Thursday, July 6, 193 3
TIMES, WILLAMINA, OREGON
GREAT BARRIER
LURES SAVANTS
Howe About:
r
W
Bligb, commander of the Bounty
and his eighteen men who were faith
f u l made that memorable open-boat
A nna G . Baker in the new W lnberry
voyage from Tahitian waters to Res
district, 25 miles southeast o f E u
toration island, within the Great Bar
gene last week and w ill be set up
rier, In 1783. The mutineers' victims New Literary Find
im m ed ately. The 60-ton equipment
Vast
Submarine
R
eef
of
Coral
reached the reef at midnight, or rath History and Fiction
had to be transported irom the main
er came within sound of the surf, and
road
on
F
a
ll
Creek
to
the
m
ining
Off Australia.
Brief Resume of Happenings
two days later found a passage to Domestic Mystery
property on wagons drawn by horses
By ED HOWB
of the Week Collected for
as the road is not yet in condition Prepared by National Geographic Society. safety. The boat voyage was contin
l
t
d
.
Ball
Syndicate.—WNU
ued along the east coast of Queens
Waablncton. D. C.-W.STJ Servlca.
fo r trucks.
Our Readers
H E N one encounters what he be
F T H E sea went dry along the land and through Torres strait to
lieves to be a good tendency in
A pageant depicting early life in
east coast o f Queensland, a thou Timor.
These old-time perilous voyages are human life, I believe he should men
the Mohawk valley will be given at
sand miles of coral “ maze’’ would
T H E M ARKETS
the annual reunion of the early set
be revealed. The Great Barrier discussed still In Australia. And round tion it frequently, there la so little of
tlers
of
the
valley
at
the
Stafford
the campfire on a coral Isle the talk such encouragement to be found. I
Reef
o f Australia must not be Imag
PO R TLA ND
school house Ju ly 16. Mrs. Ech o N eal, ined as a continuous structure, like may turn from Cook’s discoveries and therefore mention again the statement
Wheat — B ig Bend bluestem, hard daughter of one o f the early settlers, the Great Wall of China ; It is formed Bligh’s amazing boat voyage to the of a lite ra ry observer and critic th a t
wheat, 82c; soft white and western has written the pageant, and it will by Innumerable reefs, and a map of recent loss of a launch, or the fate the people seem to be tiring of the
w hite, 71c; hard winter, northern be directed by Mrs. Horace Myers.
Just one section resembles s complex of a large steamer, sunk In a cyclohe society stories so long used as ve
hicles of sex filth and foolish romance.
spring and western red, 71c.
within a few miles of the mainland.
The J . H . Chambers & Sbn L u m Jig-saw puzzle. Then there are the
T he critic cites a story called “T he
Hay— Buying prices, f.o .b ., Portland;
The Grand canal varies In width
isles,
mountainous
and
forested,
of
the
ber company at Cottage Grove has
Victory,” as an example of the new
A lfa lfa , Yakim a, $14.00.
from
20
to
80
miles.
There
are
two
inner
zone,
and
the
atolls
and
cays
resumed operations after a shutdown
Butterfat— 22 @ 22.3c.
regions, however. The lnnei one is naturalism he says Is growing In pop
o f several months. The W . A . Wood that are true coral islands.
E g g s — Ranch, 16 ® 18c.
narrow and fairly free from the perils ularity. The story is simple and well
For
nearly
a
century
the
Great
Bar
Cattle— Steers, good, $4.75 @ 6.00, ward company of Coast Fork is run rier has intrigued science by the prob
which make the outer zone impossible written, and naked human nature ap
Hogs— Good to choice, $4.35 @ 4.75. ning also after a two-year shutdown. lems that It presents to geologists,
for shipping. Only small craft are pears In every paragraph, but the sub
Other mills in the district are ex
Lambs — Good to choice, $5.00
navigated
among the reefs of the out stance may be told In a few lines.
physiographers and naturalists It has
pected to be running soon,
A worthy man lives to old age with
6.50.
lured such masters of marine zoology er zone.
