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T hu n .. March 9, 1972 (Sac. 2 , S A N D Y (Ore., POST - 7 Timberline gets snow damage Eagle Creek store welcomed travelers Living as we do in this super- age, surrounded by super markets, department stores, super drug stores and self- service establishments within a stones throw, we are apt to give little thought to the problem of the pioneer in the m atter of purchasing supplies in early times in Clackamas County. In 1844 Philip Foster located in what is now Eagle Creek village on a homestead; here built a log house and began the construction of a grist m ill. In late 1845 Samuel K. Barlow FLOWERS by MALCOMS Worldwide Delivery Ph. 665 9101 A ll Hour* Powell Gresham and W illiam Rector coming from the East discovered a new route around the south side of M t. Hood and a rriv e d at Foster’s farm. In 1846 Barlow, with Foster as a partner, started building a road from Foster’s through the mountains and called it Barlow Toll Road. A few covered wagons came over the road in 1846 and more in 1847. In 1848 the first large em m ig ra tio n cam e in and camped at Foster’s place, and as the years passed many thousands of people with cattle, horses and sheep arrived each fall. F o s ter and P e tty g ro v e arrived in Oregon City from Maine via Cape Hom and established a general store in 1843. In 1845 Pettygrove platted and named the City of Portland and a few years la te r established a general store on Front Street. Foster sold in Oregon City to W.C. Dement, and established a general store at Eagle Creek where he could cater to the few The Year of Discovery We want you to discover The Krause Furniture Co. Complete Home Furnishings Custom Made Draperies Wall to Wall Carpets Guaranteed Installations Call for Estimates & Home Selections See Our Grab BagTable_for^Specials_ Queen Size Box Spg. A Mattress Quilted Top-Firm *149.95 Daveno & Chair *119.95 5 pc. 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Between 1848 and the early 1850’s Foster's store and the sawmill were the only ones between Oregon City and In dependence, M isso u ri, a distance of some 1,900 miles. F o s te r’s store accounts contain many interesting facts. We feel of interest are the names of many of the early settlers and we quote the prices as paid by one of the pioneers in the succeeding paragraph. Here are some of the Foster customers in the 1850s and 60s: Egbert Olcott, Jacob G rim , Jam es W a ld rip , B e n jam in E n d ersb y, W illia m H o w le tt, John Suttle, Benjam in Smith, Jam es M . B row n , Joseph Jones, D a v id M arkw ood, R o b ert W ilson, John D ay, G eorge S. H a ig h t, Harden Coram, Thomas H. Bell, F.A . Reid, J.W . Hinds, Sam S. Smith, Robert Young, Charles St. John, Charles A. Can- tonione, F ra n c is Revenue, D a v id W ilson, G eorge W. P a lm a te e r, Steve D. C o alm an, W illia m T y le r , Robert J. Devine, T.C. F o r man, Josiah A. Burnett, George Currin, W illiam M . Wade, Hugh Currin, John Glover, George Arm itage, Thomas Forrester, W illia m M in n e r, Chester Jaques, Seth P a lm a te e r, Samuel Em bree, James T. Chitwood, John P . G ains (T e r r ito r ia l G o v ern o r of Oregon from 1850 to 1853) then in the 1960s ca m e m ore customers among whom were the Judds, Douglas, Gibson, B ra d le y , S m ith s, Suter, Githens, Folsom, Bracketts, and many more. David Markwood who taught school at Eagle Creek had an account with Foster in the 1950s and the following was one of his purchases; 1 lb. tea, $1.; 1 bu. spuds, $1.; 20 lb. pork, 25 cents a lb.; 1 pr. pants (men) $5.; 1 spool thread 50 cents; 1 quart whiskey 50 cents; 50 lb. flour $5.; 6 lbs. sugar $1.; 3 yards calico 54 cents; 1 bottle castor oil 50cents; 1 plug of tobacco 25 cents; 1 bar soap 75 cents; 4 lbs. coffee $1.; 44 lbs beef $4.40; one half gal. molasses $1.25; 1 shirt $1.; 2 yrds. sheeting 30 cents; 5 pints dry beans 40 cents; 1 call lamp wick 25 cents; 1 sack salt $2.; 1 pair hickory pants $4. In the 1860s prices wholesale and retail were higher by 50 to 100 per cent. Foster purchased his supplies in Portland and Oregon City and they were hauled to Eagle Creek by ox teams in the summer tim e and by pack horses in the winter season. It took two days for the Oregon City trip and three days for the Portland purchases. He bought from the following firms in Portland: Ladd—Reed Co,; H a rk e r B ro s .; R .N . 