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T he gate C ity J ournal VOL. XXI. MX 42 NYSSA, OREGON, FKlüAY.AUüUST 17 1923. BIG QUARTZ LEDGE RICH YOUNG WOMEN HAVE NEVER BEEN OUT UF MALHEUR CO. SOME "JEWELER S'; QUARTZ IS TAKEN OUT Town of Lea* Than 10U Largest Place Ever Visited by Interior Girls. LEDGE 18 INCHES THRU MINERS BELIEVE IT WILL EQUAL RICH RAINBOW OF MORMON BASIN. There seems to be no reasonable doubt left but that one of the rich est quurtz leuges ever uncovered in Oregon has been located at Malheur by Janies T. Worsham and T. S. Glenn. The find is on the Red, White and Blue mine, owned by Leo.ge tl. itodiish. Worsliam and Cienu aie working it on a lease and an option to purchase. Both of the miners worked at the Rainbow mine for years. They know from assays, they asert, they have a richer vein and they believe they have one as large. The Rain bow min? was a $20,000,01)0 pro ducer. The nc— 1” 'gc is very high grade some of it, in fact, being the rich “jewelers’ quartz” found in scveial Alaska fields. The lowest assay they have had runs $100 a ton and from that up to $15,000 a ton. The ledge is 18 inches thick and they have blocked it o ff for sixty feet in length and sixty feet deep as a preliminary prospect as to its size. Even a layman has no doubt about the value of the quartz now Oeing taken out by hand by t' *.... „ . . . ers is he visits the property and sees some of the tests shown to a paity of men from vale lust Tues- uuy. Small pieces of quartz were knocked o ff at random from the ledge blocked o ff; from the top, from the bottom and from both ends. Pulverized in a small hand mortar and quickly washed out in a prospector's pan, every piece of quartz ter led ; g. id. easily seen with the naked eye. No piece of quartz tested weighed over a pound. Messrs. Worsham and Glenn have taken oat quartz with a pick and shove! in the last few weeks which contains more than $10,000 worth of gold, they assert. They have the quanz stored ready to mill as soon as they have the stamp mill work ing. Mr. Wo”shnm pounded out $70 in gold in two hours, he aserts, in a small hand mortar from some of the richest quartz. The Red, White and Blue mine includes six claims which will cover an immense quantity of the quartz if the vein continues as thick as it shows now. There is a triple-dis charge six stamp mill on the prop erty all ready to run. The mill has a capacity o f 18 tons a day. It is in good condition and has been used but little. Most o f the machinery has the original paint on it. This mine was originally located and started by an eastern company The mill was put up and several shafts sunk. The company’s capital ran out before the rich ledge was located. Mr. Bodfish secured title to the mine on a lien. Mr. Wor sham. one o f the pioneer miners of that district, has known of the ledge for several years, he asserts. Mr. Glenn will leave for Portland Saturday to secure a steam drill and other additional machinery nec essary for them to take out a large quantity of the quartz. The two men propose to work the property without outside capital and they have no stock to sell, they assert. The discovery has created a great deal of excitement, not only in the Malheur district but all over the Northwest. Since the first news was ptiblish»d in The Enterprise, there has hardly a day passed but that some party has come into Malheur to look over the field. A big min ing engineer was there the first of this week from Baker and predicted that the hills around would again be dotted with monuments within a short time. A good deal o f pros pecting and claim staking has been going on for the post few weeks. Mr. Worsham believe* the old placer fields around Malheur are "ripe” again to yield heavily. These placer fields all overlay or run from large deposits of porphry which weather and wash each season. It has been a good manv years since these fields were worked and Mr Worsham believes it is only a ques tinn o f gettinv water back into thf district to make these fields rich airain. Placer nvnine here was dis continued when the old Eldorado ditch was diverted to turn the water into Irrigation use._______ A camel !n the midst o f green grass languishes and crows thin hut surrounded by sagebrush and thnmey desert vecetation he is thor oughly happy and contented. RAILROAD TRAIN SEEN BUT ONCE BY RANCH DAUGHTERS In the course of some investiga tions recently in the interior of Malheur county, officers of the county came upon a family which presents an interesting human iu- mterest study. There are several boys and two young women in the family. The daughters are both over legal age and have gone through public school yet they have never left their immediate neigh borhood. They have seen a rail road train but once and the largest