The Gate city journal., April 13, 1923, Image 4

It will be necessary that thej lie auction to the highest i
or
Huntington Wednesday.
surplus water can be disposed of
BONITA.
Mesdames Johnson and J. Jensen and even though the Reclamation district levy a sufficient assessment bidders for cash, all the right, title
On Sunday, April 1st, a good
crowd turned out at Westfall to were guestss Sunday of Mrs. T. Service should decline to partici­ to cover the interest upon a large and interest of the above named de­
pate, a number of private land share of its bund issue next year fendants, in and to the following
witness the game between Bonita Carico.
owners,
among others the Pacific after the state can no longer pay described real property, to-wit:
Mrs.
Ray
Hillman
(Ethel
Heslup)
and Westfall boys. Mr. Highsmith
The Northeast (Quarter of the
was umpire for the game. Score and children of St. Paul, Minn., are Live Stock Company with 6000 the interest and unless farm pro­
Northeast Quarter (NE'ANE'-i)
expected the last of the week for acres of land, approximately one- duce improve between now and
was 16 to 22 in Bonita's favor
of Section Thirty (30), Town­
George Lees was a caller at Car­ an extended visit with the former’s half of which has a partial water then it will be a difficult period
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Heslup. right, would be willing to purchase for many of the land owners on the
ship Nineteen (19) South, of
der's home on Friday evening.
Range Forty-seven (47) East ot
The dance given at Reed’s home
Mrs. S. M. Brown and son Dar­ sufficient water for the reclama­ project. However, this should nut
deter the district from levying its
the Willamette Meridian, in
some time ago was not very well win, of Ontario, were guests Thurs­ tion of their lands.
While it is impossible at this assessment and selling its certifi­
Malheur County, Oregon, con­
attended on account of sickness day of Mrs. E. Frost.
taining forty (40) acres, more
Ernest Lauer visited the Merrick time to fix a value on this asset, cates of delinquency in the failure
and bad roads.
or less; Together with the tene­
Elmo Carder returned from a and Griffith families in Caldwell some of the district officials are of of land owners to pay taxes, the
the opinion that it is worth $8 per project must be kept as far as
ments, hereditament and appurt­
several days last week.
business trip to Harper.
enances there unto belonging or
Jack Spaulding and George Lees
Walter and Harry Rudd were acre foot or from one-half million practical abreast of its obligations
to eight hundred thousand dollars. so that they will not accumulate.
in any wise appertaining.
came and got the latter’s organ on Ontario visitors Monday.
The above real property taken and
Monday. It had been used at all
Milton Lauer and family are It would seem the lower figure There would appear to be ample
assets in the district to take care levied upon as the property of the
the dances this season at the school moving into the house vacated by would be nearer its value.
In passing it may be well to call of the requirements of the district above named defendants, or so much
LAKE OF HOT WATER LIES house.
George Thomas.
UNDER BUTTE SAYS
Mrs. A. C. Rudd of Pine Valley is attention to the fact that the state and they must of course be utilized. thereof as may be necessary to sat­
Violet Lees has joined our Sunny-
Conclusion.
isfy the said judgment in favor of
DR. T. W. THURSTON
side Sewing Club. The club has expected to arrive the last of the shoulduse its best endeavors to in­
In conclusion, therefore, it is my the above named plaintiff and
had four meetings and some fine week for an extended visit at the terest the United States Reclama­
tion Service in this project, which judgment that the state may weli . gainst the above named defendant
sewing is being done.
home of her son.
additional
assistance Lee R. Shaffer, with the interest
Discovery was made this week that
Edwin Lauer of Payette spent it is hoped may be taken up as a extend the
A. M. Smith returned on Monday.
the soil and rocks of the Vale butte At present he and son are at Joe Mnday with Mr. and Mrs. C. unit of the Owyhee project, which requested and that such assistance thereon, together with attorney’s fee
contain a most powerful chemical Edward’s home.
the Reclamation Service has here­ will be in the best interests of the and all costs and disbursements that
Welcher.
of some kind.
tofore investigated and reported on. state and the district as required have or may accrue.
