Old Franklin School in May 2019

Exterior photo of old Franklin School (Pioneer Center) on Pioneer Hill at 240 SE Dexter St by Laura Emerson Via posted May 19, 2019, at 8:27 PM at 'Remember Pullman when.....' Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/114434761988311

WHEAT COUNTRY TRAINS and GRAIN SHIPS

=Book: Wheat Country Railroad: The Northern Pacific’s Spokane & Palouse and Competitors (WSU Press, Dec. 1, 2018) by Philip F. Beach

For more info:

https://wsupress.wsu.edu/product/wheat-country-railroad

According to WSU Press:

“Vying for economic supremacy on the Palouse, the Oregon Railway & Navigation Co., Union Pacific, and Northern Pacific Railroad laid rail, invested capital, speculated, and built a remarkable infrastructure that included the Columbia and Palouse Railroad and the competing Spokane & Palouse Railway. Their intense rivalry played a critical role in eastern Washington and northwest Idaho’s agricultural and population growth. Based on internal railroad correspondence and documents, and contemporary publications and newspapers, Wheat Country Railroad offers the most comprehensive and detailed study ever compiled of the area’s late 19th and early 20th century railroading.

“Railroad development and competition played a critical role in eastern Washington and northwest Idaho’s agricultural and population growth. Sweeping opportunity lured transportation moguls into the fertile Palouse country—one of the world’s most productive grain-growing landscapes. Recognizing the potential for profit, East Coast financial interests, as well as powerful Portland and Puget Sound players battled for regional economic supremacy in an intense rivalry. Meanwhile, settlers and farmers arriving in the 1870s and ’80s courted competition between railroad companies in order to reduce freight rates.

“Initially as partners and later as opponents, the Oregon Railway & Navigation Co., Union Pacific, and Northern Pacific Railroad laid rail, invested capital, speculated, and built a remarkable infrastructure that included the Columbia and Palouse Railroad and its rival, the Spokane & Palouse Railway. Wheat Country Railroad offers the most comprehensive and detailed study ever compiled of the area’s late 19th and early 20th century railroading—evaluating the personalities and actions of Henry Villard, Charles Frances Adams, Elijah Smith, James J. Hill, Edward H. Harriman, Charles Mellen, and other railroad barons who vied for wealth and empire. Based on internal railroad correspondence and documents, contemporary publications and newspapers, this new study presents a unique reference work on railroads in the West and nation during the Gilded Age and beyond.”

AUTHOR: Now retired, Philip F. Beach was a political science professor for35. He left the WSU political science faculty in 1964 and joined the Fesno State University faculty in 1964 until retiring in 1997. He’s a former chair of that university’s political science department. He has published multiple articles on Washington and Idaho railroad history, said WSU Press and other sources.

=Info: The “Grain Fleet” 1900

For more info: https://clackamascountyhistoricalsociety.wordpress.com/2014/09/01/the-grain-fleet-1900/amp

I have always considered this photograph of the 1900 “Grain Fleet” at anchor in Portland the most beautiful scene at the Portland waterfront. The following is an article from the November 4, 1900 Oregonian that echoes the romance and poetry I see in this photo. Although not about Clackamas County, a large portion of the wheat being shipped out through the “Grain Fleet” grew in our county, says a posting at the website of the Clackamas County Historical Society in Oregon.

Also from Clackamas County Historical Society website:

Leading with Grain

Few people, perhaps, when they mention it realize the magnitude of a shipload of grain. The capacity of the graceful three and four-masted vessels that yearly visit this port is something to surprise and unreflecting person. Ten freight trains of 25 cars each, or one train over a mile and a half long, would be required to carry the wheat that goes into the hold of a single ship. The manner in which the cargo is taken on depends upon the stage of the water. When the river is at its lowest point, or somewhere near it, the grain (in sacks) is sent from the warehouse down a zigzag chute, into the hold. In its descent, the sack turns over at each angle of the chute, and when it reaches the bottom is seized and securely stowed where it is to remain during the long voyage around the Horn. As the sacks are piled in place, the interstices between them are filled with loose grain, in order to prevent any slightest shifting about of the cargo. The loose grain is packed in, trampled by the feet of the laborers.

When the water is so high that there is not sufficient fall from the dock to the hold for the grain to move by gravity, elevators, operated by electricity, are employed, and the work proceeds uninterruptedly until the ship has received her full cargo. The facilities for loading are constantly being improved, and keep pace with the increase of tonnage. It is by no means unusual for a ship to begin discharging ballast Monday morning and have her cargo stowed by Saturday night of the same week. The discharging of hundreds of tons of ballast is in itself a task that involved no small amount of labor.

