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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1920)
: = === VOL. XIV OUTGOING AND INCOMING SHIPMENTS KEEP UP WELL During the month of January the outgoing shipments in carload lots totaled 84. During the same period carloads of commodities received amounted to 41. For this time of year the above is considered a good record, and denotes that Hermiston valley is a money maker for the railroad the whole year round. Following is a list of carloads shipped out and also those received during last month, together with the names of people shipping and re ceiving: OUTGOING, 84 CARS C. S. McNaught Co.— 27 cars of hay. R. F. Kirkpatrick— 13 cars of hay- W. A. Leathers— 10 cars of hay. W. T. Roberts— 1 car of stock. W. W. Felthouse— IS cars of hay. Newport Construction Co.— 2 cars of hay. 1 car cement pipe. C. W. Tilden— 4 cars of hay. D. Campbell— 1 car of hay. R. Boswell— 1 car of hay. INCOMING. 41 CARS Inland Empire Lumber Co.— 5 cars of lumber. 5 cars of coal. 2 cars of wood. Tum-a-Lum Lumber Co.— 2 cars of lumber. 2 cars of wood. 4 cars of coal. M. Lopp— ■. -.... ===== HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1920 . 52 1 car of wood. " C. S. McNaught Co.— 1 car of wood. C. J. Hahn— 9 cars of ice. F. A. Chezik— 2 cars of feed. 2 cars of beet pulp. Tear of corn W. A. Leathers— 2 cars of feed. 1 car of corn J. S. Dyer— 1 car of lumber. Hermiston Auto Co.—. 1 car of automobiles. , 300 PEOPLE TOOK IN RABBIT DRIVE SUNDAY Even though there were not many rabbits slaughtered at the big rabbit drive last Sunday that was partici pated in by approximately 300 peo ple from Irrigon, Umatilla, Columbia District, Hermiston, Butter Creek and Stanfield, everyone had bushels of fun during the cross country run and at the finish of the hunt. The day was ideal for such a joyous gathering, the weather being Just right, with Old Sol shedding a radi ance of good cheer over the multitude armed with clubs after having re mained in hiding for so long. On converging of the four wings of the drivers coming from the north, east, south and west, it was discern ible that in the vortex thus created there were hundreds of rabbits, but for some unaccountable reason they disappeared as the wings closed in on them. Of course, there were many of the animals killed by clubs as they endeavored to escape through the lines, but the finish st the wire en closure was not exciting or success- ful as had been anticipated by the hunters or promoters. However, this will all be changed in the next big hunt to take place soon, for on Monday Capt. W. J. Dob ler went out among the ranchers and secured subscriptions to the amount of $70 to go toward the purchase of one whole mile of rabbit wire for use anywhere on the project in future drives. Annual Meeting Postponed On account of the flu ban having been on at the time the annual meet ing of the Cooperative Creamery should have taken place, which was last Saturday, postponement was taken, for two weeks. Thus the annual meeting will be held at the Creamery building Saturday, Febru ary 31, at 1:30 p. m. Newports Get Contract The Reclamation Service on Mon day of this week let a contract to the Newport Construction Co. for the changing of about 900 feet of the A line canal a little this side of Cold Springs reservoir at a point where the Service experienced quite a lot of trouble last year by the sloughing of the embankment. The new canal will he concrete lined and built fur ther back into a hill close by. This is the first of quite a number of changes and improvements in the A line that the Reclamation Service hopes to make in the near future in order to make that water carrier more .serviceable. BUILDING OF M’KAY CREEK RESERVOIR BOUND TO COME Whi^T To Talk on Federal Loans Col. J. F. McNaught has been delving into the Federal Farm Loan Act for some time past, and as a re sult has acquired expert knowledge of the workings of this law. In or der to give ranchers the benefit of this Information, now that an irri gation district has been formed here, he will talk on the subject at the noonday luncheon of the Commercial Club at the Oregon Cafe next Tues day. Every one interested should be present to hear this address. Today is St. Valentine’s Smashed Fingers Last Sunday while in the act of opening one of the sliding doors of the Hermiston Auto Co. garage in order to run his car therein, R. C. Challis accidentally had his left hand caught between the door and the casing, with the result of two fingers being crushed in the impact. The following article on the Teel The injury has proved to be a most painful one, and has necessitated District work, the big irrigation pro the suspension of work on the part ject not far from Hermiston that will soon be under cultivation, is taken of Mr. Challis. from the Engineering