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HERMISTON MAN SECURES FIRST FEDERAL FARM LOAN MUCH INTEREST AROUSED BY THE WKAY PROJECT News that the reclamation service of the government had committed itself to the McKay creek reservoir site and that Congress had appro priated $350,000 for the site and preliminary work, is receiving unus ual interest in Portland, according to an article appearing in Sunday's Oregonian, which, after stating that many property owners of the McKay creek section live in Portland, con tinues as follows: "There are already four irrigation projects in the vicinity, and the con struction of the McKay creek reser- voir, which will entrap a large vol- urne of water at a higher ‘altitude than any other, will supply abun- dant water for all projects, it is de- dared, and irrigate an additional 10,000 acres as well. "The area under consideration in cludes the towns of Echo, Stanfield, Hermiston, Umatilla, Irrigon and Boardman. The projects already laid out are the Furnish system, with headquarters at Stanfield, comprising 10,000 acres; the origi nal Umatilla project of 20,000 acres, Hermiston; with headquarters the Western Land & Irrigation pro ject of 12,000 acres, along the west bank of the Umatilla, and the Uma tilla West Extension, with Board man and Irrigon as its main points. "Under the McKay creek project a dam will be erected across the creek at such a point as to entrap during the winter months over 60,- 000 acre feet of water, to be spent gradually throughout the dry months in irrigating the entire body at low land lying in a crescent shape south of the Columbia and up into the Umatilla river basin. The Mc Kay creek reset voir will be so ar- ranged, it is understood, as to allow the lower dams, already constructed, to be replenished from this new sup ply. The cost is estimated at sev eral million, but now that the recla mation department is committed to the work and congress has appro priated $360,000 for a beginning, it is believed the project will be be gun and pushed to completion in two or three years.” In the article a Portland man named Howard, who owns property in this section, is authority for the statement that the reclamation de partment has made a ruling that no single owner may have water for more than 180 acres of land. This insures, he states. the cutting up of the lands of the district into small holdings and affords a wonderful opportunity for the man who wants to get back to the land In a district that lies close to the river, with the Columbia highway passing through it, and with splendid advantages both in producing and transporta tion. SECRETARY LANE GETS $50,000 YEARLY HACE It is said that Joseph 3. Cotter, Secretary Lane’s executive assistant in the interior department, will ac company bis chief In a like capacity when the latter leaves the cabinet March 1st to go to the Doheny oil interests. Mr. Lane will have offi ces in New York, but will frequent ly visit Los Angeles, where the com- panics named maintain extensive ot flees. His duties will be those of legal adviser and vice-president. A big rabbit drive with guns is north of Hermiston. See Henry Hitt Scottish Rite Reunion Attended Meeting in Pendleton Col. J. F. McNaught. E. P. Dodd, S. R. Oidaker, Mayor F. C. McKen zie and J. D. Watson formed the committee of business men repre senting Hermiston in Pendleton Monday at a meeting held in that city to discuss the political situa tion. There was a large represen tation from all over the county pres ent when tha gathering was called to order in the hall of the Commer- cial Club in the Round-Up Clt; Local Ladies Invited The ladies of the Home Bureau of Umatilla nave invited the Hermis ton ladies to a housewarming at the school house in Umatilla this Satur day for the purpose of cooperating on domestic science work, The meeting is to last from 1:30 to 5 p. m„ and is expected to be well at- tended. FARM BUREAU ORGANIZAR Entertained in Portland Mrs. J. F. McNaught returned home Sunday from a month’s ab sence at Pacific coast points. While in Portland as thé guest of her dau ghter, Mrs. Edward Geary on Mount Tabor sho was entertained at a lun- cheon. Those seated at the table were Mrs. McNaught, Mrs. Sumner, Mrs. Edward Geary, Mrs. Cyrus Dolph, Mrs. Helen Ladd Corbett, Mrs. Thomas Honeyman and. Mrs. Montgomery. TREE PLANTING DAY IS TD BE INAUGURATED There is a movement now on foot which was begun at the regular meeting of the Commercial Club Tuesday to inaugurate a tree plant- ing day in thia city. A committee of three was appointed at that time to confer with the Civic Club and in this manner formulate plans and de cide on a date when all can join in planting trees and making the city more beautiful. A sidetrack is badly needed at Hinkle where cars containing