T he G ate C ity
COVERS THE FAMOUS EASTERN OREGON FRUIT MILI
N\KNA, M AL H E U R CO U N T Y .O R E G O N , T H U R SD A Y . JU N E 12
¡resting
ents on
ie Owyhee
them as their house guest, Miss
Ella brink of Eugene, another
schoolmaie of Mrs. Morgan’s at
the University of Oregon
HOMEDALE IN BRIEF.
Mr. Tracy was a Caldwell vis
itor the last of the week.
Mr. Hill, of New Meadows. Ida ,
is a Homedale visitor this week.
Local berries are now on the
»ad Surveyed Out of market and eize and Huvor rival
tman Kolony— Farm- the famous Hood Rivers.
»f Kingman
»ring Lands.
Mr. and Mrs. Tracy of Malheur
Kolony City. Oregon, are visiting Mr.
Tracy’s brother near Homedale.
Dr. McReynolds went to Nyssa
Tuesday to take care of the prac
Martin is building an tice of Dr. Surazin while the lat
i to his homestead on the ter is away on a vacation.
Chiming is working out his
tent on his desert claim be-
Jk Butte.
, McGivern and McCreary
Ln went to Ontario Friday
Liness trip.
A tine boy was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Hellyer, who live three miles
southeast of Homedale. Dr. Mc-
Keynolds reports all doing nicely.
Mr. Peterson, who has run a
restaurant in Nampa for the past
three years, moved his goods here
¡Robertson, who has been and expects to open a lunch room
j for A. G. Kingman, is on in the building recently purchased
[list this week,
from Contractor King.
f Rush mere left for Salt
C. E. King, who has been in
jty last Wednesday. Mr. Salt Lake City for a week re
Ire may decide to stay for turned Thursday for final settle
ue
ment of business here and then
(id Mrs. Reuben McCreary went on to Payette lakes, where
ghter Thelma of Adrian he will join his crew of workmen.
Caldwell on a business
^ping expedition.
SCHOOL ¡LECTION
NEXT MONDAY
Is the Hope Mr. Tall
madge Expresses
in Message.
Message Authorized Under Unanimous Action o f Board
of Directors, June 9.
Nyssa, Oregon, June 10, 191a.
C. L. Tallmadge. 37 Wall Street, New Y ork City.— Board
unanimously passed resolution throw ing district open for
your proposition.
P. J. P H IL L IP S ,
Rresident Owyhee Irrigation District.
Reply, Received June 11.
New Y ork, June 11, 1913.
P. J. Phillips, Nyssa, Oregon.— Message received. I
assure you I appreciate your expression of confluence in
me through the action of your board. I will do everything
possible to hurry the matter along, h opin g to be able to
to work out the proposition and furnish water next year.
C. L. T A L L M A D G E .
The meeting of the directors of and the colonization of the lands
the Owyhee Irrigation distrist, withia district; and
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was held in Nyssa on June9,1913.
A full board was present and the
. . .
various proposals for the construe-
tion of irrigation works were care.
Whereas, there are not at this
time any contracts to or with this
district for the building of lrnga-
tion works or the coionization of
¡{g |anj 8. ancp
confidence in the possibilities of
our unimproved lands. They are
the richest in the big Snake basin
and no one can doubt that with
an increased population provided
the desert can be made to blossom
as the rose. Water and sunshine,
land and population, the concom
itants of prosperity, are all neces
sary, and should come together
Perry Houseman Is
Injured in Runaway
Surveyor
For Kuhns
Still Busy
Searching for Gravity Sys
tem for W atering Lands
Dr. Sarazin was called to the
Owyhee Tuesday to care for Perry
Houseman, who was injured quite
severely in a runaway.
He was
dragged for a quarter of a mile by
the frightened team. Mr House
man finally, with the help of one
line, turned the team into an o b
struction sufficient to stop them
and extricated himself from the
rig. The right knee was badly
injured. The left leg was also in
jured to some extent through no
bones were broken. Ho will be
confined to the house for some
time.
GOOD SHOWING AT
NYSSA COAL MINE
o f the Owyhee and Snake
Valleys.
Owyhee. — Regular Correspon
dence
to
the Journal. — Harry
Pratt left Saturday morning with
Mr.
Gilbert,
engineer
for
the
Kuhns, for the upper reaches of
the Owyhee, where Mr. Gilbert
expects to spend fifteen or twenty
days in search o f
some feasible
way whereby the water', of the
Owyhee
may
be
diverted
and
brought to the Snake river and
Owyhee valleys by a gravity sys-
stein. The Kuhns are studying
the advisability of bringing into
this project a much larger acreage
Preparing to Sink Shaft to than has ever been before in
Coal Layers Disclosed Last cluded.
fully considered.
