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business you are engaged in or the size of it you
need theadvantage of modern banking facilities
such as we furnish. We invite you to open an ac
count with us and prepare yourself for any unlooked
for adversities that may be born of the present world's
war.
Total Resources over $450,000
We pay 5 per cent on money placed on
time deposits with us or periods
ofsix and twelve months
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
M. G. Hope, President
I. W. Hope, Vice-President.
J. P. Dunaway, Cashier
H. W. Mulkey, Ass't. Cashier.
Leslie L. Hope, Ass't. Cashier
T. W. Halliday.
Geo. E. Davis.
UNITED STATES
NATIONAL BANK
VALE, OREGON
T. T. Nelsen
Funeral Director
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Office Phone 29; Res. 34
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NYSSA CHEESE
FACTORY IS
MAKING GOOD
Nyssa. Feb. 20. The Alfalfa Ched
dur Cheese company of Nvssa has
made approximately 372,000 pounds of
cheese since the factory was establish
ed here, Feb. 3, 1913. During the
first year of its operation this cheese
factory distributed among the farmers
$15,000 for milk, and $22,000 the sec
ond year. The hicrhest sinele dav'
receipts of milk at the factory the
tirst year were 4250 pounds, and thi
highest single day's receipts the sec
ond year were 7550 pounds of milk.
Hot tor Cheese Market
Aubert S. Smith, oneratine mana
ger of the Nyssa factory, stated the
cheese business is better than it was
last fall and early winter. A month
ago this factory sold a carload of
cheese to the coast market, and now it
has an order for another carload o
cheese for the coast market. When
! this order is shipped out it will clean
up all the cheese here up to the Feb
i ruary made cheese. There are about
I 20,000 pounds of cheese to the carload
This factory is now making about 400
pounds of cheese daily, but its average
since it opened two years ago is about
500 pounds per day. More cheese will
be made here by spring when more of
the cows freshen.
Will Co-operate March 1, 1915.
The Nyssa cheese factory will be
come a strictly co-operative institu
tion beginning March 1, 1915. It is
bel ieved this will doubly assure the
future success of this plant. Real
success in the cheese making business
lies in co-operation. At Tillamook,
Ore., the greatest and most successful
cheese making district in the entire
west, co-operntion is carried on not
only among the farmers who operate
the cheese factories there, but the dif
ferent cheese factories have formed a
co-operative association. These co
operative cheese factories hire one
general inspector, who inspects all the
cheese in all the factories in his dis
trict, and one general salesman is em
plood to sell the cheese for all the fac
tories belonging to the association.
This plan has proven and is proving
eminently successful for the whole
cheese-making industry at Tillamook.
It is believed by those who have
the matter much thought that this
same co-operative plan would prove
very successful for the cheese factor
ies at Meridian, Parma, New Fly
mouth, I.ethu and Nyssa. Through
co-operation it i:i believed tliea five
Idaho and Oregon cheese factories
would be successful in obtaining !..
t-r mar'iets ami better jiri-es for their
products. -MatT Correspondent
tal News.
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MALHEUR ENTERPRISE
Saturday, February
JORDAN VALLEY
THE Enterprise has this week selected Jor
dan Valley to place before its readers,
much of the information has been furn
ished the Enterprise by M. N. Fegtly. Mr. Feg
tly has been identified with that country for
many years and has published the Jordan Val
ley Express, a weekly paper noted for its care
ful statements and truthfullness in connection
with the advantages of his locality.
Mr. P'egtly has been appointed Receiver at
the U. S. Land Office located in Vale and has
turned his paper over to Mr. Norton, for some
time connected with the Caxton Printers, Cald
well. There are great hopes entertained by the
citizens of Jordan Valley that the Boise-Winne-mucca
connection with the Western Pacific will
be built through this section.
Louis Hill is reported as at present making
an investigation of the route and several parties
have made the trip for engineering examination.
It is quite certain that the branch will be con
structed in the near future and the route will
likely be determined on in a short time. In any
event the section is sure to advance with great
rapidity on account of the irrigation work now
constructed and under construction. The sci
entific methods of dry farming are being intro
duced through the government permitting the
taking of 320 acre homesteads and intending set
tlers cannot do better than give this section an
investigation.
The inland town of Jordan Valley, one and
one half miles from the Idaho state line, sev
enty miles north of the Nevada line, in the
east central portion of Malheur county at an
elevation of 4200 feet above sea level, and situat
ed on Jordan creek some 12 miles irom the en
trance of that creek into the Owyhee river, is
one of the most thriving communities in the
west.
The town is incorporated with a population
of about 600. It is the distributing point for an
immense area of grazing and farming country.
The climate is equable and the summers at this
elevation, in all of the west and, particularly in
this section are unequalled. Fishing is excel
lent and the location an ideal one for tourists
who enjoy an outing away from the noisy whis
tle of manufacturing centers. There is a splen
did weekly newspaper noted for its progressive
ness and loyalty to its home town.
One of the most profitable banks in the
country is located at this point and no better
point can be found in the west for the loaning
and profitable use of more capital. Two first
class hotels care for the traveling public with
true western hospitality. Harness and black
smith shops, repair shops of all kinds, large gen
eral stores, hardware stores, barber shops, meat
markets and in fact every necessity of the home
and farming industry obtainable. Large stocks
are carried and the business of one store
amounted to over $100,000 the past season.
A large public amusement hall is one of the
pleasant features of the town. Adjoining the
city is a large dairy of thoroughbred Jerseys
furnishing the people with milk and dairy pro
ducts. There is a splendid opportunity for a flour
ing mill, as some 300 tons of flour were shipped
in the past season by freight teams.
