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TOTAL $185,000 ACTIVITY IN MALHEUR MINES
ACCELERATED THIS SEASON
IS APPLIED FOR
FEDERAL FARM LOANS OF VALE
ASSOCIATION ARE LARGE
NEXT APPRAISALS TO BE MADE
DURING THE FALL
MONTHS
CONDITIONS
BEST
OF
ANY
Coddling moth time is here again
TIME SINCE BEFORE WAR
and some o f the moths have already
emerged ready to lay eggs on the
Force of 100 Men Expected To Be first evening that the temperature is
Working At Golden
above sixty at dusk. Every orchard-
Eagle Mine
ist would do well to keep a good re­
liable thermonmeter and watch for
That there is more activity in the
“ egg laying” weather. Of course it
mines o f Malheur county than at any
takes from four to sixteen days for
time since before the war is the
the eggs to hatch, depending on the
statement of Charles Morfitt, vet­
temperature, during which time the
eran merchant of Malheur City, who
first cover spray can be applied. Of
was in the lower country the last
this more will be said in a later
of the previous week. Malheur City
letter.
is beginning to take on a ghost of
the busy life it was the center of
The Calyx Spray is important now
during the old days when it was Do not omit it for there is much
known as the “ New Eldorado” he authority for the statement that it
says,
is the most important o f all sprays
A good sized force of men are for control o f coddling moth. The
now working at the Golden Eagle Leaf Roller is also killed to consid­
mine and the foreman informed Mr. erable extent by this spray, as it
Morfitt he expected to have 100 comes before this pest has advanced
men at work within a short time.
beyond the stage where remedies can
Owners of the celebrated Rainbow be applied. Some entomologists be­
mine assert they will rebuild the lieve that no one need seriously be
stamp mill and mine buildings which bothered by this serious pest if all
burned a few months ago and renew would apply the calyx spray at the
activities at the mine, Mr. Morfitt right time and use double strength
asserts.
lead arsenate— four pounds to the
There are a number of small op­ hundred in stead of two pounds. The
erations along the streams in the calyx spray should be applied after
Mormon Basin and Malheur City most o f the petals have fallen and
districts.
before the calyx is closed.
WANT VALLEY LEASES
Reports have been circulated that
the eastern fruit crop has been ruin
ed by freezing. This is not borne out
by Government reports or reliable
private reports. Should the East
suffer damage as in 1921 it would
o f couse strengthen the demand for
Western fruit. There has evidently
been some damage done to stone
fruits in sections o f the East, but
there seems to be no present resan
why local growers should allow their
judgement on matters of either pro­
duction or marketing to be warped
because unauthenticated reports of
frost damage in the East.
If it
month in practically every state in
should develop that any such ill
the Union, the automobile is taking
fortuse befalls the eastern growers
more and more o f the passenger
mention o f it will be made in later
travel from the railroads. The motor
If your clover or alfalfa fails to newsletters.
truck is not far behind in absorbing catch examine the roots of the plant
short haul freight « k i l f k formerly for nodules. The failure may be due
Beter marketing service is some­
carried over the steel rails.
to lack o f inoculation. The inocula thing which fruit growers of this
To one superficially versed in the tion with cultures will not take the county have been talking about for
transportation problems the passen­ place of lime in sour soils, acterial several years. The movement which
ger problem seems very difficult fo r cultures for inoculating the legume is believed to be the ultimate solu­
the railroads to solve.
We have may be had at a low cost from the tion of fruit marketing troubles was
seen the automobile practically bank­ department of bacteriology, Oregon started two or three years ago when
rupt street car and interurban lines Agricultural college, Corvallis, Ore. a committee o f tweny-one of the
in many sections. Ordinarily it is
County’s best informed and most
The current aphis which causes capable fruit men was appointed by
more convenient to travel by auto­
mobile than it is by rail. The med­ the very striking blotches of red the president of the American Farm
ium-priced car will carry four or coloring on foliage, with cupping Bureau Federation and financed by
more passengers as cheap, if not| and crumpling of the leaves can best that organization while working out
cheapeY, than railroad fares.
