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THE GATE CITY JOURNAL
W F. AND ALMA McLINO, Publishers
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Entered at the Post Office at Nyssa. O regon. as Second Class Mattar
This issue of The Journal is dedicated to Owyhee
Dam. Its publication was assisted by Engineer F. A.
Banks, C. A. Betts, Frank T. Morgan and others who
supplied much information and some,of the photo­
graphs contained herein. We also wish to thank the
advertisers who have accorded us their cooperation.
OWYHEE DAM IS REALITY
Owyhee dam will be dedicated Sunday. It is completed.
What "a story these few words tell. It is a story which began
when the west was young, in the days of hitching posts.
Men now silvery-haired were fired with the ambition of
builders of an empire and such the future will prove them
to be. Then came the engineers and the builders with the
great machinery which is a challenge to even this modern
age. Their task is complete, a wonderful accomplishment
and we rejoice with all of them.
Another chapter in this beautiful story will unfold in
the coming springtime when water will splash on the edges
of the reservoir. Then storage will begin for the new farms
which will make the Ow., hee project blossom like a rose.
We can scarcely appreciate the development which is des­
tined for this country of ours but we are told that together
the Owyhee and Vale projects will double our present
acreage under irrigation. Our projects will provide homes
for as many people as we have on our irrigated lands at the
present time. We possess an empire on the eve of transfor­
mation. Is there any section in all this broad land more
blessed than ours?
Good things have come our way since first work began
on the Owyhee about four years ago. In the neighborhood
of 600 me i have been employed during this period. In fact
they have received a large share of the millions already
spent in construction. Much of this income has in turn
passed to the people of the Snake river valley. The work
has helped us all.
It is a time for rejoicing. We can look back with a deep
sense of gratitude. We can look forword with well founded
assurance that our country is on the road to growth un­
paralleled.
Voice of the Press
Boulder dam on the Colorado, the highest in America. In
its construction, methods were tested of cooling concrete
under pressure that are now being used to insure the suc-
ctJ3 oi Eouidcr dam.
MU3CT7VE LAW O i E«HSRiT*JIC£
The Vale-Owyhee project is the largest undertaken by
Salem Statesman
the United States reclamation service. Its cost exceeds
son of the founder of one of the
¡¡>20,000,000. It will bring water to some 125,000 acres of big The tobacco
companies ended his life.
land. It will provide opportunity for many homes on the Cause is unknown. He surely had no
Oregon side of the warm and fertile Snake river valley, financial worries. He had never worked
the big plant his father built up. The
where the corn that is grown yields more than the fields in
business has continued im-
of Illinois and Iowa, and peaches often have the size of in­ cigarette
mensley profitable He was only twenty
door baseballs.
but had gotten rid of one wife and
The dedication of the Owyhee dam and the develop­ married another. Maybe he was just ex­
hausted because he had tasted the
ment of the Vale-Owyhee project have an extraQidinary sweets
of life and nothing more seemed
political as well as economic interest to Oregon. It is an to be left him.
Eastern Oregon region that will be susceptible to intense His brother has been something of a
wanderer; he never worked either. Why
settlement. Time must elapse before lands are taken, cities should
he, with $5,000,000 left him?
grow and life is established, but in the end the increase of What terrific strain the old law of in­
population will probably give Eastern Oregon, represent­ heritance is under! Originally it con­
to the first born son the meagre
ing in area two thirds of the state, two congressmen where veyed
possession of the decedent father. Later
now it has one.
the patrimony was ordered divided
Zones of influence, agricultural and commercial, will be among all the children, a change rank­
of the solid achievements of
established. There will be new urge either for a water ing as one Jefferson
in Virginia. But the
grade rail down the Snake to the Columbia or a high land Thomas
right of devising a few tools, few head
route across the interior and through a low pass of the Cas­ of horses and cattle, a few rods of
cades to the port of Portland. This city will little by little land to one's children carries over into
socialized economy and enables one
become a ware of a new contributing force to its business a who
has built up an industrial barony
and industrial activity. The fact that on the program of to bequeath it to his children who may
dedication at Owyhee Portland is not recognized may give never see it.
There may be justification for per­
the business leaders of this city a suggestion that indiffer­ mitting
a competent individual to amass
ence to Oregon’s agricultural interest is not wise.
a fortune by dint of his own thrift and
The Vale-Owyhee dam dedication should be acknow­ intelligence. But why such a great I
wealth which after all in this day and |
ledged as a step in a transition of a state.
age is chiefly a social product should
In many a way it will contl ibutc to the giowth and [pass by inheritance intact to heirs who
strength of the Oregon Country. It is encouragement and may be idlers and incompetents is one
of the mysteries of our times. If the
stimulus.
Reynolds beys had been left to work
GREAT FUTURE BEFORE OWYHEE
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J. M. Robertson
R. A. Conant
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For long years the southeastern part of Oregon has
today
awaited highway development, but now it seems this part
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OWYHEE BEAUTY | of the state is coming into its own. We took another step
forward when we celebrated the Yellowstone Cut-off
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highway dedication last week end. It gives us a shorter
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Nyssa | route to the markets of California and a good tourist high­
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Ilh way.
All that remains in completion of the route is the gap in
the Central Oregon highway between Pea\h and Juntura
and Crane and part of that is under construction at the
present time. No less an authority than Leslie M. Scott,
chairman of the state highway commission, stated that the
last gap will be constructed just as soon as state finances
permit.
