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No. 48
HERMISTON. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1921
VOL. XV
Big M cKay Dam
Seems Certain
Union High to
Be Organized
HERMISTON YOUNG PEOPLE
ARE MARRIED WEDNESDAY
Umatilla News Items
Hay Office is
Now Open Here
Ing. He fell through but aside from
Dance a Success
Miss Leah Isabel! Percey Weds Mr.
The dance Satutday evening was a a few scratches was not badly hurt.
Raymond Longhorn; Both Well
complete success. Knight’s orchest­
WESTERN
DIRECTOR DAVIS OF R. S. HERE
TWO OF THE THREE DISTRICTS
Known to All Here
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Orlffen have
ra of Stanfield furnished the music
ENDORSE
PROPOSAL
LAST SATURDAY
and there were more than 40 cou­ bought the Will Swttzler place across
Development is Held Up by Want of
Funds
But
Service
Head
Is
Hopeful for Future
Arthur Powell Davis of Washing­
ton, D. C., director of the .United
States reclamation service was -n
Hermiston Saturday, leaving Sunday
morning. He was accompanied by
F. E. Weymouth, chief engineer of
the service.
McKay Creek a Sure Go
The marriage of Miss Leah Isa-
bell Percy and Mr. Raymond Long­
horn. son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R.
Longhorn, was solemnized Aug. 10
at the home of the brides mother.
Only the immediate family were
pretjent. p he cerer^drfy <wag Jper-
formed by the Rev. Faucett of Stan­
field, Oregon.
Following the ceremony the bride
and groom left by auto for Pendleton
where they left on No. 17 for Port­
land and the beach to be gone about
ten days.
Both of the young people have
many friends here who will wiBh
I hem the best of good fortune al­
ways.
Mr. Davis expressed himself as be­
ing very friendly to the McKay
creek storage dam and expressed the
view that it would certainly go
through just as soon as money is
available. The service cannot spend
money until it comes into its funds
and the fund is filled, not from ap­
propriations, but from money due
H. K. DEAN GIVES FACTS TO
the government from its projects.
On account of hard times this mon­
0. A. C. REGENTS
ey has been, slow in coming in and
there has been no money available
to go ahead with the work on McKay Big Saving Made in Reducing Loss
creek. Senator Borah has a bill be­
of Water in Irrigating in
fore the senate to postpone for one
Sandy Soil Here
year the paying of the settler’s dyes
to the government. These funds
Portland Oregonian
will be due December 1 and if the
HERMISTON. Or.. Aug. 7.— (Spe­
Borah bill goes through it will mean
cial.)—“The acre income on the
a delay of a year.
10,188 acres of Irrigated crops on the
Lack of Money Hampers
Hermiston project last year averaged
Local project officials are hoping $50.99, as against an average of
to have enough money available to $12.35 for all the irrigated crops of
buy the site this year, but they say Oregon in 1920," said H. K. Dean, su­
that this depends upon something perintendent of the Umatilla branch
over which they have no control, the experiment station in an address be­
getting of the necessary money. fore the board of regents of the Ore­
There seems to be no doubt of the gon Agricultural college at their an­
McKay creek development
going nual inspection Wednesday. The al­
through, however, and no one need: falfa crop amounting to 32,110 tons
to be told how much this will mean brought $440,228, which is 84.8 per
to the west end of the county.
cent of the total crop income of the
Mr. Davis expressed himself verv project.
favorably toward the project here and
This practice of growing alfalfa
said he had never seen better alfalfa and selling it off the land was said
anywhere. They left ifor Yakima by the station man and by Fred Ben-
Sunday morning, Mr. Schilling driv­ nion, agricultural agent of Umatilla
ing them through in his car. From county, to be greatly in need oi
Yakima Mr. Schilling took them to change to a more diversified system.
the Rimrock dam 46 miles the other The soils are naturally deficient in
side of that city. Mr. Davis is In­ nitrogen and organic matter, and re­
specting all the government projects moving the crops merely adds to the
in the northwest.
trouble.
