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LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON. MONDAY, JANUARY.16, 1911. PAGE 7 Enterprise, Oregon " ; (Continued from Page Two) ' - of cheese of foreign end domestic make Hhat can be had.' And in addi tion they handle, as a side line, wood, - coal and shingles, observing the mat ter of quality in these as well as in all other portions of their stock. When in Enterprise, don't fail, to go down and see Riley and Riley. ; Payne and Sheets Real Estate. Nobody can hope to corner all (he good qualities of human life nor all the best things in human tempera-! ment. Did you ever meet Payne and ' Sheets, ' real estate dealers, of En- terpriseT ' Don't let another moon come and wane, without, meeting ; them. You will like both of them. L. , B. Payne, the senior member of the firm, is secretary of the Enterprise Commercial Club and he has the Wallowa county "fever." v That Is what brought him to Wallowa county. It makes no difference what portion . , of the county you ask this .firm about, it is convinced that Wallowa county Is the best, the biggest, the moat promLo'iiiB, ana the potentially great est j county under the sun and of course, Payne,, and Sheets are right about it. Being right about It is what gives them indisputable . evidence to ; present to, the bomeseeker who wants to buy a house or a farm or a ten thousand acre sheep ranch. , It makes no difference to this firm how little or how, big the "buy" you have in mind It looks after your Interests any way. As we said, don't fail to run atlvely a recent resident in Enter prise, is a gentleman of long banking experience, one Inured to the daily burden of financial banking matters, and acquainted through experience with safe banking methods. It is characteristic of Mr. Boehmer as with Mr. Holmes, that the' hard world of finance has never left a callous in the nature of either of them. ; They have real blood in their TeinSj in stead of Ice, as well as safe banking principles, and neither have ever felt the necessity of permitting the bed rock of finance to congeal their live ly sympathies. ' ' ; Of this sort, too, is President G. W. Hyatt of the Bank, mention of whom has been made in connection with the E. M. & M. company. This trio Is a big Institution In itself, and an indispensable one to Enterprise and Wallowa county. : Face and Jordan Real Estate. , Pace and Jordan, do not "keep real estate to Bell. They sell it. In addition this firm is just now hand ling some mining stock, and - this with a . general insurance business, 'keeps the firm busy daily,; Pace and Jordan are among the oldest real estate men In the. county iue iay. of the land from side to side and from end to end of the . county. Mr. . Pace, of this firm, was for1 years county assessor and 5 OXE CF THE STRONG BUSINESS FIRMS OF ENTERPRISE. very place for the man of Ideas hew ideas. In Wallowa county, too, new Ideas seem to be born of the sublime surroundings, the excellent climate, the rich,' fertile valleys and bench lands, the magnificent ' mountain scenery,. the thousands upon .thous ands of acres of splendid forests, the clear streams of water, the unnum- Hor-J r;rlii6, uu toe general physi cal supremacy -of the whole country. Here a brand new idea never went begging. And here no man can linger without generating some new ideas. It Is remembered by Captain Smith leputy sheriff, and has traveled per-J of Enterprise, one of the first pion haps every hill and canyon in Wal lowa, v t r This gives the firm an exact per sonal knowledge of the land .they handle, and gives the buyer the ad vantage of this knowledge. eers to enter the valley, that the river, valley, lake and the county took their name from an old Indian legend. Mr. Smith Is an authority upon the his tory of the county. He states that the name ; "Wallowa" literally taken means fish-trap, and that It was first a rrl 1 tA tn 4Via v4irciv 1 a 1r a an4" va llntf There is probably scarcely a day In by-chief Joseph and his Nex Perce the year that this firm is not listing braves. According to Mr. Smith the hp and see Payne & Sheets, at your nrooerty' for sale, or selling r"ODerty Indians came! from the Imnaha and first opportunity. You'll have one of that has already been listed. And from Lapwal. Idaho, In , the ' early the best times of your: life,, whether they thus o a.hlg , bustaessV The you want to buy real estate or not. I homeBeeker desiring a minute know-1 about Enterprise. And that unon one Its worth a week of any man's time J le'gge of the land Be is thinking of occasion the Indians placed a fish trap just to get this firm to enthuse one : and to' point out how very much hap piness there is in the world,, that we ordinary mortals never dreamed of. .Wallowa National Bank. One of the institutions Enterprise Wlnr ran trot th ActaaA Irnnw. n ine TlVer, OUl nOl ft Iisn WftB WK8U ledge by dealing with this firm. pmicirtrt that th Great Rnririt was And Other Important Matters. . I angered at the subtlety of the Indian But no