The Gate city journal., March 04, 1927, Image 1

GATE CITY JO U RNAL
V O L U M E X X V. NO. 3.
ASK BIDS Ok
HARPER UNST ÛE
PROJECT CANAL
N Y S S A , OREGON.
OWYHEE
F R ID A Y ,
M ARCH
I, 1927.
$1.50 PE R Y E A R
Ample Motor Fuel for Long Future, ||flj||5
E. B. Conklin o f Ontario was call­
ing in the Kolony Saturday.
Qf QOUNIY SEAI SUCCOR CREEK HAS
COAL DEPOSITS
New Residents—
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Elstrom are
among new arrivals from Wilder.
I They are livin g in the Hunt resi­
dence, which was improved and re­ S A M P L E S O F C O A L B RO U G H T IN
BY R. N. V A N A L L E R — O T H E R
decorated fo r the new occupants.
Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Overstreet and
IN D IC A T IO N S A B O U N D
son Robert and Mr. and Mrs. M. L.
From Watson Lambing Camp—
Judd were guests at a 500 party at
S. Thompson returned Thursday
A D V E R T IS E M E N T S
A R E O U T (he home of Mrs. C. E. Roberts o f
R. N. Vanaller, who lives on Suc­
from the Dave Kent lambing camp
FOR 7'/, M IL E S OF V A L E
Parma, Idaho, on Saturday evening.
at Watson.
He reports that lamb­ cor Creek near Jordan Valley, re­
D ITCH.
Mrs. Roberts was assisted in enter­
ing has easily run 130 per cent for cently brought in some coal samples
taining by Mrs. J. R. Baker.
the entire band o f nearly 3000 head. taken from a mine on his property.
The coal is in two veins which w ill
The P. T. A . o f Oregon T rail held
soon run together. They are about
A t Sanitarium—
(heir regular m eeting on Friday and
The tunnel is in
Frank Rader, well known business 10 inches thick.
were entertained with a
program
man o f Ontario, has been taking a about 16 feet. The coal burns well
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given by the pupils o f the primary
of
firat
little needed rest at the V ale Hot and has the appearance
Electric Dredcc Moves Across River grades. Their subject fo r discussion
' “ BE
Springs sanitarium.
Mrs. Balcon, class product.
on Power Supplied by New
was Health.
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’ i:
Indications o f valuable coal de­
a visitor from Adrian, returned to
Extension Line
The Earl Dean fam ily o f Payette
H A R .R V H H I L L
posits have been noticed in various
her home Sunday.
were Sunday guests o f Mr. Dean’s
@ H A R R I 8 £. E W I N G
W . Â - M '& à ■ ;
places along Succor creek fo r years.
sister, Mrs. J. B. Smith.
Improving Residence—
Many pieces have been picked up
(F rom the Malheur Enterprise)
Miss Ivers, primary teacher
of
Improvements
that
w ill
cost and burned, but as most o f the coal
Advertisem ents are out fo r bids Oregon Trail spent the week end in
around $500 are being made in the beds lie so near the water, no one
fo r seven and one-half miles o f the Ontario.
W O R K E R S IN G A S
brick apartment residence owned by has ever tried to develop a mine.
M ASKS A T AN O IL W F L L
V ale project canal in the Harper
Mrs. Anna B. O’Neill.
The house
B. F . Fow ler recently purchased
Years ago in Coal Mine basin a
unit. According to H arry W. Bash-
will be occupied by two families, shaft was sunk and a fa irly
the old W arren school house in Ore­
good
ore, resident engineer, the bids will
who w ill move from Wilder.
gon T ra il district and is tearing it
quality o f coal was dug out. Sever­
be opened in Vale about A p ril 1st.
down and moving it to some o f his
al freig h t loads were
hauled
to
The government calls for work to
At (.'••mniun'tv X ffa ir—
property near Nyssa.
