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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1912)
I VALE--" The Last Frontier." The Banner live Stock County of The United States Oil, Fruit and Farm Lauds The Best Way to Boost This District is to Send Your Friends Copies of the Malheur Enterprise every week. I I Ofl lit- J "I tl.' II . ' JMK . Ill III . T3 ' 0 The Malheur Enterprise De livered to your home or mailed, $2.00 per year, In advance. The Leading" Paper of Malheur County. VOL. 3. NO. 19 VALE, OREGON. SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1912. PRICE 5 cent ';. WILL CELEBRATE ON JULY FOURTM GRAND AND GLORIOUS TIME ON JULY4TH Vale Will Entertain Neigh- boring Towns on Inde pendence Day GREATEST-TIME EVER I "Nothing too Good for the En tertainment of Visitors," the Slogan of Committee Working out Plans for Biggest and Most Novel Celebration Ever Held The Glorious Fourth will be cele brated in fitting style this year in Vale. Such was the decree sent out broad cast this week as the result of last Monday's meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. Every one present went down on record as favoring the grand est Fourth of July celebration ever held in Malheur County and ever in Eastern Oregon. Committees are al ready at work and no time will be lost in securing the best and most en tertaining of attractions for the vast crowds that will be drawn to this city. H. R. Dunlop in speaking of the Fourth stated that it was time that Vale had a celebration and that it should have a good one. "It is up to the City of Vale to celebrate the Fourth," Baid George W. McKnight. "Vale has not had a celebration for years and this is the year that we should get busy as many people would like to visit our city and section where so much develop ment work is going on." C. (. Mueller said that this matter was up to Vale and that it was not too early to start planning on the ar- ragements. He hoped that all the business men and residennts would rally and show the visitors the big gest time they had ever enjoyed. Mayor I. W. Hope was in favor of a Fourth of July celebration every (Continued on Page 3) BUSY VALE LOOKS G00DT0 CAUFORNIAN Visitor Is Impressed by Pro gressive Spirit of City and Substantial Modern Buildings-Will Return With Other People to Locate In the Near Future. NEW PEOPLE ARE COMING Emigrant Car Arrives in Vale Rail road Yards this Week- More on Way. That new people are coming here to make their home was again empha sized this week by the arrival of an emigrant car from Everett, Washing ton. The party consisted of Lute Fellows and wife and two children, Mr. Fellows' brother and Mr. Linn ton. They came here to take charge of the Dan Dixon ranch which was bought last summer by Irwin Smith of Everett. The ranch contains 320 acres and is said to be one of the best in the valley. A large acreage is to be put out in Jalfalfa and orchard this spring in addition to the already large area that has been under culti vation for several years past. Mr. Fellows states that a number of Washington people are coming to Vale soon and H. P. Osborne, of this city, who sold the Dixon ranch to Mr Smith, expects a number of Ever ett people within a few days. The progressive atmosphere of the city as well as the new modern build ings of Vale looked good to F. C. Squire, who was here form San Fran cisco last Monday. It looked so good to him that he will be back here Boon with a view of locating and it Is un derstood that he will bring many peo ple with him. "Vale is the best little city I have struck in the state of Oregon." said the Californian," and I shall surely be back here." "GOT A KICK COMING" SAYS VALEJISITOR Improvements of Past Year Astonish Him New Ce ment Walks and Fine Brick Buildings Deprive Him of Old-Time Com fort out It's Metropolitan. J. O. Macauley is in town from Ta eoma on a business trip. J. C. Ixtnergan, vice-president of the National Livestock Co., arrived in Ontario Thursday enroute to Idaho. He will drop into Vale not week and give a talk on the cattle question in Oregon. "I have a kick to register against your town," said A. A. Roberts of Pendleton, while in Vale last Satur day. "When I was last in your town several years ago, you had nice soft wooden walks in your city and now you have put in those hard cement walks. Don't you know that it hurts my feet and I don't like it. Last time I was here I was able to see the birds flying about town but now your metropolitan buildings are so high that I can't see them any more. 1 used to have plenty of el bow room, but now 1 am pushed off the sidewalk on coming up to the business section from your beautiful new depot." "And then there's that new sana torium across the river, it almost makes me feel like taking a plunge In that fine natural hot water. It's certainly great." It was some time before Mr. Rob erts became reconciled to the fact that the former trading center had become a metropolitan little city. He was astonished at the progress