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About The Willamina times. (Willamina, Yamhill County, Oregon) 1909-1972 | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1933)
TIMES. WILLAMINA. OREGON Page 2 OREGON STATE NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected for Oor Readers THE MARKETS PORTLAND Wheat — Big Bend bluestem, hard wheat. 68 He; soft white and west ern white, 60c; hard winter, northern spring and western red, 58%e. Hay— Buying prices, f.o.b., Portland; Alfalfa, Yakima, $14.50. Butterfat— 22 & 23c. Eggs— Ranch. 17 @ 18c. Cattle— Steers, good, $6.50 @ 7.00. Hogs— Good to choice, $5.00 & 5.75. Lambs — Good to choice, $6.50 ® 7.00. Seattle Wheat — Soft white and western white, 62c; hard winter, western red and northern spring, 62c; bluestem, 71c. Butterfat— 23c. Eggs— Ranch, 18 @ 19c. Hogs— Good to choice, $5.55 @ 5.90. Cattle— Choice steers, $6.25 & 6.75. Sheep— Spring lambs, $5.00 & 6.50. Spokane Cattle— Steers, good, $6.00 @ 6.50. Hogs— Good to choice, $5.25 @ 5.50. Lambs— Medium to good, $5.50 & 6.25. Downy mildew, scourge of the hop Industry, has started to appear on the hop vines generally throughout the entire valley, according to G. R. Hoerner, agent of the United States department of agriculture. Immedi ate control steps are urged to pre vent its spread and it is recommend ed that spikes be removed, leaves stripped and a Bordeaux spray ap plied. Hop prices gained fractionally when one carload. 125 bales, was sold at Salem for 75 Vj cents a pound. This is a half cent higher than any previous sale. Some local growers have insured their remaining bales of hops for 80 cents a pound, indi cating a belief that the price is due ftg further increases. Large yields of Royal Anne and Bing cherries are predicted in Lane county by C. E. Stewart, county fruit inspector, who has been well over the fruit districts in the county. This year’s crop of cherries will be well over the average in most varieties, he said. Prunes and apples are show ing up poorly. The skeletons of about 250 In dians. some of whom were signers of the ’'peace treaty” , bet ween the red- skips and the government, • will be transferred from an island near Big BSdV fo the.-Washington shore. The rdinatns* wil llje, placed in small ce dar ieaekets made by Indians.^ •' Improvementin market conditions, coupled with the rdCent order of the state utilities commissioner, reduc ing materially the rate for hauling logs over the Valley & Siletz and Sou thern -Sadfic railroads, may result id the reopening of the C. K. Spauld ing plant at Salem. H. A. Busterud, local lumberman, has been named export sales manager for the Coos Bay Lumber company. FOr a number eif years he has been connected with the Coos Bay Logging company at North Bend. His new duties will require his residence in Portland. A Benson cigar raft containing 5,- 000,000 feet of Douglas fir logs has left the mouth of the Columbia river for San Diego. It is being towed by the tug Roosevelt and is exp '*e1 to reach its destination in a for'.n’ rht. A report filed with the Riddle c'tv council by W. H. Wann, certified public accountant, shows the manipu lation of city fund3 in the Riddle State bank, resulting in the pros pective loss of $10,149 by the city. The Astoria Chamber of Com merce directors have formally indors ed daylight saving and will support the effort sponsored by the Junior Service club to have clocks stepped up one hour during the summer. The city council of Hood River has gone c.n record in favor of a port and a new jnupiçipal lighting unit, to be financed by funds from the Re construction Finance corporation on a self-liquidating basis. Depositors of the defuntt First National bank'of Springfield are re ceiving a- first dividend of 45 per cent. The first payment represents about $38,000. Unfavorable weather and untoward conditions have greatly damaged the prune crop iD Marion county. Ronald Carl Flnster, I, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Flnster, West Salem, suffered fatal injuries last Monday when he was run over by a truck driven by John Henry Falk. The ac cident occurred at a street intersec tion, after the child had fallen out of an automobile in which he waa riding with his parents. Thursday. June 8, 1933 Howe About: SALMON A FISH OF GREAT VALUE Martin Johnson Virtue Among Kings Railroads Supports a Vast Industry on Pacific Coast. By ED HOWE P r * p a r * 4 hy N a t io n a l U * o c r * p h l e Society. Killing rattlesnakes Is highly dan W a s h in g to n . L>. C .— W N U S i-rv lc *. • K M . B a ll S y n d ic * « * .