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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1913)
VAli Co 1,10 ,Ncw P" Ae West0 Oil, Irrigated Farm and Fruit Lands The Banner Live Stock County of The United Sfctc3 Builders of bualneaa; mercantile, i -tate. hotel, restaurant, newe fj tSStr. and druggists' " X the barber, the butcher, rrfiklr, for dealer, blacksmiths, pool halla, feed tore.; we nonei do well when they ad gKiitbV Malheur Enterprise. VOL. 4. NO. 45. THE OIL RESERVOIR TAPPED AT WEISER Del Overton Struck a Flow of Oil in a Test Well Sunk at His Ranch Five Miles from Weiser, estimated at Four Barrels per Day Much Rejoicing in Vale Oil Circles at this Unmistakable Demonstration. fil 1)" feilt MaD,CUr The1 ' Piy wImRv IRilyl ,1 yjm Jl Ji 11 c5i I Wm n) N limij ull IH " year' ta" ya) Wiigl Paper of Malheur County, ; VALE, OREGON. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1913. PRICE 5 cenU H - , From the Weiser American, we note that oil has been struck near Jonathan bout five miles west of Weiser. The citizens are very much excited over the mstter and are organizing a company to bore in other places. ' Col. Del Overton is the owner of the Overland ranch where the oil was struck and they claim a flow now of four barrels per day. An Oklahoma expert was on the round and suggested that if they would shoot the well the flow would in crease to over 20 barrels per day. The oil was struck at a depth of 655 feet and a new well with large pipe will now be put down with the certain ty that commercial oil will be produced It has been predicted that oil would be found in the Snake River Valley in 1913 end it was hoped that the first well would be found in the Vale dia trict. There are a number of wells about ready to commence work and the Great Western is down 1100 feet with the water cemented off. The Eastern Oregon was at one time in the oil sands but through bad man agement the well was lost through in ability to recover tools by inexperienc ed men. There is a movement on foot to commence sinking in more advan tageous places and under the manage ment of experienced oil drillers. The Great Western had an experienced man but financial difficulty coupled with the sickness of Mr. Frank Barrett has delayed them. They will, however, soon have matters arranged and work will progress. The formation throughout this sec tion is identical with that of the Weiser district. Experts have informed two of the companies that if they had shut the water off when they first struck the oil sands, they would now be pro ducing. It is certain that the strike at Weiser will give great encouragement to peo ple in this section and we may hope for rapid development. OUR SALEM CORRESPONDENCE Salem, Ore., Sept. 22. Interest at the stata house this week centers about the probable action of the emergency board on the request of Governor West for more funds with which to carry on his law enforcement activities. A meeting of the board has been called for next Friday, and unless the board authorizes the governor to incur a de ficiency for this purpose, it appears that his law enforcement campaigns, his vice crusades, and general efforts along the line of cleaning up the state, must cease for the lack of the wherewithal to pay his agents and special prose cutor. The emergency board is a creation of the last legislature. The law provid ing; for it was passed over the gover nor's veto. This law provides that no state official shall incur a deficiency in any fund unless authorized to do so by the emergency board. Then it is the duty of the bosrd to meet and fix the maximum amount of the proposed de ficiency. The last legislature appro priated $1000 for the employment of special agents and for uses such as the governor finds In the law enforcement camnaioms. This fund has now been exhausted. In his letter to the secre tary of state requesting that a meeting of tha emArirencv board be called, the governor points out this fact, and re cites tha section of tha constitution which imposes upon his office the duty of seeing that all laws are faithfully executed. Members of the emergency board in clude the governor: Ben W. Olcott secretary of state: T. B. Kay, state treasurer; Dan Malarkey, president of the senate; C. N. Mc Arthur, speaker of the house: T. L. Perkins, chairman of the wava and means committee of the senate, and J. D. Abbott, chairman of tha wava and means committee of the bouse. Everv countv In the state has been viaited by agents of the atate tax com mission in the last few months gather ing information about realty transfers, the actual value of land when it is bought and sold. Over 80,000 of these transfers have been investigated, and the Information