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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1941)
PAGZ ZTX Tio CniGCII STATECMAlt. Ec!ea. Oregon. Sunday Morning. Leptexn&er 7, ' O , - . - . ! ' - & V i - . '''' V,J By ETHAN GRANT . - X 1 ' Logging Ahead ' "We ' look for a continued mm 111 in ih nnnr rlv.r lor "traffic from year to year and there should be a great expan sion of forest industries all the way down the valley and Into the Boseburg area," wrote ' Georre F. Cornwall, manarlnr editor of The Timber, Portland's international lumber journal, to The Statesman onAucust SO. Announcement came last week In Salem that the Charles K. 8pauldin- Lorsinr company was opening a new tract of timber on the Rlckreall, which would double Its ouput of logs for the " Willamette river traffic The following article and "ac companying pictures are repro duced from the Auxust issue of Mr. Cornwall's marazlne, by special permission. By GEORGE F. CORNWALL Time .was, when virtually the Columbia river sawmills origin , a ted at points below the' mouth of the Willamette. From Deep river to Vancouver on the Wash ington side and from Young's bay to Scappoose on the Oregon shore, a score or more of railroad log- . ging operations once poured a steady stream of logs into the water. . Many of these concerns . have, passed from the scene and several of -those remaining are owned by sawmill companies which offer fewer logs each year for the open market. l 'As the peak of production on the Columbia passed, logs came - in increasing quantities from the. .. Tillamook3 branch of the Southern Pacific, a traffic which has since declined with the removal of the timber handy to the line and the great Tillamook fire of 1933. Large 4 scale salvage operations, however, still make the Tillamook county timber an important factor on the Columbia river log market. t The mid-Columbia section be tween Vancouver and Wind river on the Washington side and that from Bridal Veil Ho Hood River on the south bank have likewise assumed importance in recent years as primary log sources. Then -1 too, the decline in the lower Co lumbia river production by the former railroad operations has In part been taken up by a heavy truck log, production in the Astoria-Seaside area. Now another great shift in the direction of lor traffic Is In progress, with the upper Wil lamette river taking Its place in the picture. The navigation .locks at Willamette falls at Ore gon City are literally swamped . with log traffic which has i reached a volume of nearly a million .and a half feet a day. Scores of rafts now pass down stream through Portland harbor , in charre of diminutive diesel tugs, taklnx over the business of the old stern wheelrs which punea weir way up from the lower river. Logs passing through the locks at Oregon City originate at river points as far south as Corvallis. LillienMadsen Goes to the Fair, By Ulllt L. MADSEN . Gladioli and dahlias certainly predominated the floral show during the past week in the agri cultural building of the state fair. In ' fact, these were ' almost the entire show. There were a lew - small exhibits of other blooms, notably some .tuberous begonias and mixed arrangements of. the Uter-summer flowers. The usual display of roses was missed by many. We are hoping there will be tome good fall rose shows put on by some of the garden clubs. . Speaking of garden clubs: the Garden Club booth was a very Elementary,, - ' Zly Pear Wclson . I.H?.irniS-A nlne-year-c!i nemphls lad Is doing right tre!l financially. He bags his cane la soda fountains, offer l -g to tell a man his first name zvl the name cf the woman he first loved for a small fee. . a n iw en: Eaby gal . - ---- j , ; v j 4 ' t The heaviest offerings come from Canby, Albany,: Salem, Newberr on the Willamette and from Dayton and Lafayette on the Yamhill river, only navi gable tributary of the Willam- . e'te. I Logging concerns using the up per Wilamette river as a part of their log transportation scheme, range from small one-side camps with a bit of light equipment and a few trucks to companies produc ing as much as 600,000 feet a day with large fleets of company owned and leased trucks. Hauls