A trip over the new road in Malheur county to Peach
is a revelation. The canyon of the Malheur river is beauti­
ful. Along the banks of the river are some of the oldest
ranches in Malheur county, among them the properties of
the \Vm. Jones estate, Lee Steers at Peach and the old Fro-
man place. Fantastic rocks and cliffs border the new high­
way.
An interesting sight is the diversion dam of the new
Vale project. The road passes near the enterprising little
village of Harper with its fine, new brick school building.
Then the fertile ranches, which in yesteryears made up
the immense Harper ranch of the Pacific Livestock com-
pany, and the little farms on the Vale project lead the way
to Vale. Settlers enjoy the new highway and without doubt
it has been one of the biggest factors in successful colon-
iaztion of the Vale project lands.
Be thankful that there’s one good way to escape political
arguments. You can still dig a can of worms and go fishing
by yourself.
July’s Best Value in a
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See this beautiful multicolored velour,
jorf and chair, a charming suite at only
^e also have a new suite in lustrous
mohair, the newest and most popular
1100 grade mohair.
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Dandruff is said to be “chips off the old block.”
After ali ignorance seems to be when you don’t know
anything and somebody finds it out.
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Try a drink or sundae at Mike’s Fountain. Sand­
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Mike Dragich, Proprietor
Oregon
Nyssa
for themselves they would probably
have made better citizens and found
life intensely worth while.
PROHIBITION POLLS
(Oregonian)
Portland,—(To the Journal)—This
Completion of the Owyhee dam marks a great event in statement relative to “Prohibition Poll”
the history of eastern Oregon. The reservoir behind the is directed by a group of leaders from
following organizations: Portland
dam will store water for a great tract of the most fertile the
Federation of Women’s Clubs; Oregon
land in Malheur county, which excels in productiveness Women’s Christian Temperance Union;
any land in the humid regions that is subject to the whims Anti-Saloon League of Oregon; Port­
of weather. Its possibilities are proved by adjoining tracts land Council of Churches; Prohibition
Committee of One Hundred and the
which have already been reclaimed and cultivated.
Portland Ministerial Association.
Owyhee and the neighboring Vale project are examples We do not bring into question the
of the new policy of the reclamation bueau, by which set­ motives which inspire this method of
to ascertain the trend of opin­
tlers are secured for a project while it is under construc­ seeking
ion upon the repeal or retention of the
tion. Co-operation of neighboring communities and of Eighteenth Amendment, at this par­
Oregon Chamber of Commerce has enabled the reclama­ ticular time. We do not question a
tion bureau to plant settlers having the necessary capital newspaper’s
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. right to .. sponsor
_ a . “poll”
.. on
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c in d experience on e«icn section of the Vclle project 3,S assert, however, that under the method
water was put on it, and so it will be with Owyhee. From !by which such polls of recent years
been conducted, a more unreliable
the start each section will be a going concern, producing have
IT LOOMS FOR OREGON
method could scarcely be found. No
enough to pay the annual charges, including repayment of possible
amount of care on the part of
(Oregon Journal)
construction cost.
the sponsor can prevent wholesale dup­
of votes. Certainly a resume of
The secretary of the interior will dedicate the Owyhee Proved possibilities of such land are full refutation of lication
results of such polls and the subsequent
dam at the dam Sunday. M e n i n public office a n d the arguments made against reclamation. Surplus produc­ election figures abundantly substantiate
tion of staple crops is no reason for not developing arid such a conclusion.
civic leadership will be heard on the program. Two states land, the best in the country, where every farmer can Oregon's consistent dry majorities
thru recent years can hardly be over­
will be represented in the celebration.
a living by growing crops that are not staple and of which looked
by anyone who desires to know
The Owyhee dam is, and will be until the completion of ¡there is no surplus. It is a reason for withdrawing from the prevailing sentiment of Oregon’s
cultivation submarginal land in the middle west which electorate. We are well aware, as are
cannot yield a living and which should be relegated to I ^ „ ^ “’o/such Z Tot wcent^ye” ™
n I'l i;i I ! i i i i M i ' i ' i in m i i [ m i ! i i i ! ! i [ i i i i i 1:1 m u n i i n r i < ^ grazing or forest, unwise use of land in the middle west is ( has been mainly to affect the vote
no cause for the arid land states to leave unproductive the I rather than to ascertain the sentiment
| PERMANENT WAVES § only cultivable land they have.
of the,r ° ple' “ ^ because of these
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views th at we have heretofore usually
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advised non-participation in such at-
temps. For the same reason we are
addressing this newspaper and its read­
ers and are advising our constituents
throughout the State of our action. We
desire to state in concluding, that a per­
sistent crusade to get the electorate
registered and to the polls in November
would be of far greater value in getting
R ig h t n ow
you car-owners are “sitting
pretty” . . . You can buy more safe, comfortable,
trouble-free mileage for a dollar than in any pre­
vious summer . . . You don’t hate to put up with
second-choice tires for reasons of economy, b e c a u s e
first-choice tires cost you no more! . . . G o o d y e a r
Tires—the kind we sell—are first-choice here,
throughout the state, throughout the nation, by
more than 2 to 1! . . . 1 hey outsell all others not
because of any trick guarantees, or phony induce­
ments, or special deals, but simply because they
give people the biggest money’s worth, and people
know it! , . . Don’t be argued out of the benefits to
be had from the leading tires and our service.
S t t e n i i 1* tiu IxS i 7 S l i i £ ' ofpre-eTec-
tion unofficial “polls"
(Signed)
ADA JOLLEY, President
Oregon W. C. T. U.
E. M. Blodgett
Attorney and Counselor at Law
Practice in ali Courts
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