Pendleton to Get Water From Blue Mountains System
Pendleton advances a gravity water project sourcing spring water from Thorn Hollow eighteen miles east. Bent Construction Co of Los Angeles builds most of the pipe and twin reservoirs near the city. Jeffrey & Burton handles the cliff conduit. City water commission will excavate and develop springs, with a funded bond issue of 200,000. Minimum spring flow measured at about 2.6 million gallons per day.
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Pendleton
Portland
Bent Construction Co
Los Angeles
Jefrey & Burton
Hille
Water Commission of
Thorn Hollow
Pendleton Plans Gravity Water System Expansion
Pendleton moves to expand water supply by gravity from Thorn Hollow, with current flow above 4,000,000 gallons daily. The system will rise 150 feet to reservoirs, feed mains directly, and overflow to Round-up Park for artificial lakes. Contracts target completion by summer opening, boosting Pendleton as a major western city.
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Thorn Hollow
Pendleton
Pennieton
Year-Ending Local News Highlights and Events
A compendium of Pendleton area events from 1913 includes a $700,000 city building spend, the commercial club visit to a Chinese colony, a large rabbit drive, a major fire destroying Joe Sullivan’s Freewater home, and the first parcel post delivery. Highlights cover school census results, high school defeat by college students, county physician report, philanthropic and civic activities, and weather and transportation notes. The record lists numerous deaths, hospital openings, road and tax measures, infrastructure plans, and community incidents across January.
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Merry
Commercial Club
Stanfield
Joe Sullivan
Freewater
Theodore Wheelock
Pendleton
Library Hall
William Cooper
P. O
Lowell
Lassen
Maloney
McNabb
Louis Moses
Steve Olcott
Eastern Oregon
John H. Hiteman
Athena Pioneer
Walla Walla
Wenhans Forest
Hoch of
Kansas
Umatilla
West Webb Street
Hoch
Grand Jury
Spokane
Dr. Smith
Europe
Peo
Uma- Ullas
Postoffice Department
Brown
Boston
Lynn Hill
Charles Modrell
Charlie Max Max
Anton Effinger
East End
Orient
Weimand
Ave Snyder
Roy Ritner
State Senate
Hill
Modrell
Ukiah
Barrett
Paradise Irrigation Company Incorporated
Christopher Bolin
George F. Murray
Western Tri-State League
la Grande
Good Reads
Mabel Warner
Watta
Ed Hall
Pendleton Water Commission
Council
Byron Hawks
Phelps
Pendleton High School 1913 Football Champions of the East
The Pendleton high school football team of 1913 dominated eastern Oregon and southeastern Washington, finishing undisputed champions with no defeats or ties. They defeated La Grande 21 to 3 and topped Baker Walla Walla and Wallowa 14 to 7, with a strong roster led by coach A. A. Albarn and captain Charles Russell.
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Pendleton High School
Oregon
Washington
la Grande
Wallowa
Pendleton
A. A. Albanr
Sheldon Ulrich
Finis
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Blue Mts
New Pendleton High School
Hellz
Bertha Maack
City
Thomas Malarkey, Jr
Jackson Street
Ben Jackson
Jerard Job
Buck
McNary
Goodwin
Blakeley
Newell
Indiana
N. P
Taylor
Ing Company
Guy Werick
Byers
Ruth
L. Grigsby
Presbyterian Church
F. A. Naxon
Fred Parsons
Umatilla Reservation
Congress
J. V. Tallman
Pendleton Commercial Club
Sharon
Eddings
J. J. Woodage
Clarence Johnson
Baker, Walla Walla
Kirkpatrick
Fred Hoskina
Jack McDonald
Ivan Sturdivant
Harry Krebs
Harold Brock
Otis Hampton
Charles Russell
Orson Straughn
Enoch Frienley
Archie Rugg
Tuttle
and Bean
Maple Leaf” Brand
Aldon’s
Lt Ha Ee
George Stangier
Pendleton, Oregon
St. Anthony's Hospital
Sisters of St. Francis
Pacific Coast
St. Joseph’s Academy
The
Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia
Stangier
Gato
Muriel
Hart’s
Sweet Candy CO
Pandieton, Oregon
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