The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1922-05-25

! large measure of trade from the peo
! pie as far north as Cairo who founC
it easier to travel the fine grave
, highway nine miles than to battl'
the hub-deep four miles to Ontario
These are but some of the things
which, in part at least, due to the
honest effort of those men in On
tario who felt that since highway
program had been adopted in Ore
gon that Malheur county should
fight for it's share of the benefits
have been accomplished and il
which Nyssa has benefited dis pro
portionately to the effort her peo
pie put forth; though not less than
the traffic in that territory justified
So far as the road map to which
the Gate City Journal so directly
charges to the Vaccinations of Mr.
Gallagher and Ontario, no fairmind-
ed man can justly charge that gross
blunder to Ontario or to Mr.. Gal
lagher. We defy the Journal or
anyone in Nyssa to bring one scin-
tilla of evidence to show any con-
nection of anyone in Ontario there
with.
Ontario no less than Nyssa has
been injured by mistakes in the
maps issued. For years the maps
showed that the road from Nyssa
went directly over the hills to Vale
and thence up Willow creek to Ba-
ker. They did not show the plan
to build the road on the Oregon side
to Huntington. In fact the official
maps this year do not show that
road and will not until next year
because the commission does not
want travel over the grade until it
is surfaced.
In the interest of justice and fair
play, the men of Nyssa who want to
be fair should recognize that even
did Ontario want to be so small, as
some OF the Nyssa people seem to
think, it could not so influence and
corrupt the officials of the High
way department or the State Tour
list Bureau that they would be par
ties to so despicable an offense as to
injure any town or section know
ingly.
Nor is that all, common sense
would, it seems indicate that Ontar-
10 stands to lose Just as does Nyssa,
for Ontario wants the map to show
that it has road leading to the
city from the south, as we'll as from
the north, the east and the west
Ontario has no desire to isolate
itself from the people to the south,
for has it not, with practically no
cooperation from Nyssa repeatedly
urged the building of the highway
from Nyssa to Jordan Valley?
Since Nyssa has at last awakened
to the benefits of highway north to
Ontario which will carry the traffic
coming from the north is 1t not
strange that never during the two
years in which Ontario battled to
get the road north to the Baker
county line, Nyssa took no interest.
in spite of more than one attempt
to arouse interest.
Ontario fought that battle alone.
Fought the insistent effort on the
part of some of the men then resi-
dents of Vale, such as Julien A.
Hurley, to end the road at Weiser
Fought the effort Of Weiser to have
the Old Oregon Trail end at Olds
Ferry so that the traffic would stay
on this side, and thus Nyssa get a
chance to participate in the bene-
fits thus derived, as we'll as Ontario.
What chance, we ask our Nyssa |
friends would they have had to par
ticipate in these benefits at all II
the road from the north had ended
1t Olds Ferry? Yet did they do
aught to aid in bringing 1t farther
south? If so when did they do SO?
Realizing that the settlement on
his side of the Snake river from be-
yond Weiser to the Big Bend justi-
led through road the Ontario road
has consistently done
1t could to procure
,orth and south highway along the
liver from the Baker county line to
Jordan Valley. Ontario believed
hat this was fair, just and desir-
.ble. That Ontario would benefit
" the consummation Of such a pro-
ram is true; but 1t is also true
hat Nyssa likewise would and has
,enefitted thereby.
In view of these things 1t is plain
hat the action of Nyssa's newspaper
n saying:
"That the error is due to crooked
rork on someone's part seems prac-
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