B. E. Hinder and family moved
by the constitutional amendment.
x This chemical is so strong in the to Jamieson recently.
Land Values.
Dated at Vale, Oregon, this 27th
raw stats that it has pitted the
Percy A. Cupper,
Most of the land listed for sale
day of March, 1923.
Blaine Spaulding made a business
Armco iron pipe from the river trip to Vale. He returned Sunday
State Engineer.
was inspected, and the raw land in
H. Lee Noe, Sheriff,
bank in less than a year.
sagebrush at $45 and $50 per acre
Mike Huntington visited at the
By C. W. Glenn, Deputy.
(Continued from Page 1)
NOTICE
OF
SHERIFF’S
SALE
seems
high.
However,
considera­
The Armco people are “stumped” Lees home the last of the week.
Date of first publication Match
Notice is hereby given that under
over the problem. They assert that
Showers are falling every day tions which have prevailed, some of tion must be given to the fact that
virtue of an execution in ;10th, 1923,
it is the first time in the history ot and the green grass looks good to which are common to all agricultural lands are listed for a period of two anJ
Date of last publication April
the use of Armco iron that soil stockmen in this vicinity.
communities, and some of which are years and it was freely expressed foreclosure duly issued by the Clerk
27th, 1923.
by
those
interested
that
it
could
be
oi
the
Circuit
Court
of
the
State
of
chemicals have been found powerful
Elmer Gaskill is working for peculiar to the Warmsprings project.
Date of sale May, 2nd, 1923, ut
enough to touch the iron. Armco Elmo Corder.
Adverse market conditions, which purchased for a lower figure at the Oregon, for the County of -Vlalhour,
dated the 24th day uf March, 1923 11 A. M.
present
time,
particularly
if
a
sub­
iron is used extensively all over the
have
been
particularly
severe
on
the
Mrs. John Hammack, who was
world. It is guaranteed to with­ operated on in Baker lately, is Warmsprings project, owing to the stantial payment in cash was made. and directed to me, upon a decree
In one instance, land in cultiva­ and order of sale rendered in said
stand the elements. Untold wealth able to be up to the delight of her fact that the expense of handling a
but having
practically no Court on the 22nd day of March,
has been spent in chemical research many friends in this vicinity.
newly constructed project had to be tion
credits
or
water
rights
was listed 1923, wherein THE BANK OF NYS-
to produce it. Every known test
borne
during
this
period
of
depres­
Pat Fahy came up Sunday to bid
at $125 per acre. This price ap iaA, a corporation, was plaintiff and
has been put to the iron.
the Lees family good ble. He was sion.
M. H. BOSTICK and MATTIE BOS-
The alfalfa weevil cut down the pears excessive.
And now the Vale butte has, fig ­ a guest to an Easter dinner. Mr.
C a l l the
rlCK, husband and wife, H. J
The
Oregon
Development
Board
yield
of
alfalfa
hay
to
a
very
sub­
Fahy
is
leaving
for
the
Willamette
uratively speaking, laughed at these
BOSTICK AND
VAN PETTEN
chemists and invited them to come to join Mrs. Fahy and daughter stantial extent and made it necess­ acting through Mr. Dodson of the
ary in many cases to change from Portland Chamber of Commerce is CUMBER COMPANY, a corporation,
and Bee how futile are the fights of Hazel.
Mrs. Miller and children, Sammie this well established product in that using its best endeavors to colonize were defendants, a judgement was
mere man against the forces of
and Marguerite, made a trip to section to others less tried and more this project, and it is noted that it rendered in favor of the above nam ,
nature.
is securing
listings
for short, ed plaintiff and against the above I
The Vale butte is considered a Westfall over the week end. They expensive to produce than alfalfa
SFHONfc 7(‘F2
periods at considerable lower fig­ named defendants M II. Bostick and i
hay
from
many
meadows
already
also
stopped
at
Refino
Arrien’s
very peculiar geological formation
Mattie
Bostick
for
the
sum
of
Sev
!
seeded to alfalfa.
