Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-26
development CAMPAIGN
IN KLAMATH FALLS BASIN
How Lands Have Advanced From SIPS to SIS an Acre.
Story OF How Reclamation and irrigation Are Transforming
the Great Klamath Valley.

the Upper Lake, with several miles
of track graded and rails laid. This
line will be put under trolley at an
early day. There is a large rock
crusher on the street car line, sup
plying material for paving the
streets.
The Reclamation System.
The government reclamation work
consists of an irrigation project in
volving an expenditure of $4,5OO.-
600. OF this, only 100000 has
/ been spent for a 3,700-foot tunnel
and ten miles of ditch. Completion
of this first unit of the Klamath
| Falls district puts 10000 acres un-
der irrigation There are 16 feet of
water at the immense concrete head.
gates, with 35 miles of lake back of
it, This lake is fed by many rivers
and the two klamath lakes have
watershed at least half as large as
the state of Iowa.
| Description of Klamath Falls.
The city originally started on the
bank of the Link river and was call
ed Linkville. 1t is now rapidly
growing away from the river, and
with it's numerous additions extends
over about two miles of territory,
east and west, and nearly as far
north and south. The city and its
additions are quite compact, and
the additions are all close in ami
fine natural sites for suburban
homes. The contour of the city and
the streets are perfectly natural ami
easily improved There are many
fine elevations for residences and
public buildings, but nowhere are
great cuts or fills required. Three
fine public school buildings are the
pride of klamath Falls. One cost
$4,000 and is built of cream-col-
ored sandstone. There is a $4,000
high school; $4,000 of bonds have
been voted for another brick school
house. Four years ago a four-roou
frame building contained the public
schools. Work has already begun
on $4,000 hotel, and bonds have
been sold for a $4,000 sewer sys-
TEN. Many brick buildings have
been erected for banks and merchan-
dising. The klamath Falls Develop
ment company has it's offices in
fine two-story brick. A good qua!.
ity of brick is made here
Model Passenger Depot.
The 100000 passenger station Of
the Southern Pacific railroad is built
of blue basalt, with cream granite
trimmings. The masonry is the
most beautiful angle-jointed random
rubble work, in which there are no
horizontal or perpendicular joints.
The building has hammered copper.
electric fixtures, tile walls, mosaic
floors, plate glass windows and mir
rors, closets and wainscoting in
white marble, and is heated by water
from the hot springs. This depot is
the most perfect structure of its kind
on the Pacific coast, and was built
by j. F. Steinman, who has been
foreman of erecting buildings for
this company since 1892.
Fight for Court House.
There is big fight on in Klam-
ath Falls for a new 100000 court
house, for which a slightly elevated
tract of five acres has been donated
by the klamath Falls Development
company. Some of the old-timers
are fighting the movement which is
pushing the city to the east, and, as
in all old towns want to keep every
thing up near the river where the
town started originally. The old
court house is a frame structure,
surrounded by Lombardy poplars.
and was good enough in its day. But
it does not meet the needs of the
glorious klamath Falls of the future
Like the new hotel the court hous
will be heated by water from the hot
springs, about which l must tell you
something at once.
Wonderful SOIfatierrO Springs.
These springs, which have been /.
n n -in h
world 100000 gallons a day, have
their origin and source of specifi
caloric in a mountain Of hot earth
above them, and half a mile away.
The earth Is so hot that six inches
below the surface you cannot handle
it. Drills put down for hot watcr
were literally burned up. This hot
earth is carted away and used in
greenhouses for raising flowers and
lettuce. These hot springs are lar
ger and have a more constant flo
than any hot springs in the United
States excepting only the Yellow
stone National Park. A beautiful.
natatorium, built of concrete, with
a swimming tank for children. has
been erected here and is being liber-
ally patronized. These hot springs
will not only have a great CONNER
cial value for heating dwellings and
public buildings, as the water comes
out at a boiling temperature, bur
will be used for laundries and other
Industrial purposes
Great Shipping Point
Forty thousand head of cattle and
horses were shipped out of Klamath
Falls last year, and shipments are
increasing. The stockyards are laii
out on a large scale and il will not
be long before there are packing
houses here, All preparations of
The Hartman system point to maxi
ing this a great shipping point
klamath Falls is located. like Ash
land, at the end of the basin diyi3-
ion. The operation of trains will al
be with one locomotive both ways
instead of from two to four, as at
over the mountain division
The products of the reclamation
units as fast as completed will keep
several railroad systems busy carry
ing freights out of here
Immense laundering Operations.
At low estimate there are TWEEN {
ty billion feet of logs 10 come 70
X amath Falls on the lakes 10 be
sawed into lumber and manufa,- {
-ured into box material The sugar