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WOMAN'S EDITION - SPECIAL NEW YEARS ISSUE. dHtfarf mm. 19 13 Greets You Through the Door of the Woman's Club. On to Ontario. Representative Newspaper of Ontario and Malheur County. I I VOLVME XVI. ONTARIO, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1913. NO. 1 he MED ACRES AROUND ONTARIO Some Data Regarding the i Plants in This Section. With i n n distance of fifteen mile of Ontario, and on the Oregon side of the Snake river, the Irrigated acres lave been more than doubled during the lat ear, and the cultivated area of till --Jime territory has been In creased at least fifty per cent. One year 100 there wa approximately fifteen thousand acres (hat had water rights and Mince one year ago eigh teen thousand acre of new land have iromriMi water inrnis The Ontario- una Irrigation System. One of the water system-. Is the On-Urlo-Nyaa Irrigation ditch which furnishes water to 6200 acre. Tbli plant was put In during the past year by the Individual land owners themselves, without any assistance from promoters. A fw Interesting land owaars put up $2090 to cover the ipenxe of making the fprellnilnnry nirvet- from thee surveys an esti mate -.is made of the irobahle cost of thf in ii'.iHon works und not withstand ln th' fact that those who bad the work In hand had but little experience In work of this character the actual coat of 'he plant when completed was within on thousand dollars of their preliminary estimates, which was Jatytl thousand dollars. Thlrty two thousand dollars was expended on the ditch, which Is twenty-two a,ii, ii. ill being built In the ground, without any fills that Is the Continued on Page 2. WE RIVER VALLEY Very Profitable When Or dinary Care is Taken Kjrgs It ring Good Prices All Seasons of Year. C K Olbbl Tin- poaltfj industry is a subject (hat ihoald receive careful considera tion f.oiu iinl.it ioiis makers of homes, especial I those llviii lit the Busks nwi ralUjy, In the vlclnit) of Ontario. Han iHiiiitry seem to thrive to the highest degree, and very' tew who use oiiliiiun ear, la their management (all to succeed This Industry com bine, veil with the cultivation of eith er graiu Of (rult. In the stubble field the tin .I tin ii to profit what would o'herwise be a loss, by gleaning the Mate, i the same time making rapid lain lit growth and flesh. The egg production is also giuutly Increased Is birds having the run of stubble in Hit- Miiiiinii and free access to the lulu stai k.-i In die vMnter. r Eggs at the present price of 40 to Su nuts are vary profitable to the BfOMcsr, mil .lie quit satisfactory at mis, If gathered and placed Tali . innate for grow- d poultry, an I it the nltJs i ,,iu ii..:,-hed right, and W on bon forming foods, th) will ill t attain lbs maximum six o( the br ti which tho) htlnaf Tkor ir no breeds superior to the Matrlcan, (or this region, These. Igbtl) brag Ota fine layers and remh twice the weight of the smull Hadittri -mm rlnaooo. or perhais, no notei llowanea of grain and with the H The , bj ,in excellent murket here sag in tin- east fir ;.ll the eggs and poultry we can produce, one Portland firm alone, buying all offered it this year, suites that it paid f2a.UOO.00 for poult i from this vicinity. TI" Inter breeds are preferred, Wymotb Rocks, Wyaodoota, lthode ls laud Rag, etc. This region is attractive to the fan cier, (or 1)1 d the best development and ; ..in readily be iai.-ed, la i the high icores re ma, b) laaal blrdt A u (look of thoroughbred Ucki aomtblng to take pride Ii ind etii - otbari to strtvo lot tesllsuce not a I) m poultry bat M HI ... ii buaoaadry. Second miudl Poultry Shim The second Annual Poultry Show til I . i ....... tiie ttnd, 13rd i in tar) . "" the Wilson ..i the Ontario H Ml. i la .ii .i oted by tb " rcial Clu Chi will . I ... j in b show u. ho UT as one eg sad of, I a . a bj -ilug ONTARIO AND HER FUTURE PROSPECTS Location Will Force Pro- gress and Derel- opment. "What Is going to mak n- ,-, , a large city?" I a question that is often asked by stranger. Ontario will be a large city for the reason that It is going to be a big railroad center, a big agricultural center, a big job bing center and evutunlly a big manu facturing center. Ontario will build Into a large city because It Is located at the most advantageous point of distribution of any place in Eastern Oregon and southwestern Idaho. On tario ha the lldeal location tba: no other town In tbl section ha. Niture did the work or br. A water grade loute from Ontario lead up six dif ferent valleys la six different men tions, tapping a country :,0 mile n Ungth by two hundred and fifty M width, with Ontario almoat exactly In the center of this vast territory of