Potatoes were ures than those set forth in the
From under it gush streams of the home to see Mr. Miller.
Jack Spaulding made a trip to planted to a substantial area last contract. It is not unlikely as en Hundred or No|lUU Dollars ($iUo.- i
hottest natural water yet discovered.
JU), with interest thereon from the
This water registers 229 degrees at Westfall after a load of grain on season and no market was found lands are sold that there will be a ■ st day of December, 1920, at the
tendency
for
the
prices
to
advance,
for
a
very
large
amount
of
heavy
Wednesday.
the surface. It is strong in mineral
Only four pupils at school these yield which was secured. A large and if successful in colonizing thi ate of ten per cent per annum, and
contents.
days
but a great deal of work is part of this crop was either left in project, the Oregon Development one Hunderd & No|100 Dollars t$100-
anil
Dr. T. W. Thurston, of the Vale
being
covered. School will be out the ground or was harvested and Board will find itself unable t. j U) Attorney’s fee and the further
Hot Springs Sanitarium, sunk a
.urn
ol
Sixty-seven
it
90|100
Dollars
CIGAR STORK
still remains unsold. In many of the control its prices on its short time
April 27th.
prospective drill hole 300 feet a few
*
,+67.90) as costs and disbursements,
cases where shipments of potatoes listings.
years ago at the base of the butte. Let's Put Our Stake on the Young­
SHAVING, HAIR CUTTING
The contract for the sale ol which judgement and decree further
were made they did not bring
He asserts his drill broke through
HOT ANI» COLD BATH S
sters.
of lands under consideration by directed the sale of the following de
enough to pay the freight bill.
rock into a “lake of hot water.” with
this commission would under these scribed real property, situated
Another
condition
which
has
ad­
By action of its eladers, the Na­
L. B. HAMAKER, Prop.
a strong current flowing northwest.
versely affected the project is the circumstances serve a useful pur­ aialheur County, Oregon, to-wit:
Nyssa,
Oregon.
He sounded the “lake” with a lead tional Educational Association has
not
Three
(3),
Section
Eight-
pose
of
holding
the
prices
within
failure of two banks at Vale in
and says when the sinker struck the for the fifth time indorsed the
teen
(18),
Township
Twenty(20>
which the district had funds depos­ reasonable limits under improved
water the current nearly dragged Towner-Sterling bill for Federal
8outn, Range Forty-seven (4()
conditions. It is therefore suggest­
aid and guidance in the schools. ited and upon which it was relyng
the line from his hands.
E. W. M., (Except the Railroad
ed that the contract be accepted
to some extent for credit
Despite
the
efforts
of
Washington
In the words of Mr. Kline, of the
i ight of way of the Oregon
A disappointing feature in the pro­ and filed with the county clerk with
and
his
successors,
our
Nationai
Armco people, “The Vale butte may
Snort Line R R. Co.) Net urea
such
reservations
attached
to
it
as
ject
as
it
stands
at
the
present
time
Government has never done any­
D E N T IS T S
be worth a million dollars yet."
18V4 acres, Together with all
is the comparatively large area this commission may feel justified
The Coast Culvert and Flume Co. thing like its fair share of the which is not producing. It is es­ in making on account of the some­
ditch and water rights includ­
of Portland, representatives of the American work of education. So timated that approximately 14,000 what high prices placed on some ot
ing five (5) shares of the cap-
DR. E. A. NIXON
Armco manufacturers, will make long as we spend three-quarters or acres, only, were in cultivation last these lands.
,ial stock of Ine Owynee Ditch
DENTIST
good the guarantee on the pipe and more of every tax dollar on war, year out of the total of 31,000
Company.
