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VOL. XV II
PROSPECTS OF
OIL ENCOURAGING
HERMISTON. UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1923
SIZE OF GARDER CROPS
DEPENDS UPON MARKETS
Too Great Aoerage Means W aste and
Low Prices. There are Three
Outlets for Surplus
HERMISTON TO HAVE
$15,000 GAS PLANT
PROPOSED WORK ON
UMATILLA PROJECT
W hat is Contemplated for the Fiscal
Tear of 1924 by United States
Reclamation Service
LOCAL WELL IS DRILLED TO A
GOPHERS ON THE
PROJECT MUST DIE
GROWTH OF DISEASE IS IN
CREASING AT ALARMING RATE
Oregon Agricultural College to Com
bat Infectious Abortion
Among Cattle
fl.»
No. 22
WARNER RETURNS
FROM CONFERENCE
“Plans for gardens should be made B uilt W ith View to Give W est End of
The following is taken from the COLUMBIA FARM BUREAU PASS
FIFTEEN PROJECTS WERE REP
To those dairy farmers who failed
at this time since the gardener has
Department of the Interior U. S. Re
FOR PLANT SITE TNESDAY
ES SENTENCE
RESENTED AT MEETING
to
avail
themselves
of
the
opportun
more available time to consider care-
clamation Service bulletin, “Pro
ity to hear the talk given by Prof.
i.ully what crops he is going to pro-
posed Work on Reclamation Projects
D. T. Simms, in Hermiston, recently.
Every Strata Reached Reveals Pos- d“ c? th,a “ mlng 8eason and t0 what
During Fiscal Year 1924." The fls
extent each will be grown,” says A. B u li W ith View to Give W est End of cal year referred to ends June 30, Damage Done by These Rodents When thia brief article may prove of some Object of Conference Wag to Obtain
sibility of O il; Samples on Ex-
Interest.
G. Bouquet, head of vegetable gar
County Better Service; Three
1924:
Computed in Dollars and Cents
an Extension of Time W ithin
dening
at
O.
A.
C.
Proposed
Appropriation.—
For
op
ibition at Company Office
Of the diseases known as infectious
Tanks to be Erected
is Appaling
Which to Make Payments
If the garden is a commercial one,
eration and maintenance, continua
or contagious diseases of farm ani
f R w sNi!'?< —— •
the selection of crops to be grown and
tion of construction and Incidental
mals, the one of most vital Interest
The Farm Bureau and Commercial to Hermiston and vicinity at the
Reports from the Northeastern the acreage apportioned to each
On last Tuesday morning the operations, 9900,000.
should
be
carefully
planned
before
At the conference of representa
Storage System, 9750.000.— This elub unite in campaign. Ag announc present time. Is contagious abortion
Oregon Oil Exploration Co. well near
Standard Oil Co. broke ground for
tives from the various Government
jhis city are very encouraging to actual decision is made. Too great the erection of a plant in this city. contemplates commencing construc ed in last week’s issue the gopher
Hog Cholery, as Is well known, has Reclamation Projects held at Salt
tion of storage works for the McKay must die. The Columbia Farm Bureau
ward the bringing of a well. Last acreage of vegetables is often heed
A Mr. Kuntson and Davis who are
Monday they had reached a depth of lessly planted, without forethought in charge of building operations Reservoir. It is expected that the has passed sentence and the edict its remedy and, if prompt action be Lake City, January 29 to 30 there
as to where the crops will be sold.
