Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-09-26
structure materially.

low stage OF the river the entlrt
length of the proposed site. 1t Il
situated alongside of the O. X. 4
n. railway and has every advantage
/ for the location OF an ideal dock
At least that is the opinion of every.
one who has looked over the prop.
erty. Surprise has often been ex-
pressed that the site has not been
utilized long before now for this
purpose.
The plan of the growers is to
pooi their interests and take care
Of their own grain shipments with
out being dependent upon the ex-
porters, whose dock facilities are
held to be inadequate to handle big
crops, such as produced this year,
to advantage. 1t will be a CO.
operative concern throughout.
Backing the enterprise, it is claim
ed are some of the heaviest wheat
growers in the Inland Empire.
Another drawback they hope to
overcome by owning their own
dock at tidewater is the difficulty
now experienced in placing their
wheat on the market when the
price suits them. Under present
arrangements, it is explained, the
majority of the growers are forced
to store their grain in private ware
houses in the interior. Getting
their grain to tidewater has proved
a most perplexing problem in the
last season or two on account of
the car shortage. But after the
car service did improve, the capacity
of docks at Portland was soon SO
taxed that free and regular ship
ments could not be made.
Hundreds of cars were used last
season as warehouses, which con-
:ributed to no small degree to the
,ar shortage. Had there been
ample dock room to take care of all |
;he grain and other freight sent
here, it is asserted very little
would have been heard of any car
portage. When it is necessary to
Utilize rolling stock for warehouses
he growers have concluded that it
J about time for them to take a
and and try to remedy matters so
ar as it lies within their power.
In the private warehouses oyer
/ the interior the same insurance t
ates have to be paid as at Port
md. Because, as it frequently t
appens, there is not ample grain :
port to load a ship, the exporters !
re subject to heavy demurrage .
1arges. A few instances of this 9
'rt have a tendency to increase :
,e freight rates, the extra cost
sually coming out of the pockete
the producers. With this as the
tuation, they see no other out
ok, according to their agents,
ian to acquire a dock at tidewater I
; their own and make ita point to
eep on hand a big quantity of
.ain. ]
More ships will be in the local \;
'rbor this season than at any other t.
'riod in the history of the port. n
Mess the dock facilities should be fl
creased, every one admits there ,s q
III be no way to accommodate N
en-, or give them anything like n
cent dispatch. Even with the hi
v now in the harbor, it is often a =. y
oblem to find berths for them.
ptains of ships were the first to M
mplain of the lack Of proper ia o.
tiles at Portland for taking care -
the grain carriers in a reason eli
le length of time. Besides the Sc Sc
'jority of the docks are dilapidat-
structures, which those in
sition to judge say ought to have
IN condemned long ago, Destroy
and supplanted by modern ware
uses.
some Irrigon potato growers AM AM