Dinner in Evening
“Provision must be made for feed­
Mr. Davis and Mr. Weymouth were ing the crops on the land,” said Mr
entertained at a dinner at the Hotel Dean. ‘‘Fortunately alfalfa Is a crop
Oregon Saturday evening at 7:00. l hat Is readily converted into cash
About a dozen local business met. by livestock, so that the transition
were present. The visitors express­ may be easily made."
ed their appreciation for the enter­
Water Per Acre Less
tainment.
“Station experiments have shown
(hat the water holding capacity of
(he soil is greatly increased by this
THERMOMETER GOES TO 100
return of ¡organic matter through
DEGREES IN MONTH OF JULY
livestock. The amount of irrigation
required to produce crops has bee i
Experiment Station Gives Out Some cut down from 9.7 acre feet to 4.7
□ere feet without loss of yield. This
Interesting Facts About
means that the water required foi
Recent Weather
,ne acre under the earlier system
has been stretched to cover more
The month of July showed no out­
lhan two acres.
standing variations in weather con
"Water application is now made on
ditions for that period judging from
40 per cent of the entire project by
past records, according to data of the the border method as Investigated
Umatilla Experiment farm.
and recommended by the Umatilla
During the month the highest
station. This has effected a tremen­
temperature recorded was 100 de­
dous saving of water, but even al
grees on the 24th and the lowest 41
that, the regents were told, loss by
degrees on the 10th. The average
percolation is still heavy. The run
maximum temperature was 91.5 de­ off is being gathered for use on the
grees which is .8 higher than the av­ west extension across the Umatilla
erage for the month in the past five river.
years.
“One of the outstanding findings
Less Wind Than Usual
of the station has been showing how
The highest velocity attained by the water use on the entire project
the wind was on the 20th when the and on other similar projects can be
average for the day reached 5.7 reduced 50 per cent,” said James T.
miles per hour. The total for the Jardine, director of the experiment
month was 1680 miles which is 552 station "This probably means as
miles below the average of the much to the farmers affected as any
monthly totals for July during the findings made by any station in the
last nine years.
country.”
The rainfall for the month was .02
There were said to be more than
inches which is .17 lower than the 270.000 acres of land in Oregon and
average from 1912-21. This aver­ Washington subject to these princi­
age is raised largely however by the ples ol economy In duly of water.
large precipitation during the month
Acre an Hour Im puted
of July In 1915 and 1916 when the
Mr. Dean’s investigations have
rainfall was .7 4 and .78 inches re­ shown that the best width of border
spectively.
varies from 20 feet on steep or coarse
roll to 40 feet on gentle slopes or
Evaporation 8.33 Inches
The evaporation from a water sur­ fine soils. The length varies from
face I f a measure of the climatic 70 feet to 300, depending on slopes
feelers which govern the water re­ and notip. The head Is allowed a flow
quirement of crops. It was 8.35 in­ of about five minute» on each bor­
ches In July which was slightly low­ der at the station, and with a good
er than the nine years average
system such as the station has one
Crop Yield on
Project High
Vote in Hermiston and Columbia Al
most Unanimous; Westland
Against by 18 to 13
ples on the floor. Despite the warm the Columbia on the Washington
weather a number came from Hermis­ side. They have also bought the
ton. Stanfield and other nearby ferry.
towns.
Chas. Powell and Tom
Jones put on the dance.
A. E. Logan and wife have moved
to Umatilla, where Mr. Logan will be
Sunday was another big day at employed by the O. W. R. * N. He
the Umatilla beach. People again 1 b a brother In law of Clint Harvey
congregated from all over this part
Miss Ida Powell who came here
of the state. A new feature was the
selling of ice cream and lemonade. from Portland to attend the wed­
A large number of picnic parties were ding of her sister Edith, returned
to that city Friday.
here.
