THE GATE CITY JOURNAL
VOLUME XXIV.
NO. 40.
NYSSA, OREGON,
L
OWYHEE
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1», 192*.
. J OWYHEE AND VALE
PROJECTS ASSURE
VAST DEVELOPMENT
Mrs. Kay Cantrall ha*
truest this week her brother Rev.
Miller o f Gooding, Idaho.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rust and fam
ily have recently moved to the John
$LM PER YRAR
County Statistics
Real Estate Transfers Recorded.
BIG BEND CLUB
WINS CORN LAURELS
Thorvald C. Nielson et ux to Hen
ry C. Boyer-S USE KNEW Sec. 24-
18-46.
10-12-26.
$2,376.00.
U. S. A. to Daniel H. Haylett-Ett, BOYS CLUB TAKES FOURTEEN
ASSOCIATION
MET AT
LAKE- Rust r» nch-
and N E K N W * Sec. 24; and E tf-
FIRSTS IN EXHIBITS AT
Mrs. O. R. Hite and the children
VIEW SATURDAY TO FURTH
i SE*4 Sec. 13-28-46; Lots 3 and 4,
PRODUCE SHOWS
moved to Ontario the last o f the
ER PLANS FOR CUT-OFF
| Sec. 18; and Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4,
week.
I Sec. 19-28-47. 8-28-26.
The boys o f the Big Bend Corn
Andy Handson is spending the
Sheriff C. W. Glenn to H. C. Boy
er-NW\4SE >4 Sec. 32-20-46; SW14- Club have again added to the laur
week at the Oce „Schweizer home.
RECLAMATION MEANS THE EX-
els of Malheur County as the prize
SW!4 Sec. 17-16-47; and N E H S W * -
Joe Minton and daughter, Mrs.
PENDITURE OF MORE THAN
corn producers o f the state. Four
jN W tt Sec. 6-18-47. 7-3-26. $263.32.
Tom Newby are spending the week
$20,000,000 HERE
teen places out o f a possible fifteen
Malheur, Harney, Lake Awl Desch with Cletus Minton o f Boise.
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Sarah A. Moore to Harvey Jones-
is certainly a record to be proud of
utes Counties Seek Rou(e To
NW V4N EKN E* Sec. 29-16-47. 11-
S. D. Bigelow left Saturday for
and that is the record o f the Big
California
118-25. $1.00.
Bend Corn Club to date this year.
Harvey Jones et ux to Margaret The latest winning o f the Big Bend
SHIP 1000 HEAD FROM JORDAN
C onner-N W ttN E K N E * Sec. 29-15- group was at the recent Pacific In
Sylvia Whipple o f Nyssa had the
A t the meeting o f the Central Ore
VALLEY TO PORTLAND
47. 11-6-26. $1.00.
ternational at Portland. The win
gon Highway
association
held in misfortune while dressing turkeys Contsruction On Reclamation Pro
PRODUCTS COMPANY
on
the
Minton
ranch,
to
cut
her
hand
j
e
c
t
To
«Start
Now
Will
Water
Jas. T. Westfall to Ermest E. Silk- ners are announced as follows:
Lakeview Saturday, the association
140,000 Acres
Best ten ear exhibit o f corn: sec
ett-1 acre in SEKSW M Sec. 10-16-
was reorganized to comprise the quite severely, necessitating several
a uct c was
»»«a a
a range horse round- 43. 9-17-1924. $600.00.
There
ond, Garrett
Muntjewerff;
third,
counties o f Malheur, Harney, Lake stitches to close the wound.
up in Harney valley last week, with
Parker;
fourth,
Volney
Florence Bach who is
attending
Ernest E. Silkett et ux to Henry Vernon
and Deschutes. The body passed a
It is fitting that towns of Malheur gome 20 riders taking part,
fifth, Kenneth Parker.
Hun- Abrams-l acre in SE*4SW!4 Sec. 10- Hickox;
resolution asking that one member school in Boise is spending the week
county and Idaho join in a mutual dreds of neglected and half starved
Best twenty-five ear exhibit of
16-43. 3-8-26. $10.00.
of the state highway
commission end with home folks in the Kolony.
celebration if the Owyhee and Vale horges haye W n pjcked up for E.
Pacific Live Stock Co. to J. D. corn, first, Archie Pam er; second,
under the administration o f Gover
The W. E. Edwards family o f New
. „ „ Irri* at,in Projects.