Caldwell but the water raised in the
begin within 60 days after the con-
County
School
Superintendent,
Doc Pullen and son Clarence o f
shaft and the work stopped. A few
tracts are let and fo r the comple-
Mrs. E. M. Crail, was a guest at a years ago another mine was opened
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.¡W ild e r were dinner guests in the
tion of t.ns division o f the c a u l 1
community celebration at
Valley
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.
Chas. Bradley home on Sunday. Mrs.
in Texas basin and several
loads
withI*, S40 days. T h e
7Vs
mile
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View on
Washington’ s
birthday. were sold, but lack o f capital to de­
,
,
. . . . . . .
Pullen has been quite ill with the
stretch i tu: been livided into seven 1
1
Mrs. Bruce Kester and Mrs. Udick velop this mine resulted in abandon­
flu fo r several weeks and Miss Elba
schedules to give
the
small con­
of Ontario were other visitors.
is recuperatng from an
operation
ment.
tractor a chance at the work. How­
fo r appendicitis.
These coal indications are located
ever, one o f the schedules is no
McDermitt Couple Wed—
The Lloyd Derrick
fam ily
who
quite close together.
In time rich
small contract, as the cost o f each
Last Saturday a marriage license
have been living on the Pullen ranch
m iies may develop.
w ill run between $20,000 and $35,-
was issued from the clerk’s office
in Owyhee fo r the winter are mov­
000.
to Randall Sage and Daisy Busselle
¿ t t j - - ''f M
ing this week back to
their
old
HOME P O IN T E R S FROM OREG O N
Dredge Moves.
o f McDermitt. Mr. Sage is past 60
home near the New Owyhee
dam
A G R IC U L T U R A L C O LLE G E
The electric dredge which will
years o f age but nevertheless made
site.
this serious venture without a sign
start on the Purvis drain west of
Baking soda, often used with green
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bradley went
M R HILLS IM PR O M PTU S K E T C H OF
E X P E R IM E N T A L o i l
town crossed the river Friday to the
o f hesitation.
vegetables to set the
color
and
A N O IL DOME
to Ontario Friday evening to
see
SHALE
REDUCTION
PLANT
point where construction w ill begin.
make more tender, kills some o f the
The V. FI. Bureau of Mines is cor.fiifrnt that motor fuel supplies
the play given by the high school.
Dog
Poisoner
Busy—
Power was
supplied by the line
ir ill he ample lor many years to meet all needs of the country's m il­
vitamines.
Miss A lta being one o f the charac­
A dog poisoner is again ruthlessly
which has been extended 12 miles
lions of automobiles. Ifa rry ft. H ill, chief petroleum enyinver of the
ters. in the
play.
She
returned
Rayon require special care in laun­
at
work.
Nine
valuable
pet
and
up the valley from the Vale Power
Bureau, here ici.’.v the reason* tor this conviction, and sketches the
home with them fo r the week end.
hunting dogs died o f poison
last dering. As with silk it should not
advances in industrial methods which justify his opinions.
transmission line.
Mr. and Mrs. Oce Schweizer and
but
week in the schoolhouse neighbor­ be rubbed directly with soap,
The gas dredge to be used in con­
By H AR R Y H. H ILL
treated with a solution o f mild soap
children were dinner guests o f the
hood.
Several
owners
are
making
struction o f the M allett drain below
Chief Petroleum Engineer, United States Bureau of Mines.
Bradney fam ily in the Bend Sunday.
dissolved in lukewarm water before
town has been assembled.
It will
NE reason why there is no rea l oil out. How to shut c.tt the watei a determined e ffo rt to find the pois­
The occasion being the birthday of
put with materials to be washed. It
run a day and night shift.
son to worry greatly about and permit the nil to run out Is a proh oner but no tangible evidence has
is then washed with a gentle, squeez­
Mr. Bradney.
motor fuel for a long time lem with which the engineers have been found.
