NYSSA, OREGON
GATEWAY TO THF OWYHKE AND
black canton
fRRIGATION
PROJECTS
THE GATE CITY juiJRNAL
NYSSA, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1932.
VOLUME XXVI NO. 40.
Secretary
SCENES SHIFT ON
OWYHEE PROJECT;
NEW IR K BEGINS
TERTELING BEGINS FIRST CANAL
CONSTRUCTION
JOB AT GREAT
WHILE
LAST
DAM IS
UNDER
WAY.
Dedicates
Pomona Grange
Meets A t Arock
For First T i m e
The July meeting of Pomona grange
will convene at Arock In Jordan Valley,
Saturday. This will be the first Pomona
meeting at Arock since that grange was
organized about two years ago. W. W.
Deal. Idaho state grange master, Mrs.
Deal, Chas. Wicklander, state deputy
from LaGrande and P. F. Weikal, coun
ty deputy will attend, according to Mrs.
Karl Norvall, Pomona lecturer.
Mrs. Chas. Murphy, Arock lecturer,
will have charge of additional enter
tainment. Wm. Wiley is master at
Arock, Mrs. W. S. Bruce, chairman of
the home economics club. County Agent
R. G. Larsen plans to accompany the
delegation to Arock.
GAS WELL NEAR
RERE MAY BE
REAL PRODUCER
COMMERCIAL
FLOW
BROUGHT
AT
IN
BELIEVED
UNITED
DE
VELOPMENT WELL BEYOND “ Y1
U. S. INSPECTOR AWAITED.
The gas well on the S. D. Dorman
Scenes are shifting on the Owyhee
ranch beyond the “ Y ” on the John Day
project.
highway blew in last week and the
Construction of the dam has exhaust
driller C. D. Murfield announced that
ed the supply of gravel in the great bed
volume of gas produced 250 pounds
located at Dunaway running from the
pressure. An output of between two
highway east to the river. However, the
and 6.000,000 cubic feet of gas daily is
gravel deposit on the west side of the
estimated. A report from the well yes
road will be sufficient to fill the re OPERATION IS
terday indicated that the United De
quirements of the tunnel contractors
FATAL F O R 18-
velopment company, owner of the well,
who are purchasing gravel for concrete
YEAR OLD YOUTH had capped the well and will await ar
lining from the Oeneral Construction
rival of a United States geological sur
company. Equipment for excavating
Donald Hoover, 1, son of Mr .and Mrs. vey inspector to determine capacity and
gravel will be moved across the road
tomorrow and during that period pow Chester Hoover of Klamath Falls, for value of the strike.
Murfield said that for the first time
er will be shut down on the line from merly of Nyssa, died June 30, following
a brief illness of peritonitis, the result since gas exploration in this region had
the Kolony to the dam.
of a major operation. Funeral services been undertaken, a well of promising
Dismantle Dam Equipment
were held the following Saturday and capacity had been capped before the
Today the cabin in the center of the
Interment was in Linkville cemetery "blow” permitted the hole to bridge it
great cableway across the dam is not
at Klamath Falls. The young man had self.
i
occupied. A- few months ago one man
taken a leading par; in school affairs
Product of the well Is a colorless,
operated controls in the cabin which
I and his death Is widely mourned. In odorless gas, which flows from the
directed the
aiicvreu
uic tail tower, also the lower. I addition to his parents he is survived sands, underlying blue shale, from a
ine, hoisting and placing of concrete in .
.
\
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the huge bucket suspended from th e ! b* ' » » listed Mrs^ Lorene McCullum depth of about 1800 feet. Drilling went
cable. Soon the tower, cableway and and three brothers Dale, Floyd and Ev- into the sand only two feet, Murfield
said. The well is cased within four feet
even the mixing plant will be dismant- |erett- a11 of Klamath Falls,
of the bottom of the hole. Yesterday it
led.
was planned to ground the casing on
The General Construction company, ( HUGH BRADY IS
the well bottom and thereby eliminate
has retained a crew of about twenty
CANDIDATE FOR
any possiblliy of damage to the well
men who have begun the last job on
STATE COMMANDER when it is permitted to “blow" for final
the dam, the plugging of the 22-foot
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capacity tests and for increasing the,
diversion tunnel. A gate will be Install
With favor Nyssa legionaires received , Production
ed in front of the opening to shut out
Gas has been flowing from the well
the waters of the river while work is in the announcement Saturday of Hugh E.
