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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1912)
VALE--" The Last Frontier" The Banner Lire Stock County of The United States Oil, Fruit and Farm Lands aaBMBB k 1 t&JSxi-CV A a7- yiS: " : ' .;, '' If ri? 4 rir5 l -ttt i iy fiifiii'i iTy f si- rwvsv ifTvtjfe 7116 Mauieur EnterpriM VI Wi I tt fc IB 3 I ly j J JU , Ijl , fy adva!lL$ ThI Lading ) fefW NM? Paper of Malheur County. The Best Way to Boost: This District is to Send Your Friends Copies of the Malheur Enterprise every week. VOL. 3. NO. 21 VALE, OREGON. SATURDAY, APRIL 13. 1912. PRICE 5 cent Harriman System Heading Off Proposed Invasion of the Big-Four Combination by Present Railroad Building Activity NEW DAM TO BRING WATER INTO PIPE LINE City Council Orders Esti mates To Be Made At by Engineer WILL INCREASE ROW Council To Provide Sidewalk Grade for Property Owners But Will Not Locate Corners of Private Property Permit for Tent Show Refused At last Tuesday meeting of the city council it was decided to place Vale's city water in good working condition and City Engineer Oakes was ordered to make testa in the surrounding strata of the ground at the Willow Springs for the purpose of making an estimate on the building of a bedrock concrete dam to impound all of the waters of the springs and thus turn all of the flow into the pipe line feed ing the water system of the city. Among other things of importance taken up at the meeting was the mat ter of sprinkling the city street. Several bids were read and finally all were placed in the hands of the fire and water committee because none of the bidders specified any special terms or agreement as to the territory to be sprinkled and also the time that the sprinkling work was to carried on. The bids varied from $115 to $150 per month. An application for a permit to put up a tent on the Hadley property across the street from the First Na tional Bank was turned down because of the fire ordinance which prohibits the erection of any building except fireproof structures. The applicant stated that he wanted to operate a moving picture show in the tent. Considerable discussion was given to the matter of running grades along Cottage street for a number of people who wanted to put down some cement sidewalks. The city council was willing to have the city engineer pro vide the property owner with the aide walk grade but decided that it Was up to the property owner to locate his own property corners. The latter phase had been brought up indirectly by Mr. Tipton who wanted the city to go to the expense of locating the right corners of his property. The grade will be furnished by the city engineers as soon as the walks are to be laid down. QUALITY OF WOOL WILL BE SUPERIOR This Year's Crop Will Sur pass Those of The Past Two Years Says Tom Turnbull Lambing Seas on Is On Big Returns Are Expected Tom Turnbull, one of Malheur County ' biggest and moat successful heepmen, while in the city the fore Prt of the week corroborated all the tatements of other sheepmen from various sections in stating that the crop of wool would not only be larger Jh'i year but would be of beter qual ity than that of the past two years. The range is picking up In great hpe and there Is plenty of green J"! in the Barren Valley country. Th lambing season is on and Mr. Turnbull staUd that with the contln. of the flue weather the mbing Wogij pruv to l uc-,.fu tearing the Uuly country will not rominenra """I Uut the oth vt May. Ali...ug, 1 vf I. the registration Uu r l v4 at tUUI.lv ll. .I'm . rM., i L I .....I ,M I alMllMi. (. lieu ( VALE HAS LOYAL BOOSTER AMONG THE FAIRER SEX Copies of The Enterprise Sent By Miss Mayte Harland Furnish All Required Information That Vale has some loyal boosters among the fairer sex has been brought to light through letter handed the Enterprise today. The communica tion waa written to Miss Matye Har land of this city by R. E. Dawdy, cashier of the Lumberman's bank of Hoquiam. Wash., an institution cap italized at $100,000. The Mr. W. E. Ferrebee referred to as reading the Malheur Enterprise is president of the bank. The letter in part reads: "Both Mr. Ferrebee and myself wish to thank you for the papers re ceived last evening. The writer de voured them last evening and Mr. Ferrebee will go through them today. A place should be found for you on the boosting committee of your commer cial club. The papers covered all the ground of the inquiry and more too. Eastern Oregon is considered by most. people that we talk with as a deso late waste and but few take the time or trouble to learn anything about it. Your banks show a good healthy con dition and judging rrom the papers received it will only be a short time until you will have as good a country as the Yakima belt." BALLOTS FOR PRIMARIES ARE BEINGSENT OUT Clerk Morfitt Sees Big Job Completed and Turns Election Matter to Sheriff Kerfoot for Distribution to the Various Voting Precincts of the County County Clerk FrankjMorfit has been the busiest man in the county the past week on account of the vast amount of work required of that official in getting out the data for