to tie dumps on the Willamette and the Yahmill rivers yary fnm Oregon City, which have been pany'&j own logging operations at 30 to 60 miles or over.; Logs are taxed to capacity by the steadily Siltcoos lake. Weatherly dump coming into the Yamhill dumps mounting volume of log traffic, and sorting works arid the McVey over the Salmon river cutoff from US army engineers now have boom jin the vicinity of Newberg the west flank of the Coast range plans in readiness, pending con- are the terminals on Willamette as far south as the Sfletz river gressional apropriation, for ' a river below the Yamhill for logs country. It -is significant .that the single lift lock 56x400 feet to drawn; largely from the coastal oldest form of transportation has replace the obsolete facilities, con- region via the Salmon river high been teamed up with the most sisting of four 36xl75-foot locks1; way. Other important dumps are modern the motor truck for quarter mile of canal and a guard located at Albany and Salem, nearly al logs dumped into upper lock. . yamhm river is an interesting, Willamette river booms arrive by The new lock will cost between ;tolwM, Rtflm drainin th ast- l 1- 1 1 Al 1 mien, une uoiatue exuepuun ix a,3uu,uuu ana o,vw,vjv, bccuiu the Crown Willamette Paper ing to present estimates, suffi- company, whose Siltcoos logs are shipped in gondola cars over the Southern Pacific to be unloaded at the company's private dump above the falls. Nearly all of these logs are consumed by the big paper mill at West Linn, at the head of the OregonXity locks. Phenomenal Increase Noted Log traffic through the Oregon City Locks was relatively unim- portant three years - ago, when1873, by the Willamette Falls only 21,000,000 feet were passed Canal and Lock company. It through for lower river sawmills, was a cold, dreary day, and the The following year, 1939, saw a dull proceedings were enlivened -Lafayette, must pass through a seven-fold increase when 146,000,- only by the bountiful supply of single lift lock to reach the Wil 000 feet were handled. Another champagne on the river steamer lamette. This lock, completed great stride was made in 1940 bearing prominent guests from about 1900, when the decline , of when the locks were called upon Portland. to pass 260,000,000 feet fo logs, During 1940, logging camps and 1941 will see this figure, al- using the upper Willamette river most doubled again. Records as an adjunct to their transporta kept by the US. army engineers tion facilities supplied approxl- snow-the following totals for the first six months of 1941: - Feet 16,785,000 January February Mar&i April 20,920,000 33,350,000 .... 40,240,000 May .... 43,950,000 44,465,000 June, To4l . 199,465,000 - 1 - - Figures covering the log move- ment through Oregon City locks by points of origin for the year ivw are maae avauaoie xnrougn the courtesy of the US army en gineers: " ; Feet Canby 89,885,000 29,662,000 Newberg Dayton 23,092,000 Lafayette Salem Albany . Corvallis New Era 13,115,000 56,125,000 47,105,000 300,000 . 570,00ft 280,000 Pulp Siding , to. . Total 260.134,000 Present Locks Inadequate ' - ;i Increasing dependence!-upon the Willamette valley and Oregon coast region as a source of timber swpbly for lower river mills fo- nice addition, to the floral de partment at the fair. Here some . interesting material war dls played, as well, as a collection of garden books from the state library.' Chairs were arranged about the .. booth ; and visitors 'Were invited to come in and make themselves comfortable. Each time we wandered around la that direction, quite a num ber' had availed themselves of the Invitation. The - pink autumn flowering amaryllis from the Franklin gar-' dens was very popular in the garden booth.'