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VOLUME VII, NUMBER 4.
VALE, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1916.
SUBSCRIPTION, ?2.00 PER YEAR
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A RENEWED
INTEREST
INOl
Will Again' Start Drilling
Operations in Vale Oil
Fields in Spring
ASKS VALE MORAL AID
Dr. Cartwright, Secretary
of Sunset Company, has
Bright Outlook.
Dr. R. Cartwright, of Salem, Ore
gon, and secretary of the Sunset Oil
and Gas Company, was in Vale yester
day in the interest of his company.
In speaking of the future of the
Sunset, Mr. Cartwright stated that
everything is in readiness to start
drilling as Boon as weather conditions
will permit
"We are not offering to sell any
stock to the people of Malheur coun
ty, but we do ask the moral aid of
the people here. 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,
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