entered on cards which are now being arranged in tha office of the coinmieelon. This Information will be utcd by Ute commission in equalising the Usee this winter, Uth the stale ' atid tlt sMMantenl vf public util ity corporatione in comparison with tie Miuenl vf ilber trwrty. The Ute Uerd of equslUeliuii will meet l BeUiii 0 luUr ). I t Mb C. I,. Hterr. aeielery of YOUNG CANTRELL RECOVERS George W. Cantrell, who purchased a 40 acre tract about nine miles up the Malheur from Vale, has heen in town the past week with a sick boy. Taylor, is 12 years old and when Dr. Bartlett was called in had an advanced case of apendicitis. He was hurried to the Holy Rosary hospital and operated upon immediately. He will recover but a few hours would have decided the matter against him. Mr. Cantrell is from Georgia and has a family of five boys and two girls. The tract he has purchased is for a home while he examines the country for a larger and more suitable location. W onderful Corn and Fruit at Brogan Fruit Shipments Increasing in Volume, and Corn Crops Rivaling Those of America's Great Middle Western Corn Belt To the Editor: For fear that you will not get up to Brogan in time to make an inspection of the magnificent fruit that is being sent out to the markets of the world from this garden spot of Malheur county, I take the liberty of addressing a few lines to your readers that they may know what this section is doing. There have been several carloads of the finest peaches ever produced in the country shipped from Brogan this year by the Northwest Distributors com pany. I am unable to say what the returns have been, but it matters little, as the growers this season expect to do but little more than establish their reputation as a peach growing commu nity. Next season there will be large shipments and apples will commence to produce in marketable quantities as well as pears. Messrs. Willis, Schlottman, Reed, Tschirgi and Cole have been the prin cipal shippers of fruit, and it would be difficult for me to say which had the best fruit. All was exceptionally fine and packed in artistic style. Another item that is of as great, or greater, importance to the'county th the peach shipments is the amount and quality of corn which has been produc ed in and near Brogan. I was raised in a corn country and on a corn farm and I have never seen any better, lar ger or better matured corn than has been produced In this section. In addition to the gentlemen named above, Messrs. Lanoir, Addington, Loveless, Breedlove, Woodward, Wag ner, Coleman and Mitchell have pro duced a large acreage of splendid corn. No better can be shown in Iowa, Illi nois, Nebraska or any of the middle states. Those states have become rich through this greatest of all food pro duction and it is safe to predict that Malheur county will in the end derive wonderful prosperity from corn. It will bring thousands to the country and will promote the cattle fattening indus try beyond all precedent Hogs will be shipped out of this section in train loads as soon as it is known what can be done with corn. Brogan is particularly well situated for the production of corn and fruit. Nes tled close to the hills on slightly ele vated benches, with the Willow River canyon gently drawing the air through its narrow channel, keeping a perpetu al motion, there are no late nor early frosts. Corn can be planted two weeks ahead of any part of the middle states, and makes a magnificent and uncheck ed growth, maturing at least two weeks ahead of those states. Brogan is also fortunate in having a class of farmers who are progressive and willing to make trial of different plants that they may determine that which will produce the best. Thus they have made a hit with corn in spite of the pessimistic knocker who has insisted upon cutting wild hay and feeding sage brush. Malheur county has thousands of acres of grazing land which will grow the cattle and sheep, and now Brogan has demonstrated that they can fur nish the product that will finish them for the market, thereby getting the full value of the steer to help build up our own country. Very truly yours, H. C. Skinner. RAILROAD MEN HERE Messrs. Morrow and Halleck Claim Excessive Valuation Placed on O. W. R. & N. Properties. Messrs. Morrow and Halleck, rep resenting the tax department of the O. W. R. & N. company, were in Vale on Saturday last, before the county board of equalization. The assessment on the Oregon Eastern is $10,000 per mile for 12 miles and $20,000 per mile for the remainder of the completed road; $8,000 per mile for the graded road without track. Agent Morrow objects to this as un just and excessive. In support of his argument he cites assessment in other