The Oregon Daily Journal from Portland, Oregon • Page 31

THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL), PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 1007. IE MM MM -V- fit if 1 1 "7 XTEBIOJZ, LINEMEN IN VIEW Or with SMELTER 1 X. ivt i rjuwwi is 4 'M1 ))M JMTEfilOZ OF VWEJ5 WCAVT sxEEKom ca ate. They run from $6 lo $li per ton, ATER-PO WER development that here the Una will be extended to the Quartsburg district, for use ln the is which after all charges are paid aver 1 A I "in have an- important bear age about 17 cheaper than the Btandrd, Copperopolis, Present Need, WW ins on the future of Sumpter II, and the surrounding mining smelter of Salt Lake. and Gem mines, then to the Bonansa district where the bonansa mine Is "The trade Is mostly gold They come from near and far, and a large already operating SO stanps and other diatriot la juat being- com plated bjr the Fremont Power company of Sumpter.

backed bjr Fremont amount is nauied rrom tne united na horn mine, it miles, and the Cornu mines wiu install mcninery. Need Transportation Facilities. Ray Nye, an Omaha whole copla district, about 95 miles. The the water reeling or the pipe being in finest lime dike in Oregon lies only Blue mountains furnishes the power In Is almost completely stopped. sale atatl6ner, la prealdent of the com 'The' greatest Bead of the Sumpter mile and a half from the Sumpter From the reservoirs to the power stable quantity all the year.

pany, anf John Thomeen, a practical hVdraullo and electrical engineer, la The company own two reservoirs mining district now Is for transportation faculties," said R. Nelll, president of the Sumpter Development league. -7 "We have vaat resources In known as Olive Lake and the upper1 res smelter. Baker county claims to produce three fourths of all the gold produced in the state. We have a favorable climate, and fine yellow pine timber belt, and water to operate logging, lumber and mining the year around.

SumDter Is now a modern city with ervoir, witb a com Dined storsge capacity of 100.000.000 -cubic feet. plant Is about six miles, and water for driving the wheels of the power plant will be conducted from Olive lake reservoir to the power station through about 6 miles 'of wooden pipe and one half mile of steer pipe, starting in at the reservoir with SStt Inches in jured by falling trees. The power plant Is located at the forks of Congo creek about a mile west of the Red Boy hoist building. The power house la built of concrete blocks and la about 0x60 feet. The roof la of corrugated iron supported v.

by rafters and purllnes resting on heavy timbered trusses with four-Inch beaded celling minerals, water-power and agricultural deflecting noszles. Tha water wheels and generators are placed below th general level of the power house floor so that when the nosslea are deflected off of tha wheels the stream will pass out rem under the power house without striking anything, and the use of baffle plates will be avoided. All of the fittings connecting the water wheels with the pipe line are of cast steel. The steel pipe, wheel nosslea and connections will be protected from water ram by a Lombard water balanced relief valve capable of discharglngthe full capacity of the pipe line. while but two renerator sets have been Installed wealth, and the lack of means for These reservoirs' are fed by Lost creek and Lake creek which have a water shed of about It to 20 square miles.

The present capacity of the two reservoirs is sufficient to furnish water for 8.000 working horse-power for the pe paved streets, a gravity water system, Tine hospital, a bank with $125,000 de diameter and ending at the power house posits and electric lignts. xne city nas a daily average school attendance of with pipe 20 inches in diameter, tne carrying; on trade and commerce and marketing the products is constantly felt. The Sumpter smelter, operated by the Oregon Smelting Refining company, la a live concern, and rapidly rowing." Its dally average output Is SO tons, and is now employing 60 175 pupils." between. The floor Is of concrete. For head from the lake to the power plant belnr about 1.100 feet.

The wooden itt manager. i- ra About $600,000 baa been spent thus far In power plant and transmission lines, and the latter are, being rapidly extended to the various mining: districts. Current will reach Bourne by September to furnish power for drlvln machinery of the Columbia and North Pole mines, and thence the line will go to Sumpter, five miles distant, to furnish llftht and power for publio uses. The main power plant Is 20 miles west of Sumpter. Transmission lines have been surveyed southeastward to the Alamo mining district, where electric power will be applied to mills In the -Quebec, Stranburg, Belcher, I.

X. Hicks, Phoenix. Psyche, Snow Peak snd other quarts mines. From riod of a year at 60 per cent load factory. A power plant having reservoirs to draw from is the only reliable source pipe Is made of staves and put together Supply AH Power Needed.

all practical purposes the building la fire-proof. The-present machinery con-slsts of 650 K. Wr 600 R. P. M.

