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Douglas County Public Parks Oeparmero-i uftDfines Summer Program For Improvement tf Piroperiaes North Umpqua Sites Graded To Increase Parking Space; More Parks Being Considered By CHARLES V. STANTON Douglas county's public parks department, uniaue in the state of Oregon, is being rapidly organized under the direc tion of the Parks b ard and its supervisor. Groundwork has been completed for a program of development and improve ment, which soon will be attracting much public attention. .- Preliminary work already has made recreational facilities avail able for immediate use. Much wtrk has been outlined for late spring and early summer months. Since recent organization of the department, a great deal of time necessarily has been spent on pre. liminanes. The public could not ee and evaluate this work. It is essential, however, to a sound de velopment program. Sit Appraisals Mad It has been necessary for the supervisor to obtain legal descrip tions of all park properties and plat them on maps. Each site has tween the Sutherlin-Nonpariel road and Calapooia creek, about six miles east o Sutherlin.i this 3 17 acre site was purchased from Jo seph C. Hamilton for $250. County scales occupy a small part of the tract. Usable at present for pic nics, the park has been equipped with several tables. Further de velopment is eonteir,'lated this year. The park has a steep bank leading to the creek, creating a hazard to small children. This park, the department feels, would make a good project for a grange or service club willing to take been appraised by the board for ' over improvements and supervi- its recreational valuea. Studies af recreational need have been made on a basis of population distribu tion. Vicinity maps have been drawn of parks most adaptable for early improvement. Work is out lined first for those narks having the greatest immediate recrea tional value and ahecting the most people. At the same time, the de partment has been checking county-owned lands to determine possible recreational use and value. This is done in advance of offering timber lands for sale. Lists of lands proposed for acquisition have been compiled. Th department has been work ing on designs for park furniture. A contest has been conducted in the county schools to procure a suitable sign or marker, simi lar to highway signs, to designate county park boundaries. The con test is complete except for fina judging and awarding of prizes. The department now has 11 dedi cated parks together with several tracts along the North Umpqua river to be dedicated as soon as surveys are complete. Much work is being don to outline future acquisitions. Negotiations on some sites are pending. Efforts are be ing made to obtain and develop park sites near growing centers of population. The department is particularly interested in obtain ing sites in the southern part of the county as no parks have yet teen established in that section. History Of Department Formation oi tiie Douglas county parks department resulted from a cooperative etlort on the part of various conservation groups of the county to get lands set aside sion Parksite Donated Mark Brown Park This tract of 3.37 acres, located about four miles west of Umpqua aksng the Tyee - Umpqua road, was do nated July 24, 1950, by Mack Brown. It consits of a beautiful grove of second growth fir trees. It is clean and free from under growth and is usable at present. Improvements are to start immedi ately and should be completed by July. Negotiations for the donation of this property we.e led by Ken neth Gilkeson, while president of the Roseburg Rod and Gun club. Anna Drain Park Acquired with the assistance of the North Douglas Rod and Gun club at Drain, this park supplements Drain's famed living war mem orial. It is a tract of 1.7 acres adjoining the memorial swimming pool and athletic field. It was pur chased from Anna Drain, May 29, 1950, at a cost of $1,000, about one half the then prevailing market value. Development of this park, now in progress, is a community project handled through coopera tion with the City of Drain, Outstanding Project Winchester Bay Tidelands Park and Boat Basin This project is outstanding in the state of Ore gon. It consists of 75.33 acres lo cated at the end of Basin boule vard at Winchester Bay. The tide lands had previously bee dedi cated to th public, but the county purchawed riparian rights from a butting owners, thus preserving public access to the entire bav- front. together with total owner ship of all future accretions. At Winchester bay is a famed big fish angling spot during the summer for recreational use ahead of pop- season, acquirements on behalf of ulation growth. It was pointed out that in many sections of the state, the public is denied access to fishing streams and that many excellent parks, picnic spots, scenic waysides, etc., have been lost Recognizing the merit in the ap- the public prevent any future bar riers to access through commer cialization. Since the time the park was created, private enter prise has invested money in tax- anie improvements which will more than pay the cost of all pub lic costs wilnin a comparatively SECTION TWO Established 1873 ROSERURG. ORECON THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1951 LEGEND I Sc Stat Soads -0 I . CflrC V V & L I bounty Roods - I X. -0oklV dl V. rA iVntad PaplcSt 1-Britt Nichols) Park 2.