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BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON PAGE TWO ... The World's Best Climate BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT HAS ANYONE SEEN ECKLEY? Entered as second-class matter, at the postoffice at Brookings, Ore.. March 7, 1946. under the Act of March 3, 1879. DEWEY AKERS, Editor and Publisher National Adyrtiting Representative NEWSPAPEB NC Aik 8EBV1CE. INC Serving Amercai Adv erfuhrt endone Home Town Newtpepon III W Randolph — Oie«?« I.H. • OFFICI» • Mofcrooà Idg.. Sm F r»d»«. Subscription Rate: Per Year, in Curry County, Oregon ner Year, outside Curry County...... $2.50 $3.00 THOSE BROOKINGS PELICANS It is a pleasure—genuine pleasure—to watch the Brookings Pel icans play baseball, for they put forth plenty of effort, the kind all fans like. And, this much may also be said: the bunch jf baseball players Pete Lesmeister has assembled is about as clean a bunch of athletes that has ever geen the good fortune of any manager, anywhere, regardless of the league. Sunday, against Rogue River, although Brookings won by a 12 to 0 score, the game was one of those affairs which had the fans all on edge the entire time. Even if Astin was stingy, he never had an inning when there wasn’t a threat. However, his teammates always pulled him out of the hole, and naturally they constantly gave Bob credit for the deed. Such spirit makes up the great teams in any sport. ’ What is outstanding among this group of boys, many yet not 21 years old, is the fact they are those boys you like to have come into your home. They are clean-cut, gentlemanly and above all, really true sportsmen in every sense of the word. Earlier this season the Pelicans lost heart-breaking decisions— just like Rogue River did, Sunday. It was noticeable, Sunday, that the Pelicans were “definitely” on, and the Poor Rogues could do nothing right. The game was much closer than the score indicates. • These boys are bringing honors to this area. People should be quick to recognize this fact, and should, by all means, attend all home games. Remember this, please: some of these lads certainly aren’t going to bp in “bush ball” too long. Some day many of will say: “I knew that guy when he used to play for Pete.” These boys, don’t you forget it, are those kinds. LILY FLOATS NEEDED FOR PARADE Archie Hendricks, Monday, told the Pilot that he was somewhat disappointed in the apparent lack of enthusiasm on part of people in the area in responding to the call for floats for the parade.. Since the whole area profits from this annual affair, it is not easy to understand how people could take an indiffeient attitude about the success of the parade, which is being looked-forward-to bu hundreds from all along the west coast. Many people hesitate making a float because they feel that they could not design one which would take a prize in the Portland Rose Parade, or in a similar parade somewhere else. Such is the wrong at tit tied. In this area, with all its greenery, with all its floral growth,! float making is a matter of just gathering these things and at taching them to some vehicle, with the individuals own ideas designing the motif he wishes to portray. Try it. Length is what [ is need and wanted in the parade. PIANO - VIOLIN ACCORDION tessons ON ANY INSTRUMENT PER MONTH....................... S7.50 (one lesson per week) If sufficient number in Brookings and Harbor wish lessons, teachers will come here for the students’ convenience. Contact: INSTRUCTORS: Helen Mason Austin Ix>uise Langfelt LANGFELT MUSIC HOUSE Crescent City. California BY EMIL R. PETERSON, Historian CoosCu" y Pioneer and SECOND INSTALLMENT Last week we got our bearings and location of the Eckley coun- try—in the rough and tugged mountainous region between Port Orford and Powers; and we heard Joseph A. Haines tell how he came, bringing in his family and spending a greater part of the family life there until they had brought up 14 children. Today let us hear Hom some of the others, some of those who were born there, or came when they were barely old enough to remember their first coming to the Eckley country. Let us hear about the gold mines and the pack trains; the wild game, the farm products and some of the social life; of some of the other families and of the schools; of the mail service and the post offices—yes, I said offices, not one post office. Four different names appear on the official records in the national archives in Wash ington, D. C. But first let us take a birds eye view of the region by some of those who knew the country. The description is part of a story sent to me by Mrs. J. N. Gear hart, who was Dora Bigelow be fore she married our present Co. Surveyor. She was born at Deer Park, a part of the Eckley coun try, in 1888, just seven weeks after her folks arrived there. I suspect that the co-writer of the story was Hulda (Greene) Svend sen. Hulda came to the Eckley; country when she was an infant, in 1883, with her parents. Her mother was Trilla Bigelow be fore her marriage to Edwin C. Greene. Hulda is now <1950) vis iting with Cousin Dora at the! Historical Association don, another member of the Greene-Bigelow tribe, to help them. (Raleigh, also, has a most interesting family story, but it is too long to include here; good for