.00 on the ground, making a continuous pipe The Fremont Power company's devel of power in the semi arid region east of the Cascade mountains, for the reason that streams- get low before the commencement of winter, and when cold rrom start to xmish ana oouna isgemer with steel bands. The maximum pres opment means ultimately the extending at the present time, the foundation and water wheel connections for a third set have been installed and the Installation of the third generator and Its wheel can men. It paid in the last two years to the Sumpter Valley railroad for, hauling ores outside of this district, It also has six 4-horse teams con sure On the wood pipe wUl be about 400 voltn. three phase revolving field type, Westinghouse two bearing generators, each driven by a separate 1,100 H. P.

Pelton waterwheer with cast steel discs of electrlo power and light currents weather comes the springs at the reet head. All or the pipes, coin woou DnH mtmt a ra laid In rOTiri. finA f)V- throughout the region within a radius be made at any time without having to sources of the streams freese up and in many Instances the flow of the streams 1 and buckets and combined needle and i stantly hauling ore to the smelter. The charges of this smelter are very moder- ered so there will not be any danger of close down me plant. of 60 miles.

Water supply from the THE LID ON PORTLAND -FIFTY YEARS AGO 5 was Invariably moved whenever an ap beginning of the "un-town" district he believed the salary was out of all proportion to-the duties required of given It to the clergymen to summon their flocks to service, for both mo- Also because there were notorious re Mayor Samuef J. McCormlck and City Marshal S. R. Holcomb. Squatters were continually ejected from the levee until the suit was decided adversely tlnna were tabled.

the now orneer. Lieutenant General Wlnf leld Scott, IT. 8, was a guest of Portland in To prevent such scandals In the fu UST 50 years and 5 months ago tne I "Sunday lid" was fell upon Port-I land. Not a dram shop vaas open I after January 4, 1857, and the thirsty were compelled to drink sorts "near Alder street as late as the early '70s. The southern boundary is ture, councilman A.

u. uneioy in son proposed that the clerk be required to prepare full and correct accounts of to the city when the claimants were given deeds to the One of the peculiar questions that President Robert Porter, of the coun believed to have been Madison street. Jefferson' street Was a gulch at that time, and it Is not likely that there were any dram shops south of It If there 1859. The council paid camp mils zu for the use of a hack from which the general, then In bis 7Sd year, viewed the fir-abounding blocks upon which are the sky-scrapers of 1907. The first map of the city was made the proceedings of the council, and that the city council newspaper be required cil of 1867, was called, upon to deciae, was aa to the lesralitv of the election to DUbiisn sucn accounts rree or cnarge, of an officer after one month of the official year had elapsed.

An ordinance by Mr. Brown in 1857. peal was taken from the chair. Hot Times in Old Days. There must have been some acrimonious speeches tn the council of 1857-58.

W. M. King resigned the presidency and took the floor to oppose a motion that monthly meetings be held. King moved as an amendment that the council adjourn sine die. Only once before and never since has a motion of a similar nature been made.

In the council of 1851 Shubrlck Norris moved that the -city of Portland, which had had a legal existence -of only a few months, "do cease to exist" His motion, like that of Mr. King, was declared out of Unfortunately, there is no record of the discussion of another which Mr. Shelby fathered and which required- the councllmen to serve Willamette nectar, on the day of rest, 'but for how long a time the city records do not state. The same conditions that caused District Attorney, Manning to lay lid upon the city on Sunday, June 16, prevailed more than half a century a go. Laws were openly violated.

The cltv. then containing about 1,000 or were the patronage could not have been very extensive, the land was not safe for travelers at Marauding Indians were hanging around, and there also was the penitentiary on Front street near Hall. The prison block was considered a dangerous place to circuit Judge, moved In the counoll of 1859 that the rules be amended so as to require the presentation of a motion to reconsider at the session when the vote la taken. The amendment was Very little money was asked for by and very little given- to the fire department In the '60s. in 1859 engine companies 1 and i were allowed only $25 and truck company 1 116 per month for contingent expenses.

Opposed Convict Vigorous opposition to the 1 employ ment of convict labor was offered in the councils of 1S58 and 1859. The penitentiary was then located on the site occupied by the foundry buildings of Smith Broa Watson in South Portland. Motions to "abate the nuisance" the guarded convlcte were con. providing for the eieotion or a street Wharf-building was begun on what waa then considered- an extensive scale in 1857. Portions of the riverfront commissioner was pa ssea on May iu, without compensation.

