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DAILY EAST OREGONIAK PENDLETON. OKFION, SATURDAY. FEBTtUARYlQ1912.
PifGE SEVEN
If You Wartt Information
Regarding the 1 9 ! 2
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Do Not Ask
Jealous '
Competitors.
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Seeing is Be
lieving Know
ledge is Power.
Stop the Firs) Cadillac Owner you seo
Ask him how he likes his car
Ask him about Cadillac
service Ask him' about the
electric lights Ask him
about the electric starting de
vice Ask hira about the'
ease and comfort Ask him
nil al)Out his Cadillac car.
If that does not satisfy you, 6top all the
Cadillac owners you see.
There are Cadillac owners throughout the
State of Oregon and they are easily found.
Do not hesitate asking any owner, they
are all proud to talk about their car9. Ask
them how they are treated by the Covey
Motor Car Comany and anything you want
to know about service of the car.
If you still seek information ask any 1911
Cadillac owner, ask any 1910, 1909, 1908,
1907 or even the owners of cars before that
date, what they think of Cadillac cars and
Cadillac service.
We rest our case entirely on what the own
ers tell you.
The Car With the Reputation
If you 'want a 1912 Cadillac we advise you to
order at once
Oregon Motor Garage
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Umatilla County Distributors
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PRES. IOID OK IIERMISTO.4
ENLIGHTENS ENGINEERS
I,euda Itoclanuition Men Tlu-ougli
Three Mlllim Year8 of Habitation
of Jack KabWte and Rattlesnakes
to Present Time.
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COMMENCING AT 10:30 O'CLOCK A. M.
The undersigned will sell at the Thomas Hampton
ranch 2 miles northeast of Pendleton, the
L. D. EATON STOCK, Consisting of the following:
2 Caso Separators.
1 20-h. p. Oaso Traction Engine.
5 Wheat Wagons.
10 Head Young Work Mules, well broken.
1 Six-year-old Single Line Mule.
2 Two-year-old Mules.
1 Sucking Mule.
1 Four-year-old ITorse, well broken, good size.
1 Eight year-old Horse, well broken, 1100 lbs.
1 Saddle Pony, four years old.
1 Cook House on Trucks.
10 Header Beds with Nets.
2 Water Tanks.
1 Road Cart.
1 Single Seated Buggy. .
1 Set Double Buggy Harness.
8 Set Butt Chain Harness.
3 Set Chain Harness.
1 Three-bottom 14-in. Oliver Gang Plow.
1 Two-bottom 14-in. Oliver Gang Plow.
1-Two-bottom 14-in. Cassady Gang Plow.
1 Two-bottom 14-in. Columbia Gang Plow.
1 Buckeye Grain Drill, G horse.
1 Monitor Grain Drill, 4 horse.
2 Six-horse Harrows.
1 Eight-horse harrow.
Blacksmith bellows, Vise, anvil, drill, grind- diet0n, Hermiston, Umatilla and Ir
stone, leader bars, chains, lorks, etc., etc.
(Special Correspondence.)
Ilermiston, Ore., Feb. 10. At the
banquet given the englners of the
reclamation service by the people of
Hermiston Wednesday evening, am
ong the principal speakers of the
evening was Elmer P. Dodd, precedent
of the Hermiston Commercial cluD,
His address was as follows:
When moat of us came to Hermis
ton there was little else than rabbits,
rattlesnakes and reclamation engi
neers. The rattlers have disappear
ed, the long-eared Jacks are on the
run. hut the engineers are with us
still, and we hope ere here to stay.
A long article In the Oregonlan the
other day told us that Oregon was
three miUlon years old and it is my
opinion that if the rabbits and rat
tlesnakes could make nothing more
than a sagey, sandy waste of this re
m'arkable region in such aeons of
time, it is high time we were welcom
ing most anyone to drive them hence.
