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About The Gate city journal. (Nyssa, Or.) 1910-1937 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1910)
^ ^ a v o r To See N yssa, And S u r r o u n d in g C o u n try , B e fo r e B u y in g A W e ste rn H om e T he G ate C ity J ournal A C o n tin u a tio n o f T h e N y s s a S u n ()L ! 2:». N YSSA: M A LH E U R COUNTY. O R E G O N , T H U R S D A Y S E P T E M B E R 22, 1910. YSSA OIL FIELD SPECIAL LEVY TO A CHEAP FARM BE CONSIDERED OF 160 ACRES IS MAKING NEXT MEETING AT $12,000 GOOD ¡¡c a t i o n s o f g u s h e r w e lls g o o d - O i l is o f th e b e s t g r a d e . 'site a number o f Nyssa people catching the “ oil fever.” ¡ople are investigating the 1 oil fields and are well ed with the results of such ligation. Men from various »Ids visited this field and are Stiwistic as to the prospects future o f the present wells ¡¡hey purchased all the stock ¡¡able. *sa has be <»11 awaken and is ¡niiig to realize the immense jh that is lying at her very 51 ml she has never imagined ifiux of p-ople that shall be ;ht about by what seems now only a drop in the bucket of 1 st resources. W e nre not op- jc enough te see Nyssa with streets, five story buildings, [hotel with a lobby full of jgnates talking oil excitedly, ¡¡her signs o f great activity, tions are not better than «mist s of oil were some time jnt the out side oil men are ling to expect great develop ed great results. [ on the Eastern Oregon 18 been suspended in the ¡e of Mr. Hunt, who is one contractors. Very little jSs has been made on this r various reasons. At pre- hard strata is balking the t the depth of 1200 feet, jighboring wells are show ed indications o f becoming Oil is com ing up in allor and it has been sent f City for analysis and is i 75 per cent oil Sense that well illustrates the the business condition of this country right now and gives as the panacea for the business par alysis, the suggestion that our business men use a little common sense—just ordinary sound com mon sense. I wish business men everywhere would take that advice “ 1 can see no reason for the fears which seem to possess our business men. I have preached a ‘ return to the farm’ policy for years and expect to continue to do so; but that’s no reason fear on the part of business. "Money and business are, of course, very careful and it is right that they should be, but not to the extent of cutting off their noses to spite their faces. Especially when it is so unnecessary and they need the noses, too. “ Here’s a little excerpt which, to my mind, bears down hard and strikes at the core of our present ills: “ ‘ In the disestablishment of credit we find the most obvious cause of the prevailing depression. The link that connects labor with capital is not broken, but we may not deny that it is. less cohesive than it should be or than condi tion warrant. Financially, the country is stronger than ever be fore in its history. Recovery from a panic so severe as that of three years ago was never before so prompt and comparatively com plete. The masses are practically free from debt. Moaey is held by the banks in abundance and rates are low. " ‘ Why then does Capital pause HILL ON upon the threshold of investment? NERVATION OF The answer we believe to be plain. It awaits adjustment of the rela COMMON SENSE tions of government to business. Such, at any rate, is the plea, and [a,’l Minn.— James J. Hill pressure is constantly brought to apire Builder” , the “ Father bear upon executives and courts ¡Northwest” , cannot see to make haste— haste which, in business men of the coun- (,ur judgement, would result in jild at present fear to en- less speed. Great complications juew enterprises, nor can growing out of mightily changed ia»y reason whatever for [ conditions call for the most seri- ji-piiralysis which is grad- ons consideration. To settle a peeping over the United grave question offhand is only to invite disaster. Better not settle l°nly a senseless lack of it at all until a reasonable certain- i said Mr. H dl, in an ty can be felt that it can be settled |- just given out. And why right. Stability is ever C’asital s ' of confidence? Some man primary requirement. Rut the J|,<\ has grown timid over adjustment which it now demands [or other, and has cried ¡cannot be effected in a month or a f » neighbor. H is neigh-i year and never can or should be "bly jumped and the next complete. Elasticity is the prime ok fright without know- requisite of changes essential to be was frightened. And | development. *t!