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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1918)
THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1918. EASTERN OREGON MAKE GREAT STRIDES IN -1917 Large Yields of Grain and Other Crops Bring Prosperity Loyalty to Nation Everywhere Is Noted ) - WE , i .e-'v''..'''r: " ... ' II H """'V ' i- - . . . : J. v 1 r-:-Ti jL. 'i i lCfein I Oregon Barnyard Scene. jfU yacHedOriionsr Eastern Omcron..-Gicrort ennt,. TY?.-- Va' CTWV' f 'M ..-r S - M Ik. .' -r. -''...v f B -rr i - - ! rsi i UU I times that number of the 1700 Teg- I Istranta. Her total Rift in man power I PENDLJTTON-. Or, Dec II. (Spe clat.) Cmatllla County ondnuhtrd Ijb baa profited at much, poailbly rrore. than the majoritr of the Oregon countla tn the Mich prl'-ea which have ultJ from tha war. Tha wheat from Ther (train OrMi baa been aold at prlcea ertnfor undreamed of by the moat cptlmiatie farmer prlcea four timra thoao of other yeara. Her wool ha found a readr market at a Kiher fls sr than the grower baa ever known nd which ha mad a reality the ".'heap of the golden hoof. The (lock hat today range over the bunt-hcra' land and through the forenta of lma tilla County Is almoat worth Ha weight In coin. Hr timber Is brlnclna; wealth to the ownera. The fruit, vegetables nd hay of the Irrigated sections are finding a ready market at war price Ier manufactories are ronnlnjr full blast on the production of goods tha re In great demand not only as do- meetie but as military necessities. With all this wealth at her disposal, fmatllla County Is giving, withou lint. In men. money and materials, whatever has been asked by the Gov ernment as Its part cf the cost of Amerlca'a decision to throw her weight Into the balance to establish world- "a ide democracy. More than 249 I'matllla County Touni men have Joined the various branches of the Navy; 41 men volun fered In an Idaho company; to en luted In the National Army; 41 were drafted and. In addition, a large num- Ker of men enlisted at Valla Walla I'endleton and San Francisco. Moat prominent, however, of I'matll la County's gift In men is Troop P. the cavalry organisation recruited from the ranches and range of the district to come Into being, on May 24 of this 5 ear. at'er but three days of recruit ing, aa a nnlt In the Oregon National Ciuard. One hundred and nine men I'ft here on August 12 aa members of that organisation. In money the county has given with at will toward every Ju.t cause. Its the organisation of council of de fense. Almost Immediately on the dec laration of war. at a mass meeting hell in Pendleton, a committee of 1 repre senting alt parts of the county, was formed. Thle committee later became the Umatilla County Defense Council. It has taken charge of the food cam paign, the war garden campaign, to gether with many other activities that hove come within- Its field of endeavor. There are numerous other activities In which I'matllla County has tried to be of service to the country. It has done much. It will do more. Probably there are other counties In the state v.hui ran show as good a record for war service, but Umatilla County has accepted Ita part with eagerness and fulfilled Its duties with dispatch Had It may be counted on to do Its full part In the future. POBTUJinTf A1-II IL BASK (LCRIll..-t. I"! . ll04.JtH.nrT lf IXOMXHi 1"& 1?.. ln- , I . , 1 trt , 1M 1M1 jm: 1U ll 1 I J .1 I ea a - 4 ::s.4n:.7ir Is 1. 1 7i.7''i.": a.ifl. .: C7 3 1 n.:H.h i - j 3'l.L,!l.c9'.ill tl7.17l.SO 7 sri'iM 17 &-7.i).-7.". 12 .'7.M VOIO 31 r.Sl.i)l 94 134.4H.7:.22 0.i.2-l 3i .ii.s:4.i December total e 1 1 m a ted In 1)17 figures. Ointa of the first liberty loan, act at f :ii).ftiA. was subscribea with hardly an effort and some time before the end cf 'ha campaign. Then followed the Tied Cross drive. nd there, too. I'matllla County made record for Itself. Not only waa It tha flrt county In the stat to com Tlte ts quota, of U'l.OOO. but before In end of the week 150.000 had been lAU'd.m the county, the larger part of It In I'endleton. but a proportionate hare Ire every town In the county. Thn came the first call fur aid for The T. M. A. Sixteen hundred dol lars was asked of this county as Its snare of the assessment and the prom ise was made that. If 11004 could be rld. building would be named for the county. The Itooo waa raised In the Hotted time. On the fourth day of the week set part for raising the second liberty l'an rendition and L'matilla County kd each completed their quotas, i'en diecon nad. at that time, subscribed Ti'l.ioft and the county a total of tl.tt.voa. A day later came the word that Oregon waa expected to rats tha maximum quota and that I'matllla County wae expected to take I1.S')'.000 of the bpds. I'endeP ton's share of this was 11.5.. .0. A whirlwind campaign waa at once started In motion In the rlty and. ry closing time on Saturday rttht. the word