East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-29

Tomorrow morning, Tuesday, Octo-
ber 80. at o O'Clock, Governor Cham
bcrlain, tie members of the Oregon
legislature and citizens of UmatilIa
and other eastern Oregon counties,
will leave this city for Walla Walla
and Weston, over the Walla WalIa
branch of the o. II. & N. for the pur-
pose Of visiting the Washington jute
mill at Walla Walla and the Weston
state normal school.
The party will leave OH the regular
Spokane train M. s, at O'Clock, ar
riying at Waila Walla at 1850.
After inspecting the jute plant at
the state penitentiary and luncheon at
Walla Walla, the party will return by
special train, leaving the o. II. & n.
depot at Walla Walla at 1880. The
special tain bearing the party will
reach Weston about 3 p. NJ, where
the special coaches will be set out
allowing an inspection Of Weston nor
nal until I:45. when the party will be
brought to Pcndleton by the regular
Spokane train. No. Z, arriving in PEN
dletOn at 5:S5.
Governor Chamberlain and the Wis.
iting members of the legislature will
b' gueSts at a banquet rendered by
tho business men and Commercial as
evening.
Welcome to Eastern Oregon.
Gentlemen of the Oregon legisla-
ture, in assembling in informal ses-
sion in Pendleton for the purpose of
considering questions vital to the well
fare of our great state, you are par
ticipating in what the East Oregonian
believes will be considered a histori-
cal event IN the story of Oregon.
Tuesday, October 80. 1906. which
date you are to honor with your pres
ence in eastern Oregon, will be treas
ured I'm the history of this section of
the state as enc of the milestones of
progress.
Pendleton, Umatilla county, eastern
Oregon, greet YOU. welcome you in
that cordial spirit which has made
the hand-clasp of the sagebrush sec
tion proverbial the state over.
The people of eastern Oregon ap-
preciate your coming. They feel
conscious pride in their great section.
much of which has been reclaimed
from the most uninviting wilderness
which ever ha"assed the pioneer, and
that the members of the legislature
should come in person to investigate
great questions of legislation and
public welfare arising primarily in
the wheat and livestock counties of
eastern Oregon, gives the people of
this section a more profound interest
in state development and n clearer
view of the purpose and intent of the
legislature.
Need of a Jute Mill.
In your Investigations of the walla
Walla jute plant. you are invited to
remember first that Umatilla county
alone, used over 1000, 600 wheat sacks
this year, for which her farmers were
forced to pay from 10 to IL cents
each.
In the state of Washington the
farmers paid but 6 ~ cents each for
the same quality of sacks, manufac-
tured 10y the state jute plant at Walla
Walia.
UmatIlla county farmers alone paid
out in round numbers 5000. 600 for
100000 wheat sacks while Washing.
ton farmers paid but s13O,00O for the
same number or in other words the
state jute plant in Walla Walla saved
the farmers of Washington $4,000
on 100000 sacks. the number used
in Umatilla county.
At least 100000 wheat sacks were
used in oregon this year, for which
Oregon farmers We're forced to pay
the sum of 100000, or an average of
10 cents each.
The same number of sacks made by
the Washington state jute plant cost
the farmers of Washington but $780,
600 at ~ cents each, or $40, 900 less
than Oregon farmers were forced to
pay.
This means that the jute trust took
s?10,000 from Oregon farmers unjust
ly this year. This sum would be suf-