East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-22

The following article by Miss L. r.
Lorenz, correspondent for the oregon
Journal and the East Oregonian, ap-
peared in a late date of the Journal
with a picture of stack of 1000
sacks of grain, which was taken by
Theodore Danner, the photographer
at Athena:
Eastern Oregon and Washington
are now in the midst of harvesting
this seasons crop of grain, and each
year brings a larger yield. showing
the banner for quick and mighty de-
velopment in the matter of bringing
the sagebrush wild OF the inland en-
pire beneath the plow, and creating
in place of jack rabbit runs. fields of
golden grain and acres of fertile and
producing soil. Thus countries that
can raise wheat can raise towns, ana
good ones.
Riding over-the different railroads
in the northwest, one sees thousands
of acres of valuable land in wheat,
which is now being harvested with
excellent results. Around all fields
not already harvested the binders
have cut a wide swath close to the
fences, making room for the lordly
feet of the king of harvesting ma
chimes. The big combined harvester
and thresher drawn by a team of
from 90 to 80 horses, heads, threshes,
cleans and sacks as it moves over the
field. dropping the filled and securely
tied bags off, five or six in a pile.
At this season of the year large
stacks of wheat in the sacks are seen
at nearly every station in the inland
empire, the product going to inter-
Tor POINTS. to eastern markets. to the
Orient and to Alaska.
Rightly is the great northwest.
where the soil is peculiarly adapted
to the growing of all small grains,
especially wheat, fast earning the dis
tinction of being the worlds bread
basket"
There is no scene to exceed the
beauty of vast fields of golden grain,
and now when hundreds of harvesters
are cutting the ripened and mature
crop, and hundreds of teams laden
with the bursting sacks are seen pour
ing from all directions toward the
railroad, carrying the harvest to the
markets of the world, the scene is
even more interesting.
There has never been anything like
complete crop failure since the first
settler arrived. Different sections use
different varieties of wheat, the Of
fetal reports showing that Little Club
is most used where the rainfall is 20
inches-or more; Red Chaff, where
the rainfall is less than Is inches
Genessee, Grant, Red Russian, Cana
dian Hybrid and Sonora are also
largely grown. The rainfall in east
ern Oregon, eastern Washington and
northern Idaho is we'll distributed.
With a rainfall of 20 inches a yield OF
40 bushels to the acre is an ordinary
thing, while 80, so and 10 are often
grown. Spring wheat under favorable
conditions, Yields from 20 to 35 BUSH
els to the acre.
Umatilla county, the world-famous
wheat country Of Oregon. has over
100000 acres sown to wheat, 10000
acres Of which is located on the Una
tilis Indian reservation. The total
crop o. the county averages 5000, 900
bushels Of wheat, or / per cent of the
total wheat crop Of the United States
"And the plowman settles the share
More deep in the grudglng clod;
For he said, The wheat is my care,
/, and the rest is the will Of Cod
1t is good that the young wheat grows
For the bread is life"
Twenty sturdy Indian boys arr