News-Record. It gives some interesting facts con Purchased Ten Acres H. E. Hanby on Tuesday purchased cerning the engineering features of an unimproved ten acre tract from the work: "Progress on the 2 1 miles of tun Mr. Pierson. The land is one mile southwest of town. Already the new nel for the Teel Irrigation District in owner has begun the work of im Umatilla county, Oregon, has reach proving so as to be prepared to seed ed 18 feet per heading per day. The tunnel will divert water from the the place to alfalfa this spring. John Day watershed to that of the Umatilla river. It will be ted by a Received Blooded Stock 17 mile collecting canal, tapping J, H. Prindle. well known west Camas, Hidaway and Cable creeks. side rancher, is turning his atten tion to the Holstein breed of dairy From the tunnel the water will flow cattle, having received the latter through the natural channel of But part of last week three registered ter creek for 35 miles to a point Holstein calves. These animals were where it will be diverted and dis selected and purchased out of a herd tributed. The lands to be irrigated that is owned by a dairyman of lie at an elevation of 600 to 900 feet above sea level. Snohomish, Wash. "In addition to the tunnel and main canal there will be diversion Smoker for Big Legion Drive Bob Martin, A. E. F. heavyweight dams, sidehill flumes, trestle flumes, champ, is being sought as one of the inverted siphons, concrete drops and principals in a 10-round heavyweight chutes, cement lined ditches, and go which will feature the high jinks other special construction works. to be put on by Pendleton Post of A sawmill plani with a daily capa the American Legion on Saturday city of 30,000 feet has been installed . night, February 28. This bout, to on Camas creek. "The tunnel is 12,341 feet long. 8 gether with others' now being ar ranged, will climax a week’s mem feet wide and 7 feet high in the bership drive for the four Legion clear, with an arched roof. Its grade is 0.5 per cent and the greatest depth posts in Umatilla county. The best boxers on the coast will below the surface is 640 feet. At the box before an audience of Legion and end is a plant with 190 h. p. bollera ex-service men from all over Uma and engines driving 10x12 compress- tilla county. Jack, Grant, veteran ors. A 50-inch fan draws the smoke Pendleton matchmaker, is being en- and foul air from the face of the listed to line up a fast card, and the tunnel through an 18-inch pipe, so Pendleton Post hopes to prove kingly that the muckers are usually at work hosts to the men of this county at an in from three to five minutes after affair that should live long in the a blast is fired. memory of all. "At each tunnel face are two air In addition to the boxing and drills mounted side by side on a hor smoker committee of three handling izontal bar. Three 8-hour shifts are this affair, Pendleton Post has a worked at each end of the tunhel, live-wire committee of nine planning with two drillers and three muckers. other details. Every service man in They average six feet per shift, or the county is wanted in one of the 18 feet per day, except that where posts and will be expected on hand timbering is required the progress is for the high jinks closing the week’s from 10 to 12 feet per day. The rock drive. is basalt, more or less broken at the beginning, but becoming barder as the work progresses. “About 14 miles of excavation will be required on the main canal, about one mile of this being in solid rock, and the remainder in a heavy black It was decided at the Commercial clayey loam. The bottom width Is Club luncheon last Tuesday to bold 25 feet with side slopes of 1 on 1. a horse show in Hermiston the last This excavation Is being done at the week in March or the first week in rate of about 1000 cubic yards per April. At this fair liberal cash day by a caterpiller mounted steam prizes are to be given to winners in shovel, having a 1‘ yard bucket. the different classes. “The diversion dam is of timber, That the exhibit will be a success rock and earth. 195 feet long, with is already admitted, for it Is a well an overflow crest or spillway 155 known fact that there are close to feet long. An abutment connects It 100 "ine brood mares, stallions and with the wall of the canyon at the colts on farms in the vicinity of Irri east end, while a combination head gon, Umatilla. Hermiston, Stanfield gate and abutment connects it with and Butter Creek that would look the canal at the west end. There well and attract much attention In are four controlling gates In the a show ring. dam. The program and dates for this to "Construction work was started be annual event will soon be given about September 1 of last year. Ex out, for already committees are hard cavation work is continuing all win at work making preparation for the ter. but the flumes