The County "Where the Dollars Grow son the Sheep's Back." THE N The Famous Bunch Grass Country Formerly The Wallowa News Wallowa County'sMost Representative Paper--Established in 1899$1.50 the Year VOL. ! No. 18 Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon, Saturday, August 31, 1907 Whole Number 438 EWSRECORD I NEGLECT RUINS 100 WATCHES ' Where use wears out ojn.e. Keep your watch clean, and it's as natural Vforjt to go an it is for your heart to beat. Let It get dirty and tay dirty and you are shortening its life every day. You should hand It to our repair department Then when you get it again you are handed back practically a new watch. This is printed for the benefit of -you and your watch. As for'Jewelery, no matter what the condition' Of your purse, something satisfactory can be purchased. Come in and see our line, liemember the place. . Wheat's Jewelry Store ENTERPRISE Singer Sewing . Machines W. V. Oroutt has been appointed the sole agent for the Singer Sewing ' Maohine,Hhe best Sewing Machine in the world, and have exclusive control of this territory. 1 sell them for cash or Installment. See tho demonstration In Bodgers Bro's. store. Coine,ln if just to look. ' r CASH OR INSTALLS BF3 W, W. Orcutt, Enterprise, Ore. The Best is the Cheapest . " v is iKc Best , For proof call or write R.H.JONAS, WALL0WA..0REG0N 640 ACRE STOCK RANCH 800 sores plow land, plenty of spring water, Home flue timber, good fences and cross fences. Farm implement and chopper goes with place, for (17.60 per acre. Easy terms. ' . v 1,283 1-2 Acres on Prairie Crepk Fine rioh soil, all seeded to alfalfa, clover and timothy, with plenty of water for irrigation. Suitable for colonizing Will be sold at the ridiculously low prtoe of $45.00 per acre. 5 Room House in Enterprise With one large lot, for only 1725. Terms. 360 Acres Meadow Farm Land 1 wo miles from Enterprise at $40 per acre. This can be bought on small paymeut down. . ' - ; 160 Acre Hill Ranch 90 acres plow land, young orchard, good well, three-quarters of . a mile from Enterprise. Now listen the price is only $10 per acre. 200 Acres 1 1-2 Miles From Lostine- Ideal for all kinds of fruit, 500 trees now on place, consisting of cherries, peachesplums, prunes, and apples. Peaches mature here ' - a when in allother places they area failure. This will uot last long at the price. $2,000. We Have 'i ' - " " ' The best farm on Alder slope for $40 per acre. The best Dairy farm In the county for $21,000. -, We have many more, so if you dou't see what you want, call on us. Oregon Realty & L. E. Jordan ENTERPRISE OREGON OLIVER , Investment Co. Fred A. Wagner OREGON Big. Comity Fair at 'Lostine October 9-10 and 11 What are you going to exhibit at the Wallowa Countv Fair at Lostine. Oct- ober 9-10-11? An exhibit each year of the best products of the earden. field and farm, the products of the kitchen and the handiwork of the sewing room should stimulate a pardonable pride in progress and excite honest competition. Annual fairs are good things. Not only do they educate in diversified lines and illustrate the progress being made in a section but they furnish social inter course for people who ordinarily do not travel around very muoh. We have all been to Fairs, haven't we? We have watched the animals, viewed the ex hibits, eaten pop-corn, heard the bovs shout "p-e-a-n-u-t-s, triple-jointed p-e-a- n-u-t-s," and risked our money on flimsy luck machines, all with a cheer ful abandon because we were at the Fair. It's the fun making features and the educatioual advertising features of Fairs which makes them useful to a section and we hope that the Fair at lostine will go lorwaronlh success. Bring out your fine poultry, your blooded stock, and produce by all means carry away your share of those premiums. If you haven't received a premium list, write to the officers of the Fair Association and secure one. Mining Prospects Arthur II. Rudd has just returned from the Imnnha where he surveyed a ditch for Wurzweiler & A kins for their placer mine. He reports that the placer looks very promising. The amount of gold that shows in the placer indicates rich veins which will some day be discovered. Another very promising group of mines is that of the Tun.a Group, which was t recently leased to Baker city people by the owners, Messrs. Blow & Vance', for a period of six months, and if at the end of that time the Baker City pebple choose, they have an option for the purchase of this property for $32, 000: The work done by this firm will give the Eureka section an opportunity to know whether these mines are a pay. in? investment. If it' is found so it will open up the way to other and greater mining deals in that section. - The Elgin Recorder says J. L. Harvey of that city received some sample ore from his mining claims south of Joseph this week that contains a high per cent of copper and looks good to those interested in mining and minerals. Mr. Harvey has several claims in that section and has been devoting considerable time to them of late. The Bamples he has exhibited-from time to time have been exceptionally good and in the near future the claims will doubtless prove valuable. W. W. Orcott Organizes Lodge W. W. Orcutt reports an organization of the M. W. A. lodge at Joseph this week to be known as the Chief Joseph Camp. It will stant off with thirty charter members. The organization will take place Thursday evening, September 5th. The Royal Neighbors will also organize the same day, starting off with about 25 charter members. - Mr. and Mrs. Orcutt have been doing some hard work in this line lately as is evidenced in these two lodges opening up, for which they deserve much credit. The Portland Wheat Market quotes new" crop, club, 79c; bluettem, 81c; J ' valley, 80c ; red, 77c. Re?. Thompson Locates the Devil At a the union services in the Presbyterian church last Sunday, Rev. Thompson took as his text "The Devil." It was very interesting and enjoyed by the large