Let 'er buck, a story of the passing of the old West . k; glide over the vast areaswhich are sown with softly, undulating seas of grain products,producing five million bushels of wheat alone. Swing over Hermiston, Stanfield, Umatilla, Milton, Athena andPendleton, the county seat, which here and there checkerboardtlie landscape, their modern mills, factories and industries takingcare of the predominating agrarian pursuits. Hover now overthe Round-Up City, Pendleton, the trade emporium of easternOregon. It lies like a clean-cut gem in a band of green, sur-rounded with a setting of gold. But for
Let 'er buck, a story of the passing of the old West . k; glide over the vast areaswhich are sown with softly, undulating seas of grain products,producing five million bushels of wheat alone. Swing over Hermiston, Stanfield, Umatilla, Milton, Athena andPendleton, the county seat, which here and there checkerboardtlie landscape, their modern mills, factories and industries takingcare of the predominating agrarian pursuits. Hover now overthe Round-Up City, Pendleton, the trade emporium of easternOregon. It lies like a clean-cut gem in a band of green, sur-rounded with a setting of gold. But for the whir of the motoryou might hear the drone of its industry, for here the manu-facturing of eastern Oregon centers. Main Street defines thecenter of this biggest little city of its size in the West; thegreat oval and the little cones of white to the left and almostbeneath us define the Round-Up Park and the lodges of theUmatillas. Here we alight, for tomorrow the great carnival ofthe cowboy and Indian is on. This is indeed Out Where theWest
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