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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1906
Page
11
The East Oregonian touts 25 years as the leading paper and invites readers to subscribe. It promises home, county, state, and world news with a semi weekly edition offered for four months at 50 cents, highlighting value and trust.
John Mulrease writes of the Columbia’s vast river reach from sea to sea, its six hundred mile length and thousand mile width, its gnarled main limbs and shining branches, and ships laden with lumber and grain. The piece recounts its origin as Oregon, renamed by Captain Clark in 1798 and explored by Lewis and Clark in 1804, noting the river’s immense discharge and global span.
Oregon's Forestry Building in Portland, a West symbol, impresses with 204 by 162 feet dimensions and 72 foot ridge height. Constructed mainly from Douglas fir with Pacific red cedar pillars, it features a concrete foundation, eight miles of fir poles, and 30,000 fir shakes plus 43,000 fir bark shingles for the roof.
The text discusses improvements to make a great river navigable, noting removal of a mouth barrier by a massive jetty and deep water aid. It mentions lumber shipments and a colossal Douglas fir log, titled the hoarder of commerce, with cherry production in Oregon challenging imports.
The report highlights Oregon Hood River growers shipping cherries to Boston for high prices and selling 24060 pounds from a single tree at Vancouver Washington. It notes cherrie cultivation is not tied to one locality and that top prices are reached, with growers earning substantial sums per crop. A poem by Bert Huffman is included in the excerpt.
Oregon and Washington offer vast government land for settlement with rail access and timber. Farms, orchards, and irrigation projects expand wealth as settlers, business leaders, and stockmen boost regional growth.
A rustic dialect piece laments a Umatilla farmer burdened by sacks and buckskin gear. It mocks market woes with references to wheat receipts, prices, and weighty sacks, hinting at hardship and persistence in farm life. The cadence imitates a regional solo or burlesque verse.
The Oregon and Washington forest region shows towering conifers with many trees reaching 300 feet. The Trowel fir stands 150 to 250 feet tall with 14 to 45 feet trunk girth, while timber per acre runs high. Vast shipments by water and rail move billions of feet, highlighting epic forest production.
The text notes that irrigated small farms in Umatilla county and other arid areas can be profitable. It claims income from berries, vegetables, small fruits, dairying, and diversified crops could reach 375 to 250 per year per acre. A $500 capital investment may buy land to support a large family and yield good profits in Oregon’s irrigated regions.
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