PAGE THIRTY1TW0 HEPPNER GAZETTE TBIES, HEPPNER, OREGON 45TH ANNIVERSARY BOOSTER EDITION lone Lies in Center of Big Wheat Belt (Continued from Page 25) eight sons who are located around the old home and following wheat raising, and two daughters who have married and left the country. D. H. Grabill and J. P. Louy have retired from their homesteads and live in lone, and Biz Engleman Is in business in lone. E. G. Sperry settled near lone In 1871 and later acquired the land up on which part of lone Is located. With the coming of the wheat far mers he decided to have a town on his ranch and induced Aaron Royse to start a store, while others put in a blacksmith shop and sal oon. These enterprises did not sur vive and the next to enter business was R. C. Wills who opened a store in 1888. The coming of the railroad in 1888 was followed by a wheat warehouse in 1889. J. A. Woolery came down from Hardman with a stock of goods in 1890 and bought out the Wills store. Mat Halvorsen opened a store in 1893 and Paul Balsiger started his wagon shop in 1894. Ed Keller was next with a blacksmith shop in 1895. C. T. Walker opened his hardware store and Wm. Haguewood a black smith shop in 1897. Chas. Ingra ham's drug stroe, S. E. Moore's fur niture store, Biz Engleman's pas time, F. C. Patterson and S. P. Han ey saloons and Bert Mason's store were businesses started in 1898. The town was in a stage of pro gress and has continued to improve as a home and business point lone was incorporated in 1899 and the first city improvement was the municipal water works, put in in 1904 and was followed the ensuing year by the city light plant These two interests were profitably op erated and the town has had its most substantial improvements dur ing the past few years. The present city officials are may or, Bert Mason; councilmen, J. H. Bryson. E. J. Bristow, P. J. Linn, E. R. Lundell, Geo. Ritchie and W. S. Smith; recorder, F. H. Robinson and marshal, E. G. Frank. These men have been in office for long periods and have caused many im provements, among which was the renewal of the city water system, the constructing of more than a mile of concrete sidewalks and the grading and macadamizing of two and three-quarter miles of streets. These last improvements have all been made within the last two years and while lone is shown to be twenty-fourth in the list of low taxed per capita towns of the state, we are proud to know that the 23 towns with smaller taxes are prac tically all small interior towns that have neither city light nor water privileges, nor improved streets and walks. With our low taxes and many improvements we find the councli has paid off one-third of the city bonded indebtedness while these permanent improvements were being made. The building of the Sherman El ectric high power line from White river to lone the past year has brought about the sale of lone mu nicipal light plant and our cost of current has been reduced to a point where it can be used and many new electrical appliances are being put into homes and shops. Among the major improvements made in lone during the past three ALSO AMONG MORROW COUNTY BOOSTERS A. M. Baldwin YOUR CITY DELIVERY SERVICE Service First Your Hauling Will Be Appreciated. Phone Main 1 2 Office in Court House ommt (tatttg AhstraaQIo. HEPPNER, OREGON ABSTRACTS OF TITLE TO ALL WJS AND. LANDS IN MORROW COUNTY, OREGON Ever a Booster for Morrow County. F. B. NICKERSON FORD PRODUCTS ARE SOLD HERE i 1 fj-! life; BPSfty CHAS. H. LATOURELL, LOCAL FORD AGENCY The above is the Morrow county home of the popular Ford, the car that has created such a wonderful stir in the automobile world. Ac cording to Mr. Latourell, he will soon be in position to deliver and while he already has many orders ahead, feels that before the end of the present year he will be able to supply the demand in full. Chas. H. Latourell has made a pronounced success since taking over this business in 1919. Large volumes of sales in both the Ford and the tractor are recorded year ly. The Fordson tractor is partic ularly well adapted to the soils of this region and is in great demand by our farmers. Mr. Latourell is another of our old timers as his father, Henry Lat ourell, was one of the pioneer set tlers of Oregon. He came to Mor row county proper to engage in business in 1919. In connection with the business a first class, well equipped service and repair depart ment is maintained so affording the buyer every service. An average of six men are kept employed, so it will be seen that in points of payt roll alone this firm contributes in no little degree to the general pros perity of the community. And in the person of Chas. Lat ourell we have one of our greatest optimists and most live wire boost ers for this country. One never finds him losing an opportunity to herald the advantages of this sec tion nor lacking when it comes to personal work for community welfare. years is the modern apartment house of Ralph Harris and the $50, 000 public school bui'ding. We have a standard high school with an en rollment of more than 40 students who are under the supervision of E. A. Brown, principal, with three assistants, and the grades provide for 100 enrollment under four tea chers. Three school busses are run out into the rural districts to bring children to school. Among the principal business houses is the general merchandis ing establishment of Bert Mason, the implement business of P. G. Balsiger, the furniture store of S. E. Moore and the pastime and pool hall of Biz Engleman. The above institutions have been operated by the same owners from 30 to 34 years, and are evidence of the pros perity of the community and the business ability of the operators. Other business enterprises of the town are the general store of Bris tow & Johnson, C. W. Swanson's grocery and feed store, Engleman hardware store, Bullard's Pharm acy, Lax McMurray's shoe shop, T. E. Peterson meat shop, garages of E. R. Lundell and I. R. Robinson, J. H. Bryson repair shop, J. P. O' Meara blacksmith, Turn - A - Lum Lumber company, lone Independ ent and F. H. Robinson, law and insurance. Our business houses receive a large trade from farmers and stock men who deliver their produce to other points than lone, besides those who live near and do their marketing in lone. The large concrete elevator op erated by the Farmers' Elevator company of lone and the Collins warehouses of lone and McNabb and the concrete elevator of the Farmers Elevator company of Jor dan, have facilities for caring for a very large volume of wheat, but these were obliged to stack large piles of wheat outside during the rush periods of the past years, and find the same conditions to exist quite often. Our wheat crop is marketed through the grain offices of R. E. HEPPNER PLANING MILL & LUMBER CO. This Cut Was Received Too Late to Run With Story of This Industry. Harbison, J. E. Swanson and L. Balsiger. The principal products of the community are wheat, hay and poul try with the addition of dairying which is much in evidence, and some sheep and hogs are produced. For many years lone was known as the "Egg City," gaining this rep utation by shipping out more eggs than any other point on the O.