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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.
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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.
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D. B. Costuma, Manager
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