eventy-flve thousand square mile in the Jobbing business the main thing Is location as near central to your distributing districts ss possible and transportation lines bo reach every part of It with the least k slble coat of both time and money. In jobbing to this seventy five thous and square miles of territory, there I no other point from which freight can be shipped with less milage, or In so short a tint or at so little ex penditure of money us from Ontatlo. Oeturio an Ideal l.wcslioii. PlMal a railroad -t iinlpoiiit, Ontario Is Ideally located A network o. . t road lines Is now being built In every d'rctlou, north, south, east, west v t"i Ontatlo as the center Hefore the end of the year 1913, there will be a railroad completed M Harney Valley, uiie bundled and sixty miles from Ontario, which, when finish.-1 to Odell, will .oiiuect Ontario with Pott land, Coo May and Han Francisco on the west To the Eastward there is now bulldlns a Hue up the Paw-tie Itlver to the Payets Lakes a distant- of one hun.li . and forty-two miles. This line aill M ' ompleted and In : ration wit ii iii i In- next nine months anil will tap a great agricultural, tiin i.t-r sad Moral country which must co I out BJ wa of the water grade tome to (inturlo. The cut off line on the lOOtfc Hunk or the Snake River Is expected to be finisbed within tl.e next eighteen mouths and this will give a water gtade route from Ontario in Halt Lake and save nearly on hundred miles over the present msln line. At the present time Ontatlo has i nuiin line to Salt l.ake and Omaha on the Ksst and Portland on the West, and a braucb line to lirogan on Wil low (i e.i. Hefore the end of tb year till the Harrlman System alon will hae to oporate trains from On taiio on five different lines. To do BMr5. 2EkWV BlV9 mBT ' " .2asM IsS i ape is rv ' - -Ad .bsbb BHa aa. w . t ' . m HK i .010 OsajjjjaH bOb Bai Vffl JbUmmB r PaV TLMm Or M 29 m A. M LACKEY BUSINESS BLOCK. this It will require that not less than ttfteen to twenty train crews make Ontario their hea.liiuarters and means that the railroads must have round I,,.,,...,. ,..n ,ir uh.iiis ami build many additional trucks during th year 1913 n or.l.i to operate these lines A Juuttion I'uiut b) Rogaaalta, When these raadg fl U complete.!, Ontario will M one of Me largest junction points on tbe Hurrlman lines ID the West and all IralBI must be made BP here TOOOI I rain-- M ""' ,i mad.- up at a half doien differ! it polDtS M IftOr mUSt M some common Junction wheie passengers anu nce-.i 1 can be Interchanged with the least 1 possible .l.'Li and Ontario is the branching uoln whar Hu- yu...... imes must at uarata rati UI boom . tbe freight ami paaMBg! dlrtslOM ' to he at Ontario and MMM0 " ploynoal "i hundred i I man br th railroads M th shops aim n operate these trains. The Hill rail- .1. also h froaath ol and the) v, m ais., have. brauch Hues running from Ontario to . Mrronndlug ra l i In ""k'r " I get Mo: '"' !' ntinued on Page 5.) aV '-"'Jes B- ''law Ik ,mmm1 I mi WJafc I smmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmV A. W. TROW, MAYOR OF ONTARIO. RAILROAD DEVELOPMENT IS PROMISED FOR PRESENT YEAR An 80 mile section of the OrOfM Kastern It. ft., one of the most Im portant pieces of work now under way, Is botag Const tin ted front Vale. Oi e., westerly, following the Malheur Itlver ; This work Is In charge of Mr. O. S. Osliorn, AmkI, Kngr. at Vale, who Is demonstrating his ability to "show I pie how to hiilld railroads" and It Is expected that he will have the line completed for business to M. P. 80 ijuM west of RlVOrOldO) not later than July 1st. 1913 The trading Is being done very rapldlv, in fact is nearly completed now. except ttie long tuanel near liintiira, which will no doubt be finished about March 1st, 1913 Si.el for the bridges is now on bund and being placed on concrete foil tula lions as fast as the track reaches ienlng. Track Is being laid of 7.'. pound steel with modem fasteulngs and ballasted with gravel, which, when ci.inpleied. will make a ftrst-clas Job. The principal towns along tbl line are still to he made, and It is re ported that Harper, Juntura. ami CARNEGIE LIBRARY NOW Word Ins been recehed from tbe v .. tf .he eat CaraagM unrporattoB that, if the eiq a, ice by nsori'io'.i ot council to iiauitaln a t c- public '.'brary at a ,, ,,, Qoi ,. , than s.v.u liuii.lred mil fiftv ilolla-s B .' -mil provide ...inii'le sit for a bull ling Carnegie o por Mo v i(,:K WUI Dl ''la ,t, 1V ,i live hundred ,i a free public libiaiy .. ,,ii Ot tarlo This amount is to over th coal of building library iiulldlm - "i.i ste, i' ' I) I occupaii- Librdrv IU' to Br Held iebriwry 1 1 XMm II nual ball for of '.he II it is honed . t in the object a i.,.