MALIIEUIt ENTERPRISE
CAPITAL, $75,000
STOCKHOLDERS LIABILITY
$75,000
TOTAL, $150,000
This bank will be managed strictly
in accordance with the rigid bank
ing laws of the United States
Government and its policy will be
conservative thus assuring abso
lute safety of Depositors. Our policy
will be solid, ligitimate banking,
absolute safety and protection of
depositor's money. Along this line
we hope to merit and receive our
share of public confidence and
patronage.
UNITED STATES
R NATIONAL BANK
M. G. HOPE, PRES. AND MGR.
VALE, OREGON
WE PAY 5 PER CENT. ON TIME DEPOSITS
j The Enterprise "Live Wires" Sweep Entire Field
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LOWER DEAD
OX FLAT TO
CREATE NEW
IRR. DISTRICT
County Court Favors Plans
of Land Owners and Give
Right to Proceed With
Creation of District, to
Make Possible Irrigation
of 6000 Acres
TO WORK SALT
DEPOSITS OF
INTERIOR LAKES
PENDLETON WOMAN
ACQUITTED BY JURY
Pendleton.. Feb. 3: Mabel Young
Warner, on trial Bince last Monday
on a charge of forgery in connection
with the estate of her uncle, J. W.
Young of Wetson, was acquitted at
midnight. The jury, which returned
at 8:30 oclock Friday night argued
for three hours and half before bring
ing In the verdict of acquittal.
RED BUTTE SHEEP '
NOW ON RANGE
Frank E. McKnight was in town
this week from the McKnight sheep
ranch over in the Red Butte country.
He states that the weather is nice
and warm in that section and that the
heep have been taken to the range,
the anow having all melted on the
hills. The sheep have wintered fine
and are in good condition.
When in Vale eat at
hotel.
the Arlington
SCHOOL ATHLETES
TO MEET IN BAKER
Baker will be the place of the East
ern Oregon track meet sometime about
the middle of next May. This meet
is an annual one held by the different
schools of this part of the state.
Among the towns to be represented
are Burns, Ontario, Canyon City,
rrairie City, Joseph, Wallowa, Fen
dieton, LaCrande, Union, Elgin,
Cove, Lnterprise and Baker.
Oliver Haga, of Boise ;C. A. Tusch,
L. E. Peterson, George Latting and
A. P. Scritchfield of Payette, mostly
all large land owners on the Lower
Dead Ox Flat, met with the county
court in this city Monday and secured
the right to create a new irrigation
district through which the irrigation
of over 6000 acres is to be taken up
at an early date.
The land owners have come to the
conclusion that the old Snake River
irrigation district could not serve
their best interests and delegated
those gentlemen to meet the county
court which at once favored the crea
tion of the new district.
Mr. Peterson, of Payete, while in
conversation with an Enterprise re
porter, said, "Nearly all of the land
owners on the Lower Dead Ox Flat,
across the river from Payette, have
withdrawn from the old Snake River
district, and have agreed to come un
der the Snow-Moodv nroiect. The
land to be watered in nearly all own
ed by Payette people and will become
valuable as soon as water is secured.
The new steel bridge will give us di
rect access toour holdings and the Dead
Ox Flat is bound to become the richest
section of Malheur county. "
The State Land Board in Salem
has been considering the offer of C.
M. Sain of a royalty of 10 per cent
of the salt removed from the salt bed
lakes of Summer and Albert Lakes,
in the Harney country, which if ac
cepted will net this state many thous
ands of dollars in the future.
Through Attorney General Crawford
the matter of the state claiming
riparial right to the salt beds was
taken up, and as a result of the in
vestigation salt iTiiners are now bid
ding for the privilege of removing
salt from the two lakes. There are
40,000 acres of land covered by the
two lakes. In Summer lake there is
estimated to be 3,905,000 tons of pure
salt, while in Lake Albert experts
figure there are 1,480,000 tons of puie
salt. Sain agrees to construct evap-
orratin vats covering an area of 2,000
acres on Albert lake, and a 1,000 acre
vat on Summer lake and 10 per cent
of all salt removed from both lakes
will be paid to the state as royalty
on the states holdings.
MILO MAIZE
FOR DRY LAND
0. A. C. Experiment League Tests
Forage Crop for Eastern Ore
gon and Like Soil
OREGON WANTS ITS
RECLAMATION DUES
VISITING SCHOOLS
IN ALL COUNTIES
Coppel, & Kessler the plumbers,
proprietors of the Vale Auto Garrage.
have a neat display in their garraire
widow of all the fixtures necessary for
the hath room. See them for prices
on the bath room you contemplate put
ting in They do all kinds of plumb
ing work as well as automobile re
pairing. They will also take .are of
your machine duing the winter.