A filing of this contract with th
NYSSA,
:
:
:
OREGON
past,
present,
or
to
come,
just
so
replace it for the city. In all pro­
i HKREFORE, 1 will on Thursday Two Doors West Bank of Nyssa
acres in the project. This may be county clerk may otherwise he re
long
we
shall
be
unable
to
do
as
we
bability some experiments will be
ascribed in part to the high price garded as a recognition on the part j L‘ie 3rd duy of May, 1923, at th«
Pnone 2
made to find out what chemical the wish by our schools. For three put upon raw lands in the project, of this commission of the rea on I -‘our of 10:30 o’clock in the ioro-
hundred
years
statecraft
has
rob­
mountain contains.
ableness of the prices fixed in t h e l‘loon of said day, at the north main
bed the future for the sake of pres­ which has retarded its settlement.
contract.
u.ance door of the County Court
USI KOPATHt*
ent urmament. The one big job for Some of the lands in the project are
Morale.
! House at Vale, Malheur County, Ort-
alkaline
and
will
probably
do
well
to
our nation’s leaders today is to
...
..
. ,
The low prices for farm produce I
sell at public auction to the
take the money out of war and put j pay thelr proport'°nate part of the
during the past season particularly j -ugliest bidder for cash, all right
HH. HARKI). 4 sEhxita
it into the schools. Quit betting on construction cost without taking in­
to consideration any value in the with reference to the potato crop 1-40 and interest which said above
o s te o p a th ic
t'b y le m a
gunpowder and bet on the kids.
has left some of the land owner.- named defendants had on the 22r.it
Ontario, Orexon.
That is a plain and simple program, lands themselves in excess of this
discouraged and a few expressed a .y of May, 1914, the date of sain Office: Wilson B l.ig o r a r K a d e r s '.
and it can be carried out. It will amount.
However, there is a wide differ­ themselves to the effect that i mortgage, or now have in said real
CANNOT SPEAK WHEN RESCU­ do more than we can dream to es­
would be useless for the state t- , (Operty, with the appurtenances, to
ED BY SEARCHING PARTY
tablish a better and happier human ence of opinion as to the value of
utisfy said judgment and decree ill
pay additional interest for the pi'
this
class
of
lands,
and
in
one
in­
i I l I R l i l ’I f U T O R S
life here in our country.
However,
these
constituti favor of said above named plaintifl
stance a man who purchased a ject.
The
citizen
whom
this
educational
Jack Keagon Well Known in The
tract of this class of land declined only a small per cent, of the bin | -.ad aginst said defendants M. U.
statesmanship must enlist on its
Mining Circles of The
Bostick and Mattie Bostick, together HR. R. A. MOON
to exchange it for other land, and owners of the district and in gei
side is everybody old enough to
Malheur District
after working the land for two or eral the morale of the project, i- I v.th said attorney’s tee and cost--
Chlro’iroctlo PLysldin
know what the teachers are trying
The people an j mi disbursements, and interest, and
three years purchased adjoining reasonably good.
Hon e culls made
to do. Government aid and leader­
lands of the same quality, paying imbued with the feeling that thi • aCluing costs upon said sale.
Acute
Jr Chrouto Dioeaoes
Baker—John “Jack” Reagan, 55, ship do not mean more government $25 per acre for the same in addi­ project is fundamentally sound and \ Dated at Vale, Oregon, this 27th Hours, 10-12; 1 iu lo U
lived alone for two weeks in a semi­ schools, but better local schools. tion to the maximum construction will work out successfully, through day of March, 1923.
Evening* by ao> jintoieut
paralytic condition in bis miners’ The real idea of model public in­ charge.
all recognize that the project is i
H. Lee Noe, Sheriff,
Phone-—Oliice, iuö; Home 41 R.
struction
and
a
Federal
Department
cabin, surrounded by three feet of
By C. W. Glenn, Deputy.. Ontario
Upon the return of normal de­ passing through a difficult condi-
Oregon
snow, in the mountains 10 miles of Education at Washington, D. C., mand for agricultural lands, it is tion at the present time.
