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DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENULETON, OREGON. THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1908.
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.UNiCN.SV iLABE
A thousand creeds have come
and gone;
But what Is that to you or
me?
The root of love lives on and on.
Though branch by branch
proves withered wood,
The rot is warm with precious
wine;
Then keep your faith and
leave me mine;
All roads that lead to God are
good.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
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BEGINNING OF THE PROJECT.
It is often difficult to follow a river
to its actual fountain head, among all
the rivulets which Join to "make its
rushing volume. It is dificult to de
cide which one of the single rills,
having Its source among the ferns of
a remote and Isolated mountain can
yon, may be properly designated as
the very head of the stream.
The East Oregonlan has tried to fol
low up the Umatilla Irrigation pro
ject to its source and learn. If possi
ble, who spoke the word, who gave
out the thought which gave birth.
It is a difficult task but some progress
has ben made.
One day, shortly after the reclama
tion law became effective In June,
1902, Judge S. A. Lowell and the lato
Judge T. G. Halley, while law part
ners in this city, were talking of the
vast idle sagebrush plains of eastern
Oregon and wondered If, under' the
new law, it would not be possible for
the government to bring water from
Snake river, across Baker and Union
counties or from some other source
to reclaim the land in Umatilla and
Morrow counties.
Turning to the stenographer. Judee
Lowell dictated a letter to Malcolm
A. Moody, then congressman from this
district, asking him to request the
reclamation department under the
new law, to investigate the project of
from the Snake to
Umatilla and Morrow counties.
Sn far as is known now, tnat was
the very beginning of the Umatilla
lrrization project. Others had dis
cussed irrigation here, to be sure, and
for year9 the problem of reclaiming
the idle lands of 'the county hail been
a favorite theme with many progres
sive and thoughtful citizens.
But this Is believed to be the word
which brought this project into life.
Congressman Moody replied to the
letter favorably and requested an in
vestigation of the proposed project,
and as a result Engineer Camp came
to Echo In 1303 and made a prelimi
nary survey of the buttes south of
that place, but failed to find , a res
ervoir site.
The Snake river idea had been
given up as not feasable.
Engineer Camp and a crew of men
worked for several months without
results in the country south and west
of Echo, and finally John T. Whistler
came and continued a vigorous search
for a reservoir site south of Echo, the
Idea being to take water out on the
south side of the Umatilla river at
Ban-hart and carry It through a canal
to a reservoir near the buttes south
of Echo.
Giving up the task of finding a
suitable site on the south side of the
River, Mr. Whistler finally turned to
the north side, had several score pros
pect holes sunk, made surveys, esti
mates and examinations of every
possible feature of that section and
finally located the present Cold
Springs dam site.
His final estimates were made and
aent to the consulting engineers, the
project was recommended and $1,000,
- 000 was set aside for Its construction.
Bids were advertised for, plans were
net on foot for its completion and on
Wednesday, May 27, 1808, the gates
were formally opened and the pro
Ject delivered to the people.
go the few words of conversation
between Judge Stephen A. Lowell and
the late Judgo T. O. Halley In their
cffices In this city may be said to
have been the very beginning of the
Umatilla irrigation project. From that
small beginning the thousand homes
which are to be founded upon the
project will owe their origin.
WASTING Ol'U SUBSTANCE.
The Rural Spirit says of the waste
of soil forces through the continuous
growing of wheat upon the land:
Whore prices of farms should rise
by inereaie of population, In many
places they are falling. Between
18S0 and 1900 the land values of Ohio
shrank $60,000,000. Official investi
gation of two counties in central New
York disclosed a condition of agri
cultural decay.
In one land was for sale for about
the cost of Improvements and 150 va
cant houses were counted In a limited
area. In the other the population In
1905 was nearly 4000 less than in
1855. Practically identical soil con
ditions exist in Maryland and Virginia,
where lands sell at from $10 to $30
an acre. .
The richest region of the west Is
no more exempt than New England oi
the south. The soil of the west Is be
ing reduced in agricultural potency
by exactly the same processes which
have driven the farmer of the east,
with all his advantages of nearness
to market, from the field.