of the past few years, but even if he did register a kick, it all looked good to him. DEPOT LIGHTS ARE APPRECIATED It looks mighty eood to see those big lights at the new passenger ue pot. Agent Ralph Hoyt a few days ago received a shipment of 120-can-dle power Tungsten lamps and put them in place of the smaller globes that had been in use. The six big lights around the new depot light all that part of town and it is hoped that the company will leave them burn every night. T. P. Wormward was in Vale Thure. day from Ontario. WILL VALE HAVE FLO A T IN PORTLAND ROSE SHOW PARADE IDAHO-OREGON BALL LEAGUE IS ORGANIZED Vale, Boise, Nampa and Ontario Are Charter Members FAST BALL THIS SEASON Season Will Commence April 14th and Continue Until Mid dle of August All Local Play ers Except Batteries Mana gers Meet Sunday in Nampa. COL. PLACE TO PROMOTE RAILROAD Promoter Who ! Well-Known in Vale Given Farewell Banquet in Caldwell. With the re-organization of the Idaho-Oregon baseball league on last Sunday when representatives of the different towns gathered in Ontario, the fans of this city are assured good ball during the coming season. The different clubs were represent ed by, H. Hamilton of Boise, R. B. Hoyt of Vale, J. T. Beardsley of On tario and C. A. Fisher of Nampa. The four towns mentioned became charter members on last Saturday, but it is likely that on this Sunday when the managers will again meet in Nampa that Oadweii and Mountain Home will become members of the Idaho-Oregon baseball league. A president of the association will also be chosen at that time and he will most probably be a resident of some other town. (Continued on Page 8) A farewell dinner by the Caldwell Commercial club was given Monday evening at the Saratogajhotel in honor of Colonel E. R. Place, who leaves this week for Winnemucca, Nev., wher he has secured a fine position. Colonel Place will there endeavor to promote the building of a railroad to extend from Winnemucca to Caldwell. The farewell dinnner was a splendid affair, and everyone in Caldwell hopes Colonel Place will meet with great success in the promotion of the pro posed railroad. ARNOLD SENT TO EMMETT RAILROAD EXTENSION WORK Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Arnold left on Wednesday for Emmett where Mr. Arnold will have charge of some rail road construction work for the Utah Construction company. The Arnolds had been in Vale several months, Mr. Arnold having been in charge of the local headquarters of the company. A fifty-mile extension has been ordered out of Emmett into the Long Valley and construction forces are be ing centralized about five miles be yond Emmett. SALE REVEALS MORE RAILWAY EXTENSIONS Part of Oregon Eastern Sold to Central Pa cific Railroad. Is ANOTHER BRANCH SOON Railroad Being Built West from Vale Will Have Connecting Link With the Old Central Pacific Railroad in Nevada Ac cording to Present Plans. Advertising pays. Don't forget it. The Oregon Eastern, under which name the Natron Klamath cut off of the Southern Pacific is being construc ted, has been sold to the Central Pa cific Railway company. The purchas er of the property is a Harriman cor poration, but under separate manage ment from the lines in Oregon under which the Oregon Eastern has been built. The significance of this sale is hard to determine, but according to infor mation previously printed by the En terprise it probably means that a new line will be built from Klamath Falls to a point to connect with the old Central Pacific in Nevada, thus giving another through line into Oregon from the east. The story as printed in The Enterprise a short time ago was taken from the San Francisco Exami (Continued on Page 8) VALE HIGH SCHOOL IS PLACED ON ACCREDITED LIST OF UNIVERSITIES EASIER SEASON IS ALMOST HERE Enterprise Advertisers Give Sug gestions For Easter Finery in This Issue. With the Easter season nearing ra pidly, attention is called to the many Easter offerings being made to the residents of this city and surrounding country bv the advertisers of the Mal heur Enterprise. Easter comes on April 7th this year and there remains little more than a week. It means that many a store will have to be visited in order to secure the Easter finery that is always so much in evidence on that day and which really marks be gining of the spring season. In order to save buyers lots of time the Enterprise suggests that readers look over the advertisements of Vale's progressive merchants in this issue. Patronize these merchants who are willing to help you through sugges tions given in the home paper. RUSHING R. R. WORK THIS WAY FR0MNATR0N Another Contract to Be Let Today on Harriman Ex tensions to Be tysed as Feeders to Vale's Trans Oregon Line Net Work of Liues Planned. TEN-ACRE PARK AND FINE HALL FOR BIG BEND Work Already Started On Preparing Grounds For Buildings . TO BUILD AUDITORIUM Large Building 40x100 feet Will Contain Club Rooms, Hall, Stage and KitchenPark Will ! Have Baseball Diamond, - Ten nis Court 