THE RECLAMATION SERVICE 



New Projeds in View Work Progress- 

 ing Rapidly on those Already Started 



Development of Klamath Region. a]1 the waterg Q f Lower Klamath Lake 



Crater Lake, in Klamath County, and to uncover half the lands in Tule 

 Oregon, is one of the wonders of the Lake, the Federal Congress and the 

 wonderful West. This strangely Legislatures of Oregon and Califor- 

 beautiful body of water is included in nia - having given the necessary permis- 

 a National Park, and though at pres- sion to the Reclamation Service. The 

 ent it is not easily accessible, it will tw o states have ceded to the National 

 prove a mecca for many of the thou- Government all lands in the lake beds, 

 sands of Eastern people who will visit and these lands, with the exception of 

 the Lewis and Clark Exposition at the acreage now held in private own- 

 Portland this summer. ership, will be subject to homestead 



South of Crater Lake is the great entl T when thoroughly drained and 



Klamath Country, including parts of read y for cultivation. 



Klamath County, Oregon, and Siski- A greater part of the area, 190,000 



you and Modoc counties, California, acres, under the Klamath project, will 



a land o' lakes and a territory of great be irrigated with water drawn from 



possibilities. The United States Rec- Upper Klamath Lake, a natural and 



lamation Service has found this sec- inexhaustible reservoir. No storage 



tion so promising that its engineers dam is required here, the lake having 



are planning a drainage and irrigation a sufficiently higher elevation than the 



system to cover about 250,000 acres lands to be watered. About 60,000 



of excellent land. acres will be watered from Clear Lake, 



Prominent features in the topog- in California, or from Horsefly res- 



raphy of this country are three large ervoir situated in Oregon, 



navigable lakes, Upper Klamath, hav- Of the now dry lands under the 



ing an elevation of 4,142 feet, Lower project only a few r thousand acres 



Klamath, with an elevation of 4,086 are public lands. The greater part 



feet, and Tule of Rhett Lake with an of the lands in private ownership is 



elevation of 4,056 feet. From Clear held in large tracts, and, under the 



Lake, a smaller body of water having provisions of the Reclamation Act, 



an elevation of 4,533 feet, Lost River, those lands must be sold in small lots) 



a considerable stream, wanders aim- as one person can purchase water for 



lessly through a chain of fertile val- no more than 160 acres. The Kla- 



leys until it empties its waters into math Water Users' Association, a 



Tule Lake. corporation of land owners with a 



It is a unique feature of the Kla- capital stock of $3,000,000, has organ- 

 math Reclamation project that of the ized to cooperate with and assist the 

 250,000 acres to be irrigated, at least Reclamation Service. The office of 

 half is now constantly under water of the association is at Klamath Falls, 

 . depth varying from one to fifteen Oregon, the county seat of Klamath 

 In all irrigation works under- County. 



the Reclamation Service, The Klamath Country is now with- 



amage accompanies irrigation as a out immediate railroad connection, but 



xessary adjunct, but for half two companies have given assurance 



in this project drainage that they will begin "immediate con- 



wo or three years, precede struction of railroads to connect Kla- 



is. proposed to drain off math Falls with the Southern Pacific 



