East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-28

Echo. May 2S.-The Butter Creek
Telephone company is making ar
rangements to extend ats line from
Echo ito the government reservoir
site, Hermiston, and the different gov
ernment engineers camps along the
proposed canal line They have "a
1oreesa1 men NJ work near the stock
yards mortising poles and boring out
the cross arms and will begin setting
the poles and stringilg wire in a few
days. This new addition TO their sys-
tenn here will be over 80 miles in
length and win be Supplied with six
wires. 1t is their intention 30 con-
meet all of the district under the gov
'ernment irrigation system with their
central office here. Heretofore their
connection with Hermiston has been
by a -sinEe wire run across from the
Butter creek line.
WeuAd Enlarge FoFest Reserve.
A petition is being circulated here
addressed to the forest service of The
Unfied States department of agricul-
ture at Washington. ID. C., asking that
Is townships at 1he lheadwsters cof
Butter, Mckay, Birch and Meacham
creeks be placed in the Blue Noun
tains forest reserve This is being
done IN the Interests of the future wa
ter supply for the East Umatir7a ana
John Day government irrigation pro-
3ects. and also in the interests of many
private enterprises
The vomeR's club mas taken up the
matter of a free public library for
Echo. They have secured suitable
building and are circulating a sub
scrfption paper guaranteeing so much
month for the support of tsat insti-
tuitfea, and haze enough now pledged
to go ahead with it.
Following the democratic speaking
of last week the republicans will hola
a meeting here tonight, posters are
out announcing the event, and the
services of the Echo band have been
secured for that occasion.
An occasional salmon is seen in the
river, the first that have been noticed
for many months. This speaks well
of the work done at the Maxwell dam
by Deputy Game Warden Turner, he
having short time ago placed fish
ladders at that obstruction, allowing
hundreds of fine fish. held there and
unable to get over. TO continue their
journey on up stream to their spawn
ing grounds.
Mrs. Annie Allison has leased and
taken over the Arlington hotel, and
in future will conduct the same as a
Hrst-class establishment.
Descriptive Pamphlet.
The Umatilla River Water Users
association will shortly issue a pamph-
let OF some so pages of descriptive ar
ticles, maps, etc, of the districts here
under the government project. There
will be seven thousand copies printed
They will be distributed free to those
interested in this section of the coun-
try, So many inquiries have been
coming in in regard to the project
here, that the directors of the asso-
citation have adopted this means of
answering the many different ques-
tions asked about the enterprise.
r, r. Johnson, attorney for the Wa
ter Users association, has gone to
Portland on a business trip. He viii
be gone a week or 10 days.
Arthur Hammer and Mr.. and Mrs.
]. H. Young are in Portland attend
ing the grand lodge of the odd Fell
lows and Rebekah lodges,
For a few days past the town has
been full of horse buyers and horse
men. Several hundred head of horses
have been sold here for the Alberta
market. Most of them are the rem
nants of the herds that ranged over