town ever visited has less than 100 inhabitants. Poverty is not responsible, as the family is fairly well to do in ranch lund and livestock. Neither has lack of transportation facilities kept these young women isolated from the world, as there are two auto mobiles in the family. PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD HASP0WE1LSAYSC0REY Malheur Enterprise Declaring that Portland news paper editorials to the contrary, Chaiman H. H. Corey of the Public Service Commission, states in a communication to The Enterprise this week that the Inter-state Com merce Commission has the authority to order the construction of the con necting railroads from Crane to Bend and from Lakeview to Bend, as asked for in the suit now pend- ig x '.o 'o r e ommission, provid ing these extensions are proven to be public convenience and necessity. Mr Corey’s statement has arisen out of the editorial controversy be tween Portland newspapers and Eastern Oregon newspapers over the pending suit. Eastern Oregon is upholding the Oregon commission in its efforts to force needed railroad development. Portland papers are criticising the core mission for its method of attack. The statement is in direct answer to a wire from the Bend Bulletin asking Mr. Corey if the recent decision in the Wen atchee Southern case would have any bearing on the Oregon suit. The statement, in part, follows: “ It should be borne in mind that the Wenatchee Southern construc tion is pursuant to a request of the railroads for authority to construct, the burden of proof being upon the applicant. In our case we are seek ing to force construction of certain lines of railroad and the burden of proof will rest upon the public and the public service commission. “The writer wishes to emphasize again that his first interest is in se curing adequate transportation fa cilities to further the development of central and southern Oregon, and a careful reading of the 1920 trans portation act and the recent decis ion of the Inter-state Commerce r e- garding complaints brought under said act, corresponding to this com mission’s complaint, causes the writer to believe that the rail de velopment program as outlined in this Commission's complaint to be the one most likely to succeed. “ We have succeeded in securing a postponement of date of hearing for a period of perhaps sixty days, and it is hoped that this will afford ample opportunity for the people of central and southern Oregon to unite in support of a rail develop ment program which, I am certain, will be successful if united effort is made before the Inter-state Com merce Commission. “ Recent editorials in the Portland press have carried the statement that the Interstate Commerce Com mission did not have the power to order the construction of railroads, as applied for by the Public Service Commission of Oregon, in answer to said editorials, wish to state that the Inter-state Commerce said in the recent Nebraska case: “ ‘ An order requiring a carrier to extend its line in the interest of oublie convenience and necessity, and involving as a necessary inci dent expenses which would impair the ability of the carrier to perform its duty to the public, would be a contradiction. On the other hand, even though such proposed exten sion would not impair the ability of a carrier to perform its duty to the hublic, no order could be issued against a carrier requiring an ex- 'ension of its line unless such ex tension was reasonably required in ihe interest of public convenience >nd necessity. Both of the condi tions must be satisfactory precedent to the issuance of our order.’ " “ Further, Commissioner Each of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion, formerly a member of the United States senate and one of the authors o f the Escch-Cnmmin* Act, which clothe* the Inter-state Com merce Commission with the author ity sought to be invoked in this LEGION TO DISOWNED TAKEPART BABY DIES STATE CUMMANOER NAMES INQUEST FUUNO UEATH LIKELY UELEGATES TU VALE UUE TU EXPOSURE MANY ACCEPTANCES IN MOTHER IS IDENTIFIED BIGGEST AND MOST POTENT BABY LEFT IN PUBLIC LAVA CONGRESS WILL GATHER TORY AT BIRTH LAST IN THIS CITY. SATURDAY. (Malheur Enterprise) For the iirsttime tne American Legion, as a state organization, wiki lake an active interest in ihe solu tion of reclamation problems 1er Oregon at the 19z3 convention ot the Oregon Irrigation Cougieas in Vale, October J, 4 and 5, chairman Harry G. Renuard received notice from state headquarters this week that the Legion would participate at the convention and that two o f ficial delegates had been appointed to be in Vale during the session. Mr. Kennard is well pleased with action of the Legion executive com mittee. He sees further evidence that Oregon, as a wbole, is waking up to the fact that me