Date of first publication Man h
west of Rye Valley it was revealed is merely to improve what’s being probable that all this area will be
The project has many elements 30th, 1923,
here when a rescue party headed by done in the grades at Rumpus put to beneficial use.
which will commend it for favorable
Date of last publication April
HOI ELM A t t n C AK E»
Ridge,
Ark.,
and
Rough
Gap,
Mont.
Dr. Oliver of Durkee brought the
th, 1923.
The average charge against the consideration: such as abundant
patient to St. Elizabeth's hospital. The States and, even more, the dis­ lands in the district at the present water, excellent climatic conditions
HO TEL W ESTERN
Date of sale May 3rd, 1923,
Reagan was unable to articulate. tricts themselves must shoulder the time is less than $60 per acre, and and productive soil. Barring the 10:30 A. M.
One block from depo*
work
for
better
schooling.
They
His recuers believe ho was afflicted
N yssa, O re g o n
the maximum charge against those alfalfa weevil this section equals if
probably two weeks ago while work­ will not deserve or get the right re­ lands having credits for water right not surpasses any other irrigation NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE
ing alone in his mine, and by sheer sults unless they do. The immense is approximately $77 per acre. This section in the production of alfalfa
By virtue of an execution in fore Clean Lies...... ii5c 50c 75c
force, spurred on by necessity, he field to be tilled cannot be covered latter figure will be increased to hay. It will produce an excellent closure duly issued by the Clerk of
and $1.00
worked his way to his cabin, some from Washington, but Washington over $80 per acre in the event the yield of corn and the production of ttle Circuit Court of the State ot G ood m e a ls ......................... *.»e to r»«c
can and should take the lead. The
yards from the entrance.
Room# by week or month
State pays the interest as requested. head lettuce is receiving a great Oregon, for the County of Malheur,
His condition was discovered on Towner-Sterling Bill ought to be
In viewing the matter from the deal of attention. A very fine dated the 26th day of March, 1923
ALBERT KOUCU
urged
persistently
on
the
next
Monday by one Kunsmun, a rancher
standpoint of a security or an in- quality of apples is produced in *n a certain suit in the Circuit
P r o p r ie to r
friend who came to visit him. Congress, beginning now. so a . to vegtment it must ^ borne in mind this section as well as all other Court for said State and County
Kunsman organized the rescue party keep the school issue to the front that every acre within the district kinds of fruit of similar require- wherein J. H. Rust, was plaintiff,
W . B. H OXtK
in our battle for a better civiliza­
at Durkee.
and Lee R. Shaffer and Robert
is held liable for the entire obliga­ ments.
Bonded Real Estate D ea ler
tion.—Collier’s Weekly.
The project would be funda- I’ickerell were defendants, a judg-
tion, so that should any tract fall
JNSt R A N C R
to pay its assessment and should mentally sound and no reason tuent was rendered in favor of the
OREGON SLOPE
Rye Valley is just over the Mal­
O ffice at Residence, 3rd A E b rgood
fall into the hands of the district under normal agricultural condi-1 above named Plaintiff and against
heur county line. Jack Reagan is
Aiven a»
(Continued from wage one)
and no purchaser could be found tions why it should not be one of tbe above named defendant Lee
wll known in th mining districts
N y ssa .
O regon
R.
Shaffer,
upon
two
causes
of
of this country. He has worked in tertained at dinner Sunday. Covers for it, the other lands in the dis­ the best projects in Oregon and a
suit» in the aggregate sum of
most of the mines and has been in were laid for Mr. and Mrs. E. trict would be required to make up real asset to the state.
Taxes.
Four Thousand & No|100 Dollars
CITY DRAY LINE
this district for a number of years. Frost, Mr. and Mrs. Friel Frost, the deficiency. Therefore, the en-
There is a substantial tax de- <$4,000.00), with interest thereor.
