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THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1939 THE SENTINEL, OOTTAOE PROVE. OREGON «irttacf (^rove Srntind Published Every Thursday at 25 North Sixth Street. W. C MARTIN ................ Editor-Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Cash in Advance) In Lane-Douglas Counties Outside Lane-Dou g lax Cbunties One Year ................................ $1.50 One Year .................................. $2.00 Six Months ..................................... 80 Six Months .............................. 1.25 Three Months ..... 50 Three Months ............................... 65 Foreign rate 50 cents year additional. No subscription accepted for less than three months. 1P39 Motor Cruise: Oly pic Loop ■ iiiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiHiiiiiiimiiiiiiiif I GOLDEN PHANTOMS' I = fascinating Talat at fast Mint* = = st nmu l wabom = “ © W M U. Z imiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiimiimiiiniiml SWIFT SILVER MINE HERE aeem to be three distinct eras In America during which mining was most important. 'Die first was during the Spanish occu pation, the second after the Civil ; war, and the last the present time 1 Hut the Swift silver mine belongs ! National Editorial Association. Oregon Newspaper Press Association to none of them; it produced Its s Iver shortly before the llevolu- j jon. LOTS OF WATER, FEW FISH Swift was the captain of a sal) I ;g vessel of those times. He met I There is more water ami fewer fish in this vicinity than t man who had been adopted Into any other place we have ever seen. Not that we wish to be cri ,>n Indian tribe, and this man re- i tical of the lack of fish, but we would like to know more about vealed that the Indians had dis why the fish are absent. We have heard several explanations, covered a fabulously rich deposit j chief among which are that there is too much fishing, both in of silver In Kentucky, season and out. but in comparison with the plantings in other The mine was in a cave, well sections, the plantings made in this vicinity are considerably hidden from the casual searcher. It was all that had been promised, and smaller, perhaps because the business of suppyling the streams Swift set to work mining and with fish is left up to the state hatcheries, whereas in other smelting the ore, running It into sections of the country federal hatcheries seem to be plentiful. molds and stamping it with n dol In other words we could use more federal fish hatcheries in lar die which he had brought with Oregon. It has even been suggested that Cottage Prove should him. When they had made as much build a municipally owned hatchery and release fish in the lo of this money as they could carry, cal streams say about ever sixty days. Proponents of this idea, they concealed the place as the In dians had done and started east which might be a good one. say that it would be an added in ward—none too soon, for the tribes ducement for more tourists to stop and spend a few days. men discovered that their mine had We don’t care where the fish come from whether it is a been plundered and startl'd on municipal hatchery, state or federal hatchery, what we need is their trail. In fact, pursuit grew so more fish. Since it appears to be quite a job keeping any trout hot that the white men were forced in the local streams, maybe sportsmen will have better luck to bury a large proportion of their when the dams are built in stocking the lakes thus created with spoils. Then came the Revolutionary bass. Of course the fluctuating shore line will be the principal war, and Swift was busy with many drawback to lots of fish, but the conspicuous absence of fish matters. We next meet up with him could not be much worse than under the present arrangement. when be came into Kentucky with Boone, and told the story of the Indian mine at Boonesborough. DIVIDENDS He said that he could find the place again, although his sight was The new law requiring cars to dim head lights at night falling, and a company was formed when passing another car does not seem to be observed any to go with him. He led them truly, better than before there was any legal requirements. Light dim and at last toward evening one day ming is a matter of courtesy as well as safety and is practiced he recognized the location. The night was spent in dreams of great in most states even without a law. Perhaps to establish a gineral practice, more time is re fortune, and at daybreak every one eager to uncover the hidden quired and there should be an educational campaign promoted was shaft—but alas! during the night to induce motorists to dim at the proper time. Swift’s eyesight had left him com A number of wrecks can be traced directly to bright and pletely, and he could not see even dazzling lights, especially when highways are wet. Night driv- the sun as it poured its rays against T ing is hazardous enough without the additional hazard of the bls face. bright lights and certainly dimming is a safety measure that He tried to tell the men where to go, but it was useless. They were will pay big dividends. MORE FOR YOUR MONEY forced at last to abandon their search and return home empty handed. That mine baa been hunted ever sine« thoae days, but it remains hid In this day and age. we’re used to workers of all kinds making demands for shorter hours and more pay for less work. den. But. believe it or not, there is one “servant” which reverses this familiar process—and which, instead, asks for longer hours Room Bureaus Set Up and smaller pay. That servant is electric power. In the last quarter century the cost of practically every For New York Fair thing we use has gone steadily up. Your dollar, for instance, now buys 30 per cent k*ss clothing than it did in 1913. It buys NEW YORK (Special)— Two 20 per cent less food. It buys 15 per cent less shelter. agencies have been set up in But there is one very vital adjunct of living of which it buys a great deal more, and this is electricity. According to New York City to insure World’s Fair visitors’ getting the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, today’s electric dollar, living