But the fact of soil waste becomes
startlingly evident when we examine
the record of some states where sin
gle cropping and other agricultural
abuses have been prevalent. Take the
case of wheat, the mainstay of single
crop abuse. Many of us can remem
ber when New York was the great
wheat producing state of the Union
The average yield of wheat an acre
In New York for the last 10 years was
about IS bushels. For the first five
years of that 10-year period It was
18 1-4 bushels, and for the last five
17.4 bushels.
In the farther west Kansas takes
high rank as a wheat producer. Its
average yield for the last 1C years
was 14.16 bushels. For the first five
of those years it was 15.14 and for the
last five 13.18.
Up In the northwest Minnesota
wheat has made a name all over the
world. Her average yield an acre for
the same 10 years was 12.96 bushels,
For the first five years it was 13.12
and for the last five 12.8.
We preccive here the working of
a uniform law. Independent of loca
tion, soil or climate. It Is the law of
a diminishing return due to soil de
struction. Apply this to the country
at large and it reduces agriculture to
the condition of a bank whose deposit
ors are steadily drawing out more
money than they put in.
When the most fertile land in the
world nroduces so much less than
that of poorer quality elsewhere, an
this low yield shows a tendency to
steady decline, the situation becomes
clvar. We are robbing the soil in an
effort to get the largest cash returns
from each acre of ground in the
shortest possible time and with the
least possible labor.
PORTLAND.
The Oregonian, in a burst of patri
otism and home pride, which is high
ly creditable and worthy of the paper,
gives a few center shots on the vital
progress of that city which are wor
thy of being repeated throughout the
state. Here they are:
The North Bank road Is building at
Portland the largest wheat ware
house In the United States. Meier &
Frank are beginning work on the ten
story annex to their department store,
and Olds, Wortman & King are plan
ning one to cover an entire block.
Work on the largest packing house
plant west of Chicago Is steadily pro
gressing. Another national bank has been
added to Portland's list of financial
institutions. The largest commercial
club In the United States has moved
Into Its 6wn magnificently furnished
building. The O. R. & N. has Issued
orders to rush work on the Wallowa
branch of the road.
Wheat Is selling very close to the
dollar mark and another record
breaking crop is rapidly getting into
a state of absolute safety. Hood River
has Just begun marketing a 100-car-load
crop of strawberries, etc., etc.
These are Just a few of the reasons
why Portlanders smile even when
they read the baseball scores.
Richmond P. Hobson, representa
tive from Alabama in the national
house, says the next congress will be
called upon to authorize the constuc
tlon of at least two 30,000-ton battle
ships, equipped with turbine engines
and having a maximum draft of only
29 feet. Representative Hobson is
authority for the statement that plans
for this type of vessel were being con
sidered and that in designing an
enormous battleship it would be possi
ble to add stability by Increasing the
width of the vessel. He called the
type the "swan breast." Such a ship
would carry almost double the battery
f the present Delawares, which are
2-Inch guns, and would be tho equal
of almost an entire squadron of pres-
nt day battleships In effectiveness.
THE 1.Y WAS DEAD.
Tho day was dead, and tho flowers
swayed
In the bitterness of grieving;
And twilight came with her eyes of
shade
As the spirit fair was leaving.
The zephyrs crooned in a requiem
And tho echoes low, replying,
Sang softly sweet, as is wont with
them,
In the music of their sighing.
The night came slow, while the sob
bing sea
Swept on In its stately surges;
The undertone of a lullaby
Rose up from its mellow dirges,
The night came down to the sleeping
clay
That seemed of its noon-glow
dreaming
With starry candles In rich array
The tomb of the day was gleaming.
Tho day was dead and the word
went forth
To the farthest silent spnces;
To the stars that stand west, south
and north
And forever have their places.
The word went forth and the word
went on
Till it lost its tone of sorrow
And it broke in light at the gates of
dawn '
And awakened a to-morrow.
W. D. Xesblt In Republic.
CURED, BUT UNGRATEFUL.
Miss Frances Wynne, of this city,
is a shop girl, healthy alid withal
beautiful, says a New York Item. One
morning about a year ago she went to
the department store where sUe was
eninloved and was greeted with
sneers, grins and giggles on, the part
of her companions. The reason for
these manifestations of levity was sup
piled by a sympathetic friend. In a
newspaper advertisement, illustrated
with a picture of the beauteous Miss
Wynne.
