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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1916)
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We are going down on our woll to make a thorough test, and are in hope of bringing in a com mercial well. "If we can do this, ever person in Malheur county will bo benefited, and it is thereforo to the interest of ev eryone to lend his moral aid to every company that expends money for tho development of this field." OPERATION ON MANSURSUCCESS Word has been received from Port land, to the effect that Clarence Man sur, who was compelled to undergo on operation for cancer during last week, is doing well, and is on the way to recovery. Thislwill be good news to the friends of the young man in Vale, who is very popular with the young folks here. NYSSA JOURNAL IS IMPROVING The Nyssa Journal, tho popular weekly, published by the Brown Bros., and which is doing more to boost their section of territory than would bo imagined, came out last week with a greatly improved appearance. Fol lowing is tho cause given by the pub lishers: "The Journal this week added a large supply of new tpye to its equip ment, a sufficient amount in fact to givo tho entire paper a now dress. This is a cause of rejoicing among the printers, who have had to solve tho problem of how to mako three cap M's spread over- a column of names, all beginning 'Mr. and Mrs.' After struggling with such a problem an hour or so tho average printer goes out 'to see a man.' He then puts his right foot on the railing, leans his left elbow on tho polished mahogany and firmly grasps a glass of his favorite beverage, which is obligingly furnish ed by the man in a white apron. Dis posing of this has a soothing effect and he tries another and several oth ers, after which he can see M's where none exist But. that Bchemo had its drawbacks, especially with the arrival of the water wagon at hand, henco the new type. Other improvements aro contemplated for tho near future and tho Journal will rank with the best of them. In this connection it may not be out of place to remind delin quents that now is the time to remit, as improvements cost money." Thos. G. Jones returned from Kem merer, Wyoming, the early part of the week, where he had spent a few days on a vhjit with relatives. Donald D. Merritt Mr. Donald D. Merritt, the son of Geo. Merritt, of Caldwell, and Miss Bertha Sasscr, a daughter of D. D. Sasaer, a prominent fruit rancher of the Emraett Valley, were united In marriage at Caldwell, Idaho, by tho Rev. WiUan, f the Methodist church of that city, at 4 o'clock Monday af ternoon, Thy ratumtd. to niaka thlr C. M. Crandall Remembered by The Band Boys The City of Vale in conjunction with tho Vale Concert Band members wero instrumental in springing a very un expected surprise on C. M. Crandall on Christmas Evo. A business appointment was made with Mr. Crandall by one of the busi ness men and ho was held in his ofTlco late Friday evening while the band gathered in front and gave him a splendid serenade. When Mr. Crandall made his ap pearance ho was presented with an order for a $100, cornet of his own se lection) in tho name of the City of Vale and tho Vale Concert Band, in appreciation of his splendid work as musical director for the band during its organizaton and growth. Mr. Crandall is a gifted orator and is ever ready with a gilt edge im promptu speech on most any occasion, but so unexpectedly was this presenta tion sprung upon him that his oratory was sadly lacking. Ho thanked them in tho true spirit of tho gift, but the fooling on both sides was too deep for oratory. There aro times when one would rather bo alone. Ontario Saloon Robbed--Man Makes Escape The saloon owned by Olivor Nicely at Ontario, was robbed of $170.00 Tuesday night, and the Sheriff of the county is looking Jor one Thomas Boy er, a bartender, who was serving in such capacity as an extra at tho time. Tho man left on the eastern train, No. 18, oh Wednesday morning, and to the present date has not been located. He was under criminal bond for bootleg ging at Payette. The sheriff's office has gotten out circulars, giving the man's descrip tion, and these will be sent over the country. He is described as resemb ling a Jap, smooth shaven, nnd a Vir ginian, about 30 years old, 6 feet 8 or 9 inches tall, and weighed about 140 pounds. ENTERTAINS PARTY AT FIVE HUNDRED Carsten Mueller was host at a "500" party, given at tho Mueller home Tuesday evening. A number of young men and women in the city were present, and four card tables wero utilized during the evening's en tertainment After refreshments were served, the assemblage listened to re miniscences of Vale High graduates, who were home for tho holidays from the University of Oregon. EDITOR'S WIFE PASSES ON Word reached Vale last week