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progress.
A cofferdam ______
will protect the Brady, district vice commander of the for some time. The Yellowstone Cut-off
outlet end. The upstream opening will Oregon American Legion that he is a i v' R'*-ors were taken to the well a week
be permanently plugged with concrete | candidate for the position of state de- | a,r° Sunday to observe a flaming gas
while the outlet end will form a part of j partmental commander. Mr. Brady first \ •ie^
the spillway, connecting with the ring made his candidacy public at his home Gas from the well had sufficient pow
gate spillway chute. Ben Cook and his post in La Grande Friday night. He is er force Saturday when passed through
assistant A1 Lewis are ln charge of the an attorney there, is serving his third a 2-inch pipe to tear a linen handker-
Great
FIRST PASSENGER
TRAIN WINDS ITS
W A Y TO OWYHEE
A passenger train wound Its way
through the hills Sunday. It crept
beyond the green valleys, through
the desert sage and to the upper
reaches of the Owyhee canyon.
Rabbits paid no heed for the mon
strous engine had passed to and
from the dam'since 1928.
The Sunday Special of the Gen
eral Construction company left
Dunaway, loaded to the “guards,”
at 11 a. m. It could not accomodate
all the crowd. Some turned back
while many others formed a steady
stream of cars over the narrow
road. The Special arrived at the
dam a little after 1 p. m., making a .
run of 30 miles in 120 minutes.
Arrival of the Special at the dam
was greeted by a cheering crowd,
numbering almost as many people
as the bulging train.
REBEKAH LODGE
HOLDS ANNUAL
INSTALLATION
Mrs. A. V. Cook, district deputy
president of the Rebekah lodge, in
stalled new officers of Yellow Rose
chapter of Nyssa Thursday night.
Officers are: Mrs. Ike Boren, noble
grand; Mrs. B. Burns, vice-grand;
Mrs. Frank Leuck, secretary; Mrs.
John Forbes, treasurer; Mrs. Will
Beam, right’ support to noble
grand; Mrs. Mary Felton, left sup
port; Myra Clendenning, warden;
Mrs. Cook, conductor; Mrs. Lon
Root, right support to vice grand;
Mrs. Emma Duncan, left support;
Mrs. N. H. Pinkerton, inside guard
ian; Mrs. J. R. Hunter, outside
guardian; Mrs. Mattie Clendenning.
past noble grand; musician. Mrs.
Robert Martin; Mrs. Tom Johnson,
chaplain.
After the ceremony, Mrs. Boren.
Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Cook served
a dainty lunch. A large crowd at
tended.
PAID WELFARE
WORKER FAVORED
term as a member of the state executive cb*c* ln *wo wben George Merrit'
Shea Camp Rented
committee of the American Legion and tarlo hotel man, tried to collect solids
Although J. E. Shea company com formerly was commander for eastern from the stream flowing from the out
let pipe.
pleted work on two sections of Owyheo Oregon.
The well is about nine miles from
project tunnel some months ago. Shea
Nyssa.
camp in Tunnel Canyon has not out NEWBILL OPENS
JUDGE GRAHAM HEARS PROPOSAL
lived its usefulness. The best cabins
OF RELIEF DELEGATION; MORE
SECOND
HALF
BALL
have been rented by J. A. Tertellng
PORTLAND, BOISE
ROAD MONEY COMING.
company, whose men are now engaged
MINUS NYSSA NINE
SEND DELEGATIONS
In excavating the first link of Mitchell
butte main canal. Terteling’s crew con
When Catcher “Pud" Long went into
TO DAM DEDICATION
sists of about sixteen men.