a cold, critical wife who finally com
Seattle
It has been discovered that W alker as Alexander Agassiz and A. G. Mayer
Luggers are sailed along the chan
station, on the Pacific highway be from America, and recently a British nels. with coral fangs threatening de pletely dominates him as she domi
W heat -— So ft white and western
tween Creswell and Cottage Grove, expedition broke camp after a year on struction—sailed often where the reefs nates everyone with whom she comes
white, 73c; hard winter, western
in contact. The old man fears her as
was once laid out as a townsite. A Captain Cook's first coral Island.
are uncharted. In the quest for sea
red and northern spring, 71c;
a child often whipped fears a cruel
number of property owners have post
slugs and pearl and trochus shell.
In all the Seven Seas there is noth
bluestem, 82c.
mother and lives a completely sup
ed notices asking for the vacation Ing so wonderful as this vast subma
Japanese own many of these venture
B utterfat, 22c.
pressed life. In his last Illness be
of several streets, which have been rine “ curtain" of coral, the largest some craft.
E g gs— Ranch, 17 6> 19c.
has a bad cough which he knows par
coral reef In the world, whose nature
Hogs— Good to choice, $4.60 @ 4.75. farmed for years.
Many Beautiful Islands.
ticularly disturbs his wife, and he
Cattle— Choice steers, $4.75 @ 6.00.
A lfa lfa cutting is in progress at and origin remain half veiled in mys
constantly
struggles to smother It.
The depth of the sea outside the
Sheep— Spring lambs, $5.00
6.00. Dayton and the estimated yield is tery.
Great Barrier is profound, but in the When In dire need of assistance he is
Tourists from many lands and thou
placed at three tons an acre. Twelve
zone where coastal steamers go safely afraid to ask It, and spends many
Spokane
acres of clover in the E . M. Alderman sands of Australians have made the it varies from about ten fathoms to nights alone struggling to suppress his
Cattle— Steers, good, $6.00 @ 6.25. farm in Unionvale is the first clover voyage through “ Australia’s Grand twenty; the outer zone Is much deep coughing. One night when seriously
ill he knows he should call his wife
Hogs— Good to choice, $4.50 @ 4.60. reported in shock and the estimated Canal.” the area between the main er. up to seventy fathoms.
yield of it is also placed at three land, with its purple hills, and the
asleep in an adjoining room, but,
Lambs— Medium to good, $5.00 &
It
is
between
these
two
zones
that
Outer Barrier. A calm and pleasant
afraid to disturb her, he staggers
tons an acre.
6.60.
trip during a portion of the year. It the mountainous islands lie. many of about, old and gaunt, and pitlfuL But
Otis
Dunnavln,
M yrtle
Creek may be perilous in the cyclone season. them beautiful ami some the homes of
happy people. Over hundreds of miles he manages to suppress his coughing;
Cherry growers of The Dalles dis sheepman and varmint h u n .cr, re
Many launches and fishing craft
his wife Is not disturbed. When she
trict are waiting for the opening of cently killed four grown cougars in have been wrecked among the coral, of sea they are strung, close togethet
enters h:s room at eight o’clock next
competitive bidding for the 1933 the mountains east of here while on or gone down In the heart of a storm or with long gaps between.
morning, she finds him dead.
crop. A better price Is expected for a ten-day drive to rid the forest of within the Barrier But navigation
Thousands of folk who make the
• • •
Royal Ann cherries than was re these varmints in the region where is no longer the nightmare tt was to winter tour to Queensland from south
I lately visited a circulating library,
ceived last year. The cold weather of the Dunnavln sheep range is located. the early voyagers, before the reef era ports say they have been to the
last winter resulted in the killing
Great Barrier reef, whereas they have hoping to find a book to Interest me
mazes
had
been
mapped
and
routes
The Ray-Brown cannery at Wood
during an approaching evening promis
o ff of about 25 per cent of the ex
safe for even large vessels discovered. merely sailed among the lofty Islands,
burn
will start running on cherries
pected crop, growers report. This
maybe without landing even on an ing to be dulL There were hundreds
Danger
exists
still,
but
the
old
fear
loss Is partially offset by young trees next week, according to Information has gone— the haunting fear of dis atoll or a cay. the low coral isles be- of shelves displaying fiction, but
from Dean G . Ray, superintendent. A
bearing for the first time.
yonJ the high ones of granite. Only only one little corner containing books
crew’ of 200 or more women will be aster in the Realm of Coral.
the few who go north venture to seek devoted to sober truth. During a lull
Surf la Amazing Spectacle.
