BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON
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BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT
HAS ANYONE SEEN ECKLEY?
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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.
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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.
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ACCORDION
tessons
ON ANY INSTRUMENT
PER MONTH.......................
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(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
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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.
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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