TITE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1920.
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I ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL HIGHWAY ALONG COAST TO HAVE MILITARY VALUE 1
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Proposed Road, Projected From Astoria to California Line, Will Cost $5,000,000, According to Estimates, State Providing Half and Federal Government Balance of Funds Beautiful Country Is Traversed
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By J. Simpon.
SOMKWHAT Blower perhaps than
its sister states to the north and
south to realize the importance
and necessity of comprehensive high
way construction, Oregon i now In
the front rank among tha states of
the nation In road building. The peo
ple of Oregon no longer question Its
immeasurable benefits and following
large bond Issues on the part of the
state legislature, the counties are
rapidly bonding and preparing to bond
for the full 6-cent of their valuation
for roads within their own boundaries.
June 3, 1919, the citizens of the
state, by an overwhelming majority,
further proved their consistent ap
proval of highway construction by
voting a special bond Issue of $2,500,
000. providing It was matched with an
equal amount by the federal govern
ment, for the construction of the
"Roosevelt memorial military high
way." This highway will follow the shore
of the Pacific ocean a distance of 300
miles from Astoria, at the mouth of
the Columbia river, the western term
inus of the Columbia river highway to
the California line in southern Curry
county. It will go through Clat
sop, Tillamook, Lincoln, Lane, Doug
las, Coos and Curry counties. While
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some parts of this territory are now
served by railroads the greater part
Is entirely without railroad or high
way transportation and the few roads
within it, already constructed, are
'impassable for several months of the
year In the rainy winter season.
The past few years have clearly
demonstrated that regardless of rail
road transportation there Is a vital
necessity for all-year-round high
ways In order to permit of the safe,
sure and economical handling of the
products and by-products of the soil
coal, metals, timber and everything
that mother earth produces. The com
ing of the motor truck is revolu
tionizing marketing conditions and
where good, roads have been con
structed, even though they parallel
railroads, has proven to be a real
competitor to them and in many In
stances where railroads were unable
to handle the traffic have saved crops
for the farmer and producer.
Territory Is Rich.
The territory on the western slope
of the Coast range mountains, in which
He the seven counties mentioned, is
one of the richest In natural resources
and scenic beauties In Oregon, if not
in all the world. Its soil is underlaid
with rich deposits of coal, iron, cop
per and other precious metals. Its
many streams and harbors are teem
ing with fish, crabs, oysters, clams
and a few miles off shore from the
harbors are great fishing banks,
where most of the varieties of, deep
sea fish are caught. Salmon i are
packed in quantities in many of the
sharbors.
Nowher on earth is there to
be found so many different varieties
of commercial timber or in such great
quantities. These include Douglas fir,
Sitka spruce, hemlock, red cedar, oak,
myrtle, redwood and the famous Port
Orford white cedar. As a dairying and
erated on the harbors, shipping by
water to foreign markets and by rail
to the eastern markets of our own
country. Shipbuilding, the manufac
ture of box shooks, veneers and all
kinds of wood products constitute the
bulk of the manufactures. Salmon and
fruit canneries, creameries, cheese
factories and milk condensaries care
for the products of the streams and
soil where transportation permits.
No portion of the state or of the
Pacific coast, so rich in natural re
sources, is so sparsely settled or less
developed and all because of its lack
of roads and transportation. The con
struction of the Roosevelt memorial
highway will open this vast area to
settlement and development and af
ford opportunities to those of means
cattle country it has no peer, its an1 ,n moderate circumstances seldom
climatic and natural conditions being
recognized as the most ideal for those
industries. Cheese and butter pro
duced in this section are famous the
country over. Fruits, berries and all
products of the soil grow in profu
sion. And yet today the greater part
of this magnificent and rich territory
is without even adequate Improved
roads and highways.
Manufacturing is being rapidly de
veloped in those sections which al
ready have railroad 'transportation.
Some of the largest and most modern
sawmills in the country are being op-
if ever, equaled.
Many Important Features.
In nearly every instance the econ
omic features of a highway are most
important, but with the Roosevelt
highway there are so many other im
portant considerations that it is hard
to tell which is the most Important.
