East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-12-15

from 35 to As bushels of wheat per
acre, and is worth from $50 to $50 per
acre.
The second-class wheat land COM
prises about 100000 acres, produces
from 30 to 80 bushels of wheat per
acre, and is worth from SIS to $40
per acre.
This land is increasing in product
iveness as better farming methods
are applied to it and is advancing in
price rapidly.
The alfalfa and fruit land comprises
about $4,000 acres in different parts
of the county and it is worth from
| 500 to $500 per acre, according to
/ its location and improvements. The
alfalfa lands produce three and four
crops per year, making the annua
I production about eight tons of hay
| per acre, worth Sc in the stack as soor
| as harvest is over. The fruit land
produces from $3.50 to $3.50 per acre
in fruit and berries annually.
There is practically 100000 acres
of land in the county open for entry
now. This land is timbered land
range and arid land which can be
brought under cultivation through ir-
rigation. In the range districts small
farmers and stockholders thrive. Land
is there worth from SO to $40 per acre,
The cost of producing wheat
in Umatilla county is from 2S to 80
cents per bushel. The total annual
crop of wheat harvested, largely by
combined harvester which cut, thresh
and sack the wheat, ready for the
wheat haulers. for 81 per acre.
These harvesters are pulled by from
30 to 80 horses and cut about 80
season 1000 acres are cut by each har-
vester. where conditions are favora-
BILE.
Wheat prices range from so to 20
| cents, and perhaps 100000 bushels
of the crop are exported, while about
1000, 900 bushels are ground into flour
in five large FIGURING mills in the
| county.
Livestock Industry.
Diversity has added spice and pros
perity, and aside from her immense
farming interests, Umatilla is a lead
ing livestock country in the state.
Her livestock consists of 800, 900
head of high grade sheep valued at
81. 600, 600; 80, 900 head of cattle worth
$3.50. 600; $4,000 head of horses worth
$4OO, 900, and 500 hogs worth from
to cents per pound.
The wool clip amounts 10 about g.
600, 900 pounds annually and sells at
from 10 to % cents per pound. About
5000, 900 pounds of wool from Una
| tilla and adjoining counties are
secured and baled for market in the
| Pendleton securing mills and a large
quantity is woven into Indian robes,
blankets and cloth at the Pendleton
wooden mills. The average weight of
fleece in the county is sl5 pounds, and
80 per cent of lambs is saved each
year, owing to the congenial climate
and favorable conditions for sheep
raising.
"Too Good to BE True"
II YOU were living in some other
state than Oregon and read a descrip-
ton of Umatilla county, you would be
very apt TO tnlnk, lnat certainly
sounds good, but am afraid it's toe
good to be- true
IT. on investigation, you found tht
report was true in every particular
and the facts not colored nor over
drawn in the least, you would begir
to look around for a purchaser Sc
that you could move to Umatilla coun'
! ty.
You can take the tax list and piCl
ont scores of men who have come here
without dollar, and who have work
ed year or two fer wages and ther
| gone into wheat raising and now owl
! large farms, have good bank ac
count, and are clearing from $4,000 t,
$4,000 a year. If you will so Il
the grain buyers, they will give you {
list of over 100 Umatilla county farm
crs who raise over 10000 bushels o
wheat each year.
Though Umatilla county is famous
and justly so for her wheat, she I!
no less famous for her sheep. wool
| cattle and ether industries, for this 4