The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1921-01-06
COMMERCIAL CLUB GETS
REPORT ON JOHN DAY
Engineer John III. Lewis Here Tuesday
Evening and Gives Interesting Re-
port on Present Status of John Day
Project as shown by Introductory
Work of Engineers.

There was a called meeting OF Hepp-
ner Commercial Club on Tuesday eve
ming at the council chambers, the pur-
pose Of which was to listen to pre-
liminary report on the John Day pro-
ject by Engineer John H. Lewis
Some other work of the club was al
SO taken up and disposed of A report
of W. W. Smead, relative to the Morrow
County Fair was to the effect that the
county court would at its February
meeting make an appropriation of
$1,000 for the benefit Of the fair, this
sum having been provided in the coun
ty budget Mr.. Smead further stated
that it would be the policy of the fair
management the coming year to en-
courage the merchisLs Of the city to
offer substantial prizes, and he sug-
gested what some of these might be,
and that when the fair was pulled off
it would be manifest that this policy
had been the means of creating much
interest among exhibitors. Also, the
fair management will cut out the carni-
amusement and in lieu thereof will put
on a program of amusments and stunts
handled by the local folks. The Farm
Bureau and the Commercial Club have
signifed their willingness to cooperate
in every way possible to put over the
fair at Heppner the coming fall,
The club endorsed the plan to place
the available market road fund of the
county this year on the Jarmon-Lex-
ington road as requested by the Butter
Creek Road Association and, the Coun-
ty Court will be asked to do this.
Mr.. Lewis, having been called on,
spoke before the club at considerable
length on the John Day project, sub
ject with which he is very familiar be-
cause of his years Of practical contact
with this great irrigation scheme. Hav-
ing been employed by the board of di-
rectors of the John Day project to
make preliminary survey. Mr.. Lewis,
cooperating with d, c. Henny, consult
ing engineer of the reclamation service
and soil experts Of the oregon Agricul-
tural College, is now prepared to say
that the project is entirely feasible
and practical He states that there are
fully 100000 acres Of choice lands COM
ing under the survey that are extreme
ly desirable at any per acre cost up to
5000 The reclamation service and soil
experts have now passed on and ap-
proved the project.
Speaking directly from a photograph
and map, Mr.. Lewis stated that the ir-
rigation canal will be built out of the
John Day at an elevation of 1340 feet
and will require a dam 343 feet high,
diversion point to be 240 feet above the
Day river,
A storage reservoir will be provided
at the dam site sufficient to contain
100000 acre feet of water, which will
almost accommodate the water duty re-
qured for 100000 acres. Mr., W, L.
Powers, irrigation expert of Q. A. c., in
his certification of lands has shown the
water duty required to range from 2h
acre feet per acre on the high elevation
to acre feet per acre on the extreme
ly sandy land on the northern part of
the project, giving an average water
duty of 2,S5 acre feet per acre.
Additional storage will be provided
at the Carly reservoir site where an
S5-foot dam will hold back $4,000
acre feet while another dam in Eight
Mile canyon of S65 feet would store
275.O00 acre feet, This extra storage