right of way may be purchased dur has gone forth from the County taken, can quickly be eradicated. Be were representatives from 15 pro
150 feet. The strata through which
Vegetable growers have three pos predicted that the buildings would be ing the fiscal year 1923, and the Agent’s office; no parole need be ex cause of the menace to human beings jects or units, W. J, Warner secre
they are at present drilling accord
sible markets for their produde, and ready for occupancy in about six
we have laws for control and preven tary of the Hermiston Irrigation
ing to reports from those in charge should realize this before planting weeks or two months. The site de funds provided in this estimate will pected. The Commercial club has
be
used
to
purchase
equipment
and
abolished the pardon board and farm tion of the spread of tuberculosis district represented that district and
of operations, show symptoms of oil. heavily to vegetable crops. These cided upon for the plant is just be
among dairy cattle. But as we have the West Extension Irrigation dis
Samples of the formation now en- are local markets, canneries and de- low the stockyards west of the Co to begin actual construction work ers are preparing to enforce the or
on the dam.
no state law relating to abortion trict. About 30 men from the projects
der
of
the
court.
countered were placed on exhibition hydrators, and shipping markets lumbia highway.
Distributing System, 9110.000.—
among cattle, tnis disease resolves attended.
The
pocket
gopher
has
become
a
at the oil company’s office, where ¡Produce is usually sent to the shipp-
Three tanks with a capacity of The estimate includes 960,000 for real menace. The damage done by itself into purely economic question
The main object of the conference
they were examined by scores of peo- | ng niarkets only when communities 19,500 gallons will be installed.
the enlargement and lining of Canal these rodents when computed In dol with each individual or community. wa8 to obtain an extension of time
pie from different sections of Uma- grow a vegetable in carload lots.
The buildings will comprise a A under supplemental construction; lars and cents Is really appalling.
tilla county.
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Infectious abortion is so inslduous within which to make water pay
warehouse 32X40; an office and a this work should be completed as Garden, berry lots, alfalfa fields and in lt8 manner of spreading that the ments. Three resolutions were adopt
The fact that an oil company with j "THE ROUGH WRITERS GO WEST” garage.
soon as practicable in order to facil
Irrigation ditches are each season dairy farmer, only too frequently, ed of importance to our project. First
headquarters in New York City and DESCRIBES TRIP TO PENDLETON
itate operation, reduce seepage losses
The company is building with a
raided. Each year the damage in falls to realize the seriousness of its Congress was urged to pass the Bor
operating extensive oil fields In Tex- I George Pa,mer Putnan]> the we„ .
and to provide for the development of
as and Oklahoma have for sometime known New York Publl8her contr,b. view of giving the west end of the additional lands. The estimate also creases. The farmers have decided appearance in his herd until a ma ah bill now pending which provides
county better service.
disp ayed unusual interests in the utea a humorous article
the ,ast
provides 935,000 for betterments to to call a halt. Every one Is urged jority of his cows have become affect that the time for payment of the
Hermiston will no doubt be used the distribution system on the east to talk and keep talking, "Go-For ed. and he finds himself face to face construction charge shall be 40 years
local fields, proves that the people of ’ iafjUe of , he Un|on Paclf,c Mag
from date of public notice. Second.
with heavy financial loss.
Hermiston and vicinity are not alone a7lne entltIed ..The Rough Wr|t. as a distributing point for towns division under supplemental cori* Gopher Week.”
The “Zero hour” is six o’clock,
struction, as provided in the contract
Frequently a cow may abort one Congress was asked for some kind
in their belief of the possibility of era Go West
describing a recent in the west end.
with the Hermiston Irrigation dis a. m. February 11 and the attack is or more times, after which she will of temporary relief from the charges
• trip to the Pendleton, Oregon, Round-
trict
dated May 31, 1921. On the to continue without intermission un appear to freshen normally again. now due on most of the projects.
Doubling
for
Cupid
The above mentioned company has Up, of a party of authors which in-
west
division
915,000 is required to til sunset February 18. Be ready.
This has led to the wide spread and 1 hird. Legislation was recontended
at present numerous leases in this eluded George S. Chappell, better
A few days ago an enterprising
It has been conclusively demon
construct
pipe
lines
and
concreting
erroneous belief that cows become providing for the payment of the gen
vicinity and contemplate the sink known as “Dr. Walter E. Traprock”, citizen Informed us that there were
strated that the most effective amu-
eral Reclamation Expenses stlch as
immune, after aborting once or twice
ing of a well in this territory some, explorer, Charles Hanson Towne,
number of bachelors and unmar laterals to improve and extend the
nltion is poison and a good supply is
water
service.