the hills to trap and others of the Nyssa
Citizens interested in welfare work,
John Klug has sub-contracted the team decided that baseball weather was
from all parts of the county, attended a
Portland and Boise sent large dele special meeting of the county court
concrete work on the canal and with over for the season, the ranks of the
his crew began work on the Owyhee j home team were deplete;!. As a result gations to Owyhee Dam dedication called by Judge David F. Graham in
project this week. Mr. Klug came from Nyssa did not sign up for second half Sunday. From Portland came L. C. Vale Friday. After considerable discus
Ellensburg, Wash., bringing his family. baseball, nor did Nampa for they lost Newlands and Harvey Knappenberg, sion sentiment of those attending fav
They are living in the Kelley Addition. Charlie Newbill. Entries are Ontario, of the Oregon Portland Cement com ored the employment of a paid welfare
pany, an Oregon industry that deliver worker who would have charge of all
Caldwell, Boise and Emmett,
In the opener last Sunday, Caldwell, ed to the dam $600,000 worth of barrel relief work during the coming winter
with Newbill in the box, lost to Ontario ed concrete from the plant at Lime. months. It was believed that more
Others from Portland were W. G. equitable distribution of county and in
3 to 2. Soper chucked for Ontario.. New-
bill's support was wobbly, the Idaho Ide, former manager of the Oregon dividual funds would result. It was also
boys chalking up five errors. The crowd | State Chamber of Commerce; J. C. usggested that low priced supplies be
was small. Hits were divided at three Ainsworth, of the United States Nat- purchased from farmers. No further
for Caldwell, four for Ontario.
ional bank of Portland. Amos Burg, action was taken.
Boise trimmed Emmett 2 to 0.
noted writer and explorer, who has an
Attending from here were Mrs. Dick
nounced that he will write an article on Tensen, chairman of the Nyssa Red
BURNS PROTESTS L A GRANDE
Owyhee
dam
for
the
National
Geogra
JUNIOR EPWORTH LEAGUE
Cross, Mayor Tensen, Mrs. Eddie Pow
VICTORY IN LEGION
phic; Mr. May, author of the new geo ell, Dean Smith and Mrs. Betty La-
TOURNAMENT.
DELEGATION GOES
graphy of Oregon; W. D. B. Dodson. Fernz.
TO LAKE MEETING maanger of the Portland Chamber of From Portland came word yesterday
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Commerce; Mr. Sims, of the Universal that Oregon will receive $7,200,000 for
Nyssa-Ontario Juniors were eliminat
Nyssa Epworth League of the Meth- News Reel Corporation; Judge Kelly, highway work under the provisions of
ed by Baker in the American Legion
district baseball tournament in La odist Community Church sent a dele- ' chief justice of the Oregon supreme the federal relief bill passed by congress
Grande Saturday and Baker lost to gation of seventeen to the Wallowa lake j court and representative of Governor before adjournment Saturday. Gover
Burns, which sent a strong entry this institute this week. Ten girls accompan-¡Meier; O. Laurgaard, city engineer of nor Meier has announced that he will
led the Vale delegation in charge o f ; Portland and representative of Mayor apply for Oregon's portion without de
year.
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lay.
In the finals, La Grande claimed
the Mrs. E. O. Gulley, chaperon. They were Baker.
inn» « id of a 3 to 2 score over the pro- Laura and Daisy Whipple, Pauline and
others from the western part of the
-------- a Ruth Wolfe. Olive Hunter, Bessie Hat- state were Dr. W. L. Powers, secretary
test * of Burns. The dispute arose over
ONTARIO TIES
decision at home plate in the ninth field, Emerald Hardin, Lula Erwin, I of the Oregon Reclamation congress;
NAMPA; PLAYER___
Inning. Burns was batting, had scored Helen Miller and Martha Rae Stephens, Wilfred Allen, director, from Grants
two runs and had runners on second the last two from Apple Valley. Mrs. Pass; and E. Bert Hall, president of the
INJURED SUNDAY
Green
Campbell
and
daughters
accom
Shasta
Wonderland
association.