any freight that might be billed to Her miston over the cutoff could be set out instead of being taken by, thus causing delay in arrival at this point. A committee of three was appointed to take the matter up with the railroad company. A hitching rack to which teams of farmers and others may be tied was talked of, and this is to be look ed after by the city council. The forthcoming horse show re ceived added impetus at the meeting Tuesday, and all indications are that this will be a big event Two hundred dollars will be rais ed for Armenian relief in a drive to soon take place, $67 of this amount being already voluntarily pledged. Will Talk Tuesday Many old timers here who became acquainted with Franklin K. Lane, retiring secretary of the interior, during his personal visit to the pro ject some years ago, and who have always felt kindly toward him, will learn with pleasure of his becoming an executive of a big oil concern known as the Pae-American Petro leum A Transportation Co. and the Mexican Petroleum Co. when he re linquishes hie official position. Mr. Lane’s salary will be approximately $50,000 annually, or four times that of a cabinet officer, according- to well authenticated statements. NO. 23 HERMISTON. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1920 VOL. XIV Col. 3. F. McNaught was compell ed to forego making hie speech on the Farm Federal Loans subject at the Commercial Club meeting Tues day last on account of sickness. He will, however, be prepared to talk on the matter at the noonday lunch eon next Tuesday, as he making rapid recovery from his illness. Revivals Continue The revival meetings will 1 con- tinué at the Baptist church up to and including Wednesday night, the 25th of February. There will be two services Sunday. The meet ing this Saturday night has for a subject "The Ninety and Nine." Sunday morning at 11 the subject Is "Open Under New Management.” and 7; 30 Sunday “No More Sea.” There will * be a bap- tismal service before the evening service Sunday. On Wednesday evening Mr. Mertins will deliver his lecture, “Rich Man. brand Poor Man. Beggar Man. Thief." This Is the lecture he is to give both on the chautaugau and lyceum circuits i ext year. His lyceum season is in Canada for next winter. He has been working on the new lecture for It is a lecture on the Vice President J. F. McNaught, Committeemen Frank Waugaman, Henry Sommerer, Henry Ott, F. P. Phipps, J. D. Watson, A. W. Agnew. Ed. Jackson, E. P. Dodd and Geo. A; Cressy of Hermiston, and other com mitteemen from the west end of the county will attend the county or ganization meeting of the Farm Bu reau to be held at Pendleton today. County agent work and the work of the Farm Bureau will be distribut ed throughout the county in propor tion to the membership in the var ious communities. As there is quite a good membership in this end of the county the farmers of this vicin- tty are anxious to see that the pro blems of the people of the west, end receive due consideration in the plana for this year. The County Farm Bureau meet- ing has twice been scheduled and twice postponed. In December the bottom dropped out of the thermom eter and in January the flu disturb ed the well laid plans for a county meeting. Twelve communities have been organized with a membership of about 250, programs of work ad opted and committeemen chosen who are anxious to make the Bureau worth while. NEXT TUESDAY WILL DE SILO DAY ON PROJECT Next Tuesday will be Silo Day for the west end of the county. All the owners bf silos and the farmers and stockmen who are interested in silos and silage feeding will meet at the Stanfield creamery at 1:30 on that day. A trip to practically all the silos in the west end of the county will be made. The silo men will tell of their experiences in growing silage crops and feeding the silage. Professors E. L. West- over and E. J. Fjeldstead of the Oregon Agricultural College, who are specialists in dairying and live stock work, will bring out the points that should receive valuable con sideration. Professors Westover and Fjeldstead are participating in a silo campaign in Wallowa county this week, where the slogan is "a silo on every farm." In addition to the silos at Stan field and Echo the silos of Chas. E. Baker, Henry Sommerer, H. J. Still ings and P. P. Sullivan, in and near Hermiston, will be visited. It is of the utmost importance to • It is therefore of the utmost im livestock and dairymen who have portance that a large and represen- any intention of ever building a silo tative crowd of farmers and • farm to make this trip. women from the various communi ties meet this Saturday in Pendle ton and bring together the commu nity program and adopt a county program. County president, vice president, secretary-treasurer and an executive