After the engineers came to inter
rupt this long unvaried course of na
ture, we came. Like true Americans
we followed the flag. We have scal
ed the ramparts built by the wild
elements of nature and a cultured
race Is breeding culture Into the
"sands of time." In a country for
got three million years, we, in the
fullness of our faith in the demands
of the century set foot upon wild
soi'.s and are taming them to gentle
ness in half a decade. And nov like
the old Conqueror, we yesxn tax more
worlds to subdue. It Is to show how
strong Is our faith and how great that
yearning has been shown by actual
deeds, that I was appointed to write
for you a brief history of the popu
lar support that has been given the
West Extension by the people who
know most of the government recla
mation work here, and the character
of the proposed west extension.
The editor of the Irrigation Age
wrote, after years of travel and in
vestigation, that the desert sand soils
are the richest and most enduring of
any soils in the world. The forces in
them are latent and need but to be
released by chemical action to be
come the most fertile of all lands.
Because of this fertility of the soil;
because of the mild climate in such
latitude; of the low elevation; of the
excellent transportation facilities and
nearness to market we have estab
lished our faith in the country, and
since the cry of the time is "back to
the land" and the demand of the age
is diversified farming, we know of
no greater opportunity to satisfy the
calls and needs of the people, which
is the purpose of good government
and which makes good history.
August 25th, 1909, the secretary of
the interior withdrew from entry
lands now In the west extension. For
some months these rands had been
open to the public, but for much
longer prior to that period they had
been in a reserve. The placing of
them back into a reserve raised
quesilon in our minds as to what the
government had up its sleeve. So, we
as citizens of the immediate vicin
ity began to figure a little and in
quire. We got a hint or two, and
with a hunch . or two made a long
guess or two and went to work to
promote the construction of the West
Extension of the Umatilla project; or,
in lact, the real original Umatilla
project. We believed, that, as citi
zens of the first division of the Uma.
tilla project, it was our duty to rep'
resent as well as we could the popu
lar sentiment side of the question. We
believed that other things were ne
cessary than the creiiion of a re
serve and the engineering feasibil
ity. There must be a demand shown
for such great public works, and we
set about to prove to the authorities
In control that there was such a de
mand. We knew hat the feasibil
ity or unfeaslbllity of the extension
would be presented by the reclama
tion service. With that we had little
to do, but we did know other merits
ot ihe enterprise, and we have done
all we could to present them on all
occasions.
On November 17, 1909, a mass
meeting was held in Hermiston in
the form of a banquet like this. One
o our congressmen was present and
we presented the matter and urged
and received a promise of his hearty
support. At that meeting, a num
ber of Pendleton citizens were pres
ent and invited us to attend a similar
meeting in Pendleton on November
27th. A large number of Hermiston
citizens went to Pendleton, and also
citizens from Umatilla and Irrlgon
It was a big" meeting and Pendleton
pledged Its unanimous support to the
cause. A committee of ten wast ap
pointed by the president of the Pen'
dleton Commercial club five from
Pendleton and five from this locality.
This committee raised funds in Pen-
cwaMA- All sums under $50 cash; over $50 time will be
II UMIIub given'until October 1st, 1912, on approved notes
bearing 8 per cent, interest. 3 per cent, oft tor cash.
FKEE-LMWCM-AT NOON
STOUFE
R, Ourior,
E.L. SMITH, Clerk.
Co!. Vm. F. Yohnka,
AUCTIONEER
rtgon for Its work. We began to pe
tition the director of the reclamation
service, and the secretary of the In
terior. A sub-committee of three
prominent and influential citizens of
Pendleton was selected by the com
mittee of ten to go to Portland and
arouse Interest among the organized
bodies of that city, and with the
press, and a statewide campaign was
thus inaugurated. A great demand
went up that Oregon, the greatest
contributor to the reclamation fund.
be recognized. Then congress con
vened. Senator Borah - proposed the
thirty million dollar bond issue. We
urged again the appropriation for
the West Extension, but Mr. Balling.
er, unfortunately did not sleep well
on It over night. The proposed bond
Issue was cut to twenty million, and
the army board rtder was put on. In
due course of time the army board
of engineers arrived. They were
shown about, and we banqueted them.