the ballots to be used at the primary election. Although handicapped by shortness of time, provided by law, Clerk Morfitt who has the reputation of doing his office work in the most satisfactory manner as well as always attending to duties required of that most exact ing office, saw that the ballots were placed in the hands of the printer and completed in due time in order that all the primary election matter be sent out by the sherriff to each voting precinct as prescribed by law. The ballot to be voted at the com ing election is nothing small for it measures 15x22 inches, the Republi can containing the names of 76 candi dates as well as space for names to be written in, if desired, for the differ ent national, state, district and coun ty offices. The Democratic ballot contains the names of 60 candidates. ALL ABOARD FOR ONTARIO A Special Train Will Be Run To First Ball Game of The League Series Get aboard of the special excursion train on next Sunday bound for On tario where will be played the first game of the aeries of the Idaho-Oregon baseball association. Vale and Ontario will cross baU that day on the fair grounds diamond at Ontario and from reports a vast crowd will accom pany the local team. The special will u" ,1,y about noon and will return after the Kama. Social round trip rste will be In slfw't fr the ivaain and vrry re.id.ntof H'U rity and tributary territory should avail ll.ain.elvea (III .li'll.l'''ltU"' " """ loyalty i U,H'' ,(lli.u. to I. UiLr IU ! day's Ht.a Mbil m.-ii, '! "l I"' gu.u II,. ViUUiMlM Leva "' ,,ilun... '' "''' a feMuiy t ( VaUt I'- ' ...l.a lIM lM M. FIGHT FOR SUPREMACY OF NEW TERRITORY IS ON . Harriman Forces Pushing Work on Extension beyond Emmett as Well as on the Oregon Eastern Here That the Harriman system is to take no chances on the proposed in vasion of its territory by the north to south transcontinental line of the big-four combination backed by James J. Hill, as exclusively given out in last week's issue of the Malheur En terprise, is now plain by the rushing of forces on the Emmett extension of the Idaho Northern to the Payette Lakes. As was learned last week, it is the plan of the Hill-Rock Island-Chicago Northwestern-and-Canadian Pacific combination to rush a line at once from British Columbia to San Fran cisco and thus invade a Harriman stronghold. Fearing this move the Harriman people have been getting busy by not only ordering rush work on the Oregon Eastern but also on the Emmett extension for the su premacy of central and Eastern Ore gon country 88 well aa the central Idaho territory. As outlined by a well-posted rai' road contractor the Payette Valley road is to be the connecting link, between the Oregon and Eastern, now in course of construction from Vale through Oregon and Idaho North ern, now being extended from Em mett north to the Payette Lakes. No one for a moment believes that this road will stop at the lakes, but will continue to some connecting point on the Harriman system's road in the Northern part of the state of Idaho. It has been learned through reli able sources that plans are now under way in the Oregon Short Line engi neer's office in Salt Lake for widen ing the O. S. L. railroad bridges over ( Continued on Page 8 ) CHANGE IN SCHEDULE OF BROGAN TRAIN STIRS PEOPLE OF THE WILLOW VALLEY The people of Brogan and Jam iesoc have been up in arms since the train service to the Willow River valley points has been cut down to three times per week. They say that they are entitled to better service than is now be ing given and are taking steps to have the six-trips a week sche dule resumed. Petitions have been circulated during the past week and have already been sent to the railroad company and the railroad commission as weir as to Congrcsman Lafferty who is be ing asked to secure a better mail service for the people of that growing section. That the people of Willow Riv er are entitled to better Bervice than the present tri-weekly sche dule gives them is the opinion of every resident of this section, es pecially at this time of the year the busiest season, which not only provides more passtnger travel but a large amount of freight hauling. It is reasonable to believe that the railroad company should cater some what to the present demands of the people along the Vale-Brogan branch and also take a hand in the develop ment of that rich territory by provid ing a daily train service as before, as it promises to become a very rich dis trict. Action is needed at once in this matter and a large delegation of Bro gan and Jamieson people should ar range to attend the meeting of the Vale Chamber of Commerce on next Monday evening when considerable support will be secured in this impor tant cause. W. J. Pinney town yesterday. of Ontario was in DITCHES ARE CHANGED BY RAILROAD CREWS A. W. Glenn, of this city, who made a trip to his ranch near the mouth of the Malheur canyon on Mon day reports railroad grading progress ing rapidly in the upper valley. The Healin Brothers crews were working on the Malheur Farmers irrigation ditch whose course had to be changed on account of the throwing up of the roadbed grade