Enterprise news-record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1910-1911, 1911-01-07
OREGON TO PROTEST
ON APPORT|0NMEhT
CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION
WILL BE APPEALED TC
Every Commercial Organization In the
State VIII be Expected to Make
Demand for the Completion of the
Western Extension Of the Umatilla
and the klamath Projects.

western Extension OF tne Umatuh
and the klamath Projects.
Oregon will protest against the re-
clamation aportionment announced
Christmas day by President Taft, says
the Telegram. This protest Is to go
from every commercial and industri-
al body of the state to the Oregon del
egation in congress, with the request
that 1t be presented to President Taft.
In the protest will be recital OF
facts showing that this state has con-
tributed more than $s,000,000 to the
fund, that It has some of the very
best sites for work in the West, and
that II is now equitably entitled to
not only the $4,000, 900 balance given
TO the fund and not used here, but
to q fair portion of the $20.000,0O0
loan which Is being made by the red
eral government
That the oregon case may be pre-
sented accurately and fairly, a care
full compilation of facts rs now be-
ing made by q. l. Thompson, OF
Hartman & Thompson, on behalf OF
the Chamber of Commerce and the
Commercial club. Accepting the idea
that all energies must be centered now
upon completing projects approved
and begun, this statement Will bear
upon Oregon's two approved projects,
at Umatilla and klamath. 1t will be
shown the president that both these
are absolutely within the meaning OF
the term "existing approved projects"
and are under the 1909 law entitled
not only to a portion Of the annual
addition to the fund, but to a share
of the $20,000,000 loan to be issued.
It will be shown further that these
are two of the moste meritorious pro-
1ects of the country, in economy Of
development, in fertility of soil, ad-
yantages of climate, access to railways
and water transportation and other
wise. Also, 1t will be proved that In
the small units Of these projects COM
pleted, the land has been taken al
most Immediately. and that all of the
additional acreage approved by the
engineers Ia assured almost instant
sale when placed upon the market.
And with this irrefutable showing of
facts, the president will be asked by
the entire state to do Justice to Ore
gen, by reapportioning the reclama-
tion fund.
STUDY the Umatilla project" said
Mr.. Thompson this morning. 1T is
one of the best of the entire country
The east and west portions OF the
project are as much a single piece OF
work as any being prosecuted In tht
West. The coming summer about IT..
600 acres will have been irrigated
in the east units. at a cost of approx
mately SEQ an acre. All of this lane
has been grabbed up in small tracts
as fast as ready for market because
1t compares with the famous Wenat'
chee and Kennewick districts fol
fruit. There will be about 25,0 900 acres
in the total eastern portion of the pro.
ject
1.-THE. western extension of the pro-
ject, which has, according to common
information, been in high favor with
the engineers, has $4,000 acres avail
able for development. BY building
big reservoir on tract covering abou
5000 acres, the immense flood flow
OF the Umatilla river will be conserv'
ed, and one of the richest tracts o.
the West reclaimed. This land hal
two railways at hand and the Colum
bia river as an additional transporta
tion medium. It Is worth many hun
dred dollars an acre when irrigated
and would probably equal or surpas
Kennewick and Wenatchee, where
$4,000 an acre is not unusual.
From any point the government
may desire to consider this work. J
cannot find a project where returns
will be surer or quicker than In thu
western extension of Umatilla, no mat
ter what the cost OF the work an acr'
may be. The land is almost entirel.
in the public domain. yet the water u
now waste In spring floods. and nj
difficulties can 1 intervene. We will
show that this Is practicable In ever!
sense. and also strictly within tn,
meaning of the new law.
'Take Klamath. There 10000,
acres were embraced within the origi
nal approved project. Only about so,
900 acres have been irrigated, and thi
A railway has Just been built to II
and the thrush of immigrants insure
the immediate selling of all the Ian,
that could be irrigated there by tn
government. Furthermore, this worl
Cun DC Qout Ut Clooe u tne IcCor'
figure for the entire West, certainl
at very low price for such rich hold
ings. Water Ii in excess of total re
quirements. All OF the klamath worl
IL essentially portion Of an approves
project, and the law would not hav
to be strained particle in inciudin
It. About $4,000. 900 would be requir
ed to complete the project.
'These two great and highly merl
torious works can be finished wit
the funds that have been given b
Oregon to the reclamation fund.
Umatilla the estimate for the additi
onal $4,000 acres is from $s.oo0.00
to $4,000. 900. and at klamath It is 81
900. 900. Our deficit now Is abou
10000. ZOO and nearly s1.000.oo0 10 be
ing added annually. Working withi
the law enacted. and basing our ap
peal upon the fundamentals Of justice
we win ask the president to recognis
this state for at least the sum We hav
given to the reclamation fund, ana 70
completion of existing approved pro
5ects OF such great merit"
MINISTER DISCUSSES
POWER OF THE PRES