places under similar conditions. In Spokane, where the right of way is partly through city blocks and where there is a bridge a mile in length, the assessment is $4,460 for the completed road and $1,320 for graded road with out track. He further cites the DesChutes road from The Dalles to Bend up the can yon as now assessed at $12,000 per mile though it has been in operation for nearly two years. . Assessor Hill claims that the basis for his assessment is the cost of mate rial laid down at Vale and labor of con struction or laying. The figures for the cost were obtained from the state tax commission. The personal paoperty, consisting of rails, ties and other material, was as sessed at $300,000 while Mr. Morrow has an inventory Bhowing that the cost of material on hand in the yards at Vale was $260,000. Mr. Morrow further contended that the cost of the road had nothing to do with the proper assessment or with the value of the road. Mr. Hill contended that the material did not deteriorate in laying and that it was worth as much for the purpose of taxation after it was laid as when in the yards. Messrs. Morrow and Halleck stated that the company would be satisfied with the same assessment that obtain ed elsewhere in the state for the same material under similar conditions, but contended that it whs unfair to value a new road with no possible opportunity to obtain an income, at so high a rate. The matter is now before the board and the result of Mr. Morrow'B argu ment will not be known for some days. THEONTARIOFAIR SUBMITTED FROM INDIANA TO PORTLAND PROMINENT EASTERN CAPITALIST IN VALE Interested in Prospect for Oil in the Vale Oil Fields, and Speaks Plainly as to Status of Irrigation Securities in the Eastern Money Markets The Bully Creek Project Clean in Its Dealings and Concise in Its Promises. DESERTS WIFE; IS INDICTED Sheriff Kerfoot brought to the county court house from Ogden, C. H. Poor man who had been indicted by the grand jury for non-support of his wife. Poorman and family are well known In Ontario. Buenos Aires has shipped its first complete cargo of meat to the United States. Politics Will Remove Judge Mu rane of Alaska. Charges have been filed against him by large dredging companies. Murane succeeded Judge Moore as U. S. district judge. Frank Wells Address Asst. State Snpt. Talks Interesting ly to Malheur Co. Teachers. It unitize' rug ti What's smatter, Bloke? There were petitions circulated at the late fair asking that the county commissioners take over the Malheur County Fair. If the present excellent administrators of that most excellent show in the largest town of the county cannot make both ends meet how can they ex pect the county commissioners to do it? It is somewhat doubtful if the people of this county care to saddle themselves with more taxes. The fair is a good thing but would be only a source of trouble and expense if saddled on the county. Of course if the people of Ontario are tired of having the show down there there are men in Vale(?) who will take hold of the mattter and re-establish it at Vale(?) The Ontario property is probably worth all that it cost, for townsite purposes. SAD AFFAIR AT JORDAN VALLEY Mrs. Jesse Totterdale, the wife of a freighter working between Jordan Val ley and Caldwell, was thrown from the high seat of a freight wagou Friday of last week and her back was proxen. She was taken to the hospital at Boise. Mr. Totterdale was ruling one or me wheel horses and driving an eight horse team with a jerkline, his wife riding in the wagon seat. Pawing over some rough road she waa thrown out, triking her back on the brake block. ii.. i.,,.i,mi,.I ili.l nut in Ik her till he , I W I I IJ had driven ererel hundred yarde f Join where the ev ident occurred, ni hi he went be k to search for her f'und her by the roadside will. her be- k bio ken and eurrering the moal Inlen.e as" my. They weie ten miles out from Jordan VelUy, where the imil ind it el aid t'uwld be mid A d' li a ,wiiniund i4 Ihe 1-etUi.l latin! o lite hoepHel. UU,4 Mae MteeMi'i li.em J no. W. and Nelson Carroll, each ac companied by his family, the party con sisting of eight persons, arrived in Vale Friday of last week from southern In diana, having driven through in two automobiles carrying complete camping equipments. Thev have been on the road for five weeks, visiting all the points of inter est en route, and will continue their outing trip into the Webfoot country, going by way of Crater Lake. This is a very practical age and the demand today is that our schools shall be practical; that they shall not only teach the children knowledge, but that they shall teach them that kind of knowledge that shall best prepare them for the lives they have