East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-09-15

Eagle Point Jackson County, Sept.
lot has been a long time since
wrote you; but l have been a very
busy man this summer
The weather has been hot and dry.
but not suffocating. About los de-
grees I think. was the highest. but
what wind theer was, felt like 1t came
out OF a furnace, 1t was so dry.
People tell me this has been an I'M
usually dry season, and many springs
have gone dry that were never known
to go dry before. Pasture is short
everywhere, and stock is shrinking.
Crops Of every Kind have been hurt
by the dry weather.
The hay crop is fairly good, as quite
bit of grain was cut for hay. The
first crop of alfalfa was quite foul.
but the second crop was good and
clean. and put up without getting wet
and looks fine. Near Central Point
l saw three crops of alfalfa cut for
hay, and a very good fourth for pas
ture. without irrigation, but such land
is scarce and rated at about $3.50 per
acre
Everybody here raises corn, and
early In the season it looked fine; rs
good as Iowa or Nebraska, but it looks
sickly now, and the crop of mature
corn will be quite short. 1 have not
been able to learn much about the
YELL Of wheat as yet, but think 1t is
light. The wheat is all cut, stacked
and most of it threshed.
This is not a wheat country: in
fact, there seems to be no one partic-
ular industry. There is some wheat,
some fruit, some stock. some mines,
some lumber; but no very great abun-
dance of any one, and what is worse,
no great abundance of money
The climate for catarrh and bron-
chial troubles. seems just the thing,
and l can cheerfully commend it
along those lines; but as for making
money. I do not think very highly Of
It -
Watermelons are now 10c and 15c
for your cEn'oe, and big. fine fellows
at that
We have not had a drop of rain in
this Vicinity for three months and
there are forest fires all around, but
fortunately not very extensive, but
enough to make it very smoky in the
valley.
My daughter, Mrs. K. G. Warner,
and her husband, were down on
visit and when K G. started home
went to Medford with him, and while
waiting for his train went through
their local exhibit, and X. G. remark
ed such an exhibit would be fine
thing for Pendleton.
l. Il
the track next the depot; part of it
is cut off into offices which are oc-
cupied by real estate men who look
after and talk up the exhibit. They
have samples from their mines, or
chards, fields and woods; skinE of an
imals, horns and petrifactions, photos
OF orchards, fields, camps, etc, curios
from Indian camps, mining camps
and old-time farms, and they arc
careful to keep a fresh supply OF
fruit, grain, grasses, vegetables, etc.
on hand all the time, and a profusior
Of flowers.
The train from the east stops about
20 minutes for The passengers to have
a good look, and there is no doubt OF
it being a success.
notice that a number of the re-
spectacle business men have stood in
and demanded an open town on Sun.
day. They claim that the law is toe
strict and all that. How do people
live over the line in Canada where
everything is shut up tight as a drum
on Sunday? 1t is all a notion. There
is no real necessity for anything In a
business line being open on Sunday
except as scepified in that ordinance
1.-The town will die IL everything
is not open on Sunday; the town will
die if you drive out prostitutes; the
town will die If you drive out gambl-
ers." According to that, your town
owes its very existence to immortality
and crime. Is it true? Away with
such nonsense; but until your business
men acquire some backbone, and your
citizens cease violating the law by
taking up homesteads of which they
never expect to make homes and thus
lose their town vote; in fact, until
majority OF your people put moral
decency before dollars and cents
things will go on in the same old way
l. H. LEE.