The union high school won In last
Tuesday's election, two out of the
three districts voting, endorsing
the measure by overwhelming votes,
while the third defeated it by the
close vote of 18 to 13. According
to law if the union proposal carries
Duncan Cramer of Hood River was
in a majority of the disi.icts and here Sunday to visit his grandfather
gets a majority in the total popular John Duncan. Mr. Duncan accom­
vote It wins.
panied him back to Hood River and
they will both return next Sunday.
Vote Unanimous Here
The vote in Hermiston was unan­ Mr. Cramer Is employed by the J. C.
imous, being 32 to 0. The small Penney Co. In Hood River.
vote Is due to the fact that there was
Mrs. Anna Llewellyn who has been
no question in the mind of anybody
as to how it would go. In Columbia visiting her son, W. P. Llewellyn,
the opposition was small the vote be­ leaves Sunday for her home at Clint­
ing 31 to 4. There too a small vote on, Indiana. She goes by way of
Denver, Salt Lake and Kansas City,
was due to lack of a close contest.
In Westland the vote was 13 to stopping off at those points.
18 against and there is a good deal
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Smith left for
of disappointment expressed in the
three districts that the vote was not Wallowa lake quite suddenly after
a unanimous one with all districts their wedding Wednesday and in
supporting the union. Thirty-eight consequence escaped most, but not
people in Westland signed a petition quite all, of the rice that was to
asking for the union school election, thoughtfully prepared for them.
so it Is known that many more peo­
F. M. Qast, president of the Uma­
ple wanted the piV ’8®1
carry but
were too busy or too confidant of its tilla commercial club represented
this city in the motor trip made from
carying to get out and vote.
Pendleton Into Grant county the
Board to Organize District
According to law the election re­ first of the week.
turns must go to the county bound­
Mr, and Mrs. Clifford Caldwell,
ary board. In ten days it will be
that board’s duty to call the chair­ left last Friday for Toronta, Canada.
man of the three boards together Mr. Caldwell is a delegate from the
and to organize them into the school carmen to the big convention to he
held there.
board for the union district.
It is felt that the union high will
Mrs. Mabie Pound and two bovs
be of benefit to all. It will mean
a better high school and will relieve Claire and Roland left last Saturday
the Columbia and Westland districts for Long Beach, California where
their home is located. They have
of paying tuition.
been visiting the John Pound’s here.
Arlington Improves Park
Arlington is one city that is alive
to the importance of the tourist bus­
iness for she is putting some valu­
ably, Improvements In her tourist
park.
A cook shed with a rest room Is
being built and city water is being
nlped into the ground. Free wood
s furnished. The park is very close
to the business section so the stores
do a big business with the tourists.
Recent visitors from there rrq< >rt
the town jammed with autos.
S. A. Saylor left here for coast
points Sunday. His health has been
poor and he expects to stay there un­
til it is built up again. Hugh
Coulson Is running the barber shop.
Bruce Paris narrowly missed Berl­
ins Injury when the roof of a box
car he was on collapsed Sunday even-
CANNING COMPOUNDS FOUND
DANGEROUS TO THE HEALTH
Housewives Warned Against the Use
of These Trade Substances and
George Llndsley, an Iowa man who
Preserving Powders
came here from Lebanon, has bought
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Sanford Place Sold
the Fred I. Sanford place two mile
north east of town and will get pos-
ession August 17.
The property Includes 22 acres
and the Improvements. The price
was $5500. Beach and Biggs hand­
led the sale. Mr. Sanford expect..
to leave here for Bitter Root, Mon­
tana.
CATHOLIC SERVICES
Hermiston 10:30.
Umatilla 10:30.
man can irrigate about an acre per
hour.
Depletion of fertility by ¡heavy
grading was heavy. On lands where
much grading was necessary the al­
falfa yield was only 3.86 tons per
acre. On medium graded soils it was
4.06 tons, and on land merely sur­
faced 6 tons. By running the border
ridges at right angles to the contour
lines Instead of in rectangles to the
main ditch, the amount of grading
has been materially reduced.