to live. The whole sum of human knowledge is so great and the school life of the child is so short, that we cannot teach every thing, and we should therefore confine our teaching to those things which will be most useful. We are now teaching practical hy giene rather than anatomy. Formerly we spent weeks of valuable time study ing the bones of a ghastly skeleton whose pictures we found in the first pages of our Physiology and trying to commit to memory scores of difficult names. But there has been a "Rat tling of dry bones" among the teaching fraternity, and we have buried the skeleton. In its place we are teaching the child the value of personal cleanli ness, fresh air and exercise. We are teaching the importance of well venti lated sleeping rooms where we spend one-third of our lives. We are learn ing the value of play in connection with work, and are providing better playgrounds for the children. The health of the children is not only more important than their education, but their capacity to learn depends on their health and both are dependent on any abundance of outdoor exercise and plenty of good food. In our school work we should teach best thoBe things which we will most need to know in after life, and since nearly all of our high school girls will become housekeepers, we are giving more attention in our high schools to cooking and sewing and less to Latin and Mathematics. In a few years most of our school girls will be house keepers and will be preparing three meals each day, including Sundays and holidays. Instead of working out prob lems in square root, they will be wrestling with the tubers and roots TRIED TO VISIT FAIR Prominent Vale Couple Have Strenuous Time Trying to Connect with Trains and Fail to Reach Fair. They came pretty near going to the fair, getting as far as Ontario, which is going some for a swift professional man of the city on the Malheur. Arrangements were made for an early rising, the alarm clock duly set, and the happy couple peacefully inclin ed themselves to slumber. The clock, however, though one of man's most ingenious and certain crea tions, failed to make the expected morning chanticleer of itself, it being hampered with a certain stop which the overconfident mechanician had failed to adjust, consequently it waa broad daylight before there waa a cessation of slumberous roar in the home. By dint of great hurryirg a so-called breakfast was served and the couple hurried trainward expecting the usual delay of the DeLuxe train, but through some unaccountable accident the train pulled out on time leaving the disgust ed couple about ten feet in the rear. It was then concluded to go down in a car, but the busy professional had an important call and matters were again delayed until about noon. At noon cars were scarce, the most available one being in the garage for repairs, so again the couple concluded to ride on the train. The time came and to the train they started, but Hon. Profes sional had forgotten his transportation and rushed up town for it while the lady sauntered to the depot. Mr. P came in sight with a power ful stride, but again "Sagebrush" fooled them by leaving on time and the sorely tried couple were again left to console themselves as best they could. At last they secured an auto and tore swiftly towards the lannolinnic city on the Snake. They arrived and called on a friend prior to going to the show. While here another important call came for the professional gentlemen and away he rushed with one of On tario's best in company. The work completed the gentlemen started for the city to once more endeavor to reach the scenes of merriment, but the car with seeming maliciousness swerved into a ditch and overturned, laming one in the head and the other in the leg. The one now limping and the other nursing a sore occiput. The couple got home without accident and have vowed to commence on the first day next year and hope to make the fair in the weik sometime. J no. W. Carroll said to an Enterprise i ,nr l . -, wrestling wuu uio iulji wiu wm representative, "We have covered over , ' ri.nf.r nd in the garden and preparing them for wholesome and appetizing food. Good cooking is a difficult art 3500 miles on our outing trip so far, and have run into some pretty bad prepara tions in the way of weather, but withal we have had a most enjoyable trip. "We had a splendid visit at Manitou Springs, taking in the Garden of the Gods, the Mountain of the Holy Cross and the many other wonderful scenic beauties that nature has wrought at that point, and closing our strenuous visit by a trip to the top of Pike's Peak, where we enjoyed a snow storm in August. "At Laramie, Wyoming, a water spout struck the town at the same