that the wife of Julian Byrd, editor of the Burns Times-Herald, had died. Editor Byrd and. his children havo tho sincerest sympathy of the nows paper fraternity throughout Eastern Oregon. FIRST BASKETBALL The first basketball game of the sea son was played last Thursday evening at the Vale high school auditorium, between Fruitland and Vale teams. The final result showed a score of 24 to 10 in favor of the Valo team. The Paramount Feature for Sunday night according to information sent the Rex Theatre, is to be "Buckshok John" with Hobart Boaworth, who appeared a short while ago in "A Little Brother of the Rich," It is a story of a convict who tried to right a wrong, and effect his own reforma tion at the same time. This promises to bo a fine attraction, as it played to great crowds at the picture houses in New York a short time ago. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Moody of this city spent the holidays with Mrs. A. A. Brown, of Ontario. Now A Benedict heme in Vale the same evening. Mr. Merritt is the popular young clerk at the' Alexander store of this city, and is well liked by everyone here. Tho bride is related to Frank Sasser, manager of the Valo Drug Caldwell. They will be at homo UjJr 1 fritnda after the 15th. GOOD ROADS THROUGH PRACTICAL METHOD Reader of the Enterprise Sees Opportunity for Malheur County to Profit by Ex perience of Eastern States. VALE, ORE., Dec. 28. (To tho Edi tor) Tho subject of good roads is one now being discussed by every state and county in the United States. In many of both, the subject is becoming so well understood that tho great pro blem of "financing roadbuilding" is being- solved satisfactorily to tho peo ple. In Malheur county we aro using about fifty thousand per year doing work on our roads, the greater portion of which is absolutely wasted. Wo buy enough machinery to work roads in a dozen counties and have nothing to show for it. Fifty thousand dollars per year paid in interest will givo us eight hun dred thousand dollars for the con struction of roads which will be last ing and which will double our popula tion within fivo years. Let your readers think what it would mean to them to have eight hundred thousand dollars spent in this county during the next three years. Let your business men think what it would mean to have ten thousand au tomobiles pass through the two hun dred miles which Malheur county stretches from north to south. Should they leave only twenty dollars per car in tho county it would mean four times the money spent for interest or now paid out in road work. I would much like your paper to publish tho appended speech made by D. W, Norris at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, before a convention of engineers. There is meat in every paragraph and if your readers will place Malheur county in about all of the places whero Mr. Norris has used the word 'Howa our own condition would be well represented. The following is the text of the speech: Good Roads. Gentlemen: I como from a State which has never financed a road as it ought to be financed; therefore oui people in Iowa are paying out more tax money every year for their road? and Bridges than any other State in the Union, excepting only the two States of California and New York, and we have less to show for our money in miles of roads improved than 20 other States. Spending more per annum than either Ohio or In diana we can show barely one-tentl' MOTHER TIME NOW BY BART - r -,-, " Hia as many miles of roads improved Tas can be shown in either State. If ny of you road builders want to see what happens to a people's money when roads aro not finances as all public improvements should be financed, just como to Iowa. Wo havo more money per capita than tho people of. any oth er State save one. We spend more of it upon our roads and bridges than any other State save two. We have more banks and more newspapers than any State in the Union. This year wo bought one-tenth of all the auto mobiles that were sold in tho United States. Our rubber-tire tax is great er than our county-road tax, and yet 26 States in this Union havo more miles of roads improved than we have in Iowa. You men have your problems of road finance in your own States, but out here wo do not have any fin ance at all. We dig up more money than most any other State ever saw before, and wo very promptly bury it in rich Iowa mud from whence it came. If anybody complains to the average Iowa farmer, he thanks God that he lives in the corn belt of Iowa and keeps on buying more automobiles and digging up his road money to tho tuno of twelve millions per annum. Financing a road is a simple pro blem, gentlemen, if wo will, keop in mind that it is an investment which ought to bo paid for by the people who receive its benefits and in ac cordance with tho benefits