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Show LAKEVIEW HAS A BRICHT FUTURE An interesting story of Lakevlew, a promising little town near tho southeastern south-eastern Oregon state line comes from the pen of W H.BIodgett, formerly m the barber business here, who wrrites: Lakevlew is a very prosperous and pretty little town and. in my opinion, has a bright future. The elevation is 4.S00 feet. It lies ' In the north and east end of Goose Lake valloy; has a population of 1,500 or more, and bids fair to be much larger before Nov. 1, 1909. I think the valley is as good as claimed, with the exception or climate, which 1 am confident Is colder than most people Imagine, but us summers are most enjoyable. The soli is all that could be expected; on the east side of the valley Is a rich, black loam, while on the west it Is a sandy loam I think as good as any place on earth. The valley is now owned almost entirely by the Oregon Valley Lnnd company, they having, last week, purchased the 4O.U00-acie ranch owned by Herrords and known 36 the "7-T." This land will be put into 10-ficre lots, or most of It, lor the contract holders of . O. V. L Co., and will, no doubt. Increase the value- ol contracts 25 per cent The company now owns practically all the running water coming Into the valloy and insures in-sures water sufllclent to Irrigate the entire 10-acre contract holdings of the company. One dam on Drew's creek will. hold 40,000-acre reet and the one on Cottonwood creek as.uuu-acre teet-They teet-They are now working on the 'dams and say 1,000 menwill be used within 60 days. The orchards along the lake, on the oast side for probably 30 miles, certainly cer-tainly show that It Is a rrult country. I think the apples I ate and which were raised there are as fine and ot as good flavor as I have ever seen any place. Goose lake Is a beautiful body ot fresh water. All streams abound in fish. On the lake geese are too numerous num-erous to mention. The mountains surrounding sur-rounding the valley have timber sufficient suf-ficient to last many years. . At present I would not advise anyone any-one to go there as It is too early. The transportation ; from Kcno over the N. C and O -narrow guage is poor and expensive, but the stage ride is bu miles and many times worse, it lakes four days to make the trip in or out, tho fare being $1S 60 each way, meaiB 50 cents every place, and beds same price, and from now on I think the chanceB are good to sleep in the street as everything (hotel and " sleeping places, I mean) Is rull. Lumber is very scarco. In fact, you cannot get it at all. Of course the saw mills win start soon, but one cannot build out of green lumber. Lime Is $8 per barrel, bar-rel, so you see no plastering is done by the poor. Brick $12 per thousand; wood is $6 to 58 per cord; coal, unknown. un-known. Potatoes 5 cents a pound, Bugar 11 pounds for ?1. In fact, everything every-thing is out of sight, and to rent a business or residence Is out of the question. So my advice Is: tay away for a year or two. Of course there will be lots of work, but there will be many to do It. and many will be short financially, and in all probability prob-ability wages will not be as high as many would Imagine. All business is well represented and the older inhabitants in-habitants are very well fixed financially. |