This
work
is
contem
and are therefore valuable cows to the maintenance of the Washington
time in the spring. They have at novelist and poet, Wallace Irwin, ried women (notice we use the term
available at the office of the Oregon retain.
and Denver offices and of the general
various times employed geologists to author and humorist, Ruth Hale, of unmarried women instead of old plated In the contract with the west
Treasury instead of being charged to
Co-operative Hay Growers. The pois
extension
irrigation
district
of
April
Investigate the structure of the field critic, Walter Trumbull of the New maids for self preservation) on the 6, 1920.
While an occasional cow, under the project as at present.
on has been put up in packages suf
Evidently the reports that these York Herald, Hubbard Hutchinson project and suggested that The Her
Operation and Maintenance, 910,- ficient to prepare one quart of bait. sanitary conditions, may dispel the
Mr. Warner reports that conditions
men turned in sanctioned the exten novelist, John Held, illustrator, ald inaugurate a matrimonal agency
000.— Funds are required for the The most tempting bait has been abortion germ and effect a complete on practically all the projects repre
sive development which the company Frederick O’Brien, famous for his ttiergiru of which would be the bring
operation and maintenance of the found to be carrots or parsnips; these recovery, ten chances to one, any
in the future has planned. It is se lf-! South Sea stories, and Charles Well ing together of these lonely men and storage works, including the Cold should be cut Into small pieces about aborter will continue to be a menace sented at the conference are much
worse than o n lh e Umatilla project.
evident that they believe it to be a ington Furlong. F. R. G. S„ author women In an endeavor to have them Springs Reservoir, the feed canal and
1-2 Inch square and from 1-2 to 3-4 to the herd, and though she may not In general prices of farm products
virgin field, for a company of this of “Let ’Er Buck.”
hitch double and navigate life’s rap the distribution systems of the east
inches long. In preparing the bait do abort at some future time, she will on the other projects have been low
caliber are not inclined to sink mon
The above named magazine also ids in the same canoe.
and west divisions. Of the amount not mix more than you expect to put still be the means of disseminating er and market conditions worse.
ey in a hole unless there is a good published a couple of poems, one
If such a plan was put into execu. stated, 928,000 will be applied to the out in the next 24 hours. To locate the disease. One cannot afford to
Most all of the projects have accum
prospect of returns.
from the pen of Walter Trumbull tion we have visions of ourselves operation and maintenance of the the main runway of the gopher take the chances, unless it Is proven ulated charges due. which they are
Recently The Herald received a let entitled “The Pendleton Round-Up’ laid out In the front parlor with a east division and 912,000 for the which Is usually off to one side of that the cow has completely recover
unable to pay and relief for them Is
ter from a gentleman in Fort Wayne, Wallace Irwin, author and humoriBt little white lily on our manly chest. west division, a total irrigable area the dirt mound, a sharpened pitch- ed. As the only means of knowing Imperative.
Indiana. He stated in the letter that is- responsible for the muse "Oregon While a choir of mixed voices would of 24,420 acres.
fork handle or better still a Bin all the truth Is by the blood test, the
Few of the projects are under the
he had heard favorable reports con Or Bust.” Below we copy the two warble ‘‘Shall We Gather At the
McKay Reservoir figures on con Iron rod is very convenient. When average veterinary is not so equipped
River”.
struction cost are labor 9413,- located an opening only large enough as to be of any material assistance. district irrigation and those which
cerning Hermiston oil operations and poems:
are not are asking for a voice in the
wished additional information. In
No doubt during their “sparking 000, equipment, materials and sup- to insert one or two pieces of bait
The Pendleton Round-Up
The persistant report that the only expenditure of maintenance and
lies
9313,000,
or
a
total
of
9750,000.
