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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1915)
East Ore(joniri Rotind-Up Souvenir Edition Pendleton, Oregon, Saturday, September 25, 1915 Seven Production On The Umatilla Irrigation Project Dairying and Hog Raising Supplement Fruit Industry on Newly Reclaimed Lands Creamery Adds to Wealth of Project Settlers Twenty Page VIRGINIA C. TODD. Crop production on the Umatilla irrigation project for the season of 1916 ahown the Dame annual Increase as In the past few years. There has Deen no Doom or anything like a boom In the last few yeurs. The Increase In production has been caused by additional acreage be ing cleared and seeded. While we have large areas that have not been touched by the hand of labor, that land which has been Improved Is pro ducing and will produce In a degree that Is an assurance of a community that will be repaid In ample annual returns from labor expended on their crops. The settlers on the project are bending every effort toward the de velopment of their lands In a way that will both quicken the soil from almost total sterility to a condition of tilth and fertility and at the same time produce sufficient money re turns to support them. These ef forts are In many cases being re warded with results that are gratify ing and as object lessons those who hare succeeded are a tremendous fac tor In demonstrating to new comers in the community the best methods of farming on the project. Said an observer and to some extent a par ticipant In many ways In the various efforts made In the development work on the project during the past seven years: "The settlers are just beginning to realiio what the probable returns on crops are to be and are In a better position to go ahead with their vari ous problems and undertakings with a full conception of what will b the reward of their labor." This being the case, there is noth ing to hinder the full development of the project. ' The efforts of the earlier settlers on the project were directed to or chard development and that they have been successful In a large meas ure was demonstrated to the moHt skeptical this season In the peach crop Just marketed. In quality, size and coloring no better fruit was ev er grown. In the growing of apples it Is apparent from the condition of the earlier planted orchards that It is but a short time until Umatilla project apples will loom largely on the horlron of northwest apple Inter ests. It required a great many Influ ences to direct the attention of the older settlers to other lines of in dustry than that of orcharding. The extension workers from the Oregon Agricultural College and the demands of both the inner man and the outer man as well brought to the settlors and others Interested a full realiza tion of the fact that If the project was to succeed It would be necessary to plant and grow something that wosld product a revenue In a shorter time than would orchards. The ex tension workers kept at their work until It bore fruit and as a result we have with us today the nueclus of an ideal community, vis., a community of small, diversified farms. Not that all of our problems are solved, but many of them are solved and are solved to the degree of certainty that there Is not and should not be any further doubt as to the outcome of the pro ject. The final results may be de layed by conflicting Interest but as to the final outcome there can be no question, With but a few exceptions every sottltr on the project was specializ ing up to three years ago. Since 1 M 1 2 the tendency of the rancher has been to diversifying his crops and today the rancher who Is specializing In any one line Is the exception. Among the various crops which have proven to be beneficial both to Hermlston butter has made a repu tation for Itself throughout the In land Empire and In the Portland markets. The creamery has this rresent season Installed new equip-, ment and Is making butter of highest grade. They are turning out from eight to ten thousand pounds of but ter as each month passes. Borne silos have been built and n.orfe are In contemplation. It being generally conceded that the silo Is essential to succssful dairying it Is but anothr Indication of the fact that the dairymen of this section are on the residents of the project realized the economic value of the Industry. The regular shipment of fcoKS In car loats has become a recognized In cldent In project activities. If the reader entertains the Idea that a cow Is a cow and a pig Is pig, let him pay the project's dairy and hog show a visit in November, when the annual show will be held There he will witness the Intensity of purpose manifested by those devoted to the two Industries and If doubt ful of the real progress made on the Prosperity Makers on The Umatilla Project it '4 ih afftarT., -- J fcgaJ 4 V MS. -4? ; ft 1 The Hog Raising Industry Has As sumed Large Proportions on the Project. 2 Types of Dairy Cattle .Used .by Project Settlers; Pure Bred Ani mals are Purchased Almost Exclu sively. 3 Joyful Scene In a Watermelon Patch Near Hermlston. 