one can realy cover, in its for- trying to ensnare the fish m pnArBtv . th rttv nf KntftrnHBA in a trap, instead of spearing them. They .mit o,-rL. tv. . therefore never removed the trap small newspaper article. The Ob- - m i1ws Wf and Wallowa county Is proud of, is Lserver realizes this, , although -It Ib cayea or wa8hed away by the floods. It ; the waiiowa National Bans, rneim-i crowding out ,.mucli important news, lingered long enougn, ana tne.occa mediatn off.cers of tha bank are G. In nrder t b'bpvb Wniiowa mnntv slon was deeply enough impressed W. Hyat, president, W. R. Holmes, even In a measure approximating that tn'SfiffySS 2 asnier,r A. a. twenmer, assistani countya mems. " j lgnated as "fish-trap" river, the In cashier. . I Enterprise has a wide-awake Com- dian ; word . for which Is '"Wallowa, The namA of W. R. Holmes, or mereiai club, at th head of which From this origin the river, ' valley, ""Billy: Holmes, as he is known lo i.;S. L. Burnaugh, with L. B. Payne SSS. all eastern Oregon, Is a name that as secretary. This club Is accomp- The Different Altitudes, haa been , associated withjthe bank Jlshing wonders for Its city. . ' it will be difficult to convince the since the institution has been estab The city has fine water. The water eastern settlers of the fact of varying lished. It is a name, too? that has pure, clear snow water v - from climates in Wallowa dounty. There are stood and that still stands for gen- springs-Is piped directly from tie grStS emeu; uuuiLiaviwio i uig oyriufto iu a laigo icnuuii uii a i ftj.g altitudes ranging TTOm tWO lng. Nobody in Wallowa county nut hin near the city, and the water dis knows "Bill" Holmes and likes him. tributed from this point. This for many reasons. His whole Few localities in the entire north life practically, is identified with this west present - such attractive places section of the Btate, from the early for investment and residence as Wal ' days In j which he ran cattle through Iowa county of which, the city of En ' here, to the present, when, In his lat- tenprlse is the county seat In that ter years, he presides over the Instl-1 pity will be found the foundation of appie, peach, prune, pear and other tution bis care ana,nae:ny nas oum a most modern metropolis; tne pun- fruit orchards, 'big nerds or sneep, up. Another thing. "Billy Holmes uc utiliUes, the" well built buildings cattle and horses dotting the hill ran- has tharquallty of charltj r defined by including a new court Louse; the .and SSf. the apostle as "Vaunteth not itself, is business llpes well represented and lng jn tjje rjpenlng breezes and under not puned up, etc.", ana ib lypicai as a complete school system. There one will find good churches, good homes and splendid people. .. I Being the hub of Wallowa coun ty it is of more than ordinary Impor to three hundred feet above sea level to what Ib popularly believed to be 12, 000 feet, on top of Eagle Cap moun tain. . . . v:...,... 1-' Consequently the occupation of tne people here and their production var ies In harmony, with wis aiutuae. There are slopes of sugar beets, vast fields of timothy, clover, alfalfa, large the ripening sun. There are fields of corn In the corn altitudes and corn climates, within , the . same county; melons and squashes, cucumbers and pumpkins, down - in the bench lands of the Imnaha. In fact, the settler can find almost any climate he desires right in Wallowa county from a hot cifrt Umuh vvoi mountain climate of Enterprise. The early Indians took advantage of this gTeat change In climatic .con ditions la the county., They retired to the warm or lower district In winter, where forage for their ponies grew during the winter, and In summer they returned to the higher altitudes ana xisnea nuu pursuea iue , cuase where the cool mountain breezes pre vented oppressive weather In the hot season. v ' Aside -from the Imnaha district, many districts in the north part of the county are very favorable to fruit and melon culture. The Grouse coun try, the country - about. Flora, Para dise, Promise and about Troy, on or near the Grand Rounds river, all will be found excellent fruit sections. The country is broken, and the higher lands are devoted to "wheat raising and range lands, while the richer bench lands, rising up from tha water courses, are devoted to fruit and vege table culture. - : In this dlBtrlct, ; too, some of the finest hogs ever produced in the na tlon are raised, fattened and shipped, As an instance of the truth of this statement, one farmer from this dls trlct hauled two loads of hoga to the Enterprise market ; The hogs were eleven months old and averaged 290 pounds each. They.were fed both up on barley and corn. land Js Sub-Irrigated ; . v Practically this entire north sec tion of the county, in the south of the Grande Round river, is subirrigated. Between Enterprise and this section of the county there extend thousands upon thouBands of acres of the fin est pine and fir timber In Oregon. The traveler will drive for nearly twenty mileB through this