TIIK HA TM CITY Jot kNAL WSSA, OREGON
PLAN PROGRAM
Owyhee Desert
DEDIGAIION DAY
ON YALE PROJECT
GOVERNOR
NOKlil.AI)
WILL
HAVE LEADING PART IN
EVENTFUL CEREMONY
OWYHEE TRIP ARRANGED
Four Towns Are
Cooperating To
Make March 16-17 Big Days In
Vale-Owyhee History
Sunday, March 16, 9 a. m.— Gov-
nernor Norblad will arrive for the
dedication of the
Vale
irrigation
project. A delegation in charge of
Engineer H. W. Bashore, to consist
o f the chairman and
directors of
the Vale district, and Senator J. D.
Billingsley, will escort
Governor
Norblad to the diversion dam above
Harper.
11 a. m.— Dedication of the Vale
project and turning o f water through
tunnel No. 1.
12 o’cack— Lunch at Camp Derbon
furnished by Vale project and cit
izens o f Harper unit. Everyone wel
come.
1 p. m.—Address
by
Governor
Norblad and program.
4:30 p. m.— Governor will
meet
Vale commercial club and citizens
at city hall.
7 p. m,— Banquet
by
Ontario
commercial club at Moore hotel.
March 17, 9 a. m.— Directors of
Owyhee irrigation
district from
Nyssa will escort Governor Norblad
to the Owyhee dam.
Lunch and
afternoon meeting at Owyhee.
6 p. m.—Banquet by Nyssa com
mercial club.
8 p. m.— Governor Norblad
will
leave Nyssa on return to Portland.
The foregoing program for Vale
project dedication day was lined up
at the meeting of J. D. Fail-man of
Harper with other members of the
Vale-Owyhee land settlement associ
ation in Vale Tuesday
night.
A
day on the Owyhee V>rov*Jcs addi
tional interest. Harper, Vale, Nyssa
and Ontario are cooperating.
A budget of $3100 for this year’s
settlement work was also approved
Tuesday night. Frank T. Morgan, J.
P. Dunaway, C. C. Hunt, S. D. Gos-
hert, Nyssa; Estes I, Morton, O. E.
Walter,
Senator J. D. Billingsley,
Ontario; were among those present
in addition to Vale officials.
Our cynical bachelor friend says
he would be afraid to kiss
some
women he knows lest he contract
parrot fever.
E. M. BLODGETT
Attorney and Counselor at Law
Practice in all Courts
NYSSA, OREGON
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TRANSFERRING
Phone 15 and Phone 28
C. KLINKENBERG
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Sprouts Wheat
o
Malheur County Rail Shipments
Of harm Produce Show Big Gain,
OF VALE-
OWYHEE PROJECT
Year Report From Five Stations
Owyhee— While the children in the
Owyhee school
were
building a
model dairy on their sand table some
of the wheat brought for feed fell |
JUNTURA LEADS IN STATION ( cars, cattle 15 cars, sheep 70 cars,
into the sand. It started to grow so
j wool 15 cars, wheat 7 cars, onions 1
SHIPMENTS OF BUMPER
the table has been converted into a j
FARM YEAR
I car; total 127 cars. Again Harper
desert scene with the green blades WATER ON FIRST DIVISION OF
| lead in wool shipments and
was
VALE PROJECT THIS
for the oasis while across the scorch
■coral to Juntura in sheep transpor-
i Comparison Shows Gain of 229 Car. l i. tion. In addition to farm produce,
SPRING
ing desert can be seen a caravan of
Over Total Used in Prexious
Carper shipped four cars of Whit
Arabs with their camels hastening
Year
to the life giving bit of green with
curth irom its great deposit o f diato.
its mysterious spring
(which upon
P. G. Eborly, agent.
closer observation proves to be the
VALE—That the county seat ter
That last year was a very produc
dairy watering trough).
ritory is a poultry raising center is
tive one for Malheur county from
The Owyhee school children “ sur Land Settlers Busy Selling
shown by shipment of 6 car of dress
Farm
an agricultural standpoint is further
prised” Viola Pullen at her home
ed turkeys. This is the only carlot
Tracts Before Water is Ready
evidenced by reports of carlot ship
Tuesday evening.
