East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-28
c. ". HUNT DIED IN
PORTLAND SATURDAY
VETERAN ROAD BUILDER
HAD INTERESTING LIFE
Built Branch Line from Pendleton to
Pasco and Did Much Work for o.
II. & N. and Northern Pacific
Sketch of His Life.

G. w. Hunt, well-known pioneer
Of the Hunt road, now the Pendleton-
Pasco Nortern Pacific branch, is dead.
He died Saturday at mis- home at 81
irving street, Portland. The follow
ing account of his life and work is
from the oregon Journal;
Born in New York in 1912. he start
ed west when only 16. When they
reached Denver. Mr.. Hunts COM
panion accepted job shingling, but
Hunt refused employment. declaring
he had determined TO start into busi-
ness for himself. For time he found
nothing One day he met by the
merest chance the owner of two yoke
of oxen who had become too i'll to
continue his work. Hunt hired the
oxen for a dollar per day per yoke.
Then he found a wagon which he
paid dollar a day for.
Began Teaming business.
In this way he began his business
OF teaming between The Dalles, Boise
and ogden, a business which soon
reached considerable proportions and
formed the basis for his fortune. AZ
ter coming to Oregon Mr.. Hunt built
more than 500 miles of the oregon
Railroad & Navigation and Northern
Pacific lines. Through his work
much of the then desert region was
opened up for exploitation and settle
ment.
Mr.. Hunt built and operated sew
eral short lines of railroad in the Vi
cinity OF Walla Walla. His last ac-
tive enterprise was the conducting OF
a large farm. Four years ago, after
IG years residence in the vicinity or
Portland, he was taken i'll and never
left his bed again. He is survived by
his wife and four children, Charles w.
and Guy l.. Hunt OF Half Way, Ore;
C. c. Hunt Of Nyssa, Ore, and Lily M.
Hunt Portland.
The burial Will be in Riverview
cemetery and the funeral services
will be conducted from Finley's par
lors tomorrow at 1 o'clock, Rev. Mr.,
Christman officiating.
Laudatory Account of Life.
Bancroft's chronicles of the Build
ers." says of Mr. Hunt in the course
Of a long and laudatory account Of
his life:
Nor was his mental less than his
physical yigor His fibre was that out
OF which men are made, and he pos
sessed the laudable ambition to vitaI-
ize it. In his cary manifestations OF
a masterful spirit, accompanied by un-
usual strength. endurance and tena-
o. city of purpose, the man was prefig-
ured in the boy He was predsposed
10 toll doubtless by prediction deriv-
ed from a thrifty. laborious ancestry.
but his environment fixed the i'm
pulse and made occupation and desid-
eratum and the essential condition OF
his being He learned how to do by
doing, and If one learnse thoroughly
the lesson of labor what other is
there for him to yearn?
1t is speaking within the bounds
to say that no one man has contribut-
ed more to the development and pro-
gress OF the northwest than George w.
Hunt. no man is more intimately
identified with its welfare.
Possessing wide mental range and
vigor Of ideas supplemented by a faith
practically unlimited and all his fac
ulties deriving life and form from an
intense and tireless creative force OF
intellect and physique he could but
plan and execute on a large scale. He
priced the maxim He that rules his
spirit is greater than he who takes a
city"