Thuraday, April SO, 1953
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Saha, OrtM
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North Santiam power project at Niagara, initiated by
O'Neil brother! and Callaghan in the 1880s, was never
dedicated because it was never completed. More than
$100,000 was spent in a ' futile attempt to dam and
utilize North Santiam water power where the stream is
four feet and three inches in width during low water. '
Few Probes in
estate Bureau
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Washington vR John W.
. Ford, State Department officer,
" said Wednesday a survey of de
partment personnel files has re
vealed at least 4300 cases in
which employes havejjeen in
adequately investigated or not
, Investigated at all.
He told a House government
operations subcommittee he
vhas found an estimated 2,300
I cases in which there was no in
r. vestigation and another 2,000
where the check was inade
quate. Ford was summoned before
,, the subcommittee in a hearing
- into the suicide last Jan. 24 of
John C. Montgomery, 41-year-old
department official.
Testifying earlier, Selective
Service Director Lewis B. Her
shey, disclosed that Montgom
ery had been rejected for army
- service in 1942 as a psychoneu
rotic. Bids Called fo Alter
Gymnasium at OSC
The Oregon State Board of
Higher Education will receive
' bids in Room 106, Commerce
Building, Oregon State Col
lege, Corvallis, until 3 o'clock
P.M., May 22, for alterations
to the Men'a gymnasium.
: The alterations consist of
building two new exterior
.stairway to basement and low
Bering certain portions of the
tbasement to provide a one-
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level locker room. Two new
interior stairways are contem
plated and removal of two ob
solete stairways is planned. A
portion of the first floor will
also be lowered, providing
larger one-level areas.
Modernized and rehabili
tated areas will include faculty
locker room, student locker
and basket rooms, service and
work shop, new toilet room
exercise, room and wrestling
room.
A new mechanical system
will be installed, as will new
wiring for modern lighting fa
cllities.
Youth Driving
Contest Sunday
Silverton In the interest of
safe driving, the Silverton
Junior Chamber of Commerce
is putting on a test project for
teenagers in a Road-E-O con
test to culminate in generous
awards for winners to be given
Sunday afternoon,' May 3, at
McGinnis Field following the
ball game.
The event is open to high
school students under the age
of 20 years and consists of a
writen test and a test in drlv
lng skill. '
Making possible the cash
awards are local insurance
firms, the George W. Hubbs
Co.; the Homeseekers Agency;
Ralph Adams; and Lloyd Lar
sen.
First prize is to be $25 and
winner's certificate and a trip
to state contest meeting at
Bend, Ore., June 18.
Second prize, $20 and win'
Farmers' Night
At Silverton
Silverton More than 275
guests attended the Tuesday
evening observance of the an
nual "Farmers' Night" under
sponsorship, jointly, of the
Silverton Chamber of Com
merce and the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce.
George Moorhead, Salem,
past president of Oregon Geo
logical Society, and superin
tendent of .the Oregon Pulp
and Paper company mill, was
the featured speaker.
Also presenting "The Jay
cee Story" in a talk was Al
Kreig, candidate for state
president of the Junior forum.
Making possible the pro
gram and refreshment plans,
were the presidents of the
two forums, Dr. R. E. Epene
ter and Bob Sites, Elmer Lor
ence as program chairman,
Bob Mallorie, with Harry
Riches acting as master of
ceremonies.
On behalf of the two groups,
Dr. Epeneter welcomed the
guests.
John Becker and Gail
Becker were responsible for
the awards.
Supplemental musical num
bers were by Howard Egglman
as piano-accordian soloist. !
ner's certificate.
Third prize, $18 and winner's
certificate.
Fourth prize, ith prise and
Cth prize, $10.
The winner of the state prize
Is eligible to enter the national
contest Aug. 11 and 12, at
Washington, D. C.
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North Santiam Dam
Dream in Decade of '90s
By BEN
Those who dedicate Detroit
damJune 10 will little know
or car about that older dam
on the North Santiam Initiat
ed by O'Neil brothers and Cal
laghan in the 1890'a.
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It was never dedicated be
cause It was never completed.
Today the ruins of this for
gotten project stand weather
ed, grim and eroded at Niagara
like some feudal monument.
Fishermen cast from its over
grown masonry into deep pools
and old Inhabitants have con
fused history and traditions
about it for, with a few excep
tions, it is older than they.
Weekly Capital Jouraal for
September 13, J.900, contains
a contribution about "Indus
tries of the Upper Santiam." At
Niagara, $0 miles east of Al
bany on the Corvallis It East
ern railroad, the story tells,
O'Neil brothers' (Frank and
Edward) and C. W. Callaghan
of San Francisco were about
the business of constructing a
development that would gen
erate not ' less than 20,000
horsepower.
