, 1888-12-06
PENDLET0N, OREGON.
a Prosperous and Promising Inlan d
Town.
Editorial Correspondence.

Returning from Walla Walla the
other day, we came via Pendletion
in Eastern Oregon, and remained
day in that thriving town. 1t has a
POPULATION OF 1000,
Being about the size of Port Town
send, and is situated in the heart of
the largest and most fertile county
in all Oregon. Its location is in a
beautiful but narrow valley on a
stream large enough to afford all the
water power necessary to drive the
busy wheels of any ordinary MAUI
featuring town. A railroad runs
through the town, connecting it with
Walla Walla and smaller towns Oh
the one side, and Portland and in
termediate points on the other
From the number of switches and
side tracks in Pendleton, railroad
buildings. ETC., it is evident that a
large amount of freight is handled
there; and, by parity of reasoning.
the town must be trade center or
distributing point for an extensive
scope of country. Trade brings
people, people build cities, cities
control trade and evolve more trade
hence it is reasonable to suppose
that around the nucleus at this point
an extensive municipal growth will
build up. Umatilla county is noted
for its large area, and for its 300, 900
sheep, as well as for it's fertile soil.
Its chief town and county seat, Pen
dleton, also bids fair to become
famed for a population made up
mostly of that kind of business men
whose pluck, enterprise and public
spirit render them In harmony with
the great, progressive Northwest.
How do we know? Well, there are
certain unfailing signs. It did not
take us two hours to discover that
Pendleton's old wooden court house
had been disposed of, and that fine
brick structure is being erected in
its placei that magnificent two,
ctory brick public school build
ing ornaments one of its most
slightly locations; that it has fine
sixty-fve thousand dollar brick hotel
in course Of construction, besides a
forty-thousand dollar hotel just conn.,
pleted; that within the past two
years it has had whole brick business
blocks erected; that it has two splen-
did banks, doing an excellent bust
ness-one of them carrying deposits
amounting to 100000; that it has
live, progressive newspapers-one of
them occupying a building that
would do credit to Market street,
San Francisco. That's why we say
the town bids fair to become noted
for the enterprise of its business
community. Such business men al
ways furnish fresh proof of the as
sertion that God made the country,
and man made the city. They are
not content with making two blades
of grass grow where but one grew
before; they revolutionize the face of
Nature, and make the desert to
blossom as the rose" When you
find town that builds fine schools,
and takes good care of its newspa
pers, you will generally find the
other symptoms of thrift.
Pendleton has a board of '-ade,
which has more than mere IT
existing-and, with little
dicious advertising of it
vantages, it will boom
ishingly. 1t hasn't done
that might have been done
advancement-but it is vastly
than merely an enterprising town
courtesy. II is vastly ahead of Sil-
urian aggregations of easy-going
human beings one finds in some
places where grumble takes the
place of brag, where slothfulness Is
never suppIanted by thrift. and where
individual enterprise, and conse-
quently municipal growth, are in-
variably driven to more congenial
surroundings. A really enterprising
town that has within it the genuine
elements of progress, is sure to at
tract an enterprising growth-and
so, in time, it becomes q regular
"get-up-and- dust" place where ans
bition is Illuminated until it outstrips
competitors and then turns arouad
and beats its own record.
Penleton has two
FIGURING MILLS;
One, farmers cooperative affair,
bas capacity of 100 barrels per
day; the other, owned by Byers &
Co, has capacity of $50 barrels per
day. It has also extensive
PLANNING MILLS AND A SASH AND DOOR
FACTORY.
1t has q good graded public school,
with al average daily attendance of
800, kept in a twenty-thousand dol
lar building, a "Gatholic Sisters
SCHOOL, (also in a snowy building),
and some private schools. There are
six church organizations in the town,
and
$65,0oO HOTEL
Is being erected; besides, hotel
that cost $4,000 has just been COM
pleted. A paper mill is among its
projected enterprises, and would
doubtless utilize much of the straw
that now goes to waste in the ada
cent farming country
GOOD COAL
Has been discovered in the foot hills
about fifty miles distant toward the
south. When this great natural pro-
duct shall have been developed into
a mine with a steady output it will
contribute in no small degree to the
current business and circulating me-
dunn Of the locality.
Umatilla county is next to the
northern boundary of Oregon. sep
arated from Washington Territory
by the great Columbia river. Its vast
area is figured up at 3,240 square
miles, or 2,o73,600 acres. The Blue
mountains along its eastern and
southern boundary really occupy but
a small portion Of its area. The
great bulk of its land is level or roll
ing prairie, or fruitful valleys and
water courses. At least it has fully
slxty-fve townships of fine agricul-
tural land-ssying nothing of a strip |
four or five miles wide along the side
Al GoI-,I,a 10 ounIu