Reading the advertisement the fair
girl discovered to her horror that she
had been suffering with divers pains,
aches and maladies and that she had
been Jerked from the Jaws of Jeop
ardy and an untimely grave by thd
medicine manufactured by a femin
ine philanthropist of Lynn, Mass.
So It came that Miss Wynne
appeared In the United States circuit
court, asking for $10,000 as a salve
for the mental anguish, and mortifi
cation she had endured.
She declared that she had never
suffered from the pains and aches de
scribed In the testimonial, that she
had never taken the vegetable com
pound of the feminine philanthropist
and that her picture had been ob
tained by false pretenses. The Jury
decided, after hearing all the evi
dence, that $6000 would cover
damages.
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ANOTHER FOOL 'lULL.
Many fool bills are Introduced in
congress In the course of a year, says
an "unknown writer, but fortunately
only a few of them ever get out of
the committees to which they are re
ferred. One of the most insane bills thus
far introduced in tho present houso In
that of Congressman Cowdrey, which
makes a publisher responsible for tho
representations made by advertisers
In his periodical. The name of tho
advertiser Is published with every ad
vertisement, and he can bo held re
sponslblo by the public.
To make it Imperative for every
newspaper to go Into the stores of Its
advertisers and see that ewry article
Is what the advertisement says It Is
would moan the ruination of the pub
licity business of the country. Eu
gene Guard.
No man wfls ever truly wise. Even
Solomon took more than one wife.
A Most r-aluable Agent.
The glycerine employed in Dr. Pierce's
medicines greatly enhances the medicinal
properties which it extracts from native
medicinal roots and holds in solution
much better than alcohol would. It also
possesses medicinal properties of its own,
being a valuable demulcent, nutritive,
antiseptic and antiformcnt It adds
greatly to the ofilcacy of tho Ulack Cherry
bark, Bloodroot, Golden Seal root, Stoio
root and Queen's root, contained in
Golden Medical Discovery'ln subduing
chronic, or lingering coughs, bronchial,
throat and lung affections, (or all of which
these agents aro recommended by stand
ard medical authorities.
In all cases whero there. Is a wasting
away of flesh, loss of appetite, with weak
stomarti, as In tho early stages of con-sum-itlpn,
there can bo no doubt that gly
cerineacts as a valuable nutritive and
aids Mie Golden Seal root. Stone root,
Queofcs rofit and Black Cherrybark In
promoting digestion and building up the
flesh aiiHlbtrength, controlling the cougu
and bringing about a healthy condition
of the wf le system. Of course, it must
not be effected to work miracles. It will
not cureuunsumption except In Its earlier
Stages, will flro very qpvere. oh? tl
nal? nan"if-rn"cTiron i c coyJ'S, broncTiiai
and" j g f y ri are a l' t rojj t I "s, a n cli run I c sore
tflniiityyifi hoarseness. In acute coughs
t Is not so ellectl vo. 1 f Is In tho lingering
hang-on coughs, or those of longstanding,
even when accompanied by bleeding from
lungs, that it has performed its most
marvelous cures.
Prof. Flnlev Llllngwood, M. D.,of J!m
nett Med. College, Chicago, says of gly
cerine: In dyspepsia It serve an excellent purpose.
Holding a fixed tjuantity of the peroxide of
hydrogen In solution, it Is one of the best
manufactured productnof the present tiny In
Its action upon enfeebled, disordered itom
achs, especially If there Is ulceration or ca
tarrhal gtfttrltl (catarrhal inflammation of
stomach). It Is a most efficient, preparation.
Glycerine will relieve many rases of pyrosis
(heartburn) and excessive gastric (stomach)
acidity."
"Golden Medical Discovery"' enriches and
purities the li'ood curing blotches, plmplei,
eruptions, scrofulous swellings and old sores,
or ulcers.
Send to Dr. It. V. Pierce, of Buffalo. N. Y.
for free booklet telling all about ttie native
medicinal t composing this wonderful
nd'clns. TU ir no alcohol la it
I
To the woman who bakes,
Royal is the greatest of
time and labor savers.
Makes home baking easy,
a pleasure and a profit
Mil
Baking
The only Baking Powder made
from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar
With minimum trouble and cost bis
cuit, cake arid pastry are made fresh,
clean and greatly superior to the ready
made, dry, found-in-the-shop variety.
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OLDEST COIN IN THE WORLD.