250 Shade Trees Vale residents will rejoice th:s week over the news that the local hifirh school has been placed on the list of the accredited high schools by the University of Oregon and the Ore gon Agricultural College. This means that the Vale High School course of four years has reached the standard and that no better high school course is offered anywhere in the state of Ore gon than right here in Vale. It further means that graduates of the Vale High school will be admitted to the freshman classes of any of the higher institutions of learning in the state without being required to take entrance examinations. The good news was given to the Enter prise a few days ago by Prinicpal Rur ing who has a reputation of being one of the leading educators of this state us well as of the sister state of Wash ington and who has been working faith fully to bring Vale's high school course up to the standard. First he took up the matter of establishing a full four year high school course as prescribed by the state board of education. Next he introduced a systematic order of work as followed by other progressive high schools and although handicapped by the lack of a sufficient number of teachers, he and associates saw their plans working out in a splendid man ner with the greatest of success. (Continued on last Page) Local Railroad Developments Waiting on New York Orders Railroad men in charge of construc tion worn here are anxiously waiting for orders to commence tracklaying in the local yards. Four car loads of ties arrived in the Vale yards over a week ago as reported in The Enter prise but Chief of Construction Os born can't begin work until the word is sent out by the directors of the Harriman system. It is understood that there will be several miles of tracks pjt down in the ocal yards, on the north side of the main line of the Oregon Eastern and also another side track leading to the new material warehouse com pleted a few days ago and where will be stored large quantities of material to be used on the Oregon Eastern construction work. From a reliable source it is learned that another large warehouse is to be erected in the local yards as well as ( Continued on Page 8 ) Will Vale he represented st the 1'irlUi.tt !(. !-'( i vmI this summe'! A 'nil . i, y front ilit t lly m wrilUn .L1(ti,y ,,f j li4 k rUu.Ur i t "M.ii. vit fut hifi'iii elioii U'nuu li ,lu ,ulll the flt if Vl ill!' 'I'll., Ufttll i.itl ll.w l vt. llii.g l U ikilvi'l f,,iu II. e yntl ei.iu !' l..,w t ill hi II. Illy u n it. rt wttk tt iui yt vij I 1. " ....) 0,4 (7 fvi jU, trviu the est, north and mulh, Portland's fc-u-al ,s,"'w vrr y.r, It hat become rtl lhooinU of i.ll " ",u ' ot fuses, .u-h ""' ""' "' (I.. ,ltel ! f "'u .U l-'I'l- '", Uk" I...IU bl "l "'"' A (1 si "l'.ul'lv.llj( ' " Ml fHn" ' U' SHORT LINE CHIEFS PAY VISIT HERE Vale, Jamieson and Brogan were visited last Sunday by Oregon Shoit Line railroad chiefs who were on a tour of inspection. In the party were General Manager Bancroft, Superin inHonti Stevens. Manson. and other railroad men in charge of traffic and operations. ATTENDS CONVENTION COUNTY PHYSICIANS I)r. S. P. Taylor went to rortiana ; TuehiUy to attend the annual session uf the t'ounty physicians of the state (lf (iitfc'on. The several days ees. .jwii will b Hew J ty a big annual I W. H. Mwl-ler, f StiallU and Al. win l'r 'u s"i itluji.t'i )tuiiy ff"i liuri.. H .u nnU. in r" toui'lry I. (it n. nl H f ! I- Ullar II i. l it H ul i.wlt' IJ'lHwi., : , will itn in ln ! I - i ..gi.. Vln 4 ill u-l WORK WILL BE RESUMED ON KLAMATH-NATRON Indications Point that Railroad Work on Cut-Off Will Start May 1st. From the latest movements in rail road circlea indications now point to the resumption of work on the Klam-ath-Natron cut-off from the Klamath end of the line immediately following the first of May. While no official statement has yet been made by the Soutehrn Pacific Company, word comes from San Fran cisco and Portland that the large em ployment offices there have been or dered to set all the men posnlbltt ready to be liied to this work im mediately afur the fint of May. Thu ktattiineiit, v. h it'll I'oihKS as aulUntie, rnosPi that (lie railroad company in to l t t'oMrai'U or building II. lli frwiii llm rvnl Uriniiiu nrnr Oiiliiiln tioilli In roniivvl wllh II. lli. wliU It U I'" !ii'K oi.nlrui ltd kii lb tMJtfti r ai'lv tif Hiu liii'UnUlita. l ui Iw alUinl Mi t'l'ti'li'if i f VsU's j'wWw libisiy V .'li.ly l.ll g- l !) I .H'U fcf I I'll. II, n I ll'f fr!)ll I'UI' BRIDGE CREW AT WORK ON BROGAN LINE A special train of bridge builders arrived in town Sunday and have been at work during the past week in put- tine in a number of trestles on the Brogan railroad branch where several er culverts haa been washed out during the winter. H. P. Hoey, S. F. chief engineer, returned this morning from a trip to Natron and over the work being done by the Utah Construction company be yond Oakridgeon the Natron-Klamath cut-off reports the Eugene Guard. He says that the