But to go back: The British ship Lady Wentworth recently took on 25,900 sacks of wheat during a period of nine hours, and in the same length of time, the Dumeraig, as was reported in the Oregonian of Tuesday last, received 23,525 sacks. The Conway, also English, and of 1776 tons register, which cleared from Portland October 30, was only 12 days in the Willamette River, while the Osterbeck, a German, was ready for sea exactly 15 days after crossing the bar. The last-mentioned craft loaded over 3,000 tons of wheat and was in Portland not quite 12 days.

The grain for shipment is delivered at the vessel’s rail by the exporters who supply the laborers or “dockmen” to handle it. The longshoremen then take charge of it and put it aboard.

While nature has done much for this inland harbor, making it one of the safest in the world, man has not neglected to add improvements that have contributed to make it one of the most accessible as well. Systematic and combined effort on the part of the Commission of the Port of Portland has within the past few years so deepened the channel from the city to the sea that it is now not only possible, but perfectly safe, for laden vessels drawing 22 feet of water to pass out at any stage of the tide and with the river at zero.

The Incoming Fleet 

In addition to the vessels already cleared since the opening of the season and those now loading, no less than 62 sailing craft are on the way to this port to receive cargoes of wheat. These, of course, do not include the steamships that are here, or due soon to arrive from the other side of the Pacific and which will, in many instances, load with wheat and flour.

Taking all things into consideration, Portland may well be proud of her grain fleet. There are but four ports in the United States that, in the nine months closing with October 1, exceeded this on the Willamette in the amount and value of wheat shipments. And for this last month, Portland has led both San Francisco and Puget Sound.

Commerce is not without its aesthetic features, in spite of Ruskin’s notion to the contrary. And its commercial utility in no way detracts from the romance and the poetry that are the inalienable characteristics of the grain fleet of the Willamette. Any ship that sails the high seas embodies this romance, this poetry. In every mast and spar and straining timber she is thrilled with the hidden meaning of the deep.

PHOTOS:

…Book cover – WSU Press.

…Ships - Clackamas County Historical Society

Schweitzer Center at LCSC in Lewiston begins (April 2019)

Note: Schweitzers are Pullman residents. Corporate headquarters and main campus of SEL/Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories is Pullman. 

The Schweitzer center begins

LCSC’s regional facility projected to benefit local industry and allow more people to stay in the valley

By Justyna Tomtas, Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune, April 12, 2019

Photo cutlines:

--Former LCSC President Tony Fernandez leads the ceremonial on-site dig at the groundbreaking for the school’s new technical education center.

--Among many gathered at the groundbreaking for the Schweitzer Career and Technical Education Center in the Lewiston Orchards Friday were (from left) former Lewis-Clark State College President Tony Fernandez, Beatriz and Edmund O. Schweitzer III, LCSC President Cynthia Pemberton and Idaho Gov. Brad Little.

-- Idaho Gov. Brad Little toured the new Lewiston High School building site with Jake Hinson, project engineer for Beniton Construction Co.

Story text:

A project more than 100 years in the making reached a significant milestone Friday as supporters and officials of Lewis-Clark State College broke ground on the college’s new Schweitzer Career and Technical Education Center in the Lewiston Orchards.

In a brief ceremony, LCSC President Cynthia Pemberton said the roots of career and technical education in Lewiston can be traced back to April 1901, when a women’s services organization discussed “manual training” in public schools.

From that time on, career and technical education remained a focal point in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley, culminating in a partnership that will provide more educational access and opportunities for students in the region.

“This is an important education project,” Pemberton said. “It’s a project that will not only serve, facilitate and support career technical education, pathways and opportunities, but it will also serve to meet broader educational industry needs in the region to the benefit of our students and the community.”

The 75,000-square-foot facility will be situated north of the the Lewiston School District’s new high school and the district’s A. Neil DeAtley Career Technical Education Center.

Once the three facilities open in fall of 2020, the new campus will provide students with a central location to pursue career technical jobs in what Pemberton said is an effort that “paves the way for even better tomorrows.”

Edmund O. Schweitzer III, and his wife, Beatriz, received praise for their contributions that helped streamline the project. The Schweitzers donated $1 million, while their company, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, gave $2 million toward the project.

Since that time, LCSC raised an additional $5.2 million in grants and support for the $24.5 million project, which also will get $10 million from the Idaho Legislature.

“We are very happy to be a little part of this very important project,” Beatriz Schweitzer said. “We very much believe in education and opportunity. I think this project is precisely that.”