An archaeological find of the great
est Interest has Just been made by
Pastor Lohmann, chairman of the
Gorman society for scientific re
search In Anatolia. During his re
cent Journey In north Syria a coin of
pure silver, excellently preserved, was
offered to him, which, on examina
tion, proved to bear a perfect Arame-
an Inscription of Pauammu Bar Ra-
rub, king of Schamol, who reigned i
800 years before Christ. It is the i
oldest known coin In the world. Up j
to the present the Lydians have al
ways been regarded as the Inventors
What Makes a Bank Strong ?
The Pendleton Savings Bank
Capital and Surplus $250,000.00
STOCKHOLDERS.
T. J. Morris
i;--'iert Roylen
a. Devlin
J. W. Maloney
A. E. LambTt
J. 11. Raley
R. Alexander
T. G. Montgomery
W. J. Furnish
R. T. Oox
Joseph Basler
E. Boettcher
L. Dusenberry
E. W. McComas
A. C. Koeppen
J. N. Teal
Frank S. Curl
Local Option Ad.
Read what the wise men have
to say about the evils of drink:
'Oh, thou invisible spirit of wine,
If thou hast no name to be known by
Let me call thee Devil."
Shakespeare.
"The liquor traffic tends to produce
criminality in the population at large
and law-breaking among the saloon
keepers themselves."
Theodore Roosevelt.
FOR RAILROAD COMMISSIONER
VOTE,
29 X Oglesby Young
The strong and capable nominee of the
Democratic Party.
Chickens Wanted
Highest Cash Price Paid For Live Poultry
Umatilla Meat Company
S01 East Court
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Powder
of money, but this new find shows
that the Semitic Aramnens, who lived
twi centuries before the Lydians, are
the oldest coiners of money.
The mayor of Jersey City today
pressed the button which set In mo
tion the largest clock 'in the world.
It Is located at Colgate's factory. Is
38 feet In diameter and has an area
of 1134 square feet. Boats in the
river whltsled as the clock was start
ed.
The world is usually willing to step
aside for a man, who knows where he
Is going.
In Judging a bank, alwaya remember that It ia the
personnel of the st.ickholdeio, Erectors and offi
cers that are behind the Institution which give con
fidence to the depositor that his funds are safe.
Is essentially a "Home" Institution. Its stockhold
ers are well known Umatilla county and Oregon
citizens. Its constant growth Is the result of care
ful and conservative management, with the most
liberal treatment for all deserving enterprise.
Montle B. Gwlnn
F. W. Vincent
E. L. Smith
C. E. Roosevelt
R. N. Stanfield
Clementine F. Lewis
Marlon Jack
Al Page
Estate of D. P. Thompson
Phona Main 101
Hotel St. George
GEORGE DARVEAU. Proprintor.
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Jim. llli iWfe-l
European plan. Everything tlrat-
olaM. All modern conveniences. Steam
beat throughout. Rooms en suit
with bath. Large, new sample room.
The Hotel St George la pronounced
one of the moat up-to-date hotels of
the northwest Telephone and flr
alarm connections to office, and hat
and cold running water In all rooms.
FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT Hf
CONNECTIOX WITH HOTEL.
ROOMS: $1.00 and $l.5o
Illock and a Half from Depot.
See the big electric sign.
The Hotel Pendleton
W. A. BROWN, Proprietor.
Telephone and fire alarm connec
tions with all rooms.
Headquarters for Traveling Me..
Coiuniodlous Sample Rooms.
Frew 'Bus.
Special rates by the week or month.
Excellent Cuisine.
Prompt dining room service.
Bar and Billiard Room In Connection.
Only Three Blocks from Depotd.
Golden Rule Hotel
Corner Court and Johnson Streets,
Pendleton, Oregon.
J. FOFEJOY, Proprietor
Heated by Steam
Lightediby Electricity
Courteous treatment; reasonable rates
Free 'bus meets all trains.
Fine restaurant In connection.
Special attention (riven country trade.
An Ideal fumlly hotel No bar In
Connection.
STATE SALOON
Ed. R. Strahon, Prop,
Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
Thoroughly renovated. A
gentleman's resort .
Hot Free Lunch Served
Balanced Rations
For Incubator Chicks
Lice Killers and
Conditioners
For Poultry and Stock
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COLESWORTHY'S
Feed Store 127-129 E. Alta
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