which thoy reccivo from it. Somewhere in over state in the Union now, save in Iowa, and in 41 per cent of all the counties in the Union, but never in Iowa, roadf are finnnccd by bond issues, so as to distribute tho first cost equitably over the successive generations of taxpay ers who nro going to use the road. If tho road will last approximately 10 years, the bonds run for 10 years. More durable roads are bonded for 20, 30 and even 60 years, the averages being 30 for the best type of roads. Equity in Bonds. Out here in Iowa tho jnan who be gan with nothing and now owns a $30,000 farm believes in paying as he goes when building a road, but he will borrow money from an insurance company with which to buy mora land, and he has not yet seen that when ho builds a concrete bridge with one year's tax money ho has made a Christmas present of that bridgo to posterity for the next 100 years. Ho says that 30-year paved roads aro im possible, because $10,000 per milo is to much to pay out of ono year's tax money, and it has not occurred to him that there will be taxpayers hero when he is dead and gone who will be us ing that road and by rights should havo to pay for some of it. $10,000 Road Fees. Anticipating public rovenues by means of bond issues is the only equi table method for prorating tho cost of a long-lived improvement among tlie generations of taxpayers who aro to enjoy its benefits, but it is also highly profitable to the individual taxpayer as well as equitable. Private money in Iowa is worth 6 per cent. It costs the average farmer 8 per cent at tho bank, but it can bo invested safely at 6 per cent. His county and school bonds have been selling for 4 per cent When he borrows road money through his county at AVs per cent so as to defer the cost of that road over a long period of years the individual is saved a profit of 1 per cent for each year on all road money thus de ferred besides easing his tax burden by passing some of the cost on to the taxpayers who aro to follow in the future. This profit of VA per cent compounded nnd invested by tho in dividual at 6 per cent will pay off tho debt in 28 years. Let us understand that clearly. Tho taxpayers who dig up cash this year for a $10,000 road will havo paid for tho road and their $10,000 will bo gone forever. If the-y had kept their $10,000 working at home upon their farms at 0 per cent and had borrowed tho price of the road from some bondholder down East iu the name of their county at 4V4 per cent interest, the 0 per cent interest earned on tho money kept at homo in private investment would pay nil of tho bond interest nnd also tho debt it self in full in 28 years nnd the tax payer would have both his road and his original $10,000 besides. Road bonds offer one of the very few op portunities in life to eat one's pic and keep it, too. Bourne's Federal-Aid Plan. (Continued on page 2.) Former Cashier Now Located in Redlands, Cal. Tho friends of C. O. Nelson, former ly cashier of tho First National Bank of Valo, will be pleased to loam that ho and his excellent family have got ten comfortably located for tho win ter at Redlands, Cal., as will be seen by tho following letter received by the editor of the Enterprise during the past weok: Redlands, Cal., Dec. 22. Mr. Jno. E. Roberts, Vale, Ore. Dear Friend: Now that we are located at tho above address, for tho winter at least, I will ask you to pleaso send us tho En terprise, as my subscription is paid to next July, I believe. We are all well' and aro very much in love with this place. Wo will be glad to get tho Vale news through tho Eaterprise. Give my regards to all, and wishing you a Merry Christmas, I am yours very truly, C. O. NELSON. Enterprise Type Machine Still Steady atWork The Malheur Enterprise Standard Linotype typecasting machino ia one I year old today. Last year, at an ex pense of $3,000, the Enterprise enter ed the list of all home composed and home printed newspapers, and since ; that time it has saved nearly double ' Its coats to tho office. The Enterprise invoices show loss . than $1.00 for actual ropalrs during tho past year. Job work of varied kinds, large numbers of pamphlets al.d books, an cxamplo of tho latter being a 60-page, solid-printed booklet for Attorney C. M. Grandnll-of this city, composed and printed la record- breaking time last weok. BROCAN-TAYLOR E. I. Brogan, of this city, son of D. M. Brogan, and Miss Botsy Tay lor, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. V. Taylor, of Ontario, wero married Inst Thursday at tho home of Father Cnmpo, of Ontario. Immediately after the ceremony a wedding breakfast was served at tho Taylor home. The young couple left on the evening train for Portland and had Christmas dinner thero with Mr. Brogan's mother. They will remain in Portland for a week or ten days, and from there