Following as it does the shores of the
Pacific ocean at a prudent distance,
yet sheltered by groves, hills or other
intervening objects, over low bills,
through fertile valleys, across streams
and rivers, ever and anon coming out
into view of the ocean, following along
the high bluffs and promontories,
looking down upon its sandy beaches
and rocky reefs, through great for
ests of fir, spruce and cedar timber.
carpeted with moss and ferns of in
numerable varieties, which will truly
indeed be the tourists' and sports
omen's paradise.
me granaeur or tne scenery aiong.8iaos of ,ts Etream8 and
ine enure roaa win, wiinout aouDt,
bring thousands of tourists to Oregon,
who have not come here in the past,
a road which wili be open the year
around, the only one in Oregon of
which this can be said. It will be the
means of bringing to Oregon millions
of dollars of the tourists, and Califor.
ula claims that the tourist is one
of its biggest sources of Income.
In the coming of these tourists, Ore
gon may expect to secure many of its
future citizens and from them receive
a development along her Pacific slope,
which it has so long waited for. For
it is a known fact that many of the
tourists of the present day are those
who are looking for a new location
and a new home, a new place in which
to live, to secure some better oppor
tunity for the investment of their
means or the establishment of indus
try, and because of the undeveloped
section of this portion of the state
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these same tourists will find the op
portunity which they have been un
able to find. In other localities and of
which they did not dream existed any
where. Deer, bear, wild game of all kinds,
trout of nearly every species and all
that is desired by the sportsman are
found in abundance throughout the
entire length of the highway. By the
in the vast
forests can be found ideal camping
spots.
For some years the people of the
Pacific coast have realized that the
entire coast line of United States was
very poorly fortified against foreign
invasion or aggression, and that of
all three of the Pacific coast states,
the coast of Oregon least of all. Puget
Sound, in Washington: the mouth of
the Columbia river, San Francisco
bay and the San Diego harbor are the
only harbors of our coast that have
any fortifications along the coast
line. Oregon has a number of good
harbors, which would admit the en
trance of an enemy transport or war
ship, and all of them without fortifi
cation. Military Valne Told.
Along its sandy beaches in innumer
able places, during; the summer
months, landing from the sea could
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easily be effected. With the con
struction of the Roosevelt memorial
highway it would be prepared to com
bat such an invasion, for it would be
possible to quickly and successfully
mobilize at any point along the coast.
They would have heavy mobile
guns, large body of troops with all
their necessary supplies for their
support.
At the more Important ports bases
for aeroplanes and hydroplanes could
be maintained, and from these it
would be easy to reach any threatened
part on its coast line. We do not
anticipate an invasion on our western
shores, but on the other hand, we did
not anticipate the European war.
Fore-warned Is fore-armed, ami the
federal government can well afford
to co-operate with the state In build
ing this highway, which would not
only open up such a large territory
for development but would afford
much needed protection for the peo
ple of the Pacific coast. Its own
large holdings and the hundreds of
millions of dollars invested by the
citizens in legitimate industries and
development.
There are, in the forest reserves of
the United States government in the
counties through which this road will
run, 3,204,714 acres of timber land, lo
cated In the counties as follows:
Coos, 100,270; Curry, 618.703; Douglas,
919.384; Lane, 1,363.374; Tillamook.
79,718; Lincoln, 118,26. In Curry
county more than 68 per cent of the
total area is in the forest reserve, re
moved, entirely from the tax rolls of
the county. Because of the large area
of government-owned land In thess
counties, because of their present
sparsely settled and undeveloped com
ditions, caused by lack of transporta.
tion. It seems that the federal gov
ernment should not hesitate to appro
priate the means requested for this
highway.
In the same way as the Columbia,
river highway has added and stimu
lated development in Portland and th
territory surrounding It, so will tha
Roosevelt highway, when comple'ad,
add and stimulate the development
not only of the territory througti
which it passes, but the whole stato
of Oregon, contributing one mor ' l"r
great scenio and commercial highway v.
that will gratify every human normal
taste, incomparable in peace, infalll
ble in resistance in Invasion, whera
the music of ever moving waves vle
with the eilent beauty of verdant
hills and carpeted forests.
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Flocks That Breed and Feed in Marshes of Central and Eastern Sections of State and Feathered Visitors to Columbia and Willamette Rivers Are Here in Large Numbers Ready to Tempt the Roar of the "12-Gauge" 1
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GIVEN its full share ' of water
fowl, the flocks that breed and
feed in the marshes of central
and eastern Oregon and the myriad
migratory visitors who swing down
from the Arctic circle, with the ap
proach of winter, to the waters of the
Columbia, the Oregon country has
also been dowered with four of the
finest upland game birds that ever
flushed from a covert to tempt the
roar of a 12-gauge.
