The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-01-31
PROSPECTS fine
At HERMISTON
PRES. GREEN RETURNS FROM Ex-
cuRsIoN FULL OF ENTHUSIASM
AND REPORTS MANY SALES
MADE-PRosPEcTs MOST FLAT
TERING-WATER is PLENTY.

Pres. ]. S. Green of the Umatilla
| irrigated Lands Co.. with offices in the
Metropole, returned last evening from
a trip to Hermiston, Oregon, where
the Umatilla project is located. and
brought back glowing reports of things
as found there. Among the large party
who accompanied him on the last ex-
cursion every one invested at Hermis-
ton. To Forum man Mr.. Green said:
Il have just returned from Hermis-
ton, Ore, where MIR. Brodie, my part
ner, and myself took a party of people
last week. We had most excellent sue
cess and sold to every one in the par
ty. Sold to number of people in
Dickinson through their representative.
John Hartinger, to whom we sold
personally forty acres in section 21.
Mr.. Hartinger pays us $9.O74 for this
forty -acre tract, which does not in
clude the water--that he will have to
pay for to the United States govern
ment. IS per year for ten years with
out interest. He will make an elegant
home Of this and it will make him
rich. He also bought adjoining lands
for his friends at Dickinson.
A party of people from Scranton,
North Dakota also bought for them
selves and friends, also another party
from Aberdeen. s. D.. besides a num-
Der of selections for people in this
community.
Farming Is going on at present on
the project; the grass is green, our
reservoir is filling. The full capacity
Of the big feed ditch emptying into this
great reservoir is one Of the sights
of a life time. This reservoir is SO
large that the great feed canal, almost
river, runs some four months con-
tinually into the reservoir to fill 1t.
When we stood on the great dam, one
Of our party made note that the reser-
voir then contained $4,000 acre feet
and that by far the greatest part of
it was to be filled. This water comes
from the Umatilla river. which is the
snow melt from the Blue mountains,
fifty miles distant. These waters will
be available until about June /, when
the river goes practically dry, after the
snow melt is over. This Is a grand
irrigation system, the best that the
government has, and the lands under
1T will be selling, in five years, for
$4,000 or more an acre.
One man on the project, Mr.. Robb
with whom members Of our party talk
ed, has a beautiful home one mile
from Hermiston, to the west. His
home in North Dakota would cost not
less than $4,000. 1t has cost him in
Hermiston about $1,000 with all mod
ern improvements. He has ten acres
of land on each side of the road. He
has been offered $500 an acre for the
tract south of the road, on which he
has no improvements, except that it
is. fenced and in alfalfa and set to APP
pie trees, which are now year old.
The tract upon which his house
stands, on the north side of the road.
he told members OF our party he would
not sell now for 81 900 an acre.
There was an agricultural expert
ment station established last fall by
the state OF Oregon and the United
States government, one mile from
Hermiston. This is going toe show
great results and furnish much valu-
able information to the settlers on this
project.
/ was glad to notice that another
Land Company who are advertising
extensively locally have purchased
considerable land in our project re-
Gently. We are glad to have the OPP
prevail which this purchase suggests |
and 1t makes us still more confident |
that we have the best in 4America and |
that they have realized 1t. The presi- |
dent of the company referred to knows
a good thing as well as any man in |
Oregon, and 1t is a mighty good plan |
when he gets some land where the |
water system is alreaddy fully estab- |
lished and ready for immediate use.
1t took the United States govern
ment with its vast resources, q num-
Der of years to complete the system at
Hermiston and 1t may be a number of
years, and likely will be, before the
private irrigation project has actual |
water for the owners of the land, while |
our project has water in abundance
now. I understand their project now
contemplates "a storage of $40 of an
acre per foot for their lands. This
would seem entirely inadequate unless
they contemplate larger system. The
government storage capacity is 2 $40
acre feet, just "a inches more perpen-
iicular water. However, have no
ioubt but what both systems will re-