The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1921-05-26
FSrsaEn Advsr1isins Representative
ViE ANERCAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
The Way to Get 1t Is To Get It.
CPendleton East Oregoaidn.)

The Portland Telegram is carrying
a series of excellent front page stor.
les dealing with the importance oI
hydro electric development in Ore.
gon The following is from an article
bv Henry NJ, Hazen in the edition
Of May 9:
If Oregon is to progress and pros.
per in the future il must have cheap,
er power, and plenty Of il.
II Its manufacturing institutions
are to expand and new manufactur.
ing plants be added cheaper power
must be made available.
IF its agricultural, horticultural
livestock and daiYing industries are
to grow and develop cheaper power
must be made available.
If its arid and Semi-arid lands art
10 be fully reclaimed and made pro-
ductive cheaper power must be made
available.
" If Portland, Astoria, Marshfeld,
Iillamook and Newport are to forge
ahead and become ports of the first
magnitude cheaper power must be
made available.
" If Bend, La Grande, Baker, Pen
dleton, The Dalles, Oregon City, Sa-
lem, Albany Eugene, Roseburg,
Medford, klamath Falls and the 9TH
er towns Of the state are to achieve
prosperity in full measure cheaper
power must be made available"
All that is true and then some. No
sane man can deny the vast benefits
that would result from using the lat
ent hydro electric power in the Ore
gon country.
What we need is line of proceed
ure that will put US in line for results.
The people Of this region and Of
neighboring territory in Washington
think they have the answer in the
Umatilla rapids project.
This project has elements of merit
that make it unsurpassed from the
standpoint Of feasibility. Some of
the advantageous points about the
project are:
lit will overcome a serious OBJ
struction to navigation on the Colum-
bia.
2-lt will make possible the recla-
nation of large body of land on
each side of the river.
Sit will provide 10000 contin-
uous horse power for industrial
needs, (The power for irrigation
pumping being provided by 100000
additional horse power that NAV be
developed during the high water sea-
son which corresponds with the ir-
rlgation season.
All the large cities Of Oregon
and Washington are within the trans
mission radius of the project.
5-Because Of the three ends to
be served the project is ideal from
the viewpoint of getting federal aid
6-The cost Of developing the pro-
Ject will be comparatively light and
the engineering problem appears to
be simple.
The view is held here that all
things considered the Umatilla rapids
project is the logical enterprise with
which to launch the program for
Columbia basin power DEVELOPMENT
Good headway has been made to-
wards getting the project before the
public and the powers that be. Al
ouslneSs-llke organization is in
charge OF affairs and now has en-
gIneers busy preparing detailed data
Tor submission where needed. The
project has been endorsed to the fed
eral water power board by the leg.
lslatures of Oregon and Washington.
Inc Oegon governor is authorized byI
law to present the case officially atI
Washington and Washington state
oIiclal has similar authority in that
state In other words we have back |
OF this project a machine with the Of |
hcial backing Of the state Of Ore
gon and Washington.
Before long we will be ready for
acton and when the time comes to
60 over the top there should be no
Tagging. If the Portland press, the
press OF Washington and the various
organizations Of the two states work
together we will win out We will
a desire into results. Re-
suits are what we need and we will |
not get results until we go forward
with a tangible and definite object
I'VE. Put over one good project and
the rest will follow.
The way TO get hydro-elecric de-
velopment is to get it.
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