quiries of this nature demonstrate
By Walter Trumbull
days” they would think of us as cup-
should be made and after placing the material losB from an aborting cow other funds which we already have.
that parts of the country have been Joe Bush can throw a curve.
id. You know what we mean by
bait the hole should then be clos !» the loss of the calf. Is entirely mis
The spirit of co-operation In evi
apprised of our activities in the quest
Puss W ants a CorneT
But cowboys, we are here
’’sparking.” She looks Into your eyes
ed with a small stone or clod being leading. The loss in production dur
Somo of the residents of Hermis careful to get as little dirt as pos ing that lactation period Is seldom dence at this conference is encourag
for oil.
To shout he never saw the day
and says: “Will my great big manly
ing and It Is believed that great ad
That he could throw a steer.
It is alleged that so far the pre
Ilurcules always love his Jelly-roll?” ton were no doubt reminede of that sible into the hole.
less thun 40 per cent— a loss which vantages to the projects will result
old
game
of
childhood,
"puss
wants
dictions of the geologists, a8 to the He cannot throw, we say again,
Of course you are fustrated and feel
The County Agent, Fred Bennlon, eliminates the profits and leaven the ’from it.
Like ropers whom we’ve seen
different strata formations that
as loose as a jelly-fish so before you a corner,” while indulging In the in will be on the project and make a farmer to contribute his labor gratis.
would be found before oil would be In Pendleton, where men are men,
think you answer "uh-huh.” Yes, door sport of house moving last week. series of demonstrations In the var
It Is quite generally known now
A Bad and Unsafe Crossing
The following are reported to have ious neighborhoods on the 13 and
And every girl a queen.
brought in has been fulfilled.
during this time we would be ace-
that no cure has so far been discover
left
old
quarters
and
taken
up
new:
We
crossed
three
thousand
miles
of
hlgh. But after the knot had been tied-
It has been suggested that some
15 of the month at places to be des ed for Infectious abortion in cattle.
Hermiston and vicinity are wait
trail
and some night he navigated home W. L. Hamm, moved into Cressy ignated later. One demonstration will The only method of eradication Is thing be done to eliminate the dang
ing with unabatgd interest further
Upon a sporting quest,
in the "wee’ small hours of the morn house; Enos Martin moved to house be held at the 8. H. Barnard ranch through Isolation. Prior to the dis er which at present is prevalent at
development in connection with the
And we’re repaid— we dlda’t fail
ing after inhaling a few quaffs of vacated by Mr. Hamm, P. B. Slscel near Pumpkin Center, at 2 p. m. covery of the blood test for detect the crossing where the Columbia
field here.
To find It in the West.
some friends home brew, then we as will occupy house vacated by Martin. Sunday afternoon, February 11.
ing the disease, the dairyman was Highway crosses the railroad track
You’ve ridden, roped and bulldogged match-maker would have about as Dr. Beleteski, a veterinary of Wasco,
The poison will be easy to apply handicapped, for there was no meth into Hermiston.
HINTS TO SHIPPERS
steers,
much chance as a Republican candi Oregon, will live In the house recent, and will cost 30c per package; two od of knowing whether any particu
We believe that some act!.'»« should
ON CAR ECONOMY
ly the residence of P. B. SlRcel, R. L. packages for 65c; or three for 80c.
We’ve watched you at the same;
date in South Carolina.
lar cow wan infected until it was be taken that would lessen tnc dang-
Cook
moved
to
house
vacated
by
Come early and avoid the rush.