Nelsen Building Offices.
ing motion, wrapped in a soft towel
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Lane and son ahead Is that people are worrying long worked. They have made great
Last Saturday arrangements were
Moving T o Adrian—
to absorb excess moisture and iron­
Ronald and Mrs. N. Bach went to
about it. Interest in such a question progress and so increased recoveries.
completed for the rental o f fiv e o f­
LaGrande, Oregon, Saturday on a at the riglit time. Is the best Insur­
In earlier times most oil producers
Friends here w ill be interested to ed with a moderately hot iron.
fices in the Nelsen building, which
ance against d'saster. The President carefully
guuided all information know that George Brown,' form erly
combined business and pleasure trip.
The greasy condition o f
dough­
w ill be headquarters fo r Mr. Bash-
and the Federal Oil Corporation about their wells ahd experiences, hut < f Vale, has
accepted a
position nuts is removed by plunging them
They w ill vsit relatives in LaGrande
ore and fo r the other Vale project
Board have done what was needed, at latterly there is co-operation In these
with Van 1-etten .Lumber Company quickly into hot water immediately
pnd W allowa, Oregon.
engineers.
The rooms have been
the right time.
matters. Geologists and petroleum
at
A.drian. He has moved his fam ­ a fter they are fried.
Mrs. W alter Nichols
entertained
W e know. that most petroleum has engineers, onee derided by the "prac­
redecorated and a
number o f im­
where
the ladies in the neighborhood at a
come from rather limited areas and tical" oil men, are more and more ily from Kingman Kolony,
provements made fo r the accommo­
Washington’ s
birthday
party
on
that even from these only a small pro­ accepted as guides and mentors. New they have made their home about a
dation o f the reclamation officials.
-
portion has been taken out. OH pro­ knowledge is constantly increasing re­ year.
Tuesday P. M.
The force w ill number ten employes
duced by gas pressure capable of lift­ coveries.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Tombs have
when complete.
A year lease has
Hugh
B
iggs
Honored—
ing It to the surface w ' i n we drill
As to Mining for Oil
moved to the Kolony
where
Mr.
been made, with the privilege to ex­
Hugh Biggs, son o f Judge Dalton-
holes is hut a small proportion of all
Tombs w ill work fo r Mr. Beaumont.
In Lorraine they have dug shafts
tend it until June 30, 1931.
the oil contained in the sands. Even
Biggs, and president o f the student
down to the oil sands and actually
The Owyhee P. T. A . w ill hold its
from the best pools recovery by the
Mr. Bashore, D. J. Paul, drainage
body at the University o f Oregon,
regular meeting at the schoolhouse
old methods Is small, perhaps one- 1 brought the sands out, like coal from
construction chief, C. C. Ketchum,
has again been selected to take a
on Friday, March 11.
E A S T A N D W E ST L IN E FROM
halt In the most favorable conditions, | a mine. But It’s costly,
Harper resident engineer, and E. B.
prominent part in representing the
Another mining process Is to «Ink a
Mrs. Geo. Benton and son Clyde oftt ner one-sixth, or one-seventh, or
C R A N E TO O D ELL N E X T
Earn, timekeeper, are already es­
college.
He
has
been
named
toast­
and little daughter Lucile o f Nyssa one-tenth. But a considerable part of j shaft to the oil sands and from Its
ON
PR O G RAM
tablished in the new offices.
what still r > pains in the ground can ! bottom drive tunnel« in ail directions master fo r the luncheon which will
were dinner guests in the Klingback
be recovered by methods now estate through the sand«. From these tun- be given next Saturday fo r the news­
home Sunday.
lished as technically and economically nels small perforated pipe s are driven paper editors o f Oregon at Eugene.
The next move in Oregon’ s fig h t
Pupils neither tardy nor absent in
practicable.