ed, and only 110 could be seated,
but nearly two hundred were present
that evening. Including many from
surrounding towns. The governor of
the state, J. Bowerman, came and
pledged the dignity and support ot
Oregon to the cause. Judge Wallace
McCamant, In a brilliant speech,
pledged the unanimous support of
the city of Portland, and Senator
Chamberlain and Congressman Ellis
pledged their support as members of
congress. Other prominent citi
zens of the etate came to Hermiston
to add the support of their localities
and demand a Just recognition from
the national government of our rights;
of our claim on the reclamation fund,
to which we had given so liberally
through bur resources. Things mov
ed on. The army board went around
and you know the result. Idaho with
its great Borah's thumb pulled out a
splendid plum. Montana with its
faithful Tom Carter and other
slates that had no bearing plum trees
ate the fruits of our resources. Ore
gon with a body of land so rich that
it could maintain a family on every
ten or twenty acres, was neglected
for Montana, Wyoming and Idaho,
where at leaat eighty acres is neces
sary. Oregon with lands that "no
man dates estimate the possible val
ues thereof" was sidetracked for land
that can never be made to yield divi
dends on over J 100 an acre. Oregon
land, with almost tropical climate, in
a vivacious latitude, was forgotten for
stretching plains with hard winters
and short summer seasons. w
with both water and rail transporta
tion easily settled, near to big mar
kets and the Pacific ocean, the great
highway of trade were patronizingly
passed up as O. K., but the money
must go elsewhere.
Well, we had fought a good fight,
we had kept our faiih, but we had
ftniahoA our coarse. That was
nia in tn ee. We had some political
sense. We had a lot of courage and
we refused to be humiliated. We
tightened our belt another hole and
ombraced the fray once more. Up
to this time, Portland and western
Oregon support had been more or
less luke-warm. The Portland Com
mio nriranlzations had said: "We
ivl-i hPln von all we can on the quiet
but we do not want to draw me um
nnhlielv. lest we antagonize Kiamam,
and that trade that we are teasing
will flv away down to San Francisco.
But the turn-down by me
hoar threw down all obstacles, ine
state o' Oregon had been insulted, and
Portland awoke. Portlana new spa
res, hpcame frenzied. Prominent
Portland citizens went to Washing
ton. J J. Hl'l was then entering Ore
gon, and Howard Elliot called on the
president. Things got warm. We
her began to have the Ilgnt iaen
off our shoulders somewhat, but we
unf husv. Letters were sent iff
Washington, and petitions were again
renewed. Our members In congress
were kept in action, or as nearly so
as we could do, and as a result our
appropriation of $50,000 was made
for surveys which partly pacified us
nnd we waited all summer for the fi
nal report.
Then like a cloud out of the clear
sky arose opposition to the West Ex
tension within our own camp. Out
at a farm house on the proposed res
ervoir site, four men formed one of
the Umatilla River Water Users' as
sociation; then another, and another,
and yet another association was in
spired and formed by the promoters of
the first. A few newspapers began
a frenzied attack and frightened a
number of water users out of their
wits. We, of Hermiston, took no no
tice of the turn of affairs for a time
because we knew' the motives and
causes- But the noise grew louder,
and we began to fear that our silence
was being considered as sympathy
with the movement. The Commercial
club of Hermiston called a mass meet
ing in the form of a smoker and an
nounced the object. Nearly 300 cit
izens and settlers attended. Resolu
tions denouncing the opposition and
renewing our unqualified support
were adopted and signed unanimous
ly by all present, and forwarded w
the president and seretary of the in
terior. Then the opponents of the
West Extension Induced the Pendle
ton Commercial club to reconsider its
resolutions of two years ago and to
sit an a 1urv. so to speak, while the
opponents and supporters of tne wesi
Extension argued the question. Her
miston secured a speetal train, and
with Irrlgon and Umatilla, went to
the meeting 125 strong. They won
the decision from the Pendleton Com
mercial club. It was a dramatic oc
casion, and the enthusiasm of the
west enders plainly showed the
strength and unanimity of their sup
port. The fallaciousness of the argu
ment of the opposition was made ap
parent and they began to quarrel
among themselves. Personal inter
ests charged betrayal, and different
factions sought to discover new ar
guments: shifting their positions
from time to time as one after anoth
er point fell from want of logic. The
broad policy of general good was ig
nored and selfish motives only guid
ed their acts. They continually re
fne,i fo face the actual facts, and
have been on the run ever since they j
were routed In Pendleton last De
cember.