— W N U S * r r k * gerous work, according to Charles OME two thousand Chinook sal LTHOUGH born In a country town Dyer, Roberts creek rancher. Dyer nu>n front the Pacific coasL in Kansas, there is a famous and located two rattlesnake dens near hla which were hatched In the aquar rich man named Mnrtin Johnson. All farm and killed 35 of the reptiles. ium of Washington's new De Just as he had completed clubbing he had to start with was a good deal partment of Commerce building, will the last snake to death, he slipped of natural sense (as most people have), he placed In Deep Creek lake, Mary and fell over a steep bluff, narrowly and good parents and neighbors to land, whose waters dntln Into the up teach him the Importance of polite escaping death. per Potomac It Is hoped the fish will ness, fairness and Industry. Probably at first he was ambitious find their way to salt water and re Secretary of State Hoss urged in a letter to Treasurer Holman that to fight Indians and hunt buffalo, but turn, In four years, to spawn, thus gasoline refunds to farmers be paid was soun able to understand that such stocking the historic river. Pacific salmon are the most valu directly from fuel tax receipts before adventures were no longer available. the money is turned over to the gen Happening on a book about Africa he able fishes, not only of the United eral fund. Hoss said that inability determined to go there to take moving States but also of the entire western of farmers to cash warrants Issued pictures of big game animals, capture hemisphere; and with the single ex for refunds worked unnecessary them alive for sale to parks and mu ception of the sea herrings, they are seums, etc., and now lives In a palnce commercially the leading tlshea of the hardship. in Niaroba, in South Africa. He has world. In one year the aggregate catch of First steps have been taken at The had wonderful adventures, met many Dalles to raise a fund by subscription famous people, and appeared before salmon In the Pacific stntes. British to be used in marking the graves of great audiences In every part of the Columbia, and Alaska wus upward of four hundred million pounds; which, 17 unknown persons, probably Ore world. Anyone who denounces Martin as sold in a canned, salted, smoked, gon immigrants, whose burial place was recently unearthed by a county Johnson because he Is famous and a frozen and fresh condition, had a mar road crew on the Fifteen-Mile road gentleman, or says he acquired his for ket vulue of about $27,750.000. The tune by means not available to every- ! canned product alone, consisting of near Fairbanks. body. Is a cad. Johnson's average In more than five million cases of 48 one Baker & Kelly company of Salem decency has been a little alwve the pound cans, was worth $25,500,000. is installing a new barreling plant at average of those who denounce him Thirty five thousand people were en Banks and is contracting with straw because of his prosperity. gaged In the different branches of the berry growers. Continuous rain has And 1 like his wife Osa. who Is also , Industry, and Hie Invested capital wus resulted in heavy foliage on the from Kansas. I do not know either of fully $30,000.000. plants, but berries are not setting. It them ; have seen them only In their There are five distinct species of is expected that the harvest will be wonderful public performances and salmons, which, having many charac a month late. paid for the privilege. teristics In common, nevertheless dif • • • ter strikingly In size, color, habits, dis A new industry has been started Every one is writing now; even trlhutlon, food value, and economic at Cottage Grove by Robert H. Sav kings and business men are seeking Importance. The largest und most age of Marshfield. It Is the manu such defense as print affords. There magnificent of all salmons Is the Chi facturing of pencil slats. Six men la lately available a book by the re nook, Qulnnat. King, Spring, or Tyee will be employed at the factory and cently deposed king of Spain, al salmon. It has an average weight of more men will be used in getting the though the actual work was done by a nearly 25 pounds In the Columbia riv material from which the slats are ghost writer. The title Is “By-Ways er, and Is often caught weighing 40 to made. of Royalty,” and the ghost writer, the Grand Duke Alexander of Russia. Is Old-timers report that the snow on thoroughly familiar with his subject. Mary’s peak in the Coast Range It Is the first Intimate story of roy- j mountains is lower down than they alty I have ever read, and I wonder the have ever seen it this time of year. book does not attract more attention. Several hundred head of cattle usu The intimate life of a king Is as curl ally are on the mountain for the ous and strange to me as the Intimate summer grazing by this time of year. life of a Russian peasant, with his tea drinking, fleas, sheepskin clothing, A dividend of $33,683 is being paid depositors of the defunct Citi and running away from wolves and The author, although a zens* bank of Ashland. This, the famines. third dividend to be paid, represents grand duke, writes surprisingly well; 10 per cent on savings and commer he believes democracy a false system, cial accounts, bringing the total thus bnt is fair In dealing with IL Having been a humble subject all tar liquidated up to $142,927. my life, and gazed on rulers only from Early-planted gardens in Clatsop afar, I found many surprising state county are suffering considerable ments in the book, and quote one for damage from slugs. The slugs remain your amazement: “No major country has ever gone hidden in the ground near the base of plants during the day and feed bankrupt because of its king's mis tresses, but the worst fate thnt ever on the foliage at night. befell