The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-15

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LES IN 1906.
CIV tl,rlvcs upon climate. " 5 Ali
There are now three companies there
sredeemlng lands ito the amount o e. about
three hundred thousand acres. 5 II eyis are
5wo..>-@1g hrder the government reclor1 a.
&tion projects, the government 81 wing the the
lands to the settlers, who are 4 to II pay
fixed rates for the { wa ter II i ts. The
companies will charge a bout $40 per acre
for such rights, and: after that 4 a main
Rtenance fee Of d dollar pei, acre per year.
IN those regions It Is &estimated that
eighty acres is n a GOODS zed far a ar
! at that rate the vail will furnish ABOUT
four thousand farms, giving It popula:-
8tlon Of twenty thousand souls. Another
project Is to reclaim the great Silver La e
4 desert ~ the surplus waters Of the
aDeschutes River, which now runs to
waste in the win time. I'M Il 3 ls
Ell Cne q OF the 3 largest 5$8 city irrigation
schemes Is that OF the Owens River This
is to be brought over the mountains Ito
Los Angeles from q q bout y two hundred
miles away 4 It will 81 We water to g huns
$dred HI thousand acres, and r at he same
time furnish n the ii cityFs with sall ut can
use and give It ian enorrno,l wv "a ter p Wer.
3 The cost OF the d dertaking will he
something like s25, 900. The & river Is
now flowing along In valley higher
than the tops OF the Alleghanies in Penn-5
&sylyania. The valley 5is about ten miles
wide and over one hundred miles A long,
and between At and Los Angeles Ri are
moro than two hundred miles Of deserts
and mountains In order to bring 1t to
the city,4slt will have to be taken for q
great part Of the distance through q
mighty canal. It will have to pass through
mountain tunnels for twenty miles, and
the tunnels will each & be- as vide Z as q
country road and as high as a Pullman
8csr. They will, however, be used only
for the water. $}s I'm 5tt
& For q part Of the way ho4canal will go
along the sides of Eli the hills, where re-
tanning walls will have to be built, and
ono hundred and fifty miles Of it will
pass through land which can be exca-
waited with steam shovels. All ~ told, It
will take at least five thousand men la
boring steadily for four years to build
+ the works needed. IA Isl u .si
The Owens River Power.
II The water engineers estimate that the
fall Of the water Will u produce, ninety
thousand horse-p power. and that there
will be q million tons OF water dropping
down daily out of q channel fourteen
4 feet wide in vertical fall Of more than
a quarter Of a mile This power will,
~ is estimated. sell for more than enough
to pay tho interest on the Investment.
It Will be furnished within twenty-five
miles OF Los Angeles. and the receipts
&tEerefrom will, it is calculated bring In
something like 4 per cent. ron the total
investment The undertaking Of scheme
like this gives one some Idea Of the Los
Angeles spirit The people Of that city
a are among the best boomers of the West.
Every oneSIs interested In the growth
of his town, and is willing to spend time
and money to help 1t. Los Angeles has a
chamber OF commerce building which be-
longs to the city, and Its chamber Of
commerce comprises 800 members. who
each pay 81 per month. a magnid cent
exhibit Of the products and manufac lures
of Southern California Is always on show,
and new scheme are gotten up every
week or so to advertise the country and
push other methods OF increasing the
population. VI & Il
Portland After the Fair.
Another city. which has been growing
very rapidly Is Portland. Oregon. AL
though It cost the people something, tho
exposition was q paying investment, 1t
was not succeeded by slump at tho
close. such as Chicago had after the
Worlds Fair and such rs st. Louis felt
for time at the end Of the st. Louis
Purchase Exposition, The merchants OF
Portland tell me that business has been
good right along and that their trade
has steadily Increased. Tho Jobbers are
now doing n business of something like
two hundred million dollars a year. hich
Ia thirty or forty million dollars more
than In the days before the exposition
Real estate values have gone UP fully
25 per cent, and lots on the principal
| business streets are now selling at one,
two and three thousand dollars q front
| foot. There arc many now esldences and
seyeray skyscrapers in course lof con-
struction, AZ
The Richest on the Pacific,
| Portland men claim that their town IL,
man for man, the richest on the Pacific
coast. and that the people are more
evenly we'll to do than In any other city
of tho world. Portland has ranked
among tho wealthiest cities for many
years, It is surpassed only by Frankfort-
on-the-Main, which gets Its wealth
| through the Rothsohilds and other big
banking interests, and by Hartford, Cons
necticut. which Is corpulent with tho
savings of tho poor stored away In the
l various insurance monopoles. 4i3
| The richest OF Portland come from busi-
moss and trade, Its situation. well inland
| on the wide and deep Columbia. makes Il
4 an excellent shipping point for a great
part Of the inland empire, and 1t Is one
| Of the chief lumber ports OF the world
! It ships In the neighborhood of million
barrels OF flour every year, and vast
| n mount of barley and wheat. H tit .lfEs2
| banking Institutions, with deposits of be.
| tween forty and fifty million dollars. and