- .in tttolagAtOg 0 pleasure. Will insure a large attendance. The music and the Moor will be good and every- MM will Ua cordially welcomed. BUILDING lllverslde, especially the later, which, It la said, will be the first terminal point west from Ontario, will be prom- Inently on the map very soon after the truck reaches them It Is reported and expected that Mil ill he continued dlir'ng the veir. I'M.', to a connection with the north and siiuili ninl 1'aclflc coast Hues In western Oregon. The line from Nyssa. Ore., to Ogden, dull, traversing the llrtiueaii tract, and by wh.v of Twin Tails, Hurley and K.-ltuii U now gradeil from Nyssa to Homedule, completed from Until to Hurley: and graded, with some trues luld, from Hurley to Strevell. It Is MBOOtOd thut this short cut, with .llitilnatlug grades, will be completed .luring the ear 1913. While the construction work on th electric line from Holse to Welr, via. Ontario, Is being somewhat layed by tbe unfavorable weather, no doubt the coming year will aee It com pleted. The Idaho Northern'a connection, Hmniett to Ontario, Is also one of the 1913 expected Improvements. THE WILSON BLOCK. ASSURED EOR cy and for the purpose intended. ,ne clty council has already agreed () mtlama tne lit)rary and have leV. Jed R Qne nlU1 ux foj. tnut pur,)OBe trtp of land seveut-flve feet wide off of the vest side of lots one. two. time. lour una inu 111 iniun. iuuj ,, , . nas also on purcnasea, tun tor- rhls. however, will bo accomplished this winter and the ye. r 11M3 will see definite progresi, sde in th erection of u beautiful ).,..- kuowu a the Carnegie U. tic . Ontario Is to be congratulated KtulflTtKIMY JANUARY 29 The silver tea given annually l. ihn Unmans club, for the benefit of the siholarshlp loan runa, will no nW on th above date at the home of Mb n H whUB-r Tne imrD08eol; ma IUUi, sUen the 1age de. . vouJ t(j i;,c wuli uf lUy Uu0t M Wek,ome, . . i i a . . . tV4I PsflO 1 r A "-' -, - ONTARIO ONTARIO MAKES MUCH PROGRESS Many New Residenees and Business Bloeks Erected. The material progress and develop ment of any city depends on a num ber of conditions and circumstances; 'he eltys location with reference to a trade territory is a great factor, the ' l.L-s or quullty af its clticenshlp counts for much, and its avalllblllty es a future center of population and commerce Is It principal asset. la all these material things, On arlo Is decidedly to the for; It Is uot one of the boom' town, that grow ln, a straggling city overnight nor I It one that builds ten story building and lay mile of paving before thtse Improvemeuta are need td. but goes soberly along doing these things at the right moment with due regard for th welfare of the taxpayer, just a It should be done. Our pi ogress I steady, not apaa modla; look at thla: In 1910 w built .t Ontario, and platted additions ad joining. "..". new homes: In 1911, 98, and n I most fifty this year. A great many of these house are substantial and expensive and are a credit to the community Is thl to be called booming?' No It Is merely healthy growth and Indicates that peopls rec orgnlze Ontario as the 'future great' city, of the Snake river valley, and thev wanted to come here and grow with the city, litislness has full) kept pare with increased population, over fitly new enterprises, housed In new and com fortable brick htilldliL-s have located here In half as nuiin months; the slocks o( merchandise are at n active. j are worth what oii pay for thettt and are traJe winners. ! Neither time nor space will permit extended reference to the many fine residences in our mlilst, but the lurge in. I costly public buildings should ,,UYU lec1"1 mention. The Holy Ho- siiry Hospital, constructed by the lo n. nib ait Sisters and aided by the Com mercial club. Is a thoroughly modern and commodious structure completed this year, It I beautifully located on the bench land adjoining Ontario on the west and (he fame of this worthy Institution bus already none abtoad. the Moore hotel. Ontario's only sky s"iuper, Is a splendid five story brick I- ill. ling facing both Oregon and Ida ho streets: This hotel was designed to meet the growing need of the com ', for ,Brl uud mol ,, ., h((Ie al(J ,.,,,1,. do lti and lg rap. idly acquiring the name of 'Sunday Home' mining the traveling salesmen de-,WMO WUrk th's territory. The Wilson building Is last, and so (sr, the I. -st business block ou Main ti-.-i it Is 100 by 110 feet, two-sto. v wi.h three excellent store room . giound flour and several suite if f ne office rooms on the second .lo.r, JCST COMPLETED. i.l.-i a commodious hull and diu' kg room for lodge purposes; the plumb iug and ventilation MMM M be perfect ami the si, am heat makes for to.n Iii' and OlMOtMOM. Just ..oi Mi .