and trestles will big show. not be started until spring, the main canal being at an elevation of about An all day meeting of the M. E. 3,600 feet. W. B. Hinkle, consult Ladies Aid will be held at the home ing engineer, of Echo, is engineer In of Mm. Gallaher on the 19th of this chief for the Teel Irrigation Dis- month. trict." Did you get yours? TEEL CANAL AND TUNNEL IS HUGE ENGINEERING JOB HERMISTON TO BAVE BIG DORSE SHOW NO. 22 Railway Strike Scheduled A strike of 300,000 members of the United Brotherhood of mainten ance of way employees and railroad shop laborers was called for Febru ary 17 at a meeting of the general chairmen in Detroit, Michigan, Wed nesday. Should an appeal to Presi dent Wilson to adjust wage demands fail, it is said the strike order will be executed on the above date. Election Date Settled Attorney General Brown, In an To Hold Postponed Dances opinion given Tuesday at Salem, At the regular meeting of Her stated that city officials should be miston Post, American Legion, last I elected on the first Monday in No Tuesday evening it was decided to vember, the date of the regular gen hold a meeting in Stanfield on the eral election in Oregon. The opin evening of February 23. It was also ion was requested by the district at decided to hold the postponed Leg torney of Columbia county. It is ion dances on February 24 and 25 applicable to all incorporated towns at Hermiston and Stanfield. and cities in the state. Plans for the forthcoming mem- bership drive were made, and it Is Library Notes expected to enroll ail service men The library opened on the 9th of in this part of the county. this month after having been closed Claims to the government by any a week on account of the flu epi .of the ex-service men will be greatly demic. facl’itated if the claimants will first All patrons having books overdue confer with Secretary Harry Kelley, are requested to return tieni to the who now has the forms and method library at the earliest possible date. of procedure-for presentation of the claims. More Pure Breds for the Project APPLE TREE BUBS APPARENTLY UNHURT The fruit growers on the project should not be too much discouraged because of the serious injuries that occurred to the trees during the severe weather this winter. Of course, the peach trees are pretty badly killed in all localities. The older pear and cherry trees may pos- sibly pull through. Very few apple trees show such injury that they will not recover. Returns from an examination of apple twigs sent to Corvallis by County. Agent Fred Ben- Ion from three Hermiston and two Stanfield orchards show that most of the buds are unhurt. Except-for slight injury to the wood in the form of yellowing the tissues are only slightly injured, says Professor Brown’s report, from the O. A. C. Mr. Bennion suggests that prun ing of all trees showing signs of serious injury of twigs be deferred till later. Trees with partial trunk Injury but practically no injury to twigs could be pruned as usual. If a specialist from the Oregon Agri cultural College can be secured pruning demonstrations will be ar ranged for as soon as possible. C. M. Jackson and Geo. H. Root received two pure bred Big Type Duroc Jersey sows last Saturday from Aurora, the famous hog and corn center of Nebraska, The’Jack- son sow Is a Pathfinder, while the Ate Root got is an Orion and Sensa tion. They were selected by Fred Devore, whose judgment is never questioned among hog breeders. In writing of the purchase of those sows, Devore says that under ordi nary circumstances he would have had to pay twice as much for them. Mail Carrier III J. A. Reeves, the rural mail car rier, was taken down with the flu Thursday, and at this writing is quite ill. Ed. Hitt will act as car rier In his place until he recovers. Rural mail box owners should assist the new carrier by immediately hav ing their names plainly printed on boxes that do not now contain them, as it is hard for a new man to give the desired satisfaction if this is not done. THOUGH A DEMOCRAT, WE’LL SAY ________ HE’S 0. K. At the solicitation of his demo cratic friends Will M. Peterson, a well known Pendleton attorney, has under consideration an invitation to become a candidate for delegate to the national democratic convention to be held In San Francisco In July. This would not be the first con vention that Mr. Peterson has at tended In the Interests of the party with which he is affiliated, for he was at the St. Louis convention four years ago as a delegate from this district. Mr. Peterson was also a presidential elector in 1912 and has served several years as county demo cratic chairman. The pressure on Mr. Peterson to become a candidate has come not only from friends tn Pendleton but also from this and other sections of the district. After a conference with democratic leaders In Portland it is ’likely