4 F . M cLaren; A .F . Francis; W. Weatherford; Blaumauer and Rosenblatt; E .J. Northrup and Co.; Smith and Bro.; L. and D. B a rm a n ; G .W . Vaughn; N o rth ru p and Sim m ons; Blaumauer Bros.; A M . and L .M . Starr ¡ this latter firm was interested in many kinds of merchandise. T heir store was M M M a a M flM M M M n M M M M M M M N M M M M M I GRESHAM FAIRGROUND Flea Market HONEST TO GOODNESS SAVINGS! Great Bargains! Collectors Paradisel A D M IS S IO N 25 K ID S UNDER 72 FREE BRINS INIS FOR ONE F REE M ull Admission 665 N. MAIN, GRESHAM 666-1153 or 668-5105 Primitives • Coins • Collectables OPEN Saturday & Sunday 10 to 6 Heavy winter snows have caused an estimated $10,000 damage to the east wing of Tim berline Lodge on the slopes of M t. Hood, where pressure from a snow buildup twisted walls and ceilings in at least one room. Claude Phipps, civil engineer for the Mt. Hood National Forest, said snow causes minor damages and “movement” to the facility every year, but said this year’s snow came faster and is melting slower than usual. He said some 50-75 tons of snow was removed by equp- ment Friday. The damaged room is located where a new wing is to be joined to the building soon. TVs swiped LOCAL ID L E R S pose in front of the Eagle Creek store in the late 1800s. The store. on the corner of Front and Stark Streets. One of the more im p o rta n t item s purchased from S ta rr’s was “ Red Top” whiskey at 37 and one half cents per gallon by the barrel of 41 gallons in 1861. It was 60 cents in 1862 and in 1865 it was $2 a gallon. first built by Philip Foster, was sold to Henry Wilbern in 1873. < Photo from the E.L. Meyers collection) We might add that in the pioneer days whiskey was used for medicinal purposes (so they tell us). Be that as it may, from the record in Foster’s books, there must have been an awful lot of illness. Foster decided to devote his full tim e to his large scale farming operations in cluding his nursery, and in the early 1970s sold his store to Henry Wilbern and Richard Gerdes, Wilbern bought out Gerdes. In a later historical sketch we w ill tell the story of Henry Wilbern, his early life and his par, in the growth of this section. COUTURE SEW IN G C LA S S E S YOU (on make elegant (leike* that fi, and flatter YOUR figure. CLASSES IN: •Couture Construction • Fitting For In fo r m a tio n CALL 2 5 4 -7 2 8 0 Beginning Monday March 20 Location 909 N.E. 173rd Time 9 11:30 or 12:30-3 Tires and two television sets valued at $525 were reported stolen M ar. 7, from the home of Jesus Fernandez, 7631 SE 190th Dr. Sheriff’s reports said the thieves pried the hasp off his front door to gain entry. LBERTA’S CUSTOM FASHION ORIGINALS 3633 S.W. 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When sufficient line is in the air, hold the pause on the back cast slightly longer until all the line is behind you in the air. Then start the forward cast with a snappy motion. At the same instant start pivoting your body to the right, and also at the same tim e roll your wrist to the right. T h is co m bination of movements w ill lay out a straight cast on an angle to your right. How far right is dependent on how much you pivoted your body and wrist, and how well these motions were coincident with the for ward thrust. A little practice on stream or lawn w ill enable you to judge these things, and with practice the change of direction cast w ill become so automatic, all you have to do is think change of direction and your cast w ill correspond. The change of direction cast to the left is just as simple. After a relaxed back cast, start a snappy fo rw a rd cast; simultaneously pivoting your body and rolling your wrist to the left As ones right wrist does not roll to the left as decisively as it does to the right, I usually add a slight forward push to the rod as the wrist rolls. There w ill be times when you are fishing in front of a steep bank or hill or even a solid wall of heavy brush which leaves Steelheader dinner success, ting set _ .. . .. . ~ The Mount Hood Chapter wishes to thank the 200 plus persons who turned out for their seafood dinner last Friday at Wemme. The next meeting of the Chapter will be next Monday, M arch 13 at 8 p.m. in the Lion's Pavilion at Wemme This meeting w ill include nominations for officers for the next year Also, there w ill be a truest speaker from the Hydrox Corp. Bob Raun will speak about his companies aenation pumps The striking feature of these pumps is the results They can turn a sewage lagoon into a fish hatchery, so ef fective is the aeriation