<p>This old-time photograph shows what farming in Wallowa County used to be like in the era before trucks and tractors were common. Can any of our readers identify the people or setting in the photo?</p>

100 YEARS AGO

March 19, 1914

The dam at the hatchery in the Wallowa River is to be blown out or a modern and adequate fishway will be built. The river is to be made open for the free passage of salmon and all other fish. Letters have been received from owners of timber on the Minam, who said they wanted the dam preserved; they proposed to float logs down the Minam, letting them accumulate in the still deep water above the dam, and then load them on railroad cars.

A new automobile garage is being built by Daniel Boyd on the Main street corner just east of his home. There are now about 30 automobiles in Enterprise, and the number is increasing every week. By midsummer it is predicted there will be 50 cars in town and immediate vicinity. The new cars are of many makes, the Ford, Studebaker, Metz and Cartercar finding the most favor.

W.C. Dorrance, in town last week, reported the timber for his new house is already cut, but it will be some time before lumber is ready and the new building erected.

PRAIRIE CREEK Elmer Roups new Ford car has arrived and about all Elmer can do now is to watch the weather, hoping for warm days to dry the roads up. But he is doing fine; he drove to Joseph last Saturday and only got stuck once.

70 YEARS AGO

March 16, 1944

Lt. Joe B. Johnson of the U.S. Marines, son of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Johnson, who took part in the recent attack on the Solomon Islands, has written home an interesting account of what the assault troops went through on these Japanese-held islands. Joes job in the invasion appears to have been the landing of assault troops by means of various amphibious vehicles. That his activities were not altogether pleasant or free from hazard is apparent from his account.

Uncle Sams efforts to hold the line on wages and prices are breaking down in the home camp it seems. Recently wage increases for postal employees were announced and now the public is confronted with sharp increases in postal rates and charges. Effective March 26, the two cent postal rates on first class letters will be advanced to three cents.

After a Texas norther Monday, the thermometer went below zero during the night, establishing a new low for the winter and sending folks scurrying after the marshal and his thawing machine. Nothing new, of course, for Wallowa County. There is a record of a zero night or two during April in years past.

TROY The men who have been working on the new bridge across the Wenaha river finished their work Tuesday until they get the plank to floor the bridge. Jim Jones drove his Cat across the bridge last Tuesday as a test and it proved satisfactory.

50 YEARS AGO

March 19, 1964

About 60 people were on hand last Thursday to hear a summary of the planning and development surveys made for Wallowa, Union and Baker counties. Predicting only a slight increase in the population of northeast Oregon, the speakers placed most of the emphasis for development on the tourism business for which they saw a good potential.

Photo caption James Trullinger, prominent former groceryman of Enterprise, was lodged in a specially constructed jail today by City Police Chief Tiny Johnson. He will be held in jail at the former Thompson Auto Supply location in the Rowe building until $200 is raised by donations to the Easter Seal Fund.

Rick Cathcart, a cadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colo., made the superintendents merit list for the spring semester.

LOSTINE Dallas Crow, Alan Carper, Tommy Frazier, Robert Carper, Terry McArtor and their advisor, David Smith, went to FFA Tuesday in Klamath Falls. The South Fork Grange will have an old-fashioned box supper this Saturday, March 20. Ladies are to bring boxes and men dollars.

25 YEARS AGO

March 16, 1989

Enterprise residents wont soon forget the flood of March 9, 1989, when the streets ran like rivers, a large area of town resembled a lake and volunteers worked into the night filling sand bags and directing traffic. The last comparable 100 year flood in Enterprise occurred in February 1957 following a similar rapid melting of snow.

A herd of elk which had been marauding hay stacks on Alder Slope and along the Hurricane Creek highway has been trapped and moved to the Wenaha Wildlife Area. Fifty-one elk were captured during the round-up and 49 elk, including 29 calves, were transferred to the feeding grounds on Eden Bench above Troy.

IMNAHA ¬ The weather warmed, wasnt it great? Near 70 degrees in some areas, flowers are beginning to bloom, the grass to grow and several folks were out with their pruners and tiller.