The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-05-04
THE KIND OF PEOPLE
NEW WALLOWA HAS
Every Industrious Settler
Will Find Himself One
of a Big, Busy Family.
Continued from Saturday,
Fuel Here Also.

wood. Stretches of fine timber In
the rough country for miles; mil
lions upon millions of feet of mer-
chantable timber, with section upon
section of fuel timber solve the fuel
problem for unthimkable generations.
Withplenty of fuel and plenty OF
power Enterprise will respond to
very extensive development along the
lines ofmanufacturing. Moreover the
markets are here. The people OF
Wallowa county now are compelled
to ship in the things they can
and should and will be manufactur-
ling here. Raw material lies I'm the
hills, covers the mountains, and is po-
Itentially in the soil. Wool for woolen
mills is grown here. and Wallowa Is
in need of the mills. Hides for
tanneries and for shoe manufactures
are grown here, and Enterprise and
the people Of Wallowa need the tan
neries and manufactures. Scores
of other manufacturing plants of va
rying nature would find in Enterprise
just the location their stockholders
are locking for, and we would wei
come all growth and incoming in
terests,
The People Here.
OF the cla3s of people through
out Wallowa county too much can
not be said i'm praise. OF their DIM
dustry. wide-awake qualities, gene
rosity, sympathy, and all that makes
up the best of humanity anywhere,
too much can not be claimed for the
people of Wallowa. In Enterprise
| we have this class of people. They
extend what Is called the "glad
hand" to every working, hon.
able prospective resident. The set
tier coming here will find this char
acteristic o marked one on the part
of those with whom he comes in
contact.
For a long time the people of Wal
Iowa county lived in the interior
off any railroad. Every pound ol
freight was hauled i'm from the out
side by wagon freighters. 1t re
quired two days journey by stage
to reach the county esat from tht
outside world. Settlers, for many
years, battled with Indians, and werN
/ in daily jeopardy of their lives. AL
homesteaders early learned the les
son of flying to each others need
Sympathies We're quickened by thu
, very geographical inconveniences an
) by the early pioneer hardships. SO
: ciety, fortunately, lost the frivolous
: conventionalities in the more i'm
portant realities Of the day. Forces
! to get right down to the earth an'
TO found the business empire of Wa
= Iowa county upon what are calle
q hard licks," the people develops
9 the sturdiness of character whicl
e is capable of standing alone ant
y working out a destiny anywhere III
II der the great bending sky.
IS Into the midst of just such peopl
q the man and woman Of the eas
|, will come, If he or shja comes to Eel
: terprise or to any pointt in Wallow
county. And 1t ds like getting int
big family, where every body seem
!, to be deeply concerned with tn
4 welfare of everybody else, to local
n in Wallowa. To crown all this, tn
people of Wallowa, under early har'
ships, kept pace with the worl
!. built their schoolhouses and churche
= established their libraries, subscribe
"a to their daily and weekly new
a papers. and marched along On II
a van of events. Such people hay
ul culture as well as sturdy initiati'
ue and adaptabiIity: they have de-
RS sensibilities as we'll as the brav
required to lift up pubic enterpris'
- into concrete realization; and th'
- have reflection as well as Gag
II push and "go.'
II with due consideration for 4
II people of every other locality in {
II egon and the northwest, the strang
in Enterprise and Wallowa coun
III will be impressed that no grand
lives ever we're devoted to empi
building than those that have ct
gregated within the limits Of q
county. Jim Hill OF the Great Nor
ern would delight his heart amo
the people OF wallowa. He is
ted as an empire builder. a devel'
y er OF towns and cities and lands,