was (lashed to the tat headquarters In Portland that Pndleton had raised her maximum ejnota. while the rnuntv was but few thousand dollars below the mark. LaiaUila Couutj was first again la WASCO INDUSTRIES WORK FOR NATION Fluair THIIIa aad Caaaerlea Operate tm Capacity People Ucasoaatrate Loyalty. THE DAIXEJ. Or, Dec SI. (Spe cial.) Since the war waa declared by the United States against Germany every county- In the state of Oregon responded with patriotic demonstra tion that showed Ita spirit. Wasco County readily stepped Into line and feels proud of the record It has mAde since then. When volunteers were called It exceeded Ita quota by a good sised majority and Is still contributing to the cause with more volunteers and money donations. A home guard was organised and they assisted the recruit- Ins; officers In getting; many volunteers to swell the Army. When the administration called upon the manufacturers of the stale to assist In the war they did not overlook Wasco County. In this county all flour mills and canning plnnts received orders for an enormous amount of foodntuffs and they have been working three shifts since then and are having a hard time keeping; within the bounds of the de livery contract. The mills and can neries are working their capacity and that Is about all that can be expected. Tne Diamond Mills and Wasco Ware house Milling Company have contracts that will keep them busy for months to come. Many other minor Industries are do Ing their bit and with the patriotic feeling thri4-ighout the country at no time will Wasco County be found Itiimrd. When the liberty loan bonds first were offered the cltlxrns throughout the ceunty responded with great enthu slasm and passen the allotted quotaa In both drives. Most of the credit was due to the work of the committees ap pointed, and especially to the bankers. who carried the drives to a successful Issue. The following; fir-tires speak well for vaco county. iieerty loans were subscribed through Wasco County banks as follows: S00. the July drive raised that figure to more than 2500. At present something over 3(i00 members are enrolled. Gil liam. Sherman, Wasco and Wheeler counties are all co-ordinated with The Dallea chapter, whose officers are: George C Uiakelry. chairman; J. C Anderson, first vice-chairman; Miss Anne M. Lang, second vice-ch.Urman ; U B. Fox. secretary; Max A. Vopt, treasurer, and Malcolm A. Moody, chairman executive committee. A meeting held In the City Hall March 24. 1 S 1 7. by all those interested In the Girls' National Honor Guard was the beginning of The Dalles chapter of that organization. The Honor Guard took active part in several patriotic demonstrations, in cluding Memorial day and Flag day ex ercises. They also assisted In the tesis- rT. rati on. booths In May. During the Sjm- mer different members of the Guard helped materially In saving the fruit crops In this vicinity. Dancea for pairi otic causes were given and ample funds were raised for all the demands. QUOTAS EXCEEDED BY GRANT COUNTY Kfforta Directed to Aid Natloa la Hon f A ee4Wmpe ross Year Is Enjoyed. First Vstlona! I.'rn-li Si Co. Shantko Iurur ....... sliupln ...... Misiir ....... 4 -1.7. Ml S.sWO 1S.IKHJ Total (313.300 Wasco County waa certainly put "on the map" during the food pledge card campaign. October 29 to November S, when over per cent of the house holds signed tha agreement to Join Hoover'a army. A complete educa tional and patriotic campaign waa car ried on through the schools before the pledge cards were given out. Practi cally every boy and girl In Wasco County pledged themselves "to fight Kaiser Rill three times a day. In the final round-up farmers burned gal- ons oi gasoline, teacners climbed miles of bills, pastors. Porosis women and Honor Guard girls of The Dallas walked long distances and talked, vol umes to win over the obstinate ones. Many of the districts aent a record of 100 per cent of the residents signed up. asco county came to the front in the raising of the sir library fund, aa with the Ked Cross and liberty bonds. The county library board became re sponsible for the raising of thta fund. 4Vasco County waa given quota of II 00 to raise, but the actual amount remitted to headquarters already bas reached IS7C.40. Since Its organisation, early In June of this year, the Red Cross chapter of The Dallea has Inrressen In slxe stead ily, with occasional leaps and bounds when the patriotic spirit of the four counties embrsced rose to the appeal of the great work for humanity. fctarUng with a mcmbtrsuJp of about jIANYON C1TT, Or, Dec $1. (Spe VJ clal.) Grant County has been do ing; her bit to help win the war. Fhe has oversubscribed every quota that bas been allotted to her. More than 200 young men now are serving under the colors from this county. All are volunteers excepting eight men, who were drafted. Subscriptions to the first liberty loan were 120.200 and to the second 11:8.750. The Red Cross Is an active organiza tion and has a large membership. Chap ters see organized at Canyon City, John Day. Lone Creek, Mount Vernon nd Trairle Cttv. In the Y. M. C. A drive $191. 