The Herald Keep« Close to the H eart and Mind of the Um atilla Project. ©hr Wrmrafcm Wralh VITAL CHAVOES AXE IV COSESE OE BEING REALIZED HERE. AXE TOC ALIVE TO THEM! VOL. XX HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1926 Irrigon Growers LAND SETTLERS TO are Selling Some POULTRY BUSINESS Melons on Market GET INFORMATION SPINNING FAVORS / l AROR SHORTAGE EXISTS POX SECOND HAT HARVEST DAIRY CATTLE AND LAYING HEV8 AXX PAYROLL MAKERS VOX PROJECT FARMERS VO. di Rey. A . J Ware LOGANS PRODUCE o f Helix is New BIG GRAIN CROPS USE OF FERTILIZER B aptist Pastor DATA SECURED ON That a shortage of labor exists right at present on the project is the report made by farmers. Har- WINTER FLOCK WILL INCLUDE Water Melons Bring Four Cents Per F0LL0W UP WORK DECIDED ON r®fctlnX ° f the second crop of hay is Duties Here to Be Assumed August 1; C 0M " V • now in progress, and farmers are SOME PLOTS SHOW MATERIAL ABOUT 1200 I Pound for F in t BY LOCAL CLUB depending on exchanging labor in Services to be Held PROVEN SUCCESSFUL YIELD GAINS most cases in o/der to get their Laoal Fanner Started With Hens as Cantaloupes Ripe. Inquiries Received Every Week Will crews. Sunday Evening. Potatoes Have Alfalfa Backed Off One farmer said that It Is a loss Sideline; Now They are His Be Answered By Special The melon harvest in the Irrigon Map for Profits, Two Men Rev. A. J. Ware, formerly located of time to stop working long enough Hastening Maturity Test Fails district, noted ior the quality of Its Main Issue. at Helix where he was pastor of the Committee. to hunt for an extra man. All of Declare. watermelons and cantaloupes, has To Show Profit on J. W. I Baptist church has been elected: ‘I started out four or five years already started in a small way and A decision to begin a program of the local extra men have been em- pastor of the Hermiston Baptist McMullen Ranch. ago raising a few chickens and for within a short time will be on in follow up work In land settlement In p,oyi'd' and sonie formers have been Federation wheat, 62 1-3 bushels church and will assume his duties three years have been In the business full blast, according to F. C. Freder- an effort to bring new settlers to keeping an eye on the tourist park ' here August 1, according to a state- per acre. on a commercial scale. It was my ickson who was In Hermiston Wed- the land here already available and in an effort to secure help from ment by a member of the official Trebi barley, 110 bushels per acre. Increased yields in some cases and idea in the beginning to make egg nesday. ! that w ill be availble In greater meas. amonS tourists who work their way board of the local church. Potatoes, 300 sacks per acre. decreased yields in other cases were production a sideline on the ranch. The Irrigon Producers’ Co-opera-! ure with the use of McKay reservoir, ,broUKb tlle country. Rev. Ware will be here to hold Com, 75 bushels per acre. returned by the use of commercial It hag developed until now it is my tlve, an association of growers form- waters next spring was made at the ---------------------- - services Sunday evening, July 18. fertiliser applied on potatoes grown The above are some of the records chief business, and other farming ed last winter to handle the melon weekly meeting of the commercial ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ He plans to take up his residence season on the J. W. McMullen established by W. J. Logan and hla •etivities have become sidelines.” and potato crops produced In that club Tuesday. j ROBBER OF ECHO BANK GETS this _ . . L . , . her« In the near future. D®urlng thgan. on the 40 acre In these words Harry Spinning who area by its members, now has about! Lands in Morrow and Umatilla ♦ ♦ < • ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ranch, according to a check made last owns 40 acres on the extreme north a ton and a half In the warehouse county irrigated districts were shown 13 YEARS IN PENITENTIARY Friday at digging time by County he at McMinnville. Oregon.1 ranth north of Hermiston owned by the senior Mr. Logan during the •nd of the Umatilla project explain- leady for shipment, and some small to Pendleton and Portland commit- * ♦ * ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ * • Agent Bennion The largest increase was 2754 pounds per acre, ... . . , eight years the place has been under ed the growth of the poultry buel- sales h a v e b een m ade tees on two