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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1916)
ALEXANDER One Price Clothiers Boys mm It5 I. SALE different than any Clearance Sale we have ever held Clean sweep of all this season's men's, young men's and boys' clothing and furnishings at reduction that means to you that you will buy for less than the merchant can buy at wholesale prices. Men's and Young Men's Suits All new patterns and the latest styles in worsted, serges, cheviots and tweeds. Color in blues, greys, browns and fancy mixtures. ..All at the following remarkable clean up reductions. $15.00 values $ 9.75 $20.00 values 13.75 $25.00 and $30.00 values 17.85 CLEAN-UP OF OVERCOATS Any Overcoat or Raincoat in the store values Ck HK up to $20.00 for ? MEN'S MACKINAW'S Norfolk style and all this season's patterns, values $7.50, ? A pr $8.50, $10.00, all go at the same price U.c" Men's all wool knit sweaters, ruff neck and V shaped Q Qfb collars, $6.00 values $5.00 values 3.45 MEN'S HATS All this season's styles $3.00 values 1 85 CLEAN-UP OF UNDERWEAR Union and two piece garments 9 Qft $4.00 values A.JJ $3.00 values 2.15 $2.50 values ; 1.85 $1.25 values 85 BOYS' NORFOLK SUITS Some with two pair pants 1-4 off regular selling price Boys' knee pants up to age 18, 1-3 off regular selling price Men's all wool flannel shirts $2.50 values 185 Eclipse Golf Shirts with soft and stiff cuffs, all new pat- 1 IfT terns and all sizes, $2.00 and $1.50 values go at A.-LeJ MACKINAW SHIRTS $3.50 and $4.00 values 2.15 and Mothers ! Take Notice ! 2 boys' overcoats regular $7.50 values at $5.00 Tliree lots boys' mackinaws priced regular at $4.00, $5.00, $5.50 now at $3.00, $4.00 and $1.50 all sizes from 30 to 34. These are good values, and all your gain 8 lots boys' suits, corduroy, navy blue, and dress suits, good heavy ones. Sold regular at $5.00 now $3.00. All sizes from 7 to 15 years. Freeman's Store lSl j lH MALHfeUR ENTERPRISE . CO. Vale, Oregon w m & & w. x x 's m m m x BIG BEND a a : w. as w. BIG BEND, Oreg., Jan. 3. Foster mid Wilford Swigert nnd Lewis Tate returned to Weiser Monday evening, M On Saturdays Only The following prices will be made by the Vale Meat Market : M M M M Meet Pot Roasts 12Vj ' Boiling Meat 10 ' Bib Broils 8 ' Hambrrg and Sausage 12J'j g Side Pork -.15 Bacon .......10 up M Best Sausage Market in the County. m J. W.BLAYNEY 5 VALE MEAT MARKET fill to resume their school work after a two weeks' visit at home. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Cartwright spent Xmas and last week with Mrs. Cart wright's parents who reside in Wei- r. Mr. UnlrH. State Sunday School Worker, was in Big Bend Saturday and Sunday. Miss Billeter. after recovering from her illness, taught a few days between Xmas and New Years. A fine babv eirl arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller, January 3rd. Mr. and Mrs. Darnall are enjoying a visit from her sister Leona Wells, who returned with them after they had spent the holidays with their' par ents at Fruitland. The New Years dinner, given by "The Ladies Circle," was well attend ed, considering the snowy day. They realized $17.25 which will go toward the piano. Henry Bullock is confined to his bed with symptoms of typhoid fever. Literary last Friday evening was well attended. The program was shorter than announced the previous meeting owing to illness of some and others took advantage of vacation and snent Xmas and New Years out of The Bend. The naming and spelling the capitals of states was won by Miss Irma Robertson. Matrimony at Christmas Mr. Burt Robertson and Miss Almeda McClure of Notus, Idaho, and Mr. Gibson of Weiser and Miss Anna Anderson Best wishes are extended to the happy couples. Several of the residents of Big Bend took advantage of the car of coal that arrived at Adrian and laid in a winter's sunnly of fuel. Lewis Tate will soon be the proud possessor of a $50 silver loving cup, given as first prize of Eastern Ore iron at the St. Paul National Corn Show. This is the second prize Lewis has won on his corn this year, taking first prize at the Baldridge corn show at Parma. Howard Hatch winning third prize. $ $ $ its as :: W. SKULLSPRING SKULLSPRING. Ore., Dec. 28. Billy Taylor is driving the parcel post wagon now. G. A. Slayton and son are working on the road to Mud Flat. Emil Baker and family went to the dance at Fangallona Christmas. Sam Corliss went to Harper Tues day. Pinto Gould was up to the dance at Fangollano Christmas night. Mike Gallagher was at the dance but he never had the Wampas Cat he sent to Ireland for. Henry Smith is staying with X. E. Littlefield. He was looking for gold and found a diamond. The value has not yet been known. Lee Gay is camped at the King Brown cabin. He intends to trap coyotes this winter. Henry Slayton is working on the road. He is proud of having a job Santa Claus forgot to visit the school house this year. $ W. W. W. . W. SUNRISE m -MX... The Xmas tree at Mooreville Sat' urday night was a decided success. The children rendered an enjoyable program and everyone wished Xmas entertainments came more often. Carl Edgar is helping Joe Fine dig his well deeper this wek. E. T. Winans took Xmas dinner with George Emmett and family. Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Seaweard are visiting in Harney Valley this week. The school population of the neigh borhood are enjoying a vacation this week. Miss Helen Davis, who has been staying with her aunt in Steins moun tain, is back again to keep house for her Grandpa and attend school the rest of the winter. W. R. Gardner has finished his wood cutting on the hill and he and Mrs. Gardner are at home again. 