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Newspaper
The Echo Register
Location
Echo, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1909
Page
4
Local Echo Oregon news item discusses railway schedules with West and East bound trains listed. Includes P. C. Hunter acting, remarks on the Celilo Canal’s future value, local politics and taxation themes, and regional livestock notes from Echo and Umatilla County.
The note mentions new enterprises around Rebo amid extensive irrigation and woolwater systems. Numerous acres under irrigation suggest growth, but activity tracking is hindered by busy schedules and delayed dirt work beginning to tail off.
A farmer warns that speculative wheat traders push sales ahead of harvest. When prices drop and supplies run out the farmer loses and the gamblers press on while grangers lose their livelihoods.
A speaker urges Allineans to spend a million dollars advertising Oregon. He claims broad resources across sections will attract settlers and keep them, criticizing booster materials and urging more compelling postscriptes to draw people in a month.
The report notes Umatilla grain growers invest in Los Angeles, suggesting a three year cycle could trigger a major boom for old Umatilla. It also describes pork swine feeding in East regions, aiming for market-ready weights around five months, with minimal barley and alfalfa meal, and shipping calls to Portland packing houses.
Keho has well stocked stores with various household and agricultural goods. They can match any department store in the United States on price and are eager to help settlers get the best value for their money.
Huge sums earned in Umatilla County are loaned to Portland banks rather than to local home builders in Umatilla. Money near Echo is lent to outsiders for half the interest possible in Keho. Portland bankers relend the funds to local builders with minimal local security.
Dr A Read a physician and surgeon located next door to Spinning's Drug Store in Arlington. He is listed for calls day or night.
A brief community appeal rallies supporters behind Cho and Echo, calling for united fundraising and outreach efforts. Organizers urge neighbors to contribute time and resources to the cause, stressing teamwork and shared goals across local groups and volunteers.
A fragmented Oregon roundup reports a Milton man in jail after a shooting during a long standing quarrel with a neighbor over a road cutting across a wheat field. Other items note a bigamy case unlikely to proceed, a tuberculosis sanatorium commission named for four years, and a Hillsboro murder confession.
The sixteenth annual Willamette Valley Chautauqua Assembly will convene July 6 to 18 at Gladstone Park near Oregon City. Portland’s Rose Festival opens June 7 with a street pageant to unite local military, fraternal, and civic groups.
Winter sheep care stresses shelter against snow and sleet with a south facing shed or barn to protect the flock. It advises proper feeding racks to minimize wool contamination, describes a W shaped trough design, and recommends hardwood siderails and outside troughs if needed. It promotes oats bran shelled corn mix and clover or alfalfa hay with salt licks and access to tempered water.
Practical tips warn riders to avoid cold weather mistakes. Do not use cold bits and avoid abrupt perspiration changes. Keep shoes sharp, avoid over heated stables, and water horses without ice water.
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