4 Growing Orchard on Umatilla Project Near Hermlston, IV V A r -4 the arid soil and to the Impecunious settler, alfalfa Is away and beyond any other. The crop has done so well on this type of soil tht It Is no won der the dairy experts have pro nounced this an Ideal dairy region. Dairying is proving to be a provider of ready cash to the settler and al though we are producing more alfal fa than the local dairy Interests can consume, the number of dairy ani mals Is increasing and as an Illustra tion where three years ago there were less than one hundred dairy animals on the project, the reclamation sta tistics show that In December, 1914, there were six hundred and forty-one dairy cattle on the project The determination of the settlers to muke dairying one of the principal Industries of the project was the cause of experienced creamery men beginning the operation of a cream ery" In Hermlston. the right road to prosperity. What Is considered by many dairy men as the most Important step In advancement of dairy Interests was the formation during the year, of the Hermltton Jersey Breeders' Associa tion. This association Is composed of small dairymen, the association being divided into community blocks of which there are four. A thorough bred Jersey bull waa purchased for each block and each bull Is of the bluest blood and they are all out of cows of extremely high production records. This association Is a purely cooperative and all the stock Is own ed on the project. The practice of dairying was quick ly followed by 1U Industrial compan ion, hog raising. The two Industries fit In and dovetail together so nat urally that the raising of hogs was in progress to a large extent, before project In these lines he will be con vinced. Come and see us at that time. In the first'annual Umatilla county tennis tournament, held In Pendle ton early In September, Irwin Brooks of Athena, former northwest college champion, won the singles champion ship without losing a set from first to last. The runner-up was R. H. Home of Pendleton. The doubles cham pionship was won by James Johns, Jr. and U A. Relneman of Pendleton. There were entries from Pendleton, Milton, Athena, Stanfield and the Umatilla reservation. For the first time the Umatilla reservation Indians will have an ex hiblt at the Oregon state fair this year.- Supt. Swartzlander interested the Indians In collecting an exhibit of basketry, needlework, farm products and other things. The Round-Up Band In Parade on The Track '.it -' -.f - - 1 W 'SV - - ' V v . SS i r .it Jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii nullum iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniii: I THE FINEST LINE OF f I Electric Fixtures I PITTING THE hUii- Akoo into actios (Continued from page ) IN ALL EASTERN OREGON DON'T thiWthat you have to send to the S larger citiea for your electric fixtures. E Just come and see us. We will surprise you with our E selection and prices. E Electric and Gas Supplies. E Electric Light Wiring. r. Gas Piping. Motor and Dynamo ' R pairing. '.3 one "f the men who p."Ss on the architecture of all municipal works and buil llnga. n wi bb skyscrapers ii nd ottior structirea. Without the art commission's approval of plans, It Is Impossible for sn architect to cb'Rin nnney to prowcute a propos ed work. Many works fawwr. Of Mr. Iroct.rs vorlu)i the fol. ovymg were for world,B alr at I.' . ''lon' entrance to and elk o art Indian and po!or bears, moose brllges. fair Mr IF IT'S FOR ELECTRICITY IT'S HEJ J. L. VWian 831 Main Street .Teleah.ona 139 i aimiiHniiiiiiHMiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiHiiinMiHmiiiiiiiiir,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, P..b Bl. I.OUIS WOllUO flu.- or liaa ine cuiossui tyureuwi jre o juuei. At th? Tei-Amerlcan he had the coiossal gioiips "Agriculture" anj "The Quadrlqua'' for the United Ststes pavillm at Paris, four great horses, va his vorlt. The uumns oa either side bf the entrance lo Prottnet Park. BrcTtlyn. are his. Their b&sua were designed by Stanford WMt. Th6 "Princeton Tiger" at the en trance to Nnsart haiV, Prrnaeton Uni versity, are furtbtr xafies of his vrattll;y in ild auimrii portrayal. llproid Hkifaio Mado. For th (torenmert. Kr. Proctor made the lor heolo bruffalo tor the I "rt'ashlng'on D. C. The buffalo ar the biggeif bronzes ever cast in Am erica. T.iere are two at either end of he bridge, TU-J tigers are placed likewise) The lluh fj'r the Frlck buildlnj, I'Utsblir,,; the M "Kliiey monument at Buffalo, w th four Hons; and small bronics in the Metropolitan Art Iff 'fum, N !W T orV, arn others of ft!s v."r"KS. The McKlnlcy monument li ons, are '2 feet in length and af) done In marl) o. Jh the P. rthnd art museum Mr. Proctor has leveru' smaR bronzes an'l mArbleSi lncludur t.'ft Indian nn h irsebacK, a ch.xrglog cougar and a dog with a bonA,v Specimens Of fr, proctor" work ftre shon tp o Brooklyn Museum of Arts and f- ieticfs, the St. Louis Art museum, and St Mary'a collegs, Pt ,l,ouia Amohi Mr. Proctor's works for rorUaiid is a but re'.lef, six by three r, of. vhrea llo-is. It Is placed over K, mnto1 In the home of W. B. Ayer. Others are medallion heads of Col "Bel C. K. 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