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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1909)
-Jl WII1UIJJIPJ. ."IIHlillJIll Hill) ij DHWipilSU S51iSBL3JEEt? JSii." &. , DAILY OAWTAIi JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1000. THE CAPITAL JOURNAL E. IIOFEH, Editor and Proprietor Independent Newspaper Dovotcd to American Principle and the ITogross and Dorclopemont of All Oregon. Hubllthal Kvory Btenluir Kxcept Sunday, galom, Oru. SUIWC'HIITIO.V RATES. (Invariably In Advance) Dully, by earrlor, per your W.00 Per month Wo Dally, by mail, per year. 4.00 Per month 3Ac Weekly, by mall, per yenr. ....... '.00 Six months Mo HAPPENINGS ON THE ROAD TO THE BURNS COUNTRY Harney County, July 1, 1909, In the first seventy-five miles of our trip we did not en counter any alkali to speak of, All the cattle we saw were in good condition, We saw many herds of Herefords and Dur ffamsi The shoep were out of sight In the higher ranges, Another name for the beautiful Beulah valley is Agency valley It should be Evergreen valley, The big mountain is called Agency hill, after an Indian agency and school that was conducted here for many years, We reached Drewsey at 3 p, m, July 1, and at 3:30 drove out to get over the Stinking Water range into the Harney valley, .staying at the Buchanan madhouse, about thirty miles out of 'Burns, I had had no sleep for forty-eight hours but what I could snatch on the buckboard on a mountain road and hit the hay with a dull thud, Tho Stinking Water valley is about 3600 feet above tho sea level, The fossil Indications are that this is an oil country, Like the farmer's cow dog, it ought 1o be good for something, A railroad through central Oregon Is likely to develop both coal and oil, D, M, Watson of Port 'and has naid a great deal of attention to oil fields, and savs he is confident Malheur and Harney will one day become one of tho greatost oil fields in the United States, An oil well is is back of the Malheur high-line project, They initiate the proposition, float the bonds, organize the Boise and Owyhee Construction Company to build the reservoirs and ditches, or ganize the Farmers' Owyhee Irrigation Company, which holds a $50 share of stock for each acre of land put under a per petual water right of one foot per acre, This perpetual water right is subject to an annual maintenance charge, The $50 an acre is the total cost of putting in the irrigation system and is divded into thirteen payments, $2,00 an acre down, $2,00 an acre when water goes on, The rest In annual payments that run up to 355,00 an acre, but by that time the land is pro ducing profitab e crops, Development of water and creating wealth bv DUttine it on the soil s in its infancy, The wizard wand of modern finance is only beglnnng to be waved, At 7 o'clock we were sxteen miles on the road at old Fort Harney, one of the landmarks of the country, From here, as a side line to fighting Indians the soldiers built a military road through to Boise, Idaho, It is still traveled in places, but is mostly abandoned and gone back into the sage, At Harney one gets an impression of what the country would be like if put under irrigataion as it will be some day, Green fields, the air cool and fresh with perfume of flowers and the rich smell of blossoming clover takes the place of the pungent odor of sage and the dry dust-laden atmosphere ot aridity, Dairy ing would displace cattle-punching, and steam and electric railroads the long, weary rides in open dust-covered stages, 4 railroad must precede the transformation of the Harney valley, At present there is no incentive to development of irrigation projects that would roll millions of wealth annuallv out of rich soil, because there is no outlet for the producU, When the first railroad enters the Harney valley a lot of Port land men will get Into Pullman cars and diners, take a few barrels of beer and a few thousand cigars and go pn an c. wision to annex the new territory commercially just as t'io have recently at Klamath Falls and other places, "Boys, no killed the bear," One thing the whole state must give Portland credit for tiiat is liberally advertising the whole state, The Lewis anil Clark fair got all Oregon in the limelight of publicity and wc have been kept under the spotlight ever since with Increas'n.i results, While still ultra-conservative, that is increasingly tie tendency of older communities, I he first pioneers are natu Be Wise in Time You cannot keep -well unless the bowels arc regular. Neglect of tills rule of health invites half the sicknesses from -which we suffer. Keep the bowels right; otherwise waste matter and poisons which should pass out of the body, find their way into the blood and sicken the whole system. Don't wait until the bowels arc constipated; take BEECIiilTO PILLS They arc the finest natural laxative in the world -7 gentle, safe, prompt and thorough. They strengthen the stomach muscles, and will not injure the delicate mucous lining of the bowels. Beechm's Pills have a constitutional action. That is, the lonpcr you take them, U.e lcq frequently you need thejn. They help Kuuirc help herself and Keep the Bowels Healthy Bile Active & Stomach Well In Dozes 10c und 23c with full directions money is absorbed by the endless delays of red tape and officialism, and up to" date five projects have been completed, Caldwell, Idaho, thousands of people have waited three years In vain for water to go onto land, They find