Ex-
and third with two out. The pitcher's
throw was missed by the catcher, due. panied Rev. and Mrs. Walter Bach Governor Walter Pierce of La Qrande
After dashing in with Nampa's lone
the umpire ruled, to the ball having hit while Howard Foster and Wesley New and Ex-Governor H. C. Baldridge of
tally In a postponed Idaho-Oregon
Idaho attended.
the batter who he claimed struck at ton made the trip on motorcycle.
Substituting for Rev. Josie J. Bach at
With the Boise delegation came Mrs. league game at Boise Sunday, P. Tiller,
the ball. He ruled the ball dead and re
fused~to let "the'man who scored fro m ‘ the morning service here, a delegation William E. Borah, wife of the Idaho | Nampa shortstop, caught the cleat at
¡the edge of the home rubber, fell over
third to have the run. Burns protested from the Nazarene college in Nampa senator,
The ¡the Boise catcher and fractured his left
vlrorously calling It a “home town"
conduct the church session.
| The Idaho Statesman Boise;
Journal and Oregonian of Portland leg above the knee. Unable to settle
decision. If counted, the run would
were represented. The Standard Oil ¡down after the accid»nt. Nampa gave
have tied the score. The protest will be MRS. BARRETT TO
C M T C D T A I N f l I TU comPany provided loud speakers and Boise an easy win 6 to 1. Duff made a
decided by Spec Keene, had of Legion
h I N I L K I A I l N L - L U d the program was broadcasted over i home run.
baseball ln Oregon.
KFXD.
| The win for Boise left Nampa and
Nyssa boys of the local line-up. who
Mrs p B sctUapkohl's division of!
Ontario tied for first place. Nyssa comes
played at La Orande. were Freddie the Nyssa Civic club entertained with a
Spencer, pitcher; Calvin Wilson, right J pieasant meeting yesterday on the lawn
E B Butler, Jr., returned last week next in line.
P. Tiller is a brother of Wm. Tiller,
field; Dean Johnston, center field. On- |of the Boydell home Mrs J. J Sarazin from Hot Lake sanitarium,
who recently returned to Nampa from
tado entries were Baird, Taylor. An- presided during the business hour, when
A baby girl, tipping the scales at ten
this community.
draws. Tscheu, Walker, Bierman and plans for the Flower show in Septem- pounds, was born to Mrs Leon Leavitt
Rcbinson.
ber were outlined.
Friday morning. Dr. J. J. Sarazin at-
OWYHEE WORKMAN HURT
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Jolly entertainment followed. In a tending.
Convalescent from injuries received
PARENTS SEEK SON
leaf guessing contest. Mrs Dick Oroot
Miss Ruth Dupuis and Miss Gwen-
when he fell 45 feet from a scaffold on
Rlchard Oalloway, rancher of Vale, and Mrs. Eddie Powell tied for the dolyn Caverhill of Eugene
arrived
was here this week searching for his prize, Mrs. Oroot winning on the draw Tuesday evening to make a visit of two the dam. Ted Lewis was able to leave
son James. 15. who left home Saturday. Mrs. F. P. Greene and Mrs C L. Me- weeks with Miss Margaret Hunt. The the hospital at Owyhee Sunday and re
It is believed the boy might have gone c o y gave a yellow cab stunt. Oth<*r three girls were Zeta Tau Alpha aoror- turn to his home here. Lewis was hurt
while engaged in dismantling a scaf
toward Huston. Idaho. He had been humorous skits were given by Mrs. Oeo- ity sisters at the University of Oregon
restless because he could not find work rge Stacey. Mrs. Dick Tensen and Mounted on their trusty "bikes” and fold. He was bruised about the the back
Shortly after he was missed by his daughter Betty Mrs C W Reberger with packs on their backs. Clifford and and sprained an ankle but sustained no
parents, word came that a job was Mrs Sidney Burbldge and Mr*. E B Wesley Lathen set out for the Boy broken bones ln spite of the long fall.
Butler. Jr., served refreshments at the Scout summer camp at Payette lake
awaiting him ln Huston.
Miss Betty Tensen is a member of the
close.
Saturday.