-W. R. & N. system. However, the com ing of the world war and the auto mobile caused people to neglect the poultry business and they got out of the habit and have not returned to it as they were before. We still have the climate and the cheap feed and there is no reason why lone cannot again be known as the Egg City. Turkey raising is becoming quite a popular industry and nearly every farm produces from a few dozen to several hundred turkeys. Walter Eubanks has gone into the business quite extensively and has changed his alfalfa and wheat ranch from a sheep ranch to that of producing, turkeys and has carried over sever al hundred hens for breeding stock and .finds this a very profitable Industry. The dairy industry is one that deserves a much greater showing than is now being made and will eventually become one of our chief industries. At the present time there are several hay balers en gaged in baling hay for shipment to dairymen down the Columbia as far as Astoria and if those dairy men can afford to pay the expense of baling and shipping our alfalfa the grower should be able to make more money by feeding the hay direct from the field and shipping the cream, as we can get other fe(ed required by the dairymen just as cheaply as other districts can. The valley of Willow and Rhea creek produces as good fruits, ber ries and vegetables as any place in the state and more population is the greatest need to make these lines profitable as the farmers have too many acres to look after and do not give attention to more intensive production. Apples, prunes, peaches, pears, plums and other fruits can be grown to perfection and where at tention has been given them, straw berries, raspberries, gooseberries, blackberries and currants have been grown that compare with the best known berries anyplace. Wheat has been the main pro duct of the country and the people have found it easier to raise wheat than it is to hoe and many lines which could be made to produce a profit have been neglected. ,' There is about 165,000 acres inclu ded in the district shipping through lone, Jordan and McNabb, and ap proximately 100,000 acres of this area is under the plow. The general area is near level, or slightly rolling land and many stretches can be found where a plow furrow can be run for from two to five miles on a straight line without interference from stones or ravines to check operations. The altitude is about 1500 through the farming section. Many fields contain from 640 to one and two thousand acres which are farmed In one continuous field, without interruption from rocky or uneven ground, and the farming operations are carried on on quite a large scale as will be shown by the fact that a farm of 600 acres is considered a small one and the av erage is nearer 1000 acres. One man with the aid of 12 horses or a 25 horsepower tractor can plow and seed from three to five hundred acres each year, and do about all the farm work with the exception of the harvesting, done mostly with combined harvesters, cutting from 9 to 20 feet and harvesting from 15 to 40 acres per day with the aid of from two to four men. The larger type of tractors were used to quite an extent for a few years, but have been discarded for the mules, or lighter tractors, as they were found unsuited to this light soil. Owing to the large size of most farms, the side lines of poultry, dairying, etc., have been neglected. However, a survey of the commun ity will show that the man who op erates the 600 acre farm, with half in crop each year and produces some eggs, turkeys, sheep, and a few cows is the one who has kept his bills paid and dosn't have a mortgage on the farm, and is the most logical reason to show the need of more and smaller farms. The soil is of volcanic ash and very easily tilled and the fertility seems unlimited, as is shown by the fact that during the last year fields that have been under wheat pro duction for the past 40 years pro duced as high as 40 bushels per acre, and that with but 12 inches of rain, which followed three of the driest years in the history of the farming period. lone has three churches, Baptist, Congregational and Christian, and there is also an organization of Ad ventists, as well as a considerable number of the Catholic faith, who associate with Heppner parish. The faternal societies are Mas onic, Eastern Star, I. O. O. F. and Rebekahs, who each have a large membership. The B. P. O. E. also have a large membership who are affiliated, with the Heppner lodge. The city of lone is built upon an absolutely level tract in Willow creek valley on an area 1-4 by 3-4 of a mile, and contains more fine shade trees than any other small town in the wheat belt of Oregon, and with a first class water system, electric service, as well as good streets, walks and church and school fa cilities, we have a very attractive homesite and most farmers either come into town for school term, or make use of the several school bus ses which furnish free transporta tion from rural districts. With the low price of land in this vicinity there is no reason why lone should not see a much greater pop ulation among the farms and along the creeks as the production of crops will warrant the investment of people who are now trying to op erate in sections where land is high er priced and will not return any better crops than can be produced upon the fields a"bout lone. Buy It In lone from Bullard's Pharmacy W. E. BULLARD, Prop. lone, Oregon Among Morrow County Boosters c PAUL G. J BALSIGER Farm Implements, Aermotor Windmills, Myers Pumps. Fairbanks-Morse Gasoline Engines. We Sell Winona Wagons. Tank Building. . IONE, OREGON Lll WE WILL GROW WITH MORROW COUNTY. We have ever had faith and confidence in the future of this district. We hope to continue to serve our many; , friends and this district as a whole for years to come. ghes k Hughes General Merchandise Heppner, Oregon Groceries, Dry Goods Notions WAIT FOR THE NEW ARRIVALS IN SPRING AND SUMMER MEN'S FURNISHINGS AND SHOES FOR MEN i.