Miss Marie Frost and Bernard i tire value of the lands in the dis­
C. W. DeBoer Prop.
trict are held as security for the linquency on the project at this from the 26th day of November,
Frost.
tim e , no small part
of which is 1920, at the rate of seven per cent
PROMPT DELI ■ ER Y
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Brown and funds advanced by the state.
The appraisal made in September, against property owned or con­ per annum, and Four Hundred A-
children were dinner guests Sundnv
Reasonable Rates
Director Davis Writes Warmsprings of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hmwn o f ! 1911*’
C irc u it Ju,1K® D a lto n Bi^ s trolled by the Oregon and Western No 100 Dollars ($400.00) Attorney’;
PHONE 1813
Payette.
¡shows a value of $3,111,202. This Colonization Company or th o s e to 1 fee, and the further sum of Twenty-
of Action
H. O. Musgrove moved his hands va*u<‘ does not take into neoount whom it has sold under contract.
| six & TOjlOO Dollars ($26.70) costs
ATTORNKVEN AT LAW
The Warmsprings Irrigation dis­
of about 8000 sheep to
the ran e
pxrps*
storage capacity in the I Dthers holding substantial
areas and disbursements, which judgment
trict is in receipt of letters and tele­ this week after wintering
Warmsprings reservoir, which is a I within the district upon
which was enrolled and docketed in the
grams from Director Davis, of th e ;
j substantial asset in the hands of taxes are delinquent are C. E. S. | Clerk's office of said Court in said
K M. BLODGETT
Slope
Reclamation service, and Congress­
the district. It is probable that the ¡Woods, and Drake O’Reilly, both, County on the 24th day of March,
Friel
A ttorn ey
la w
man N. J. Sinnott, that the depart­ the week end with his narents^ m " district onu,d dispose of from 7 5,-1 of whom are well able and doubt- 1923.
Land and Probate work a S p ecia lty .
ment will place a soil engineer on and Mrs. E. Frost
’ r‘ 1000 to 100,000 acre feet o f water to less will pay their taxes on this THEREFORE, NOTICE IS HERE-
N yssa, O regon .
th# district within a short time to
p M. Boats and ('has Idas w „ .-' ot*>cr ,nm,s in that vicinity and the property, particularly in view of BY GIVEN. That I will on Wedne
make the desired survey of the pro­
United
States
Reclamation
S
e
rv
ic
e
the
statute
enacted
at
the
last
'lay
the
2nd
day
of
May,
1923
at
tin
business visitors In Vale Thursday. I
posed extension lands.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Stevens en­ is now investigating the feasibility legislative session providing that a hour of eleven o’clock in the R. W RWA g LEB
of applying this water to lands title may be acquired to lands with- forenoon
of said
day
at
the
Attorney at Lew
King George’s new grandson will tertained at dinner Sunday for Mr.
lying above the Warmsprings dis- in an irrigation distret under tax north
main
Room« 1 * 1 4, j*
rance
door
of
he called a prince except when cry and Mrs. Lindquist of North Pay !
triet.
certificate after 18 months from the County Court House at Vale,
ette.
W ilso n B id *
tng In the middle of the night.
It seems quite certain, therefore, ( the first delinquency.
Malheur County, Oregon, sell at pub- O ntario
Oregon.
E. Frost transacted business in
VALE BUTTE
IS PROBLEM
UNKNOWN CHEMICALS ATTACK
IMPERVIOUS'IMETAL
FORMATION IS PECULIAR
STATE ENGINEER’S REPORT
ON WARMSPRINGS PROJECT
I#
F o r Q u ic k S e r v ic e
N y ss a T ra n sfe r
Nyssa kiilbei Shop |
I ’k O H . ^ i O r v A L
>•
CAMS
RYE VALLEY MINER STRUCK
EXISTS ALONE TWO WEEKS
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t) •
SOIL ENGINEER COMING
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