-Jomes Wood PorK 3 - Fair Oak Park 4- Mack Brown Park 5- Anna Drain Park 6.- (Winchester Bay Tidiond Park Boat Basin T-Oave BusenborK Park B-Ada PorK 9- Oitr Slough Park 10- Heddcn Park .Process of dedication! IL-North Umpqua Recreation Area Parks. It-Singleton Park D0USLA1 COUNTY PAK CfPftTMlNT PARK SYSTEM MAP SHOMTIMS Location t dedicated perk Stat e rederat Raeds ft oomo County Reeds April IS SI .i -.,,.., n,,r .oi irf.few years. Improvements to date several tracts of county - owned ! !nclude ""at b"i? "i 'aunch .iinn,i i ing ramp for small boats, oarkine values. A trade was negotiated 'rea. all built in cooperation with with the California Oregon Power 'ne ! commission, and a county company and the Gardiner Mill nock- Installations of additional company whereby county-owned I ssnitary facilities is planned this timber lands were exchanged for i '. lands bordering the North Ump-1 . Dave Busenbark Park - Named qua river. These, imterminglcd ; ,n honor of D. N. Busenbark who with . & C. grant lands, which recently retired from the office of also are being surveyed for assign- county judge this park of 28 6 ment for recreational! seres is located on the Coos Bay use, preserves public access to the wagon road above Reston and iust river for nearlv the entire dis-1 below the Copco transmission line, tance from Rock creek to the i The land was ohtiined through tax boundary of the Umpqua national foreclosure in Feb. 1936. It has a forest. ! splendid picnic area covrred with The county also negotiated for second growth fir timber and tidelands bordering Winchester specimen trees of most varieties bay. and cooperated with the Port ! indigenous to Douglas county. It of Umpqua commission in con-1 is in usable condition at present, sstruction of recreational facilities. I Construction of a road, improve- Several parksites were donated, ment of a spring, and installation and others were bought at a much I of boundary .narkers is rontem lower price than owners could plated during the year, have obtained at privitc sale. Ada Par This 14 acre site is Continued acquisition of land, to- located along the Ada road on the gcther with the ohvious need for southeast side of Siltcoos lake near a management program, led the Ihe north county boundary. It has count to perfect an organization i not yet been explored for Hevelop tn handle this detail. I ment, but is reported in usable con- Parks Board Crtatod dition. It was purchased in connec- The parks department was tion with road right-of-way. Bound created by court order Dec. 27, ary markers will be erected this 1950. John Amacher, Winchester; year. Frank Taylor. Reedsport, II. J. Otter Slough park This park Hash, Canyonville and James site, too, has not yet been given a Stoop, Drain, were appointed to development plan. Consisting of a direct the department. The board. fine grove on 30 acres of land, it Feb. 1, 1951, employed Charles S. obtained through tax foreclo Collins as supervisor. sure. It is located on the south side Since taking over the adminis- of Smith river at Oter slough. Wa trative job. Collins has been dili-! ter adjacent to the park furnishes gently working out the long range ' excellent fall fishing. The park is planning program. now usable. Improvements are Parksites under his supervision, planned this year, together" with their descriptions Park "Discovered" and plans for Improvements, are Hedden park This park was listed by Collins as 'ollows: ' "discovered" only recently in a Britt Nichols Park Consisting search of records. It was found of 123' acres this park is located that the county owned one-half on the Calahan road about five acre, a block of land in the city of mi ten west of Melrose, beginning Scottsburg, abutting the river. The on Ihe first switchback above t tract has been in us for stockpiling former Melrose CCC camp. It is gravel. It ia adjacent to the county covered chiefly with second growth right-of-way to the old ferry slip fir timber, and some deciduous and the roadway will be dedicated trees, with little timber of com- as a srt of the park. Th o I d mercial value. The park suffered ferry landing and road may now be some damage Jjom high winds, used for launching small boats. The but dawn timbers now being sal- park will need some improvement vagedMo redu(g)fire hazard. No before being available for use. It is development is contemplated this hoped that development and man vet aside from marking boun- agement will be made a community (3,'ffes. q project. Q James rrood Park This park. Singleton park - - This parksite is of 1.9 acres is located on the the latest acquisition in t h pro l(jt)pqua river off the Tyee Ump- gram. It consists of slightly more qua road.jiboiit six milr)down- than three acres located at t h e ' stream IMd Umpqua. It was do- forks of the Umpqua river, about (fUted Dec. 31. 