While visiting in ValostoDat the Ar.
ingion noiel.
If you have anything
the Malheur Enterprise
umn.
to Bell-'Want"
-try
col-
Calvin S. Thomason, who has been
employed by the Oregon Bankers As
sociation and the Oregon Agricultural
College to carry out plans for the
encouragment of agriculture among
school children of the state, started
his work this week by visiting Tilla
mook, Lincoln, Yamhill and Benton
counties. Preparations were made
for his reception by the county super
intendents and meetings of the com
mercial organizations held at the
points at which he stopped gave him
an opportunity to express his mission.
He announces that prizes will be
offered for displays by children in ag
riculture, wood-working, sewing, cook
ing and poultry and hog raising.
Go to T. T. Nelsen'n
I
L000.000 ACRES
Fruit, Alfalfa & Grain Lands
Oregon & Western Colonization Co.
OWNERS OF W1LLAME1 TE VALLEY & CASCADE MT. LAND GltANl
r' "Af.uaun. General Offices
President Pionecr m gL pau,( Minncsota
W. J. PINNEY, Ontario, Ore.
Agent for Malheur County
JOSEPH C. WOOD,
Secretary
Lots for sale in Altschu! Addition to Vale. Also 5 and 10 acre tracts just south
of city limits of Vale
W.J.Pinney will be at Drexel Hotel Vale every Friday and Saturday
Portland, Ore. Feb. 6 (Special)
In response to several hundred invita
tions to the Irrigation Convention to
be held in Portland February 19-21,
a large number of acceptances have
been received. The interest in this
convention centers particularly in two
things, judging from the lettters re
ceived at the headquarters of the Ore
gon Development League. There is
unanimous sentiment for registering
uregon s demand for a more 'just
share of the reclamation appropria
tion according to Oregon's contribu
tions. There is also a strong desire
for a spirit of co-operation among
those chiefly interested in the princi
pal irrigation projects of the state
and for a better understanding of the
problems common to them all. It is
believed that united action in this
respect will mean much for the de
velopment of the state. Amontr
those who have promised to be pres
ent are members of the Legislature,
state officials, members of the Desert
Land Board, presidents of water-
users associations and water supervis
ors.
NATRON CUT-OFF
WORK RESUMED
The Utah Construction companv.
which has the contract for five miles
of construction on the Oregon Eastern
line from Natron to Klamath Falls.
has nearly completed the new road up
Salt Creek, to the sit f thn .vt
camp, three miles from Camp No 1
Active Work nn the nnntran umII
..v v,v ii ii u
gin as soon as the weather is favor
1. 1
aoie.
Dr. Fay Strobel, the Ontario eve
specialist was in town Wednesday on
ner regular weekly visit.
Vale Hardware Company
11 A YES & HUMPHRIES, Proprietors
Hardware
Plumbing
Sheet Metal
Look in at
our windows
Come in and
talk to us
THE VALE HARDWARE COMPANY
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"LITTLE BIRD" LINE
STARTLES HUMAN
NOTE FROM BENCH
Judge Will R. King Puts Over
Impossible He Makes Su
preme Justice Laugh
Washington Jan. 30: Former Sun
reme Judge Will R. Kinsr of Port
land, came to Washington a few days
ago 10 try in the supreme court the
case of Wm Miller, plaintiff in error
against will . Kinc substitute
ror the r irst National Bank nf P
ette, Ida, defendant in error and he
actually made the cheif justice lanrh
!Li . . . "
ngni out loud.
The CHe first aDDeared in th Mai
heur county circuit court in 1903 when
Henry Helmiek recovered i
Bjjainsi u. w. Porter for -i:in 90
ana costs. Through assignments
counter claims and various etr n.
tar.glements the case has never been
settled and finally came here for the
supreme court to pass on.
Judge King finally had
tunity to explain matters and he told
now a judgment had hetn
and had been turned over tn th ?;,..
National t,ank for collection, where
upon tne Moss Mercantile rnn,nn.,
which desired to nrevent th mn.n!
.1... . . r-j
. wic judgment, Drought a controling
...n-ri-Bi in me bank to befer the pay
nieni, only to find that thr. .lav. h
fore the transfer of strx-W u-
Judge King had secured possession of
juHgniem. it hiv nir h....n
w iv mm.