Irrigation ac- p Mjckey of PorUand Horle Pro. Fairman-Lot 3, Block 9, Harper. 9- Clyde
Edmundson;
third, Victor
nor Patterson, be chosen from the Plymouth spent Sunday in the H. H.
Hickox;
fourth,
Garrett
Muntjew
18-26.
$10.00.
territory included within the four Hickox home in the Kolony. Several
1 ' “ of' d“ Cts Comp* ny- ^
h or8 e8 * " >
several
Pacific Live Stock Co. to Selma erff; fifth, Volney Hickox.
counties, recommending E. P. Mah- o f the neighbors called to see them the expenditure of large sums o f 3hippe<4 to Portland when
money, the employment of many, the car,oad9 are
Mickey
In addition to this, Archie Parker
Fairman-Lota 1 and 2, Block 9, Har
affey o f Bend.
in the evening.
purchase of supplies, all of which stated that he has over 1000 horses
placed second on the best story cov
per. 9-18-26. $10.00.
The meeting was held in Lake-
Mrs. Hub Ward entertained the strengthens trade channels.
Water
ering the year’s work.
contracted for in
Harney valley.
view for the purpose o f electing Lake women belonging to the Kingman
means wonderful
development
Recently he shipped a thousand head
The Big Bend Corn Club is under
county membership. All of the coun Kolony Book Club on Thursday a f
this section, the transforming of
JUNTURA
the leadership o f V. V. Hickox of
ties of Central Oregon were repre ternoon. The ladies report a aplen- j ryi desert country into a rich farm from Jordan Valley section in this
Parma.
county.
sented and Modoc cqunty, California. did time.
Bob Madden and wife motored
ing region.
The sheriff of the county where
Strong For Trail
to Westalfl to attend the American
Clint Allen of Parma shipped a
Preliminary construction work on the horse round-up is held is oblig
Enroute to Lakeview, the delega^ car of lambs to eastern market on
Legion Dance.
Pounds Orchestra I JORDAN VALLEY
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the Vale and Owyhee projects is to ed to give five day’s notice of the
tion inspected the proposed route of _ Tuesday
j of Vale furnished the music.
o f last week from Owyhee. gtart at once the
blic ha9 be€n m.
m
impounding
of
branded
horses.
|
the location
of
the Yellowstone
The dance given at Cow Creek
Don Masterson and family drove
Misses Eva Everett, Pauline Stew- formed
$17>000,000 has
beenap-
Range conditions this year after
Trail between Lakeview and Burns,
was well attended considering the
to Drewsey for the dance.
* ’ £ 2 5 . CZ Z \ * i L £ 2 5 Proved for the Owyhee with $800, an unusually dry summer and with
stopping at Paisley, where they were ! and
Georgia Rust attended Sunday
The P. T. A. have began practice storms.
streams dried up,
entertained by a booster crowd. school in the Kolony after which 000 now available. The Vale will many watering
on their new play to be given to
D. H. Haylett and D. C. Hogard
$3,690,000
with
$500,000
for
j
I
cost
have resulted in the piteable con- the public Thanksgiving.
Everyone expressed themselves as they were entertained at dinner
were much surprised to find them
immediate use.
dition of range. It is a humane act
being well pleased with the route for the Klingback home.
Christa Min
Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Joyce are selves elected to serve in the entire
The Vale jroject contemplates the to rid the hills of useless horses,
the Oregon link o f Trail, the pro ton was also a guest.
moving to Ontario Tuesday. Their Jordan Valley district.
jected cutoff between California and
The Armistice Day program and development of 30,000 acres center
friends
extend best
wishes for
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Stanford re
Yellowstone
park, shortening the Basket social at Oregon Trail was ing around the towns of Vale and
success in their new location.
turned
to Jackson Creek Thursday,
Harper.
It
means
the
building
o
f.
distance 500 miles.
well attended. The children ara to
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Riley motor after visiting in Caldwell.
Lake and Harney counties say that be complimented on the program and canals, ditches, diversion weir and
ed to Westfall Saturday eve to
Gerald Smith of Succor Creek was
they will cooperate in making a good over 30 dollars was taken in from drainage canals. Water is to be,
attend the dance.
a
Sunday visitor at Haylett’s.
supplied
by
the
Warmsprings
reser
passable route over this section, con the sale o f the baskets.