occasions this summer as TN SENTENCE GIVEN MONDAY secured „ ■ - j „ ,» tion of the church, heaviest decrease was 816 . .. „ ,, . „ ! "The new association has about'« P - t of the land settlement work ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ and the . Miss Clara Hall and Mrs. Hall cultivation. . , . , ., ,, . . The land was In sagebrush when Today he has about 975 mature g0 acres of members devoted to that will be necessary to man the new j James Mayes who confessed to the pounds per acre. were delegates from the Hermiston Fertilizers were applied to secure church to the convention. Mr. Logan come here from Idaho hens that have kept up a record of meions and 80me potatoes,” Mr. Fred. aer®8- More def,nlt® toward settle- daylight robbery of the Echo bank 80 per cent egg production, even dur- erici[Son said “We trucked most'of ment work 1« t0 b® done as 8O0n 88 recen,Iy and was captured within a information on two factors: The pos- " ^ 7 local 'church has been without elght year8 ag0- « • ha8 tlme, and falfa and secured a profit from pro- ing hot summer weather. Out In his our potatoes out this year It 1 k W- Ide’ m«nas®r of tb® ,and 3hor* t,mp a,,er be bad made his es- sibllity of Increasing yields, and the a regular pa8tor for range houses he has two big batches „ * ,.7 ° ° ,1S settlement committee, comes here cape with about $1400 which he se- possibility of hastening maturity. , . m6mbera have eXnre attention to one of his corn fields. the gain secured, where yields were birds.” * « ” « • ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ give Information to homeseekers , __________ __ _ _ _ _ That the use of oil sprays on pears A part of the field was broken up increased, Mr Bennion figured the Asked what his plans are as toi (C. E. Spencj, Market Agent, 714 making inquiries. The desirability NEGR0 WH0 DROWNED SUNDAY fertilizer as costing eight dollars per and aPPle® b® discontinued between out of alfalfa for this year’s corn the ultimate size u f his flock, Mr. j Court House. Portland.) of publishing some kind of a booklet acre and credited the potatoes with a now and harvest time is the advice, crop, and the remainder of the AT UMATILLA BURIED HERE value of $30 per ton. The best given by specialists of the Oregon' field Is on ground that has not had Spinning frankly said that he is “up How the Potato Law Works Out that would give pertinent Informa­ In the air.” Before the day of potato grading tion about natural conditions here showing was made by an application ¡experiment station. The statement alfalfa on it for four years. The “I’ve gone about as far as to num -, and inspection in Oregon, a buyer In was also discussed, but due to the Stranger, About 30 Years Old, of Red Steer fertilizer which gave iesued Is as follows: corn on the ground That was In al­ bers In my flock as I can and do all j San Francisco would write that he' fact that definite Information on falfa last year is about two fast an increase of 2754 pounds, and a In order to avoid the possibility Waded in Water on Beach; of the work myself. In addition to wanted a car of good potatoes and land prices is still lacking in regard net value In gain of 933.31 per acre.' o f‘excess arsenic on the fruit, we re- higher than the corn in the remain­ the other work here on the ranch.” he would describe h r beet he could; to some of the land that will be Ir- Not Identified. The applllation of this particular commend that no oil sprays be ap- der of the patch. he said. “As a matter of fact, I have the variety and quality, and the ship-'rlgated by water from McKay reser- The Logans established their rec­ brand was made at the rate of 620 Plied on either pears or apples be- Wore work to do than I want to do. per would have to use his Judgment voir, no action was taken about such ord with Federation wheat of (2 1-2 The body of an unidentlfed negro pounds. Other tests gave the fol- tween now and harvest time, I’ll either cut down the size of my as to what the San Francisco man a publication. who drowned Sunday at Umatilla lowing results' Samples of both pears and apples bushels last season on a small patch. flock and continue doing all the ! really wanted. The judgment o f _________________ An application of Red Steer berry “ have been sprayed with oil | This year they h a y and was interred here Monday afternoon work, or else I’ll increase Its size and! the two might differ as to appearance MATTY PATTF.KTS CARED FOR after all efforts made to secure his fertilizer gave a yield at the rate of 1 either mixed with arsenate of lead a half acres of Federation that la now plan to have a man working for me sl?e and other features of the stock,' In the shock and promises to return .»A «« pounds j i.u a ««» AT HERMISTON HOSPITAL identification had failed. 