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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1906
Page
2
The piece notes promising mining development along the Grande Ronde river with new mills expected, driven by rising silver prices. It emphasizes restored investor confidence after past panics and predicts 1907 will be a record year for the Northwest, with Union county leading in growth and diversified, remunerative resources.
Citizens and officials discuss the Panama trip by lawmakers and the water and power policy shaping the city’s growth. Debates heat over teacher age limits for pensions while labor and industry worry about wage gaps and market shortages. The article notes crop prospects in Grande Ronde valley and ongoing battles in national politics impacting local interests.
Perry reports about sixteen million feet of logs logged this year creating an expense near $100,000 not including mill work costs. The lumber operations across the county generate a large and growing annual payroll, and the industry is expected to rise for many years.
The town, founded in 1887 and self-sustaining since, imposed its first tax last week a three-mill levy.
An old classified style notice advertises strictly pure hog fat from Stillwell & Company. It promotes a pail of lard with no adulteration and lists the contact as Main 16.
Administrator P A McDenato has filed the final account in the estate of John Morrison deceased. The Union County Oregon County Court fixed Saturday January 19 1997 at 2 PM in the County Court room La Grande Oregon for final hearing and settlement of the estate.
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