of the m aterial in the lagoon, when put through their pumping system PHONE M a c A le v y you no place for a backcast. Let us assume you are on the left bank of a stream. You wish to cast across and upstream . Face upstream and false cast over the stream parallel to the bank. When enough line is working, proceed with a change of direction cast to the right. Applying this same strategy in any other situation, using this change of direction cast either to the right or the left, will enable you to reach parts of the stream formerly unfishable to you. There is one more use of this change of direction cast. This is in the wind. A strong down stream wind over the water makes it difficult to get enough line out without it being blown downstream below the target of your cast. So, instead of casting to your original target, cast a change of direction cast to a new target upstream from the original target. Overpower this cast so that the line stops with a jolt and recoils, creating some slack in the air. The wind will take advantage of this slack and the point of your line will curve around to the point of your original target before the fly alights. D u rin g w indy periods, particularly in late summer when insect populations are at their heighth, many land in sects are blown into the water. These are often the only con ditions under which a trout may see these insects. Ants, beetles, bees, grasshoppers, jassids, and woodland members of the diptera order are suddenly on the trouts menu. The diptera or two winged flies includes such common flies as the housefly and the deerfly. As a group, these non-aquatic insects are called terrestials by the fly angler. Your August dry fly man would not be without a few imitations of these. A beetle is one of the simplest to tie. A good beetle pattern is the Blue-Green Beetle. Tie a palmer brown hackle the full length of a number 14 hook Over this put on a rolled down wing made from the Blue- Green mettalic looking breast feather of a peacock. A black beetle is always good as so many beetles are black. You can use various size hooks for these as black beetles come in all sizes. Tie a black hackle full palmer to cover the entire hook. Use a soft Crow feather with a lot of sheen for the rolled down wing The jassid is a tiny sucking ,^ at ¡s n|entiful in hot w ea th e r around cu ltiv ate d cropg p lg tied ag the beetle is with a fuu palmer body of either brown or olive hackle. Number 20 is the size for all jassids are tiny Over this pal mer hackle, tie a down wing made of a Jungle Cock eye feather The enamel like spot on this feather looks exactly like the back of a jassid Ants are continually falling into the streams, and the flying stage of this insect is a poor flyer which often gets blown down onto the water. Trout like ants and feed voraciously on them if many are around Many ants are tied with silk bodies as the silk thread bulds nice smooth shiny shapes Alas, these carefully built up silk bodies are too heavy to float well. I have had better results using black ostrich herl for the heavy parts of the body, and using short bands of tieing silk for the joints. The re ar half of an ant is the swollen abdomen. Two smaller segments occupy equally the forward half of the insect. This is the thorax and the head. Tie the hackle and wings in a, the joint between thorax and head. The wings should lie in a horizontal plane and be swept back 45 degrees. You should tie more ants without wings than with as the winged period of an ants life is very short. Ants are usually black, rusty red, or a com bination of the two. The diptera order of Pies or two wing flies are omnipresent. The common housefly is a good fly to im itate. Everything on it is black. A short stubby body of ostrich herl is again good, with a sparse black hackle and short hackle tip wings, swept way back and slightly overlapping Look at a housefly at rest and you w ill know just how much to slant the wings. Tie a large head of tieing silk on the housefly as his head is large. Use a short grey body, ginger hackle and brown g rizzly hackle tips to make a deerfly. T ry these terrestials the next windy summer day you find yourself on a stream. 2 5 2 -1 4 3 1 OPEN HOUSE Eddie Baxter Nationally known artist presents a FREE Musical Evening T u e s d a y , M a rc h 14 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Featuring the exciting sounds of the LOWREY ORGAN AT (§o. 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