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United States Marshall, and at; all times
Myrtlewood
a sincere and able leader.
Joe Meek first came west in 1829
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with Sublette’s party of trappers. Lat
er, when he had learned the work, he Brummett creek area of Brewster Val-
became an independent trapper; but ley, 26 miles from Myrtle Point.
Oregon myrtle wood is .of fine tex
the game was beginning to diminish.
In 1840 he and ^ is -brother-in-law, ture and of extreme hardness, taking
Robert Newell, seeing theirhway of liv an exceedingly iustrouo polish, ideal
ing was over, came to the Willamette for working intow m p s .l| w ^ platters;
furniture and other artistic and useful
Valley to farm.
Although Joe found farming irk articles. A remarkable feature of the
some, he finally knuckled down to the wood is the combination of colors in
labor necessary to feed his family. The its grain, boasting medleys- of reds,
settlers of Oregon were beginning to greens, yellows'*, golds, browns, tans
feel the need for government, and Joe and blacks interwoven in incomparable
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soon showed his ability as a leader.
The author, Doctor Tobie, is a grad
Foresters explain theffcolorings are
uate of Willamette University^ has a attributed to silica content peculiar to
Ph.D. from University of Oregon, and Oregon*' soil.
teaches at the Milwaukie Union High
Myrtle wood wa§*hot marketed com
School.
mercially until 1935 when the first re—
A beautiful new book we have just tail shops were open along the coast
received is Two Captains West, an His highway, U. S. 101, primarily for the
torical Tour of the Lewis and Clark benefit of out-of-state visitors. No
Trail, by Albert and Jane Salisbury. In ordinary woodworker can handle the
this new book the Salisbury’s have fol myrtle to evolve the artistic handicraft
lowed the style of their first book, which makes myrtle products so in
Here Rolled the Covered Wagons, an demand,
account of the Oregon Trail.
The trees, some of them several
Two Captains West tells the story of
Lewis and Clark aS the" authors fol hundreds, of years old, must be hand-
low the route of the expedition. Hand logged by a selective processvand -haul-
some photographs,^supplemented with
drawings by Carter Lucas,' illustrate
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