East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-08-11
CLIPPINGS FROM
F. COUNTY PAPERS

II COONI + FAFEkS
Two large gasoline tanks have ar
rived at the Standard oil plant at
Helix and workmen are installing
them.
| Helix will soon have paved streets
says the Advocate. Bids will be open
ed this week.
The 1919 prune crop In the Milton
and Freewater section of the WaIIa
Walla valley as estimated by shippers
will be in the neighborhood OF 5000
tons, and is conceded to be several
hundred tons greater than the 1918
yield. Growers are receiving 800 per
ton now.
The preliminary work for the big
Teel tunnel is progressing nicely says
the Pilot Rock Record and every day
two or more big truck loads of heavy
machinery, gas pipe, steel rails, etc,
are leaving the Rock for the site where
the big bore is to commence. -Four
houses have already been constructed
at the upper camp and a crew of men
has been taken in from this point and
will begin work on the tunnel APP
proach.
The special election held at the
High School building of the legal vo-
ters of School District No. 81 last
Tuesday for the purpose of voting
special tax for the purchase of or
building suitable home for the
of the Reeves High
School, resulted in an unanimous vote
authorizing the directors to furnish the
desired home either by purchase or
by erecting the same. The amount
asked was a two mill levy, which the
Stanfield Standard says was voted
without question.
Newt O'Harra took crop of 81
bushels per acre from 65 acres east of
town the Weston Leader reports. Forty
acres of the tract was in beans last
year, but it is thought to have yielded
Ieyen a little better than the remaining
25 acres. This showing would seem
to refute the theory sometimes heard
that beans on summer fa1low injure
the soil for wheat growing.
A move is now on to get a post of
the American Legion established in
Heppner. r. E. Gregg and DR.. Harold
Bean, returned service men, having
started the preliminary ball rolling.
The City of lone is getting prices
and estimates on the cost of putting
in a new system of water mains, the
Heppner Gazette Times says. Sew
eral years age the city put in sys-
tenn of wood pipes and these have
proved far from satisfactory
The city of Heppner and the Hepp-,
ner Light & Water Company have
virtually come to an agreement on the
purchase price of the water plant. The
agreed price is $23, 500, with the un-
derstanding that all supplies on hand
will be taken over by the city at in
voice price. This is additional and not
included in the price for the plant.
Bearing a premium of $3.50 per
81 600 the first S100,000 of road bonds
authorized by the people of Wallowa
county at the June election were sold
Wednesday by the court to Morris
Brothers of Portland. The county will
get s100,650 from the bonds, which
mature in from five to 10 years and
pay percent interest. Considering
the short life of the issue and the low
rate of interest, the sale is quite satis- |
factory to the county. says the Enter /
prise Record Chieftain.
A gold stike Is reported on the
Lewis Moore ranclr about half way be- /
tween Mt. Vernon and Dayville says |
the Blue Mountain Eagle. Some time (
back Mr.. Moore picked up rich piece
of high grade ore. 1t had about SIS (
in free fold in it. Since then he has
done more or less prospecting for the I
ledge that this presumably came from. /
Two carloads of porkers went out
Of Hermiston the latter part of last
week. They were prime hogs, the
Herald declares and brought a good
price on the Portland market. George
Strohm was the largest individual
shipper. and for one straight car of
his hogs he received S22.50 per hum
1red. Those ranchers who contributed
20 the other car, and who also receiv-
I'D good price, were c. e. Baker,
Henry OFT, Joe Cramer. r. c. Challis
Joe Dyer and Walter Botkin.