East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-01-10
CITY OUGHT TO
GET ITS SHARE
Of NEWCOMERS
Tom Richardson Declares That Pen.
dIeton Has Room for 5000 More
People Urges Letter Campaign.
CANAL IS BIG ADVANTAGE
Many Thousands Of HOmcseekers VIII
be Coming to Pacific Coast and This
City and County should Strive to
Have Many of Them Settle Here
Others Make Addresses.

There Is room for 5000 more peo-
pie right here IN the shadow of Pen
dIeton," said Tom Richardson last
evening to the audience of farmers
and townspeople who had assembled
| In the Eagle Woodman hall for the
final session of the get-together meet
ing of the Farmers Union. Mr..
Richardson's subject was Good
Roads" but he only devoted part
OF his speech to that subject. He is
making a campaign for the develop
ment of the state and was so full Of
| his present mission that he could not
let the opportunity pass to deliver his
| message
In his dynamic style, the speaker
pointed out the need Of a united effort
to get Oregon's share of the influx or
| homeseekers which the Panama-Pa-
| cific exposition will draw from the
east next year. He declared that at
the present time 80 per cent of the
tourist traffic to Oregon stops at Port
land and Portland only and then con-
siders they have seen oregon. He
urged a great campaign Of letter writ
ing on the part of local people to east
ern friends inviting them to stop off
and see what Pendleton and Umatilla
county has to offer for the home
seeker.
He declared that the exposition
would draw more people from the
east than will come during the fifteen
years afterwards andsmost of them. he
eaid, would be hotneseekers. Oregon
has unlimited opportunities and is in
great need of intensive settling, he
declared. He urged each community
t. push it's own claims.
! Speaking Of good roads. he was en-
thusiastic in urging work in that di-
rection. declaring the money expend-
cd in improving highways is returned
many fold He cited the instance Of
Portland which city, he said, never
started to grow until paving work
was commenced. Now Portland has
| $40 miles of paved streets, more than
any city her size in the United States.
He cited also California where land.
comparatively unproductive. is selling
| for $500 an acre because good roads
adjoin it.
| Good roads he declared to be one OF
the prime essentials in marketing a
crop economically. The great ex-
pense does not lie so much in rail-
road charges as it does in the cost of
getting the crops to the railroads, he
said
Engineer Martin Talks.
| Engineer c. H. Martin, the county
roadbuilder, supplemented the talk
OF Mr.. Richardson on good roads by
telling what is now being done in the
county in this line, He declared that
Umatilla county is laying good ma
cadam road cheaper than any county
in the state. 1t is costing 60 cents a
running foot, he said.
| Grading is costing from $500 to
$1,000 a mile, he stated further, and
the macadam from $4,000 to $500 a
mile. THE court set $4,000 mile as
its estimate for the completed work
he said, but we are cutting under
that figure
The program of work for the COM
ing year is the completing of the ma
cadam up Wild Horse he said Asked
relative to the use of oil as binder
he declared he had always advocated
this and that it would add from
800 to $500 a mile.
BY doing its own concrete work on
the bridge contracts, the county saved
approximately $4,000 last year, Mr.
Martin said.
The speaker also took occasion to
correct the impression that the Wild
Horse cut cost $4,000 "As a matter
Of fact" he said. "the cut cost less
than $4,000. The court spent ap-
proximately s12.50o for labor. $4,000
for powder and $4,000 for right of
way and damages"
The meeting last evening was well
attended, quite a number of towns
people showing their interest by be-
ing present. Two vocal selections
were rendered by a male quartet con-
sisting of Messrs jordan, Hays, Mabie
and Mayberry. Will NJ. Peterson. act
ing for Mayor Matldck, made the ad-
dress of welcome and response was
made by J. d. Brown of Arlington,
state president of tie union. r O.
Earnhart presided pver the meeting