After
playing
poultry shipment report in the coun
For Use
ments o f farm produce from
rail
lively games and
listening to the
ty. Poultry 6 cars, cattle 19 cars,
road station
agents of
Juntura,
radio refreshments were served. Mr.
(From Oregon Business)
sheep 42 cars, hogs 2 cars, wheat 38
Harper, Vale,
Brogan,
Ontario,
Pullen's exhibition of a bear dance
“ The ditches
and
water
are Nyssa and Parma (for a share of cars, barley 7 cars, wool 3 cars, hay
9 emu, honey 4 cars, onions 2 cars,
was the crowning feature of
the ready.” Those six words, spoken by
the Big Bend district). The railroad
evening.
potatoes 1 car; total 133 cars. Vale
H. W. Bashore, engineer on the Vale- company furnished 1058 cars
for
The Owyhee P. T. A. gave a bas irrigation project in Malheur county, shipment o f farm produce in 1929, lead in hay and honey shipments. H
R. Humphrey, agent.
ket social at the school house Friday were as gladly received by the far 229 more cars than was used
in
evening.
Some beautiful
baskets mers and business men o f that dis 1928. It is estimated that less than
BROGAN—The great
spread of
were sold.
Mr. Pullen
was
the trict aB any message ever sent to half of the entire fa-m produce of ¡; iso and farms beyond Brogan and
auctioneer. Twenty-three dollar:-, was the folks back home by a conquer the county is shipped to
market. ronside pcrhai»s swelled the livestock
ing general.
taken in.
Uuiiy products ( a third of
the h ivuents of Brogan, more common
“ A big celebration is planned by volume of the Farmers Cooperative ly known as a fruit center. Apples
Miss Opal Ivers
was a
dinner
guest at a birthday dinner given for the Harper Chamber of Commerce creamery) and butterfat marketed 18 cars, cattle 33 cars, hogs 1 car.
John Wall, Jr., Friday evening, Feb- i and the rest o f the county to fit- elsewhere is trucked to market. The sheep 43 cars, wheat 1 car, grain 1
1 car, prunes
2 cars,
ruary 14. Other guests were Mr. and tingly
inaugurate
releasing the immense bay crop o f Malheur coun car, pears
water which will flow in the can ty is almost entirely fed locally to poaches 1 car; total 131 cars. A. B.
Mrs. T. M. Lowe.
Mattson, agent.
Mr. and Mrs.
Vernon McGinnis als of the first unit. (Governor Nor Ore- on and Idaho livestock.
officiate at this
event
ONTARIO— A wider variety of
returned from a winter’s stay in Al- blad will
The total shipments of 1929 pro
turas, Calif.
They rented the Lee March 16.)
duce are
segregated as
follows: produce was shipped from the On
In
During 1930,
immense sums of Sheep (the leader) 557 cars, apples tario station than from others.
Noe ranch in Big Bend. They are at
present staying in the J. P. McGin money will be invested in Malheur 2 ¡6 cars, cattle 22S cars, wheat 173 apple-., Ontario doubled the shipment
Com 8 cars,
county.
nis home.
care hogs 29 cars, corn 8 cars, hay of alt other stations.
On the Vale project $750.000 is 19 cars, horses 83 cars, wool 29 cars , hay 6 cars, oats 5 cars, prunes 29
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Fetter
were
available for further construction. A honey 5 cars,, onions 15 cars, pot- I cars, apples 149 cars, onions 7 cars,
Payette visitors Sunday.
