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T he G ate C ity J ournal NYSSA, ORELON, FRIDAY,JULY 20, 1923. VOL. XXI. NO. 38. NEW PLANS SAVE SOILS OLD MAN SOL SMILES AND LAND SWELTERS IN HEAT HOTTEST WEATHER OF YEAR HITS MALHEUR COUNTY. Crop* SLUICING OF DRAIN OUCHES IS EXPLAINED MANY DRAINS PUT IN VALE MAN’S INVENTION MAKES WORK MUCH EASIER AND AT LOWER EXPENSE Growing Fast Alter Long Wet Season During the Spring Months. Old Man Sol is smiling his broad est upon Malheur county this week but the people do not seem to ap preciate his evidence of affection. 1 he government thermometer kept by Charles Tapp at the court house registered 118 on the afternoon of Thursday. This is the hottest weather registered so far this year. At Ontario the government ther mometer registred 86 the same af ternoon but more humidity was in the atmosphere than around Vale and more discomfort from the heat was experienced. The hot weather in the Snake River valley js bringing out the crops in fine shape after the un usually wet season which just pre ceded it. By W. W. Johnston Department Oregon Agricul tural College. Soil investigations were started in the spring of 1821 in response to re quests from local people for aid in solving the alkali and drainage l ' " ' . 1 m3 of Malheur county. The worh has been conducted there since th-* time as a phase o f the soil in vestigation provided for in Chapter 350, General Laws of Oregon, 1818, Delegation Goea From Vale to A t ami its continuation in 1821 and tend Meeting. Soil IRRIGAIERSJT BAKER 1828 . OWYHEE CROP WILL BE MUCH SHORTER THAN LAST YEAR OIL LEASES ARE WANTED FIND LEDGE OF QUARTZ State Market Agent News -By C. E. Spence- WILL CLASS HOMESTEAD The state marke agent hears many greivances of producers and how they and consumers are forced to pay tribute to the middle specula tors thru the ramifications of the or ganizations that control produce i marketing. A farmer a few miles south of! Corvllis relates how he was forced to ship a quanity of garden produce j | | ] 1 r n T C T P C T A G I f H C H to Portland because he could not sell: u y l it in Corvallis, and that the same stuff was shipped back to Corvallis merchants and retailed. ! VALE LAND OFFICE IS BUSY Express charges for two hundred THIS YEAR— MANY ARE miles, and commission profits to thei PROVING CLAIMS. Portlnd dealers were added to the retailer’s profits whep the consum j er bought the product. Another! Mr. Kerr of the United State* __________ ___ farmer ______________ across the river from Corval- lis states that in one "of the largest Geologic*! Survey was in Vale grocery stores of that city not a Wednesday after completing an ex bushel o f Benton county potatoes tensive examination of the home steads in the southern part of the was carried. near Jordan Valley The Farmers’ Unon reports that that county . - with a garden truck raised at I.a Grande v ‘ e W *? lh eir ciaaslflclltion under had to be shipped to Portland for a J™ s^oc^ raising homestead act. market and then was shipped back 1 he results oi his recommendation to Walla Walla and retailed. One *° the fedfc,al la,ui authorities will Shipper Stumped his name on the be *•*»*** awaited by those inter bottom of the crate and his produce l n these lands under this new ■ • - crate. classification. From Vale Mr. Kerr came back in the original The Banner-Courier at Oregon City I Went; on t Ironside and Unity where under date of June 22, stated that: be will inspect similar holdings be- 75 per cent of the cabbage supply fore returning to Washington, D. C. The other business matters of the carried by the stores of that city was grown in California and shipp local land office, although not as ed to Oregon City thru a Portland numerous as in other seasons, are commission house. The paper re still pressing enough to keep things lated how a nearby grower at Can- moving fairly rapidly. During the by brought a quanity of choice cab month o f June fifteen final certifi bage to the city and could not sell cates were issued and in the last few days a number of tracts have it. The unorganized raiser has nothing been purchased by ranchers and to say as to the price of his product, other people interested in this sec tion of the country. In the last nor has the eater at the other end. The unorganized producer has no three or four weeks a large number controj over the price or distribution have made application for lands of his product. He takes what the listed under homesteads, desert land entries and isolated tract headings. dealers or brokers offer. The consumer has nothing to say Among these have been