1945 by James 10 miles northwest of Roseburg. Hood. It provides lT'feet of ac- Improvements include two outdoor ress to th river. No development fireplaces, pressure water system. other than boundary marking is ground lighting. It fronts on both contemplat-tl before nexuyoir. , tributaries aH(-ent to on of the Fair Oaks Jk lOgCl-. most popular fishing and recrea- DOUGLAS COUNTY PARKS SYSTEM GROWING Th above map, prepared by Charles S. Collins, supervisor for th Douglas County Public Parks department, indicates the rapid growth of th county's uniqu park system. Started only two years ego, th ('Dartmont now supervises eleven dedicated parks together with several North Umpqua sites soon to b dedicated. Mor sites ere under negotiation. Extensive improvement work will b undertaken during the spring end summer months. Boundary markers ar to follow th winning design of e contest held in county schools. Douglas county is the first in Oregon to institute e parks program. tion spots. The grounds are par i ticularly well adapted for organ j izational picnics. The site will be ' available for public use within a ; few days. Improvements are con templated immediately. North Umpqua Recreation Area ' Not yet officially dedicated as a part of the park lands, approxi mately 400 .acres in several sites fronting on the North Umpqua river between Rock creek ami Su san creek, will be made a part of the program as soon as use sur veys are completed. Obtained i from the California Oregon Power company through exchange, the lands were released by Copco at a small part of their true value being, in part, a donation to the county's park program. They in clude some of the best park sites along the river and would have brought an excellent price as sum mer homesites. Improvements al ready have been started. Roads J and parking areas have been I graded, furnishing parking and I picnic space for from 300 to 400 cars. Sanitary facilities and bound i ary markers are to be installed. 'The Roseburg Junior chamber of commerce and other groups have furnished tables for some of t h sites. Mor Land In Prospect Supervisor Collins report that negotiations are in progress for several additional parksites to be purchased if suitable arrangements ! can be made and funds are avail i able in the county budget (or the . next year. The department is setting up a small woodworking shop in the ga rage back of the courthouse and expects to use labor from the ! county jail in building park furni ! ture and marker signs. The working l)mapping and ' sUntung improvements will be imnued. Supervision is being given W vage logging within park areas where trees require removal. The park program received $10. 000 in the county but I eel for the year 1949 50 and $25,000 for the 1 current fiscal year. The tntrd has not announced budget reijtfesu for the coming year, but it is r jsected the amount asked for wul Qr about the uroe as for this year. Sutherlin By MRS. BRITTAIN SLACK Colonel and Mrs. Donald Ross ami two children of Dayton, Ohio, arrived in Sutherlin last week to soend a few days with Colonel Ross' mother, Mrs Mabel Ross. Cilonel Ross will then return to Detroit, where he will join his regiment and will go overseas. Mrs. Ross and children will go to Seattle, where they will spend some time visiting with her par ens. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Biillman and family of Areata. California, former residents of Sutherlin, were in town over the weekend visiting friends. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Parker ami Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Swift spent the weekend at Salem with rel f lives. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Smith. wh bought the Jones apartments or rourth avenue, have complete! repairing and remodeling ant! hjve moved into one of the apart mrnts. Mr. Smith is destroying the old shack located at the rear of the lots and will build a new garage soon. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Owen snd son, Larry, visited at the Art Hansen home in Wilbur, Sunday Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Johnson en ter Mined at a dinner Sunday at 1:3U p.m. in their home on West Second avenue. Spring flowers cen tered the linen covered table. Covers were placed for Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Warren of Roseburg. Mrs. Leta Braucht, Wilbur, Mr. and Mrs. R. t,. Patterson and the host and homess, Mr. and Mrs Johnson. Th Indians called Mt. 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