Here the gorge of the North
Santiam is but four feet and
three Inches in width during
low water.
"Nature," says this Capital
Journal of 83 years ago, "never
provided a better place for a
fine water power."
At an earlier time the Job
and Hamilton sawmill stood at
this site. Perhaps the San
Francisco promoters obtained
the water right from them
along with 1000 acres of fine
timber in Linn and Marion
counties. It was their plan to
utilize the water power to op
erate a papermill at Niagara
in which 100 men might be
employed come 1003.
Before O'Neil brothers and
Callaghan exhausted their re
sources in dam construction
they spent nearly $37,500 of
their own money In developing
the project. The dam was not
completed (winter floods des
troyed their summer efforts),
the papermill was never built
at Niagara and the splendid
stand of hemlock timber own
ed by the firm was exploited
by others. ...
But they did not propose to
lose water rights to this de
velopment site that defied
their engineering and finan
cial ingenuity. The Byllesby
company was given an option
to purchase and between 1909
and 1912 , dropped nearly
$65,000 into a proposed hydro
electric project here. By then
they, too, were discouraged,
But O'Neil brothers and Cal
laghan remained persistent and
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determined. They kept one
man tinkering at the project
with a wheelbarrow just to re
tain their water right. Oregon
Electric railroad considered
the the site as a source of
power for their Willamette va
ley railroad. Others came to
look, study, survey and final
ly depart without taking' any
affirmative action.
Finally, in 1931, Oregon's
hydro-electrle commission held
a hearing on the water power
rights of the San Francisco
promoters who had retained
their privileges so long and yet
accomplished so little. Their
decision does not now matter.
Already long range thinkers
were dreaming about a super
dam near Detroit, conceived
to serve a diversity of modern
requirements.
Niagara's fortune flourished
and declined with the project
ed power development. Short
ly after the Corvallis tt East
ern railroad (a blighted enter
prise with a depressing finan
cial history) reached the lo
cality a post office was estab
lished, October 3, 1890. Wil
liam H, Burns was first post-;
master ana me piece was can
ed Niagara.
When Tad Shelton, Marion
county assessor, went there to
fish about 1900 Niagara had a
store, hotel and a gallon house.
For some years before the post
office finally closed, June 13,
1934, It had the name of being
the smallest post office in the
nation. The finale came late
in the summer of 1952 when
Marion county court, acting
upon a petition of George H.
Ditto, vacated the four platted
streets that were never used
since the town had never de
veloped to the extent of need
ing them.
Airforce to Hold
Most of Reserves
Washington, W The Air
Force hopes to hold at least
two-thirds of its reserve offi
cers under the new law which
requires reservists to accept
commissions of indefinite dur
ation or drop their military
standing.
: More than 80,000 Air Force
reserve officers now on active
duty have reported their will
ingness to accept the long
term commissions. This rep
resents more than 82 per cent
of the 96,900 active reserve of
ficers. All newcomers to the re
serves since July 9 last year
automatically received the in
definite term commissions.
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New Phones for
Lebanon Area
Lebanon A switchboard
and frame arc being Installed
at the Linn County Telephone
Co. office on Grant street
which will handle 100 new
lines, capable of serving 300
new phone subscribers. The
work Is being supervised by
William MacLean, , mainten
ance official, announces L, I.
Scott, company manager.
The ' new lines will serve
both suburban and city areas
and will handle a large portion
of the back log of orders now
on nana.
An order for cable is being
awaited which will be used
along the river road to Water
loo to serve 80 new subscrib
ers. The manager said new cable
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baa already been strung across
the Santiam river to Brewster.
This 28-pair cable will serve
patrons In that area.
Also completed 1 a 200-palr
cable to Airport road. It con
tinues on to the Crowfoot
school Junction with a 100-pair
cable. Eventually this series
will serve 200 to 300 custo
mers, .i .
Scott has conferred with
three farm phone line officials
in the Rock Hill district to
plan possible conversion of
those lines for dial service
when It becomes available In
the Lebanon area. '
The' manager said present
plans provide for dial service
here and at Sweet Home in
about SO months. Equipment
for the conversion of the sys
tem Is expected to be available
at that time.
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arc even for east-west and odd
for north-south routes. .
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Washington AUB House In- '
evstigators pried Into a seven .
year-old mall fraud case today
to find out whether any skul
duggery was Involved in the
Truman administration' sud
den abandonment of criminal
charges against a Kansas City
bond dealer. ' . ;
Chairman Kenneth B, Keat
ing (R., N.Y.) said his house
judiciary subcommittee wants
to know why, and on whose
orders, .the justice department
"threw away" Its case against
Roy E. Crammer and 10 asso
ciates, charged in 1944 with
using the malls to defraud
bond holders in Panama City
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