1 Special Sale! IRRIGATION DISTRICT (Continued from page 1.) that all agencies for the purpose of utilizing water are really, in a fun damental sense, agencies "of the Gov ernment, no matter how private the corporation may assume to be in its form. In the arid belt of the 17 reclama tion States, the timber and the mines, all natural means of communication, and the use of the water for power development are of little importance, even considered together, in compar ison with the use of water in irriga tion. Hence any means that will pro perly safe-guard, widely develop, and impartially control the use of water for irrigation is a matter of the ut most public concern. Form of Organization Should be Based upon the Public Nature of the "Work. This may seem almost trite, for I am sure that almost, everyone here is prepared to admit the public charact er of irrigation, which has been rec ognized in the constitutions and leg' islation of almost all, if not all, of our reclamation States, but I wish to lead up to this suggestion, namely, that work of so public and govern mental a character would; in the na ture of things, presumably best be carried on under that form of organi zation which recognizes, both funda mentally and in detail, the public character of the enterprise. Those who would undertake the burdens of a municipality would find organization as a private corporation very ill adapted to their purpose, and I sub mit for consideration the thought that the form of a private corporation .is similarly ill-adapted, unless it be un der exceptional circumstances, to the public work of irrigation, as for the public work of financing, construct ing, and managing general municipal enterprises. Why should not these projects and systems be organized as irrigation districts, under laws, not merely recognizing but founded upon the public character and importance of the work? The courts were in the habit of saying that these districts were muni cipal corporations, until, in Nebras ka, they found the real distinction be tween irrigation districts nnd muni cipal corporations in the strict sense of the latter term. Municipal corpor ations are restricted as to the amount of indebtedness which they are per mitted to incur. Irrigation districts, in the nature of things, are under the necessity of incurring proportionate ly far larger debts, and the courts have accordingly come to refer to them as public rather than as munici' pal incorporations. The public char acter of the district is inherent in the statutes in theory and in detail and upheld by the courts so as to be of immense benefit to the water users in every stage of development and every part of the work. There is hardly a problem of irriga tion from whatever standpoint you may adopt that is not intimately re lated to the form of organization adopted, and I think in practically ev cry particular that form of organiza tion is preferable which squares with the public nature of the work in hand. Advantages of District Organization, What, then, are the advantages of irrigation district organization? Let us consider this matter in the normal order of the development of an in dividual district. In Investigation. Let us suppose, then, that we have a project that we deem to be suscep tible of irrigation. How shall we best proceed in our plans? The first pro blem is to raise money for a careful and complete engineering investiga tion; ascertain what the water supply and the water rights are and the fea sibility of the proposition as to cost and agriculturally. This part of the work is one in which we can not af ford to be parsimonious, and yet most irrigation enterprises investigate af ter having raised a small amount of money by some private means, the burden falling upon but a small por tion of those who are benefitted by having the matter investigated. At this stage of the proceedings and before it is known whether thcro is a feasible project or not, it is al most impossible to obtain liens upon the land by the execution of individual contracts. Each owner waits for oth ers to act and if a fair adjustment of the cost of comprehensive investigar tion is to be made it usually would take years to secure the necessary signers. An irrigation district, how ever, can be organized by a vote of such majority as the stntute may pre scribe of the landowners who actually vote at the election nnd bonds be au thorized to the extent necessary for an investigation. The failure to make a full and complete investigation is the rock upon which many a project has foundered. In Promotion. Precisely similar advantages exist in favor of the district as to means of taking care of preliminary legal and promotion costs. If the project is found to bo infeasible it will, never theless, pay its debts unless the land prove not to be worth the compara tively small cost of investigation. We have in the State of Washington an irrigation district, known as the Mid dlo Kittitas district, which proved a failure a number of years ago. No. drop of water has ever been delivered to the land by the district, and yet t is still raying principal and interest of such bonds as were actually sold. This district has been several time to tho supreme court of the State of Washington, but the validity of the lien upon the land has been upheld. (Board of Directors Little Kittitas Ir rigation District v. Peterson, 1 Wash., Saturday, January 6, l&id. 147; Witherop v. Brown, 19 Wash., 383; Dyer v. Little Kittitas Irrigation District, 40 Wash., 238.) How to Avoid a Spotted Project. Consider now that we have a pro ject which has