They will be boarders at
Mrs. C. W Barrett Invited the c lu b ; the camp ln the pines for one glorious Ontario band and a pupil of Chas.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Smiley of Apple
Valley were guests Sunday of Mr. and to hold its August meeting at her gar- week Then the return Journey, down (Waddingham, director Mr Wadding
dens near town.
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^
the mountain grades, will tv made.
ha* was here on business Monday.
Mrs. Wm. DeGroft
.
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work.
JUNIORSLOSE
TO BAKER NINE
NYSSA, OREGON
BUSIEST AND FASTEST GROWING
TOWN IN OREGON
INVESTIGATE - LOCATE
$1.50 PER YEAR
Owyhee
VETERAN DIES,
WIFE IS HERE
Dam
Thousands
V N ew
Dam at Owyhee Sunday;
H o o ve r Sends Message
WILBUR
AND
DECLARE ; president; Ben Cook, superintendent;
M O R E and Dave Henderson, clerk.
MRS. CARL EREXSON RECEIVES
Several speakers read the honor roll
HAPPY FAMILIES AND BETTER j of those connected with the successful
WORD OF HUSBAND'S DEATH IN
CITIZENSHIP; GOVERNOR ROSS promotion of the Owyhee project. Men
WASHINGTON; BURIAL AT HIS
tion went to C. C. Hunt, Dr. J. J. Sara
SPEAKS.
OLD HOME IN IOWA.
zin, Frank T. Morgan, Mr. Van Petten
and Nicholas J. Slnnott, late congress
man from this district, who was instru
A delightful finale to the building of mental in securing the first large ap
Leaving his wife in Montana to look
for work, Carl Erexson, 34, World war Owyhee dam transpired Sunday when propriations.
veteran, after several months of futile two of the foremost citizens of the
Slnnott Tribute Made
searching for a job, decided to try his
United States, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur,
Marshall N. Dana, editor of The Ore
luck with the thousands of other veter
gon Journal of Portland, always a wel
ans who were marching on Washington secretary of the Interior, and Dr. El-
come guest, gave a dedicatory oration.
with demands that they be given the wood Mead, commissioner of reclama
He paid tribute to Congressman Sinnott
tion, joined the people of Oregon and
bonus.
and suggested that a plaque bearing his
That was in May. Mrs. Erexson found Idaho in the dedicatory celebration at
name be placed on the dam.
her husband was formerly employed at
Owyhee Dam.
Concluding the program
Engineer
a little work and then came to Nyssa as
The great white structure, containing Banks made a splendid instructive talk,
Owyhee Dam and she thought he might
giving a description of the dam, ring
return here. She heard nothing from 540,000 cubic yards of concrete, rising
gate spillway, reservoir, irrigation sys
her husband but thought he might have 417 feet above the river level, was com
tem and tunnels. Then the entrance to
joined the bonus army. However, no plete to pillared lamps. It connects
the interior of the dam was thrown
rocky
cliffs
which
jet
out
in
pinacles
word came from the camp in Washing
on either side of the narrow gorge. open and the elevator began a big day's
ton.
work. Hundreds of people rode in the
Monday, her husband's silence was Towering bluffs rise to still greater
first elevator ever installed in an irri
explained in a brief telegram from his heights. The dam is a beautiful struc
gation dam.
mother who lives in Buff ton, Iowa. ture ln golden sunlight or at night
The General Construction company
Ererson died in the bonus army camp when the lights on the dam form beads
served a lunch for about 200 special
in Washington after a brief Illness of in the sky.
“We may build higher dams, we may guests and officials at the mess hall. On
pneumonia. He received his ticket home
from
Washington—-the government store more water In other places, but behalf of the Vale-Owyhee Land Set
sending his body to Buffton, where he In no place will we have greater satis tlement association, R. D. Lytle thank
faction than here at Owyhee, where, for ed the company. While the banquet was
was buried with military honors.
Mrs. Erexson and her 16-year old son the moment, we have reached the peak ¡in progress, others at the celebration
are in Nyssa. Donald M. Graham, dis in human achievement ln the height of ' i>ati onized the stands provided by Er-
trict commander of the American Leg the dam constructed,” said Dr. Wilbur, Incst C. Wilson and Dewey Ray of
ion, has been assisting Mrs. Erexson in principal speaker of the day. He paid Nyssa.