that the annual promises of the government are only made to be broken, They have no recourse and cannot "sue for damages, Hun dreds have left their lands and gone elsewhere to make a living, In the midst of these reflections Burns appeared on the c horizon and in two hours we were in the biggest Inland town in the world 135 miles from a railroad, It was decked with bunting, fluttering with flags, thronged with people in gala attire, with horses races, a celebration, grand ball, and devel opment congress on the program, being sunk in Harney county and four or five are being put L,y progressive, With wealth 'comes conservatism, The tin. down In Malheur county, In driving from Vale to Burns one crosses three great di vides, The view from tho tops of these great backbones running across tho state reveals thousands of square miles of elevated sllvory peaks and plateaus, silvery with sagebrush and alkali, with limestone and chalk, These vast regions are mostly worthless for grazing because devoid of grass and water, uninhabitable because unproductive of grain and vege tables, and dovoid of fuel, What will becomo of this region? It will not evon support grasshoppors, It will remain a desert, Tho Stinking Water ridge is about 4600 feet high, or 1000 feot above tho valley, That irrigation and reclamation sys toms, storage reservoirs and artesian wolls and wind mills and powor pumps will reclaim somo of these lands no one can deny, Supplied witli wells or small reservoirs to got water for cattle, tho cattlo business will bo oxtondod, A band of coyotes running rabbits on Nigger Flat was the first sound we heard Friday morning when tho 3 o'clock call came, Tho sun started on its daily illuminataion with groat spokes of orango and azuro bluo in its chariot wheels, and as Its first rays tippod tho silver on tho sagobrush we startod on tho long last run down Into tho Harney valloy, Tho six hours sloop in tho mountain rpad liouso after going without for forty-olght hours was the swootost I havo nad In many years and was alono worth tho price of tho whole trip, uom Mainour ana rinrnoy county aro to bo complimented on kooping up good roads, Somo of tho groat climbs up and down tho mountains aro really wondors of engineering in a way and would bo a surprise to thoso who imagmo this a wil dornoss, Tho second section of our caravan carrying Mr, Grimes, Jack Smith and Lawrence came out of Drewsey after a few hours sloop n a livory stable hay-mow, Tho town is wide opon with saloons, pokor games and a cemotory for tho name ass doad, who aro buried bonoath unpaintod posts tho vic ims of accidental gun-plays, It was tho first touch of real high life we had of tills kind, and tho gang mado a good get away, whoro ovory saloon proprietor in tho town offers you a ireo drink at sight, and sots 'om up evory time you buy some thing, 9 cm DrouiS the ,)rr!n.ciPnl nwrcantllo firm is Portor, Millet Ji bitz, with Clarence Drmkwator as manager, who is no tender foot, and knows tho country porfoctly, He is putting through a good telephone servicea heavy codar post sot in the ground with a tapering sawed polo spliced on to carry tho wire, I ho Harney valloy is a groat expanso of sagebrush, with here and there elevations, somo almost mountains, surrounded by the plain, Hore and there a new farm house, with barn and windmill, shows signs of settlement, All around rise the low enclos ng rim of mountains, At tho oast ontrance we see away off to tho south Stein's mountain covered with snow, Driving thirty miles along the north side of tho valley to Burns ono gets a conception of tho possibilities of development, Of course, tho watorholes and creeks are about all takon up and tho men back of tho reservoir and storage idoas are just com ing into the fiold, Tho government engineering projects are air very largo and expensive, So aro tho big capitalized con oorns, like the Brogan project on the Willows, But ho is taking land worth $10 air acre and making it worth $300, Many pretty Irrigated patches of land whore two to four hundred acres of land aro ho ding a water right that Irrigates ono o. two hundred acres will somo day becomo reservoirs and supply water for ten thousand acres with irrigation, In place of one man holding a croek and watershed tor his own little ranch, his place will be bought up for a reservoir, a dam built twenty feet high across the neck of the valley, enough melting snow and waste waters held up to irrigate ten or twenty thousand acres, There are places around the Harney Valley for hun dreds of such minor projects that smaller private capital can construct, I am not speaking now of corporations like the Trowbrldge-Nlvers Company, that has put in 1 69 projects and will come when the labors of Tom Richardson and his associa tion will be more fully appreciated than at present, One of the first big, cold, hard chunks of frozen fact o i hits about irrigation enterprises is that private capilal can put water onto land for about half what it costs Undo Sam to do it, The eight-hour law is in effect, and unless, circum vented by technicalities Is a tremendous obstacle to goveT ment projects, doubling the cost of engineering; and every step of progress, The officials take advantage of it and there -o such swarms of them that appropriations melt away and ':e MONEY LOANED On Real Estate LONG-TIME, EASYgPAYMENTS Reliable Representatives wanted THE JACKSON LOAN & TRUST CO. 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