East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-04-13
CANADA DOES NOT
WANT FREE WHEAT
REJECTION SETTLES BUGABOO
THAT BOTHERED SOME
GROWERS.
No Danger From Northern Wheat
Because 1t Already COmpetes In
Foreign Market With American
Grain.

Local wheat raisers will be interest
ed in the fact Canada has rejected the
proposition of free trade in grain with
the United States, something the Ca
nadians could secure If they wished
under the terms of the new tariff law
of this country. In the Sunday Jour
nal II. H. Cohen, commercial editor,
had story upon this subject and the
following is an extract from the same:
THE further rejection recently by
Canada of free trade with the United
States in grain, should climate all
alarm from those producers of the Pa
cific northwest who were panicky re-
garding the future of the cereal in
dustry.
Not that there was the slightest
danger of any loss to Pacific north
west producers as a result Of free
trade in grain with Canada, but this
was bugaboo that was constantly be-
fore the eyes of the timid ones.
Not for moment had they fig
ured that it was quite out Of the prob
able that more than a very limited
amount Of Canadian grain, and espe-
cially wheat, would ever be marketed
| in this country. Free trade in grain
meant to them that they were going
to suffer the entire loss of their home
market to the alien product
1.-The fact that Canadian grain as
well as the American growth is prac-
tically at all times on a worlds mar
keting basis, and that Canadian grow
ers were even at this time competing
with the Americans for the wheat and
oats and barley trade of the world,
seems to have been entirely forgotten
in the scare"
90 Cars of Cattle-The first train
load of the 5000 haad of cattle sold
by William Pollman and Thomas
Mack to C. L. Anceny and w. w
Childs of Montana were shipped out
yesterday to Anceny, Mont, 16 miles
from Bozeman in the Gallatin valley
There We're 80 cars i'm the train which
went to Wallula over the O.-W. r. &
y company line and from there on t.
Anceny on the Northern Pacific. Over
the same route a second trainload al.
so of 80 cars. will be shipped Tues.
day and the third shipment of 80 car:
will go forward on the same lines
Thursday. The shipment of cattle 1.
the largest ever made from Baker
county.
Season Very Favorable-J. y. Bur
CESS, manager of the Cunningham
Sheep & Land Co, who has been il
town today says he has never seeI
more favorable conditions on tn,
range at this time. The rains Of tn,
last week have been very beneficial
from every standpoint The lambin!
season is now about finished on tn
!, Cunningham company ranch and tn
, increase was good. The company ha,
1900 lambing ewes.
, Fruit Never Looked Better-Tha
| the prospects for a good fruit crop il
the Milton Freewater belt have neve
| been better in all the time he ha
lived in that section is the statemen
r of Henry Groth, prominent fruit raise
, of Freewater who is in Pendleton to
day. He states that they have ha,
no frosts as yet and that condition
have been made to order.
Looking at Irrigated Lands. H
/ Landers, brother of Supt, ]. S. Ian
ders of the local public schools ar
, rived Saturday with his wife and thre
, children from Hillsboro, Illinois, an,
( is looking for a location in oregon
, He will probably remain here a mont
, to look over the opportunities in tn
irrigated districts after which he will
Y take a look at southern Oregon