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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1909
Page
4
Local item notes a Chemeketa Willamette hotel may be sold to Salem capitalists for 37000. Other news includes O R N buying a depot site at Baker City for 169000 with a new passenger depot planned north of the current station. Idaho wool clips head east to Chicago storage as prices rise.
Nineteen hundred sod nine marks the start of a new era for La Grande amid a push to reach an eight to ten thousand population. The fertigation project is highlighted as the key to rapid development, with expectations of land value rises, more housing, and revived commerce as irrigation contracts advance. Citizens urged to join the Commercial Club and back investment locally.
Rough year sees 60 000 boxes of strawberries moving to market as Harkey County growers push fruit amid market pressure. Meanwhile 15 men from the Wauother region have been indicted on gambling charges.
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