We have acted as God-father to an
too late to prevent the spread of the ei of the crossing which under pres,
To stimulate efficiency in use of Our throats are husky from our
Raymond Longhorn who hag gone to
cheers—
Remember the date, February 11 disease. However there Is not that ent conditions is nothing more or
Infant who was being baptized; we
freight cars and thus increase the
Enterprise, Oregon,' at which place to 18, and don’t forget to “Go-For
By God, you play the game!
have dressed up in a soup and fish
excuse today. With the O. A. C. co lesg than a death-trap.
supply of cars available to ship
he has purchased a confectionery the Gophers.”
suit and stood up as best man for a
operating and offering free testing
pers the railway companies are co
T housands of tourists every year
Oregon Or Bust
Btore. Jack Smith will occupy the
friend who was loosing his liberties,
the dairy farmer should avail him travel through Hermiston ovor the
operating with the Car Service Di
By Wallace Irwin
house vacated by Cook.
self of the opportunity to “clean up” Columbia highway and ever one of
Unearths Dynamite
vision of the American Railway As I’ve strayed so long from the breeey but when it comes to girding our
When moving had progressed this
loins with a piece of cheese-cloth and
sociation in providing shippers with
West
While digging post-holes last his herd and help eradicate this, the them are compelled to pass over this
far they quit and called It a week.
taking in our hands a bow and arrow
suggestions as to loading, ordering
To live in the stuffy East,
Saturday on his father’s ranch near greatest menace to the success of the suicidal crossing where the bony
Ml 4. unloading cars. The main point That a yearning bubbles under«my to be shot at some Innocent and hap
hand of death Is ever waiting to roach
Hermiston,
Donald Lee, the 13 year dairy industry.
P etitions for Well
py heart, aw, folks, nix, nix.
of the circular is brought out in the
The practice of selling Infected out and claim a victim.
vest
Jim Hoskins of Stanfield is circu old son of Dan Lee, struck a hard
deadline— "Do Not Wase Transporta,
History Informs us that nations
Like a bucket of rising yeast.
lating a petition which will be sent substance which he believed to be cows to ones neighbors without first
tion.”
Geo. Biggs returned to Hermiston to the Oregon legislature asking a a rock. Further Investigation dis appraising the purchaser of the fact have fallen; kings have been de
With a longing strange for the cat
Wednesday morning after a business loan of 910,000 to qomplete an artes closed 14 sticks of dynamite which Is reprehensible almost beyond be- throned and millions of lives saert-
Shippers and receivers of freight
tle range
are urged to load carg to full carry
And a look at a long-horned steer. trip to the valley.
ian well, the drilling of which is now had at some previous time been burled lief. But since It appears that this Is !fice<l becaUse of procrastination,
ing capacity, to specify "carloads” I’m Just as wild as a German child
frequently done the only
safe pract- W,len ,s ,he t,mo for action? Shall
in progress at Stanfield.
upon the ranch.
when buying other than less car load
For its regular glass of beer.
The Baptist Ladles Aid will hold a
Mr. Lee Is unable to furnish a so ice to follow is never to purchase a ' 1,6 wben the wheels of a locomot-
shipments instead of fixing quantities
H. A. Hooker of Columbia dis- lution as to how the dynamite came cow unless she ha8 been tested and !lve cru»he» out the life of an indlvld-
Silver tea at the home of Mrs. E. P.
can show a clean record.
) ual WHI ,ho lifeless and mangled
as governed by traffic minimums and So pack, boys! Follow the sun!
Illsley Thursday, February 15.
trlct visited In Echo Monday.
In be burled upon his land.
Bulletin No. 192 on Infectious D I-!J’° rn? ° f perhap8 » fr'end or relative
set rate prices, and to unload cars
Sure, I’d mortgage my teeth to go
promply.
senses of Cattle, by Prof. B. T. Simms , the mean8 of 8PurlaK us to action?
To the Pendletonian,
of the Oregon Agricultural College. L* “S nOt rona<’le ourselves with
In loading cars, shippers are asked Oregonian
to load the day cars are placed and
is free and any farmer who fail« to |
tho,,Kht ,hat for Years wo have
Annual Round-Up show.
to load to cubical or 10 per cent
receive a copy may obtain one by Prorra",ln“ted and been lucky, for
above marked capacity.
writing to Oregon Agricultural Col-1 Procra8tlnat|on lB but a synonym for
As a boy I looked through the mount
WAV DACH. HOW HAPPY A 5KOVÜ FALL
In ordering cars, shippers are re
ain gaps.
lege, Corvallis, or by applying to the Rorrow‘
WOULD make you
ANP
Excepting a spur at Celilo, which
quested to state size desired, quanti
Under the Rocky’s snows.
undersigned.