And be controlled with a nicotine dust. what has now taken tangible form in
there are other advantages, or what Obtain a 4 per cent nicotine dust the Federated Fruit and Vegetable
is considered by the general public from your spray dealer and apply Growers, Incorporated, the national
to be advantages, of traveling by a light coating through a cheese grower-owned and grower controlled
cloth bag or salt sack. Best results coopeative sales agency.
motor.
In order
This menace to the future opera­ will be obbtained when there is no that the growers of this county
take advantage o f this sales agency
tion of the railroad is certainly en­ wind and teperature is high.
the fruit project leaders of the coun­
hanced by the building of good
The elm leaf beetle, an imported ty farm bureau initiated a move­
roads, yet no reasonable minded
leaf
eating
pest
which
attacks
elm
ment to organize a county associa­
man can but vote in favor of im­
proved highways which mean much | trees as a grown beetle and later tion some months ago, and have now
to the agricultural development of as a grub is now appearing on the brought the matter up to the point
elm trees of city streets and parks. where memberships are being taken
the nation.
And yet the problem is not one The adults should be killed before in the proposed association. When
for the railroads to solve unaided. they lay eggs. Spray with arsenate the association is legally organized
Too much of the development and of lead, 3 pounds to 100 gallons of the members will elect directors who
will have power to sign a contract
life of the nation depends upon an water.
for the association with the Feder­
efficient railroad service for the
Gooseberry mildew and anthrac-
ated Fruit and Vegetable Growers,
people to sit by and see the railroad
nose leaf spot can be controlled by
or any other sales agency, as their
system crumble. Through franchise
lime-sulfur spray, using one gallon
judgement may direct. The organ­
requirements a railroad here and
of the concentrated liquid or four
ization committee consists o f A. A.
there may be forced to maintain ser­
pounds o f the dry to forty gallons
Reed, chairman, C. C. Hunt, secre­
vice even if that particular line does
of water.
tary, P. F. Countryman, A. A. Gut-
not pay operating expenses.
This
is only possible by making a drain The recommended control measures teridge and H. L. Taylor. The farm
upon the profits of other lines to for cylindrosporium leaf spot that bureau committeemen, as well as the
make up the deficit. It cannot be appeared on cherry and prune trees present organization committee have
done generally.
last year is an application o f Bor­ sought and received the advice and
Under the present motor vehicle deaux 4-4-50. The old last year’s assistance o f the county agen and
taxation plan in Oregon, the motor leaves carry the disease and should the specialist In marketing and or­
ganization of the Oregon Agricul­
trucks do not pay commensurate be buried.
tural College Extension Service and
with the wear and tear they give
the movement thus far has the en­
the highways. A per ton mile charge
dorsement of the extension service
should be levied against this charac­
and the county Farm Burau.
ter of freight hauling that will, as
Livestock Broker Looking For Good
nearly as can be estimated, main­
.
Demand For Lambs
tain the highways the trucks wear
FARM POINTERS
EXPECT HIGH »RICES
OBSERVE DAYS OF ’6 2
Whiskey Gulch Gang To Be Hosts
At Canyon City
The Whiskey Gulch Gang in Grant
county, that rough and ready bunch
o f boosters, will again be hosts of
the world in a celebration of the
Days o f '62. This year’s festival
will be June 14, 15 and 16. The suc­
cess o f last year will be enlarged
upon, so the early publicity noticed
assert.
With malaria starting,
this
Is
the time for all good lemons to
come to the ade of their country.
Melady Brothers’ Sheep Market.
Omaha, Nebraska, May 7.— (Special
to The Enterprise.)— The receipts
of Sheep and Lambs today, Monday,
11,500. General market is steady.