primary in dustry of the state is agriculture and that reclamation is its greatest need. With tile American Legion, ihe State Chamber and the Portland Chamber of Commerce participat ing, the 1922 convention will have the biggest organizations in the state helping in the work. Governor Pierce, Congressman N. J. Sinnolt and Congressman Addison T. Smith, of Idaho, have already accepted Mr. Kennard s invitation to be ill Vale during tne irrigation session. The State Chamber will have a large delegation at the con vention, headed by its president, William Hanley. Manager A. S. Dudley and Secretary J. W. Brewer will be in the party and a number of the directors from various parts of the state are expected to come. Invitations were sent out by the Vale entertainment committee to every commercial body in the state, as well as every irrigation and drainage organization and hundreds of private individuals. Many of the commercial bodies have accepted and agree to send a delegate to the convention. There is no question but that it will be the biggest and most potent gathering tiie Oregon Irrigation Congress ever got to gether. CONVICT BOOTLEGGER Cenigo Given Fine of N inety Days. $400 and Tried before the recorder’s court and a jury at Ontario the first of this week in Ontario, Julian Cenigo was found guilty of having liquor in his possession and fined $400 and sentenced to 90 days in jail. ..Cenigo served notice of appeal and his bond was fixed at $100. WHOSE PIGEON? Somebody has lost a valuable arreier pigeon. Where it came from, where it was going and to whom it belonged is a mystery. The bird came over Bear Valley, and stopped long enough to eat some poison wheat that had been put out for squirrels. It was found dead on the, Brad Hcrburger ranch. Fastened to one leg was a little brass band on which was inscribed the figures 7519, and on the other leg was a silver bracelet on which was written AU 19 V 724. It was evidently a bird o f passage touring this coun try, and the problem is from whence did it come, and whither was it go ing, and to whom did it it belong? -»-Blue Mountain Eugle. case, stateil in a public address at Detroit, Mish., recently that under said Act the Inter-state Commerce Commission had authority to extend a line of railroad from one coast to! the other in the event that public necessity and convenience required and trat sufficient tonnage was available to afford a reasonable re turn upon the investment. “ The editorials also stated that this was an inopportune time in which to bring the complaint as the Southern Pacific-Central Pacific matter was still pending in the courts. In reply to said editorials, wish to advise that this Commis sion's complaint antedates the appli cation of the Southern Pacific to acquire ontro! of the Central Pacific and it was not known at the time this Commission filed its complaint with the Inter-state Commerce Com mission that the Southern Pacific Compny contemplated making ap plication under the Esch-Cummins Act for anthority to control the Central Pacific Railway Company.” (Malheur Enterprise The newly born baby boy found in a public lavatory in the Drexel hotel last Saturday afternoon, who died from pneumonia Wednesday after noon, was the son of Mr, and Mrs. William McKay, of this city, it was declared by the coroner’s jury Wed nesday night. Death was found due to pneumonia probably due to ex posure and inspiration of water at the time o f birth. The child was found in the bowl of the lavatory Saturday afternoon, where it had been abandoned by its mother at birth, by Clarence Mur ray, hotel clerk, and Phil Schnur, former deputy sheriff. A t first it was thought dead and was taken to the Nt-lsen undertaking parlors There a tiny spark of life was found and Dr. Steelhammer revived the little life. Following investigations headed by District Attorney Robt. D. Lytle, Mr. and Mrs. McKay were identified as the parents. The child was taken to Mrs. McKay Saturday night and although she refused to admit that it belonged to her she accepted it and cared for it. After its death Wednesday, Dr. R. O. Payne, coroner, ordered that an inquest lie held over the body. At the inquest both Drs. Steelham mer and Payne testified that Mrs. McKay did not show symptoms of insanity occasionally found in women of her condition. Pending further investigation by authorities, it was not announced whether or not criminal actlonS would be instituted. SMELTER WILL BLOW New Mining Plant at Sumpter Stimulates Mining Industry The Sumpter smelter will blow in some time this month. This was the statement made here Tuesday by W. C. Fellows, vice president and general manager of the smelter. Mr. Fellows has been out over the territory and says that the pros pects are good and much better than was anticipated. Much