East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-12-17

Echo, Dec. 16.-The dam and head
gates at the intake of the govern
ment ditch are now finished. Consid-
cradle delay was caused in this work
earlier in the season by the nom
| arrival of material and the high water
of few weeks ago stopped the work
and done considerable damage. For
time 1t was feared that 1t would be
impossible to complete the structure
this season. Fortunately that was not
the case and the work at this point
is now completed according to the
specifications and in a manner satis-
factory to the government engineers.
Prof L. w. Keylor. principal of the
public school here, who has been un-
able to attend to his duties the past
week on account of throat trouble.
has recovered and will resume his
work Monday.
B. F. Gillette has partitioned off a
room for warehouse in his chop
mill and will in the future handle
flour in carload lots.
Rev. DeWeese immersed two con-
verts to the Methodist church in the
Umatilla river below the bridge, Sat-
urday afternoon, large crowd wit
Messing the baptising.
Joseph Cunha had several teams
hauling rock last week, repairing a
private bulkhead he has put in below
the bridge to guard his property
against high water.
The Columbia Creamery company
paid out s3s6.99 for butter fat on
December Is, to its patrons on the
meadows.
Several hundred sacks of wheat
were shipped from the Pacific Coast
warehouse to Portland last week.
December Is was payday for the
employees of the Puget Sound Bridge
& Dredging company This company
has the contract for building the in
take dam and the first few miles of
the government ditch here, and pay
their workmen the first and fifteenth
of each month.
The first snow of the season ap-
peared at Echo Saturday morning.
There was about an inch of 1t which
soon melted. According to the old
settlers there has been no sleighing
here for the last seven years, and then
only for about a week, this record,
together with the fact that there was
a period of over seven months with
out any frost the past season, gives
some idea of the possibilities here for
the future, under irrigation.
Those who went from here to
Heppner Tuesday with the Umatilla
delegation, were Zoeth Houser, F. T.
George, J. E. Taylor and Chris Ken
nison.
Carl Gilbert, the barber at this
place, has made arrangements to open
a shop at Hermiston, and he will also
continue running the shop at this
place.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Crawford expect
to move to Hermiston in the next few
days, where they will reside. Their
handsome new residence is about
completed at that place.
A number of Echo people are talk
ing of going to Hermiston this eve
ming to take in the opening of the new
hotel at that place.
A shipment of seven cars of beef
| cattle have just gone out to the Union
Meat company at Portland. They were
purchased from Fred Andrews, G.
P. Higginbotham and Ralph Stanfield,
besides some from the Umatilla Ranch
company at this place.
Burst Big Boulder.
Friday afternoon workmen on the
/ OF Mt al mil
town, blasted an immense boulder
onto the railroad track, breaking sew
eral ties and badly twisting one of
the rails. Fortunately there was no
train near at the time, westbound
being held for an hour or more while
the section men repaired the damages.
Echo Out OF Coal.
Echo is now entirely out Of coal and
1t is hard to say when the dealers
will be able to get any of the supply
ordered long ago. Several cars Of
wood have been rece we'd lately, which
has relieved the fuel famine consid-
erably, but at present there Is no COAL
although many carloads pass through
daily on the railroad, none has been
switched off here for some time.
Elect Officers.
Election Of officers of the A. F. &
A. NJ, Umatilla lodge No. 40 took
place Saturday evening, the officers
for the ensuing Masonic year are: w.
NJ, A. B. McCarty; S. W., Allen
Thompson; ]. W., William McCarty;
secretary, r. B. stanfield; treasurer,
L. w. McAdams; tyler, A. B. Thorn
son; S. D., Dora Bowman; ]. D.,
Thomas Smith; stewart, w. w. Will
son.
Working Below Dam.
There are now about rs men rip
rapping below the dam and'headgates.
They will rip-rap some 500 feet OF the
ditch between the intake and the sand
gates.
Shippers from all over the west and