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8'Tn Ne-Reviw, Roseburg, Or. Thiiw. Moy 10, 1956 (Male Mk Industrial Nub From Ashes Of 1928 Fire fc' ' .-,: A i ,, Wt . ;''. '.-; .mi Y. 0 WfM , ' ,, 'ru,mTrLm-tS,-tmr--'Tmtf;i,;r-n mil iii if tTfr 1 iMM3Ni 4 IHBiWXBB THIS STURDY, MODERN structure is the Glen dale High School which reflects the solid, yet progressive development of the county's southern most town. The school has built in 1953. It now has an enrollment of 162. this page by Paul Jenkins). (All pictures on IS" ' . ' . ..' r " " " r " ' ' - : "v " ' ; -TTITBlWTITin' SOUTHERN PACIFIC DEPOT Railroading was once the big industry of Glendale. It still plays a highly important part in the community's economy. The Oregon and Cali fornia Railroad came to Glendale In the 1880s, and from the first the railroad used the total output of Sol Abraham's mill for ties trestles and shoring for tunnels. -Mi ".Vi Xt'f vJa iz FREIGHT YARDS of the Southern Pacific at Glendale show the significant relationship of shipping and lumber in the town's economy. Glendale's name is even tied up with the railroad. . Sol Abraham, who laid out the townsite originally named the town Julia after his wife. But the railroad after some kind of argument with Abraham, renamed it Glendale. W',5r. h -r.- rf" s ' ?.J.N!SS D'?JRICT, of GlendP ,a !-?uShon QboV9- The en,ir le"9th of this business looo u u,hVQllwy y,ords- Jhe b,.u"nf's district has bn entirely rebuilt since ivy when the disastrous fire made a shambles of it Gold Rush, Lumbering, Railroad Highlight Hardy City's History " ' By MRS. GERALD B. FOX Twenty-seven years ago, on May 1, 1929, the city o Glendale held a gala celebration with all-day fes tivities designed, according to a special Glendale issue of the News Review, to attract thousands of out-of-town visitors. A special excursion train was run from Roseburg by the "then more friendly" Southern Pacific and even the Roseburg stores and schools were closed for the occasion. The new $250,000, A. A. Snyder sawmill was being dedicated, and the day's schedule included a pa rade in the morning, a picnic on the mill dock at noon with a band accompanying, a big-name speak er, a May pole dance and conduct ed tours of the mill. Late after noon saw a ball game between the Glendale Town Team and Grants Pass, and in the evening a street carnival and a coronation ball, honoring a high school senior, top ped off the high excitement of the day. A Spring Board The dedication of the new mill was in some ways only the spring board for the celebration. Hemna it also lay 10 months of labor in the clearing of derms ana remind ing of a twon which followed the historic Glendale fire of July 11, 1928, 10 months earlier. It was bas ically a reaffirmation of the pioneer spirit which brought the first settlers to the valley nearly 80 years earlier. ine nig lire Drone out in the re frigeration plant of the City Meat Market and, fanned by wind, seem ed fairly to explode from ono wood en building to another. It engulfed most of the block between Third and Fourth streets on Pacific Av enue where it started, gained ter rific Headway, and swept down Pa cific Ave., as far as First, turn ed south, and raced up First to Willis where it leaped across to the Glendale School, vacant since the new school was completed two years before. so swilt was the advance of the flames that old residents say just 45 minutes .elapsed between the first outbreak of the fire and the collapse of the schoolhouse roof. 1 lie new school caught fire but men with hoses on the roof quell ed the flames in time. On Second and Third avenues, the fire was largely held back at the Valley be tween Pacific and Willis. It did reach beyond at one point, taking the two-story Odd Fellows' Hall which stood on the site of the pres ent Glendale Telephone Co. build ing. The old telephone office caught fire but was saved only to burn two months later in a separate fire. In all. 19 out of 23 business buildings burned with- a few minutes time, and with them, 12 residences and two school buildings. Surprise! r.d Johnson, later one of Glen dale's mayors, was working at the Douom ot a welt on the old Bartlc place across Cow Creek from Glen dale (next to the slccl bridge which Avenue) at the time of the fire. When he came out. he started down town to see about getting a length of pipe he needed and, look no town. An