Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-07-13 | Page 23 | Oregon to Need 1200 New Settlers

I 1 OREGON TO NEED 1200 NEW SETTLERS PENDLETON Ore Or July 12 12 With the th completion of the huge McKay dam darn across the th creek of the same amo name by the th United States gO eo nt there thero will bo be need cd for tor 1200 settlers on the th ir- ir lr land hand In the Hermiston Umatilla district E 13 P 1 Dodd prominent farm farm- farmer farmer farmer er and business bulnes man told memo mem members bers of the th land lond settlement cons cOm coin of tho th Oregon state tat cham chamber ber of commerce when they visited the sast lISt st project ct recent recent- recently recently recently ly Completion of the th McKay dam dans w blob I Is expected to take tako two ot 01 three years year yet rl eL will bring brine th the total acreage of the tho project up to Immediate need ned around herons herons- ton tOn for 00 was war expressed to the tho tb land hand settlement commission I by Mr Dodd based on 40 40 acre tracts as the tho th maximum for each I settler L I L Bole Boise Bol of Portland chairman of the th committee told the Hermiston that there thero Is I leal interest being taken In Oregon Oregon Or- Or Oron egon on as a a 0 future futuro home borne bom state tat by interested farmers farmer and m men n throughout the th middle weal and other parts part of the th country It I is the th purpose of the corn com com to get ft the th actual fact facts about bout tho the parlous sarious arlou irrigated lec lection ec- ec tion of ot Oregon and present the tho truth to prospective a settlers