East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-09-23

Stanton, Joseph Watt, w. H. Rector
JOSEPH Holman, f. NJ. Rarnum and l..
f. Grover with Williams president,
j. G. Wilson secretary, and John d.
Boon, treasurer. They managed to
scrare up $2500 in cash and then sent
Rector to the East to purchase the
looms and other machinery that
would cost 1900. When Rector
told the machinery men he had only
$2500 they were surprised and want
ed to know how he expected them to
send their goods away out to Oregon,
1000 miles around Cape Horn, With
ont security for their money. 1t is
said that Uncle Benny Rector replied
to that sumner by saying: LOOK INTO
my face, gentlemen. If you can not
trust me when I say you shall taVe
your pay, my trip is failure" He
got the machinery, and the manufac-
turers got their money.
. Although the goat and mOh2ir in
terest in livestock did not take root in
Oregon in the same era with hOr@e5,
cattle and sheep, vet t is 50 inti-
mateIy connected with those Interests
that it t,merits notice. Tha goat took
an early start along Wifi man ana
sheep in the tedious upllft from bar
barism to civilization. From is more
timid and gentle nature i i probable
that the sheep was dJme5tcatei by
man before the goat. But as man in
creased in knowledge and wicked
ness it was concluded by fhc learned
barbarian of ancient times that it was
necessary to unload his sins upon
some dumb animal in order to get a
clean bill of moral heal-h and take ,
fresh start in the world. Looking
among the beasts that had been tam
ed, "billy goat" was selected rs the
"scapegoat." That was probably the
first honor the unfortunate wild goat
was elected to by the Levites 25GH
years ago. And considering the utll-
ity and humility of the oJor goat, and
the meanness of the sinners, whose
sins, crimes and shortcomings the goat
was compelled to baa" away jnro The
wilderness. the verdict OF history
must be in favor OF the goat.
The Ang0ra breed of goats, now
bred in Oregon, originated in the
vlayet of Angora, in Asia Minor. Dut
it is not know when that was. Some
have ventured to say that 1t Was o.
400 years ago. There is evidence shat
goes to show that they were Il distirc-
tive breed when Moses vas loading
the Israeitcs out of Egypt Gont5
hair was spun by tho 1sraclitc5 FOR
curtains and other purposes for use
in the temple.
Apples Are Introduced.
AS Johnny Appleseed," who real
name was Jonathan Chapman. WAS
the forerunner and fore planter of !
apple trees IN the Ohio valley in 1905, |
so also was Henderson Luellin IN like j
manner the good missionary of all
fruits to the region of Old Oregon III |
lS47. Johnny "Appleseed," sC-cRile1 |
by the first settlers in Ohio, cam" |
over from the Allegheny mountains /
through the pass, that Genera, Brad /
dock followed on his Inflated eXpcdi- |
ton against the French at old Fort Du |
Quesne, later Pittsburg, in 1855. But |
'Appleseed" passed through about 80 |
years afterwards carrying with him a !
DackhOrse load of apple seed ANA /
seeding trees which he planted in the /
settled places of Central Ohio. And |
T. years after "Appleseed' commence /
ed planting nurseries on Licking river, |
Luelling took up his line of march |
his precious load of graded |
apple sprouts $500 miles from Salem, !
Iowa, to Oregon.
By the unselfish efforts of these \
two men, and by two long strides, APP
pie trees were transplanted from