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
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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
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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
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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
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settlers living in this part of the
country, and to supply the
w ants of the e m m ig ran ts
arriving over the mountains in
ever increasing numbers with
the covered wagon trains.
Foster built and operated a
grist m ill for grinding grain
and, in partnership with Egbert
Olcott, ran a saw m ill called
Eagle M illing Company near
the present Bonny Lure Park.
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
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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.
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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.
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There a re tim es when
background, fishable position,
or winds make a straight
forward basic cast useless if
not impossible. Perhaps the
only window in the brush is
directly behind you, whereas
the fish you wish to cast to lies
upstream to your right. This
calls for a change of direction
cast to the right if you are
fishing from the left bank. The
left bank is the one to your left
when you are facing upstream
your lett wnen you are lacing
upstream.
The change of direction to the
right is not difficult. The big
item is in the tim ing as the
movements differ slightly from
the basic cast. You false cast in
the basic manner until enough
lin e is extended fo r your
proposed cast. 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
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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.
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