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.