work la being pushed through rapidly. Several hundred men are at work clearing, that point being very heavy. Three steam shov els are at work on the grade. Three grading camps have been established and a fourth la being prepared. No further contracts have been let on the cutoff. On March 30 in San Francisco a contract will be let for the construc tion of 130 miles of new road from Fernley.Cal., northwest to Susanville, Cal., the same being part of the con necting lines being constructed by the S. P. in northern California, southern Oregon and northern Nevada. This line will eventually extend northward to Klamath Falls, and the train from the Central Pacific will run through Eugene to Portland and Coos Bay. VALE LOOKS GOOD TO PORTLANDER O. B. Robertson, of Portland, ere dit .nan for the Allen Lewis Co., of that city was in town several days this week on business. This was bis first visit to this section and he was naturally surprised at the great growth of this part of the state and atated that Vale was one of the live towns of Oregon. "Vale looks good to me and I am coming back in a few weeks," said he. "It is certainly a good place to locate. Look at that hot water sana torium. It's the greatest hot water baths I have ever aeen and should be better advertised. If we had that anywhere within 60 miles of Portland it would make a fortune for the own- (Special Correspondent) The people of Big Bend In this -county have purchased ten acres of land in the center of the Bend for a park site and are now busy improv ing it. It is their intention to park this tract carefully and to provide a baseball diamond which will be the best in the country, tennis and bas ket ball courts and croquet grounds. When a special correspondent of The Enterprise visited the Bend he found eight four-horse teams and ten men -at work preparing the grounds for the various courts and for the 250 shade trees that will be set out within a few days. The construction of an artistic public auditorium will be begun at once. The building is to be 40x100 feet and is to be provided with a kitchen, banquet room, reception room, club rooms and a large stage. . The park haa been paid for and the. money for the auditorium subscribed, and the entire park will be complet- ed within a few weeks. . . : ; . (Continued on Page 8) NEW COUNTY ROADS BEING OPENED UP County Surveyor Miller Is Running Lines for Roads East of Town this Week-v Nyssa and Big Bend Jobs! Completed Other Roads in Line. County Surveyor J. F. Miller and , his crew have been laying out some county roads during the past fewj weeks and the work will go on for several weeks. With Surveyor Miller are Viewers Ed Murray and O. B.v Davis and his crew composed of J oho Wheeler and Fred Tregaskis. The past week they opened a county f road from the Sam Hess ranch east of town along the south side of the railroad track to the Vale city limits. The week before two roads were laid out in the Big Bend country and two In the Nyssa district. Next week Surveyor Miller and his crew will lay out some county roads In the West fall neighborhood and the Barren Val ley country, and after that in the Jamieson and Brogan section ' where some changes will be made as it it planned to make the county road par. . allel the railroad track in a number of places. Thos. O. Creer, of the Wasatch Construction Co., left on Thursday's train for Emmett to look after hit company's business. TAXES WILL HAVE PREMIUM NEXT WEEK After April 1 the county taxes will have rained 10 per cent higher than at prenent. Two weeks ago lt Fri day we the lat day tat the rebate on whirh day the moat tei of the yar were paid In ordi r In receive the U'lit-ftl of the rebate Sin! Hell Monday will bo Uij day on which a uiiielty of (it pmil.l Will (' lll,Mii:i. ( is tin. in , I l y the ( iK r tii.t'i.t llmi lli" I,.). lu wiio have not lity pail be litiiil iw . at l"i oik hlf if I l.i. I r Ui ai.'l atiM lle (.!. lly, 'l (', f., Mi bp lu Vl lnit''y i"tn "i'i!lw In Mi nlo znnn a crer of ktngma n rn r n atv t a rn ti tta in? JJRJJ1 T JL Xli fly J. S ilil f Mi WATER IN TEN DAYS That the Kingman Colony Company irrigation project would be computed within ten days was the good news brought to this city on lait Saturday by A. (J. Kingman, who has taken uih an active pari in the construe lion of that project which Is Xu re claim acres of the l-l al4 laiwi of Malheur cuui.ly. "Within ten ilsyt," !'! Mr, Ki'M"''. In luwii In I he Intel! of hU teiuil iliy as itprteenlellve Ut lbs Uiels' tuie frum Ibis titiM, I he pumps ( ii ! bf our lulysllu'i 'J'l will be in perfect working order. The wster is to be taken from the Snake river by three itt-fwot lifts, another of 44 feet end all II another of (0 feel. There are two pumps, one located one mile below the Miller ferry and the other ebuve the mouth of the Owyhee rler, The powsr will be furniehed If the Idshe f)r(wM l ight A 'vsf t'4iiity l IU lets of li per b'ie power tvi live i.s . VliN Slid M ll UMil ll MU (I t.i,l li,v4 mi CM I)