East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-06-26

! ton: Iatah county in 1900 Is, ,451
Twin Falls county, none; in 1910 La.
tab county had a population of 1S,S1S
Twin Falls county 10000; in 1926
Iatah county had population of IS
/ O92, Twin Falls county 10000 You
will be interested in land valuation. In
| Twin Falls county in 1900 the land
! was of no value. In 1910,.the assess
cd value was $l0,000,000, in 1920 the
/, assessed value was $50, 900, 900; the to-
tai value of all crops raised in Latah
| county in the year 1919 was $13,525,-
, 900; the total value OF all crops raised
in the Twin Falls county in the same
year was $2S,591, ,629. The, reason, ard
the only reason, foA the treinendous
development of Twin Falls county was
theNreclamation of its land by irriga-
tion.N
Yakima Record
LET us compare Walla Walla coun-
ty and Yakima county, both in the
state of Washington. The city of
Walla Walla is a splendid inland city,
The Mill creek and Walla Walla val
leys are wonderfully rich and the up
lands are wonderfully rich, producing
great quantities of fruit and other pro-
ducts The uplands are of the best
quality and yet in the last ten years
the census shows that the population
of Walla Walla county has decreased.
In Yakima county, on the other hand,
the population in 1900 was $4,000, in
1910, $4,000 and in 1920, $4,000. The
-vaule of farm property in Walla Walla
f,saV s,,
1900 to $92, 100000 in 1929. The COM
merce and industry growing out of a
community like the Walla NValla val
ley literally surpasses belief. The crop
values for 1921 were $34,000,000, The
rail tonnage is so important that the
O.-W. r. & n. is now engaged in the
survey of a more direct route from
Yakima to the east by cut off reach
ing tho main line near Thornhollow in
Umatilla county. The 1921 shipments
were as follows:
Fruit, 1897 cars; vegetables, A.
262 cars; hay, 1880 cars; grain 1,100
cars; live stock 1,34S cars; live stock |
472 cars; dairy products,
145 cars; fruit and vegetable pro-
ducts, 396 cars; sugar beets, 265 cars; |
ippS IIo CdInj anu otlcl IiioScllhllSouS |
These figures will give some con-
eeption of the value of properly IL
rigated section. Much of the soil of |
the Columbia River basin in the vi
clnity of the Umatilla Rapids is just
as productive as the valley of yakima
ma all authorities agree that axactly !
he same result will follow from the
development of the Colum Dia basin
ands as has followed in Yakima III
water can be provided for the irriga- /,
ion of these. lands We dream of the i
colonization of the vacant lands of Il
Oregon. This reclamation project will 1
make colonization an assured fact.
We dream of new values for purposes
If taxation and the support of the
government. Values almost without
init may be created by the pumping
# the waters of the Columbia upon tI
he adjacent dry lands.
liberalization of Railroads
II do not speak with any authority Il
lpon this feature of the project.
everyone Knows that it is to the adj
rantage of the railroads and also of
he community served by the rail-
Dads, that the roads be electrified as
'arly a date as possible. At the re-
ent Columbia basin rate hearing, the
act that the Milwaukee is partly
Electrified, was used as an argument
or lower rates from Eastern points
o Puget Sound points. The Great
Sorthern has now announced its plan
o make the installation of electrical
qGipment in about two years from
his date.
1.-TWO trans continental roads run
ast the power site at Umatilla Rapids.
We feel that ultimately these roads
ill be electrified and that their prob
I'm will be made much easier and the
evelopment will'come much sooner IL
he roads are not compelled to bear
10 first cost of the Installation of the
plant. Electrification
Ieans lower rates and better service.
lore than that, 1t means that we will
2 utilizing some of the vast power of
lie Columbia River which now flows
nused to the sea do not know the
'tal tonnage of coal and the total
mount of oil consumed by the rail-
'ads of the Northwest, but it is a
lst amount taken from an exhaust
lie supply. Moreover, we have sub
no coal or oil in oregon and
Washington but be have the tre-
lendous potential force of the Colum,
IA River.
Improvement OF Columbia
"Ihe works necessary in the devel-
Dment of the Umatilla Rapids will
rown out what is at this time an
,stacle to navigation on the middle
River transportation can be
aveloped. Every one who knows the
comedies that the Columbia
i'll never bring cheap transportation
to Portland by the present method
locks at the Falls. The rapid wa
rs and the shallow waters are still
the river: the improvement which
as been made upon the river. has
,en some factor in railroad rates and
me value to oregon but the ultimate
To be reached is toI
own out the rapid waters of the
yer until vessels of greater draught
I'd less engine power can navigate