committee will be cho- sen to carry out the projects adopt- Horsemans Day is to be March cd. Each executive committeeman 20th. Substantial cash prizes will will be a leader of a county project be offered for champion brood and will serve as a means of uniting mares, colts and the beet farm team ail the community committeemen exhibited. In addition owners of who are local leaders of the same registered stallions are offering spe All county agent work cial prizes for colts bred by their project. which involves more than one com stallions. munity will be first taken up Additional attractions will be through the county project leaders, pulling contests for teams, hitching At 10 a. m. this Saturday morn contesto for boys sixteen years old ing the community committeemen or under and weight guessing con will meet In the County Agent’s of tests for everyone. Cash prises will fice and will work in groupe on a be given for these. Also there will constitution and by-laws, and plan be horse judging contests with teams the work of the Bureau for 1920. of three men each representing the After lunch at 11:30 a. m. the com- various towns of the west end of mittees will make their report at Umatilla county. Prof. E. L Porter of O. A. C. will the general meeting to be held in the library. After the general dis judge all entries for place, and three cussion and adoption of the reports prominent Umatilla county horse permanent officers will be chosen. men will judge the contests. All farmers desirous of entering The Farm Bureau benefits every stock should consult P. B. Siscel, farmer In the county. It is their organisation. Let them turn out secretary of the show. The detailed program of the day’s to this meeting and help draw up plans tor the development of agri events will be in Mr. Siscel’s hands Posters will culture and the improvement of about February 25th. be out about the same time. home and community life. This day for horsemen promises HORSEMAN’S DAY IS TO DE MARCH 20 To Locate Here tilla county's history. Farmers are Frank Peddicord of Wasco, Ore., taking to the plans with great en has been spending a few days of thusiasm. this week visiting with Frank Silvey and A. Buhmann in Hermiston while looking over the project with inten- lion of buying, This section suited him better than any of the numer- ous irrigated places he has visited during the past six months, and for this reason he returned to Wasco Wednesday to sell his holdings there to B. U Beals and family have mov ed from the Callbeck house on the east side to the former Furnas ranch on the west side. Mr. Beals will have charge of the ranch this sum- mer. which is a large alfalfa Lee Incubator. $81, Her- The first federal farm loan on the Umatilla project was placed Wed- nesday. On that day Ralph Holte, secretary of the Stanfield Farm Loan Association, came to Hermis- ton and presented Maurice Scroggs with a check as a loan on the t ract of land he owns south of this city, This tract has a paid up water right from the reclamation service. It is expected, now that the ice is broken, other loans will be secured by pro ject settlers. Rev. Owen F. Jones, worshipful master of Baker Lodge, A. F. & A. M.. was here last Tuesday importun ing the Masons of Hermiston to at tend the second Scottish Rite reun ion and Shriners convention to be held In Baker April 29-30 and May 1. This will be one of the biggest events of Masonry In Eastern Ore gon. Rev. Jones is anxious for a large delegation, as Baker has the only consistory east of Portland. He It would seem a good business wishes to make this reunion greater move for a water user who has only than the first that, was held there a small balance still to pay on his when a delegation of 150 attended. water right to secure a federal loan. pay this balance and use the re- mainder of his loan for farm im- Will Cut Out Wild. West Stunts The federal loans are provement. Walla Walla wants to get back to at 5% per cent and run for 37 the old time fair basis In connection years. with Its annual exhibition, and will In this connection the article by endeavor to include in this year’s F. L. Cavis, chief accountant. U. s. fair program a strong list of horse It. 8., in the February Reclamation racing events. A number of the di- Record is of interest. It Is as fol- rectors prefer this class of enter- lows: — tainment to the wild west stunts An interesting suggestion comes which they think the people regard from the . Minidoka project, Idaho. as old stuff. Some of the water users on the Twin Falla North Side project, in South Beefsteak on the Butte ern Idaho, have found it profitable A crowd of young people enjoyed to borrow money from the Federal a beefsteak fry on Hermiston Butte Farm Loan banks to pay up the bal Tuesday night of this