21 was subscribed to the fund, which was tSOO In excess of the quota. The housewives of the county have rallied patriotically to the plan of Hoo verising. During the canning and pre serving season the merchants were worked overtime trying to keep a sup ply of fruit Jars on hand to meet the demand, which far exceeded the avail able supply. In the food pledge cam paign more than 98 per cent of the families of Grant County signed the food pledge cards. Grant County Is one of the chief cen ters of Oregon for the stock and sheep raising Industries and. with the high prices that have prevailed for these products. Its citizens have enjoyed a prosperous year. cf JettdteZon Woolen TZ: ZLsV. Giffr-j e ft the examination of less than three times that number of the 1700 reg istrants. Her total gift in man power to the Government this year is 281. In the way of crop production the county ranks high in spite of the short grain crop. The potato crop of the val ley approximated 90,000 sacks, not in cluding 15 per cent more than that for home consumption. The average price was 1. 10 a sack. The apple produc tion, not Inclusive of home consump tion, reached 135,000 boxes, at an aver age price of 1 a box. The cherry and umall fruit crops were light, but never theless the net proceeds reached Into1 the thousands. The wheat crop, normally 1.500,000 bushels, was only 800,000 buahels. Bar ley reached 150,000 bushels and oats 150,000. The corn raised in this county goes Into silos entirely, The sawmills had a good run, and the are-a big feature in the resource col umns of the county. The George Palmer Lumber Company In La Grande and th Grand Ronde Company at Perry, three miles up the river, are the chief cen ters. and with other county Institu tlons had an output of 65,000,000 feet. This is 75 per cent of capacity. Short' age of help held the output down. These mills are Instrumental in pushing t,he La Grande payroll to 1130.000 monthly, Liberty loan drives and affiliated campaigns met ready responses. The bonds sold to a total of S70O.30O, being an oversubscription, and the Red Cross donations reached J30.000, while the library fund quota of $300 was fully met. and then the county gave $7000 to Y. M. C. A. work. HOOD RIVER AIDS CAUSE OF LD3ERTY UNION COUNTY IS FORGING TO FRONT Prosperoos Year Noted Much Is Done Help Uovemsseat la Present Crisis. LA GRANDE, Or.. Dec SI. (Special.) Nineteen hundred and seventeen brought to the Grand Ronde Valley and Union County as a whole general pros perity and left no serious misfortune. Late Spring floods and midsummer droughts of greater duration than ever before somewhat curtailed the grain production, but fruit was bountiful and sawmills had a good year. The fact that La Grande la a division point made the already large payroll even larger by virtue of the fact that the big rail road business necessitated more crews. Grande has never lived up so em phatically to Its reputation of being the third city In point of payrolls in the state aa In thla year. But making money hasn't been the sole activity. The county bas done well and fully its duty In National campaigns and bas done its full share of knitting and bandage making. La Grande enjoys the distinction of hav ing a complete local unit In France at this time. What Is more remarkable, the unit landed in Europe less than three months after the S3 men In its complement had been organized under Major Graham. So liberal have en listments In all branches of service been that only 11 conscript! were re quired, and these were obtained with "Oregon-First Spirit Shown and County Contributes Freely of Men and Money, OOD RIVER, Or.. Dec. 31. (Spe clal.) Tho "Oregon First" spirit has pervaded the apple city and com munltles of orchardists. and since last April no patriotic appeal, whether for men, money or general support of the wln-the-war movement, has gone un heeded In Hood River County. The fighting spirit first seized on the young men of the Hood River Valley at the time of the Mexican border trouble In the late Summer of 1916. At the in stigatlon of Edward W. Van Horn, a young East Side orchardist, who is now First Lieutenant of the organization. Twelfth Company, Oregon Coast Ar tillery, now stationed at Fort Canby, Wash., was mastered In. In the ranks of Twelfth Company are 91 representa tive young business, men and orchard ists of tho Hood River Valley. In volunteers Hood River won place in the front rank of Oregon counties. Fifty young men already had enlisted by the . time the first draft was called, and the county was exempt under the first call. In the Marines, the Navy, companies of engineers regi ments, aero squadrons and hospital units will be found young men of the Hood River Valley. From December 1 to December 15 scores of local young men volunteered their services, and the total number of Hood River men In the service reached approximately 22s. The Hood River Chapter of the Amer ican Red Cross was the first In the state outside of Portland to organize and receive a charter. The efficient Red Cross chapter Is tbe pride of the Valley. The membershio reaches 800. PORTLAND'S BANK CLFARINGS BY MONTHS IX 1817. T,nmr . . j February., T MarrlL. t April. 