For those who delight to wait in
the blind for the swift flurry of
wings above the decoys, when the
mallard, .widgeon, canvasback, gad
wall or teal hurtle into range, or for
those who crouch with equal satis
faction on a sand spit or in a cluster
of rushes for the tingling moment
when the geese draw near with their
clamor and heavy wingbeat great
Canadian honkers or the gabblinc
snow brant there Is sport to be had
in plenty.
But the hunter of upland birds is
another breed - of the chase and to
him Oregon offers the lanes of the
timber, the tangle along hidden creek
courses and the nooks of brush and
Meld wlieru coveys of uncqualed up
land game birdu have taken covert.
There are four of these before all
others four which were Oregon's
own when Lewis and Clark won
through to the Columbia, and in
feather and flsh they are the peers
of any in their clans.
Wonderful Birds Abound.
They are the red ruffed grouse, lo
cally known as the native pheasant,
the spruce grouse, called the blue
grouse or "hooter." the elegantly ca
parisoned helmet or valley quail and
his splendid larger cousin of the
hills, the plumed mountain quail. And
that devotee of the "scatter gun" who
brings any of the quartet to bag will
have had his fill of open air and
wlldnesa, and his delight in deftness
of aim and beauty of feather.
When Lewis and Clark came to the
Oregon country they found one fa
miliar bird friend of the grouse spe
cies for the valiant trail blazers
were indefatigable naturalists, and
their notes attest the interest they
took in all the folk of wood and field.
Among these notes they record the
finding of a species of red ruffed
grouse, similar in all save color to the
somewhat slaty "partridge" of the 1
eastern coast. It is this, bird which
is known to the vernacular of Oregon
sportsmen as the native pheasant.
Sometime in the spring, when the
fancy of all nature turns to gentler
sentiments than those of winter, if
one pauses in the timber he will hear
a sound like the rapid beating of a
muffled drum like the strokes of. a
giant heart. An indescribable sound
and unforgettable the mating tu
mult of the male ruffed grouse, beat
ing his wings to a blur on his drum
ming log. The sound is the charac
teristic of his kind and a very shy
kind it is. siven to hidden haunts
along the water courses, to the alder
thickets and the cool half swamps of
the inner wood.
Perfectly camouflaged in the fallen
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I JACKSOV COUNTY HAS DIVER- I
1 S1F1KD INDUSTRIES. I
In Jackson county there are I
1 102,043 acres of tillable land, i
727,043 of timber and grazing I
1 a n d s-and 1,000,000 acres of ,
I government -land.
Ten thousand acres of pears I
and apples during 1919 produced
a record crop, 1500 carloads be- i
1 ing shipped out.
I There are many fine dairy
herds in this county. Four hun- 1
dred cars of livestock were
shipped out in 1919.
Fifty-five cars .of copper were
5 shipped. . I
Billions of feet of fine tim- i
ber and great water power re- I
sources are among its many
natural features.
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leaves, silent as a bird of bronze, the sooty, is in his cloistered retreat, se-
ruffed grouse waits till the footfall rene .from all surveillance if he
of the intruder is almost upon him would but hold his tongue.
ere he leaps to wing in a startling Itobln Hoods Alert.
hnnm nf whirvlnv tiininnu a innr ITunTem who V i H 1 t the law for
curving flight through the tree trunks the Robin Hoods are jiot all of the er" th8 dellht of caching riflemen,
and toward a new refuge. The sight past stalk the solemn old "hooter" J3 not recommended for general prac-
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sounds his call. Tet he is a wary features of the plumed partridge or
bird and the approach is made only mountain quail whose dress is a corn-
while the call is sounding, for at all posits of olive brown, buff and tawny
other times he is alert.
This method of hunting the
'hoot-
and chestnut and velvet black and
who bears on the crown of his hand
some head two sweeping plumes of
black.
