Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-11-09

Iil
..iopal visit through centra'
e. IN an interview with
.ssl reporter, said in part;
eush born and raised in Ore
had never before gone through
,entral portion of the state.
<.hded to see something OF cen
oregon, and after staging from
E>,ko to Prineville. secured my
I.. conveyance and drove to Bend
<.End. Silver Lake, Christmas
~ valley and Klamath Falls, re-
-.ng through what is known as
f Walker basin, and vic Lebanon
M 10 the valley. While at Bend,
ent some days in going over the
irrigation district between
and Prlnevllle, where water
the Deschutes river is carried
N hundreds OF thousands of acres
ID sage-brush land. We visited
| Baldwin ranch. which is the
n i single holding, consisting OF
~ acres Of this farm were under
. aers OF this farm were under
n htion, the principal crops con-
10 OF alfalfa and barley. Fof
+ Ibrpose Of securing water for do
n purposes during the winter.
+ we're boring n well In the hope
ding artesian water. They were
a $40 feet but had found no
~ AZ a lower altitude although
p. cally in the same valley, these
an porers had struck water at 1SJ
81 and the water had risen nearly
surface, but seemed to flow
NTough the broken strata near
3 'uriaee. This fact gives much
'fagement 10 the thought that
|an water will eventually be-
IN That section. The work OF
y Is quite expensive, the price
being IS per foot, and about 50
'ool for the casing. which was
( by wagon a distance OF more
a hundred miles.
: needless 10 say that the vege-
grown upon those irrigated
was up TO standard in any
~ and ample proof OF the rich
1 oi the soil.
pe Silver Lake and Christmas
Velleys, are also abundantly
III agricultural lands, and al
. the greater portion Is yet in
'fash' and bunch-grass. the ad-
OF a railroad through eastern
'en'ral Oregon will certainly
f"iee as many acres OF this land
The plow, as are contained IN
willamette valley.
found people from many parts
'ae United States establishing
homes upon these lands. Bar 1
Nu rye were produced in pro-
si'hout irrigation, and I saw
'sA'ng machine at work where
u'ne's OF oats were cut to the
"Hhont Irrigation. More would I
'Ooueed \ now, but for the fact /
: % zoo miles 10 the nearest
~ station. In some parts of
0uu'ry We found potatoes doing
"ni'e IN other parts they were
0'aek by the frost.
prospects for the early com
i VI railroad was good, al
= NF' Hartman gave little en-
TO the people OF Prime
We were there at the same
~, I'm him and his party. About
'-'u apparent difference between
-Au the other people in Prime
as the train of automobiles,
! s'o.y was circulated that even
vas hired.
a' ume there were supposed
aOou' one thousand Hartman
IN eastern and central
We saw many of them.
-0n . OF their work. One line
eyed northly from klamath ,
Pig s The upper klamath lake.
i a.h marsh to what\ Is
the Graves place. about {
49,, sast OF Lake odel. Here {
a. the intended junction
80 road which is surveyed
uA'ario. Here they sur
half mile Of side-traekage.
we're there. To show the
. I'm, }. men who were employed B
|, 'n''y' cy' II is sufieient to say '
D,s. a'es furnished them with d
s -, o. butter three times a =
this point north. the q