of the Oregon Eastern railroad. They had about a mile of the new ditch completed running from the upper part of the Glenn ranch to ward the mouth of the canyon. OLD-TIME FRONTIER 4TH 0F JULY Will be Held on Vale's Bus iness Streets With the Exception of BaU Games To Be Played at The Ball Park Promises to be Biggest Celebration Held Vale is assured of an old-time Frontier Fourth of July, the commit tee havinar on last Tuesday evening secured a permit from the city coun cil to use, the street and collect the money from the numerous carnival attractions that are to be placed on all the side streets. According to W. G. Norton, of the Fourth of July committee, the only streets that will not be crowded with attractions will be Main and A Street. All the other streets will make room for carnival shows and other attractions but will have a travel passage way during the two days of the celebration, July 4th and 5th. Chairman Norton states that some public spirited citizens are willing to donate the use of vacant lots for the erection of tents and arbors to provide shade for the vast crowd ex pected. It is the intention to send for a carload of evergreens for the erection of the arbora and rest places. He also reports that the committee has already written to a number of carnival companies. Advertising pays. Don't forget it. Friday Chosen as 'Clean- Up Day9 by Vale City Council All Property, Streets and Alleys Must Be Thorougly Cleaned on that Day Edict to Be Strictly Enforced WILL GIVE COUNTY THOROUGH BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Of all the candidatea out for the position of County Judge.'George W. McKnight is undoubtedly the best known because of the important placea he haa filled in years paat as a delegate to moat all district and state conventions where he helped nominate represntatives and governors who have aerved creditably. He was president of the Taft club of Vale at the last presidential cam paign, he organixed the Malheur and l growers associ. Next Friday haa been named by the , city council as 'Xrean up uay . un that day every property owner and rent er will be expected to clean up his yard, alleys and streets fronting the property, and place the rubbish in placea where the garbage wagon can easily pick it up. The council on last Tuesday evening decided not only to select a special day for a grand housecleaning of the city but went ao far aa to hire two teams and wagona whose purpose it will be to haul away free of charge to any of the property owners all of the rub bish that has either been piled up in the streets or alleys. The wagona will atart on their routea at 10 o'clock LIFT WATER FROM RIVER TO WATER GLENN ORCHARD For the irrigation of his large or chard acreage adjoining this city on the northeast, Frank Glenn this week installed a water-lifter operated by a gasoline engine whereby he will be able to lift water of the Malheur ri ver to a height of 16 feet onto his tract of land recently planted to fruit treea. llrnev count v wool growera iin and is now serving the fifth trm ; o that tha rubbish piles will U ready as president of that organization; and j for the garbage man. AfUr Friday Mime ho has lived In this city he haa ; property owners will have to haul aerved two years as president of the sway all the rubbiah at their own Dreg. iii state wool growers aaao la ! p use, II. hi. In all these apa lties he has I j M,ped this fa-rand rruasde of inu'te -"! and has woiktxl iltfH' ' ,(y'i ioue Uaiiiig will be taken iul'ly t "r l'"t into'"1 the m, t,y avrry rr,i,S, of lha t Ity eaily I I. ..- ' .... ..II. :ll i. .ii. it, !' ainili.aiion. lie '". kark ami tii niiitii win Jacob Mussel), of Caldwell, repre- next Friday and the clean-up crusade : senting the Idaho Water Lifter Co., should start early. Better start to- arrived in town Thursday to install day In the dean-up of the property the plant. Similar water lifters have been used suecestif ully in Idaho and a i . . i i i . . ll.w i.'ii'lV I'ums, eni it I l,n ,,iti. v lif I'tninly J''la''( '! H" VV, . I.i.ia-M will aUf this 'Mi.iy a ll,.ii..h I'w 1 1 . 4iMi'iliellini '! .hi n.aku s .t'Kt i-f the i.wi'l' ,i,u.m altaltt Ul IU I t U'l'l take plate un I (! . Hwvr, II la the It. lu ll. 'M i f tnui.tll In tit fi.ie li e oi ln, a 4 . who l av M, U-di-J ll.a will s(Ur tlMs) .e ml wlh toiillm l.t'llt m l Uen bp If II ! 4"i all H. will, II IHI e I La if li t (itj.Mli lW i ( , number of them were installed along the river below town laat year, A number of reaidunta of thia rity resi ding alung the river are contemplat ing Installing similar plants, Ctiui.ly ( Ink kl ii III 1 1 on yieUrlay gisi iiil a manieye li t l. J, W, i.M.i,iuwt r of V un ai"l N"i a h luuuu ! of I), lad. M, II. ht l..n ei.. Mi I lull l'l. I'M k, In. Ill l ( lM!.li , Wtifc III III. J In li.sllev I'll. lay ii. i hg li. Il.i it' lr t MORE ORCHARDS TO REPLACE THE ARID SAGE BRUSH TRACTS In order to develop large tracts of land into orchards, S. D. Dorman, Florence B. Dorman and Frederick S. Bailey have filed with County Clerk Morfitt' during the past week articles of incorporation for the St. Paul Or chards Company. The