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The World’s Best Climate
Retired Minister Is
Noted Figure With
Irrigation Congress
THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1950
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON
Through his position as sec-
retary of the Lower Yellowstone
Irrigation project for a couple
decades, the National Irrigation
Congress sent him to Salt Lake
City, there to head the import- |
ant legislative committee which
drafted almost all of the present
reclamation and irrigation laws
of the nation today.
National figures came to know
him as a man of purpose, a man
who knew what he was after,
and usually obtained his goal.
SMITH RIVER—It was not
until he was about to be retired
that people of this area knew
that in their midst had lived for
four ears, one of the United
States greatest authorities on ir­
rigation and reclamation, their
pastor, Rev. E. C. Hicks.
At the turn of the centiffy,
At Fairview’, Mr. Hicks helped
when he came to the eastern organize two banks, was an offi­
part of Montana as school teach- cer in one, and stockholder in
Mr. Hicks quickly saw there both. He kept abreast of times
was a future in that area, pro­ through his many public contacts
vided there were railroads and such as editor of the Times un­
Irrigation. In 1904, as editor of til he sold it; through being a
the Fairview Times, he launch­ probation officer, and his civic
ed a campaign for irrigation and endeavors.
achieved his goal. It was along
Dry years which broke hun-
about 1908 when the water was dreds in eastern Montana. also
turned into some of the canals, broke banks holding mortgages.
and suddenly, in 1913, the land­ Mr. Hicks became a financial vic­
owners realized they could not tim along with all other stock­
meet the demands of the depart-! holders, but he was used to aid
ment of interior ruling for pay-;
ment. The project seemed to be ,
doomed, actually before it had
really gotten a start.
Mr. Hicks spent, in 1913, about
six weeks in Washington, going
from one office to another, from
one department to another. Be­
ing an officer in one bank and a
«tockholder in two, he kn<‘W of
the financial situation of almost
everyone in the area controlled
by the project. He was able by
careful study, and by “sharp”
reasoning, effectively to make
new arrangements, that of ob-
taining use of the land on a
rental basis until the railroad
was built. The project then went
ahead and took care of itself.
In 1915, he made his second
trip to Washington and again in
1917, to clear up a sad mistake
caused by the public land office
which had put a number of peo-
pie into, by granting mineral
rights to land for one person and
permitting homesteaders on the
same land through the homestead
provision
in re-financing and re-organizing
irrigation project at Fallon, in
Prairie County, Mont.
It was at this place that he
became a minister, later to be
moved to Broadwater, not far
from Billings. Here he remained
about seven years, being trans­
ferred to Tigard, Oregon, where
he remained for several years,
to be sent to Albany, later 4o
Monmouth, and Dayton, where
he was retired as a minister of
the Evangelical church.
Klamath as well as Smith River,
he was replaced by a younger
man. He is moving to a tract of
land on the old railroad grade,
on the ocean, near the Winchuck
river, there to retire after almost
77 years of useful life.
OPHIR NOTES
By Marian Miller
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Whittaker,
son Bob, and daughter Betty,
moved last Saturday to their new
home at Siletz, Ore. Their older
son Dick is remaining in Curry
county. He is employed by the^
forest service at Agness.
Mrs. Rose Weaver of Seattle
spent the holidays visiting at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Gray.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Whitw’orth
and family have moved from the
Shepherd cabins to the apart­
ment above the old Grange hall.
Mr. and Mrs. George Long of
Portland are visiting at the home
of their daughter, Mrs. Eldon
Miller.
Tom Morgan who has been at­
tending O. I. T. at Klamath Falls
is spending his month’s vacation
here in Ophir.
I
Harvey James, Tommy Nash,
and Jerry Jacobs spent the 4th
holidays visiting Jerry’s parents
at San Jose, Calif.
Almost the very week of his
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Bettis and
retirement, he lost his compan­
two
older boys left by plane for
ion of about 40 years. Heart-sore
Detroit, Mich., from where they
and lost, he moved with his son-
in-law’ and daughter to a tract plan to purchase a new DeSoto
of land on Alder road, near Cres­ and drive back.
George Miller has returned to
cent City, where they spent the
Ophir
after spending several days
summer.
The superintendent of the at Myrtle Point, visiting.
Mr and Mrs. Ralph Magerle
Mrs. Oliver Ramalia, son Low­
Methodist church, in Dec. 1945,
placed him as supply at Smith ell and daughter, Mrs. Dale and daughter Suzanne Lee of
River, where he immediately be­ Moore, and Mrs. Moore’s infant Prospect spent July 4 holidays
gan building. The annex to the daughter, Dawn, have recently visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Sla­
local church, is another of his returned from Seattle where the gle here.
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efforts. Unable to take care ofgroup had been visiting.
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