Mrs.
Don
Masterson
returned
E. F. Baltzor returned home Sat
voir, a one half interest purchased
struction to be completed by early
The Book Club meets with Mrs.
\ from a visit with her parents in urday after a week’s business trip
by the Vale district. It is believed
spring.
John Holly o f Adrian this week.
COYOTE BILL AND TWO NEW Ontario.
to different railroad points.
that
two
year’s
work
will
see
con
When, complete this trail will con
The Owyhee P. T. A . met at the
Mrs. Marvin Joyce gave a party
MALHEUR HUNTERS MAKE
Frank Rios came in on Friday’s
struction complete and the new lands
nect with the Central Oregon and a school house on Friday.
to the little tots o f the town in stage to look -after business here.
RECORDS IN OCTOBER
open
to
settlement.
request will be made to locate the
honor o f her daughter Eleanor’s
Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Lowe were
Born to Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Ho
It is estimated six or seven years
portion between Bend and Bums to guests in the Wall home in Ontario
birthday.
The
children
played gard o f Cow Creek, a son, on N ov.ll.
connect with that part which is al Sunday. Mr. Wall has just recently will be required to complete the ! W C’ <C° y ° te
before
refreshments
were
Leanore McConnell substituted as
which includes the ernment hunter of Malheur county, games
ready being located between Burns arrived
from
Merrill, Michigan. Owyhee work
made the record in the state for Oc- served, There were eighteen rosy teacher for Miss Alice Azceunaga.
construction
o
f
the
Hole-in-the
and Vale. A petition will be pre .Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. T.
Ted Blackstock and Alfred Ditton
tober. He made a total o f 50 p r ,., little faces around the table. The
sented to the commission at the Dec R. Beers and family o f Creston. Ground dam across the Owyhee riv-
erth a t will be higher than the g rea t; da‘ ory an” " aIa- 45
and 0 h'g- wh.te birthday cake had seven drove out the Blaekgtock aheep art*
ember meeting.
Little
James
Marion Wall came
The report o S t a n l e y <3.1 «^ 1 **■
At 6:80 they departed eaj([e j or tbe wj„ter.
Dan Gallagher o f Juntura, repre home with grandpa and grandma Arrowrock. The building of a rail- bobcats
Mrs. Laura Martin and daughters
road,
tunnels,
ditches
will
be
neces-1
Jawett>
leader-
8,80
8tat€d'
T
h
irty-,
feel.ng
happy.
senting
Malheur county, attended Lowe to spend the week.
three hunters working 1037 days
Mrs.
Olaypool
and
daughter Elsie and Ruth, Mrs. Sharpe and
with the delegation from Burns con
Miss Pauline Stewart was a guest S“ ry;u ^
ruilr° fld Wi“ ? ( M mUe° during October took 493~ coyotes, 49 Esther were called to Ontario by daughter Blanche, were among those
sisting of Archie McGowan, J. W. o f Ruby Bradley on Armistice Day.
isP to be t Z n eeu r V
a :ronace
^
1 bobc.U , 6 stock-killing beam, a’ to -'th e death of their uncle. Con Ryan. who attended the dance at Cow
Biggs, Julian Byrd, Douglas Mul-
The W. W. Smith family and
T li»
O w v h e e n r o ie e i
located in ^
548 predatory animals; also He was a pioneer of Malheur County Creek from Danner.
The
Owyhee
project,
located
in
larky, R. J. Williams, Dr. L. E. Hib Grandma
Pinkston
were dinner
3 badgers, 1 fox and 6 skunks, th e ! and funeral services were held Sun-
H. E. Baltzor was a business visit
this
county
and
western
Idaho,
re-
«
. . .
bard.
guests Sunday at the Aivon McGin
or in Jordan Valley Saturday.
presents one of the largest irriga- f urs o f wh,ch were 8aved- whi‘ * ™ I
nis home.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Robinson
tion projects the government has f l . ! badgers. 98 porcup.nes and 40 skunks
School will be closed next week
are the proud parents o f a baby
nanced for a number o f years. It were taken- n0 Part of whlch wer*
JORDAN VALLEY TRAPPERS
boy born in Ontario. He will soon for County Institute and Thanks
will bring to a productive stage 70,- saved. An average o f 16 predatory
DOUBLE DOSE OF HARD LUCK
animals per man per thirty daya need to have an extra saddle horse. giving.