amusing sidelight on the fire occurred when shoes were being thrown out of the burning shoe store. One thrifty Glendale resi dent, not wishing to see good foot wear go to waste, sat down in the middle of the street and began try ing on snoes. Back of the fire lay a remark able history of pioneering which began well ahead of the Civil War, of Indian fighting, and of the grad ual change of the town from a rough and roistering frontier settle' ment to a city with its own base ball team, band, opera hall, and well-equipped school. The first resident :n Cow Creek Valley, Hardy tlliff. arrived, tak ing up what later became the Johns ranch. It originally included all of the site for the present town of Azalea. Other settlers followed fast. In 1854 gold was discovered! Plywood Corn (which produces un- up Starveout, and Glendale's first j cemented plywood sheets) the Sup- Ioop holes in the walls for Indian fighting, in 1857 and 1878. When the Garretts purchased the place they retained the old cabin walls and puncheon floors, covering thern with modern materials. Stagecoaches Stagecoaches were coming through Cow Creek Valley twice daily by 1862, and the first school was built in 1863. In the 1880's the Oregon and Cal ifornia Railroad came through Glendale, thus introducing the town's second main industry, rail roading, and with it, the begin nings of a third and more im portant one, the lumber industry, Solomon Abraham dammed Milt Creek and put up a sawmill in 1882 on the site of the present Ed John son home across from the grade school ball diamond. Sol produced railroad tics and timbers for tres tles and tunnel shoring, prepara tory to the coming of the railroad. He even donated land to the rail road to encourage its coming. He laid out the townsite of Julia, nam ed for his wife, (Molly Street in front of the sawmill was named for his daughter) but a tiff between Sol and the railroad no one seems to remember the details of the argument was responsible for the railroad's overriding Sol's wishes and renaming the town, Glendale. Bur' Mill In 1901, David N Snyder and M. D. Oweight bought the Abra ham mill and moved it to Fern vale up Windy Creek canyon. Their firm, the Glendale Lumber Co. alse operated a planing mill in Glen dale and transported lumber from the Fernvale plant to Glendale by means of a huge open - top flume, at some places high above the ground, with an apron alongside where workmen might stand to push along balky timbers. It was when Snyder's son, A. A. Snyder, constructed the new mill in Glendale in 1929 that the big May 1 celebration was held. Unfortunately the financial Dust of '29 was just around the cor ner, and the new, highly - touted filant was soon forced to close. It ay idle till 1933 when S. K. Ing ham and son acquired and re opened it. In 1937 it burned with a loss of about half the plant and some four million board feet of stored lumber. Ingham rebuilt it into a much more modern mill, which was purchased by the Rob ert Dollar Lumber Co. in 1945. Other Mills No history of Glendale would be complete without mention of other mills which loomed large in its economy. One of the blows of '29 included the burning of the Lystul Lawson mill on the site of the pres ent Superior Lumber Co. It was one of 11 Glendale mills at the time of the celebration. It employ ed 50 or 60 men and was the first in the area with a monthly pay day and eight-hour shifts. The mill was rebuilt, but the depression still held, and when it did not op erate profitably, it was later- dis mantled. Lyslul had previously been as--sociated in several other mill en terprises in the area, including one at McCulloch Creek, from which lumber was hauled to the Lystul siding for shipment. Today, Glendale. true to the vi sion of 1929, is a sawmill and lum bering center whuh has grown rap idly in population and payroll. Big Mill The Robert Dollar Mill spreads over an area of about 180 acres. It has constantly expanded its plant and facilities. At the present time its average daily cut is 320, 000 board feet of lumber. It cm ploys 250 men in the mill and 114 in tho woods, not counting those employed by some 15 "gypo" con tractors from which it purchases a part of its logs. The Dollar - Patterson Lumber Co. mill, leased in 1951 from the Havward Milling Co.. which built it in 1946, cuts 200,000 board feet per day. Five major mills in (he area, the Robert