Into the sands, which drain the oil
fo r railroad development o f the cen­
the Prim ary room in Owyhee were
Producing oil from coal and shales J out of the sands. It flows to larger Rent Houses—
Keith and Kenneth K ygar, Everett
and by mining th oil hearing nands pipes back at the foot of the shaft and
Judge J. D. Rogers has completed tral portion o f the state w ill be a
the
and Hazel Huffman, Doris K ling­ Is entirely possible. Fxperimentn ar8 thence is pumped out.t Tills requires arrangements fo r the rental o f the demand fo r the extension o f
going on in th se direction.!, and if we j installing an expensive plant, but In Glenn residence near the courthouse. Union Pacific lines from the pres­
back and Jack Rust.
Through the transfer o f W . T.
Mrs. B. F. K err has a new Char-, lever have to fall hack on these re- , some' fields the high recovery that is The house the Rogers fam ily have ent terminus o f Crane to a connec­
I
Posey, depot agent to the
Nyssa ter incubator and w ill try her luck' 'sources we will 10 ready. For a long ; assured might Justify the gout.
been occupying, has been rented by tion with the Cascades line o f the
time, 1 owever, the present 1 thc.ds of understand the process 's about to be
station, Vale lost a good citizen. For at raising baby chicks.
The fam ilies will Southern Pacific.
exploration and dri'ling, with lmprnv- j intsalled In a few fields In this coun- Wayne Romph,
over fiv e years Mr. Posey was agent
This line o f action was outlined
The Henry Slippy fanlily, Mrs. J. lng processes to assure larger rocov- try, some eompanies being convinced move next week.
Many
changes
at the local station and built up a P. Mcginnis and Miss Virginia were |
have been made in realty since the Monday by H. H. Corey, member o f
eries, are likely to suffice.
It is przcH'-abie and profitable.
large circle o f friends by his kindly afternoon guests in the Wm. Peutz
and
An O i l Dome I l l u s t r a t e d
OH can he distilled from coal, and coming o f W ilder people, who will the public service commission
personality
and
capable
dealing
author of the original
complaint,
home Sunday.
I am no draughtsman, but maybe I much work is now being done work on the Vale project.
with the public. He began work at
which has resulted in the construc­
Mrs. John W all and four sons and can draw something that w ill h< Ip ex- dong this linn. But more appeal has
the Nyssa office Monday morning.
tion of the Cascades line
between
the Misses Elnora and Delva Beers plain. Herc’o a rott"h drawlr-- of an been made by the plan of extracting R. H. DeArmond Home—
J. W . Likins o f Caldwell is the re­ o f Ontario were week end guests o f oil dome. The shaded part a ; the hot- oil from ; halo. The shales of Scotland
R. H. DeArmond, one o f the dele­ Oakridge and Kirk, and whose most
tom is a deposit of oil hearing sands
have been'worked for three-quarters gates who has been working fo r the recent result was the interstate com­
lie f agent. Bids have been sent out Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Lowe.
with an impervious rock stratum | of a century, and they are almost un- passage o f the flood relief bill at merce commission’s order o f Satur­
and on March 15 the qualified agent
aibove. A wild catter drilled lh« hole , limited In this country, richer in oil
w ill be awarded the Vale
station. A M E R IC A N
LE G IO N
Salem fo r the past four weeks, re­ day, granting to the H ill lines com­
A-B and gas pressure cans' ! oil and 1 than those of Scotland.
Kentucky,
C O N V E N T IO N
IN
JULY
Many friends here w ill also regret
turned home Tuesday morning. He mon usership o f the Cascades line.
Ohio,
Colorado,
Utah,
Nevada,
W
yo­
gas to flow. After a while the gas
the departure o f Mrs. Posey, who
spent a short visit in Portland with
“ This entire program is working
LaGrande, Oregon— Special— When pressure wasn’t sufficient to keep np ming and California are particularly
w ill leave after school closes. Her
the flow and they pumned Until ulti­ rich in shales. It Is Just a question Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gordon and other out exactly as we outlined it in our
the state convention o f the American
of the cost of extracting the oil. Con­ friends.
daughter Mabel w ill graduate from
He said that the Gordons original complaint four years ago,’’
Legion convenes in LaGrande
on mately even this cessed producing
the Vale high school this spring.