The big end of the receipts today
consist of California Spring Lambs,
the bulk o f them sold to the country
packers at $15.00 with the few outs
at $12.50 for the feeders. Very few
aged sheep are coming. Fed Wool
Ewes selling up to 9c and the clipp­
ed ewes at $7.50 to $8.00. The big
end of the feed-lot sheep and the
lambs have been marketed and from
now on packers will have to depend
on California and Oregon in the near
future, to supply their wants.
The outlook is favorable for the
early Spring market, and we believe
the Oregon shipments will sell at
least $1.00 cwt. higher this season
than a year ago.
GILA MONSTER KILLED ON THE
VALE BUTTE IT IS CLAIMED
Fruit Growers
ASK
Newsletter
Appraisers for the Vale Farm
Loan association have just complet­
ed their investigations of the secur­
ities covered by the application that
will be submitted this spring for
loans and have approved loans to the
amount o f $185,000. This is consid­
erable in excess of the total loans
expected to be applied for by Sec­
retary John P. Houston. The total
number o f land owners who would
secure loans to this amount is 38.
These applications will go to the
parent, the Spokane Farm Loan
bank about June 1st and an apprais­
er from that institution is expected
to be in Malheur county shortly af­
terwards.
The time is opportune
for the appraisal as the farms of
the county are looking their best at
this time o f the year.
Secretary Houston is still taking
applications for the Fall appraisal
and wants as large a list as possible.
There are no district limits to the
jurisdiction of the Vale association
and Mr. Houston requests any farm­ Effort Being Made to Sign Up
Willow Creek.
er of the county who wants a fed­
eral loan to communicate with him.
A renewed activity was manifest­
ed this week in securing the big
The Railroads’ Future
Even to the layman it is apparent block o f oil leases on Malheur coun­
that present transportation condi­ ty lands by starting to sign up on
tions are not painting a very rosy leases land owners along Willow
vision of the future to the railroads creek from Vale to Brogan. It is
of the United States. To railroad said there are in sight 2700 acres
men
themselves
this
unpleasant of land which looks good for oil
prospects and leases will be ac­
picture must be more clearly seen.
As good roads spread month by cepted on these lands.
sje.CudxBi aqi 0 } .nej Ajuo si u -jno
who build the highways but also to
the railroads that, must compete on
privately built and maintained lines
that this be done.
$1.50 P E R Y E A R
NYSSA, OREGON. FRIDAY, MAY 18. 1923.
CLUB MEMBERS TRIP
Boys and Girls to Attend Summer
School at Corvallis
About ten members of the various
boys’ and girls’ clubs o f Malheur
county will go to Corvallis this year
to attend summer session held for
club members, says County Club
Leader W. D. Kinder.
The plan is to make the trip by
auto again this year as was done
last year, and Club Ix-ader Kinder
is looking for cars to carry the dele­
gation. Each member will be allow­
ed a sum for travelling expenses
and Mr. Kinder says that actual
running expenses of the cars can be
taken care of.
The summer session is from June
11 to 23 and considering three days
on the road each way, the caravan
will be away from Malheur county
three weeks.
COURT
F O R tO P ”
TOURIST IDENTIFIES LIZZARD
AS VENOMOUS REPTILE
P.-T. A. WANTS TRUANT WORK
LOOKED AFTER
ATTEMPT MADE TO FINE PAR­
ENTS FOR STUDENTS ABSENT
WITHOUT SUITABLE EXCUSE
As Far As Known First One That
YVaa Ever Found This
Far North
A giant lizzard, which he claims
to be a Gila monster, was killed on
top of the Vale butte Monday by
Ralph Uollibaugh, a tourist stopping
m the Vale park. Mr. Hollibaugh
says he formerly lived in the Moj-
have desert and has killed many Gila
montsers and positively identified
this as one of the venomous lizzards.