beer, carefully, inves tigated and found to be feasible. What . is the effect of the district "organizar-' tion as contrasted with a. private cor poration? The first advantage to ,bo noted is that all the land is secured and mortgaged at once, whereas un der the plan of the private corpora '- tion there is no hope for a number of years of securing a project which- is ,. - not "spotted." That-is to say, there are. certain tracts of land which are . not subscribed to the project and up on which no lien has been secured. The department required of .reclamation projects, before authorizing tho worfc" as a rule, the securing of 90-per-cent of the total1" area, and , even' though lartre nortions of the area were. fro--.. '"' quently bound as public land, ln..soy- ... eral instance that I know of, it tooK many months, or even years',"-to bfn'd ' to the project as large an area as the, percentage required! ,. , ' The remaining owners frequently availed themselves of the water' u'p ply only; after several years have pass-. , ed. Thi3 is detrimental-in Govern-', ---ment work, but in ordinary private v.. -work it is frequently disastrous, for until these owners: voluntarily come in' ' " their lands fail to. assist in furnishing' security to the creditors of the enter prise. Also- the canals and ditched have to be constructed and maintain- ' ' ed at as great a cost as 'though theso lands were contributing. These land-: owners sometimes do not come into the project at all, butv instead, pump' ( from the subsurface.' .water which "Js!"(. ' made available by the irrigation of . surrounding lands, and in this way actually obtain to" a Iprge extent the benefits of the project without' contri-', ' buting to the cost. This, contrasts notably with the irrigation district plan which binds the land's of the op position as firmly as-the lands of their neighbors provided the statutory ma- jority is secured. Character of Bonded Security. " . The' district will desire to dispose of additional bonds on a market p'os-A " sibly more distant than that which was required for the raising of, money for investigation. What security have we to offer? Obviously we have the ' bonds of a public corporation and car- . . rying all the prestige of public bonds; The attorneys for the bond-buyers need to examine the ' validity of 'the proceedings, but they do not need to,.' ., examine the title to. the land. .In this ... respect the irrigation district is so far : in advance of the private method of financing that there is no .comparison. The district offers .the- purchasers a lien good against all lands' of tho' dis- '"" trict, including those in course' of set tlement or- litigation. , . . Furthermore, automatically this lien takes precedence over mortgages-'---' placed of record before the organiza-'""' tion of the district upon the -same. .' theory that ordinary taxes later as- ' scsscd will have preference. Another " ' important .consideration is ,that 'the' ' lands are all bound to the -limit'for.,," the debts of the district, so that the creditors know that a failure of tho value of occasional tracts will not ' bring about a loss to the extent, of the failure; and, to-reiterate, .this Hen, ... vastly .superior to that obtained by contract, has been secured after a '--few weeks' advertising instead of only after a long and costly investigation of the title to individual tracts, and still more difficult and costly nego tiations to bind the land against- all. parties. Another security in favor of.' "the bond buyer is that a' decree hi con firmation of the organization , of . the. ' district and the authorization of the , honds is obtained. This decree j is granted after publication and wilthout- ? personal service, and is binding 'upqV w all landowners within the district awL all persons of interest, including thev State. (Progressive Irr.Dlst., V. An-1-'1' derson, 114 Pac, Ida., 16.) tt hSs been held by the California courts not' to be subject to attack upon the . . ground of fraud. (Fogg v. PerrisJ" Irr. Dist., 97 Pac, 316.) "The coni'' firmation proceedings has been up-.' held in all the State courts and adds -greatly to the security not only against loss but also, against the .like.;.." lihood of litigation. . ' y . The Land Brought Under Cultivation. . Now, suppose' the prbject'has' been'' . financed and constructed, What adyahf" ' tages have we over private, organiza-.'' tion? ' " . '. In the first place, all lands are re quired to pay the building and qp- erntion charges as a matter of .tax es and the land is simply sold if .-payments are not met. This is an enor mous advantage, for the .result is that' the land goes under cultivation. Th6' owners can not afford to have it lying nonproductive, and everyone is far.bet-' ter off in the long run. One of the'' vices of the Federal work is that b,o much of the land on some .projects has not been farmed and thexhargea-'. have accumulated .immensely,' so' that congressional relief was 'required. Th'e' unimproved tracts are either a bur den or4a menace from any standpoint they may be viewed. - v.' . Collections. ' Furthermore, in the manner of mak ing collections for building and main tenance there; is a vast improvement under tho irrigation district plan.-Te county machinery js invoked for putv' poses of collection and the powors.of the county (and thereby theSta.te) can be'brought into play for.-the pur pose. . j. Them too, the attitude of the public, is hotter. People arc in the 'habit of. . paying their taxes promptly, ancTun. derstanding that the law requires that such payment shall be made, and that ' (Continued on page 2.) i WW w - w