress lending its aid to over- 1
grow fruit and cereals.
ing th«- bishop. nccompanl«'<l by the
u difficulty.
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u o «. know- as the meeting of October 32d is con-
Th«- beef cattle- ar«- practically all two young ladles, went out in the
come • the
We shall
Thirty Projects Contemplated.
c<.Id. There will not b<> as many cat­ hope of latching some trout, An olii
There are some thirty projects better in the future treatment of the “rn<
It would seem, however, that the tle fed as heretofore In til«- M«.-rr||l fisherman out for the same purpci-«-,
subject
and
in
the
further
use
of
which have been entered upon by the
opposition to the increasing of the country, as the alfalfa men of that wishing to appear friendly, called
reclamation bureau, and I believe al) available funds how to avoid putting
capital stock of the association is as­ region are holding their hay too high, out:
of them are to be commended for ourselves in a similar position again.
suming a false attitude, There Is i.r<l th«* cattle men cannot afford to
' Ketchin’ many, pard?”
their excellent adaptation for the pur­ Models for Private Enterprise
Meantime irrigation works under nothing radical about the i proposi-
The bishop, straightening himself
pose for which they are being erected
|tion; there is nothing in it that
When a big cannon was raised to his full height, replied:
and for the speed with which the private auspices are being projected
nights
should cause anyone to sit up
I
"Brother, I am a fisher of men.”
from the bottom of the sea off the
work has been done. It is said, how- in every direction and the prospect of
i
and worry. It will not cost the stock­
reclaiming
millions
of
acres
from
the
I
"You've got th«- right kind of bait
English
coast,
where
It
had
lain
for
a
ever, that in the planning of a num­
holders any more than if matters re-
deserts
all
right," was the fisherman's re­
is
most
encouraging.
The
ex-
century
and
a
half.
It
was
found
that
ber of these improvements the en­
l mained as they are. It is simply a
joinder.
Success.
the action of sand and pebbles had
thusiasm of the projectors has carried amples of government engineering I
legal technicality, and one that was
worn one side to almost Immeasur­
them to a point where they begin and of ingenuity in planning the
I provided for in the by-laws of the
According to «-xperts of the Rock«-
able thinness.
to feel embarrassed in the matter of structures in these various govern­
association.
Article 1, section 12,
feller
Institute, th«- tse-ts«- fly does
resources with which to complete the ment projects for irrigation are of
I provides that “if the number of acres
not
cause
the dreaded African sieep-
An
effective
stain
for
photographic
projects, and begin to show that pru­ immense utility as models for private
of irrigable land or the cost of the darkroom windows may be made by ing sickness, which has been attrib­
dence was not observed by those en­ enterprise.
works, or both, as determined by the ¡ dissolving five parts of acaroid gum uted to It, but
only Incidentally
gaged in executing them; that the Would Insist on Payments.
United States, shall exceed th«- num- in five parts of 95 per cent alcohol. spreads the malady by carrying the
One matter that is now being agi-
projects were too many and more
ber of shares of the capital stock au­ Th«- addition of a little castor oil Will germ from an Infected person to a
than could be completed in a reason­ tated in some quarters calls for no­
thorized herein, appropriate amend- prevent it cracking or peeling.
new subject.
able time after their beginning be­ tice. Payment for irrigated lands is
, ment of the articles of incor­
required in ten annual installments.
cause of a lack of funds.
poration as to the number of shartts,
J. P. Churchill and wife and ll. V.
E. C. Reame» from the Spring
Suggestions
are now being made that
Provision of Reclamation Act.
the par value thereof and the capital Patterson of Yreka arrivevd Mondai Lake country was In the city Satur­
The reclamation act provides for these should be lengthened into a stock shall be made in compliance morning via auto.
day.
the expenditure of funds made up by 1 longer term. I sincerely hope that
the sale of public lands and reim­ congress will not listen to such ap-
t
MIRHIAGE Llt'ENHEH
Sio.ooo.ooo FOR RECLAMATION
Joe Voao and N«-ttle A Melhuae.