The facility will produce more skilled workers to benefit SEL — and other industries in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley and the local economy as a whole — while providing people with an opportunity to work where they want to live, the Schweitzers said.

“Family is so important to us, and as parents what is more important than seeing our kids grow up and live happy and productive lives?” she said. “It allows people to stay local so we can enjoy our children and hopefully some grandchildren, building a stronger and happier community.”

Giving students a place to hone their skills in their hometown, or within their region, will have significant benefits for them and their families, Edmund Schweitzer said.

“With internships, summer employment, studying while living at home, I bet more folks can graduate from LCSC without any student debt,” he said, a remark that was met with applause. “This project brings education closer to home and accessibility to many more families and students.”

Idaho Gov. Brad Little said the project and partnership is “the crown jewel in the state of Idaho.”

“This facility was, A, a logical move and, B, it was a bold move,” Little said.

Little called the marriage between LCSC and the Lewiston School District to provide seamless educational opportunities a “big, hairy, audacious goal,” that “was the right thing” to do.

It’ll help the state of Idaho fill the estimated 105,000 new jobs expected to open by 2026 that will require a higher skill level than ever before, Little said.

It’ll also help continue the history of production and manufacturing businesses in the valley, he said.

Former LCSC President Tony Fernandez, who served as master of ceremonies, and Lewiston School District Superintendent Bob Donaldson were credited for their vision to bring the project to fruition.

As the walls of the new Lewiston High School loomed within eyesight of the groundbreaking ceremony, those who contributed to LCSC’s new center donned hard hats and wielded gold shovels for the ceremonial overturning of dirt, marking the start of the college’s construction project.

Donaldson said the projects were always seen as a “package deal,” something both he and Fernandez considered important.

“Our kids can go to school in this high school, be in our career technical programs and come over and take classes at LC to end up with an associate’s or even a baccalaureate degree and never leave this campus,” Donaldson said.

The center will house many of LCSC’s technical and industrial division programs like information technology, industrial electronics and auto mechanics.

The new space will shorten waitlists for programs at LCSC and eliminate some of the constraints imposed by the programs’ current location on the main LC campus, Sen. Dan Johnson said, to provide a highly skilled trained labor source.

Other speakers at the ceremony included Idaho State Board of Education member Linda Clark, and Kyle Neal, who represented Rogers Motors, a company that donated $150,000 for the naming rights of the auto shop at the new center.

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Sue & Mike Hinz as they receive their ‘Pullman Walk of Fame’ tile in August 2017 in downtown Pullman during National Lentil Festival

Screen grab from National Lentil Festival website on 4/12/2019

Sue & Mike Hinz, 2017 Pullman 'Walk of Fame'

SUE & MIKE HINZ with their Pullman ‘Walk of Fame’ tile, downtown Pullman, Washington.

(Also posted August 27, 2018 at 'Remember Pullman when.....' Facebook page)

They’re members of the Walk’s ‘Class of 2017.’

According to the Pullman Chamber of Commerce, the Walk of Fame was “established in 2003 to honor individuals who have served the Pullman community in a significant way, promoted goodwill, improved the quality of life for Pullman residents or brought acclaim to the area through their contributions.”

Each new class is enshrined in the fall during Pullman’s National Lentil Festival.

https://pullman-cupofpalouse.blogspot.com video 
on 8/27/2018

Read more about Sue & Mike’s honor here:

https://pullman-cupofpalouse.blogspot.com/2017/08/dick-fry-dan-maher-sue-mike-hinz-and.html

https://pullman-cupofpalouse.blogspot.com/2017/05/pullman-walk-of-fame-2017-dan-maher.html

https://pullman-cupofpalouse.blogspot.com/2017/08/dick-fry-dan-maher-sue-mike-hinz-and.html

Mike Hinz: The highly unemotional and technique-minded coach of Pullman High, Pullman Comets track & field

“The state team title was the first for Mike Hinz, the highly unemotional and technique-minded coach who over the past decade has been coaxed into a larger and larger role with the prep team and the Pullman Comets track club.”

= Pullman, Gar-Pal run away; Hound boys, Viking girls capture state track crowns, by Dale Grummert, Sunday, May 31, 1998 -- Lewiston Tribune sports

 

 

Ferdiand's 3/11/2019

Ferdinand’s opened its doors Sept 24, 1948, in Troy Hall on WSU campus in Pullman and remained there until 1992, then moved to its current Food Quality Building location. (Photos/video by pullman-cupofpalouse.blogspot.com from 3/11/2019.)