one forest' It Ib filled with -ame of all kinds bear, cougar, quail, grouse, pheasant, bob cat, pine squirrel, plenty1 of deer and an occasional elk though 1 the latter are very scarce. The black bear are extremely plentiful. ', --y ' . , The . big unmolested forest catches and holds the snow precipitation dur ing the winter season. And during the croD crowing season these snows melt, sinklnsr . into the ground, and sub- irrigating the rich slopeB which run downward to the Grand Rounde river. It is almost Impossible to even hint of the wonders of Wallowa county in a brief newspaper article. The faith ful writer should have an entire "spec ial edition" to himself, if he would do Justice to the theme. , Imnaha Is Named. Just as with Wallowa, so the name Imnaha 'sprang from Indian origin. Imna was the name of a Nez Perce brave. Members of another tribe or so the legend runs at one time stole Imna's ponies and departed witn them for Idaho, going by way of what is now called the Imnaha river. Imna followed, overtook and 6lew the mar auders, and came hack laughing the laugh of the victor. Imna's "ha-ha" or laugh, gave the river the name of Imnaha. ' . Neither Imna nor Chief Joseph nor yet any of the early Nez Perce would recognize their former fishing ana huntlnsc grounds now. They would recognize the famous . Imnaha coun try, where today some of the best fruit In the world is raised. The Imna ha peach, apple, cherry, plum, melon, apricot or fruit of whatever kind, la the most perfect that ever went to market The writer has seen 86 Royal Anne cherries, each as big as an east ern wild gooee plum, on a sprig of cherry limb eighteen Inches long and about half an . Inch in diameter. . The present absence of railway transportation la the solitary draw back to Imnaha, but this was at one time the drawback in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and all eastern as well as middle states. , v s . ; ,k;:J. I --- iwir wno nopes to -win la Wal lowa county should expect nature to have already laid & railroad at h nio doorstep. Nature never i- ' does those things In Wallowa county; any more than she did those things back in New York state. But the settler who will come to Wallowa county, and work Just about half as hard as his grand parents did , when they ' migrated to Ohio, he will get rich with Just halt the energy expended. . " :; ..; Too many persons are I knocked breathless by the appearance of a new and undeveloped country. But It Is no fool's errand to go Into undeveloped resources and get those resources ex posed for the benefit of the world. No man can do it, who expects to wear silk shirts and have his plowing and seeding and harvesting done by mir acle while he sits around enjoying the good flBhlng in Wallowa county. While the struggle for bread and for com petence In Wallowa county Is not nearly so hard as it is in the thickly competence, Just the same. And lazi ness never .won that struggle either in Wallowa county or in any other sec tion. ." ' i T '-'. But the man who is built of the stuff that spells industry and patience, can make . a pocketful of money in Wallowa county to a Bcant existence in the eastern sections of the country. Men have started here without a pen ny, ten years ago, and today they are big sheep and wool growers, or big wheat ranchers, or cattle men, or fruit men, with "wide credit and with an everlasting, independence - around them. A man who is simply a man not an instable follower of every whim, but Blmply a man, can get any help within reason from the very un developed condition of the county s resources. He can draw from the soil, from the timber, froir ,' .-'"Mineral, from this and from .har, a compe tence. And he car. sycnd his d Hn'ng years watching his children en.. , ' .ig and conserv'-i' his competence, ..-le he goes ri' ''ech day . catch U'out from ...t.-r tv " en after deer, r u'-i ux. p :Hd game. Still i.en to Settle's. ' ' Ti ere t.'.t 5 undreds of thousands of acr- in 'vUIluv.a county, still wait ing fot the settler. In times these acres Ul be dotted by the homes of hanDy. t:OBperou8 settlers. In the hill lands such settlers may get from he soil from forty to sixty bushels of wheat to the tcro. Forty bushels of eighty cent wheat from a farm of 100 acres means a gross in come to the farmer of $4899. This la vastly In Increase over the acreage yields to the farmer of the : middle states, where an average or. aoout i& an acre Is counted on. ; That there are thousands of acres of this wheat land still open to settle ment now, does not mean that this will be the situation ror any iengin or. tlme.s Settlers are coming Into Wal lowa county on almoBt every tram, and homestead houses spring up with in twentr-four hours. -, The prospective settler needs to get on the ground here at once, if he hopes to have a tremendous acreage to select from. Wallowa county now Is easy of ac cess. It is penetrated from La Grande by a branch of the O. R. & N. railroad. This branch at present terminates at Joseph. In addition there is what is believed to be the work ot final loca tion at present being made by two , corps of engineers up ana aown ine Grande Rounde river,: and it is con- , fidently expected that this railroad w.ll be laid In a short time compara tively. This road, it laid, will connect with the O. R. & N. branch at Elgin, extending down the Grand Rounde river to Lewlston, Idaho. This will tap : the whole north section of Wallowa rJ. . The Sheen Industry. 