000 acres o f new irrigable land and
was taken.
includes another 41,000 acres that
ELECTRICITY’S FUTURE
Luck failed two Jordan Valley
C. B. Brown and Larkin Under-
now derive their water from S n a k e ......................
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trappers recently.
Game wardens River by pumping. The project will kiU- other hunters working in Mai-
Although we consider that we are today living in “ the
VALE REPRESENTED A T LIVE arrested and prosecuted Arthur Thur put to use much water and land that hf “ r-
“nd, for
and October in with
tha electrical age,” leaders in the industry are making plans
~
'“ni state record 8« list
ston o f Danner and Tony Carrtigan
SESSION OF ORGANIZATION
has been
“ Jon. a total of 31 each. From reports i t ' for future expansion o f power output which would have
o f Jordan Valley for trapping in
IN ONTARIO
benefit not
closed season and they were fined
y
’ would seem there are more coyotes appeared entirely visionary a few years ago.
but Oregon and Idaho as weel
The executive board of Malheur $25 and costs each for their errors.
in this "neck of the woods” than in
All over the United States the demand for electrical
County Council o f Parents and Investigation proved that both trap GERRIT SMIT ENROUTE TO
any other part o f Oregon.
energy is increasing at an ever accelerating pace, and
Teachers met in the County Library, pers had already been punished an
OLD HOME IN HOLLAND
forecasts o f the probable requirements for many years
NEW E. O. NORMAL GETS
at Ontario, Saturday afternoon, No other way. Both men sold their furs
$175,000
APPROPRIATION
ahead are being made by the larger companies in order
his
aged
parents
in
A
visit
with
i to peddlers and received checks in
vember 6.
Salem, Ore., Nov. 6.— Appro pri-
The president Mrs. A. A. Reed j return, both of which proved to be Holland _ after absence o f sixteen
that facilities may be provided in advance to meet any
years from the land of quaint wind at.ons amounting to *J 76 ,ooo for demands, which may be made upon them.
presided.
Representatives
were I bad.
Carrtigan sold 83 musrat
present from Oregon Trail, Owyhee,; hides to two peddlers for $41.50 he
p Smit,
’
The estimates o f one company will serve to indicate
successful Vale school buildings during the bienum
Wade, Big Bend, Vale and Ontario. told wardens, but the check came for Gerrit
farmer
who has had very good beginning January i, 1927, were re- the outlook for the industry as a whole. President Thos.
The purpose o f the meeting was to back marked "N o funds.1
crops the last few years. He left commended by the board o f regents \y. Martin o f the Alabama Power Company states that
discuss problems which grew out of
were producing 2 9 1 million
Saturday, with his ranch in the care of the state normal schools at a n j n e y e a r s a g 0 its plants
the recent county council meeting.
o f Mrs. Smit and three, big husky meeting held here today. The re-
hours a year, while in 1926, the Output will
As the board feels that the coun
boys. His destination is Beverwyk,
ty superintendent o f schools can be
kilowatt hours. By the
Holland, in the northern part o f the state ^"budget* co m m 'L o n ^ fo r con- probably reach 1,350 million
o f invaluable aid to them in further
year 1940 he estimates that not less than 4,500 million
country. Mr. Smit will be just a
ing P. T. A. work in the county, it
THE
MERCHANT
A a KES
little late for his parent’s golden
o p p o r t u n it ie s
for
You kilowatt hours will be required to serve the same
was voted to ask Mrs. E. M. Crail to
wedding anniversary, the delay due
write a letter of instruction to the
The live merchant in any commun- t e r r i t o r y .
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DIFFICULT FOR MALHEUR TO to the fact that he has been waiting
executive board.
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The chairman o f each
standing
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h'«,'
ona in that community by making it electricity, and its rapid extension to rural communities
TY OWNED LAND
committee was instructed to present
HolUnd ° *Pen
r<0 m n M ea8ier 40 8ecure the nec*,,itie» and which is confidently expected, the future of the industry
her bill for necessary expense incur
red in her office and the president
jobs "for
seems t0 ho,d almost unlimited possibilities.