Mr. Purdum.
Whereas, the statements and
W. B. Slick and Judge Fremont representations made to this board
Year; Vein 22 Feet Thick
The Cabbage Worm.
Wood were present and presented by said A. R. Thomas concerning
In answer to an in qu iry re
Shown.
the proposal of W. B. Slick. This the proposal C. L. Tallmadge will
garding the cabbage worm the
proposal was a continuation of make
this board, have led this
A Director and a Clerk to
follow ing is given :
the
R.
W.
Purdum
proposal,
plus
board
to
believe that were such a
[Kunkey is busy remodel-
A. J. MoNeo will take a load of
“ T h e best treatm ent for the
Be Elected; Matter of an increase of $10 per acre in the proposal submitted the same freight to the coal mines Friday
1 enlarging the Walters
com
m on cabbage worm is tbo
price of the system. The district might be accepted; it is therefore where work is going steadily for
pn the South Side. Mr.
Bond Issue for Improve
arsenical
soap k iutlon. T h is
was given teD days to accept or
Resolved, that G. L. Tallmadge ward in the direction of unwater-
is adding another room
is
prepared
as fol >ws: 3 pounds
ments to Be Voted On.
reject this proposal.
invited and urKed to 9ubtniV ing preparatory to sinking the
greened porch.'
The proposal of C. L. Tallmadge at the earliest possible date a pro-J shaft to the coal layers disclosed ot lead arsenate, 3 pounds of
lartha Overstreet is ex-
was then taken up by the board, posal for a contract to construct! by the drilling last year.
whale oil soap, and 50 gallons
(lome from the College of
The school olection on the 16th
Mr. Tallmadge has represented to irrigation works and for the o o lo n -( A reservoir has been construct of water. The soap olmuld be
out the twentieth, She should be well attended, as be-‘
lain for the commencement sides the usual election of a clerk the board that he will make a deti- >zation of the laud9 of this ° wy- ed in the shaft wall at the 100- shaved fine and dissolved in
nite proposal for the construction hee Irrigation District, and that a | foot level for the Cornish pump to hot water before add in g to the
i at that institution.
and director, other matters of im
of an irrigation plant ami the col- copy of these resolutions bo mail- lift the sump water as rapidly hb general solution.
T h is mate
J. 0 . Franklin of Ontario portance are to be acted upon. A
delivered by the Cameron p u m p 1 rial may he used safely until
onization of the lands of the dis- ^ to
L- Tallmadge.
ng Mr. and Mrs. Nichols. vote upon bonds for erection of a
trict as soon as the Purdum deal
Land owners at the meeting used iu sinking the shaft.
the cabbage is practically ready
Ichols' sister, Miss Patter- building to house a domestic
had been disposed of. At a for- seemed in hearty accord with the
It has been reported that a vein
to eat without danger of poison
purse of Boise, has also science and manual training de
r meeting of the board Mr. aation taken in this matter and 22 feet thick of good bituminous
in g .”
kiting at the Nichols’ home. partment of the high school is an
Thomas, acting for Mr. Tallmadge, firmly believe that it opens up coal was shown by the drill 80
McGinnis painted his other matter of extreme interest appeared before the boar-1 and opportunities
for
big things, feet lower than the bottom of the
|his week. Mr. and Mrs. to the district. School entertain outlined the proposal Mr. Tall- Some of the features of Mr. Tall- shaft and capital lias been inter
Bis have moved their house- ments are to be provided for in madge expected to submit. The madge’s proposal are: No power ested to continue the shaft to th;it
cta back from the Kolony the same structure and a govern colonizatiou feature of this pro- [ charges or interest will be pay- depth for a thorough investiga
| again living at their home ing body of the directors, faculty posal has appealed to the board able for the first three years; tion.
and students is proposed.
[illiain Smiths.
A coal mine would las o f suffi.
and to the entire district as the a family will be located on each
The Ladies’ Guild will give a
A larger amount than the $2000 one thing needed to make our pro-' forty-acre tract within two years; cieut value at ihis point to divert Strawberry and Ice Cream Social
I measles bave swept the
now proposed eould be utilized to ject an assured success.
The each forty-acre tract will be ¡laid the proposed Boise-VS innouiuoca on the Boydell lawn Monday
about Parma.
News
a very substantial benefit of the question is often asked: “ If we for within two years; each forty- line down the valley regardless of night, June 16.