Shortly after that meeting came the
announcement that you, gentlemen,
had been chosen as a board to review
the facts and consider the report of
the engineers' work of the West Ex
tension In 1911. Tou are here ful
filling vour duty, and we most heart
ily congratulate you on the consider
ation vou have shown the public. Tou
have listened to the claims urged by
the opposition as well as to the ar
gument in favor of this splendid en
terprise, and we feel confident your
best judgment will prevail. We be
lieve you will be able to sift out the
real facts and true motives and that
In a short time dirt will be flying on
one of the best tracU of lnnd In the
northwest.
go
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as a Jobbing
Centre
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Form Lands
(Vancouver News-Adv., Jan. 13.)
Too great Importance cannot be at
tached to the movement now on foot
for a railroad connecting Vancouver
with Fort George and the Peace River
country. This Is the opinion of a num
ber of the leading business men ot s
the city who gave their views to a
representative of the "News-Advertiser"
today. By the construction of this
line, a long step will have been taken
toward assuring Vancouver of com
mercial preeminence on the Pacific
Coast of Canada.
With the opening of this railway,
wheat, coal and other products of the
Peace river country and the central
interior will be shipped to Vancouver'
either for local consumption or ex
port, and in return Vancouver will
send North her lumber and commer
cial goods of all kinds, shipped here
from abroad. In other words, Van
couver will be a metropolis of the
North, as Edmonton hopes to be, un
less this Vancouver-Fort George line
Is rushed to completion.
It is expected that during the pres
ent session of the legislature the pre
mier will make an Important an-.
nouncement concerning the railway
policy of this government.
FORT GEORGE is the geographi
cal and stragetic commercial center
of British Columbia, Canada's larg
est and richest province.
All railroads building through the
Peace river or Central British Col
umbia must go through FORT
GEORGE In order to maintain water .
grade. Therefore FORT GEORGE
must be a great railroad center.
FORT GEORGE is the supply point
for an immense territory rich In agri
cultural, timber and mineral resourc
es, and will be able to compete with
Edmonton and eastern cities for the
trade of the Peace River country as
well as the whole of Central and
Northern British Columbia.
FORT GEORGE is at the Junction
of the Fraser and Nechaco Rivers,
with 1100 miles of navigable water
ways.
With the opening of the Panama
Canal, freight rates to FORT
GEORGE will be lower than to Ed
monton, thus making FORT GEORGE
a great wholesale and Jobbing center.
FORT GEORGE will be one of the
largest cities In the West. An enor
mous development will take place dur
ing 1912.
For further Information apply tt
Teutsch & Bickers, agents for East
ern Oregon and Eastern Washing
ton, for the North Coast Land Com
pany Limited, Vancouver, B. C.
then he answered: "Yes, most cer
tainly I will."
Thus Morra Potter, twenty-three
years of age, employed in the insu
lating department of the General
Electric Works here, says she pop
ped the question fo Robert James
Reece, twenty-two, of this city.
They appeared at tte office of City
Clerk Hull and Miss Potter asked for
a' marriage license. Then she made
a certified statement of her leap year
proposal and will win $500 in prizes
offered by local merchants through
the Pittsfield Journal to the first leap
year bride lu this city.
"We have been lovers for five
years," said Miss Potter, "but some
how Robert didn't seem to have
'gumption' enough to propose. When
I saw a chance to get $500 in prizes
I made up my mind I would take ad
vantage of leap year and I Just did."
Miss Potter is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Leon Potter, who moved to
this city from Hosick Falls, N. D..
three years ago. She is a blonde and
has a winsome manner, as her 'suc
cess in wooing proves. She Is a reg
ular attendant at the Morningslde
Baptist church, sings soprano in the
choir and teaches a class of boys in
the Sunday school. She and Mr.
Reece are to have a church wedding
here with the Rev. Harry C. Leach
officiating.
LEAP YEAR PROPOSAL
WINS $500 AND A MAN
Pittsburg. Mass. "isow. Robert, as
we have been going together for the
last five years, I think that it is about
time we were getting' serious, and as
this is leap year, I want to ask you
will you be my husband "
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