The Gila monster waa over a foot
long, asserts the killer. It had a
salmon colored stripe along each
side and diamond spots of the same
color, alternated with whitish circles
down it back and tail. As far as
is known this is the first lizzard
identified as the Gila monster ever
found this far north.
Mr. and Mrs. Hollibaugh and Theo
Heileson are enroute from Eastern
Idaho to Klamath Falls. They stop­
ped in the Vale Tourist park sever­
al days lunger than they expected
because of its pleasantness, they
said, and made minor repairs on
their car.
The county court of
Malheur
county was urged, through reso­
lutions passed at ehe county council
of the Parent-Teachers’ Association
last Saturday at Nyssa, to appoint
a county truant officer and to ap­
propriate sufficient funds so that
the work can be efficiently done.
The teaching of good English and a
more ready and accurate use of
English among the students on the
county schools was also urged in
a resolution.
A resolution was introduced but
failed to pass which asked the en­
actment o f a state law providing
for a fine of $3 a day to be paid
into the district treasury by parents
of schoolchildren absent from school
without a reasonable excuse.
This meeting was the annual el­
ection meeting of the county council
and new officers were elected as
follow s:- Mrs. M. N. Greeting, of
F. H. Beets to Peter Iverson EVk
Wade district, president; Mrs. Bruce ETkSWL4SE%, and west ten acres
Kester, vice president and Mrs. F. of lot 1, Seq. 8-16-46. 3|26|23.
U. S. A to Jesse Griffith-S%NE
C. Frye, secretary-treasurer.
All
of the old officers requested not to V4, SET4NW^4, SE% , and NEV4S
W14 Sec. 13-26-42. 3|23|23.
be asked to serve again.
Western Loan & Building Co. to
At noon a diner was served by
the ladies of Nyssa, assisted by the Artie Pool-Lots 19 and 20, Block
girls’ reserve. The proceeds from 206, Ontario. 3-23-23.$600.00.
the dinner will be used by the newly
John C. Miller et ux to Weiser
organized reserve.
National Bank-NE Vi Sec. 20-16-47;
W. H. Doolittle, Trustee, to M. B.
The program given in the after­
noon was as follows:
Sexton-Lots 1$ and 19, Block 3,
Paper sent by the Brogan circle Riverside Add. to Ontario. 3-6-20.
on “ Looking for the Good.” It was $275.00.
read by Mrs. Roberts, of Ontario.
Sheriff H. Lee Noe to Joseph J.
Solo, Miss Nellie Defres.
Heilner et al, Executors-EVkSWVi,
Paper, “ Responsibility
of
Par­ SWV4SEVL, SWV4SWV4 Sec. 33-15-
ents,” written by Mrs. Crocker, of b2; Lots 2, 3, 4, SWV4NEV4 Sec. 4-
16-42. 5|1|23. $1,813.67.
Nyssa and read by Mrs. Baxter.
J. M. Swanson et ux to Frederick
Duet, Edna Dennis and Thelma
Thompson, with Mrs. Hunt at the A. Sage-Blocks 22 and 23, Nyssa
piano.
11 | 20 | 20 . $ 1 , 000 . 00 .
Address, “ The Difficulty for Par­
J. T. Logan et ux to Ray T. Moe,
ents in Distinguishing What
is Receiver-Lots 11, 12, 13 and 14
Wrong for the Child and What is Block 136, Oneario. 5|11|23. $1.00.
Merely Inconvenient for the Parent,”
Ray T. Moe, Receiver to Walter
by Mrs M. N. Greeling.
M. Glenn-Lots 11, 12, 13, and 14,
Solo, by Mrs. McCarty.
Block 136, Ontario 5|11|23. $1,250.00
Frederick S. DeMotte to Milo E.
Address. “ Should Children Help in
the Home,” by Mrs. R. L. Hewitt Rice-Lot 13, Block 155, Ontario.
5|2|23. $1.00.
of Wade district.