I talked with the librarian. “ Ali
The oak stave block business is employed and the run is expected to
the actual Barrier, where that long
Majestic Is the meeting of league-
enjoying a prosperous boom w ith re continue for two or three weeks.
line of thundering surf rises in mid books are fictitious,’’ she said. “T h e
long rollers of the ocean and the
historical novel intended as fiction
turn of beer, requiring oaken kegs
ocean.
W hile fishing in the surf at Man Great Barrier. On days when the sun
contains as much truth as the mem
as shipping containers. Chris Hess,
There is charm In the Grand canal
zanita, Jo h n Parker caught a 4% - lit water behind the coral bastion is
oirs of Silerius, said to have been
Monmouth wood sawyer, has had a
trip,
and
life
is
pleasant
on
the
fa
foot bluefisli. W hile it has a vicious calm enough for a canoe, mountainous
written by the own hand of a powerful
ripsaw carriage added to his woodsaw
looking mouth w ith sharp teeth, its waves pound the reefs unceasingly.
Roman. Silerius told only such truth
and is operating it ns a miniature
mastication was poor, its last menu The surf on the Outer Barrier at high
as suited him, and exaggerated that.
sawmill to trim away the sap wood
consisting of a 2 6-inch slender fish tide, when the broad reefs crests are
Was he truthful in speaking of the
— unfit for keg m anufacture— saving
a good-sized eel and a shrimp.
hidden, presents an amazing spectacle.
five wives with whom he had contro
only the sturdy oak heart blocks.
versies? Was he truthful and fair in
F . A . Beltz, manager of the A . F . A “ long line of boiling surf, springing
B1ng cherries are on the market
his references to other Roman gen
Coast Lumber company, has announc up in mid-ocean without any apparent
at Freewater and shipments in car
erals? He wrote when very o ld ; when
ed that operations will be resumed cause,” is the late Charles Hedley's de
loads will become general shortly.
all those he criticized were dead. Take
early in Ju ly . This means employ scription. That great naturalist, whose
The quality Is excellent and the
the Bible, a sacred book; it gives dif
ment of about 100 in the m ill and knowledge of the Barrier was unri
cherries of better size than usual,
ferent accounts of the same events.
others in the camps. Crews are now valed. devoted the last few years of
but tonnage will be but about half
his life to the study of Its problems.
All truth is hidden in fiction and the
getting the plant in readiness.
normal. There will be about 50 cars
Swain Reefs, far south, mark the
reader must find it.”
of Rings and Lamberts and about 20
The coast highway at Cannon beginning of the Great Barrier Outer
a a •
o f Royal Annes.
Beach has been regraded and oiled System. Farther north, the linear
Silerius says in his memoirs he nev
to a point one mile south of Eco la reefs are developed. They are some
er knew whether he was fool or wise
The grounds about the new T illa
by the state highway
department, miles In length and up to half n mile
mook county courthouse are being
man.
—
thus assuring freedom from dust, across, with broad separating chan
Grotlus, contemporary and friend. In
landscaped. On financial conditions
through the main business and resi nels.
a long and interesting Introduction to
will depend whether or not concrete
dential district here.