The First Gas Plant and a weex later councilman a. u. Shelby held that it would not stand a property between Burnslde and Ash streets and at. the foot of Washington test in a court of law. The city was street were lennea to a.

u. men. Ste Oaa for' Illuminating purposes' was loiter about alter aarx, and a aram shop there would hardly pay expenses. The upper end. It would appear, was operating under a new charter, and so, ha AAA r.n.l tha rkfffrA ahmilrl have phen Coffin.

W. S. Ladd and Allen A Lewis. The leases were for five years first mentioned In 1857. Ir Newfleld, of San Francisco, wanted to Install a 1,600 inhabitants, did not have a sufficient police force the marshal wa the only officer to keep the liquor dealers within bounds and so the council exer visited by tne -councnmen, and tne result was that an ordinance was passed closing the shops on Sundays and -re and the lessees were required to pay $6 a year.

At the expiration of the been provided for at the first meeting of the council, The president held that city officers should have been elected when the council organised, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and without regard to the time the old officers plant in Portland. A year later H. D. Green asked permission to erect a leases the city had the priviiere or buy quiring tne proprietors to pay an an dispute which caused councllmen to ing the Improvements, but succeeding A committee consisting of cised its powers. The dram aeuers were ordered to close their 'places on Sunday, under pain of the forfeiture sst their go far as known not propose tne motions.

In 1868 the fire wardens were allowed 60 cents for servlna notices of nual license of 1200. Lees than a month later a number people the records do not state rheth'er they were dram-shop keepers or merely Sunday Councllmen William King, A. P. An might have served. The council took a councils ici tne opportunity Slip Dy.

Portland Without a Seal sldered nuisances were made but failed different view of the question, ana keny and, T. J. Homes had a conference lace was open after the issuance or order. The effect upon the drinking to carry. When the city decided to 1m- elected Thomas J.

Holmes to me ornce. with Mr. Green and reported that there the violation or me ordinance ror tne prevention of fires, for the examination of buildings after serving the notices and for entering -complaints before the During the first six years of city nulatlnn wn a awful Within few prove tne public squares later on it pro- hiblted the emuloyment of convicts bv was no objection to the. Installation of 4 weeks more than 120 voters asked that drinKers anaea mat Tne ordinance oe But 146 other citizens filed a remonstrance to the petition, and the request of the dealers was denied. In the following May the proprietors Graf in Old Councils government Portland was without city any of the contractora Councllmen often contribted portions or alt vt -their salaries to the contingent Scandal circled 1 around public 1m a plant at a point north of 2 (now Everett) street and on the Willamette seal or a fire and burglar proof safe of sufficient dimensions to contain the First Fourth Celebration.

me oraer ue noi eniorcea. jv Just Dram Shops Closed. The ordinance providing for the Sun provementg In 1858 as much as It does city records. 5 In 1857 a seal and a safe funds of the volunteer fire companl-s of which- they were members. In 1860 J.

M. Vansycle and A. 1. Bhelbv rave river. Mr.

Green's buildings were subsequently' on the-v property of taverns asked to De exempted irom the provisions of -the, ordinance, but their petition was consigned.1 to the of ficiaf-waste basket. Two years later tha council went still further. It "Either the city was badly In need of today, The council had appropriated $1,600 for the building of a city jail, were The total cost waa $205, bounded ny tne river ana Front at ana day closing of dram shops the council money in 1860 or the council or that What a task was imposed upon City (now Flanders) streets. Mr. Green and before even the plans had been did not dignify, them with the name -of passed an ordinance prohibiting the Marshal James H.

Lappens in 1859! and his partner, a. IX Leonard, com year was not very much in love with fireworka.sfor refused to aproprlate drawn rumor was searching for a tar saloons Is one of the forgotten entries transfer or liquor licenses. xram-snop a whole year's salary to Multnomah fine company No. and Columbia No. 3 he salary of each councilman amounted to $81.

Such contributions enabl-1 the companies to make many neeileJ Improvements In their houses. That officer was directed by the coun get. Reports caused Councilman In the records of the Portland of terrlto menced laying pipes in Front street in April, 1860. The council decided to have some of the street i lighted by $100 for on Independence day celebra proprietors or bad reputation- naa ln-rinoed other ceoDle to secure licenses ell to apprehend all the vagrant r. dogs In the A few weeks later a price tion, and also refused to permit the rial days.

