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Image caption: UPPER KLAMATH LAKE.
Main source of supply for the U. S. government irrigation project.
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INTRODUCTORY.
Klamath Falls and Klamath County, Oregon, are attracting widespread attention. The remarkable opportunities here awaiting farmers, fruit men, business men, manufacturers and investors have been made known to every section of the...
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grand mountain scenery, to Klamath Falls. The California & Northwestern Railroad will be completed to Klamath Falls by the fall of 1906. Its connecting station with the Southern Pacific is Weed, California.
What is the population of Klamath...
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Image caption: CRATER LAKE—One of the wonders of the world. Perpendicular walls 2000 feet high and surface of water 7000 feet above sea level. Greatest depth of water 2050 feet.
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Can a mechanic secure employment in Klamath Falls?
Yes. All kinds of mechanics can find employment and especially carpenters and builders.
Is there any sage-brush land in the valley subject to homestead entry? Practically none at the present...
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Is there any good range for cattle in Klamath County?
Yes. By purchase or lease, tens of thousands of acres in the Indian Reservation; and hundreds of thousands of acres of public land. Pasture by lease, from $1 to $1.50 per head for the season....
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Image caption: HIGH SCHOOL
Klamath County High School, Klamath Falls, Oregon.. Finished fall of 1905.
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Ninety degrees in summer and zero in winter. Are your winters severe?
No.
What is the annual snow fall?
For the season, from one to four feet.
KLAMATH FALLS.
Klamath Falls, the county seat of Klamath County, Oregon, is beautifully...
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of Klamath Falls insures it a splendid future as the metropolis of the great Klamath Basin.
The Klamath Project (as they call it) of irrigation and reclamation, covering some 250,000 acres, with headquarters at Klamath Falls, and the immediately...
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Image caption: FISHING
Fishing on Link: River Falls, within one-half mile of Main street, Klamath Falls, Oregon
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the great navigable lakes of fresh water, four thousand feet above sea level, the icy trout streams flowing through piney forests, and the weirdly beautiful and famous wonder, Crater Lake; and the summer tourists who will pay tribute to Klamath...
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and actual trials, are known to be beneficial and curative in sciatica, rheumatism, kidney and stomach troubles, eczema, etc.
A county high school building, of brick and stone, was recently completed at a cost of $33,500, and the school has a...
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Image caption: HUNTING
Result of five hours hunt, within two hours ride of Klamath Falls, without dog or boat.
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The California & Northeastern Road is now building north from Weed, a point on the Southern Pacific line, to Klamath Falls, and the permanent survey is completed. It is expected that the road will be in operation by the fall of this year. The...
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reports of births, deaths and cases of contagious diseases, etc., as required by law. Conditions, rather than intentional neglect, are responsible for this lack of data.
Typhoid fever is rare, and only two cases were officially reported during...
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Image caption: KLAMATH HOT SPRINGS
One of the numerous hot springs within one--half mile of the court. house, Klamath Falls. Oregon.
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EDUCATION.
Klamath County is one of the peculiarly frontier posts of the Pacific Coast, and yet it is unlike all other frontier localities in the fact that it is abreast with the times in providing educational facilities for its children and...
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Image caption: FEEDING CATTLE
Feeding cattle in Klamath county for market in mid-winter, No shelter required.
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in good sleighing. March and April are the more disagreeable months. Suffering from either extreme of temperature is unknown.
GOVERNMENT IRRIGATION.
The distinctive feature of the Klamath region is its wonderful opportunity for agricultural...
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fornia, and is the main source of Lost River, which in turn will provide water for the irrigation of the upper or remaining fourth of the project. A unique feature is the fact that about one-half the land to be irrigated is now under water. By the...
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come in and make it possible for the present landowners to dispose of their excess holdings. With the object of making homes for as many families as possible, in the shortest time, a Government water right will not be sold to any one landowner for...
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$25 per acre to $125. The latter figure is for small farms of less than five acres, near town and already in alfalfa. These prices do not include the cost of a water right described in the article on irrigation. The marsh lands of Lower Klamath...
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Image caption: HARVESTING SCENE
Harvesting wheat during summer of 1905, within six miles of Klamath Falls, Oregon,
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Seeding is necessary only every fifteen or twenty years. Timothy yields from two to three-and a half tons per acre; red top from one and a half to two tons; clover, cultivated, from two to three tons, and rye from two to six tons.
There are...
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