7 May T June July. August September.. October. . . . November. , December. Total..... . $61,975,18(1.94 . 61.459.666.13 . 62.724.839.11 . 73.370.993.01 . 74.114.392.30 . 67,326,942.50 . 63.557.318.50 . 60.664.462.75 . 66.744.768.36 . 108.442.951.99 . 94.200.802.97 . 80.000.000.00 .$864,581,924.56 'December clearings estimated. I " fa VTl!?8' C3ierp'3 Poyvng'j Sterey Couniy. G,rrard s ji-eii-; and 150 women of the city and outlying rural sections since last May have met each Wednesday at the rooms of the Commercial Club, equipped with sew ing machines and tables, to make band ages and hospital supplies. Classes in knitting have furnished 150sets of knitted garments, and the local chap ter also provided 300 Christmas boxes for soldiers. The first Red Cross rum mage sale for Oregon was begun by the local chapter. The sale has netted the organization $1086.62. Through do nations of strawberries, apples and vegetables, the Red Cross Chapter has realized more than $1000. ' In the order In which they came. Hood River citizens have responded re spectively as follows to patriotic calls on their pocketbooks: First liberty loan subscriptions, $51,- 500. Red Cross campaign, $6500; oversub scription of $2500. First Y. M. C. A. war fund drive, $400. Second liberty loan, $141,000; original quota, $125,000. Second Y. M. C. A. war fund drive. $2469.44; quota, $1500. The county raised its quota of a library fund called for by the Ameri can Library Association. Hundreds of volumes also were collected here. -for distribution among soldiers. The campaign of County School Su perlntendent L. B. Gibson resulted in practically 100 per cent of the families of the city and Valley signing Hoover food pledge cards. The war has brought about a marked unification In thought and action on the part of Hood River people. The Red Cross ball will be long remembered as the most unique and most largely at tended social event ever given in the Hood River Valley. Patronnesses rep resenting each orchard community and the city were appointed, and the af fair was attended by representations from every section. The proceeds of the big party netted the Red Cross more than $300. The Hood River Woman's Club, with its 150 members, has aided with every patriotic sctivity. The club women have Just organized an auxiliary of the Red Cross chapter, and classes will spend Friday of each week sewing and knitting. Auxiliary Red Cross knit ing classes work weekly in the mak ng of bandages and supplies at Pine Grove, Odell. Park dale and Dee. GAIN IN CRANBERRY OUTPUT MADE Clatsop County Crop 800 Barrels Success of Industry Assured SPLENDID RECORD MADE BY WHEELER Residents Generously Respond to Pleas From Government Women Dolnsr Hit. m FOSSIL, Or., Dec. 31. (Special.) Wheeler County, though small re garding area and population, neverthe less has been doing its bit to help. win the war. Its residents responded to both liberty loans liberally: Its quota for the Y. M. C. A. fund was $1275, and 1295. was raised. Forty-five men enlisted from Wheel er County. Practically every housewife pledged er aid In the food economy campaign. The Red Cross Auxiliary Is much alive. olding meetings twice a week. It has 32 members. This auxiliary sent three boxes to the soldiers In France. During the county fair they raised $167T by ervlng dinner. They also have several beuclita" cUnned lor tbe Winter. i ASTORIA, Or., Dec. 31. (Special.) When the cranberry industry was started in Clatsop County, five years ago, the knowing ones shook their heads and declared that it cer tainly could never succeed; otherwise it would have been undertaken years before. But three acres of cranberries were set out that first year, followed by thb setting out of 25 acres the fol lowing year, and development has con tinued so that today there are an even 100 acres of clean, cultivated marshes set out to cranberry vines on the bpgs In the Cullaby Lake district. The pioneers In the industry went about their task carefully. An experi enced cranberry grower was sought. He was located after a thorough search. Daniel M. Rezin, born and bred in the famous cranberry district of Wisconsin, who had been growing cranberries on Coos Bay, Oregon, for 10 years, was Induced to come into the Cullaby Lake district and take charge of the development to be started there. Under his superintendence most of the acreage was set out and improved. Some