time we did, flooding the city and filling many of the business houses knee-deep with water. It will be some time be fore Laramie la a dry town. "We took in the Yellowstone Na tional Park, stopped at the great Ar rowrock dam near Boise and then viait ed Vale. This Malheur valley looks good to ua, after coming out of the lava rock regions of Wyoming, and If we don't get drowned In the dampness of the Webfoot country where we are go ing neat, we may ramp longer In your likly looking htlle burg on our re turn trip." e - ' JUKNV Ttuw IS HTML on lite outeide i,t Melleean , Y, tillMeUfc, jllliuoia, will in jjileii f"l Mi'" eiilof tvhiUil faf the OUte Owen and there are many who never. learn it. Our boys are getting a little less Latin and a little more Agriculture and Manual Training, because half of them will become farmers and will have more use for information about how to make a living on a ranch than they will about how to parse Latin verbs. In spelling, we are not wasting days 'and weeks of valuable time teaching the children to spell difficult and unusual word such as caoutchouc, xerophilous and the like, which they will probably never have occasion to use as waa formerly done, but we are teaching them how to spell the common word of every day ue and to consult the dictionary for the uncommon onea. Thus, we are trying to teach the essentials well and still have time for some music, a little art and a few of our gems in literature. MRS. WHEELER'S BROTHER HERE W. M. Neil, a brother of Mrs. It. G. Wheeler, arrived In Vale Monday from Iferriaon county, Iowa. Mrs. Wheeler had not aeii her brother for many tears end le greatly enjoying the vieit ' . ... . Mr Nell atetee thai ine ruin nop oi ll.e initldle vl baa fallen lf greatly fiuiw U.e DtoJ uitKi tl"' Ti e geMleineii will nake an trend ed tieit att l U (evM inied Mli lU i.u.tiy. PIONEER VISITS IN MALHEUR Fred J. Kiesel, founder of the K. S. & D. company at Ontario some thirty years ago, and which mercartile firm waa for over fifteen years the .leading business concern and forwarding com pany of Eastern Oregon, was in Mal heur county the past week or ten days looking after the valuable Interests he still retains here, as well aa in the Idaho country just serosa the river. Mr. Kiesel owns the big fruit or chards at Arcadia and some 3,000 acres of improved lands in Malheur county, which have increased in value during the past ten years till they now repre sent an independent fortune in this in vestment alone. In the Roswell and Parma country on the Idaho side, Mr. Kiesel owns 1,000 acres of the choicest land of that fa vored section. He waa one of the three men who had the temerity to back a big irrigation enterprise thirty . . . I,L II years ago, ana in company wnn How ard Sebree and P. P. Shelby constnuct- ed what was known for years as the Sebree canal, now the Farmers' Co-op erative, the water from which waa the means of putting the great Roawell and Parma territory oh the map. Later Mr. Kieael put hi energy and much money into the construction of the Owyhee canal, the pioneer of big Irrigation protects in Malheur county. Mr. Kietel was highly pleased with the exhibits at the Malheur Coun ty Fair, but said he had Hereford cat tle and Lincoln aheep at his ranch that would outclass anything In those lines of liveatork aristocracy on exhibition at the fair this year. ONTARIO FAIR A SUCCESS C. E. Kenyon 'waa up from Ontario Tuesday and stated that the fair was a financial success this year. The Asso ciation were able to pay all defaulted interest and a substantial amount on the principal. "The work entailed on the managers is very great," said Mr. Kenyon, "and the public spirited men of Ontario are now and will always be bound to see that the fair is carried on in a proper manner. We think that the fair is a public enterprise and should be carried on by the county. "We have therefore asked the coun ty authorities to submit the levying of a tax to the people at the coming fall election for the purpose of taking over the grounds and running the fair in the future as a county enterprise. "Ontario is well situated for the pur pose as they will always be able to draw large crowds from the nearby Payette Bench. They are also well supplied with public accommodation and no one need be without comfortable quarters. QUIET WEDDING AT VALE HOME MONEY SEEKS MALHEUR. 