1 Is very seldom used, this crossing
ties to be loaded, destination and Where the cowboys rode in their
J. H. Reid.
route. (
_____
¡“t Hermiston is the only one be-
Shaggy chaps
| tween this city and Portland where
By unloading cars the day received
Over the wide plateaus.
E ntertains W ith Radio
an overhead crossing is not provided;
equipment Is released and demurrage I’ve moved since then to a different
The
radio
at
Sappers
was
trans-
wblle here there In not even a bell
chagges are avoided. This can be
ken
fered by wire to the lobby of i h e |t0 warn the public of approaching
done by taking men from other work
And the only herds I see
Oregon hotel where a concert was trains.
temporarily, by employing additional Are the pavement-tramping tribes
Human life cannot be computed
given last Monday night. A number
men and by unloading at night and
of men,
of Invited guests were present and in dollars and cents. Let’s get busy
on Sunday. Agents or yardmasters
Millions and more like me.
entertained with programs broad- and alleviate the danger before In
should be notified immediately when
unloading is completed.
anted from Los Angeles, San Fran nocent blood In upon our bands.
So pack, boys! Follow the sun!
cisco and Portland.
To prevent delay, bills of lading
Join the Westward Ho
Bhould contain complete and definite For the Pendletonian,
♦
♦
information concerning the ship-1 Oregonian
Property Owners Petition Council
♦
NEWS GLEANED ABOUT
♦
mewte So far as possible unnecessary | Annual Round-Up show,
A petition signed by he property ♦
THE TOWN
♦
trade practices, such as permitting
owners on Hurlburt avenue prompt ♦
♦
inspection on delivery, constant use My breath Is short and my waist is
ed the city council to create Improve, A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A ♦
of order, notify or bank draft con
wide.
msnt District No. 8. The district
Mrs. Earl Abbot, of this city, spent
signments, and unnecessary recon-
And a tenderfoot's ways I’ve don
comprise,, Hurlburt avenue from the the week-end Ith her parents, Mr.
rtgaments, should be avoided. For-
ned.
right-of-way of the O. W. R. A N. and Mrs. W. B. Hinkle of Pilot Rock.
eign ears should be sent to or in the Have I forgotten the Orest Divide
Ry.
Co. eastward to the Intersection
rtractlnn of he owning line, while
And the slope of the sun beyond?
of Fourth street. The district will be
Gordon Rhotwell was a visitor In
owned by the line serving the I am a man of another age—
.graded, graveled and curb construct Echo Wednesday.
t should be used, as far as
And where Is the boy I knew
ed.
Irf filling orders for delivery Who camped in the starlight, sle p t'
J. H. Gnbbell of Echo was a Herm
■ta on that railroad.
in the sage
iston visitor Tuesday.
And sang with the bucknroo?
Speaks »o Stanfield Meeting
- Tfee Neighborhood club of the Co-
E. P. Dodd and O. C. Young were
L. M. Smith departed Monday
lambla district will meet Wednesday. So pack, boys! Follow the sun!
speakers before a meeting In Stan night for Portland on a business
Febma y 14 at the home of Mrs
West will be Wert, I know,
field Wedneeday night, at which mission.
Frank Fowler. An Interesting pro In the Pendletonian,
■preliminary steps ware aken towards
gram has been arranged. AH members Oregonian
organising the Stanfield Irrigation
L. M. Smith returned Tuesday
are urged to be present.
; Annual Round-Up »how.
District.
from • trip to Portland.
DEBTH OF 180 FEET
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