of this acreage already has come into bearing. One acre at Allendale, directly under his care, produced this year more than 80 barrels of the lus cious fruit. This acre is but five years old. The possibilities of the Industry can be seen readily from this single illustration. The crop this year far exceeded the fondest hopes of the most enthusiastic cranberry grower, Clatsop County's contribution to the cranberry crop of the United States being more than 800 barrels. Truly a most satisfactory rec ord when it is considered that but three acres of the bearing acreage was set out in 1912, and therefore only five years old. Special care was shown by the grow ers in the selection of the stock to be planted. Only choice Eastern varieties were selected. The development was undertaken In a quiet, business-like manner. Astoria business and profes onal men were Induced to take some of the wild marsh land In the Cullaby Lake district and develop it. No gi gantic promotion scheme was under taken, and today every improved marsh rapidly is nearing maturity, giving promise of heavy yields to the owners. Estimating the cost of the land and the improvement, together with main tenance, at $1000 an acre, the Invest ment in this county now totals the respectable sum of $100,000. When in full bearing it is not too much to ex pect a yield of 10.0 barrels ,to the acre. This would indicate a yield from this county alone of 10.000 barrels. A doubling of this acreage would indi cate a yield greater than that of the entire state Qf Wisconsin for this year. Wisconsin now occupies third place among the cranberry-producing dis tricts of the United States. Aside from the fact that the cran berry industry bids fair to take rank with the fishing industry of this sec tion, the money distributed to the pick ers is a considerable Item. Even with the small crop harvested this season, one grower paid out more than $750 for picking alone. Clatsop cranberries already have won their way into the market;! of the Pa cific COitst, Tlio growers, iiava or- ganized themselves tnto an association, to which practically every grower in the district belongs. The Important function of this association is to see that the fruit is graded properly and inspected and that only choice berries are placed on the market. This asso ciation is managed by the growers themrMves, two of whom, J. S. Dellinger and William E. Schimpff, being the , president and secretary, respectively. This association, in turn, belongs to an association composed of the other cranberry associations on the Pacific Coast, constituting the Pacific Cran berry Exchange. This exchange mar kets all of the berries of Its constituent association members. At the head of the exchange is H. M. Gane, a 'cranberry grower of Long Beach, Wash. He has had a wide ex perience In the marketing of citrus fruits in California, and the exchange under his direction has disposed of all of Its fruit this year at good prices. Conditions for the commercial grow ing at the mouth of the Columbia River are ideal. In no place in the world are such crops harvested as here. Crops of 100 barrels to the acre are not un usual. Every year authentic reports of crops of 150 barrels and over are re ported. The mild climate, combined with sufficient rainfall, make a com bination which is conducive to tho maximum production of cranberries. Even Massachusetts, the banner cran berry producing state of the Union, whose average yield an acre of marsh PAID -IV CAPITAL STOCK OF OREGON BA.VKS. 1910. .$15,162,025 I 1914. .$19,553,630 1911.. 17.113.350 I 1915.. 18.985,250 1912.. 17,760,300 1916.. 19,040,150 1913.. IS, 620,860 I 1917. . 19,285,150 is 30 barrels, concedes that in but one place is ttiat average higher, namely on the Pacific Coast. The cranberry district on the Oregon side' of the Columbia River lies ad jacent to the right-of-way of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railroad. The district varies in width from one fourth to one-half mile, extending from Carnahan on the north to Clatsop on the south, a distance of three miles, and bounded on the east by Cullaby Lake and Cullaby Creek. The lake is a freshwater body and can furnish water enough for the entire district for all time to co-ne. In addition to the transportation afforded by the rail way, the Columbia River Highway runs along the district This is paved for the greater portion of the distance be tween Astoria and Seaside and was used much in hauling pickers to and from the marshes during the recent picking season. Sand in ridges occurs throughout this district ptjoviding easy and inexpensive sanding of the marshes. Power is to be obtained from the lines of the Pacific Power & Light Company, which run along the high way. The success of the Industry is as sured. Ideal conditions for the grow ing of cranberries combined with a marketing association insure its sue cess. -