16,080 per acre, with net or applied . . . before or after , . arsenate ___ and when the car arrived It would! ______ all of the time.” The stranger’s death occurred gain value of 923.86; 400 pounds of lead bad been ®Prayed> have been a big yield. Both father and eon ara wiped (more carefully than In the, strong for It Raises Wheat. Com be rejected as not coming up to the The Hermiston hospital has been a while he was wading along the In common with other successful stock ordered. Such rejections were buay place during the past week with beach..where the Umatilla flows into equal parts of sulphate of potash and ordinary packing house) and tested Grains Do Well sulphate of amonla resulted In a poultry growers, Mr. Spinning Is j ill too frequent, especially when a maximum number of patients. They secured 110 bushel« of the Columbia. He stepped into water yield of 14,610 pounds per acre, a for arsenic. raising quite a lot of his grain feed. the market price was falling. But Eight analyses of this fruit showed Trebi barley last season and have a Mrs. W ill Schabel and her Infant over his depth and sank from view. gain of 654 pounds above the rows He has six or seven acres of corn under the grading, stenciling and in­ son left the hospital Wednesday eve­ The body was not recovered until not fertilized, and a net gain ia that between .028 and .041 grain patch near the house this year which planted May 10 and 11 which is spection laws we now have, such re­ ning to return to her home at Stan­ drag nets bad been used for several value of only 9L81 Per acre; 200 per pound of arsenous oxide still re­ they expect to give a good account about eight feet tall. Then he has jections will not stand. Now the mained on both apples and pears. of itself. field. hours. pounds of sulphate of amonla result­ Bine acres of wheat. Sometimes he ; »n Francisco buyer simply wires for "When I started out to grow grain A. W. Prann gave it as his opin­ ed In a yield at the rate of 15,480 This Is far In excess of the .01 grain Last Thursday J. Lamolne of Seat- lets the chickens do the threshing job a car of spuds of the official grade t)e wa3 ,n the hosp,taI for medlcal pounds per acre, an increase of 1524 Per Pound Permitted by the federal crops on the place a lot of men who ion that the man was about 30 years end some times he does the separat­ ’•'anted, and he gets that grade. For had been here longer than I had told pounds per acre, and a net value of authorities. ing hy machine and uses the straw Illustration h0 wires for a car of attention. The Lamoine car over­ old and weighed about 140 pounds. me I was crazy and that I couldn't Lime sulfur (32 B) 1 1-2 to 2 turned near Boardman and he suf- He apparently was a drifter, and no gain per acre of 14.86. for litter. gallons to 100 gallons of water is the succeed,” the senior Mr. Logan »aid. U. S. No. 1 and the shipper sends him I fered a sprained back and a spraln- marks of Identification could be In the tests to hasten maturity, “In a good many ways I’d rather that grade, with an official certifi­ standard summer spray for red spider "I thought conditions wero suited have my wheat threshed,” he said cate attached, which guarantees that ! ed leg. Mrs. Lamolne and their found on his personal belongings. the results were as follows: mites, but It is liable to burn tender to grain, however, and kept at IL A number of local people were on the children escaped with minor injuries. An application of 200 pounds of "When one feeds grain in the sheaf the contents of the cr complies with skinned varieties of apples an dpears. The crops In these fields today are there is always the danger the birds the grade ordered In the contract for They were en route to Idaho Falls, beach bathing at the time the trag­ sulphate of potash gave a yield of Dusting with fine sulfur has given the best answer that can he made. 13,890 pounds per acre, or 66 edy occurred. will get either too little or too much sale. And that certificate stands Idaho, and left the following day. "¿V: r.;;,rn; d satisfactory results against