> just like a flock of “ ‘ But capital is notoriously one starts to run, every timid. In the present instance, ¡'be flock will follow, even too. it is absolutely foolish. No 1 derision of any ronrt. ran perman- for it * tois Big National con- ently impair any so-called vested interest. Confiscation is undresm- ^ugress we have talked I pd of as com pared with only a few serving water and con- I years ago. The disintegration of uicl conserving iron; properties does not involve their 1 somebody d id n 't say^ «'destruction. Moreover, the sharp The directors of the Owyhee district met in their office at Nyssa last F riday for discussing ways and means and to get in touch with various concerns, as well as to ascertain the steps the other two districts will take. All are going after one thing and that one thing is a high line ditch to water the thousands of acres lying idle. T here is only one thing to be fore seen and that is what the stalwart representatives of the districts started out for. Prospects for the construction of the Boise-Owyhee Project are as good today as they were six or eight months a go.' Tiie Owyhee District is plan ning on levying a general assess ment for current expenses at the next regular meeting of the board on October 4th. A temporary electrical pumping plant will be put in at the mouth of the canyon, it is rumored, but nothing authentic can be learned. ago. In a broad sense, the day of the individual comperitor is past, but the opportunity, of the indi vidual remains even wider within the corporation. The sole prob lem consists of determining how government can maintain an even balance between aggregations of interest, on the one hand, and the whole people, on the other, pro tecting the latter against extortion and saving the former from as saults. “ ‘The solution is not easy to find for the simple reason that the situation is without precedent. But is not progress being made along sane and cautious lines? Surely no menace to property or to human rights lies in the striv ing for such a solution. Both will be safe guarded by its certain findiug.’ ” $1.50 P E R Y EA R . 5c PE R COPY. DOINGS OF THE W EEK “ W e te ll it a s it w a s t o ld t o u s ” Mrs. J. M. Jenkins is repeating the returns this year of a few hun dred dollars well invested in 160 acres of Nyssa’s fertile and pro ductive fruit land. Three years ago she purchased the Robert van G ik e ranch two miles northwest of town for $12,000, this was $75 per acre. Today the land is worth ’$250 or $300 per acre, at least, and no doubt she would refuse twice that amount. The first year her prunes sold for $ 12 , 000 , the orgiu- al price of the land. This year her prunes have netted (above all expenses) her about $12,000. The apple crop is valued at $15,000 and this is a very conservative es timate. The hay was sold for $7.50 per ton bringing $3,1300. These figures are absolutely true and are not the exceptional. Many ranchers have done as well compaiatively. The returns gotten for four of the cars showing the average are: Cincinnati car $1131.00 New York “ 1048.00 Cleveland “ 920.00 Chicago “ 875.00 The Cincinnati car brought top market price which is a great boost for Nyssa fruit and the best compliment that Nyssa pack ers could receive Prune packing is over as far as the Jenkins’ orchard is concerned but some of the rancher« are still packing. IN T E R -M O U N T A IN NOTICE ROADS I wish to notify the people of Nyssa and vicinity’ that I will open a harness and saddle shop in about two weeks, in the old harness shop. H. S- Tharp Conference Excursions Via O. S. L. The usual special low round trip rates will be made to Salt Lake City for October Conference. Tickets on sale from Idaho, Ore gon and W yoming point .3 October 4th., to 8 th., inclusive; Limited to October 15th. See agents for rates and further particulars. A large Consignment of Ladies’ Misses’ and Children’s Coats and Capes, latest styles. All to be sold far below the Regular City Prices. Your inspection is invit ed. Call at once. Boydell Mercantile Co. J. Shainwald is teaching the Owyhee school and has an enroll ment of thirty pupils. Mr. Shain wald has been teaching in Oregon and Washington for many years and patrons are well pleased. GO O D C O N V E N TIO N Ogden, Utah, September 23-26 Excursions via 0 . S. L. Sept. 22 and 23rd. Limit Sept. 30th. See agents fsr rates and further par ticulars. F or S ale — One sage brush clearing outfit consisting o f "beven head of horses, three sets of har ness, one single harnes, one wagon and rack, one buggy and camping outfit complete. Also a nice piece of work to keep it going. W ill sell all or any portion o f same cheap if taken at once. For par ticulars inquire at the Journal office E H McDonald was in Boise Thursday. I f you are a reader and like good books, call and at The Jour nal office and get a book from the Free Traveling Library. C. Q. Thomas and family of Vide, was in the City Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Howard returned Wednesday from Garden Valley , Idaho, where they have been visiting their daughter. Mrs. Stand wood went to Cald FO R S A L E — Twenty-five or thirty tons o f alfalfa hay in stack well today. also turkeys and chickens. J. N. Thomason and family Thomas Dixon are visiting in Parma to day. or L. Spier, Nyssa. Mrs. Geo. Shurts left today for Pay up your subscription and Evergreen to join her husband get some of the Christy Plates. who is in the employ o f the Wells They are pretty Brothers. IN T E R M O U N TA IN GO O D W an ted — 3 shares Owyhee Ditch H. P. Osborn and wife of Vale R O A D S C O N V E N TIO N Stock. S. N. Emison. were in our city Friday and Buy your African Water Sacks Saturday. Ogden, Utah, September 23-26 at Boydell’s. Delno Gibson and