articles stat that the capitalization of the company will be $78,000 divided up into 780 shares of the par value of $100. The land is located between Ontar io and Nyssa and lies east of the city. OIL DRILLING TO RESUME AT JALHEUR J. D. Miles Returns With Good News and Opera tions Will Continue Until Oil Is Found or Company Satisfied Well Now 2200 Feet Deep That drilling operations are to be resumed at the Malheur oil well, in the south Vale oil field is the in formation brought to this city last Saturday by J. D. Miles, who re turned from a few months' visit at his home in Baker. The news will be well received in this city for Mr. Miles, who is well-known here, having had charge of the operations at the Malheur well for two years, states that his company is goinsr out to win. By this ho means that drilling op erations will be continued until oil is found or until the time when they are satisfied that their efforts have been well spent in the development of thia new oil field. Mr. Miles went out to the Malheur well Monday in order to take charge of things while George Nyquist, who has been taking care of the rig, makes a ten days' visit to his parents in Cambridge, Idaho. During that time Mr. Miles will get the rig in shape for pumping the water out of the well preparatory to casing and cementing to the bottom of the pres ent hole which is down to a depth of 2200 feet. A new cable 3000 feet long and a new underreamer have been ordered, and work will begin in earnest in about ten days or two weeks. A 7 5-8 casing will be drop ped to the bottom of the present hole so that the cementing can be done and the water shut off. A 5 5-8 casing will be used in the new work. NEW PEOPLE ARE LOCATING HERE Bert Dunnuck arrived in Vale from Nampa last week and will open a first-class tailoring establishment in the new Boswell block, one door east of the Swan barber shop. E. Davis, an expert veterinary Bur geon arrived from Kansas City some days ago and will make Vale hia home. Mr. Davia has his office at the Schumers & Daviea stables. GRAND JURY TO CONVENE NEXTMONDAY Circuit Court Term , Slated To Commence on April 22nd DOCKET IS LARGE ONE Many Civil and Criminal Cases To Be Taken UpOne Oregon Eastern Railroad Construction " Suit To Be Up For Trial-First Part of Week The grand jury will convene in thia city on next Monday, April 15, to take up its work before the regular April term of the circuit court for this county which will commence on, the 22nd. The docket for this term will be a large one on account of the numerous cases, both criminal and civil, which piled up since the last regular term. , Judge Biggs, district Attorney Mc Culloch and a nubmer of the attorneys of this county, have been attending court during the past week at Burns. - FLYNN RETURNS FROM EAST AND SEES PROGRESS Vale Resident is Astonished at Wonderful Improve ments Reports Read While in the East Are Corroborated when lie Sees Real Development "Every time I come back to Vale I notice great improvements have been made," said John F. Flynn few days ago on hia return from a several months' business visit at Worthington, Minnesota, where he still has large property interests. ' "The improvements in Vale during my last trip east have been wonderful. Many new business blocks have been erected, new residences have been built, new depots have been construct ed, and cement walks have been laid down in the business district, all giving the town a more metropolitan ' appearance. Vale is surely growing and a person whe goes away for a few months certainly notices the great changes on his return." Mr. Flynn waa also pleased to see that actual railroad work waa under way and that the work had proceed ed ao far. The erection of railroad offices, bunk houses and warehouses for the construction department of the Oregon Eastern railroad building west across the atate from this city, proved to him that all the reports of railroad progress as well aa of other developement work, while he waa away on this trip had been correctly reported. IMPORTANT MATTERS UP FOR DISCUSSION A T WEEKLY SESSION OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Vl Itft l i , .l -i. The four delegates to th North west levelopnent league convention tube held in Seattle In June were not appointed at the last session of the Chamber of ('t.iiunert e as expected. The reattoii for this was the fact that I'realduiit George K. Iavls was moat ankloua to aei ure as delegates to that iinpnilsiil fiiiivei t Inn persons who would really be auie lu make Ilia trip and alien. I ll.a meeting, f'uf that reamii ISe aMiintmiiita were Ufl nVif f..r deal Moi.ilev evening, A lining i ll.ir InalUlt ll.al wue laktll up leal klin.lny vti.l..g was ll.a Is mil III tit July nlil tall. Hi, nJ II II, jKml.-n if Ilk i . iii.lll. w iti'i'lUd Hal lUjr mm l!iily iggt hi attutlng ..na ttill ellia ll.'i.a llltg d'l.v In II. liIUl if monthly baseball guarantee for the battery of the local team, although the subject was brought up by James Munro, it being auppoeed that the team would be placed on self-paying basis. 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