Bully atom 89 cars, prunes 97 cars, poul | polatoes 34 cars, cattle 22 ears,
Mr. and
Mrs. Jos. Roner were syphon will be built across
Creek and seven miles of ditches and try 6 cars, barley 7 cars, other grain 1 mules 3 cars, horses 12 cars, hogs 2
week end visitors in Vale.
The Earl Dean and Geo. Major laterals east of Bully Creek. Sixteen 1 car,' pears 1 car, peaches 1 car, cars, : heep 44 cars, wheat 62 cars,
total 387 enrs.
clover clover seed 6 cars;
families o f Payette
visited in the miles of ditches from Little Valley oat'. 5 cars, mules 3 cars,
to Bully Creek, with, lateral system seed 6 cars, mixed stock 18 cars.
In addition 25 cars were
used to
Oregon Trail community Sunday.
for 3750 acres of land, will be com
transport concrete pie, a
product
Rev. Peterson of Caldwell held a
The following station reports dis
manufactured in Ontairo.
H. O.
meeting for teachers and officers of pleted this summer.
On the Owyhee project, one tunnel, close some interesting information Diane, agent.
the Sunday school in Oregon Trail
six and one-half miles in length and provided by the respective agents.
NYSSA—The Gate City report re
Tuesday evening.
JUNTURA— Immense sh.-cp and veals a bumper year. Nyssa lead in
nine and one-half feet in diameter,
Miss Opal Ivers entertained her
will be built leading from the dam cattle resources again put this city hog. potato and onion
shipments.
pupils at a Valentine party Friday
toward the east and south,
which in lend by 111 cars. Juntura used 498 Wheat 62 cars, hay 4 cars, wool 4
at the Klingback home.
After the
will cost $2,500,000. Another tunnel, cars, Ontario 387, Nyssa 375 in farm cars, apples 79 cars, prunes 66 cars,
Valentines were
distributed
and
three and one-half miles in length produce shipments alone.
Juntura potatoes 54 cars,
onions 5 cars,
games enjoyed refreshments
ended
and 13 'A feet in diameter, on the shipped over twice as many sheep cattle 14 cars, hogs 19 cars* mixed
an enjoyable time
Owyhee project wijl be constructed as all other stations in the county stock 18 cars, sheep 34 cars; total
Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Beers and
that will cost $1,500,000.
combined. L. P. Dolsole, agent, gave 375 cars. W. T. Posey, agent.
daughters Jennie, Elnora and Delva,
A syphon across the Owyhee river the following report:
hogs 2 cars,
F. S. Stringfied, Parma agent, re
of Ontario, were dinner
guests in
and a tunnel 4000 feet long, together sheep 324 cars,
cattle
125 cars, ported 5 cars, o f wheat received from
the Maurice Judd home Sunday.
| with four miles of rock ditch con horses 39 cars, wool 7 cars, honey the Big Bond territory.
Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Greeling were
struction, will cost $1,250,000.
1 car; total 498.
Altogether it is a very encourag
dinner guests in the R. R.
Over-
On May 1, it is planned to start
HARPER— Hogs 3 cars, horses 10, ing report for Malheur county.
street home Wednesday evening.
pouring concrete on the big Owyhee
Mrs
.Harry
Russell and
two dam, the tallest in the country, and
children of Big Bend are
visiting this will proceed at the rate of 2000
Mrs. Oce Schweizer.
yards per day. It will require 525,000
Oregon Trail P. T. A. will have a yards of concrete and one year from
Founders Day program next Friday now should be completed, as far as
evening, February 21.
the masonry is concerned. Machinery
installation in the interior Of
the
CARL WH1TEMORE IS
dam will naturally
prolong
this
EAST OREGON MEMBER
time. It is estimated that $2,000,000 SUBCOMMITTEE MAKES REPORT
Forty per cent o f Malheur coun-
FOREST SERVICE URGED TO
OF WOOL GROWERS will be spent on the dam this year.