. Several '. visitors asked if the amaryllis could real 1? grow out of doors. Those on display proved the point them - selves. .This bulb thrives Isest in- cident as proof of the unreliabu a fairly rich sandy loam. A posi- ity of gossip: An Atchison citizen tion facing south, near the' wall of a house seems to suit it . But more Interesting to some than even the amaryllis were two other flowers In the garden ' club booth. One was the Kora neya eoulteri, the .matilija pop- - py, and the other was the tiny J ? - V 4 f Willamette Falls Aerial view of the falls of the Willamette river (above) at Ore gon City, showing the 68-year-old canal and locks through ' which logs move to the lower river. They may be seen at the bottom of the picture, passing . along the mill buildings of the Crown Willamette Paper com pany. (Above photo by US army engineers; other photos cour tesy of The Timberman.) cuses attention upon the inade quacy of the navigation locks at am rAA AAA 1 n AAA AAA 1 ciently large to handle any log movement that may be offered. Locks Completed in 1873 The present locks at Oregon City were completed by private enterprise in 1873 and operated na toll concession until 1915. when the lock company was taken over by the war department . His- tory relates that the locks were formally dedicated on January 1, mately 20 per cent of all logs consumed by sawmills , In the Portland and Columbia river dis trict Neglecting the factor of over-run this figure is based upon the total lumber production of 1,896,000,000 feet reached by, .the " u"' mills last year. Log production j A good many logs produced by sawmills maintaining their along the Alsea highway reach own camps on the lower river the water at Corvallis, about the amounted to slightly over 600,000,- head of navigation on the Willam 000 feet sThis leaves- rouehlv ettei Amone the Columbia rwr 100,000,000 feet of raw material to be supplied by market logging tuncerns. r jgures reponea Dy ya army engineers covering log move- tow j of nearly 100 miles. Inland ment through Oregon City locks Boom company at Albany, along show a total of 260,000,000 feet with other dumps in that area, which is roughly 20 per cent of handles logs from the Lebanon the total volume of .market logs Sweet Home district and other consumed by Portland and Colum- bia river sawmills. - It Is obvious that the 1941 pro ' duetlon of lumber by these mills will show a substantial increase over 1940 and a figure of over 2,000,000,000 feet is already In dicated At the present rate the movement of logs from the upper Willamette Is likely to reach 400,000,000 feet for the current year, hence: all factors being considered, it is not at all .unlikely that up river logs will flower with the anything but ' tiny name: laperyrousia. The latter is an African bulb with red flowers although there are , also blue flowering ones. It Is a dainty- freesia-like bloom, but without the freesia fragrance which, incidently, we missed. It succeeds best in a light porous soil in arsomewhat sheltered spot . The matllija poppy is by no means . new,,- having Seen : culti vated since 1845,' but one does not see it aijy too often in this locality. It is "called a '"California-, flower, but the Joe Van Cleaves say it has been perfectly hardy . -JllSt GoCS tO Show ATCHISON , Kas.HT'rThe - Atchison Globe reports this in- killed a possum in the henhouse. Within 24 hours word-of-mouth accounts of the incident said the fellow killed (1) a bear; (2) a gorilla; (3) a man; furthermore, that the man (4) was seven feet talL weighed 300 pounds and car ried seven revolvers. - hift ilMiriiii n account for a quarter of the to- -tal consumed in 1941. Logs! from Clackamas county, : are dumped along a comparative' ly short stretch of river near Can by .into the booming grounds of Ostrander Logging company, Schetky Logging company, Caff all Bros, and William TuU. Nearest the locks is the dump and sorting works of Crown Willamette Paper company, where spruce and hem lock pulp logs are handled for the Oregon City paper mill. These Ugs are drawn from areas east, south and west, including the com- ern slope of the Coast range which provides an outlet for a big vol ume of logs from the east flank and coastal area transported over the Salmon river highway. It is the only stream entering the Wil- t lamette used for log traffic ? though it carries a smaller vol- I ume Of water than several streams I flowing out of the Cascade. Along lower stretch of the Yamhill are the Wheeler, Cunningham and Gardner dumps' and near Lafay ette is the Weatherly dump, some eight miles above the mouth. Logs put into the Yamhill river " at river transportation had already oe i in, nas, lute vregon t-iiy, been enjoying a marked revival with the growing upper river log traffic. This lock is identical in size with the units at Oregon City, 36x175 feet with about five feet over! the sills. In the month of June, 1941, over 4,000,000 feet of. logs! were passed. Lock service at P0"1 is maintained eight mills receiving log supplies from from this distance is Stebco, Inc., oi Vancouver, wasn., mvoivmg a Cascade districts, as well as tim- ber trucked through Corvallis and over the Willamette river bridge Into! Albany. At Salem, booms are maln . tained by the Chas. K. Spauld- -ing Logging company: and by Pope and Talbot Inc, the source in both eases being timber- on the east side of the Coast range west of Salem, Pope and Tal bot logs are towed about 90 -miles to the company's sawmill at St Helens. Notes Uni with them so far. It grows wild in southern' California, spilling over the border, into Mexico. Down south it . . . caiiea simpiy Matilija with the y given the TboM great enormous dahlias we delightful such ones as BeUegos Spanish "h" sound. think are lovely at the fair but Glory, a rich red; the perfect The ' Matilija is difficult " towe! always felt sort of hopeless Rosebud, the white: ball Snow ii Wc with them in earden or house, queen,, the Scarlet Big Ben and fibrous roots, and it takes con- siderable, time to establish We have seen large clumps (like mail tiain,U .r? - ii. mAAV . fca - X VVVAU in the vicinity of Riverside, CJmilS fornia, and around Santa Bar- Ume auty. The Bishopjof bZ too. There ttAa Sj readily enough. . The MatS w,mc - reaches muchlarger proportions! ince. The toy little Windroy, In the south. In its native dry, 1 ... . . rock soils it grows like a little' tree.- Good drainage is essential in its culture: The dahlias really surpassed the gladioli this ; year in the state f air show ring. There were, however, some very lovely and a few unusual glad ioli The white-edred Oregon Rose, the. bright red Paul Gam pet the p 1 n k New.' Zealand Splendor, the bluish Max Eega, it v.mi,ni u Mncit1red the only lamette. Larre, quantities of logs the Willamette via this stream (Deiowj ana ns smsie w mi ette (above). . m t f ' f f r Familiar scene on Salem streets and by huge loaded log trucks, such the Yamhill area, 1 9 4 fT. " iiTimfim H in i' H Typical of the many log dumps along the Willamette is this big one (above ) operated by the Molalla Logging company near Canby and Minii til tiAniii finanno lt a dav. Twentr-elrhi company- owned trucks and 20 contract miles use its facilities. I - and the snahoranv Vagabond Prince were among our "plcksT tw. mrJm mK. . vrr nut smaller, dahlias tms , ... .:a Jem wuiui ww ucauj auiuucu.. ;rn,M,w viv trmw . Chancellor (or Volk Kanzler. V it was called in some booths) with its yellow stamens, stole the en- - tir flowr ihow as far as we - n lt TP. Who Needed an Alibi CHARLESTON, SC, -(V Three Charleston women, not ing a police car parked beside a fire hydrant left the follow ing note on the windshield: . r ."We wisS we could give you a ticket because we know you'd . give us one dUsen." navixable tributary of the Wil from the Coast ranre more" into .r i , 0 ZS9 i . t-i rf a jw:- the city's waterfront is. presented as this one (above) "snapped" in , 7 ; 1 ft''' units making hauls averaging 20 - - -.t the velvety Market Jewell and the waxy white gardenia-formed f CoTonne were othera especially f m44vaa4Iva a via l cv h larff- dahlias we found . catus-flowered Vlc- toria. ty Cmtnt Fm 1 TV''. '-dm CORDOBA, Spain -VP) Jose Plata Alcalde bad so many chil dren that he knew what to do when the 1 government offered 5000 pesetas (about $410) to the biggest provincial family. Jose' and his wife, Dona, came to Cordoba from the sun baked village of JCitorla. With them in tow were Juan, Pedro, Manuel, Fernando, Alfonso, Ra fael, BasiUo, Rosario, Ana, Manuela, Rxfaela, Antonia, Car men, Angeles, Catalina, Alf on sa, Salad, Rosaliv Josef a, Fu ensanta, Concepclon, Basilia and Rita. . v - - . And Jose won.:, I have just received word that i my grandfather is dead. He lived ; nearly 100 years. He married my j granamouier, wno survives , nun, i when he was 19. -He was a big; man, with strong shoulders, sharp 1 blue eyes and, a high forehead, When I last saw him, three Tears t ago, he was still as straight-spin- ed as an oak post IIow: he: managed to survive so long this constantly chang ing world is little sort of amax inr. For all his life: he stood flatfooted smack in the path of t progress. Although a southern- j r wna& from three rene- i ration of. southerners, he was from V the Deginnmg , on-me wrong side of the Civil war question; Moreover, he was an inveterate republican, where in the south the cigars are ' all democrai.