East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-07-22
HERM|STON CITIZENS
WOULD CHANGE DEPOT
CONSULT WITH O'BRIEN
FOR THAT PURPOSE
Twenty-Four Business Men Travel to
Portland to Induce General Man
ager TO Change Site or Depot-Rcp-
resentative Investigates-6OOO Tons
OF Aiialfa Being Harvested.
Especial Correspondence. }

| IiSiHilsloI, Ore, July Zl.-To con-
suit j. p. O'Brien, general manager
OF the oregon Railroad & Navigation
company in regard to changing the
/ site of the Hermiston depot. "a bust
ness men from here spent several
| days in Portland the beginning of the
week. The railroad company had
! planned to remodel the old depot and
add IS feet to the south end for
freight at cost of approximately
/ $4,000, thus making it more incon-
venient as well as dangerous to get
to and from passenger trains. The
object of the trip was TO ask the COM
| pany to change the sight from the
| present location to the east side Of
the track, directly south of GLADYS
Avenue, thus making it easier to get
on and off trains and also much
easier to handle freight.
After placing the matter before Mr..
O'Brien the official said that moth
ing would be done until an investi-
CATION was made by a representative
! OF the company. The same train that
brought the delegation home Monday
night also carried the representative
l - N'N COMPANY " lpDh up LIlt COIL
ditions, so it Is very likely that some
action will be taken at an early date.
Three Of the "a delegates did not
wish any changes made and conse-
quently made a hard fight against it.
but present indications are that some
radical changes will be made in the
railroad company's plans. Assurance
was given that additional trackage
would be built in order to handle the
rapidly increasing car load shipments.
Those comprising the party We're:
Mayor H. Ross Newport, Councilmen
w. s. Phillips, c. H. Crandall, ]. d.
/ Rice, d. r. Brownell and w. P. Lit
tlefield. II. c.. Newport. NJ. Dishon.
Frank r. Reeves, w. H. Skinner, F.
p. Swayze, Edgar Loudenslager. Ma
urfce d. Scoggs, 2. p. Dood, w N.
Glassen, H. E. Hit. Howard T. Ir-
vim, G.. w. Girts, Ash Pierce. NJ. s.
Kern, E. f. Littler, ]. NJ. Scarbor-
ough. c. X. Bland and Carl s. Nc
Naught.
Where a few short years ago sage
brush and jack rabbits were the prin-
cipal crops. over 6O0O tons of alfalfa
80 ''NitA- ifi N''A'h NlilS ffl anu IL -
likely that the yield will ne doubled
next season. from the amount of new
land that is being seeded. Young
I tlree-year- peach trees are load
/ ed with as fine peaches as one ever
ate. One-eleventh of an acre of
| Strawberries netted the owner SIS.
! Potatoes. cantelopes. water melons
and IN fact everything that can h.
grown in the northwest can be found
! growing to a perfection in all parts OF
the project.
Mr.. and Mrs Chas Johnson, Mr
and Mrs. Blouchard J, E. Fritts and
/ c, l. Morgan spent several days in
the Kennewick district and have re-
turned highly pleased with what they
saw and think more and more that
| EIermiston has them all beaten in q
great many ways. They are recent ar
rivals from Pennsylvania and have
purchased land here with the inten-
tion Of going into fruit growing.
Homer West, Hermiston's crack
baseball pitcher. left for his home in
jefferson, oregon, where he will help
his father harvest their crop. West
Is considered one of the best pitchers
in the irrigation league and will be
missed very much in the future games
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Huff. parents of
G. f. Huff one of the proprietors OF
the Oregon Hotel. arrived from Erie
Pennsylvania, and will spend a few
days looking over the country and
visiting friends.
Mr., and Mrs. ]. c. Swayze are here
from Pamona, Kansas, visiting with
Mr.. Swayze's brother, F.. B. Swayze.
cashier of the First National bank.
]. c. Larson, who met with an ac-
cident in the last baseball game with
Stanfield, has returned from the Pen
dleton hospital where he has been
confined for the past ten days. He is
getting along very nicely and expects
to be able to take up his duties as
assistant cashier in the First Nation-
a. bank at an early date
j. w. Daily sold his house and acre
tract south of town to II. A. Water
man and has left for Idaho. Mr.
Waterman some time ago bought leo
acres of land under the Third Unit
and is having it all set to alfalfa. and
in addition to this also has several
ten acre tracts southwest of town that
he intends setting to fruit next sea-
son.
Yesterday p. c. Holland, manager
of the Columbia Land company's Her
miston office purchased from c. z.
Huff a brand new forty-horse power
Knox car to be used in connection
with their business in selling Her
mistOn lands.
G. H Upthegrove has returned
from the East where he was called
IN account Of the sickness and death
Of his father His mother accompa-
MED him home and will make Her
mission her home for the present.
ATTEMPTS Feat and Fails.