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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1904
Page
4
Fragmentary 19th century newspaper masthead from Pendleton Oregon describes publication details, subscription rates and offices. It mentions schedules, delivery options and member association while listing multiple towns including Portland Cortland and Oregon.
A Pacific Monthly excerpt argues that divorce reflects a belief in universal infallibility of judgment and questions whether humans are ever truly fallible. The piece suggests divorce arises where the true formation of marriage has failed, asserting it applies to all cases and genders.
The government urges rapid irrigation expansion in the West, demanding surrender of existing water rights and opposition to vested interests. It promises benefits from reclamation, calls for reorganizing land ownership, and appeals for Western compliance to boost national prosperity. The message frames water access as essential to moving idle land into production and alleviating urban overcrowding.
Report from the Industrial Commission on farm product distribution shows hauling to markets costs now exceed the operating expenses of all U S railroads. Average farmer haul is 12 miles to market with 24 cents per ton mile, or 8 1/2 miles at one ton per mile. Estimations cite 600 million tons hauled annually and a total transport burden near 400 million dollars, far exceeding rail costs.
A collage of historical notes on old records from Jeremiah Jack and the Oregon Historical Society, including 1813 to 1819 receipts and a discharge certificate. Also a report on Portland’s extensive pavement projects with over 16 miles of streets under construction or improvement and related city roadwork updates.
Fragmentary verse depicts a mermaid and a summer girl on the sand exchanging lines about kinship love and wooing. Vague phrases hint at a plan and mutual fascination as the tide and wind accompany their interaction.
Pacific Monthly recounts Lewis and Clark reaching Fort Clatsop on December 1805, building seven cabins and a stockade over half an acre on elevated ground near a pure water spring. They constructed a storehouse and officers’ quarters, then surveyed a forest trail to the ocean about three miles west.
A discussion on future population density in 14 western states and territories under irrigation. It cites Nevada as under one person per square mile and estimates a vast needs for housing and supplies to settle arid lands, including wagon outfits and equipment for new communities. Maxwell's Talisman.
The Columbia River trade shows 1242 foreign vessels with 116,112 registered tons and 3,000,122 net tons coasting. Portland's imports and exports reached 14,100,018.89 and 2,407,072.71 dollars. Portland's water traffic centered trade at 100.00 tons for the decade ending December 31, 1003, with the city distributing 10,000,000 in supplies and a regional trade around 120,000.
Astoria resident L. Houston is elected queen of the regatta with over 50,000 votes amid a humorous catalog of common domestic and social preoccupations from the Pacific Monthly.
The ginseng promotion collapse faces scrutiny from Washington and concerns over fake ads. Wise notes limited market potential if Chinese supply via Korea floods farms. New York Sun links fraud tied to ginseng ads, while California irrigation advances show 7010 miles of canals and 30404 irrigated farms in 1902 with $26,772.15 in costs and extensive state progress.
An advertisement touts City Trewery Bottled Beer as a superior summer drink that revives the body. It claims physicians recommend its purity, notes production in Pendleton, and offers tin quarts pints and half pints with home delivery via line numbers 1771 and 1891.
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