Rev. J. J. Fleming spoke of his
Thos. J. Goodyear to Clara B.
plans for a community
program. Goodyear-NEVi, EV4NWV4, SWV4N
The budget committee reported its WV4, NVfcSWVi Sec. 25; and SEV4
estimates of necessary expnse mon­ Sec. 26-28-45. 5|3|23. Love and af­
ey. Good reports were read from fection.
nearly all circles in the county and
Henry Schlottman et ux to J. A.
showed that
the
Parent-Teacher Smith-SE'ASEVi Sec. 24-15-42; also
work is growing.
4 cattle and farming machinery.
There will be an executive meet­ 5-15-20. $17,500.00.
ing at the home of Mrs. Bruce Kes­
W. P. McGarey et ux to Frederick
ter in Ontario on Thursday, May S. De Motte-Lots 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
17 and all of the past and present and east 7 feet of Lot 8, Block 155,
officers are requestedto be present. Ontario, 4|3|23. $1.00.
The next county council will be
Anna Nichols to James C. Shea
held on the second Saturday in Oc­ West 60 feet of Lot 4, Block 3,
tober at Kingman Kolony.
Pioneer Add. to Jordan Valley. 4|10|
Resolutions adopted were as fol­ 19. $1.00.
lows :-
Mary L. Shea to James C. Shea-
We recommend
that
necessary East 7.45 feet of West 67.45 feet of
steps be taken by the county court Lots 3 and 4 Block 3, Pioneer Add
to appropriate a sum of money suf­ to Jordan Valley. 4|26|23. $1.00.
ficient to pay expenses of a county
Marriage Licenses Issued
truant officer and that a man will
Roy L. Beede and Josephine Pegg.
be employed who will take care of
this work in an efficient way. Fur­ 5-12-23.
Asa Knowles and Gussie Yeager.
ther be it resolved that a copy of
this resolution be sent to the dis­ 5-12-23.
COUNTY STATISTICS
trict attorney and to the county
judge.
Resolved, that a vote of thanks
be extended to the retiring pres-
idnt, Mrs. J. Edwin Johnson, and
Secretary-treasurer,
Mrs.
Martin
for their spledid work and untiring
efforts in the work o f the P. T. A.
in their official positions.
Be it resolved, that the P. T. A.
of Malheur county go on record as
favoring a community program,
with every organized force in the
county as a participant, as outlined
by Rev. J. J. Fleming.
We, the county council of the P.
T. A., extend our hearty thanks to
the Girls’ Reserve for the sumpt­
uous dinner and further extend out
good wishes for the success of this
organization, in
their work
of
moulding character in the life of
the girls.
Resol’led that the members of the
P. T. A. encourage in the schools
a greater emphasis upon the teach­
ing of good English and a more
ready and accurate use o f English
among the students.
Resolved, that we
extend
our
thanks to the parties furnishing
the music for the day’s program.
FRUIT CROP ONLY
TO BE HANDLED
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE HAS
COMPLETE CHARGE
NO 2 FRUIT CROP ONLY TO BE
CHAIRMAN REED WISHES THE
GROWERS TO UNDERSTAND
PLANS OF ASS’N
It is not the intention o f the or­
ganizers of the Malheur Producers
Co-operative Association to handle
any crops other than fruit, asserts
Arden A. Reed, chairman o f the or­
ganization committee in a letter to
The Enterprise asking that this
point be strongly impressed upon
the growers of the county.
“ There are already cooperative as­
sociations with large memberships in
this county handling wheat, wool,
eggs, potatoes, vegetables and seeds,
all with marked degrees of success,”
says Mr. Reed.
“ For this reason
there have been no plans made or
any discussion of handling anything
other than fruits.
In drawing up
our marketing agreement, the words,
‘other agricultural products’, were
used in order that we might include
peaches, pears or other fruits if de­
sired. O f course the same words
would permit of handling other pro­
ducts hut it is not our intention at
this time to handle any thing other
than fruits.”
