East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-02-22
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Sam. to SPIN.

tho people OF Umatilla county ana
executed by the state and county as
proposed it will place good highway
/ through the cities and school districts
where 5614 out of 7419 school children
were enumerated in 1917. Assuming
/ that the school population of the
county fairly represents the county's
I entire population we see that these
I roads will either pass by or very near
( the homes of rs per cent of MS.
/ The following is the continuation of
the address by C. P. Strain, before the
Commercial Club, Thursday evening.
the first installment of the address
having been published last evening.
1t happens, too. that the distribution
OF property in the county corresponds
very colsely with the amount of county
money to be spent for these roads in
each of the several sections. Beyond
Eastland where $255,000 of county
money is to be expended there is So
S5f,S26 assessed value. West of PEN
dleton to the Morrow County line,
where $25O.0OO of county money is to
be expended there is S7,151,705 assess
ed value. North of Pendleton to Cold
Springs where S1S5,000 OF county
money is TO be expended there is $5,-
09S, 9T3 assessed value, and south OF
Pendleton to the Grant and Morrow
county lines where $1S0,000 of county ,
money is to be expended there is S4,-
699.SS9 assessed value.
Some of the advantages of this pro-
gram are:
/. Roads now while many of the
pioneers who made the county stil
live to enjoy them.
2. Outlet for tn products of inn
portant sections.
8. Convenient access to satisfactory
shopping points.
L. improved means of business and
social intercourse between each sec.
ton of the county and every other
section of it.
5. The release of the ordinary road
funds OF the county for use upon all
local market roads, and not upon just
a few trunk roads as heretofore.
G. The union of Umatilla County's
highway system with state and nat
tional system which is destined to
link us with the entire United States
Canada and Mexico.
Number four above ought to appeal
to tho people OF this county with much
force. As n rule, each section of 1t Is
one crop district. These roads win
place Pendleton within eighty minutes
Adams within fifty inmates, Athena
and weston within thirty minutes of
the MiHon-Freewater district. The
people on the dry land farms and those
IN the towns of the dry land districts
VIII find pleasure for the whole family
and profit besides in motoring over
there for supplies of fruit fresh from
tree and vine. Thus exchanges nut
ually advantageous will be facilitated
throughout the country.
Market Roads Provided
Yet this program. broad and COM
prehensive as it is, does not immediat.
ely meet the full needs of the farmers
who conduct the basic industry of our
section Its failure to do so can not
fairly be changed against the local
who proposed It, On the con-
trary it was felt that the s576,0OO of
state money and the $50.000 of FEEDER
al money should not be matched by n
bond upon the whole county without
at the same time providing for market
roads to the north and south which
the state offers us no inducement to
build. The term market road Is
broaded in its meaning than some con-
cede. The hauling Of produce to mar
ket Is only the first of two important
impoStant functions of a market road.
After a farmers produce is sold his
wife is deeply concerend about findins
a satisfactory market as a buyer to
supply the many needs of her houses
hold She appreciates a road which
lifts beY. c,1t of tha dust aud mud avay,
for part Of the way, and brings the
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