I y’s populace are registered borrow
REGULATE GRAZING
In addition to this work, approxi
ers of tile county library
system.
mately $300,000 will be
spent on
This is 15 per cent better than the
Carl Whitmore of Joseph was- el highway construction
within the
average, said Miss Jessie M. Choate,
If the federal
government will
ected to represent Malheur, Baker, county.
CoL-aty librarian, in her annual rc-
place
under
the
forestry
department
Grant, Umatilla, Union and Wallowa
Appropriations are now available
nort. Registered readers
number
counties on the board of directors of sufficient to bring under ditch an the regulation o f grazing privileges 1,110— 509 better than last year. A
the Pacific Qooperative Wool Grow other 12,500 acres of Vale project on the unreserved and unappropria total of 75,610 books were circulat
ers. The first meeting of the new land, which will receive
water in ted public lands, then the retention ed on an income of 64 cents per
board was held at Portland February 1931. This land is now being offer of these lands by the government capita. In addition, to the regular tax.
10.
ed for sale. Additional units will be rather than the cession of their sur the county court provided $500 for
face rights to the western states is nurchase and rebinding books—this
This wool marketing association, added until the whole project is fully
favored by a sub-committee of Ore making possible an increase in cir-
watered.
which will be the northwest unit of
gon’ s general public lands commit lation of 1894 books.
A
land
settlement
commission
the new National Wool Marketing
business tee, in a report made public Monday.
Corporation, is strictly cooperative composed o f well known
The library
system
comprises
men
and
farmers
of
the
district
is j The report will go before the main
and is governed by a board of f if
committee at a Portland
meeting stations at Vale, Ontario and Nyssa
assisting
prospective
settlers
get
teen growers elected by and from the
and 26 deposit stations
scattered
full and reliable
information on February 26.
membership.
j these lands. There are no commis-
The sub-committee sees the ques over the county.
Operating plans for 1930 to take - si0ns paid on any lands sold and set tion mainly as one relating to live
Teachers and
pupils used 16,835
care of the greatly increased volume ; tiers
may
inspect the
appraisal stock grazing.
library books loaned through schools.
to be handled by the Pacific W ool! prices placed on every tract of land
The committee states frankly that Miss Choate expressed appreciation
Growers as a result o f its participa- | by the reclamation service which are
tion in the national program will be j , , n file at the court house in Vale, cession of the surface rights would of the help of teachers.
not be a valuable gift, it would not
outlined.
I the county seat.
Throuph the Vale library. 8,985
be a lecempense to the state “ for it
Mrs. C. C.
loss in taxable wealth through with books were circulated.
drawal of national forests,
Indian Mueller is doing excellent work and
reservations,
national parks
and the community appreciates her un
other reserved public lands.”
It tiring service. She has served many
Change in population
has
should be considered “ as a release year-..
•riade it rather
difficult to
keep
of land which the government itsc!
l-a" for many years permitted to track or books of late.
55,000,000 FOR 1330 WORK
WESTFALL
Dr. E. D. Norcott
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Jenkins were
in Ontario and Vale Tuesday
and
Wednesday. Mrs. Pauline Hart ac
companied them and returned home
Thursday.
Nyssa,
Mrs. J. L. Lamberson’s sister Mrs.
St. Cyr o f Portland visited here last
week leaving Saturday.
Office Phone 35F2
Residence Phone 35F3
DENTIST
The G. W. Gardner family, that
has been on the Oliver Sandy ranch
the past year, moved to Harper last
v.eek, having bought some land from
A. E. Brannock.
Oregon
CH IROPRACTOR
Joyce Brothers returned
home
after spending several days in Jun
tura.
Dr. C. A. Abbott, licensed
in Oregon and Idaho. Car
ver graduate. Consultation
and examination free. First
door west o f bank, Nyssa,
Oregon.
Mrs. Lex Anderson returned home
Monday from Ontario
where she
spent several days with her daugh
ter who is much improved from a
serious illness.
Doris Edmundson and Vesta Wil
son were dinner guests at the
N.
