HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1926.
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RECEPTION FOR
NEWLYWEDS AT
GURDANE HOME
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert French En
tertained by Friends Follow
ing Marriage at Heppner.
Mention was made in last issue of
the marriage at Heppner on Wednes
day morning, August 19, of Herbert
French of Gurdane and Miss Rose
Hirl of Lena. From the Pilot Rock
correspondence in the East Oregonian
we have the following:
Miss Rose Hirl, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Phil Hirl of Morrow county, and
Herbert French, oldest son of Mr. and
MrB. J. D. French of Gurdane, were
married at the Catholic church in
Heppner at 6 o'clock Wednesday
morning. Mary Hirl, sister of the
bride, acted as bridesmaid and John
French, brother of the groom, as best
man. The wedding was largely at
tended and was followed by a wed
ding breakfast at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. Strait in Heppner. A re
ception was given the young couple at
the French home in Gurdane Wednes
day evening at which 140 guests were
present from Gurdane, Heppner, Long
Creek, Pendleton and Pilot Rock. The
evening was spent in dancing, the mu
sic being furnished by an orchestra
from Heppner. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
Currin of Pilot Rock were present at
the wedding and the wedding break
fast. Victer Brochre and Mr. and
Mrs. W, Selby went up to Gurdane
to attend the reception. Mr. and Mrs.
French left Thursday morning for a
two weeks honeymoon trip to Port
land and Seaside after which they will
be at home at the French ranch where
Mr. French is a member of the firm
of French & Sons.
"Who Comes There?"
Pendleton East Oregonian.
In a notable address in Seattle Sat
urday evening Secretary Hoover spoke
under the auspices of the Columbia
basin project league but what he said
was more applicable to the Umatilla
rapids project than to the Columbia
basin project.
The secretary stressed the need of
improving our western rivers for the
three fold purpose of irrigation, pow
er development and navigation. That
is exactly the purpose of the Umatilla
rapids association. The power fea
ture of the project is really the main
thing because it is through power
sales that the construction costs can
be paid. This feature makes the rap
ids project financially feasible just
as the power feature at Boulder can
yon makes the Colorado project feas
ible. But navigation improvement is also
vital, as the secretary shows. He
presented a strong argument as to
why we must bring our waterways In
to use for transportation purposes.
His figures show that where a river
is made suitable for barge navigation
that the rate per thousand miles for
a thousand bushels of wheat is from
$60 to $70 whereas the rail rates are
from $150 to $200. That is a vital
point in the inland empire because
our grain rail rates are high. They
are higher than the Canadian rail
rates on grain, hence our farmers and
exporters are under a competitve han
dciap. It is a handicap that is re
flected in our wheat market. One
remedy for that situation is to bring
the Columbia river into use and there
by lower the rates on heavy products
from the interior to tidewater.
In his Seattle address Mr. Hoover
did not mention Umatilla rapids pro
ject by name yet his talk was a strik
ing vindication of the fight that has
been made by local people and others
for the advancement of the enterprise.
His remarks were not so applicable to
the Columbia basin project because
that project has no navigation feature
nor docs it call for developing any
pewer on the Columbia, the great pow
er stream of the northwest which
must be harnessed if we are to have
cheap power. The Columbia basin
project is to get water, not from the
Columbia but from the Pend d'Orielle,
a smaller stream. That project Is
primarily an irrigation affair. It calls
for watering 1,760,000 acres of land in
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A costume of unusual charm for
the cool days of Fall, worn by
Laura La Plante. The full length
coat is of stamped kid, with
nattering collar of gray fox. In
hat U of cordal silk, with band of
gTosgrain ribbon. Kid slippers and
gloves, and a large leathei hand
bag smartly complement the eu
tume.
the Btate of Washington. Some power
will be developed but it will be a mi
nor factor and the project calls for
elimination of no rapids that now
obstruct boat traffic on the Columbia.
The Columbia basin project is a
great irrigation dream that will some
day be realized. The people of Pen
dleton have endorsed the project and
nothing here is said in disparagement
of the project. But the obvious need
at present is to work for the con
struction of the Umatilla rapids pro
ject. It is a simpler affair, requiring
a smaller outlay, it provides directly
for navigation improvement on the
Columbia, it provides for a giant pow
er development at low cost, it will
reclaim land in Oregon as well as in
Washington, and above everything
else the nature of the project is such
that it can be handled on a pay-for-
itself bond issue basis as can the
Boulder canyon project which has
been approved and i on the senate
calendar at Washington. The Uma
tilla rapids project is plainly the oue
to stress if we want immediate action
towards development in the Columbia
basin country and everybody knows it.
All this is true yet we face a
strange situation. In Portland the
Journal is the only newspaper that
seems to know about the Umatilla
rapids project and its merits. The
Morning Oregonian, unfriendly in the
past, assumes editorially that every
thing Mr. Hoover snid at Seattle ap
plied to the Columbia basin project,
which it did not. There is a tremen
dous fanfare of publicity for a pro
ject that by the nature of things will
be difficult to build at this time.
There is no publicity in the Oregon
ian for a project that can be built
should be built and will be placed on
the congressional program if the gov
ernment at Washington treats the
northwest with the same considera
tion it has accorded to the southwest.
There is a perfectly apparent effort to
rally the friends of navigation and
cheap power back of a project that
will not provide such benefits. There
is a great dearth of support for the
project that will actually provide
these blessings.
Things like that do not happen by
accident and it is time to ask "how
come." Is there underway a well
organized, well oiled conspiracy to re
tard actual development of the Co
lumbia and to betray the people of
the Oregon country? Are there
forces at work that do not desire a
lowering of transportation charges or
do not wish to see the low electrical
charges that will prevail if the Great-River-of-the-West
is brought into
use?
