<p>This very old photo was discovered among his old school books by Gerald Perren of Enterprise, and submitted to the Chieftain in the hopes someone might be able to identify the young man in front of the automobile in front of the EM&M building in Enterprise.</p>

100 YEARS AGO

March 6, 1913

A new direct telephone line between Enterprise and Flora will be built this summer by the Home Independent Telephone Company. The route from the city probably will be up Trout Creek. At present telephone connection between the two sections is made only by the joint line of the forest service from Wallowa to Sled Springs.

The second band of elk for the county is due to arrive here on Friday. They will be unloaded in Joseph as soon as they reach there and will be placed in a corral at Wesley Duncans livery stable, where they will remain until they are taken to the Billy Meadows pasture or are removed to some other place in or near Joseph.

The county court at the opening of its March session on Wednesday ordered the survey of a public road on the west side of Wallowa Lake. With the present road along the east side of the lake, it will make a complete circuit of the beautiful sheet of water.

W.H. Graves returned to Snake River on Tuesday to prepare for the spring work on the Litch and Graves sheep camps. John and Cleave Warnock went with him to build a house on the river. Jess Daugherty and wife have been engaged at the river ranch, the former to put in a crop and the latter to cook.

70 YEARS AGO

March 4, 1943

The final chapter of a long story of recovery from near financial disaster is being written in Enterprise School District 21, which last week paid off the balance of principal and interest on its bonded indebtedness. The final payment amounted to $14,898.

Twenty-one passengers and about nine tons of supplies, most of it feed stocks for ranchers, was hauled by the river packet Idaho on its weekly trip to Johnsons Bar on Snake River. Passengers on the downriver trip included Norman Weimer, Lon Coe, Mrs. Ralph Stickney, Frank Wilson, Jack Titus, Ray Johnson, Jack Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Burnett, Guy Huffman, Raymond Lausrica, Earlse and Gwinnith Young and Windell Mathison.

PROMISE Orval and Lewis Carper are skidding logs for Bowman-Hicks Co.

This week 260 pounds of silk and nylon ladies hose, an estimated 4,160 pair, having fulfilled their brief but exciting and important mission in this world, were shipped out of Wallowa County to be converted into powder bags for our armies.

50 YEARS AGO

March 7, 1963

The Save-the-Minam movement to extend the primitive area boundary down the river to forestall national forest plans to develop it for multiple use through roads will be presented to the National Wildlife Federation this month at Detroit by George Reed of Baker.

Construction of half a million dollar fish passage research project on the Grande Ronde River five miles above Troy is progressing on schedule. Work started Dec. 10 and the completion date is set for July 10. Around 12 men are employed in actual construction and other men are hauling in supplies and equipment.

What Wallowa County needs to forge ahead, with increased payrolls and business, is to do some constructive planning, according to W.S. Miller, project officer of the Oregon Department of Planning and Development, who met with business leaders and the Enterprise Lions Club Tuesday. He suggested that committees be formed to make a detailed study of local businesses and resources to see what expansions might be possible.

Photo Caption You dont have to go to a zoo or national park to get a good look at a bear. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Knight have a yearling bruin which has become quite a pet at their home on the South Fork river above Lostine. Their daughter, Kay Marie, is shown here with Chubby, trying to interest him in posing for the Chieftain photographer.

25 YEARS AGO

March 3, 1988

With all the fervor of a high school pep squad, a large contingent from Baker rolled into Enterprise Friday to whip up enthusiasm for a plan to promote tourism as a regional strategy. About 160 people from Wallowa, Union and Baker counties crammed into Tomas at a noon Rotary Club luncheon to hear representatives of Baker Countys regional strategy committee discuss tourism.

IMNAHA Imnaha River Woods got a soaking rain Monday morning, but below Freezeout it is dry. Though the temperatures have been up in the 70s some days the last two weeks, and the grass should be growing, it is too dry to get it started.

Joseph state wrestling champion Mark Winchel made it two in a row and teammate Kirk Tyler earned his first state Class A championship Saturday night in Oregon City, to lead Joseph to a fifth place finish in the state.

In an effort to stave off threats to cut federal lumber supplies, Joseph millworker Paul Morehead has laid the groundwork for organizing a representative organization for over 2,500 laborers in the timber industry. He announced the formation of the Northwest Timber Workers Resource Council last week.