congregation present. He mentioned the fact that a person's danger was from themselves and that if caught on the Devil's domain he would claim the victim. , He mentioned the fact that more men fail from want of character than from want of intellect. It is the vices outside of law which are sapping our national life. Pereonal extravagance and love of show and effect drive thousands delirious ,with care. Licentiousness blasts the beauty of social life, and blights soul and body with the mildews of hell. Intemperence seizes its victims and drags them from comfort and respectability to poverty and the degradation of loaferdom, and then sends them groping through dark delirium to the doors of hejl. Reason should be our guide in all matters which lie within its province ; but religion has mysteries which the human (nind cannot fathom. Reason and Religion never contradict each other; they run on in closest unity and most perfect harmony, until religion passes beyond the ken of reason, and there reason . should merge into faith, even as the early light of morning melts into the splendors of broadening day. Voyagers and discoverer" are we all. Mr. Homan has. purchased Fred Ashley's stock of cigars and tobacco. Mr. Ashley intends to sell out at cost all of his groceries and in the future.attend strictly to the furniture business. A Woolen Mill La Grande has plans underway to secure a woolen mill. J. F. Wilbur formerly in control of the Union mills has been looking the country over for a desirable site. Enterprise should get in on this proposition and make Mr. Wilburs cood offer to establish it. at Enterprise., The proposed factory is to have four sets of machinery and employ from 100 to 160 operators. It will consume from 800,000 to 1000,000 pounds of wool a year; consume 2000 cords of wood per year or the equivalent in some kind of fuel ; and the manufac tured output per anuum would be about $300,000. the warfe disbursment will average from $4000 to $5JO0 per month. The raw material is rained right here in. Wallowa county. The profits from such a concern are sure and the payroll helps to build up the town. This plant will require a capital of $150,000 dollars. One-third of this amount will be supplied by Mr. Wilbur and the remainder of the stock will be raised by local stock subscriptions. Here Are A Few Facts From a Citizen Read It Over Carefully To thb editor: The town of Wallowa, as you know, is making an effort to secure the removal of the county seat from Enterprise to Wallowa. Its ambition is laudable and praisworthy, looked at from the stand point of its own selfish interests, but a residence' of many years in onr neighboring county of Union, during which a ' continuous ' county seat removal agitation was maintained, inclines me to the belief that as far as the interests of the balance of the county is concerned, the niovement is unfortunate. ' In my 'judgement, based on the experience gained in ' Union county, that no other influence will create such bitter and suoh lasting Jealousies and enmities; no other influence will to retard and prevent that harmonious Enterprise Has Beau tiful HomeS"And Good Men . .- . Mr. F. A. DeFue is one of the most conspicuous exemplars of the City Beautiful idea. His home is a spot very fair to see, refreshing, fine. - He has bestowed upon it a great deal . of care. He has realized to a degree . the very highest ideal of domestic -beauty. His residence and its grounds, delight the eye and inspire the soul. Mr. A. C. Miller is another such man. ' A little attention constantly given has made his home on River street a show place. One feels glad to take one's friends there ancf say : "This is what we can do toward making . our city beautiful. This is what one man has done. It is what all can do." - The home of G. S. Reavis is another, - .The home of W. H. Graves is another. . The home of J. 6. Cook is -another. The home of J. L. Browning is yet . another, i Indeejd, their names are becoming legion. ' And the example they set is causing ,; others and yet others to follow in their footstep's. The home of W. Allen, Chas. Zurcher and W. R. Ho'mes are others very fine. And one singular fact that one realizes, when contemplating these 'individual developments is that the fine home, fine injthe sense that it is cared, for, nTade beautiful, and set about with objects restful to the eye and inspiring, is that the men .who do these '"things are good . citizens. They are men of whom the community feel proud. They are not idlers, they work, for their own benefit and, In a .... wy, for tho good jo f all.-.- They-are not brawlers', spending their tLne playing whiskey lx)keT, nor devoting their time, .., their money and their best- talents to ' . money grubbing. , . . Money grubbers are good citizens. The stinginess which evinces itself toward all public institutions, toward one's home, sooner or later evinces itself toward all civilization, 1 The men in this community whose . s homes are being cared for are men who represent the better element in the . progress . of the city. They are men whom we wish we could elect to public office, because they are honest, God-fearing and as careful of the interests of the community as of their own. Enterprise needs more such men. - . action which is so essential to the upbuilding of any community. It is my opinion that the best way . the only way to encourage and promote , the growth and prosperity of Wallowa county is for the various towns and interests to work together for the common good in a spirit of fairness and harmony. And so, looking at it from the standpoint of the good of the whole county, I think the present agitation , unfortunate. It has been claimed by the people of Wallowa that their action in the matter has been taken only after an insisteot demand by the people gen erally, from all parts of the county. We think that claim Idle and unjustified and yet, p the desire to be fair and to (Concluded on next page.) I A- 41 ' i 1