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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1908)
rz f I Pendleton, June 1, 1908. in Jbri inn X ; n u 0 m m GATED n IU1 L9 vancing Prices ? n Tho 111:111 who buys our hinds a few week or a few months hence nt $150. $175, $200, $250 ami upward ; or in a few .years purchases these laiyls of buyers of the present time, when in fruits, at $500, $750, $1000, $1500 or $2000 per acre, may feel that he lias a grievance in that he did not buy thejand when it could he purchased at the present price of $125 per acre. Any such complaint as this would, however, he hased upon a wrong; understanding of the facts in the case. Take the case of those who have lought onr lands at $100 per acre. We have actually lost money on these lands, hut if we have 1m cii willing to sell those lands at this price it is our own business. The man who gets in carl" helps to put the project through, and the earlier ho comes in the hotter we propose to he to him in the matter of prices. Down on the Furnish-fV lands hack of Foster, today you will see 1000 acres' which have been broken since March 15, and are green. The men and women who have made this demon stration have had the courage and foresight to join us, and we have lieen glad to give them the benefit of the price. They are helping to move the project and why should we not have given them all the consideration within our power? We seek another army of helpers to put in a considerable tract of land this fall, who will thereby aid us on the prices wo will put on next spring, on a real and actual valuation based upon the real merits of this splendid enterprise. These people who now will come in will be helpers w ith us and an allotment of this land is placed upon the market today at $125 per acre, including perpetual water rights of the Furnish Ditch Co. These people who arc coming in now, while not of as much service to us as those who joined us at ihe $100 rate, we still looWipon as co-laborers in this great enterprise. Those, there fore who come in later at the $150, $175, $200, $275 and up ward prices have no right to grumble because we were willing to share in low prices the profits with those who helped the project-in transforming sagebrush into orchards. This first allotment at $125 will go off like hot cakes. Of this wo are certain. Ln M Portland, Ore., May 31, 1008. Mr. D. P. (Vtuina, Mgr., Pendleton, Ore. Dear Sir: I w ish yon would convoy to the people of Pendleton in a manner deemed appropriate, an expression of my appreciation of the roeoiii courtesies shown me. Umatilla county in the late republican state convention, held the balance of power. Although backed as I was by Multnomah county, I would not have been chosen a delegate to Chicago if the Umatilla county delegation had not insisted upon my election. Incidentally, I might say that the splendid fellows of tho Umatilla delegation also selected the chairman of the second congressional district and likewise the other delegate to Chicago in tho person of their own Mr. Asa Thomson. T am deeply grateful for tho loyal, hearty and earnest support accorded you in the irrigation project, through the purchase of lands therein by citizens in your town. What, finer galaxy of leading business men can be found in any county supporting any enterprise than your recent buyers there ? Including therein the genial pioneer merchant prince and president of your Commercial club, Mr. P. Alexander, Mr. W. L. Thompson, manager of tho Commercial National bank; W. M. Rice, manager of the First Nation al bank ; Messrs. Cohen and Knight of the Peoples Warehouse, keen, careful and discerning, who have made contracts on several pieces; Mr. C. E. Roosevelt, whom I know contracted for a piece of land only to be a good fellow, quite natural to him, but who -when he saw the land increased his holdings purely as a business venture, and a half dozen others, to all of whom I am deeply grateful. It is worth the expenditure of some energy on mv part to endeav6r to carry out some large plans that I have in Umatilla county when I have the hacking of such men as these. Sincerely yours, IIEXRY W. COE, Pres. COME IN AND SEE U & C Portland Office : Marquam Building. D. B. Costuma, Manager Pendleton, Oregon s vr o,
