The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-04-23
THE FUTURE HOME
OF HORTICULTURE
Enterprise. the Busy Coun.
ty Seat City. Made Up
Of Wide Awake,
"Live" Ones.


has been written of the west. In
some instances these stories have
been merely-stories. There have
been colored accounts of this or that
.ocality foisted upon eastern commu-
aities. There have. doubtless been
exaggerations of soil and climate,
mineral and water power, land and
opportunity. Enthusiasm has spur
red to some of it and the desire for
gain has spmred to some Of it. But
IN 1t all there was keen desire to
serve. Moreover what is now the
east was once the west, and 1t too
sent back the same stories Of the
aom of plenty and the cornucopia
spilling golden dreams and silver
clouds of wealth and profusion Of
Everything that is best and most de-
sIrable, and that ealivcas the EVER
lge human breast with the hope
of possession.
Such Stories Obsolete.
But such sort Of stories Is obso-
.ete. 1t is a brand that passed away
with the passing of ignorant cred
ility. Today it is not possible to
.'fooP' the eastern settler about lands
fruit belts, climate, soils. nor the
business man about good business op
enings. For the reason that the
migrating public, taking advantage
Of our modern means of communica-
ion and transportation, is awake
10 the opportunities of the earth
everywhere. Government reports
serve this public with detailed infor-
nation. Travel has widened the set
tiers scope of knowledge and com
prehension. Reading has taught
him to have care, as to exactness
of expression and correctness of re-
Election of any locality. And more
than that the settler today has mon
ey enough and time enough first to
come to see any locality he is inter
ested in. Such settlers would never
be hoodwinked by any exaggerated
statements, however glittering and
brilliant. In the language of the val
deville song, they would walk righi
in, turn around, and walk right ou'
again.
Simple Truth Telling.
1t is the desire of this paper tt
give at frequent intervals conser
yative account of the city of Enter
prise and of Wallowa county. Thes,
accounts will in large way be sen
to the states Of the middle west, II
many instances to personal friend
of the editor. And the effort, there
ore, will be made to understate rath
er than to overstate the wide, va
rted possibilities and potentiaNtie
OF the city and county.
4 First impressions.
| The first impression the newcom
er from the east will have is tn
magnificent climate here, then tn
spanking good county seat city Q
Enterprise. After which 1t will dawi
upon the settler that these hundred
OF thousands of acres of land In Wa
Iowa county reveal future agricu
tural and horticultural greatnes
that is really appalling In its grea
ness.
In some portions of Wallowa coul
ty are wheat ands-thousands ,
acres of them--equal If not superie
to the famous "Palouse" lands whic
adjoin the county on the north. Bac
In the states Of the middle wei
the farmer Is delighted with wlle.
crop OF twenty bushels to the acr
Sometimes he gets twenty five bus
els, and when. in exceptional case
one there gets thirty bushels to tt
acre there Is a vision of riches an
bedizened prosperity, that swoons i
to dreams Of ease and incites