Ray Rohdes, Excursions via O. S. L. Sept. 22 of Parma, were in town Friday. and 23. Limit September 30th. See agents for rates and further NYSSA’S EXIBIT FOR Bruce Duncan returned Satur particulars. day from Twin Falls where he has THE FAIR been visiting relatives. NEW SECRETARY APPOINTED V ie w P o s t a ls o r d e r e d — J . H . H ill n e w S e c r e t a y o f C o m m e r c ia l C lu b . The Committee selected for the gathering of the exibit for the fair are buisy, and are endeavoring to niake the same speak for it’s self Thirty-two feet of space has been engaged for the purpose and will be carefully utilized. Sixteen feet of the space will be used for the fruit desplay and the other for the products o f the field- vegetables etc. Everything in the fruit line, in the way o f choice s|>ecimeiis wiJI be accepted. The vegetables etc. are to be squash, carrot, to- mattoes, potatoes, cabbage, celery. rhubarb, onions, alfalfa seed in the |* n ] and thrashed, corn on tin- stock or otherwise, wheat, rye. ¡oats, barley and other products of | H e fields. : The Fair Committee of the Coni- 1 mercial Club will duplicate ,mv j first premium awarded exibits the Nyssa section at the fair in the following deparments At the regular meeting of the directors of the Nyssa Commer cial Club J. H. Hill was appoint ed Secretary of that progressive organization. Mr. Hill will make a good sec retary and the £lub is very fortu nate, indeed, to have so able an assistant in the upbuilding M»d boosting of this portion of Mal heur County An order for 12.000 postal cards was placed for immediate delivery. The cards are views of some of the ranches and orchards in this Department F Faun Prod nets. vicinity, some are views of the N u G - ( trehard ” merous picturesque scenes in this H - Apiary ” locality and some are views of To secure any of the prizes above homes, et cetera. They are to lie mentioned the exibits must be di*s A W I /AFFEKTY used by the elnb for advertising I played in the Nvssn Section. Progressive Republican, who purposes and so will be sent to ... . D . , - , , , Friday. SepJ 30tb will be Nyssa , . J, every iocaiity of the United States. favors Direct Primary and State- 1 „ , , . in « L»*— rv I «ay «ml will therefore be the day The club has petitioned the (). ment 1 and who will tight for Ore-, fo, ^ N tQ J , Q, Rev. Miller, of Ontario, filled the pnlpit of the M E. Church Sunday. Gus Callen from Twin Falla is ith rela- tive8 in this Place, i BPendin8 « few wee^s The population of Nyssa and vicinity is gradually increasing. Especially alongf the voting line. Three boys were born last week; one to Mr. and Mrs. C W. DeBoer one to Mr. ami Mrs. Mart Bunch, and one to Mr. and Mr W Muron. Mrs. Jake Long is on the sick list this week. The Inde|»endent telephone will lx- in operation in tnw-n by the fivst of October and in the coun- t.y by November 1st. The entire system would be in op-ration now but for the freight Ix-iny delayed. J H Ainsworth was in Boise Friday. Miss Una Meek of Gunnison, Colo, is visiting her pirents, Mr. and Mrs. Meek of this place. Mr. and Mrs. Methias of Mead ows, Ida., were visiting their cou sins Mr. and Mrs J. C. Beam UsJ week S L. fora lot on the right of way g„„ and Oregon people. Stand present, especially the school as . The Odd Fellows have moved school, as their their quarters quarters to to the the Robert Robert van to be* used as a permanent fruit op for this state by votin' for Laf , h font R. 11 ,, 11 J ................................ . Thin forty. E l........................ hour ..« c k . Z is one more of the ste,* that goes have been made iqion him by the Ontario teams to show that the club is up and enemies of this state, which fact; ... L ' “ “ ' W- I t saved his i . eo A|| thought I ’d low my W ®t ¿onaervating com m on revolt against all combinations do,l,K should make every patriotic Ore- CALIFORNIA EXCURSIONS "rites J A Swensen, of Water- those that achieve great good no The club is trying to awaken goman work harder for him Via Q 8hurt Line > * „ • VYis. ‘‘Ten years o f eczema, the charter commission to its dnty (Paid Advertisement) Through Portland or Ogden that 15 doctors could not, had at *bat this country needs less than those that work injury and we hope it will succeed. ---------- •---------- ? ^ a' e,<i,,r*i2n August ¡30. last laid me up. Then Bucklen’a 'to conserve c ommon is clearly yielding to study and ! * * « an article I.y «ïtasrsv £ * ....srTf»*,?? °»- Col reason. No sane person new Y unr presenc *• vuntion the * q Member maintains that bnsiness— especial- going to be there? is required and it is important tin- 1 th 'Hean Review dealing ly manfactnring— can or should be that every member of . the club ,t I -!• i'C o jn t j **m a tion o f » Jotntuon done as it was done half a century take this as a summons. ,,Ypy in TaU* \ —■ - held in Dntano Ontario on Daily Hummer Tourist K o U- h to 1"*' ** Di*alhble for skin eruptions will «** n* ul in and 5th of Oct., to which September 3Uth eczema, salt rheum, »«oils, fever For rat*-s r- || III t all srbuols in the further rs consult sores, burns; scalds, cuts and piles • nd delig at*-. (fÇEÏÏT ¿ E ent.
