The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-29
From Salem Statesman.

Willamette valley business men,
who spent the past week In the
klamath Falls country, returned
on Saturday and this morning. En-
thusiasm Is mild term to describe
the state of mind in which they
have come back. to tell Of the won
derful development work that Is
going on in klamath Falls and the
Klamath basin, and the new town
sites of Worden, Doris and Mt.
Hebron, in which hundreds of Will
lamette valley citizens have made
investments during the past two
weeks. The party was made up
of representatives selected by pur-
chasers of these properties, and
each Is to submit an independent
report of his observations.
BACKING KLAMATH FALLS.
Speaking of the party and their
observations Col. e. Hofer said:
''Of course, the potent force that
is opening the klamath region to
rapid settlement, and building
towns as if by magic, is the Natron
and Klamath Falls extension of the
spent years in bringing the rail-
road into that country, and with
out which no klamath Falls de-
velopment would have been pos
sible, were Major Worden and his
son, William Worden. AS allot-
ment agent of the government in
cutting up the klamath Indian
reservation of 1,250,000 acres, Ma
jor Worden gained a familiarity
with the country which made 1t
possible for him to speak with au.
!, thority as to it's resources. The
Nordens made countless trips over
the country, crossed deserts and
mounnains for hundreds of miles
afoot aid on horseback, made pill
grimages to Washington, New York
and San F'rancisco, and finally in
terested Che Hartman system in
the reso,rces of the klamath basin.
Associated with them as leading
factors in the klamath Develop
ment company are G. X. Vending
and s. O. Johnson, San Francisco
millionaires. WHO are at the head
of a group of laige industrial cor.
porations representing hundreds Of
millions.
| MAGNIFICENT RAILROAD
| CONSTRUCTION.
"The extension of he Southern
Pacific from Weed e hiamatn
Falls, was completed MAY ~, lsVs'
and now the entire line frSR hia-
math Falls to Natron Is underSSoh..
struction, and such construction as
has never been seen on the Pacific
coast One million five hundred
thousand dollars has been spent at
klamath Falls alone on depots apd
terminals. A granite and marble
passenger station, the finest in the
world for it's size, greets the incom-
ing of the train and the railroad
company has IS acres laid off in
sidetracks, yards and shop grounds.
The track is laid with 80 pound
steel, ballasted with crushed rock,
with bridges and culverts of solid
steel and concrete construction.
| A DREAM REALIZED.
with the arrival of the railroad
and the construction of the first
unit of the government reclamation
system. the dream of Major Wor-
den has become tangible reality.
This one man of tireless energy
and get-there - disposition, who
walked into this country financial
ly to the bad by at least $4,000,
has produced results which are al
most beyond his own expectation.
Looking at Klamath Falls from
To- l,@ Pol toll lie
in the midst Of 10000 acres that
has been put under the ditch, one
sees the future Spokane of Oregon
rising on a semi-circle Of hills.
Klamath Falls is spreading by
leaps and bounds, and the picture
dream of great brain is coming
out on the screen of the municipal
panorama. The $4,5O0,000, only a
small part of which has been ex-
pended, set aside for the reclama'
ton projects, has already added
more than $10,000,000 to values In
the Klamath basin, and 1t Is only a
beginning. BY dredging and drain
ing Tule lands, and by utilizing the
water from Upper klamath lake
the transformation Of the mex
haustible source into endless Wis
tas of alfalfa and grain fields, has
begun. All the tabled wealth OF
the Nile valley in Egypt will be
double discounted and laid away
in the shade by what Is being ac
complished before the eyes of the
| present generation in the klamath
basin. Great red barns, clustered
stacks of alfalfa and fine farm
houses intercept the sky line as
one looks out over the reclaimed
lands, almost as thick as the der
ricks in a great oil region.
Y THE GATEWAY CITY.
while the enduring prosperity
of this region, like all others, has
its foundation in the wealth of the
soil, the greatness of the city thai
Is here springing into being, car
only be contemplated by a study
of the topography Four mountain
passes enter the basin, practically
all coming together at klamath
Falls. One to the south leads into
California via Butte valley t.
Weed. Another pass goes out into
eastern Oregon through Lost river
Still another into Nevada via Mer
rill, The fourth pass leads into the
Willamette valley and Coos Bay
via Natron. Each pass again opens
out into large valleys with lakes
Reclamation possibilities and pro
ductivity that Is simply incalcu
liable. One stands on the height!
above klamath Falls and sees
more expanse of rich agriculture
country and wonderful mountain
scenery than at any other place II
the world that | have ever heart
of. Mt. Shasta looms up In thu
south, 6S miles away. Sixty miles
to the north are Mt. Pitt and thu
| rim OF Crater Lake The XiaW ex