Butler home Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Rupert
Brannock
were visitors at the
Wayne Hyde
home Sunday.
Valentine Day was
observed at
the school house last Friday after-
THERE’S NO
CLEANING WORK
We hesitate to undertake.
Sheeretg silks or heavy Orien
tal rugs— we’ll put new life
and luster in them all.
Now the scientists have discovered
that ox-lail soup is not made o f ox
tails after all. Next thing you know
they will be finding out that
whoopee is not made o f hoops either. -
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT
Arrangements are being made so |
that ive hog futures can be bought j
and sold on the stock market. This
is the first time we ever knew that |
a hog had a future.
Nyssa Tailor
hop
H. R. SCOTT, Prop.
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H NYSSA BARBER SHOP
Shaving
Electric wiring and
Contracting.
All work guaranteed to
pass inspection.
PHONE 64
KINDS
HAIR BOBBING AND TON
SORIAL WORK OF ALL
‘‘ We Aim to Please”
ROY POUNDS, PROP.
Nyssa
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FEDERAL CONTROL OF
PUBLIC LAND FAVORED IN MALHEUR COUNTY
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SEEDS
SEEDS
SEED S
FIELD SEEDS
FLOWER SEEDS
GARDEN SEEDS
FRESH AND OF
HIGH QUALITY
Chick Feeds in Great Abundance
and Variety
N Y S S A G R A IN & S E E D
CO M PANY
Phone 26
OREGON
NYSSA
.etrogi ade.”
Mrs. Marshall, Nyssa librarian,
circulation.
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Î-! f - "->n he issue involves about ■ ported 7,102
‘ 00.0(10 acres, of which about 11,* Fishburn had charge o f a collection
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■ e in routheartern Oregon for school use and this resulted in |
an added circulation of 728 books.
•
land.
o ini. a that the federal
With 'he closing of the Merit store I
• .riren t is better equipped than >.t Oivyi e dam, whore Mrs. Christ- j
I i -p avise and regulate
ed as an able custodian of |]
h,.
!<> do it the committee . oks, rams the
removal of
tin
’ -r»o .da tie
federal
forestry
tr ! ion eh no other uitnble place I,
i
; . ,-nla god to Include a for-
hi h ; found by Mi
Choate. Mrs. J
•
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a. d
utilization Christie on loaned 774
books to
- ! 'lie •■razing ’ends
b< idult r iders and 158 from the Owy
I
forests and that the hee school.
tl
n n. ed in the national
Brogan,
Rockville
and
Adrian
.ended to tli • unreserv
tntion, are active.
Mins Shirley f
I'l,: r, new custodian at
Juntura
¡ rummul:-. that Htaf"
s pi ; in«; very efficient
*•
(row th«>
Last year Miss Cheat • visited all •j-
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e clivaient of taxes but six o f the interior station .
; ,i í lands instead
X,
• f the proceeds <f
N v tb-I the reparaU ns qm :tlon y
ralr end ! grazine fees.
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nnd tl." Y "tig
plan X
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be reded to th adopt d. if (hey will only get Babe \|
rerommends that ■.'uth’i • • ly rallied we can begin to
the report
approach of . .
dthdrawn for the look fe — firil to the
• t ion o f w. •ishcds and reeln- spring with some pleasure.
Pictured here is the sensational new Chevrolet S is Sedan, with an inset of the n ew internal*
expanding fou r-w h e e l brakes, on e o f the im p ortan t safety featu res in co rp o ra te d in the 1930
Chevrolet S ix. The n ew brakes are d e s ig n e d to serve th ou san ds o f m iles on on e set o f
linings; th ey m ay be ea sily a d ju sted w ith o u t the rem oval o f an y plates fr o m the brake drum
and they operate w ith efficiency on all four wheels.
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famous doctor declares
that 4*
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Phone No. S3
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found to their dDappoinnitcnt j
it isn’t always contagious.
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