-, -A;r-:"'i:?' r-.,-.- He never ; smoked nor' drank. ' He never owned an automobile;; because, he said, he was waiting until they . were perfected. . He once had a telephone, but it an-! nbyed him, so he had it removed. Whenr people ; annoyed him, he also removed ; them; ! by saying ! things,' quietly, to them that they' could never forget He was never in I step with v the majority. He had a queer ? notion, for instance, that man should keep at least i year's ''. supply of food -laid away at all times. He had enough proyi- ; sions on hand to stock the lard er of an ark. He bought things ; he needed with things be didn't : need, and probably, saved 98 g per cent of all the money that ' ever came Inta his hands. Time was what he had the most of, and he never hurried. Dark-' ness was for .'sleeping and bed-. time was regulated accordingly. J Summers, when man was suppos ed to grow crops for winters, God had made the. nights shorter, so man would . have more daylight for working. The long nights of winter were for resting. He suf fered few ailments. ; and none which he could not cure with his single remedy: calomeL . 1 " He lived in a house that was built 'about - the time of the Declaration of Independence. It was of oak and walnut timbers, hewn with a broadax. and sat on a flintstone foundation. It .took a man a year to chip the huge flint cubes for the chim ney and the fireplace, 1 '. His home was 30 miles from ' . the nearest city and 15 miles from bOUp a La llUCK the nearest "railroad. On clear LONDON-(P)-T h r ee hundred winter nights when the wind was and fifty trucks are to be used for right, we could sometimes hear a distribution of hot meals through train - whistle. The I roads were .out bombed areas of Britain. bad and a trip to the city, us ually by wagon, took a , day , to go and a day to come. When I was a child, my grandfather had a! beard that DR. HARRY SEMLER CREDIT DENTIST FREE EXAMINATION Sckntitiadlu ilttsd . - UUL. All Work Fully Guaranteed A tfco at tkot rtforaless of now littio o couf to poy, you will ' tocchro . Mnrko tket CoaferiM witk th high stenoards of the opto SMtrical prolntioii. St Woctioo terRt4L lenwt vritkio oo yeorl' . (This it$ mot ineluit frtmeltss tlastti) STATE & C 0 mm was 'prodifioos. It waa red, and u covered his whole front, clear vnntftop. A few yean ago, my aunt got him Into barber shop. ; When the barber got through with the beard,' my grandfather looked like Charles Evans : Hughesv. He never for gave the barber who was , probably a d e m o e rat and . thought all elderly republicans should look alike. ' i. ' - ' My grandfather often said, "Never, give advice. A wise man doesn't need it and a fool won't take lft But he did advise me never to argue with a fool : or drunk, because neither ever had anything to lose. All the aca i demic knowledge he "ever got : came from two books: the Bible and the Blueback Speeler, both of which he virtually ! memorized. . His whole life was devoted to a single purpose; traveling straight to Heaven strictly ac cording to his own Interpreta tion of the rules of the road. If he got there he did it solely on his own steam, for he had no use for the physically fit who thumbed his way at the expense of others. ; Swiss Grow Tobacco Fop Oil in Seeds Bi2tN-P)-Since tobacco seeds contain good quality oil for house hold cooking and industrial uses, Switzerland has ordered that more tobacco must be permitted to go to seed. Because seed does not mature when the leaf is at its best stage, this means a reduced leaf crop. 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