Whistle Quail's Note.
common target of Oregon sportsmen
for his home is In the lowlands, as his
name implies, and he holds tenacious
ly to the brush until he is frightened
out in a burst of flight, a rather easy
mark once the impression of terrlfla
speed is dissipated by a lew well-
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quick and sure alid the tagger finger to his Perch- At each cal1 the move ing the blue gFouse does not at all A piercing, recurrent rapid whistle Placed loads.
likewise, if his grouseship comes turn- nearer to the sound, eliminating the conform with his grand opera ambi-
w luc Vlo.o "ciuuu tions. ana waraens are quite apt to
rings nearer and nearer and they are rebuke the "sooner" by arrest. The
almost upon it when the next cry blue grouse can be hunted, however,
shows the thrusting ' head of the and with good success, by any sports
grouse from the fir fronds as he man wno familiarizes himself with
bling- down in mid-career a pitiable
bundle of wonderful chestnut plum
age, but a game bird worthy of the
finest chef who ever donned a cap.
For the most part the ruffed grouse
of Oregon holds his fief in the lowet
reaches of the timbei- he bottoms
quite unlike his bury big relative,
the spruce grouse, or blue, or "hoot
er," as one prefers to term him. This
worthy, one of the heftiest of the
tribe of grouse, is a resident of the
hills "way back beyond," and when
he sounds his bridal call it echoes
over the farthest gorge and the utter
most trout stream, at . the heart of
the mountain wilderness.
The "hooter" is known by his note
the plump and resonant "ump! ump!
ump! ump! ump!" that rings for miles,
strangely ventrlloquial, and that has
betrayed him to many a rifleman long
ere the proper and duly legal season
for grousing opened. Perched almost
at the tip of the tall firs, his diet the
tender light green fronds that push
forth with spring tlio blue grouse, or
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I A COUNTY OF MARVELOUS
PROSPERITY.
1 An estimate on the Hood River
I apple crop for 1919 places the
1 total value at $5,000,000.
I Cull apples for cider, etc, ran
up to $225,000.
I Pear returns, it Is estimated,
I aggregated 1175,000.
A total pack of 165.000,000
I cans of strawberries, cherries
and pears was made by one
company.
1 Outlay for labor in this famed
I valley is enormous, $500,000
having been expended last sea-
j son in harvesting the apple
crop alone.
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is the note or the mountain quail, a
shy, shy bird, swift and ready of
flight, but prone to take cover at a
rod or so. His habitat is the steep
hillsides, far above the valley, and
his family rambles where the dia
mond backs have their lairs and the
Jackrabbits have short legs on one
side owing to the perpendicularity of
The helmet quail Is plumed as was
four upstanding, graceful, forward
curving fronds of feathers. His garb
is a blend of slaty blue, olive-brown,
orange-chestnut, tawny, white and
black, and if ever there was a eh-r,
ful small Beau Brummel of the fields
it is be. And his call, so the small
boys say, is an accurate rendition of
"Sit-rlght-there! Sit-right there!! Sit-
the range of the bird in the fall open
season, when the coveys are young
and unwary.
As for Oregon's native quail, provl-
dence must have felt the conscious
thrill of pardonable pride at the per-
I fectlon of their beauty. For the hel-
met or valley quail and the plumed the manzanita, the bird makes a tar-
or mountain quail, both abundant in get to be remembered and one to be
Oregon, are the masterpieces of all proud of if the gunner solves his
the tribe of quail. They are birds queer curving side-slip flight.
upon which the brush or nature has of an autumn morning, when the search for seeds and buns.
fallen from a palette vivid with col- fro3t is white on the stubble and the of upland birds, with these four
ors. to mark them with an intricacy wUd thornappiet there rings over the alone, Oregon can Justly lay claim to
of pattern and design, with a studied Oregon fields the call of that tireless, possession of four of the finest ever
care for harmony and exquisite ar- connaent little forager, the helmet or feathered. Protected by sensible
rangement of feather that readily vaiiey quail quite as friendly a fel- pame laws, with coverts that defy
distinguishes them as gamo birds de jow ave when tho dog8 are on hls th(j extermination of the species, they
luxo- track, with the 12-gauges backing v-ill long remain as a dual delight
I --u lcsl Bpeuieo. wiuio r-muu them, as his cousin or tne mountains to the naturalist nature lover and the
I Coues, celebrated American ornltholo- ls shy. sportsmen who la a natura lover a
' " Sl5t, when he set down th feather n is jho valley, quail that it the weU,
their galloping courses. Lifted for right-there!!!" with the repetition
an Instant above the wild lilac and speeded up to a climax. Certainly it
saying that, as he rallies the flock."'
But the voice of the flock is a differ
ent note a contented, gossipy minor '
toned chatter as the small foragers