Show SAINTS IN BAKER CITY with the growth of the oregon lumber companas comp anys business busi teas in and around baker city quite a lumber of latter day saline saints have found employment here until we now number about one bundren souls fora for a longtime long time albas ii bad been our desire to be organized into a branch that we might fittingly observe the sabbath day in the latter part of july we were favored with a 8 visit from apostle F D richards accompanied compa nied by sabbath school lupei in austin C J brown A meet ing or of the me saints was called at 10 am at the ice of brother john stoddard Sto duard and alter the usual opening exercises elder richards Rio barda explained the object of their visit namely the organization of a braith and a sunday school he spoke lengthily upon the condition of the saints and the great necessity of con stunt vigilance that they be not over comerf evil he also dwelt upon the peculiar condition ot of the country at agthe the present time tim ebow bow in the midst of abundant harvests financial ruin und and widespread wide spread destitution threatened the people he the responsible ity of our position with reference to the and eur earnestly nestly desired that the bies pings of the gospel might not nol 0 ily dy be enjoyed by the saints here but that we might be the means ol of gat ering out the honest from the r region round about brothers stoddard U C W nibley joseph A west david eccles A U J brown and others spoke brit briefly fly expressing great pleasure at the prospect ct of our organization here bore when young anti and old could have the opportunity of studying the principles of the and of receiving that spiritual lood food that they all so much needed i i at 3 8 p m another meeting was how hei at which the was administered while the bread waa was being broken elder Ri richards Bio hards shards explained the nature of the ordinance and showed why it was consistent and proper to use water instead of wint win A AB 8 there were quite a number more present pree ent the object ot of the meeting was again explained pla ined and ft a vote taken upon the question of organizing a branch the advisability of such acob a move was waa attested by a un unanimous animus us vote toe the named naine of brother john studdard stoddard was presented to the congregation for their consideration as am branch president and he was unanimously sustained d being given the privilege of selecting nis his counselors be chose brothers Brut bero grant geddes and james R abose brethren were also accepted by i unanimous vite brother james N abley y was chosen clerk of the branch brother C W nibley moved that thai the presidency of the branch be also sustained as the superintend eimy of the sunday school carried the brot brethren brea thus selected briefly expressed their oservelle serve in ward in the position to wb which ich each bad been called after which the meet mee tug adjourned the day was truly one of joy to the saints saint of this place and the precious counsels cou neels of elder bider richards will long be cherished we have since ince built us ue a nice little meeting house capable of seating eating about and are holding sabbath schools regularly already inquiries are betas being maue relative to our faith and the prospects seem favorable or bior a good work to be accomplished in this region As but little Is ie generally known in utah of the operations of the oregon lumber company in this state elate it might be interesting to your readers for me to add something upon this subject As ae you are well aware the demand lor lumber in utah long since exhaust ed d our native forests and compelled our lumber men to look elsewhere for other jourdes of supply with thin thia object in view david eccles bc cles of orden visited oregon immediately after the completion of the oregon short line railway and made a careful calef uj inspection or of its ita timber resources he was not long iu in concluding hat the fir and forests of the cascades Caa cades dea and an the pin erlea erles of the blue mountains would meet requirements for these classes of timber for years to come with his bis characteristic energy he be i in mediately immediately began the establishment of lumbering industries at various points theae th grew so 80 rapidly Y as ag to call for the organization 7 of a joint stock company and the enlargement of his hie various plants in this way tile the oregon lumber company came bugo existence a company organized the jaws ot of utah anti and cOna composed posea under ol of utah men and utah capital en mr eccles leing still the principal 8 stockholder tock holder and the lead bead and front the organization the company now of own and operate two large Jumber lumbering inK plants on the caseb cascade e moun laing where the justly celebrated oreg oregon on fir r and grow in such prolusion profusion ono one of these is in at the toot of mood hood from whence the lumber flamed a distance of about ton ten miles Is to the mills and yard on tue toe columbia river th the 0 0 ther other la is the river in the state of washington moras at a place called Cueno chenoweth he here also the lumber la Js flamed from the mills in the mountains moULt ains dire directly etly on to the companas comp anys barges barge 8 that hat carry it across the river to the railway for storage 1 aud and shipment the ca capacity p acety of their two m milla jig is about eighty phout thousand and feet of lumber per day in eastern oregon they have several small email mills at plessant pleasant valley one in sumpter valley and one at ai baker city their mill at we the latter joint 10 int has a capacity of one hundred thousand feet fees per and is in them the m st at modern and Defect ly equipped mill lu in the west it was wag built thrle ears aitu by brother john stoddard and is a model of it la is with logs loga by the lium pter valley railway a narrow gauge road twenty miles milea long that one ot of the largest and finest bod if e of timber limba r in the eastern part of the state in fact its ite line is 18 the key to the only extensive tracts of timber that eastern oregon possesses this re rc a I 1 was also built by utah capital and every dollar of its stock is 18 owned by utah meu men the capital capita stock of the two corn com halt a million dolian aggregates banies javid F eccles la Is the president pre aident of the sumpter valley railway C W nibley vice Pre president and joe JOB A west superintendent aou and secretary the road was built under mr wats direction as aa chief engineer and superintendent ot of con its ita completion silco tion etrul nasi sant shurtliff hike baa been mr F M superintendent in which capacity b be 0 abe operating late chartie nuts nuta duties department anile mr appertain toabe to abe business department dupan ment of the railway and the oregon lumber combined cona bloed in addition it tu company the key to a large lame interior rich in timbers timber being the dumpier valley railway rich mineral section a very punctures of silver will that with the advance afford the road considerable business X CITY sept 12 1893 |