mites, We can grow grain here.” pounds less than the yield returned obta,ned when F. W. Slattery entered (he hospital grain. I like the litter from sheaf good in court. Some potatoes are grown every Monday on account of a ense of blood by the unfertilized part of the field. night8 have aome humidity and I year on the place. Thia year oa a Potatoes Are Shipped wheat better because it Is not so During the past few days three 380 pounds of* Red poisoning. His condition is reported Hue.” ■ II' Ith® days bave briKht sunshine with| small patch, not all of which have No Surplus— Real Protection to be satisfactory. Hie home is at more carload^ of early potatoes phnte decreased the yield 216 pound , temperature of 75 degrees In the! yet been dug, more than 160 J During the time he has been In Apparently there is little benefit have been shipped out of the dis­ per acre; a combination of 3 380, 80 I shade or above, but not above 100 Of marketable potatoes have been Irrigon. the poultry business Mr. Spinning in a tariff schedule on American pro­ W. J. Downer of Hermiston is a trict by the local growers' associa­ pounds of superphosphate and 200 degrees. Since pure sulfphur tends harvested. One year Mr. Logan said has eveolved some special practices ducts of which there is an exportable patient at the hospital for medical tion. One carload went from here pounds of sulphate of potash decreas- to become lumpy, some lime Is added he planted an early variety of pota­ ef his own relative to the care of his surplus, but on a commodity of which Saturday night and another Tuesday ed the yleld 81g pOunds per acre. birds as he has gained In experience. treatment. to facilitate dusting. The proportion1 toes in June and harvested 300 sacks we consume considerably more than nlght. On Wednesday a carload was Mr. Bennion stated that the sul­ of 90 pounds of sulphur to 10 pounds, in October. ”A man should go slow when he wo produce, an Import duty directly shipped from Boardman. Some few phate of potash and phosphate fer­ of lime appear to be satisfactory. • starts In the business if he has It Yet Some Farmers Burn Them Turhey» Are Grown benefits the producer. tpuds remain to be dug and shipped. tilizers failed to hasten maturity in _________ all to learn,” he declared. "The A ton of wheat straw contains $4 Within ____ recent _ , years substitutes for j Jn pr„vloug yeart( tta BST The yearly requirement« for wool profits are good when birds are cor­ worth of nitrogen when applied to thourh the greater part of the crop a sufficient measure to make up for! ,,m7 8uiphur have been deviBed which in the United State8 are for 600,- burning n,ark®ted grain in the form of pork. the decreased yields secured. rectly handled. I think it Is the do not have the caustic or 000,000 pounds, and approximately the land; a ton of oat straw con- has already been handled, "The teets clearly show that * ”"«! ^ ¿ 7 o7 t h e Utter, and hence are Thl8 year they ar# ra,” nr t“rlW ’ best , business we can handle on this' — ¡g0 w nt of thJ imported. In tains 24 .80 worth and a 'on of corn .... ___ a. _ S ». . r l v n n f a O ’O ” i . . . . _____ project, provided the Individual Is; . the year JggQ tj,ere wa<( one gjjpop stalks Is worth 96.40. on tender skinned var- and have about 200 on the place. Bud Knapp of Stanfield was in fertilizers can be used to advantage, ,Rafer to he said, "but I doubt if It would pay, eg Qf pearg and appleg and 0„|T he turkeys will consume some of Hermiston yesterday. per capita, while today the number tail work to be done In handling except where farmers plant tb«ly 19tone fruit8. These sprays are not the wheat, barley and corn now on J. M. Biggs returned Saturday eve-, of sheep have declined to four-tenths In addition to the turkey poultry that some people will neglect j » I m . nlng after a trip to points In the Gaylord Madison of Echo spent a spuds on good land and under g o o d ^ ^ act|yg Rg lneectlcl(, es when the b, a1neiw> Mr8 w . E. to do, and those who will not taka : Willamette valley. I short time here Wednesday. cultural conditions.” weather Is cool, and hence can not! ong ghe nQW hag 7g gBd „ p ^ t . per capita now averages five or six care of details should not try chick- j always be relied upon for effectiv e,^ fatten ag addiUonai 200 for tlM pounds, hence the amount of wool e“8-” action. They are, however, more market Imported la gradually Increasing. j active In warm weathsr and are of ___________ ... The first tariff was put on wool , value in checking red spider out­ in 1818, since which time it has MRS. J. H. RALEY DIES LUPER SAYS MEAD READY TO breaks. Among these wettable sul­ changed 21 times, and twice during ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ phurs and colloidal sulphurs may be. IN PENDLETON ON SUNDAY this period It was put on the free » E N D >500,000 OF FEDERAL list. The last change was made by mentioned the well known Atomic! ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Sulfur, "Dry-Mix” sulfur and "me, Eunerai Services for Pioneer Woman congress in 1922, when the duty on MONEY ON STANFIELD PROJECT scoured wool of the better grades wag and "Oregon cold-mix” lime and sul-[ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Held at Home on Tuesday fur, not to mention several satlsfac fixed at from 24 to 31 cents per That Dr. Elwood Mead, commiss­ tory materials now on the market pound. Since so large an amount Afternoon. ioner of reclamation, has recom­ has to he imported, the amount of under various commercial names. mended government relief for the 1 duty has a very definite effect on the Mrs. J. H. Raley, pioneer woman Stanfield project in the sum , price that the American grower re- Certificate Is Awarded _ 9890,000 is the information that of Umatilla county, died at the i cetves, and also to some extent on The Columbia sewing club of Raley home on College street In Pen­ was given In a news story carried ! what the consumer pays for the fin« which Mrs. Roy Good is leader Is one dleton Sunrfsy afternoon, and funeral In the Wednesday morning edition , ished goods. of the three In the county to be services w re conducted from the TO- of the Portland Oregonian. _____ awafded certificates of «chlevement.(;BjdeIlce Tuesday afternoon at 5 . . j w r z v ' x r ; : •„’ s s i w « « > attract tourists The certificates are awarded only t to n Death followed an Illness those clubs In which every member that began five years ago. with Rhea Luper. state engineer, OVER HIGHWAY 18 PLANNED completes all of the work required. Mrs. Raley was born at Gervais, who was In conference with the The certificates were received recent­ Oregon. Jatruary 10, 1857. Her jeonm olssioner at Spokane. Representatives from Huntington, ly by J. A. Yeager, county school maiden name was Minerva Pruett. When Dr. Mead was here last Baker, Union, La Grande, and Pen- superintendent. She came to Umatilla county In 1972 week, a request was made by a !d|eton met at La Grande Monday to and taught school for a number of Stanfield delegation headed by F. A. j work out a plan to insure the Se- Increase Rate Big 'years Her marriage to L R«l®Jr Baker for 9290,000 to aid In repair- rurjng of a continued share of the A 20 fold Increase was secured this, wag golemnized August 19, 1879, in ing the canal system and doing some touT|8^ travel over the Old Oregon year by Roy Sullivan on the early portiand. drainage work. The statement that Trail. | potato seed he planted on his place ^rs. Raley’s friends were legion In the commissioner had decided to re- It was decided to get publicity, northwest of Hermlalon. He planted number. In addition to her husband. commend government aid In the matter to people setting forth the 680 pounds of s««d this spring and tbe relatives survlvllng Include three amount of 9500.000 was lntrepret- iCen,e ««tractions of the highway. A marketed 117 seeks of tubers that daughters and one son, Mrs. Arthur . . epeaksr probably will be sent farther ed locally to mean that work would t u graded U. 8. No. 1. The patch meas- Harlow, Bellingham, Washington; tired about two-thlrds of an «ere. Mrg. Lester Hurst, Pendleton; Mm. .too be done to bring water to the .g The rate of Increase Is considered Sherman Mitchell, Walla Wall«; «ad land under tbe Stanfield extension tractions. Slgnbenrda are also ox- excellent. Roy Raley, Pendleton. whlch la near Hermiston, . p^ted to be put np along tbe hlgh- D og D ays " Frank Bnlllvan, insurance man of, Pendleton, was In Hermiston Wed- t needey on husmees. way at strategic points. . . Mrs. Fred Rieka of j her» Tuesday, Irrigon Miss Ruth Knopf and Mies Mary! Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Brownso« «ad Williamson of Columbus. Ohio, are family were Walla Walla visitor« h«»r* an frueata at the home of their over the week end. They left 8a - gnnt. Mrs. Mumma. - , unlay and returned hoBto