A lighthouse on Lady Elliot Islet
the memoirs, says that while Silerius
sidewalks leading to the two main
marks the southern limit of coral
was probably an exceptionally sensi
entrances of the building shall be
Considerable activity In alfalfa
ble man, he also had unusual respect
constructed or whether the old board centers of western Vrcr.tlll". county is formed land, “ a broad platform ot
for the average Intelligence of the peo
walks shall be replaced temporarily. reported with much hay going at solid coral half a mile in clrcumfer
ence." Then comes an archipelago
vored islands, where a bungalow may ple. Grotius believes this was the rea
$ ¡0 a ton in the stack. This price is
Preparations are being made to
the Bunker group, followed by the nestle amid tropical fruit trees and son Silerius declared he never knew
double that received a year ago. Most
begin tlie operation of the Owen-
Capricorn Group, popular resort now palms, with a creek singing near on whether he was foolish or wise.
of the cutting is completed or near
Oregon sawmill, at Medford, J u ly 1.
of naturalists, and almost a picnic Its little Journey to the sea. Men have
There were so many opinions con
A contract for logging a unit of ing completion now.
ground for holidaymakers from the lived half a lifetime on a Barrier reef flicting with his own and he had such
9,000,000 feet in the Butte F alls
A total of 9275 registered voters mainland.
isle without desire to wander.
marked respect for the opinions of
district has been awarded and a crew are qualified to vote in Clatsop
Within the Tronlcs. the maze is mu)
others he was uncertain as to his own
Spain
has
played
her
part
in
pi
of 75 men Is now engaged in repair county Ju ly 21. The number is a de tlplied. From a hill at Cooktown you
loneer navigation of Australasian seas, judgments and rights.
ing the logging road.
crease of 1421 as compared with the may see, as Captain Cook did In 1770.
During the most troublesome days in
in 160f> three ships tinder Admiral de
registration at the last general elec the shadows of the coral reefs wher
Owing to the delinquency in taxes,
Qulros sailed for the South Pacific the history of Rome, Grotlus further
tion. Republicans lost 112 4
and ever you look out to sea. The navi
from Callao. The captain of one was says, Silerius opposed public policies
teachers of rural schools in Lincoln
gator who explored 2,1X10 miles of the
Democrats
261.
county will be paid in most cases $50
Luis Vaes de Torres, whose name lives later proving disastrous, but was so
east const of Australia was Ignorant
forever
as that of the strait between i much in doubt as to rights of the
a month, beginning next September.
W hile helping to change a tire on of the existence of cornl In those wa
Australia and New Guinea. His ves- questions under discussion did not use
Only a few months o f teaching are her automobile near Burns last F r i
ters when his ship struck od Endeav sel became separated from the other the army as he might have done to en-
in prospect. In some cases the schools day, Mrs. F . L . Leslie of Seneca
our
reef at night.
will be closed January 1 unless taxes suffered a painfully crushed left leg
two. and Torres was probably the first force his own conclusions as to what
Had the weather been stormy she European to sight Cape York penin
was best for the nation in an emer
are paid.
when the car slipped o ff the jack
must have been lost, for coral fangs sula. the northernmost point of Aus gency.
and
the
rim
of
one
wheel
passed
over
Repairs are being made on the
had pierced her hull. But calm sen tralia. and Prince of Wales island.
The wrong policies later proving dis
Springfield plant of the Booth-Kelly the leg.
enabled th. sailors to patch up the
astrous had more popular support than
Explored by Scientists.
Lum ber company
preparatory
to
Fred Hearing killed a very large bark by “fothering.' and Cook sailed
the policies Silerius believed to be
opening the mill, which has been rattlesnake on his ranch on the her to the beach foi careening and re
Scientific investigation of the Great the best way. This opposition from
shut down two years. It is expected breaks of the Grande Ronde river pairs. Meanwhile, gazing from the Barrier reef began when H. M. S. Fly men he respected so confused him, he
to open the mill early in Ju ly with a last week. It was five feet long and hilltop, he discovered the cotal.
cruised in the Coral sea and other wa
hesitated, and Rome was destroyed,
force of 125 men.