week. After ance due on their water rights. This partaking of a good feed they ad project was constructed by private journed to the 'home of Miss Nida interests under the provisions of the Patrick, where a taffy pull was in Carey Act, and deferred payments dulged in. en water right contracts bear inter est at a rate somewhat higher than that at which it is possible to bor row from the Federal Farm Loan banks. In this situation is the germ of anew idea tor financing future reclamation projects. Assuming that future developments, will call for in- Despite opposition from some of terest on deferred payments. It Is the leaders in Congress to the pro- suggested that organizations of wa posed- $260,009,000 bond issue for ter users may be effected through reclamation and irrigation projects which to borrow at the low rate of in the West, there Is a chance for interest charged by the Federal the Westerners to succeed with the banks and pay. the water right proposition, says a recent, issue of charge in full. Even though the the Engineering News-Record. It is rate of interest were the same, this probable the measure will have to scheme would he of advantage, as it be widened so as to include swamp would greatly shorten the period of and cut-over lands, but the fact that capital turnover in the reclamation the West is now in the saddle In fund and enable the development of Congress and in addition occupies a the resources of the country more strategic political position makes rapidly through the operation of the the chance for success good. The reclamation law. delegation from the West has suc An example of how this would ceeded in overturning a long estab affect the water user is illustrated lished precedence in resuming a by the case of a water right for 40 hearing directly from the steering acres at $60 an acre payable in 20 committee. equal annual installments. In the Already the steering committee accompanying table comparison is has given decided encouragement to made with interest rates at 5 and the proposed legislation, and, what 6 per cent per ■ annum on deferred Is more, a vacancy on the steering payments. committee probably will be filled by the appointment of Representative Bal- Inter'«! Inter'st Annual Nolan of California. This will give pay- ance of pay- pay- the West the control of that com nents princi- men ta, 6 ments,6 pal mittee and its all-powerful influence for the bondissue is regarded by many as certain. William Spry, for Total of con- $2,400 tract mer governor of Utah and one of the $120 2,280 Western delegation, pointed out to the ways and means committee that $186.80 8114.00 120 2.160 the reclamation fund bond issue is 129.60 2.040 120 120 1,920 a different proposition from appro 1.800 120 108.00" 90.00 1,680 120 priations for rivers and harbors. 100.80 84.00 120 1,560 6th year That money, as he stated, is not re 7th year . 93.60 120 78.00 1,440 86.40 8th year. 120 1,320 72.00 turned, while the bond money will 9th year 79.20 120 1.200 72.00 120 loth year 1,080 be repaid with interest. BOND ISSUE WILL HELP WESTERN PROJECTS NORTHWEST LIVESTOCK CONFERENCE ATTRACTS 11th year 12th year 13th year 14th year 15th year 16th year. 17th year 18th year principal Programs have been issued for fourth annual Northwest Livestock conference at Spokane March 1 to 4. Two days are devoted to the impor tant and Interesting business in con nection with plans for expanding and Improving the livestock indus- try of the northwest and two days to sales of pure bred Shorthorn cat tie. concluding with a sale of regis tered Du roe sows. Time will there- fore be divided between the Daven- port hotel, whore the conference takes place, and the stock yards, where the sales sre billed. ' On the evening of March 3 the annual conference dinner will be held, for which a variety of unusual features have been arranged. In- terest in the conference is keen, as it is generally realized that the gathering has an integral part in the rapidly growing livestock industry of the country. 54.00 48.00 42.00 36.00 30.00 24.00 18.00 12.00 6.00 64.80 2788 120 120 43.20 MOO 28.80 21.60 14.40 120 120 120 120 120 120 1,140.00 1,368.00 120 900 840 720 600) 480 860 240 120 » 2,400 From this it will be seen that on a 20-year contract for $2400 even 1 per cent less in the interest rate would mean a saving of 1228 to the user. Weather Report The maximum temperature the past week was 62 above zero and the minimum 18. There was no preci- pitation, clear weather prevailing. The Civic Club will hold a meet- inn In the Public Library Friday, February 27. at 2:30 p. m. The G. G. C. girls passed a jolly evening at the home of Miss Margie Watson last Tuesday. Music and singing comprised the entertain- ment, which terminated with a nice luncheon at the hour of midnight.