An enoyable note in the afternoon
tribute to the inventors and scientists
getting in touch with relatives.
On the day when Mrs. Erexson receiv who have gone before, to the ploners was music by the Ontario band. Boy
ed the telet-ram here, the bonus army who laid the foundation for the project Scouts of Nyssa with employes at
Owyhee camp, directed the crowd. The
was beating a »treat from Washington and to the builders.
hundreds of Vc erans accepting their
event was staged very successfully and
Wilbur Unveils Tablet
ticket home provided by the gov —n-
much credit is due the committee in
He touched a rope, a flag lifted ln the charge which Included: Frank T. Mor
ment.. Walter W. Waters and other
leaders remained, however, with rem breeze, the bronze tablet on the dam gan, Dr. J. J. Sarazin. C. C. Hunt, E. L.
nants of the army, to continue their was unveiled while the throng cheered Morion
3. D. Goshert of Nyssa, R.
in happiness. “ As secretary of the in Lytle, Leo Schmidt and H. G. Kenn&rd
pleas for the bonus.
terior department, I gladly dedicate of Vale, C. H. Oxman of Jamieson. J.
this structure to Its high use and high D. Fall-man of Harper, J. D. Billingsley
PACK RAT RIDES
purposes. It means happy families, good and H. C. Boyer of Ontario, Engineer
schools and more American citizenship Banks and C. A. Betts of Owyhee Dam
FROM CONNOLLY
of that quality upon which we can and officers of the Oeneral Construc
IN CAR ENGINE build a stable nation.”
tion company.
Mead Tells Of Future
A workman from T. E. Connolly
Dr. Mead called attention to the fact
tunnel camp had a passenger when
that the Owyhee dam will store water
he drove into Nyssa yesterday, a
and transform the desert into a land of
passenger who rode on top of the
farm homes. He pointed to additional
engine. The passenger, a i>ack rat
work of engineers at Owyhee dam who
about six Inches long, was sitting in
have kept Important data in regard to
a new nest on top of the engine
the shrinkage of concrete which will be
when Dave Dugger, service station
of use in construction of the Hoover
operator, opened the hood of the
dam.
car to look at the oil. The rat
Governor C. Ben Ross of Idaho made OWYHEE DAM IS ONLY ONE IN
Jumped into the pan, where he re
WORLD WITH ELEVATOR; FIRST
a refreshing talk, first stating that one-
mained till Dugger found his gun
third of the Owyhee project lies in
TRIPS WERE MADE SUNDAY.
and shot him.
Idaho. He cited examples of what “the
Dugger says he isn't afraid of
wedding of the water and the soil had
mice but he doesn’t care for rats.
done for his state,” adding that the
On inspection he found that the
In addition to being the hlgnest dam
government should not now relinquish in the world, Owyhee dam is the only
rat's nest was made of grass. The
its policy of the conservation of waters one In the world with galleries served
rat had even carried a supply of
which flow wasted to the Pacific. No by an elevator.
bread to the nest for future use.
stranger to Owyhee, he told the crowd
The elevator played an Important
he had ridden horseback down the part ln the dedication of the dam Sun
CAL VAN D. SMITH
canyon when he was a youthful cowboy. day, transporting about 800 people up
CONTINUES BIBLE
and down during the two hours of the
Farm Homes Here
LECTURES IN NYSSA
R. E. Shepherd, of Jerome, president program in its first day of service.
“World conditions, economic, social of the Idaho Chamber of Commerce, Others at the dam traversed 417 steps
and moral, fulfill Bible prophecy." de recalled that he attended a meeting in which also provide passageway from the
clared Calvin D. Smith, evangelist, in the county 6 years ago, when one of lowest gallery to the fifth gallery near
his opening lecture at the Phillips the large appropriations for the Owy the top of the dam structure.
Although the elevator is listed with
building Tuesday nght. The meetings hee had been granted. He stated that
continue throughout the week and the the Owyhee will be peopled with set standing room for only 25 persons, forty
tlers who will come from the congested crowded the carriage on most of the
public Is invited.