With a seaworthy ship again, he ters. Her voyage extended over sev-
Much of the last part of the Memoir»
had 20 raltles. The specimen was
won a way out of the maze, gaining eral years, 1842 1846. and J . Beete
silerius was written when he was
Dr. Vernon J . Puryear, for the last brought to Enterprise and placed on
open ocean through one ot the grea» Jukes was the naturalist on board her. oJd and n,
ln the last chapter he
exhibition.
four years head of the history and
openings In the Barrier. He escape»» a geologist whose Interests were not ^ y g . «* a funeral director is being kind
political science departments at A l
Pum ping gold out of the Rogue many dangers only to meet with oth
confined to rocks. Jukes wrote the to me. I think 1 will leave directions
bany college, has resigned to accept river is the experiment to be made
first description of the Great Barrier, that he be employed, although I shall
ers a few days iater.
a similar position at the Humboldt soon by C . F . Coliply and P . H .
The Endeavour, becalmed off the which remains onp of the besl general dislike to offend other acquaintance»
State Teachers' college in California. Lynch of Seattle, who are assem
Outer Barrier, was borne toward the accounts we have of this geographical engaged ln the same trade. I like
Dr. D . H . Leech, pastor of the Al bling equipment for this purpose on reef. She rose at Ia6t on a huge wave wonder:
those who solicit me, if the soliciting
“ Tlte Great Barrier reefs are thus is done with reasonable politeness.”
bany Methodist church, concluded the banks of the river near Alm eda. and seemed doomed to destruction
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38 years of active serves in the
Registration o f voters in Lan e with only the breadth of a wave be found to form a long submarine but
ministry last Sunday. He has asked county for the special election Ju ly tween her and the coral But “a light tress. or curtain, along the northeast
I once lived in a community where
to be placed on the retired list and 21. includes 14.270 males and 12.- air of wind sprung up." and the ship ern coast of Australia, rising In gen a rather decent man left his wife and
eral precipitously from a very great stubbornly refused to longer live with
he plans to make his home at Salem. 392 females. F o r the last general was saved.
depth, het resting towards the north her. The neighbors were astounded,
Cook Claimed the Coast.
election
the
registration
was
14,574
Beavers cost Robert Jones, owner
Captain Cook sought eagerly for an od the shonler ground of Torres strait, for the wife was known among them
o f Clatsop county's biggest farm on males and 12.409 females.
opening, and found his “ Providentiu' and towards the south on the bank as gentle, womanly, capable and in
Tenas llllhee Island, about $9,000,
The city council of St. Helens has Channel." He was in the Grand canal stretching off from Sandy Cape.
telligent. No one can understand why
according to his report to the county authorized Mayor Ballagh to request
“ If it were to be laid dry, this great a man should refuse to live with such
cnee more, and with infinite care took
court. They bored through a dike a loan of $45,000 from the federal the bark to Torres strait. Landing
Barrier would be feund to have a con a woman. It was the reigning mys
and his ranch was flooded.
siderable resemblance to a gigantic tery for years and is today.
government to build a community on an island which he named “ Posses
and irregular fortification, a steep g!a
1 am like others in that I do not
Robert H . F o x, who has been ap hall, tentative plans for which have sion." he claimed the whole eastern
cis crown'H. with a broken parapet understand i t I suppose the expla
been
prepared.
coast
of
Australia
for
Bri'aln,
In
the
pointed acting postmaster at Bend,
name of King George III. A memorial w all and carried from one rising nation is that in the gentlest wife’s
has resigned as constable, to which
The Santiam road between Upper
to
Captain Cook has been erected on ground to another. The towerlike disposition there is a touch of the Old
position he was elected last fall.
Soda and the foot of Seven-M ile hill
bastions, of projecting and detached Harry not observed by the neighbors,
Possession Island by the federal gov
The Grants Fasa municipal band will be smoothed up by a forest ernment. a simple obelisk bearing a reefs, would increase this resem but which appears occasionally in min
b lance."
has decided not to accept the $500 service crew as soon as the ground • aldet of bronzu.
gling with a husband.
has dried out sufficiently to be
offered by the city for the summer
worked.
concert season.
OREGON STATE NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
A heavy quart« mill was taken to
the gold mining properties o f Mr«.