East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-17
FRENCH CHEMIST At
STANF|ELD PROJECT
WILL EXPERIMENT WITH
NEW KIND OF STRAWBERRY
Prof. Chas. Marchand Believes i'm Fu-
ture of West End-Sends Volcanic
Ash TO Experiment Station-Coe
Reservoir Progressing Rapidly
Short Notes.
Especial Correspondence.N

ole Chemike and perhaps the greatest
French chemist in America today, has
been in Stanfield for the past two
days. Mr.. Marchand owns forty
acres near Stanfield under the Fur
nish-Coe project and has come out
to see how work is progressing on his
piece. Sloan and Co. are doing the
work on his land. Mr.. Marchand has
shipped six sacks of volcanic ash from
Stanfield to Portland to be used there
in his private experiment station. He
has lately imported some strawberry
seed from France and expects to
make Stanfield famous for this par
ticular variety of berry. In France
this variety of berry bears four crops
| a season, the first crop in June, the
| second in July, third in August and
the fourth about the 1st of October.
Prof. Marchand believes that the cli-
mate in Stanfield, which is much
| like that near Sauternes in France
will be very favorable for the growth
of this variety of strawberry. 1t will
be- remembered that the professor i'm
ported French almonds and another
very hardy variety of strawberry
which are now planted in the expert
ment station here at Stanfield. This
station was largely put in through the
efforts of this man.
Today Mayor Coe and Prof. Mar
chand boarded the motor for a short
trip to the reservoir at Coe where
work is progressing rapidly. The
Bruce Construction people have now
reached the centen of the core in their
concreting work and have been
obliged to build a temporary dam to
divert the course of the Umatilla
river from its bed toward the south
side of the valley. This dam was
completed today and the first water
was sent through the great outlet
gates and tunnel today
Fred T. George was in town yes
terday and is becoming impatient that
his building Is not more nearly COM
pleted He hopes to be here perma-
nently by the 1st of September.
George Riseling today brought in
some lettuce over ten inches tall which
he planted some three weeks ago on
his place just west of town.
r. n. Stanfield has driven another
band of a thousand sheep and is pas
|
ing them to summer range.
E. n. Brown returned from Pen.
dleton where he has been for the last
few days.
Norman B. Mclean, brother of Mrs
} D. B. Spalding of Stanfield. came t.
Stanfield on the last Columbia Lant
Co: special car to spend the summe
with his sister. Mclean is a bal
player of note and has Joined tn
} Stanfield team. He halls from Moor
head. Minnesota.
Workmen back of c. f. Cullinan'
meat market in cleaning up som
debris set fire to some odds and end
and the fire reached some tar pape
and nearly got beyond control.
I T. E. Knudson, fruit grower an
) banker from southern Oregon, ha
J recently purchased 100 acres in tn
) Furnish -Coe project Mr.. Knudso
, in an interview yesterday declare
that the land at Stanfield was as we
:. adapted for fruit as any place he ha
ever had anything to do with. an
because OF the excellent shipping IA
cilities provided by the o. r. & n
and the proximity to the Columbi
|
an investment here would bring larg
er returns than any other place 1
the northwest. Mr.. Knudson Is ac
companled by his wife.
Mass meeting was held last nigh
at the school house where commit
! tee was appointed to take charge o
the fourth of July arrangements an
celebration and complete the wor
already begun by various citizens q
the town. The main speaker of tn
| evening was Mayor Coe, who dwe1
upon the fact that the coming fourt
of July celebration is an opportunit
for the citizens of Stanfield to prov
to the people Of the towns in this par
Of the county that they can give a ceI
Il ebration which is worthy of the hor
or which the towns have show
Stanfield by agreeing to come here fo
the Fourth The committee whic
will represent Stanfield are Glen M
Cullough. c. c. Carr. f. H Brow
Deane Spalding, Roy Neal, an
George Coe. chairman. The fir
meeting of the committee was hel
this afternoon at which definite plar
and a segregation Of the work Is d,
1 tlut0 upon. IntSt pans Will Dt III
nounced tomorrow through the Ea
Oregonian, posters being put up II
next day.
Misses Ester and Eugene Jones
Echo are in town today.
Mrs. Louis Scholl Of Echo, is vi
iting Mr. and Mrs. f. Fl. Brown t.
day.
Mr. T. w Rork. secretary Of II
Columbia Land Co. one Of the fir
|. people to come to stanfield and WI
I arrived last August, leaves tomorro
l for Grand Forks. N. d Mr.. Rorke h;
been in charge Of the Columbia Lar
companv's office here in Stanfie
since his arrival here last August NJ
Rorke intends to remain in the ca
about four months returning thenc
to Stanfield to reside here perm;
nently II Is rumored that when 7
returns in the fall. that he will not !
alone.