Then the Moss Mercantile com
pany did not net ih in,U.
queried the supreme juatic.
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wrei voiced l.ird had flown."
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To determine the adaptability of
Milo maize as a forage crop and grain
for raising under eastern Oregon dry
farming conditions, the Oregon Agri
cultural Experiment League is testing
it on the farms of members. They
are planning to find out the methods
of feeding and culture best suited to
the production of the crop, and its
usefulness in producing grain and for
age, as well as to improve its quality
and adaptibilitv by seed selection.
The members first select an acre of
clean summer fallowed land that is
uniform throughout and divided into
four quarter-acre plots.
These are disced and worked into a
good seed bed, itnecesary plowed and
followed immediately with a subsur
face packer before harrowing.
About May 1 plots of the land are
sown with the mho maize, three
pounds of seed to the acre, and two
weeks later the other two plots are
similarly sown, using a grain drill for
seeding and stopping up the holes in
the seed box so maize will be sown
n rows one yard apart. Care is
taken not to sow the maize when the
ground is cold.
Soon after seeding the plots are
harrowed and again ten days later,
with a third harrowing soon after the
plants are up. Thereafter a k.iife
cultivator or a shovel cultivator so
set that the shovel will not run more
than three inches deep. One each of
the early and late sown plots should
be cultivated every week, and the
other two every fortnight.
Well matured plants in the field
having large, compact, erect heads
uniform in height and time of matur
ing are selected, since it is essential
that a type be secured that can be
harvested by machinery. By erect
heads are meant those borne on
straight or only slightly bent shanks.
It should be harvested when the
plants have matured well and the
seeds are getting dry. It may be cut
and chopped like corn and the heads
later removed by chopping them off in
bunches on a block with an axe, or
they may be cut o(T the stocks with a
header or knife, and spread out in
thin layer and dried. The experi
menters will note the effect of early
and late planting, frequency to culti
vation and adaptability to the soil and
climate. Yields of both grain and
fodder will be secured, and three
weeks before harvest a progress re
port will be mailed to the agronomy
department of the college.
UTAH WOOL
CONTRACTED
FORje 1-2 CIS.
been contracted, at an bvp P 1 h,
of 161 cents a pound, acS Pric
statement made today hv th. sul
.1 'the Utah WoolgroieiJ-l
The clip should yield ,! .'"".
15.000,000 pounds" W;0S?,,W'
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average price in Iltni, ,l. ' ri
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but you help your town.
C B. Smith, the well-known
mubvi ui ino lownsite of I
but HOW BCent fnr fk 1, ,.
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company of Vale, is in the VitaT
tending to some business affair, n
B. says that things look as brirt. 1
this section in the way of tranfl '
ion as it possibly can and thii i.
of the most talked nf i " lon
last week' Burns News. '
Expert Watch Repair atp
the Jeweler.
HOTEL STARLING
Mills and Cambas, Proprietors
Steam Heat, Electric Call Bells, Hot and Cold Water
Strictly New and Modern. Large Airy Rooms. Centrally
Located. If you once stop at the Starling you'll come
again, as our accomodations are the best.
716! o Main Street, Boise, Idaho
Prices Reasoiuble
NEW PERKINS HOTEL
Fifth and Washington Streets PORTLAND, OREGON
Remodeled and refurnished throughout- Unquestionably the most
centrally bcated house in Portland. Within radius or four blocks from our
doors are located ticket offices of all railroads and steamboat companies'
14 banks; 12 theatres and show-houses; 5 department stores; Chamber of
Commerce; Commercial Club; Elks Club; Press Club; telegraph officea
post office, public library ; museum of art; and all the largest office buildino-s
It if worth something to bE in the midst of the life of the city. We make
no extra charge for same however. Our rates are: Room without bath
$1.00 and up; with bathe $1.50 and up. Automobile bus meets trains Can"
from Union Depot pass the hotel every few minutes.
L. Q. SWEATLAND. Mgr. C. H. SHAFER, Asst Mgr.
Thorn
They Do Say The
sLiauorCo.
Sells the Best Whisky in the World
Not a Headache in
a Thousand Barrels
They also carry in stock the famous
Henry Weinhard Beer.
The best of Wines, imported and do
mestic; Gins, Rum, Brandies, both im
ported and domsetic; Scotch and Irish
Whiskys of the best brands.
Come one, come all, we are prepared to furnish
you m any quantity from 1-2 pint to
one hundred barrels
ThomasLiquor O
VALE, OREGON
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