E w ry S s ly in*
ived
that
Herbert.
district for the purpose stated and had a system without people toicre tract will be in crop, occu- any other considerations.
vited, A good time assured. Be
Grace Walters, who ate
a discussion
is wanted.
The make the lands productive, howpied by a bin * fil e homemaker
sure ami come.
Jrs. Gabley, hsve had it and
Should Try Fish Lure.
largest amount proposed will place would the charges and interest on within two years. The lands upon
twering nicely.
only a charge of $300 per year in the bonded indebtedness be met?” | which the bonded indebtedness
Bad luck still attends the ef
A CASUAL RESEMBLANCE.
|ty Surveyor Miller was terest and is not noticeable com
The idea that we get people to ( for plant is a lein will not be oc- forts of L J. Largcnt am I W. H.
Pm Vale the first of the pared with the benefit derived. It
“ Can you tell me why an unmar*
ocenpy and improve our arid cupied by speculators or unim- Bitner, proprietors respectively of
prveying out the new coun- will also be in order to register the
Aed baronet is like part of a horse’ s
the
Golden
Rule
ami
Hotel
Wet
-
lands, with the means to carry proved by reason of the owners
trappings?”
| leading from the Kolony desires of the patrons in matters
them into income bearing proper- inability to stand the initial ex tern, to attain success in piscato
“ Good gracious, no! I can’t sea
We bank of Snake river to of school control.
rial pursuits. The aforesaid gen
ty, is everywhere voiced by those pense of cropping more new land
the slightest resemblance
What is
Me Ferry.
The road is
tlemen made another trip to the
who are familiar with the diffi than his finances will permit. Mr.
it?”
M. E. Church Notes.
I by the new settlements in
Tallmadge will
furnish ample Snake one day this week in quest
“ Because he u a ‘sir’ I'Mgle.”
i
culties in reclaiming arid lands.
polity.
bond to protect the interests of of the finny beauties, but there
At
the
meeting
on
Monday
the
Sunday, June 15, 1913
the district in entering into a con was nothing doing. Instead, a
Ip through the Kolony last
For Sale.
president of the board, P. J. Phil
10:30
a.
m.—Sunday
School.
tract with him, so that when a heavy rain storm came np and
Bowed the scribe that the
lips, was instructed to «ire Mr.
Nine head o f Lincoln lambs
contract is consumated we will be thoroughly drenched the unlucky
pites are getting their crope 11:30 a. ra.- Morning worship.
Tallmadge the action taken by the
(throughhred);
four bucks, tlvo
Subject,
“
The
Presence
of
God
s
absolutely assured that the con fishermen, who returned home
veil watered in spite of the
On motion of Thomas
ewes, one 7-yea' old buck, five
Kingdom " Text. Matthew 6:10. board.
sadder
and,
it
is
to
be
hoped,
tract will be carried out to the
The fields and or-
Canham. Jr., seconded by Rex
ewes, three to 1 years;good money
letter. The record Tallmadge has wiser men.
if'o°k so neat and thrifty 7 ;] 5 — Epworth League.
Marquis,
the
following
was
unani
makers; $1250. per head. John
made in other states where he has
p i such a contrast to their 8:00 p. ui Evening Service. Sub
Forties. Owyhee, Or.
Lost,
Strayed
or
Stolen.
mously
passed:
ject "The True Source rtf In
colonized lands is suffieient guar-
Bnce twelve short months
Whereas. C. L- Tallmadge, by antee as to the ultimate success of
Black inare, weight about 800
spiration"
Text. “ Hebrews
Do not neglect getting informa
pounds,
white star ou forehead
his
agent,
A.
H.
Thomas,
has
rep
12 *2r
our project under conditions out
tion
re pianos from J. Boydel).
branded bar 4 on the shoulder
Bud ,Mrs. Fred Morgan of
Thursday at 8:00 p. m .-p rayer resented to this board that he will lined.
the exclnsive dealer direct from
Had
on
colored
tan
halter.
Re
i f attended the wedding
make a definite proposal to this
factory.
No middleman.
Tart
.Seulmel, New Plym
We believe we are on the verge ward.
ok in Boise of one of Mrs. meYou are invited to attend these irrigation district looking to the
cash; ba mice good mite.
All
We hare absolute I outh, Idaho.
fully guaranteed.
B's college mates Mr and services.
construction of irrigation works of big things
Stra-gers welcome.
¡organ brought home with
|Anna McGivern, of the
I force of teachers, is ex-
|bortly to spend her vaca-
relatives at Adrian.
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