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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1907
Page
7
Carney and Kennedy proprietors run a livery feed and sale stable with a cab line in collection and 701 phone. Suits made to order while you wait. Loretz and Hanson advertise in the East Oregonian building offering finest and latest style goods.
James Hoagan aged about twenty two, son of John Hoagan, who runs a farm a mile west of the city, was run over by a switch engine in the shop yards about midnight. His right arm was severed at the elbow. He did not regain consciousness and does not remember the accident. He had come to The Dalles each evening and slipped on the tracks as the engine approached.
Asotin county won the first prize in the county display category at the fall horticultural and agricultural judging last night. A unanimous vote awarded a $100 cash prize to the person preparing the winning display, identified as Charles Thompson, Asotin county superintendent. Judges included W. Frank Smith, Fred Veatch, and Al Stiffer.
John Kelly sold six acres of his Nob Hill farm to W. M. Nelson for $9000. The tract is in bearing orchard near the depot, with experts noting the land’s high value. Five years ago Kelly bought the same land for about $100 an acre, a rapid rise to $1600 an acre. Nelson, a valley resident for years, understands orchard land worth from experience.
Manford Harland finished harvesting his bean crop on four and a half acres after summer fallow. He reports a yield valued at about 2197.56 dollars based on roughly 6700 pounds at around 3.50 per hundred pounds.
The report notes a farmer, Mr. Harland, achieving 1200 pounds of beans per acre this season after a previous 26 pounds per 14 acres, as part of broader idle cultivation practices. An exhibit featured a grape vine segment frozen into a three-foot ice cake bearing grower Adam Fleck’s name, with grapes on wire spelling his name, produced at the Stadelman Ice plant. Fleck runs a Mill Creek fruit farm with multiple products on display.
The Coeur d'Alene Press notes strong interest in the county seat fight with business leaders backing the proposal. A large turnout is expected as citizens organize a concerted push to launch the campaign.
Brookings Box and Lumber of Redlands California operating in Curry county has purchased 36000 acres south of Rogue River. They plan a mill at Chetco and likely another at Arch Rock. Sufficient timber exists to keep the mills busy for at least fifty years and provide many jobs.
Umatilla County farmers use the largest plows harrows seeders and discs. John Nissey & Son and the R H Wilcox Implement Company of this city have shipped the latest seeders for county farmers. Farmers buy new implements now while ground is too dry to plow or seed to be ready for seeding conditions.
A concise reflection notes that some men consider themselves good simply for refraining from evil deeds, implying moral quality rests on action and intention, not abstinence alone.
The Prineville Review notes homesteaders plan to stay on newly opened timber lands until title transfer after five years. Prospective settlers camp on forty acre tracts with lift timber, often two or more on a claim, leading to cabin building and bidding tensions as land offices prepare for sales in early November.
The J. B. Stoddard fruit farm in La Grande reports a 36 year old Blue Pearmain tree produced four boxes of prime apples at 1.40 per box totaling 364.40. Morace Wallmer spent four hours picking, the tree is described as the largest in the Grande Ronde valley and a steady producer.
Reports from the Weston mountain country indicate an encouraging outlook for a good potato crop. The region is also turning off hay and grain at good prices. Potato acreage is nearly double last year, with one field spanning 40 acres and appearing especially promising.
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