Harlan S. about the retail price, e pays what Oantrel of Baker, homestead; Ed Washburn of Huntington, ever is asked. He has to or go with ward out. Both are at the mercy o f the homestead; R. A. Bybee of Brogan, additional homestead; Mike Golse middle interests. The producer has simply got to of Vale, homestead; Pascual Eugur- play the game for himself as others en and Rufino Arritola of Jordan have played it against him. By com Valley, additional homesteads; Las- binations o f products and central aro Urquiaga of Jordan Valley, iso selling agencies he must control his lated tract; I.yle H. Lamp of West- products all the way from the fall, stock raising homestead; Anna ground to the retailer. By controll D. S. Prntt of Ironside, isolated ing the commodity thc mnrket can tract; Robert Fade o f McDermitt, be stabilized, middle speculation cut Nevada, homestead; F. W. Smith of homestead; Mabel L. out, waste minimized, unnecessary Durkee, competition eliminated and the pro Graham, Danner, desert land entry; ducts so distributed thru the full Fred B. Laurence of Ironside, addi Americans are rushing to Europe. season that a fair price can be tional homestead; Harry W. Bryan While most other countries need of Caldwell, homestead; Hazel R. it the most, the United States uses Immigrants are rushing here, Why maintained. Commercial, financial and business Winters, of Rockville, desert land the most perfume. 'n ot swap countries? entry; Frank Politta of Durkee, Iso lated tract; Mary L. Phillips of Baker, homestead; Loyd A. Owlngs of Jordan Valley and Elmer A. Simpson of Ironside oth filed appli cations for homesteads; while Hu bert S. Crouter of Bridgeport and Wallis I. Shepard of Jordan Valley filed applications for additional homcsceads. A meeting of officera o f the Ore A preliminary investigation show ed the alkali drainage difficulty to gon Irrigation Congress and others present three distinct problems. The interested in irrigation is jn prog (Saturday) at Baker. first vas the need of a cheap meth ress today od of drainage, necessary for the re- This meeting was called by Chair ’ i i; on o i lands affected at that man dteward, of the executive com time and also to prevent the water- mittee for the purpose o f consider •■»o‘ Ug of extensive additional ing the future of irrigation in Ore areas now under production. The gon and to further expedite plana second was the reclamation o f nat for the 1923 convention of the Con urally alkaline or greasewood lands gress which will be held in Vale on and the third, the problem of lands October 3, 4 nd 5. t'lrmorly good which have been ren t-reel unproductive due to the ac cumulation of alkali resulting from a lack o f proper drainage. Sluicing Explained. The problem o i cheaper drainage been met to a large extent by development o f a system of ¡ig or building the ditches with water. The first deep drain to be sluiced was constructed by the Ore- - n r -periment station in coopera tion with Glenn E. Burrelle o f Vale, Or., in the spring o f 1921, A small surface ditch wai first built with a f-esno, a head f -.! ' t five feet of ONE SALE OF 7Q0 SACKS RE- PORTED AT PRICE OF water was then turned in and sev *1.50 SACK. eral systems were tried in an effort to determine the best method of ’ ’ plug the dirt in suspension. A .. . . . . . . ...... valor, long iron bar, pick , firtaent ,'Jfllc“ tl“ n8 are that P°; and shovel were all used to keep tat? men Malheur county will t diet stirred up, the large am ount, mak.e “ oney this year. - ..u.uiion being accomplished, The croP “ sh° rt he™ an<J 80me l.v loosening the d'rt with an or- K' ow.er8 asse? / * * * w>ll have just din»-v : *auon Shovel and allow-I «bout half what they had last year . water to carry it out. The b u t, the P " c e , w‘** tha" make one-horse cultivator was especially i *JP ^or that the bottom does not o f - - : ■ ,:ut was rather hard t o I dr? ? ,out ° { thc PreBe,nt market. It is understood that one Vale handle. The average depth o f this ditch was 12 feet and the length ! Kr°wer has already sold 7000 sacks - at $1.50. S feet. | The Purvis Sluicer. 