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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1907
Page
2
Farmers in Umatilla County express broad smiles at the hopeful crop outlook this year. Alfred Benjamin Co. suits are praised for fit style and wearing quality, with contentment among farmers bankers clerks blacksmiths and well dressed men alike.
The state college experiment station of Washington reports a hybrid wheat from crossing Bluestem and Turkey Red aimed at winter hardiness and yield. Since 1903, selection has produced 17,000 plants with mixed traits. kernel tends toward Turkey Red, some white resembling Bluestem, raising questions about adaptation to eastern districts. The report also mentions the Charming Woman and a health note on Electric Bitters.
The Rev J G Dalton has been continuously pastor of the Lobb Cumberland Presbyterian church eight miles from Independence Missouri for 65 years. Hero 83 years old.
In 1907 the wool trade and sheep industry flourished in Morrow County with about 90,000 sheep shipped. Wool volumes reached roughly 2.5 million pounds from the Heppner area, selling around 12 cents per pound. High prices boosted profits amid favorable lambing and conditions, marking it a prosperous year for local shepherds. The report also notes fuel challenges as Heppner coal mines were deemed too costly to open, forcing reliance on wood for winter fuel.
F W Sheffield Western Sugar manager estimates 4000 acres of beet land to supply the Nampa plant with about 72 000 tons this season enough for four months. Beet fields near Nyssa Arcadia and Ontario total 1400 acres under the Owyhee canal and 900 near Nyssa plus 254 around Arcadia. Payette sugar plant planned to open next season, expanding acreage by 2000 acres Welser to Caldwell. Japanese and other labor contract growers, wages 20 per acre plus 60 cents per ton above 12 tons. Largest field John Ward Nyssa 120 acres. Sheepfolds.
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