4kwood llvbard, of Portland, waa In Vale Monday and is favorably !" nr .! with Malhwur wonly. Mr. llelaid la In t'e bei ta of loan!' a joiy end, this beli g kitvwii, alu' J be eble U uitd Me ! Vele eil OntiW At the residence of Robert Duncan, in Vale, Wednesday, there was a wed ding of prominent Jordan Valley peo- i.U. Otto K. Blackaby being united to MUa Claudia Williams. Mr. lilai'keby la a son of Banker J R. Hlatkaby of Ontario, and la manager of the various IMackeby intereats in the Jordan Valley country. Miaa Williams la Ute eiaUr of Mra, Robert Duncan, of Vale. The wedding waa iuiet, being attend ed by it ladvea f the rotiple, Til HMI iMMMAfluNAb reiiluf aloi ttt,i fi e4 h been lu I'tn In (ItWego Ul wne irf, dtUfeUl lioiv aU t'eile tf Ue ftt'ild. There has arrived in Vale George Franklyn Willey, a guest and relative of J. W. Corson. Mr. Willey is here for two purposes, one to viBit with his relatives and another to look the coun try over. Mr. Willey is interested in the west, having gone to Nome in the . early 90'a and made an exceedingly successful sojourn in that country. He has also some large mining interests in the Boundary country on the British Columbia side. He is also interested . in an electric lamp company in New York and in various other Industrial en terprises in the east. It will be the endeavor of the people of Vale to interest Mr. Willey in this section and there are some influences at work to interest the gentleman in the oil fields. "The discovery of oil at Weiser la greatly encouraging," said Mr. Willey, "and it seems to me that the forma tion is -practically the same in this country. Though oil is much like gold, "where you find it' from all Indi cations and from my knowledge of the subject, gained in other localities by practical experience, it strikes me that . there might be something done in this country by Intelligent exploitation. Your country would certainly enjoy a great prosperity should oil be brought into the market, and it would seem that every endeavor should be made to get going" continued Mr. Willey;" While money has been rather close in the east, there has been no approach to a panic. There has naturally been a waiting period on account of the currency bill, the country is so prosperous and mc.iey really so plenty that I look for a most prosperous time throughout the coun try. "Banks must make loanB in order to pay dividends and money that is ac cumalating in the centers must be scattered in order to bring returns. Irrigation money would not be hard on proper understanding of the situa tion and I know of nothing more cer tain to bring final great returns than irrigation. The main trouble with the irrigation proposition is; that they are not gone into thoroughly enough in the beginning. Promises are made that cannot be fulfilled which brings the enterprise into disrepute. When obtaining money for any enterprise I have taken great care to never promise anything that I cannot certainly carry out. 'I note, with much satisfaction, that your Bully Creek Project, which ia be ing constructed by Mr. D. M. Brogan. is one of those that has been started on the right principle. Here, the real cost Is being told at the beginning, and while (80 per acre sounds big, it sounds better than $26 at the beginning and $100 on the wind up. There are no complaints of bad faith when the cost is noted correctly at first. Nothing so intimidates money aa un- kept promises whether in the shape of bonds or by verbal expression. Be ab solutely sure that you are correct in your estimates and put the cards all on the table, success will surely follow. 'Malheur county, so far aa I have seen it," said Mr. Willey, "is a wonder ful country with untold possibilities. The east is becoming crowded and the lands have been deprived of their fer tility through unwise management.' If you people will place your lands at a reasonable figure there is no question that the country will soon fill up with a money earning and money producing population. The country that can pro duce the corn and alfalfa that has been shown me will some day be heard from. "Again, that you have oil here aeema more than probable, and if your people will put their holdings on a favorable and fair basis money will be forthcom ing. The community and other commun ities must stand together and work to gether for some common good. Num bers and unity will bring results that will be far-reaching and money making. "Get rid of the pessimist and let op timism be the ruling factor In every branch of buaineaa. The country looks good to me ami I hope that mature will so shape themaelvea that we may do something together, and It must be together, for no single man can do much in these strenuous times. Event ... . . ... i move loo rapidly ior one man to vp the pace. We must, in manner, relay and combine, There are oppor lunitlca here, no doubt of that." Awtan an Who Win compelled to leave MeiU'o on amount of the warn tug elveil by I'ltalthnt Wilaoil, will k Die United flU f . 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