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Indians to Industry in 40
Years Story of Grand Ronde
Br BEN MAXWELL
From Indian! to Induitry in 40 yean ii the itory of Grand
Ronde where the government closed ita blighted Indian reserva
tion in 1908 and where a community of about 900 labored in 1948
to ship 80 million feet of logs
and 1700 carloads of lumber.
Though Indiana still live at
Grand Ronde, where Joel Pal
mer herded them from all parts
of Western Oregon to the reser
vation some 90 years ago, they
have pretty much lost tneir
identity except for the tribal
council and work along with
their white associates to make
this community one of the more
prosperous logging and lumber
ing centers in Western Oregon.
Grand Ronde From Indians to Industry in 40 Years Top,
business section of New Grand Ronde where a new front
for an old-time community assumes a modern appearance,
facing the highway from Valley Junction to North Lincoln
beaches. Bottom, Public housing project of 100 units at New
Grand Ronde now entirely occupied by veterans who are
mostly engaged in the local lumbering industry.
DIGGING AS A HOBBY
Couple of Railroaders
Aid Profs With Finds
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. W A couple of railroad men who dig up
Indian relics in their spare time have made themselves authorities
on the subject,
Thev are Al Bennaway, an en
gineer, and Walter Hayward, a
brakeman.
Their spare-time work has
unearthed arrowheads and tools
as well as skeletons and pottery.
Some of them are on loan to
Vassar college and a Rochester,
N. Y., museum. With the help
of professional archaeologists
from schools and museums they
have been able to learn much
about the life of the Indians.
They have also found much evi
dence of trading with colonial
settlers.
The railroad men have also
been able to help the professors.
When, for Instance, Dr. Mary
Butler Lewis of the University
of Pennsylvania made an ar
chaeological survey of the Hud
son Valley in the early 1940 s,
the went first to them.
The men now working to
gether in their hunts. They met
when both were hunting relics,
not on their railroad jobs.
Hayward says he started his
digging when he was six years
old. That was when he first dug
up an arrow head in his back
yard. Since then he has ranged
up and down the Hudson Valley.
Bennaway credits him with lo
cating most of their digging
sites.
"We'll be walking along and
Walt will stop suddenly and
start digging," he says. He often
digs in the right place.
"All I do is make like and In
dian," Hayward says. "I figure
out where I would have set up a
camp if I had been in his shoes."
Bennaway expects to retire in
19S2 and looks forward to ex
panding his studies. Already he
has made a vacation trip to Ari
zona where he dug up Indian
relics for his collection.
Much of their work is along
the tracks of the N. Y. Central
railway for which they both
work. In at least one instance
Bennaway located a valuable
digging site in a cut through
which he ran his engine.
Coast Incorporation
May Be Asked Again
Taft Residents of this costal
town soon may have another op
portunity to decide whether
they prefer to live in an incorp
orated or unincorporated area.
At a special election in April a
proposal to incorporate Cutler
City DeLake, Nelscott and Taft
into one city was defeated.
However this time the incor
poration election would concern
only the North Lincoln com
munity of Taft. A petition re
questing that such an election
be held has been signed by the
necessary 20 per cent of the eli
gible voters residing within the
area and sufficient funds to de
fray the cost of the election
have been raised.
Precisely speaking there are
two Grand Rondes. Old Grand
Ronde. aite of the former re
servation headquarters, is on the
road leading from Valley Junc
tion to He bo. Here is located St
Michaels school conducted by
the Sisters of St. Mary who, as
sisted by Father G. Scheffold,
attend to the education of 83
pupils in grades from first to
seventh. Next year there will be
an eighth. Call this the cultural
center of this dual community
if you like.
Industry and most of the local
Dusiness is at New Grand Ronde
on the road from Valley Junc
tion to North Lincoln beaches.
Here there is a diversity of busi
ness dependent upon an exten
sive lumber industry.
Largest by far among the log
ging operators is Long-Bell, suc
cessors to the Miami corpora
tion since 1943. Their logging
operations extend over 14 sec
tions of timber land in this lo
cality. Getting out with the logs,
however, is the work of three
subcontractors: Ted Welty, Eld
win Littlejohn and Dick Van
Fleet, each of whom employs
between 40 and 50 men In their
camps. Long-Bell's own em
ployes take care of the pond
jobs and carloadings. C. J. Hines
is general superintendent for
Long-Bell operations at Grand
Ronde.
Grand Ronde Mercantile it a
Long-Bell general store with 10
employes managed by D. A
Meyers. Nearby is the theater
owned by W. H. Hibbert and
The Ronde, a new and distinc
tive restaurant owned by Glen
Wilbur of Salem. In addition
this new front for an old corn-
Veteran Dies In Parade
Albuquerque, May 31 itP)
Michael Abbin, 74-y e a r-old
Spanish-American war veteran,
suffered a fatal heart attack
while carrying the colors in the
Memorial day parade Monday.
The Kipling Cotes Derby at
Yorkshire, England, has been
run every third Thursday in
March for 429 consecutive years.
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munity has a barber and beau
ty shop, a very modern service
station and a garage. New
Grand Ronde is not yet incor
porated but if growth of the
past decade continues, this step
may soon be necessary for civic
welfare.
Willamina & Grand Ronde
railroad, Long-Bell owned and
with H. B. Scharschmidt as gen
eral aupervisor, reached Grand
Ronde from Willamina in 1921
This shortline has 17 miles of
track, including switches and
sidings, two locomotives and
about 30 employes. An average
of 40 cars of logs and lumber
are shipped out dally over this
line on Southern Pacific cars.
Until 20 years ago the Miami
corporation operated ancient
and quaint locomotives over
this line that were accepted by
movie makers as period pieces
for a cinema depicting Civil War
scenes.
L. R. Anderson is superinten
dent of the 100 unit public
housing project at New Grand
Ronde occupied exclusively by
veterans since 1946. Most of the
men housed here are employed
in the lumbering industry.
After Long-Bell, the Midway
Lumber company, operated by
Murphy brothers appears to be
the next larger industry in this
locality. Murphy Brothers are
engaged in both logging and
manufacture, and saw approxi
mately 2,000,000 feet of lumber
each month. Midway employes
about 110 hands. Next in vol
i me is Coastal Lumber com
pany engaged in both logging
and sawing. They employ about
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Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, Mny 31, 1949 1
75 men and manufacture about
1.300.000 feet of lumber each
month. Across the road from
Coastal is Pete McMillan's
shingle mill running two ma
chines and employing eight or
ten men.
Also engaged in or associated
with lumbering in this area arc
Hodge Brothers whose planing
mill runs with IS hands and the
nearby Green Mountain Lumber
company with some 40 em
ployes. New Grand Ronde public
school, graduated through eight
grades, had an enrollment of
180 during the last term. School
is now out for the summer. Mrs.
Harriet House. Grand Ronde
postmistress, relates that her of
fice distributes mail to 300 pa
trons located on two star routes
and that 900 persons living in
the community call at the post
office to receive their mall.
The average adult's brain
weighs 49 ounces or half a
pound more than his lungs.
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