Pronounced results have been ob­
tained from the use of manure on
alfalfa.
Medium sandy soils tinmanured
produced 3.43 tons per aere. Eight
tons of manure added to these soils
increased the yield 343 pounds for
each ton of manure. Heavier appli­
cations of 32 tons an aere failed to
show as great Increase or profits
from the use per ton.
Rotations of crops, dairying, hogs
and poultry, offer the best chances
for profitable agriculture according
to station investigations.
I
The U. S. department of agricul­
ture has sent out the following warn­
ing concerning the persistent use of
dangerous canning compounds to
various state laboratories:
"Canning compounds sold under
trade names for use in canning arc
often harmful to health and should
icvcr be used by housewives. These
preparations, which are usually In
powdered form and contain salicylic
icld or boric acid, arc unnecessary
Ince fruits and vegetables can be
kept for longer periods In perfect con-
lition without any chemical preserv­
atives whatever if proper methods of
canning are followed.
"The Federal Food and Drugs act'
prohibits the use of harmful preserv-
atlves In food offered for sale. Nelth
i r the federal nor state laws apply
to foods canned In the home and
onsumed there It would seem that
'he housewife would not knowingly
isc. substances that are prohibited
by law In foods for sale because the
ubstanceH are injurious to health."
Dr. Prime Return«
Dr. F. V. Prime and family have
leturncd from their vacation. They
¡eft here early in July In their car
for British Columbia, where the doct­
or attended the post graduate meet­
ing of the dental societies of Oregon,
Washington and British Columbia.
l)r. Prime reports the course a most
excellent one, the lectures being giv­
en by some of the leading clinicians
of the United States. They return­
ed by way of the Oregon beaches,
visiting Newport and then atopptpg
a short time with relatives In Salem
before coming home.
J. W. Harvey and his daughter
Mrs. A. Foord with her family have
left for Kamela. They will return
in about a week.
Mrs. Ed. Rennick returned home
Sunday morning from a trip which
took her to Portland and Into Idaho.
The general superintendent of the
O. W. R. & N. passed through here
in his special car Tuesday morning.
LAND
BUILDING
IS
OCCUPIED
Association is Now Quoting Hay at
$13
Demand is Lively
in Some Sections
The Oregon Cooperative Hay Grow­
ers, have opened an office in the hank
building in Hermiston, formerly oc­
cupied by the Western Land & Ir­
rigation Co., the first of the month.
The first tangible result obtained
by this organization was the secur­
ing from the state public service
commission the agreement to appoint
local inspectors to pass upon grades
md weights of hay. The farmers
have wanted thlH a long time, but it
is now an assured fact. Every ship­
ping point provided with adequate
weighing facilities will be eligible
for this inspection, according to the
assocatlon manager, L. A. Hunt, and
it Is planned to ship every ton of As­
sociation hay under this inspection.
Calls For Baling Bids
Roy and Stella Patilu who have
Questlonaires are out now and ns
been vacationing In the east are ex­
-oon as they are returned from the
pected back August 15.
members, the association expects to
Mrs. Anna and Juanita Llewellyn advertise for bids upon the baling
returned Thursday from a trip to of association hay. They have re­
ceived several offers from outside
Portland and Seaside.
balers ofering around $2.50 per ton,
R. Saylor was reported by the Pen­ but hope to arrange for the work
dleton Tribune as being in that city with local balers.
In letting this by contract there
Saturday.
are several Items where a consider­
There are lots of muskmelons and able Raving can be secured for the
watermelons on the local markets haler. No considerable movement In
hay is anticipated for this month al­
now.
though numerous inquiries are being
Mrs. H. H. Edwards was a visitor received from outside people.