Dollar mill, the Dollar- Patterson Mill, the Multnoman STRIKING VIEW of the Robert Dollar Co. mill, the biggest in the Glendale area is shovn across a log filled pond. The company cuts an average of 320,000 board feet of lumber per day. It has opened an excellent road into previously inaccessible timber resources in the West Forks area. ' " -l ' ' ."' V '" , . r ft S J I I KS,' ma tor industry, mining, saw its birth. The sixth family to arrive In the valley in 1850 was John 1! Red field, a one-armed blacksmith, and his wife. Their son, Daniel Boone Hedfield, was the f'rst white child born here. Thev took up the Red field donation lend claim which was bought by C. O. tiarretl in 1914. Their first house was washed away by flood in MM, and the second was destroyed by Indians in 1S.S5. It was rebuilt, a log cabin with perior Lumber Co., and the S Vaughn and Mini mm, logemer. produce an average cut of 650,000 board feet of lumber per day or enough to build 100 average five room houses. Together with the Glendale Lumber Co. (a planing mill), they employ a total of about 4j0 men in the plants themselves, and 300 men in the woods. Glendale has a population of about 1.000 within the city limits. The city and its near by suburbs and some of them are as close ly built as city-claimed streets 0 '5 -in" 5- ' : - or r-v r ANOTHER LOG sploshed into the Robert Dollar Co. millpond above. Among the most progressive companies in the, West, it operates its timber holdings on a sustained yield basis to insure a supply for many years. The company's mill is a direct descen dant of the first mill built in Glendale by Solomon Abraham in 1882. t in 11 "tiamiutmjfSWftfM MM mmmmmtte iiii lt - ts'mBxaWM service, it has undertaken to in terest the Greyhound Co., in bring ing a local into town. Glendale has a wealth of Indus trial potential and production, an enormous payroll and a high rat ing for average individual income in Dun & Bradstreet reports. New homes have liberally sprout ed along every canyon road and every highway. She has scenery which would make a California pro moter drool with envy. ' II I HI IMlMllj.ui. Door Pounder Causes Fatal Heart Attack LONG BEACH. Calif. I -"There's a man pounding on mv door and he refuses to go away.1 a frightened, elderly woman tele phoned police. Officers, who sped to the house said they found a drunken young marine at the door demanding to see "Lucy." "I'm dying. I can't breathe. Why didn't ha go away?" police quoted .Mrs. Elmarta Thomas, 71. Then she died, apparently from a heart attack. Haywood W. Langdon, 23, was booked on suspicion of being intox icated and released on $25 bail. There wai do one at the apart-1 meat lamed Lacy. l - '.1 ALMOST MANSION-SIZE is this house now being completed by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dollar of Glendale. It is unquestionably one of the county's finest homes and an in dication of the bright future the Dollars see tor the (oiendale area. embraces a population roughly es timated at 2,500. To the grade school which was built in 1928 and barely saved from fire, has been added two joined wooden units, built in 1948 and 1949. and a new high school built in 1953. There is a school census figure of 1.0G9, a grade school enrollment of 569. and a high school enrollment of 162. It might be ex plained that the school district is not confined to Glendale and its immediate suburbs but includes Starveout Canyon and part of Cow Creek Canyon above Azalea, as well as the area between. There are 13 churches in the city, six of which have been or ganized rather recently, active Ma sonic and Odd Fellows organiza tions, and their respective Eastern Star, Rcbekah. and affiliated groups. The Farm Bureau and Grange have the scat of their ac tivities near Azalea but include Glendale members. As a matter of fact the two communities are held together, not only by a joint school district, but by the integration of! manv other activities as well. I The Lion's Club is an active Glendale booster organization. For some time one of its goals has been the procurement of a bank for the town. Recently, because Glendale is four miles off the high way and has only a flag-stop bus a tr. r 1 v, v.... ;ts . ,1- I U --TMrfc?4ritJ RESTING PLACE of the Cow Creek Valley's first resident is shown above. He w o s Hardy C. Ellif. He came West in 1849 and died Nov. 2, 1894 at the age of 72.