Nevertheless, most of the oil was gress has given $180,000, with which are in good health and are looking Corey said. “ N o sooner had we dem­
July 21-22-23, 1927 the legionaires
•till left etch in g to tha sand grains. the Rtirean has Installed a plant near forward to their return to Vale with­ onstrated our earnestness in our de­
will find everything in readiness for
Then the operator drilled the wall Rulison, Colorado, to flijtlll oil from in a short time.
sire fo r railroad construction in Cen­
K la 1
them.
LaGrande Post No. 43 has C-D. which flowed for a time, hut most the Colorado River Shales.
tral Oregon than the Southern Pa­
t een busy every moment of the time j of the oil was still down thfre In the calculated that the «hales mined at Wm. Johnston Here—
Kcmo Littlefield "Jlf Skullsprings
sand. If the gas pressure could be re- ItuliHon will produce about a barrel j Wm. Johnston, who spent several cific lines busied themselves in the
since the Marshfield convention get-
was a Creston visitor.
[ summers in Vale in charge o f the construction o f the Cascades line.
I ting ready fo r the big event. Citi­ stored more would flow. So the oper- ] of oil to the ton.
“ Now
the
interstate
commerce
John W all was in Creston from zens are co-operating, and commit­
ator in j 1
ga« H i one well, re.ttor - 1
The Uee of Oil Shale*
O. A . C. experiment station, is con­
ing the ptessur and causing th. oil
Ontario.
In Scotland they are working shales nected with the reclamation office commission, follow ing exactly on a
tees are meeting almost daily pre­
to reairni
flo ag from the other. that produce about twenty-five gallon«
line with the suggestions contained
Mrs. Charles Niesse was visiting paring fo r the visiting legionaires.
After a time th flow will step a gain, of oil per ton. The seams are from at Boise, having recently been trans­ in our complaint, has granted corn-
Legion Hall, the largest auditorium
Mrs. E. lb gers.
ferred
from
Denver
by
the
govern­
be' still rpo'h of the oil will b left. three-ami a half to eight or ten feet
man usership o f this cu t-off to the
H arry Littlefield and John Shum- in the city, has been taken over by
In some 11 Ms it has h .en p <■ ible to thfek
F or the lBst few weeks he
In Colorado are seams many ment.
H ill lines from Odell into Klamath
a! amounts of oil by times as thick and containing much has been working on the
way spent Thursday evening at the th LaGrande Post, has been elabor­ obtain ae
Owyhee
Introducing v,. :.r In some of the walls more oil p r ton. Reduction of shales project. He was among out-of-town Falls.
ately
decorated,
and
is
now
ready
Rogers home.
“ This, o f course, w ill necessitate
and forcia
h -M to otio r
.’ he ad­ involves an enormous mining opera­
visitors at the Knights o f Pythias
Albert Clark and
Budd Rogers fo r the convention. Am ple commit­
construction
by the Hill lines from
dition
of
a
ell
mictil
such
as
'a
ash
tion, and after the oil is extracted the
tee rooms, rest rooms, and ward­
were Crowley visitors.
to the wate m y a- si ;t In 1 : l iving vast tonnage of refuse must be dis­ dance Tuesday night.
Bend to Odell. W hile some are in­
robe
rooms
are
prepared
and
the
Mrs. E. Rogers had the m isfor­
the oil f i " n th
and era - but nei­ posed of So It Is expensive compared Mrs. M iller Brings Daughter Home— clined to believe that the Hill lines
w ill be
the ther plain wat
tune to receive a
badly
sprained 1927 convention hall
ner wate < nl ■ ig with producing oil from wells.
Mrs. J. F. M iller and her daughter will not avail themselves o f this com­
and
commidious ! chemicals ,
Id be lntr .1 v 1 Into
hand by fallin g on the hard frozen most convenient
Ben E Lindsey of the Bureau of Verdi, arrived home last
Friday mon-user privilege, because o f re­
an
oil
sand
c.
tent
as
a
last
resort,
yet
offered
the
Oregon
State
Con­
ground.