The association Is trying to revive
of Mrs. Correll In Hermiston last Fri­
the price a little which has serious­
day.
ly wilted during the hot weather and
L. W. Compton and family have is now quoting hay at $13.00, f.'o. h.
left on a camping trip to the moun­ This week inquiries have been receiv­
ed from the Atlantic seaboard for
tains.
prime alfalfa hay.
The dealers stole there Is a heavy
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Carroll spent
Sunday with the Chas, Bennett fam shortage of hay In that territory and
hay is now being shipped via the
uy.
Panama canal from California, and a
Mrs. Chas. Stanyan was a Uma­ heavy eastern demand Is anticipated
for prime hay. These orders must
tilla visitón Sunday.
he handled in large lots, and In bales
John Pound expects to leave soon if special weights but the large ton­
nage available to the association and
on a trip to Canada.
the supervision of the haling will
Mrs. Mock returned from her va make it possible for the association
to handle the business.
ration Friday.
An attempt Is being made to se-
-ure a reduction In freight rates too
“FARMER” SMITH IS VISITOR
for regular shipments, and a special
IN HERMISTON THIS WEEK effort Is being put forward toward
getting an off-shore rate for ocean
Well Known Agricultural Writer In­ shipmonts of hay.
spects
This Vicinity. Trip
to Irrigon is Made
C. L. Smith, known to farmers all
over the north west as "Farmer"
Smith was in Hermiston the last of
last week and the first of this week.
Mr. Smith repeats what he says
he has been emphasizing for the last
15 years, that the farmers should
get away from a one crop system and
go in for diversified farming. He
looked over this vicinity and also
made a trp to Irrigon with L. A
Hunt Saturday.
Mr. Smith, who represents the
Union Pacific railroad as well as the
Western Farmer, visited the conven
(ton of the national editorial associa­
tion In Florida this spring. He says
the party he was wth left Chicago
in 14 Pullmuns and were royally
treated (o orange and lemon Juice
(nothing stronger we are sure)
along their entire journey through
the southland.
When the edlSora arrived In St
Augustine they found that Mr.
Smith had shipped a quantity of Ore­
gon potatoes, prunes and applet-
down ahead and had persuaded all
the leading hotels and restrauranti
to feature these upon their menua
Thus Oregon got a lot of good ad­
vertising fr Its products. "Farmer"
Smith attended the commercial club
lunch here Tuesday.
Ogden to Move
HOME BEAUTIFYING CONTEST
NOT TO CLOSE TILL SEPT. 1
Six Prizes W ill be Awarded, Three to
Winners of Town Contest,
Three to Country
The date of closing the home
beautifying contest has been post­
poned to Sept. 1. This was done to
give a number of people who may
not have remembered the closing
date in time Io get In by AugilBt 10
a chance to enter.
The contest was announced by the
rotnmerclal club this spring. It was
done to stimulate people to beantlfy
thetr homes. It applies to both
town and country, but there arc sep­
arate contests for the two groups.
Six prizes will be nwarded In all.
three for country Improvements and
three for city improvements It
should be understood that the con­
test is only for Improvements made
this year. It does not apply to Im­
provements made last year or be­
fore that.
The Judges will gel busy as soon as
the contest closes. A few have enter­
ed so far but the Interest has not
been as great as It ought to be. Fifty
dollars worth of nursery stock will
be awarded to winners, but the real­
ly big thing Is the satisfaction of
what you have done for the com­
munity in making your home more
beautiful.
Bee Tom Fraser at the Oregon
hardware or M. D. Bcroggs at the
project office. Remember the clos­
The Ogden Jewelry store will be
moved the first of next week to
three doors east of the post office.
He will occupy a part of the build­
ing now occupied by the Elliott tire ing dale Is Beplember 1.
shop. Desire to get down Into the
W B Howard of Irrigon waa In
busier part of town was given by Mr
Ogden as hl« reason for th» elrangw town- Tweed» / w” l) a load of melon«,