a monarch befell the czar of The Klamath Falls chamber of Russia because of being ruled by a commerce and citizens of Klamath foolish wife.” The ezhr and Grand Duke Alexan- I county have recommended to Gover nor Meier a $7,961,000 program of der were cousins;-the grand duke city and county public works based t. knew the Russian royal family Inti on federal funds. mately and for many years. The author concludes kings as husbands The Bend and Redmond school dis average about as do draymen, den tricts and union high school districts tists, clerks, merchants, lawyers, doc A Chinook Salmon. have warrant and bond indebtedness tors, and other town men. He thinks totaling nearly $350,000, according it possible, however, thnt the average to a survey of school districts in among farmers, aR to outside love af GO pounds, while occasionally exam ples of over 100 pounds are taken. Deschutes county. fairs. may be a little higher than It While found from California to China. is among kings, owing to farmers be An action has been filed in the* ing Isolated on lonely creekR and It attains Its greatest abundance In the Sacramento, Columbia. Yukon and circuit court to restrain the city of prairies. other large streams. Lebanon from foreclosing delinquent • • • Blueback Has Its Faults. paving assessments for 1913 and sub The moving picture people have Tbe species called Blueback salmon sequent years levied against Grant about all the money now. hut the rad i>n the Columbia. Sockeye on Puget street property. Icals are not suggesting that they dl Sound, and Itedfish or Red Salmon In W. E. Lamm of Klamath Falls an vide with the poor; that demand Is Alaska, averages only five pounds In nounces that he will start his saw made on manufacturers and other use weight and never exceeds twelve. It mill at Modoc Point, June 1, on a ful persons who haven't any. atlains greatest abundance In the Co One “movie” man In Hollywood uiinhia. the Fraser, and in various basis of one 6-hour shift, with the employment of about 100 men, form lately authorized his press agent to streams throughout Alaska. Its meat broadcast the statement that his In is rich In quality, deep red in colot er employes. come from salary alone was half a and the tisn Is therefore in great de Miss Flora Mason of Albany has million a year. uiand for canning. While a beautiful been re-elected president of the Wo The class one railroads (meaning a fish when in salt water, with bright man's Albany College league. Miss group comprising all the best ones) Mason has served as head of the last year lost more than a hundred olue back and silver sides, after en 'ering fresh water It deteriorates rap statewide organization during the and fifty million dollars, as against oily in food value and appearance, the past year. a profit of sixteen million In 1931. head turns to olive green, and the en The Pendleton city council has pas- Throughout the year of this t»-rriflc 'ire back ami sides heroine crimson red an ordinance authorizing the de deficit, the class one railroads gave and filially dark blood red. The Silver or Coho salmon, with a posit of city funds in banks outside employment to hundreds of thousands t.;e city at the discretion of the city of men at the highest average' wages general distribution in the coastal tre: surer. Pendleton Is without a paid In the world; yet there Is not a streams, averages sfx pounds in weight community In the country, or a Jury, and rarely exceeds 25 or 30. bank. that does not Join the government The smallest species Is the Hump Plantings of “Minnesota 13” seed and courts In efforts to further impov back. so called from the well-marked corn treated with rodent, bird and erish the railroads. nuchal hump developed .by the male In worm-repellent chemicals are being Bnt how the “movies.” of no use to fait The extremes of weight for ma made on Lane county farms under anyone, prosper! hire examples are three and eleven the direction of the county agent. j It is another exhibition of the Amer pounds, with four pounds as the aver ican spirit, unintelligent und dishonest, Earl Snell ow Arlington, speaker that must be changed before the coun age. The region of greatest abun dance is Puget Sound to southeast of the house of representatives at try can again get on Its feet. Alaska. the last session, will deliver the Me • • • The remaining species, the Dog or morial Day address inw the American ■ Nothing Is ever settled. W,hen 1 Chum salmon, averages eight pounds Legion program at Redmond. was a boy 1 heard quarreling which in weight. It is generally distributed A 20 per cent Increase In wages greatly disturbed those taking part. and abundant, but. owing lo the poor for Common laborers is announced I have heard the same quarreling qunllty of the flesh. Is the least Impor by the Coos Bay Lumber company, i about the same subjects within an hour, tant of the group. The distortion of which recently reopened. The increase now that I am In my eightieth year. the Jaws in the male during the breed If, after death. I am restored to con Ing season, while characteristic of all is from $2.50 to$3 per day. sclousness 1 shall be surprised, but species, is particularly mucked