Mines Exp rlment Station at Bartles­
evening from Portland and Corvallis. strictions placed around it by the
for
It
is
ilk-
,y
that
to
water,
which
vention.
Entertainment
committees
ville, Okla., Is eonfldent that explora­
Charles Neisse
is hauling
hay
travels faster ' - • Mi the • nd, will tion, better recoveries, better utiliza­ On account o f an accident which re­ I. C. C. order, I cannot but believe
from the Rogers ranch to the C. A. are busy and promise new and a l- ,
that such w ill not be the case. There
get
to
the
onen
v,
ills
oh
ad
f
(he
<
1
tion and deeper drilling would furnish sulted in injury and illness, Miss
luring features.
This will be
the
Stoute farm.
at
and when’ Ihe now is
ii’.'il under ellou)?j, 0||
meet all requirements Miller will not complete her year is too much valuable tonnage
largest
Oregon
convention
in
point
David Rogers went to
Riverside
pressure wan r
11 come out
stake in the great territory tapped
at
the
Oregon
Agricultural
college.
for
at
lean
twenty-five
to
fifty
years.
to order repairs fo r the gas engine. o f number yet held. LaGrande, the j
Every,h;nq Laved Now adays
If it could be extracted In that time. The first part o f the trip was mude by this line fo r the Northern lines
Frank Shumway, Jr., is building convention city, is preparing a wel- !
fron an oil well Rut as a practical matter tht« will not to Portland, where
The gas SP.Ipl
Miss
Miller to pass it up.
come
fo
r
every
legionaire
It
is
e
x
­
a radio set.
I in of gaso- be possible Within that period there
carries with it a p-
‘‘A ll that now remains to complete
rested
several
days
before
complet­
pected that 2500 visitors will
be line, which tn : 1 d r» * "s was lost will lie times of shortage, when oil
journey
home.
Friends our program is the east and west
Mrs. Daisy Howell, auditor of present and in order that there be Nowadays it 1* C.s
ri od . loir, the gas from shale« will be needed to supple-' ing her
hope that she w ill regain strength line from Crane to Odell, and that
Canyon City, came to Vale Thursday no lack o f hospitality preparations 1 and saved t vh!% tbe dry gai ran be ment the oil from wells, etc.
is oyhat we are going a fte r next.
to start a complete audit o f
the are being made fo r more than 3000. J forced h 1 ' Into Ihn fcr'ìii und to main­
Meantime federal and staU- govern­ rapidly.
“ The commission wilt prepare a
tain pressure
records o f Malheur county foi the
ments and the Industry are cooperat­
Max Johnson and George Stacey new complaint and start an entirely
One of the menace* to most oil ing In an astonishing ta n g F o f Inves­
Do you know that you are not,
past year. She ca ne to Vale f u n
week new case before the I. C. C. to ac­
Hillsboro, where she has been en­ really well fed, no matter how much pools is the Inflow of subt' rranean tigations and studies These activities spent the early part o f the
water. Water flows through the oil cover such a wide field that even an visiting with relatives here, Tuesday complish this result, and we hare
gaged in similar w. rk. Mrs. Howell i.'eat and potatoes you eat, unless
nn d s faster than oil, and by surround­ enumeration of them wou il run into they returned to work on the Owy­ every reason to believe that our
has started her work in the office you have at least one green vege-, ing the bottom of tha wail keep« the
tiresome detail.
hee project.
petition will meet with success.”
table a day?
o f S h eriff C. W. Glenn.
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Judd entertain­
ed at a Washington Birthday party
on Tuesday evening, bridge being a
feature o f the occasion.
LOCATE PROJECT OFFICES
Ipilgg
J
o
HILL LINES MAY
BUILD CRANE-OOELL
Depot Agent
Goes to Nyssa
CRESTON