East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-04-10

self-evident facts of the new awaken
ing of the city's population.
Great interest is being shown along.
all lines of improvent. Soon we are
to have a thorough and up-to date
water system such that a city of five
times the population of Pendleton
would be glad to boast. All these i'm
provements could not have been
brought about only for the exertion
of public sentiment In fact, public
sentiment is the only agent for ad-
vance and development. But up to
the present time all the citys enter
prising improvements have been of
the nature to facilitating our city
government with up-to-date munich
pal accommodations.
With the opening of the great Pa
mama canal in 1915 and the hundreds
of thousands of people who will take
advantage of the low passage from Eu-
rope as well as eastern portions of
our own country to the northwest, as
sures US that the field is open and
that the time is ripe in Pendleton for
a move to advance the possibility of
There is at present a movement
on foot to capitalize a manufacturing
establishment in this city, which if
carried out with good honest intent
would do more for the uplift of bus
mess in Pendleton and the surround
ing country than any other move that
could be put on foot
In view of the fact that Pendleton
is located in the heart of the best
farming district in the United States
it is self evident that this city is trc
nucleus for a great implement factory
Nowhere is there a place more suit
ably adapted for an implement in
dustry that could turn out the latest
and most improved machinery for ag-
ricultural work.
The value of such factory to Uma-
tilla county could not be measured
and its direct advantage to Pendleton
in business way cannot be over-esti-
mated. Every farmer of this section
could by all his implements direct
from the factory at factory price thus
cutting out all freight and commits
sion profit upon implements,
The parties endeavoring to advance
this move are in possession Of patents
on the latest improved farm machin-
cry which when applied to modern
methods of farming will revolutionize
the agricultural industry. With the
latest and most improved devices for
raising and lowering the cutting ap-
pliances of headers and combines,
making 1t possible to save thousands
of dollars worth of grain that has
heretofore been lost due to the lack of
quick and simple devices for apply
ing the cutting appliances of modern
machinery to irregular and fallen
grains.
The new improvements when ap-
piled to headers and combines will
make it possible to cut any length of
grain from three inches up, and also
making it possible to pick UP fallen
grain. The new device enables Il
header or combine to handle any and
all grains on rolling or level lands
with the utmost ease and with great
saving, both to the wear and tear of
machinery and crop.
Every merchant in the city should
be back of such a move. The Com>
mercial association should investigate
the honest intent of the interested
parties and of the possibilities of a
move so promising to the uplift of
business and the welfare of the en-
tire county. Every farmer should
take advantage of an opportunity in
case such a move should be backed
with good honest intent to secure
stock in such a company which could
without doubt pay good dividends
and at the same time save thousands
of dollars for the farmers In curtail-
ing the present leakage in modern
harvesting methods.