Tributary Country.
The business of the country has been main
ly stock raising. The beautiful valleys at this
and higher elevations and the great plateau be
tween the Owyhee and Malheur basins, together
with the vast ranges in Idaho drained by the
Owyhee are covered with luxuriant grasses the
entire season. In the valleys a vast amount of
wild grass is stacked for wrinter feeding. Al
falfa has been grown in many of the valleys and
yields abundantly. Fruit of all kinds is raised
for the home market. In all of the valleys corn
will make splendid growth and reach maturity.
In the basin of the Owyhee are many small irri
gation ditches watering the rich silts of that ba
sin and raising from G to 10 tons of alfalfa per
acre.
The great advantages of the section as a
farming country had not been well considered
by the people until of late. Maney Bros, of
Boise and Oklahoma were brought into the
country and were so favorably impressed that
they took hold of a Carey act project which will
eventually water some 50,000 acres of the finest
land in Oregon.
They constructed the Antelope reservoir to
a height of 35 feet which will hold sufiicient wa
ter for 20,000 acres. They have constructed a
feeder canal into the reservoir and will put 7,000
acres under water this season of 1015. The dam
has been well built along scientific lines. An in
creased height of 30 feet will enable this dam to
hold 127,000 acre feet. There is no indebted,
ness on this property and it is oll'ered to .settlors
and to no others at from $:U) to $50 per acre on
excellent terms. A deed is available for the
land on the date of hale. Considerable movement is noted intn ti
Irrigation in this Meet inn is in.. re simple mining section of the Owvliee'-inil r ,. ! i
than in any other locality in the arid uot. Tle-re ley hopes for another minim' boo in t h, i , i.S i
is u urcater precipitation in the way of rain and ity. K m ,M l,uh lo(al
mow, und Irrigation is a Mipplemeiitary cm,-ii. -erutlon,
Where lime I nmu ftin two to j ,,, ...i ,. . ,
fmir mtv fut In Ml,, r mv.I,,,,,. in thi Mtti"!. M,V raM ,M t,u
Jordan Valley has the distinction of having
one of the few Carey act projects successfully
put on its feet without legal complications.
Deeds can be given the day of sale.
. t T,ho, 9.atron coml)any are determined to sell
their holdings to settlers. They make prices to
suit each separate piece of land.
The U. S. Land office can give general infor
mation in re land to entry in Jordan Valley or
elsewhere, but the information as to quality of
specified parcels of land must come from inves
tigation or through individuals acquainted with
. Malheur county has over (5,000,000 acres, al
most as large as Belgium.
from one to two acre feet is ample.
The vast area of grazing country and the
comparative isolation from rail transportation
s not detrimental as might at first be consider
ed The prices for hay and grain for stock
feeding are always good and will never be below
other localities. The lessened cost of woo pi o
duction more than equalizes the slight addition
al freight charge. It is but a short drive for-,
cattle to rail transportation and is negligible.
Settling up the country will in no wise interfere
with the ranges, in fact makes them more va -uable.
The proximity of the ranges and lack
of possible competition insures a fair price lor
hay, increased population increases the demand
for other products and therefore the situation
is ideal. The price of beef, mutton and wool
will not be below a high price for many years.
As a grain producing country it is doubttul
if this section can be excelled. The elevation
and fair amount of precipitation make a dry
farming crop of grain a practical certainty and
when settlers finally enter upon the scientific
production of stock and sheep, feeding their
own grain and taking both profits, the success
of the country is assured. Railroad facilities
will be a secondary consideration as a drive of
only 40 miles is but a trifle.
From the vicinity of Jordan Valley is ship
ped annually some 1,000,000 pounds of wool.
Thousands of cattle are turned out yearly and
upon settling the newly irrigated lands and in
creased acreage of dry farming for grain, the
production of both cattle and sheep will be in
creased many fold while the raising of hogs in
great numbers will add to the values of the land
and wrealth of the producers.
The taking of 320 acre homesteads has in
duced the settling of a very large area and upon
the inauguration of scientific dry farming meth
ods much more of the lower lands will be taken.
In the Owyhee range are great possibilities
for the prospector. Another era of mining de
velopment is upon us and the high and well bro
ken hills are full of mineral awaiting the careful
search of the prospector and capital of the real
miner.
Not being a commercial fruit country land
has not reached the high prices noted in other
sections of Oregon and Idaho. Land that will
produce from 6 to 10 tons of alfalfa in the neigh
borhood of Nyssa will bring easily $200 or $250
per acre as its proximity to transportation
makes possible the raising a more valuable and
concentrated crop
The land in the Jordan Valley section capa
ble of producing the same crops can be had from
$25 to $50 per acre, with a good water right and
well improved otherwise. Hay at Jordan Val
ley will bring more per ton than will hay in oth
er localities near railroads for the reason that
there is vastly more of it available near the .
roads and stockmen from the high ranges on
the Malheur and in northern Harney have re
duced their stock through taking advantage of
the recent high prices.
Jordan Valley was a busy place in the days
of the Owyhee mining excitement.
The new potash discoveries are but a short
distance from Jordan Valley.
Jordan Valley has furnished the foundation
for several Malheur county fortunes.
The increased price of wool adds many
thousand dollars to the circulating medium of
Jordan Valley.
Many inquiries come to the Enterprise in re
land in the vicinity of Jordan Valley.
Those desiring 320 acre homesteads can do
no better than to investigate through local Vale
or Jordan Valley agents.
e Jordan Valley people welcome strangers
with open hands and hearts. They want real
developers.
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