he will announce whether he will be- come a candidate. Fire in Boardman Store (By M. B. Signs) Cramer A Co.’s general merchan dise store at Boardman was the scene of considerable excitement about 1 o'clock Wednesday morning when an alarm of fire was sounded and flames were discovered under the rear of the building in the vi cinity of the oil tank. Mrs. Cramer was awakened by the smoke and flames pouring up into the sleeping apartment, which is In the rear of the store. There being no fire pro tection of any kind In the commu nity the alarm was sounded by fir ing several shots from a revolver and yelling "Fire!" in the good old fashioned way. A crowd quickly gathered and a bucket brigade was formed, and after some strenuous work the danger of a severe con- flagration was averted. The loss was nominal and covered by Insur ance by the owner of the building. Weather Report E. W. Mack of Hermiston. The The maximum temperature the cause of the tire is unknown, but past week was 51 degrees above and from its location It might have been the minimum 19. There was no from spontaneous combustion. rainfall. It would not be surprising it work was started some time early next year on the building of the McKay creek reservoir, for the interpreta tion of the handwriting on the walls in the White House at Washington, D. C., would tend to indicate that events are fast transpiring which are to spell activity on this as well as many other western irrigation projects during the year 1920 by the U. S. Reclamation Service. The most recent move at Washing ton has been made by Secretary Lane, who has asked congress to in crease appropriations for work on ir rigation projects next year from $7,873,000 to »12.8 7 3,0 0 0. The secretary said President Wilson had approved the estimated expenditures. Nineteen Irrigation projects In Arizona, Colorado, Idaho. Montana, North and South Dakota. Nebraska, Woming, Nevada. New Mexico, Texas, California, Oregon and Wash ington would receive Increased funds, permitting greater development work The oil lands leasing measure re cently agreed upon In conference provides for a division between the reclamation fund and the states of royalties paid the government for use of the mineral lands, and the secretary said the prospects of enact ment of the bill make “it new seem probable that the reclamation fund will be increased by five to seven million dollars.” Urging reclamation of arid lands as fast as funds are available, Mr. Lane said It was advisable to consid er the needs of settlers who have been waiting many years for a water supply. Projects which would receive in creased appropriations under the Lane plan Include the Yuma, Grand Valley. Uncompgre Valley. Boise, King, Hill, Minidoka, Huntley, Milk River, Lower Yellowstone, North Platte, Newlands, Carlsbad. Rio Grande, Umatilla, Klamath, Belle Fourche, Strnwberry Valley, Yaki ma Valley and Shoshone. Up to Date The Pioneer Barber Shop on Main street operated by Ed. Mlles was this week improved In appearance by the Installation of a large plate glass window and three-quarter glass door. This makes of the ton- sorial parlor a pleasant appearing place inside, and gives It an up to date business look outside. PORTLAND AUTO SHOW INTERESTS LOCAL PEOPLE Quite a number of Hermiston peo ple are being attracted by the big auto show to be held in Portland during the week of February 23 to 28, and as a result a number have al ready begun making preparations to attend the event. Some idea of the size of the show this year may be gained from the fact that the Ice Palace, where the motor car part of the affair will be held. Is the largest show room on a single floor in the United States. Its 360x130 feet, without a single post to obstruct the view, give more space than Is available for cars even on the main floor of the huge Coliseum building In Chicago, which Is 300 by 120 feet In size. One of the features will be the display of closed car models. At least one-third of the 176 models to be shown will bo of the enclosed type. It does not require a very long memory to remember back to the days when the only closed automo biles In this part of the country were taxicabs or costly limousines, ownership of which automatically rated a man as a millionaire. In those days folks on the street used to speculate as to how much he paid his chauffeur when the great man rolled by In his limousine. - But times have changed. Nowa days there are closed earn within the reach of the purse of even the very moderate income. And the day when such a vehicle could be driven only by a paid chauffeur In uniform also is past. In these times the closed car owner drives his own. Another feature of the Portland auto exposition is the truck show held In connection with it. For the first time on the Pacific coast a show will be devoted exclusively to trucks.
