East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-21
Julius Meier, Portland Merch-
ant, Advocates Great Things
For Local Fete.
SAYS KNOWLEDGE
WILL BRING CROWDS.
Declares Five Thousand Portland Cit
izens Would Gladly Make Trip to
See Western Life Portrayed BY Real
Inhabitants of the Plains.

mo more picturesque pageant is
staged in America than that real-life
bit of the West portrayed at Pendle-
ton in the annual Roundup" said
julius L. Meier, on his return from
Pendleton, says the Portland Oregon
ian.
Il would travel hundreds of miles
to see the Roundup. There are tens
of thousands of other people in Am
erica who would do the same. 1t has
a powerful fascination for the gener-
alton that knows the realty of the
old West, and yet has not been given
the privilege of witnessing it's pioneer
stages and development. Special
trains could be run from the Eastern
states with loads of people for that
show, if the country was only fully
advised of its excellence and the Won
derful realism observed in every de-
tail. fully believe that 5000 or more
men and women of Portland would
make the journey annually, if they
understood that Pendleton's Round
Up is put on by the living workers
of the Western range
Mr. Meier saw the finals in the
bucking contests, rope work, Indian
races and many other issues framed
to reveal the skill and craft of the
range. He appeals for wider publicity
Of the meet. Instead of sending the
notices throughout the Northwest, he
would advertise all over the Nation.
For four to six months preceding the
Roundup date, Mr. Meier thinks the
railway literature of the country
should be marked, and pictures placed
in dense traffic centers of the Mis-
sissippi Valley and Far East.
THAT is not a mere show at PEN
dleton," he continued. None of US
would go far to see a Wild West pro-
duction of the circus tents. Fake
outlaw horses, fake cowboys, unreal
Indians and trained stock in general,
with an excess of paint, fuss and
feathers make the circus production
flat and uninteresting.
AT Pendleton there is no stage, no
make believe, no fiction. Bucaroos
who have spent their whole lives in
the saddle, bring the horses of the
the real men do, in the Western at
mosphere, and with a truly Western
setting. 1t was for me the most i'm
pressive spectacle / have ever looked
upon, for l could not fail to see in
the work the lines of courage, adven-
ture and hardihood which have made
this West of ours. I believe that no
amount of historical reading could
convey the lesson of the West so Wv
idly as the type of spectacle which
Pendleton is. fostering in splendid
manner, If this work is persevered
in for a few years, until the entire
Nation realizes its merit and regular
ity as sure as mankind yet admires
the strength and skill of the plains
men when battling fearful natural
odds, the attendance upon this Round
Up will grow each year amazingly.
1t is only comparatively few
years before the Round-Up with real
actors will become impossible. The
old West is passing. The swaggering
cowboys with their picturesque attire
and trappings, and their unerring
riata, will disappear when the open
range goes and the fenced domain
comes. The coming generation will
not be able to see a real Western
spectacle. Every son of an Oregon
pioneer naturally thrills at the work
his father has done and laments the
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