accommodations at a measured in the energy it will purchase on a national aver most reasonable price. age, it worth close to twice what it was worth in 1913. One is the Mayor’s Official This has obviously saved us all a lot of money—and don’t World’s Fair Housing Bureau, Inc., with headquarters in the forget that the saving was made by a heavily-taxed, strictly regulated, self-supporting private business, and not by a tax- Chanin Building, 122 East 42d subsidized, unregulated, deficit-breeding public business. Equal Street, set up by Mayor La Guardia to locate rooms for ly important as the saving in cash involved, is the fact that visitors in private homes and cheaper power has been a tremendous factor in improving our dwellings. living and working standards, doing away with drudgery in The other is the Hotel Room home and factory, and so increasing the output of the worker Information Bureau of the that his wages have risen. Where the average household used Hotel Association of New York about 260 kilowatt-hours of electricity in 1913, it uses almost City, representing 180 hotels four times as much. 950 killowatt-hours, today. That’s real pro with a total capacity of 80,000 rooms. The bureau is at associ gress—the kind of progress that is felt in every home, and ation headquarters, 221 West can’t be adequately measured in dollars and cents. 57th Street. If you don’t believe a little paint helps the looks of build ings, drive around and see the newly painted houses. In some instances paint very near doubles the attractiveness of build- THE WORLD OF TOMORROW (?) Both agencies function with out any charge to the visitor in finding him clean and comfort able accommodations at a price within his means. Rooms in private dwellings range in price from $1 per night per person upward, with the average per person $1.50. Every Western Union and Postal Telegraph office is equipped to handle requests for rooms in conjunction with the Housing Bure au's operation. Every policeman in New York City is familiar with the plan and is equipped to give visitors first hand information on meth ods of obtaining registered and sponsored rooms. On making the application for a room the visitor pays a de posit of 50 cents per night per person for which he receives a receipt. The receipt may be pre sented to the landlord in lieu of cash as part payment for the room. Greatest Martial Elegy The greatest martial elegy that has ever been written, “The Biv ouac of the Dead,” by Theodore O’Hara, is said to be the one perfect and universal martial elegy. It has been translated into almost every European language and is one of the world's most beloved poems. ‘For All Who Wish to Learn* “For All Who Wish to Learn” la the motti; inscribed on the building occupied by the Opportunity school i in Denver, Colo. *. . . there are many mile* of foreat roads and some 2000 miles of hiking and riding trails." dlan tribee live on the prnlnsula. principally near the coast, for thry are primarily fishermen and canoe Indians. One of the features of the trip was a ride In an Indian dugout cn- noe, powered with a modern out- board motor. Although the Indians are quite up to date In many re spects, they still manufacture their For Oregonians the Olympic loop own canoes by hewing them from trip makes an ideal three-day motor great cedar logs. jaunt. It provides a variety of scen The beat close-ups of the moun ery, mountains, streams, lakes, tains in Olympic park were obtained from the north side of the peninsula, woods and bays that is not to be the motorlog party reported. How duplicated in any other trip cover ever, they are visible moat of the । way around the loop. ing the same mileage. The Olympic national park, lo The mileage from Portland to Port cated in the central part of the Angelea, where the loop trip offi Olympic peninsula. Washington, is cially beglna. la 253 milea. The dla- washed on three sides by the waters tance around the peninsula and back of the Pacific ocean, the Strait of to Portland via Astoria totaled 301 Juan de Fuca and Puget sound. Only milea. The party made aide tripe to 12 miles of main highway are Olympic and Sol Duc Hot Springe, within the park, although there are I ji Push, Pacific Bench and Port ipany miles of forest roads and Townsend. These trips were not in some 2000 miles of hiking and riding cluded in the mileage totals. trails. The main Olympic loop highway The Oregonian-Oregon State Mo Is paved throughout Its entire length. tor association motorlog party found much of the area traversed Map of th«- route followed by The extremely rugged and primitive, Oregonian-Oregon State Motor teeming with all kinds of wild life, fish, deer, bears and elk Many In- association motorlog party. This newspaper Is co-operat- tng with the Oregon State Motor association and The Oregonian in presenting a series of motor- logs designed to stimulate travel in Oregon and the Pacific north west. This article was condensed from a full-page article appear ing in The Oregonian July 9. Many Refugees Left Russia Drinkers Cannot Inherit Land Inhabitants of Papua Cannibalistic About 1.500.000 refugees are esti mated to have left Russia during the war and turmoil of the years 1817- 1920. A court which deals with farm in heritances has ruled that "drinkers cannot inherit land and arc not fit to cultivate it properly.” The inhabitants of Papua, the Dutch part of New Guinea, are Pol ynesian In type and are declared to be cannibalistic. Capital of Louisiana King's Children look Name Ilas Few Earthquake* New Orleans was the capital ot Louisiana at the time the stale was admitted to the Union, 1812. Children of William IV of Eng land and his mistress. Mrs. Jordan, took the name Fitzclarence. New England has had only some 17 minor earthquakes in the last 900 years. COMING! To South Lane County More People More Opportunity More Business More Prosperity In addition to the normal payrolls, three and a half million dollars will be spent in south Lane county within the next five years. If you are a property owner, wage earner, business man, farmer, or former resident, you want to keep posted on what’s going on. 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