ore has been bought and contracted and there is a feeling of stimulation all along the line. They are now oper ating sampling works at Baker and Sumpter. Coke and ore are arriv ing every day and all is in readi ness to start one of the biggest in dustries in this part of the state. The smelter will handle all the ore from the Bay Horse mine. This will guarantee about 86 tons of ore per day. The smelter will run continu ously on a minimum of 100 tons a day with a capacity of 250. The company says that the best of treatment will be given all ship pers, whether large or small, and we want to doeverything possible for operators to make real money. The smelter is paying cash upon completion of sampling and assay ing. This is done to encourage the small shipper and to give them some money to work on. Mr. Fellows has been over the dis trict, and is expecting a renewal of the mining activity. In the Granite, Greenhorn and Susanville districts! there will be a number of mining properties get into the shipping line. He canvassed the Quartzberg district and has gone over the Can yon City territory. There are a number o f mining men in the dis trict and the prospects look bright and most encouragaing. This smelting plant will do a great deal for this part o f the state. During the last few years mining has lagged for the lack of encouragement that the are now getting with the smelter. Those who have properties can get valuable assistance from the smelter and they are advised to communicate with them as to rates and facilities for the handling of the ores.— Blue Mountain Eagle. & • 1.50 PER YEAR ELECTRIC STURM HITS WILLUW CREEK VALLEY ON MONOAY LIGHTNING -CAUSES EXCITE MKNT IN BROGAN. It Is Said Electricity of Air Hits Wire Fence and Radio Aerials. Some little excitement was to be iouuii in Brogan Tuesday at lei - ooou when an electric storm struck on the lulls surrounding tne Willow i reek valley and swept over the tuwn. Lightning struck close to Brogan and mere are reports that it struck ill the town, it is said a wire fence was made red-hot from the uu electricity and that radio aerials were (truck and transmitted the current into buildings. A heavy rain accompanied the electric disturbance and poured down for some time. The rain was not concentrated enough to do any damage to roads and crops. COUNTY STATISTICS Real Estate Transfers Recorded Week of August 4th to August 11th. R. W. Lindsay to Oral 11. O’Con nor, BE VINE 14 Sec. 16-20-44. 12- 10-22. $1 and exchange. John B. Hatfield to Martha E. Hatfield, Lots 2, 2, 4, and 6, Block 06, Green’s Add. to Nyssa. 8-4-22, $ 1 . 00 . Sheriff H. Lee Noe to Eldon P. King, Lot 4, Sec. 28-17-47; also Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and .., Block 244, Ontario. 7-20-22. $122.96. Sheriff H. Lee Noe to Ruth Share, Lot 0, Block 1, Teutsch’s Add. to Nyssa. 1-8-21. $15.47. Dan Dragisich to Bernard East man, undivided 3-4ths interest in quartz mining claim. 5-24-22. $5. Dale Randall Rawlings et ux to Elmer J. McCartney, N W ^ N E G Sec. 21-32-40. 0-0-23. $1. U. S. A. to Fred J. Palmer, NVi NWI4 Sec. 14; SV4SW!4, NE' a SW tt, SE14NWV4, and SWWNEV, Sec. 11-29-46. 4 -l’-29-40. Marriage Licenses Issued. Clifford lligby and Jennie Will iams. 8-6-23. Earl Ward and Jennie Rose New by. 8-. .-23. Floyd Searson and Clara Toffle- mire. 8-9-23. Complaints Filed in Circuit Court. Ontario National Bank vs. James Harvey et als. 8-0-23. Foreclosure of mortgage. $4,900. Bunkers Discount Corporation vs. T. H. Moore et als. 8-6-23. Fore closure o f mortgage. $4,695.69. John S. Anderson vs. R. F. Owen. 8-8-23. Damages. $250. Snake River District Improve- Improvement Co. vs. Blanche E. Haskett et al. 8-8- 23. Foreclosure of liens. $453.75. Bills of Sale. E. C. Powell to Federal Reserve Bank, 8 horses; farming imple ments; 2 tractor plows; Essex Car. 7-6-23. $L________________ CARLO A D W c OMIMG Trout for Reservoir and Malheur River. Bass foi Through the efforts o f Vale sportsmen a carload of fry will be liberated in waters of Malheur coun ty by the state fish and game com mission just as soon as the weather cools o ff sufficient to insure a safe delivery. Harry G. Kennard, who has been taking the lead in urging this “ planting” was notified to this effect recently by the commission. The trout fry will be liberated in the Warmsprings reservoir above Riverside and in the North Fork of the Malheur river above Beulah There will be some bass to liberate in the Malheur river near Vale. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS. Notice is hereby given that by virtue of Section 4291, Oregon Com piled Laws, 1913, the Malheur County Board of Equaliza tion will meet on the Second Monday of September, 1923, the said Monday being the 10th day of September. 