( tin. Wilson 'dock and coiistructeu f lit same people is the Dream.' I tneatr. 80 bv no, which Is a tn i- of beautv und not excelled ill Us IM by any theatre In this part of II 'country. The Farlev block. OOVarMg 'two full lot.-, i- a new and substan tial Improvement finished with a fine front and is now occupied This building replo'.-s two i: e-ttory l.niM MgO ami shows what faith om 01 tne 'old Mint is" has in the town JI cu.leV with filing, onoVth M le. nder. of Holse, has built a large stocg oi e best store rooms in the countv The store is wen ngui- . .. ., L- e.i an 1 make a handsome sppeai.o within and J uhout- What is tb uuswer Ontario Is a "is.d towa in goiwi country and the ,,,,t.. ,,f ,, d are nuaiw h . ,,. ., team Kowliug League ba i nel nized in Ontario Obe town, KVu.tland U ud a x team in this leaa ro MJ FRUIT INDUSTRY OE THIS SECTION Markets Will Be Opened In AH Parts of the World. Th average cltlsen of the state of Oregon, much less ttie rttlxena of other state, know little about Mal heur county, or that portion of it that surrounds Ontario, as being a fruit district This statement Infers that this Is a fruit district. To be brief In answer, It Is Why? Because th best teacher in tb world ha said so, and that teacher is expeprlenc. Be cause a tree will grow and survive. It is no assurance that It will produc rrult. but when a tree grows thrlftly. develops fruit spurs which, the next -.am. n produce perfect fruit, and tb ime is a yearly repetition, then suf ficient proof haa been established that It Is a favorable locality for tb culture of deciduous fruits. In this suction In the past decad many hundreds of acre of apple prune and other orchard have devel oped from am experiment Into an aa "tirance with the result that today many thousands of acres of orchards are growing that will In time make Oa tarlo one of the largest fruit shipping stations In the nortbwt. In mauy ways this section Is unlike Wenatch or Hood Blvee. but the principle on la this. There are thousands of acres of laud In this vicinity where there are only ten acres there. In those ..linns nearly, If not all, o tbe land Is In cultivation and there Is no loom left for Increased output, but In (Continued on Page 8.) ONTARIO AND SUR- Some Facts About Ontario and Surrounding Country That Are Quite Credita ble when Reviewed. Ontario's elevation I 2134 feet. The hottest day In seven years was 107, the coldest 13 degtrees bellow xero. Inning the paat two year the warm est day was 101 and during four wint er of the past seven years the tem perature did not get down to iro. There Is no wind here during tb winter mouths and Ontario has on of the best climates In the West, Snow fall lasts about one month on an average. Our well water la the best. Deep wells one huudred to two hundred feet deep are soft water, cost of drilling a well fifty cents per foot. We find the first water in the giae at from twenty to seventy-five feet for stock Ontario's population was U'aO in 1910. It Is now over 2500. Over six ty store rooms and two hir dn-d resi dences have been built In Ontario In the last three years. We have three schools at Ou'arlo. one high school, ..ne ward and on graded school. "" The Catholics have a Im.oi hoa pita!, a chinch and a achool st On- tarlo. x' We have seven church.- in On- I tai to lu the country oarroaadtng On tario we raise apples, peaches pears, prunes, plums, apricots, cherries, straw herrlt-tt, raspberries, loganber ries, dewberries, blackberries, cur rants, gonsi-hei i i.s, tomatoes und all kinds of melons. Most of the land around Ontario Is irrigated and besides fruit the prin cipal .tops are alfulfa. clover, wheat, oats, barle. and corn We raise seven to ten tons of alfalfa from three cut- tlugs. fifty t eight v bushels of wheat slxty-i'ive to Mat) hii -h -Is of barley, seventy-tive. to one bundu-il bushels I of oats per acre Some of our farui- ers raise from sixty to om- baadrod bunbels of yellow dent co'i n to thH acre. This is a splendid dairy, hog and cattle countt mi ucc.iiiui of the dn climate ami mild winters Mutter fat is worth fiw- c. iii- pl pound Ii..''.: at Ontario Mian at Elgin. Illinois. We raise racoM ila t all kinds, ppotaloes go from three hundred to glx hundred bushels ami onions ti-.m ! t n to sixteen tons to the acre Cab . -.. .,J bsges, peas, beans ana an sinus oi table do well here. Alfalfa seed is a woud.rfiil crop. ,. raise from thrj bun. In-1 to ev- en hundred pounds to tbe -re and it ti worm rroui 11 m i ceun p. to ID i. t nd Many ot our farmers nave. . :.. from 175 00 to 1100 00 per i Clover oeod pay from tto.Ot M I7S-00 f j.er at re Inrta1- ' "' l3 uo in -luy fel' oious- . J I