LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON.
MONDAY, JANUARY.16, 1911.
PAGE 7
Enterprise, Oregon
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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
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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
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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
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"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.
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"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."