MENU
County assessor Andrew Graham THANKSGIVING
was asked to appoint a ways and
left Thursday evening for Salem to
HIGHER
THIS
YEAR farmer, business for the professional
means committee to provide funds to
BIG GASOLINE DAY
attend a meeting o f the
state tax
Thanksgiving turkey
eating will man and encourages better schools,
meet these expenses.
commission. Malheur county Is fac- be somewhat more costly this y ea r' churches, theatres, roads and every-
Statistical experts have recently compiled some in
The literature chairman, Mrs. L.
ing a difficult situation in that the than in the past two years, accord- thing that means advance in civili-
J. Hadley, announced that with the
teresting
figures concerning gasoline consumption the
county is called upon to
pay the ing to a holiday prediction made by zation.
aid o f the county librarian and the
United States, which has again broken all records this
state U x on lands that
have been the Sears Roebuck
Agricultural
county president, she has arranged
Ancient cavemen stood at narrow
to have Iw o'joint meetings to discuss taken over for unpaid taxes. When Foundation. The turkey crop is not entrances to caves and as bears year.
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According to these authorities, careful estimates indi
children’s reading. One o f these!»» ¡* taken into consideration that as large as .t was last year or the
rushed out, they cracked them on
meetings will be held at Big Bend 147,000 acres of land in the county, year before, and a pred.ct.on of 46 the nose with heavy cluba.
The cate that July 25 last saw a new high record for all time
where that association
will
»>28 lots in OnUrio valued at $19,- or 48 cents a pound for th.s y e a r.
bears thus stunned were easily kill in the amount o f gasoline burned up in a single day, or
Wade. The other including Kingman «70; 734 lot. in V .le valued at $16,- Th.n ksgm n g turkey . . not cons.der- ed. Bones recently found gave the
more than 860,000 barrels. The dav was a Sunday, with
Kolony, Owyhee, and Oregon Trail **> «"d
11,660 acres under the ed pessimistic^_____________
rlue to this pastime.
good weather throughtout practically the whole country,
•will be held at the Oregon Trail Warmsprings valued at $680,000 and
, they were l a m i n a t e d b ,
nearly every passenger car in use.
School.
|8‘ ‘» other properties, now owned by conUct ^
^
whjte man.g C,T.
The- army mule is still an In which brought out
Mrs. J. B. Smith, state district |
county and upon which the .U te n|f#t|on> the Zulug were the most tegral part of the United States The daily average consumption for the entire month of
vice president, announced that she, tax has keen paid for several years, healthy people in the world, accord Army, the War Department having Julv was about 850 000 barrels of gasoline.
toyether with Mrs. Bruce Kester and ‘ he seriousness o f the problem can ing to Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, noted recently set aside $20,000 for the
No one can visualize such quantity, but an idea o f its
purchase o f these worthy animals
Mrs. T. M. Lowe had been present at he seen.
British surgeon.
immensity
may be gathered from the fact that it would
a meeting at the Jefferson School
Mr. Graham will point out to the I
at $165 a head.
Palestine {
fill 10,000-gallon tank cars enough to make a solid train
Friday, November 6, when that dis- commission that all this
property
The Jordan
River in
No im-| CLOVER HAY FOR SALE—On 31 miles long. Think o f that as a single day’s supply.
trict completed the organization of has been absolutely dropped from has never been navigable,
the P. T. A.
i the roll, that no revenue is received portent towns exist along its hanks Tons Venable place, about 100 tone,
salty inland Fifty tons clover chaff. Good feed
The officers o f the new association from it but still the county has had and it empties into
Norwav has repealed prohibition in a popular refer
are, President, Mrs. H. G. Joseph; to pay the state tax. He will make sea
Its valley was the Wilderness yard and running water.
Add
endum.
They must be getting ready to go after the
vice-president. Mr. Lindsey; secre- an effort to get a rebate or an o ff- o f Hebrew times, and today is thick- Kat and Van Twlpk, Vale, Oregon,
American
tourist trade.
tary-treasurer, Miss Bertha Turner, set on the state tax.
ly forested.
^ Nov .27,Pd.
JUNTURA BOUSIER ATTENDS
,J°INT CELEBRATION AT ONTARIO
E ROUNO-UP IN
MALHEUR AND HARNEY
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ARE THREE HIGHEST
PARENT-TEACHERS
CO. BOARD MEETS
A. M. GRAHAM SEEKS
STATE TAX REBAIE
jo in '