will go to Soittlo for a week's visit .After about three weeks thoy will bo at home In Vale. The brido is a very fine musician and holds ono of tho highest teachers' certificates In Oregon. The groom in a graduate of a law school in phihde1 phla and is interested in tho First Na tional Bank of this city. The friends of tho young couple wish them a long and htippy married life. Mr. and Mrs. V. B. Staples wont to Caldwell to spend Christmas with re latives at that placo K. P. DANCE A GREATSUCCESS Tho dance given by the K. P. lodge of this city Friday night, was a pleas ant surprise to everyone In attond ance. Tho Isle hall was beautifully decorated with colored streamers and evergreens.tho popular Ontario orches tra fflrnlshing tho music. A large, light-hearted cyowd Joined In the Jol Hficatlons of ushering tho new year In. Messrs. Thos. G. Jones, C. R. Amos nnd Jack Wheeler wero chairmen of tho respective committees, under which tho danco was instituted, and deserve especial pralso for their work. It Is proposed to mako tho IC P. danco a more frequent occurence during tho noxt yoar. Vale Goes Diy Without A Murmi! Those who predicted that death of John Barleycorn In Malheur county last night would be fraught with noi sy demonstrations of inebriety, and ' the accutlomod celebrations t ttendant . with luch, were greatly deludod, by . waton 'Oi uio laci mat reports irpti Xjtarloui points Indicate that fow aV IViitU war md, and tlmt tha 1 SAMPLES OF NITRATE MINES Wagonload from New Dis covery Brought to Vale by New Locators. DEVELOPMENT COMING Big Capital Now Interested and Thorough Investi gation now Sure. Messrs. Burtch and Stickney return ed to Valo tho latter part of last week with a wagonload of samples from ni trate mtnos which they have just lo cated in tho Watson country on the upper Owyhee. Local interest is just becoming thor oughly awakened to the possibilities of tho nitrate deposits in Malheur county, and everyone who has any knowledge of tho country or can get a on a location is now getting busy in securing nitrate lands. With tho Secretary of War asking congress to take immediate steps to securo a supply of nitrate at noma, without being dependent upon Chili for our supplies in that line, which may be cut off at any time, the eyes of tho entire United States will be turned upon Malheur county when it is demonstrated that this section is ' prepared to produce an unlimited quantity of that most important pro duct That capital in abundanco will soon bo here to investigate our nitrate mines is now a certain fact. Leonard Cole, who has perhaps done more in the way of prospecting and locating nitrato lands than anyono else in .tho county, is in correspondence with a number of large capitalists, and ha ia very liberal in his opera to have n Hiaroucrh Investigation made. There is little doubt that the coming season will see very great activities in this work in tho southern part of Malheur, and those who are in a po sition to know what theso minos con tain, by n careful and conservative as saying of the products, stato that without quostion somo great commer? cial producers will do developed. WATSON GIRL IS MARRIED The follo'"inr nrtlclo from tho Do;j. glas, Arizona, Dispatch, w'll be of In terest to Mi'V-'t ro""' ' rcider-bc j j nf ' " ' ' ' ?ormsv o " , , " that she has relatives at that place, and in Vale. Her two sisters are well known, Miss Grace Daloy, who teach-" C3 school in Watson, and Miss Hazel Daley, a student of tho Valo High school. "J. B. Lawrcnco, quartormastor ser geant of the Twonty-second infantry, and Miss Maudo Daley of Watson, Ore., were married yesterday evening by Judge R. S. Maclay at the homo of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Noble, 1050 Thirteenth street. Miss Daley arrived on tho Golden Stato limited from the east and the ceremony was performed Immediately afterward. A wedding dinner followed tho ceremony. "The principal feature of tho feast was the wedding cake, which was dec orated with two crossed flags and a miniature sergeant with rifle and dec oratod with sharpshooter medals sim ilar to thoso worn by the groom. The dining room and parlor were decorated with flags and other military appur tenances In honor of Mr, Lawrence, who Is deservedly popular not only In military but In civilian circles as woll. Mr. nnd Mm. Lawrence will reside on Grteno street." Robert Beach, who has boon 111 for some tlmo, has sufficiently recovered as to be up and around town again. night of legal drinking was spent in a comparStively quiet mauner. Every imloon in Valo was closed for tho last time lust night at the accui torn! hour, It is stated that the ntw city law In regard to the selling of liquor will b entlraly In keeping wfth the stat prohibition amendment. hvhlfh Wll ellmlwto any toekera afW loopnou in M law, .1