“That these days were foretold by cities. “Here they can find a roof to call trips Sunday. The elevator will trans
the prophets over 1900 years ago is too their own. a cow. a pig and some chick port 9000 pounds of weight. To the side
plain to be doubted,” said Rev. Smith. ens.” He paid tribute to Engineer F. A. of the hatchway Is a little space where
He quoted from Edward F. McGrady, Banks, also the builder of the Am a ladder extends along Its entire height
of 270 feet. A steel spiral stairway runs
of the Federal of Labor, who declared erican Falls dam ln Idaho.
J. H. Lowell, of the Gem, Idaho, dis from the top landing to the top of the
if Congress does not meet this situa
tion, next winter it will not be a cry trict, stated that 18 years ago he at dam.
The elevator, purchased from Mont
to save the hungry but a cry to save the tended the dedication of Arrowrock
government.’ Smith pointed to James dam. “And who Is there to say that gomery Elevator company of Moline,
5:1-8 and 2 Timothy 3:1. “Is it not now project was not justified." He pointed 111., cost approximately $10.000. It is
time that we should render heartfelt with pride to the number of settlers made of copper bearing steel and after
service to Him who is about to come?” who now make the Boise project one of Installation was painted lead gray.
the rich agricultural sections of the Brackets for the guide rail were Install
he asked.
In last night's lecture, "Archaeology west. "The same will be true of Owy ed every six feet, for extra safety pre
caution, while ln a building the usual
and the Bible,” the speaker told of ex hee,” he said.
distance between brackets Is 12 feet.
cavations in the Orient which prove
Message From Hoover
Pllotron tubes control the lift. Nell T.
the scriptures right and their critics
A message from President Herbert
wrong. “The Bible is the only safe Hoover was read by Dr. Wilbur which Marks supervised the Installation, com
pleting the work this week after a
guide,” the speaker said.
said:
period of about two months.
Mr. Smith reports good attendance.
“
I
send
cordial
congratulations
to
all
Engineer F. A. Banks expressed him
Many children have enrolled for the
children's story hour preceding the those in attendance st the dedication self as well pleased with Installation of
service. Meetings will be continued each services commemorating the comple the elevator.
night except Monday and Saturday tion of the highest dam ln the world.
Owyhee. It is another great monument
nights.
to the skill of American engineers. It
GOOD WILL BANQUET
will exercise a permanently stabaliztng
JULY RAIN BRINGS
effect on your community through the
Portland representatives of the Sec
COOL WEATHER knowledge that the necessary element urity Owners Association of New York
to success, a sufficient water supply at gave a good will banquet at the Moore
While the middle west Is sizzling un all times, has been supplied. The sym hotel ln Ontario last Saturday night for
der a July heat wave, Malheur county pathy of the administration and con Dr. Elwood Mead and the irrigation
has been enjoying rain and cool weath gress and the whole hearted and fine I districts of Malheur county. E. Bert
er. An unusually heavy rain for this spirit of the people of this community Hall. Oregon president, was toastmast
season of the year fell Tuesday. It was, have cooperated to make the comple er, Dr. Mead made an entertaining talk.
lOuest* from Owyhee Dam were Engin
followed by a chill which lingered yes tion of this dam posslbl i.”
E. O. Van Petten. chairman of the eer F. A. Bank* and O. A. Bette, from
terday. Return to normal July weather
Introduced officials of the Nytsa Engineer F. B Schlapkohl, C. C.
was forecast for today but the weather j program.
bureau said there was little reason to Oeneral Construction company. Seat Hunt. Dr. J. J. Sarazin, Frank T. Mor
believe that Oregon would be blistered tle, contractors who built Owyhee dam. gan and Attorney B. M. Blodgett. The
by the heat wave which Is moving r u t - The crowd cheered for J. A. MacEach- purpose of the association Is the stabU*
ern, president; Dan MacEacern, vice Ulng of bonds,
ward.
RECLAMATION
MEAD
MEANS
DAM ELEVATOR
COST $10,000