The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-08-26
The interior of orenon.

tedi!i anu located IN some cOZy nook by
| the river. or in a fertile cover on the
| mountain side, was not aware OF the
many possibilities hidden in the depths
| OF the unknown future. He is still liv-
ing I'm many cases. in the same old
/ spot and in the self-same manner as
when he first established his home, at
| mat time numbering one among the
few hundred located within this vast
inland empire, which, at the present
| writing, IS covered with ranch homes
and homeseekers cabins. There are.
| OF course, thousands of acres of waste
land that will, according to all present
| knowledge, never produce anything; at
| the same time there are many thou
sands or acres of good land, when put
| under proper cultivation, will produce
| certain crops in great profuson fully
compromising the owner for all money
| spent in making the necessary inn
| provements.
1t is unkind and misleading to the
| aomeseeker to misrepresent a country
- him when defining its resou,. es,
| therefore the writer desires TO tell the
! truth as nearly as possible. The home
seeker who comes il1to a certain locui-
| lty under MISREPRESENTATION is sure to
retrace his steps, and speak i'll Of the
! country and the people residing there
N. He is not SATISFIED and seeks n To-
cation that will meet with his expccta-
tons. This inland country has abund-
"''. iS''otiNeo WHICH dire CfGultaDle, ana
numerous locations where the home
seeker can establish and improve a de-
sirable. IL not q beautiful home
During the past year the several To-
cnlities, which have been opened up in
Canada, have received over $4,000
honeseekers from the United States
alone, while from foreign countries
and the eastern part of their own coun-
try as many more, if not double the
amount have migrated to this vast, new
country. This is remarkable but no
more so than should be the case of this
intensely valuable inland country in
oregon. Washington and Idaho. Here
In the central interior of Oregon are
needed many thousand ranchers and
farmers. There are, however, few
homesteads or claims Of government
land that are worth filing on: at the
same time there are hundreds of ranch
es partly developed that can be pro-
cured at a very low figure, which many
times are more desirable than Il public
claim. A man with a few thousand
dollars can purchase a magnificent
home, while the man with IL few hun
dfed dollars can secure loan sutfici-
emily large to purchase like home,
paying off the mortgage as is most con-
Venient The opportunities are here.
All that Is now needed to mako the
country forge ahead are more good
practical farmers, smaller ranches, and
d uiNelSltE Oh crops. ...
Among the localities now Offering the
pest advantages to the homeseeker
within Eastern Oregon are the follow
ing; At Bend. in Crook county Ca new
location 80 miles from Prineville), are
found some of the best agricultural /
openings in the Pacific northwest.
During the past year thousands of
acres of arid desert land have been
converted. by means of large irriSating
projects, into vastly fertile farming
country. People are coming from av-
cry direction and investigating in this
vicinity. On the west side of,the Des-
chutes river is located the Columbia
Southern Land project, where $1,000
acres have been irrigated and mostly
sold under the Carey act, ranging in
price from IS to SIS per acre. on the
east side of the ri"er is the Deschutes
1rrlsat1ng project; this latter named is
very much longer than the former.
there being 100000 acres of land tribu,
tary to the ditch, which is now II miles
long ana is not yet completed The
extreme upper end of the ditch where
the water is taken from the Deschutes
is located about three miles above the
town OF Bend, the ditch passing within
the towns borders. The Hume which
conveys the water to the ditch is one
ana one-third miles long and sufficient
~ large to convey all necessary water
to the arid lands below. Some idea of
the magnitude OF the hume can be de-
rived from the fact that the construc-
ton Of the one and one third miles of
fume alone consumed 1900 pounds Of
nails.
Another very similar opportunity IS
afforded the homeseekers by the turn
Ing OF the waters OF the Columbia riy-
er and tributary streams, by means Of
permanent bitches, onto the desert
lands near Echo and Irrigon, which
are located along the o. r. N. rail-
road. Land in these localities has
seekers. =
Other desirable locations are to be
naa IN any OF the creek bottoms or
sulches, which are numerous in the in
land empire. Where water can be Sc
cuerd in sufficient quantities to irri-
gate, the level land can be made to pro-
duce almost anything that win grow in
the northwest.
ana sage-brush copied from Crook
county pamphlet on the Deschutes pro-
ject, is briefly as follows:
Oregon's sage and juniper covered
plains are rapidly being transformed
into most productive belts, where agri-
culture in all its phases is carried on
With tue most satisfactory results r.
rigation and free land in the state OF
oregon form the magic combination
that is now peopling Crook county and
making veritable bower Of pleasant
fields, and thriving, happy homes for
people who come from less favored re-
gions. That day and generation in
which the humble wage Garner, or the
farmer in moderate circumstances.
could obtain cheap homes in the West
is now rapidly waning. Little land re-
mains TO be taken in the west under
the homestead laws that can easily or
cheaply be reduced to cultivation.
Most all the choice irriga ole land in the
north Pacific coast states has been
Withdrawn from entry under the Des-
ert land act by the United States gov
eminent and practically that which re-
manned to be taken under Tie proyis-
lions Of the Carey act, and watered by
irrigation companies is gone."-Pacific
Homestead. -"
California Irrigation Project.
. There has been set aside $y,00O.C0O
for the construction OF an Irrigation
works on the Colorado river above
Yuma, Cal. The irrigable lands in the
Colorado basin consist almost entirely
Of long narrow valleys. ranging from
r to 10 fec; in elevation above the
stream in low water. A high percen-
tage of these lands Is Inundated by tho
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