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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
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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
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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
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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.
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General Merchandise
Heppner, Oregon
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Notions
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