1 At present there are approximately 200,000 head of .sheep .in Wallowa county. Two train loads of 24,000 head were shipped out of tne county w Montana durinsr the present season. , The wool clip of the. county, al though light during the past spring, was over 1,000,000. pounds. Nearly all of the clip was stored In the .Wool growers' Warehouse at Enterprise, . from which place it was sold. - The Income from this sale aggre gated about $180,000 cash a neat sum to be poured into the channels of trade In and about Enterprise, and to find Its way to every town of the county. Space forbids the mention of every sheep man in the county, but some of the nromlnent ones are' as follows: Falconer Brothers, whose clip the past ' spring sold at the highest figure or any in eastern Oregon, bringing 17 3-8 cents for the coarse and 16 3-8 cents ' ior vne xtuc. m. u. wuiu ,nuu, u au dition to his sheep industry conducts a large shearing plant near Enter- prlBe. Lltch and Funk, a firm also con ducting a shearing plant near Enter prise. Holmes and Craig, F. and Omar Stubbleneia, Graves uroiners, j. aoo- , bins, P. Bodoin. D. Tucker and a score of others. V vw ii-';'-,- These sheep men create a large re tail market for camp supplies and this . Increases thd retail business volume " of the entire county. . ' V . k The cattle industry also is a big county item. In the hill lands north. and east, on Horse creek, Josepa Creek, the Imnaha and tributaries, and along Snake river, cattlemen still run their- rattin and have a better erade . of stock than in the early history of the county.- -; - All the stock Industries ot the conn ty find a ready cash market in Enter prise, where Hotchkiss and Combes buy for shipment These shipments vary In frequency with the readiness of the stockmen to sell. ' Want ads oay. ont ci a word UMBRELLA REIaIRS r Govers frorr. 0 cts to Three Dollars L. C, Smith-La Grande well as a representative of an eastern Oregon man of affairs. The bank -has grown wonderfully under Mr. Holmes management Its surpluB has creased, Its deposits I tance for every person having any have grown from year to year, Its in fluence has widened annually. It has been an Institution that has gone, and that would at any future time go, the safe banking limit for anything of in terest to its big territory. . Recently Mr. A. J. Boehmer has ac cepted the position of assistant cash ier. ' Mr. Boehmer, although compar- FAM US KING Havana Cigars Cream of Havana, of a Smoke, t : i Prince official business transaction must at some time visit the city of Enterprise where the county machinery 19, io catetf ?d where of.cialdonj holds forth. ., In speaking of Wallowa county it is very hard to find truer and better words to express one's feelings than the following which flowed from the pen of that able newspaper writer, W. H. Dllworth, now deceased. There Is some law that levels hu man life up or down. The banker is pleased only when he finds a community; where good banking is possible; where there Is a promise of deposits; where invest ments are gilt-edged. ,;' . The mercantile man, the wheat rais- er. the fruit man, the stock man, the man of whatever bent of mind, these all move through a sort of maelst.-cia of events until they reach their prpper opportunity. Then each feels the 'pull of bis mission and the consciousness of being a distinct entity in the snap Ing of human events in a locality. This satisfaction can come (only throneh oDDortunlty, and opportunity Is found only where development 1'es la. the future. ' Wnlfown County New. Wallowa county Is new In point of development. It is the birthplace of nnnortunitv where opportunity not only knocks on your chamber dnor. but slips a meneto under the a Kofrtra vou ran nrlx". If In the . , . UUUI v V " ------ I Will Always Meet IOUr laste, place for every one. any one, witn a tn wnrlr nnil a Rfrnntr FH M 1 IQ lUG Inclination to he "square." In fact this I mil VkJ mi'V "oniiaro iiflnl" nollcv of Wallowa coun ty residents preceded Roosevelt's fa mous Baying by generations. It is the WEILL . ': Si. '' TR UST PXJ! W. H. BOHNENK AMP CO. MAKER OF HAl'PY HOLIES ft Hardware and Buildiiig Malerial " . ' '. .'. ' '' ' ietsl W- Furniture - IV- '- - 7 and Bedding Sto CWRR FACTORY "My darling," said he, "it can not ycf be, Though it does break my heatt to postpone it. A year or two more, perhaps three before, I caniumish the house, though I own it. i ?? "Why George, she replied, ")his ad. should decide If you're anxious to wed why delay, dear? They'll furnish our home from cellar to dome, And give us our own time to pay, dear."