The Study of Brokentop
Mountain.
By E. C. ALFORD.
I have said "study" for perhaps
there is not a peak on the globo more
interesting, and capable of being
studied, than this one of the Cas
cades. It is not so well known as its
companions for the same reason that
aged people are not popular, ine
mighty uphoavols of its life's activity
have robbed it of its maiden beauty,
and tho marks of its shattered ruins
speak indisputably of tragic days in
the dim past.
But that is just why it is of unpar-
alloled interest for the student. No,
there is one other, and that in our re
gion. Crater Lake, which, like Broken
Top, permits our entrance into its
very bowels, and reveals layer after
layer its entire structure.
This mountain stands twenty miles
west of Bend, only one mile to the
north. It forms with the Tree Sisters
a group of four, being separated from
the South Sister by only a saddle. We
reached it by the Century Drive, a
loop road from Bend, through the De
Bchutes national forest. From Todd
Lake a circuitous route brought us
within the area of the ancient crater
of this once mighty peak.
This approach to Broken Top Is
from the southeast. We had crossed
an artificial canal by which has been
diverted the wntor of the one glacier
of this side of the mountain, direct
ing it into the Tumalo irrigated Aa-
trict. Higher up we came to a log
house erected by the construction
crew, near which we found a spring,
the only usable water to be discov
ered. It may sound hollow, but there
is enough in such "camp furnishings'
to endear such a place in one's mem
ory for all time.
We had from this camp a fine view
into the interior of the remaining part
of the mountain. To the right and
left the two flanks of the once ma
jestic peak show in their banded lay
ers, vertical, sectional views of its
structure, laying at about forty-five
degrees dip toward the apex of the
original mass. These represent the
successive flows of lava which have
poured forth from its crater. Within
this walled enclosure the one glacier
formed an elevated stage at the
height of 8,000 feet above sea level
With our glass we could discover its
gapping crevasses.
After a night's sleep which only
this mountain air can afford, at six
o'clock we were off to conquer the
peak. A two mile walk over the era
ter pumice brought us to the entrance
of the circling crags. From the side
of the cliff to the right a plat of
green indicated water which proved
to be a spring of clearest icy water.
A fine place to refill our canteen. The
climb from here onto the glacier was
steep and over shifting talus rocks,
The fast receeding glacier, is leav
ing its lateral moraines of detritus.
On the inner sides of these are re
vealed solid masses of ice, and run
ning somewhat parallel across the
bosom of the glacier are the crevasses
yawning gulfs, breaks caused by the
unevenness of the glacial floor.
We chose the unusual climb up the
inner slope to the northeastern rim,
from where we looked down the per
pendicular wall into the Bend Glacier
on the northern slope. But this is
not the highest point. Retracing, we
crossed the foot of the glacier and
climbed the talus to the western rim.
The upper bands show different col
ors than the crags of the eastern
flank. These proved to be glacial con
glomerate, superimposed upon the
lava flows, moraine material that had
been deposited by glaciers of a re
mote antiquity when the mountain
looked down upon its lesser "Sisters"
or perhaps it was the mother of
them all. ,
Skirting this western rim we climb
ed its outer slope to the highest pin
nacle, at a height of 9,153 feet. Here
wo found a record left by Prof. Hodge
of the University of Oregon in 1924.
To this we added our note.
Here we have a view of the entire
remaining rim of the not truncated,
but disemboweled mountain. The in
ner verticle wall to the glacier is
more than a thousand feet. It is a
mile to the opposite rim. Cubic miles
of lava have disappeared blown,
much of it doubtless to the four
winds. The belch, if it occurred in
stantly, must have shaken the foun
dations of the continent. To the
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Out he goes old man
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minute or a month.
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he's the fellow who uses
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Board of Health Will
Study Stream Pollution
The problem of the pollution of
Oregon's streams and rivers will be
considered in detail this fall by the
State Board of Health, according to
announcement made by Dr. W. T. Phy
of the Hot Lake sanatorium, who is
president of the health organization.
The first step will be taken September
10, for which time the board of health
has invited representatives of such
commissions as the State Highway and
Fish and Game to meet with it in
Salem. Dr. Phy will preside.
A thorough cultural and professional scholar-,
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Ststc University.
Training is offend in.
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south are isolated crags, presenting 0
the same formation, showing its orig
inal length to have been from four to
six miles. Mt. Batchelor, seven miles
to the south is but a child at its feet.
At this point we have the circle of
the earth. There is no region from
Alaska south that possesses such an
array of volcanic cones, and terres
trial distortions. Line after line of
folded ridges fill the view to the west
em horizon, clothed with a garment
of pine. Nestled in the troughs of
this expanse are ribbon lakes of em
erald and azure fed by the mountain
streams. How vivid are the lines of
Bryant:
TheK, as thou stand'st,
The haunts of men below thee, and
around
The mountain summits, thy expand
ing heart
Shall feel a kindred with that loftier
world
To which thou are translated, and
partake
The enlargement of thy vision. Thou
shalt look
Upon the green and rolling forest tops
And down into the secrets of the
glens,
And streams that with their border
ing thickets strive
To hide their wanderings.
It is a fearful thing
To stand upon the beetling verge, and
see
Where storm and lightning," from that
huge gray wall,
Have tumbled down vast blocks, and
at the base
Dashed them in fragments, and to lay
thine ear
Over the dizzy depth, and hear the
sound
Of winds that struggle with the
winds below,
Come up like ocean murmurs.
In effect to
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October 31
1926
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OMAHA 75.60
KANSAS CITY.... 75.60
DES MOINES 81.55
RT LOUIS 85.60
CHICAGO 90.30
DETROIT 109.9J
CINCINNATI 110.40
CLEVELAND 112.86
TORONTO 118.05
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Mini; vrlf
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