“ The idea of the organization,”
continues Mr. Reed, “ was evolved in
the horticultural project of the coun­
ty farm bureau and was approved
by the executive committee of that
organization. We then asked and
received advise and assistance, not
only from the county agent but also
from the specialist in marketing and
organization from the extension ser­
vice of the Oregon Agricultural col­
lege in formulating our plans and in
drafting suitable documents.
The
actual organiaztion work, however,
is not headed by the county agent
as you previously stated, but in
charge of the organization commit­
tee named in your article and which
was selected at a meeting o f fruit
growers only on April 27 in Ontario,
called for the purpose of laying the
then tentative plans before them,
who decided to proceed through the
organization committee.”
The organization committee of
which Mr. Reed is the head, is pro­
ceeding as rapidly as possible to
place the contracts in the hands of
fruit growers of the county and to
secure members o f the association
which plans to handle the 1923 fruit
crop of Malheur county.
SIRE COSTSJL BIG SUM
Davis
Dairy to Acquire
Holstein Bull
Valuable
W. H. Davis has just purchased
a valuable registered Holstein bull
in Illinois to sire his herd of dairy-
cows at Vale. The sire o f the calf
bought by Mr. Davis was King
Chloe Hengerveld Ormsby and cost,
when a calf, $4000. The valuable
bull belongs to a celebrated breeder
at Shiman, Illinois.
CLUB NEWS NOTES.
Jefferson Club Finished 100%
The cooking club at Jefferson un­
der the local leadership o f Mrs.
Ida B. Leach was the first club in
the county this year to finish 100
per cent. The girls exhibited their
bread at one meeting at which the
county club agent was present, at
another meeting they served lunch
to the mothers of the club girls.
These girls are now taking up the
second division of the cooking work,
namely Camp Fire Cookery.
There are 44 clubs in the county
so far this year with an enrollment
of 380 members.
Complaints Filed in Circuit Court
James E. Clinton vs. Clinton
Hurtt & Co., et als. 5|7|23. Fore­
closure o f mortgage. $2,500.00.
State Land Board vs Albert F.
Moffet et ux. 5|7|23. Foreclosure of
mortgoge. $500.00.
James Richards vs. Hugh M.
Shaver. 6S8]23. Recovery on note.
$ 110 . 00 .
Summer School Trips
Sherry Johnson vs. J. W. Russell.
Summer school for the boys and
6|8|23. Damages $20,000.00.
Quinn River Bank vs. Mrs. Mar- girls begins June 11 and last until
June 23 in elusive.
celino LaUceriea, ankrupt. B| 11123.
Those eligible from Malheur coun­
Foreclosure o f chattel mortgage.
ty for the trip this year are: Doris
$2,000.00.
P. R. Sears et als vs. Orchards I,ees, Bonita; Elmer Parker, Wade;
Water Company. 6|11|23. Injunction. Violet Lees, Bonita; Joe Davis, Bro­
gan; J. P. Barrett, Big Bend; Cora
Bills of Sale
Elliot,
Kingman
Kolony;
Geritt
John Arritola Sons & Co. to Helm Muntz W erff of Wade. Jordan Val­
A Yturri-1000 acres of pasture land. ley is planning on sending two dele­
4|16|23. $100.00.
gates from the two clubs they have,
Milton Eddy to Bankers Discount one from the cooking club and one
Corporation-34 horses; 150 tons hay from the sewing club. Some o f the
3 20122. $1,289.17.
other clubs may send representatives
Chas L Thompson et al to S. D. but have not notified the office yet.
Goshert-2 motors; 1 oat kicker; 1
Illinois woman has 12 husbands.
clipper cleam er; 1 roller; bins and
elevator equipment; 1 com shelter; Pennsylvania man has 2^r#ives. We
1 adding machine; 1 safe; 10.552 suggest that the two be punished
by marrying each other.
sacks. 4 9j23. $1,115.00.