1923, at the County Court House. Vale, Malheur County, Oregon, to publicly examine the 1923 assess ment rolls, and to correct errors in valuation, descriptions or qualities o f lands, lots or other proiierty assessed hy the Assessor of Malheur County. Oregon. All persons inter ested shall appear nt the time anil place appointed ANDREW M. GRAHAM. Assessor. Dated at Vale. Malheur County. Oregon, this the 13th day of Aug ust, 1923. jly!7 3» The ehing seems to be spreading Mexico will have a presidential elec Birth mirks, considered harmless, tion next year, also. led to the arrest of a Missouri ban dit who showed them. More bedtime stories by radio. New star was found by a man in Presidential candidates will use it Flagstaff, Ariz.,where there is noth for delivering speeches. ing to do but count them. “ Flapperitis,” says a Chicago doc One might say a Spokane fire People in just about every walk man who rescued a little girl climb tor, “ is a disease.” But it doesn’t of life are rising now. keep them at home. ed the ladder of fame. OWYHEEB ADVOCATED COURT PUSSES SECOND MEM- ORIAL TO DAVIS BALANCE DUE OREGON PUMPING CHARGES EXCESSIVE ON MANY ACRES IN PRO POSED DISTRICT’. Following its policy of assisting reclamation in Malheur county, sat lust week when it memorialized the reclamation service to assist the Warmsprings district, the county court the first of this week passed a memorial to Director Davis, ask ing that the proposed Owyhee dis trict be recommended for construc tion. The memorial follows: “ We, your memorialists, the coun ty court of Malheur county, Oregon, in regular session assembled, re spectfully represent that: “ Whereas, Oregon has contributed to the reclamation funds o f the United Stutes $12,000,000 and has received therefrom approximately five and a half million dollars, and “ Whereas, Other arid land states have received several times the amount contributed thereby, and “ Whereas, At the present time Oregon has not received its just share of reclamation funds as com pared with other arid land states, and “ Whereas, The Owyhee Irrigation project, situated in Malheur county is feasible from all engineering standpoints and investigations as shown by numerous reports made by your department and now on file therein, and “ Whereas, Relying upon the ten tative promises of the Department of the Interior more than 000 fam ilies representing a total population of 3000 people are now living upon anil cultivating farms within the uou.idurtn of the - origiifcl Owyhee Irrigation district as preposed by the Department of the Interior, and that said lands have been reclaimed hy the means of electrical pumping plants raising water to a maximum height o f 110 feet, and “ Whereas, These lands have been developed under the understanding and belief that some day the Fed eral government would furnish gravity water thereto from the Owyhee project, and “ Whereas, The pumping charges have been greatly increased to where there is now an average charge of $5.50 for electrical energy along with other charges of main tenance make an average charge of approximately $8 per acre per an num, and “ Whereas, Under the present ag ricultural conditions it is impossi ble to pay this charge, and “ Whereas, The Idaho Power com pany are now seeking to increase the power charges 35 per cent, mak ing the present high rat* confisca tory, and “ Whereas, The only relief lies in the development of these lands as a Federal project; Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved by the County Court o f Malheur County, Oregon, That you be and hereby are memorialized and re quested to adopt and recommend the construction of the Owyhee pro ject in Oregon, and that you include 1n the budget, for the appropriation committee an amount sufficient to warrant and begin (he construction of said project, and “ Be It Further Resolved, That (he clerk of this court be directed to transmit by mail a copy o f this memorial to each of the members of congrpss from the state o f Oregon, to the Honorable Secretary o f the Inferior o f the United States and to the secretary of the Owyhee Irriga tion district.” A Hamburg capitalist lent 10,000 marks to a baker on a mortgage several years ago. Recently the baker paid o ff the loan with a sev- en-cent cake. The master of the salt water steamship Agga, from Bergen, Nor way, refused to accept the aid o f tugs to pull his vessel o ff a small sand har i nthe harbor of Superior, Wis., where eshe had grounded. He preferred to wait for the tide and was surprised when it did not come in. One divorce is granted in tho United States every four minute#. In the last ten years the divorce ratp for America has nearly doubled. EKIs found in rivers and creeks of the United States are hatched from eggs laid near Bermuda in the southern part of the North A t Ian tic ocean.