In the A 10 per cent reduction in the whether 1 land in the bosom of Abra Dog salmon. teachers’ salary budget of the Bend ham or In the clutches of the devil. I The differences In spawning times grade schools has been adopted by think I shall appreciate once knowing and places of the different species of the school board for the coming positively where I urn nt. salmon are most Interesting. After school year. , A S spending most of their Uvea at sea, growing, accumulating fat, and stor ing energy, tbe salmons move Inshoro and ascend the streams. After once beginning their upward Journey, they take no food, and In fact are Incapa ble of digesting and assimilating food. Where They Spawn. The Qulnnat salmon begins to run In spring and pushes Its way to the headwaters of the larger streams. In the Columbia basin the species dis tributes Itself over 90.000 square miles of Washington. Oregon, Idaho, and Moutana. Its upward limit being Insur mountable obstructions or falls. In the Snnke river and Y’ukon river tbe spawning grounds lie 2,000 miles by water from the «-a. The »pawning streams of the Red salmon are those that rise In lakes, ami the siuiwnlng grounds are In the effluents of those lakes. The run be gins In May ami fish continue to come In until October. The Silver salmon enters the streams from July to October or No vember. but does not as a rule ascend for long distances. The Humpback runs Into fresh wa ter In summer and fall, preferably In short coast streams, and often spawns within a few rods of the <>c«-un. The schools of 1 tog salmon come In to the stream rather late; In the Co lumbia river uud Puget Sound the run extends from August to late In No vember, and In Alaska the height of the season Is about the first of Sep tember. Now. whether the salmon travel In the streams 2.000 miles or 200 feet to reach their spawning grounds, and re gardless of their physical condition at the time they arrive a» the particular places required for the proper devel opment of eggs and young, every Indi vidual of every species dies shortly after spawning. This Is the most characteristic and remarkable event In the life of the Pacific salmons. Why this Is tbe case Is one of na ture's mysteries. It lias Its parallel In some other fishes. In the may-fly, which perishes after a few hours' ex istence, and in the annunl plants. One can only say of such that they have served their purpose and are no long er needed. Artificial Propagation. Tbe artificial propagation of sal mon In the streams of the Pacific sea board began at a comparatively early date and has continued with yearly In creasing extent and Importance, so that at the present time more hatch eries are devoted to the Pacific sal mons than to any other fishes of tbe western hemisphere. The first salmon hatchery In the West wag established In 1872, on the Met'loud river In California. By Ex ecutive order there was set aside a large tract for a “pisdcultural pre serve.'* which was fittingly named Baird, after the first national com missioner of fisheries: and Living stone Stone, a pioneer fish culturlst, wus placed In churge and continued in thnt capacity for many years, over coming many obstacle*, undergoing many privations. re|>eatedly subjected to great danger from attacks of In dians and outlaws, while devising methods which showed the possibili ties of salmon culture and led to the present extraordinary development of this art. The eggs of the salmons are .2 to 25 Inch In diameter, and nre the larg est bandied by the fish culturlst. They are easily obtained by Intercepting the fish on tlielr way to the spawning grounds by means of racks, traps, seines, etc., and then, when exactly ripe, by expressing by firm pressure on the abdomen Not Easy to Handle. The size and activity of the salmons make It necessary for two or three men to work together In holding the fish and relieving them of their eggs anil milt, and the largest Individuals are most readily managed by putting them in a strait Jacket. In view of the Inevitable death of the salmon nfter spawning, an Im provement over the old method of forcible expulsion of eggs Is the stun ning of the fish by a blow on the head and taking of the eggs by abdominal section. This, while greatly facilitat ing the work of the spawn takers, adds approximately in per cent to the egg yield hy the saving of eggs that would ordinarily he left In the abdominal cavity. Salmon eggs hatch slowly. Incuba tion. beginning in late summer or early autumn, continues until the fol lowing spring or summer. de[>ending on the temperature of the water. The most protracted period of Incubation thus far coining to the notice of fish culturists Is that of the red salmon at Karluk, Alaska, where eggs taken In September may not hatch until the following May or June, and in certain seasons th? hatching time has been prolonged to 270 days. The annual deposits of young sal mon in the waters of the Pacific sea board by the bureau of fisheries, the three coast slates, the Province of Brit ish Columbia, and the private hatch eries In Alaska now total many mil lions. of which the largest quantity represents the work of the federal govern meni 4 « I < * 4 •<