The Shops had become a nuteance, and 1 100 asked tha and then purchased the establishment The ordinance effectually? ended this ana oraerea- la lamps ana posts at city marshal to fire a salute at the a com. or Z70. The first six months or $2 was placed upon the head of each Thomas J. Holmes to move for the- appointment of an committee, i If appointed the committee never reported. Plans for the Jail were drafted by E.

M. Burton, and the contract was awarded to ex-City Marshal Ronted by Snapping Turtlon. practice. Nothing more was done, for the Portland Oas Llaht comDanv sud- unlicensed mongrel. dawn of the Fourth.

But 1 the council of 1861 let the eagle scream. It ar Beaver Falls correspondence Pittsburg plied gaa free of charge. For February, 1861, the gas bills amounted to 1180. The chief, of the fire department was uregon Decane a amie in ioo a-uu the legislature passed the law which the district is now enforcing. ranged ror a parade or tne military ana made a salaried officer in 1858.

Hia civic organisations and the representa The yens and nays upon the nasaae jespaicit. As John Patterson, a huckster, was compensation was 1 xi at rSOO a vear. of an ordinance were first required by tives or foreign wnat Tors Down a Building. The fire wardens occasionally made as ruie wnicn counoll adopted in 857. Fifty blanks, which, would bare much as a Ordinarily, though.

William L. Higgtns. whose bid was for $2,390. The jail had a foundation of stone laid in cement and a floor of rubble stone. Mr.

Higglns. the contractor, subsequently' supervised the construction of the postof flee building-- In the same council Mr. King reported that the bell had been "clandestinely That relating to the liquor traffic driving Into town from Partington morning he came upon a drove of 13 or 20 snapping turtles creasing tin road. Think-In a few of them might be characterised aa extravagance," the council said when it made the appropriation, "will be considered by every- patriot as a tribute to our glorious country- one and indivisible." In 1881 the city had a belltower at their fees did not exceed $50. The council Journal, waa first sta-ned Is not the only forgotten entry tn ly suffice for a single meeting of the council of today, -were ordered printed.

At the end of the year Crk James W. Davis a few unused blanks on hand. cltv records. 1 Here la one which; many council "to put a stop to the outrages In the name of common-fleceney." Accord-t ing to the petition the shops complained of -were In the "upper end" of town, Nothing was said about those In the i lower end. Just what portion of the i city was end" in rtkose days-la Jrot -Jthown, but tJts was probably the district suuth of street running roa the river west to Second or Third street.

Alder street is supposed to nave been the horthern boundary because the council rookery which sailed under the Imposing official title of "city hall" was on Flrot street near Washington, and the government dads, believing themselves to be in the heart of the city, would naturally call the Inclined street to (the south and within 200 feet of their chamber the I meet with reaJv sale he atfi pioneers will probably1 remember. When catch tli-in, 1 in'tfui" by the mayor and attested by the clerk in 1859. Previous to that year the only evidence that the business of a meeting had been finished waa afforded by tha "single -word "adjourned," which the clerk never failed to write In the Alder and Front streets. The belL waa given to Engine company No. 1, and the the city's suit for possession of the The "orevloua Question" Was flmt de taken from' this school house." ''The councilman was Informed that the bell was first In the.

possession of Rev. M. showed tttiht-and, ht-ai-r far him Ith 1 i belfry was offered to. any one who would cart it away. rplr or nubile' levee -was pending In the united States supreme court, George Vaughn, who mayor of the city manded In the council in 1868.

one ooposed or favored an ordinance It was. According to the records, the practice of the speaker te7 call for the ones- Inn as aoon aa ha tonic hla aAar This The late united states senator jonn "I i i tiit-i son tii-n 5 In the esiriv a motion to re Wilbur and later in the possession tf the Rev, C. S. Klngsley. Councilman Stephen.

Coffin moved that the clergy-, man be, requested to return the bell. Th council either did not want the 1856-58. erected a 'building on the site of the Esmond hotel. The build- consider ntiu at be ma. is several niiet-lnsrs after vot w.i-? iif-n.

t'ouncll- H. Mitchell was elected city attorney in 1861. and his compensation was fixed at $1,000 a year. Mayor John M. Breck declined to approve the ordinance, as shub off debate and only one side of I ng was rut ud In the night, but the man IX fcaattui inaril a sute the 'matter was heard.

The Question children's Instrument of torture or had next morning It was torn down by.