Mr. Vose Is a son of (L E. Vose, who
Is the proprietor of ilo- old Hoyt
hotel at Kort Klumuth Miss Molliti»«
I n the daughter of Richard Melhaae
of Kort Klumuth Both of the purlieu
uro well known
residents
of
thia
eou lily.
Rufus II. McKinney und Nellie M
Eredenburg, both of Fort Klumuth.
Miss l-'redi-nbuig «urne formerly from
Jui-kHon county.
The làisHcngor train will probably
ho four hours Into for the i neri
week
Th«* delay will be due to > th-
wooka. The delay will b<> dm- to I til«-
brenklng of the propeller attuti on I Uli’
ferryboat, thus m-coHaitutlng t tu-
Southern Pacific to run their trains
around by Stockton. This will In- n
<!<•« I«led advantage to travelers from
th«- north, for It will enable them to
rem it this city tlu- day following their
departure from Port lumi
IF
DePUY
DR. A. A.
EYE. EAR, NOSE, THROAT
With
R
Dr. F. M Whi e, over First
Nutiunnl Bank
M.
RICHARDSON
United States Commissioner
TIMBER ANI» HOMESTEAD
PROOF TAKEN
Office, Third un<J Main, opposite City
Library.
Telephone .Itti.
BENSON A. STONE
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
.luir ri cun Bank
and Tru.it Bldg.
KLAMATH
FALLS
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■ OREGON
C. C. BROWER
ATTORNEY AND
COUNSELOR AT LAW
KLAMATH FALLK, OREtiON
ROOMS 7 AB. MURDOCK BLDG
WILL A. LEONARD
DENTIST
Wlthrow-Melhase Hui Idi ng
DR. C.
P.
MASON
DENTIST
Office in American Bank A Trust Con
pany's Building
PHONE 614
KLAMATH FALLS
OREGON
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bursed from time to time by the in­ peals. It may be well to make the
installments nom-'
stallments to be paid by the settlers first three or four
inal,
but
after
that
time the install-!
who take up the irrigated land, and
also provides that no part of a pro­ ments should be large enough to pay
ject is to be contracted for and begun the total amount due, upon which no
until the money for the completion interest is calculated in ten years.
of that part of the project contracted Any other course would encourage
for shall be in the reclamation fund. lack of thrift and industry, and great­
ly embarrass the extension and con­
Need for $10,000.000.
Now it appears that it will take tinuance of the work of irrigation.
$10,000,000 or more, which is not
available in the reclamation fund at
present, fully to complete the projects
and it also appears that a great num­
ber of persons, by reason of the be­
ginning of the projects, have been led
into the making of settlements, the
expenditure of time.and labor, with
the hope and reliance that such rec­
lamation enterprise would be carried
through in a reasonable time.
Says Too Many Were Start«-«!.
Woman's Ixtgie
"My opponent’s argument,” said
Senator Dolliver in a recent campaign
"has about as much logic—Did you
ever hear about the young woman in
Fort Dodge?
One spring morning
she sat on the piazza of her pretty
i little home sew ing a button on her
husband's coat. The husband him-
self appeared and she said fretfully,
‘It's a perfect shame the way the
I think that there is no doubt that tailor sewed this button on. This is
it was the intention of congress that the fifth time I’ve had to sew it on
such projects should not be multi­ again for you.’ ”—Everybody's.
plied in such a way that they could
Pn-|Miratory to Getting Off.
not be completed within a reasonable
I—IAS your boy or girl got
11 a bank account with
the First Trust and Sav­
ings Bank? If not The
Republican will start one
for nothing
time with the funds provided by the
■
sale of public lands, and it would
Hub {arriving home from offi«-;)— (
probably have been wiser to adher? Weill dear, and how is the new ccok
strictly to the limitation thus con- getting on?
Wifey—She’s getting on her things
strued, even though the language of
to
leave, that’s how.—Boston Tran- >
the act, by dividing up the projects
into parts on terms seemed to permit script.
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