'mds work showed a need for ■ome sort of a machine which would not require an operator in the ditch ind such a tool was invented by Bjg Concern Promises to Drill Near Percy Purvis, one of the directors Vale. of the Wavmspringa Irrigation dis-' r rd is known as the Purvis The Pacific Penn Oil Company, i It is patterned after a one of the largest developers o f oil thresh’ ny machine cylinder and wells in the United States, is after consists of five iron hoops placed leases in the Malheur River valley parallel to each other and about around Vale and has appointed Jas. o e loot apart; these are held in N. Frost o f this city as their leas ; co L., live pieces of strap iron ing agent. Mr. Frost has consider ur.r'ng perpendicular to the hoops able land already under lease and fit L intervals. Each hoop con is desirous for all land owners to tains ten sha*p cylinder teeth, so ar give him their leases. ranged that no two teeth run in the “ The landowners have everything same groove. The machine is 5 feet to gain and nothing to lose,” said in length, 19 inches in diameter and said Mr. Frost, “ because signally weighs about 150 pounds. It can be they cannot drill for oil and if oil is made by any good blacksmith and developed they will get their per o s t s about 25. It is drawn through centage. The company proposes to tV*o ’ lengthwise and is hauled bring two rigs into the valley just by four ho^es, two being hitched to as soon as sufficient land is under each end of a long pole which ex- lease.” r,jv rv.n.ss the ditch The sluicer is connected to the pole by a long Infectious abortion of cattle, wide chain, one end of which is attached spread in Oregon, has no diagnostic lU the middle of the improvised symtoms, but can be diagnosed by double-tree. ~nd fho other to the a blood test. Infected animals often swivel on one end of the sluicer. give birth to live vigorous calves, Two teams and their drivers are all and may be very active spreaders of the crew required to operate it. the disease. Owners of abortion Snores'* is also being secured by free herds are advised by the O. A. plowing the ditch bottom and then C. experiment station never to intro removing the loose dirt with water. duce females that have not been plowing is accomplished best tested into their herds. when the ditch s dry and this sys- js Pest nJaded to the construc- dirt removed. The cost exclusive of tion of rather large ditches and thc farmers’ time was under *50. The southeast unit drainage dis where a large head of water is trict o f Malheur county adopted this a vs liable. method and have sluiced some eight Large Ditches Made Tn less than a year after the com- miles o f deep drains at a cost of pletion of the preliminary work and j *20,000. During the past year the ex drain was lengthened to the invention of the machine by perimental 1 Purvis, drains had been constructed 1000 feet and deepened some what, in the Malheur valley, by the sluic the Purivs sluicer being used. The ing method, extensive enough to cost per foot of ditch was brought down to less than 17 cents per foot serve 1000 acres. The cost o f sluicing by the method the total amounting to *169. Since finally worked out can be illustrat this time sluicing operations have ed by referring to the ditch con been started by six or seven other structed by Messrs. Hadley Russell farmers in the Malheur valley, which and Carman o f Vale. Their ditch is when completed will add another some 2225 feet long average« 12 ft 1000 acres to the total. The system : in depth and cost, when all labor has also been tried out in several; charges were considered, *247. This other sections of the state, marked | amounts to 11 cents per foot of I success being secured hi Crook and , drain or 5 centa per cubie yard of'Josephine counties. J POTATO PRICES' NOW LOOK GOOD i OWYHEE Messrs Roy and Arthur Cook and families, of Nyssa visited Sunday a f ternoon at the Ellis Walters home. Rev. Clive Williams accompanied by Mr. Johnson of the Bend gave a brief address after Sunday school. Both gentlemen were dinner guests in the Pullen home after the ser vices. The S. S. choir and orchestra met Friday evening at the Kelso home. They will meet next Friday at the Klingback residence. The Misses Conley of Nyssa were guests of Nellie and Rada Elliott over Sunday. Born, Thursday, July 12, at On tario, to Mr. and Mrs. Lubertus De- Goede, a nine pound son. All are COARSE GOLD WASHED OUT OF CLAIM NEAR JOR doing well, even Lou has recovered by this time. DAN VALLEY. Mrs. T. M. Lowe and Mrs. M. M. Greeling met Wednesday with Mrs. J. B. Smith to confer on matters The find of a new quartz ledge pertaining to P.-T. A. work in the rich in gold and silver on South county. Mrs. Greeling is president of Mountuin a short distance from the county council and Mrs. Lowe is Jordan Valley has caused a mild chairman of the program committee. mining flurry to prevail in the The executive board of P.