another time). Let us turn now to the de scription of the Eckley country’, passed on to me by our good co workers, Dora and Hulda. From the head of Sixes River in Curry County, east to the county line and on to Salmon Creek, in Coos county, lie the beautiful Eckley prairies, now owned by Ellis Dement and Al bert Powers. (Perhaps I should explain here that these men have their separate cattle ranches; De. ment’s is mostly in Curry Coun ty, while Powers’ ranch lies prin- ci pally in Coos county). These natural prairies were beautiful with grass and wild clover and provide for large herds of cattle today. When the settlers first came, deer and elk roamed at will and fish were abundant in the streams. Bear were not uncommon, and their fat helped to supply shortening for pastries and for frying. The tallow from the deer and elk was used for making candles, while the meat was ever at hand to cook fresh or to eat dried. To this land of plenty came settlers to make their homes. The Joseph Haines family came in 1860, and the G. H. Guerin family in 1876, to settle at the head of Sixes River. The Thomas Gibbs family came in 1870 and settled east of the Guerin place (over the ridge in Coos County, in what became known as Deer Park). He had come in sometime before 1860. Those families — Guerins, ouenns, f °n eaSt f°, k Haines> Gibl«. Bigelows, Greenes of the Coquille. These two women —owned and lived on their land torm the main source of informa-1 in fhe Eckley country 50 years tion for this story of the Eckley or more, till they sold out to the country. They rely to some ex lumbering interests in 1912. tent on Raleigh Greene of Ban- The homes of the Haines fam ANSWERS TO EVERYDAY INSURANCE PROBLEMS* BY PETE LESMEISTER rv O Question. We live out ot town and often use a small utilitv trailer to haul groceries and sacks of chicken feed behind our car. Is any special form of au tomobile insurance needed to c over t he trailer? Any ex premium ? Answer. No, if it is a regular utility trailer, attached to a pri vate passenger car, it is covered without extra charge. The ex ceptions are, di s p I a y, product, owce. demonstration or passenger trailers which must be covered separately. ♦// yvu’li addicts your own insurance questions to this of fice, we ll try to give you the correct answers and there’ll be no charge or oblibation of any kind. PETE J. LESMEISTER Real Estate and Insurance Crissey Building Brookings THURSDAY, JUNE 29. 1950 put down several Indian upris ings; landed in California during the gold rush in 1849. From there he came to the Eckley country in southwestern Oregon and is said to have been one of the first miners in that region and to have * built and operated the first hy draulic mine there. It is reported that sometime later, he with five other men drilled and blasted a tunnel deep into the Salmon Mt. one of the most famous gold min ing spots in that region. Many years later, Tim’s grand-nephew, Amasa W. Green, and two other men re-opened the tunnel to a depth of 670 feet and did not f*nd the end. Besides mining, Tim Greene kept cattle on the Roland and Salt Lick prairies and finally set tled on what came to be known as Deer Park, the cattle ranch owned today (1950) by Albert Powers. 9 Alfred B. (Tim) Green, al though he never married, was known throughout the settlement as a Kindly man, always ready to administer aid to the sick or to hep a neighbor. He would not permit the killing of a deer or other wild game on his place; and it is said that the wild ani- mals considered ' Uncle Tim” as their triend. He was one of the first mail carriers to pack the mail in on his back over the Concluded on Page Ten PinSTILUX* nvion H05IERV ily, the Guerins and the Green's were stopping places for travel-’ ers. and anyone from the cutside I bringing news was more than! welcome, for mail and news in that section were so scarce. Some* of the first settlers had been there 20 years before they had any regular mail service. South of the Eckley ccuntry was the mining district, where much ot the gold was taken out during the early days. The miners! in coming and going, often stay-1 ed at the homes of the settlers, and many happy hours were en joyed sitting around the fireplace discussing the news or spinning yarns of adventure. Most of those I *Reg. App. for pioneers were educated, intelli- nt men, w ho had left the east । to explore the vast west for the wtnhh and opportunities they knew lay here. Allred E. (Tim) Green was one of the best known of the early settleis. I ncle 1 im” never mar ried, but his nephews came to visit him. and to mine. They re-1 f £ $ I * mained and took up homes.eadsJ Here is a stocking by v"’-* «r I Later they sent for their father, together with younger ’ members Clearspun that of the family. Their ather was adds beauty to p $ the Rev. James B. Greene, a even the most glamorous brother of “Tim”. Along with him came the family of Edwin of legs ... and wears as well as it J. 'Bigelow, Mrs. Bigeow being looks. It’s the PLASTILUX FIN- TSH that makes the difference. his daughter, Emma. But let us get better acquaint ed with T ncle Tim” Greene. As stated before, he continued to be a bachelor. Born in Ohio, in 1821, Milady’s Outfitters he headed west when he was Kruger Building Brookings about 16 years old; he helped to Queen