-T. A. southern Malheur county city. met at the home of Mrs. Frank Fry The ledge was discovered by some Saturday and arranged plans for the cattle men who are grazing stock coming years work. on South Mountain. It is three feet Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fox of Oregon deep and has been traced for three Trail district were entertained at miles. An assay made of quartz dinner Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. W. from the ledge showed value of *60 E. Walters. to the ton. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Judd ac There are several old mines on companied by members of the Pig South Mountain that were worked club, o f which Mr. Judd is leader, in the early days when Jordan Val met Thursday at the DeBord home. ley and Silver City were flourishing After the business meeting a swim mining camps. One o f these mines in the Owyhee river was enjoyed b y . wa3 worked by soldiers stationed at several. Members present were the old post a few miles from Jor Floyd, Cora and Harold Elliot, Ken dan Valley. neth Bach and Evelyn and Gerald D. D. Joselyn has some coarse DeBord. gold which was washed recently Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Glascock and near Jordan Valley. There are sev daughters, visited Sunday at the eral small nuggets in the handful Newbill home, bringing home with of gold dust and sand he has. them their little girls, Viola and Tiling to be satisfactory in heavy Thelma, who had visited there for a weather must handle half an inch an week. Word was recently received that acre of rainfall every 24 hours. In Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Brown are the unusual storm periods the O. A. C. parents of an 8% lb daughter bom experiment station field tiles have July 10, 1923. Mrs. Brown is re run o ff as much as an inch an acre membered by many as Maudie Clark. in one day. P. I. Speer of Apple Valley was Brokers who took *6,000,000 must in Owyhee buying lambs etc. Mon serve a yeqp. About *500,000 a day. month is fairly good pay. More girls are swimming this Tokio radio fans heard people year. Every bathing place looks singing in New York. like a flock o f magazine covers. Only one farmer in 50 in the President Harding, apparently United States has a truck, showing thinking he has a steady job, has how few truck farmers we have. sold his newspaper.________ A penniless man who went to the Wouldn’t it be great if you coul Kansas oil fields to get rich owes send the baby to the laundry. *1,500,000 now. $1.50 PER YEAR SOUTH MOUNTAIN YIELDS UP RICH METALS PUBLIC LANDS BEING LISTED UNDER NEW LAW TRACE LEDGE 3 MILES IN 1 LillLu I ta IULI ITI PI interests of the state are working I with the producers to bring this j about, but so far there has heen little or no effort or interest from | the consumers’ end. The purpose of the state market | law is to give the consumer as fair ! a deal as the producer. President Harding says that organization of consumers enn shorten the bridge be tween the grower and the eater and greatly reduce the retail prices. When the workers in the cities and towns of Oregon will show as much interest in reducing middle speculation as the farmers are now demanding, the state market agent will be glad to confer with them and work with them to shorten the line and reduce the cost of the products between the farm and the home. There is a large middle handling expense and middle profit and spec u lation that should is- eliminated and , this aided cost ns far as possible divided between the producer and the 1 consumer. If the producer through | organization can control the product I and its distribution it would seem that consumers thru organization j could co-operate and distribute it to its members. There are many or ganizations that are doing this and in Great Britain consumers have powerful organizations for the bene- f :> of the working class. -Land in native vegetation flooded to rem..vs salts and supply pasture while thc land Is Si^tng Belov, left__An 11-foot ditch made by I’ arvia ditcher, wh irh is to hr demonstrated at drainage short course at Corrai lia, February 19 tu 24. ..The method of using this d dr her is shown at right. Four 1*1 nting Seasons Named Four rather distinct planting sea sons for the garden are recognized by the O. A. C. vegetable garden specialist* for early hardy veget ables, for tender vegetables after disappearance of frost, in late sum mer for fall and winter crops, and in fall for fall, winter, and spring marketing and use. The aim is to keep the ground busy for as much of the year as it can be made prof itable. Prop rotation is observed to ernnomize production and combat disease. Wolves often raise 13 pups, and usually hank around th* doors of other large families.