EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS
Devoted to the Interests of Eastern Clackamas County
V o l u m e 10,
N u m b e r 31
E stac a d a ,
O regon ,
T hursday ,
A p r il
19,
1917
$1. P e r Y e a r
SPORTSMEN OPPOSE
INCREASE IN LICENSES
ALL CLEARED LAND
SHOULD DE CULTIVATED
FOREST SERVICE REFDSES
TO SELL TIMBER
Present Fishing Regulations
Wasting Food Supply
ARTICLES OF
INCORPORATION FILED
National Crisis Demands
Increased Food Production
Estacada Shingle Industry
Handicapped By Ultimatum
Nominations For Board
Of Directors Submitted
No phase o f preparedness for
the National crisis which we now
are facing is o f greater impor­
tance than that o f the food sup­
ply. The present food shortage,
with its attendant high prices,
will be greatly intensified by the
withdrawal o f many producers
who are being called into the
military service.
The following letter, received
by Messrs. Willis Cox and John
Park o f Estacada, relative to
their application for a supply of
cedar timber to be purchased
from the Forest Reserve on the
upper Clackamas, is a dissapoint-
ing one and one which may >-e-
sult in a de ith blow to the pro­
posed shingle mill in Estacada:-
Estacada’s new industry will
be called The Estacada Cooper­
ative Cheese Association, this
name having been decided upon
at Monday’s nights meeting o f
the subscribers o f stock.
About sixty farmers and busi­
ness men attended the gafheri'ig
and took part in the many legal
discussions and regulations gov­
erning the formation of such an
association.
The final election o f the Board
o f Directors, which had been ad­
vertised to take place at this
meeting, had to be postponed un­
til certain legal requirements had
been fulfilled, as pwing to the
confusion and stress o f soliciting
stock subscriptions, certain legal
formalities had been overlooked,
but the delay will amount to little.
On Tuesday the Articles o f As­
sociation were duly drawn up
and signed by five o f the business
men, who have submitted same
to the proper authorities and it
is expected that within a day or
two the proper credentials will
be received from the Secretary
o f State to allow of further pro­
ceed u re.
The following n o m i n a t i o n s
were made, seven o f whom are
to be elected at the next meeting
as the permanent Board o f Direc­
tors, the nominations having
been made to allow the stock­
holders to decide on their selec­
tion prior to voting: -
Frank Ewing and J. A. Randolph
o f Viola; G. E. Lawrence, Ed
Ficken, John Schenk and Barney
Schonburg of Springwater; E. E.
Saling, C. R. Lovell and R. H.
Currin o f Currinsville; J. C.
Duus, Edward Shearer and R. E.
Davis o f Garfield.
This list is representative and
the permanent Board o f seven
should comprise representatives
from all sections.
Notice will be given within a
few days o f the stockholders
meeting, when the election will
take place and contracts will be
let for the building, machinery
etc. Detailed plans have been
prepared for the building, which
are being figured on by local con­
tractors now.
As the law makes it necessary
that 60% o f the 9tock be subscrib­
ed and 25 % paid in and in as
much as about $1600. has already
been subscribed to be paid if> on
call, it was voted to reduce the
total $4,000. capitalization to
$2500.
If present plans carry, the
cheese factory here should be­
come a working reality within
from four to six weeks.
The new law becoming effect­
ive May 21st, increasing the cost
o f hunting and fishing licenses
from $1 to $1.50 each, is meeting
strong opposition in this section,
It would be different if the
sportsmen were getting more for
their money than formerly, but
in reality they are getting much
less each year, for not only have
the open seasons been shortened
but the bag limits have been re­
duced.
The public realizes that the
prime intent o f the game and fish
laws is to conserve the supply,
but the present regulations are
resulting in a hardship on the
resident sportsmen and resulting
in a big waste o f valuable food,
which in these days o f high cost
o f living is an important matter.
In Oregon and in this rural sec­
tion especially, the term sports­
man, means the average resident,
the majority o f whom fish and
hunt for both recreation and food
supply.
As to the hunting locally, few
sportsmen can get $1.50 worth o f
pleasure or profit today, with on­
ly pheasants and deer to be hunt­
ed and both o f these so protected
by regulations that few hunters
meet with success.
The open season on deer in this
locality has always been too ear­
ly in the year and now this has
been shortened T>y two weeks and
those two weeks taken from the
best part o f the season.
But the big complaint is against
the laws regulating fishing. The
laws today seem to favor the
commercial fishing interests pri­
marily, with the actions o f the
hatcheries doing more harm than
good.
If the people o f this district
alone were allowed to catch, can
and eat all o f the salmon and
steel-heads that each season go
to waste in the streams o f this
section, it would materially re­
duce the high cost o f living.
As it is now, the hatchery peo­
ple so blockade the streams, in
or ier to obtain a small supply oi
fisn eggs for propagation, that
few fish get up stream, .where
the argler might get his share,
woile thousands o f salmon beat
themselves to pieces and are
wasted on the abutements or
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With our entrance into the war,
our obligations to furnish food to
the allied nations will be greatly
increased and we, the rural peo­
ple o f Oregon, must aid in meet­
ing this situation and it can only
be done by increasing the pro­
duction and by more economical
use o f food.
In every state in the Union,
united efforts are being made to
utilize every available piece of
ground, including the thousands
of vacant city lots, the neglected
acres on abandoned farms, the
rights-of-way along railroads and
even the street terraces and park­
ings.
This community has plenty of
vacant land, especially within the
limits o f the City o f Estacada,
every inch o f which should be
made to produce this year, wheth­
er planted to potatoes or other
vegetables or sowed to grasses or
clovers.
A compliance with this demand
is just as surely an indication o f
patriotism, as the more direct
martial work in the military ser­
vice.
Aside from such added
profit as is sure to come to the
farmer for the next year or two,
it is his duty as a true American
citizen to do his share in Helping
the Nation, for the production of
the food supply is the basis o f all
success and victories.
The several granges, clubs,
women’ s organizations, church
socieiies and schools in this com­
munity, should undertake this
work now, obtaining permission
to use vacant land and aiding in
the planting and care o f the
produce.
Governor Withycombe recently
stated “ Each one should become
a volunteer patriotic farmer this
year and we believe that the most
patriotic service that may be ren­
dered by a large percentage o f
our population is to produce the
maximum quantity from the soil
the present year’ ’.
The Oregon Agricultural Col­
lege has prepared a special series
o f pamphlets on poultry keeping,
vegetable gardening, the eco­
nomical use o f food and canning
foods, which may be had on ap­
plication, or the New3 will obtain
copies for any parties desiring
same.
Unlted States
Department of Agriculture
Forest Service
Oregon National Forest
Portland, Oregon, April 5, 1917.
Messrs. John Parks and Willis Cox,
Estacada, Oregon.
Gentlemen :-
The District Forester has disap­
proved your application for cedar tim­
ber on the Clackamas River on the
grounds that cedar bolts should not be
removed from a stand of merchantable
saw timber, where the removal of the
cedar will depreciate the other timber,
and where an early sale of cedar has no
extraordinary advantages.
Moreover,
since the cedar is not decadent, it can
be most economically logged in conjunc­
tion with the fir and other surrounding
timber.
The district Forester also
feels that a sale of this nature where
only a small percent o f the timber on
the area involved is removed, materi­
ally increases the Are hazard on the
timber which remains.
Very truly yours,
T. H. Sherrard
Forest Supervisor.
While it may be improper to
question the decision o f the De­
partment of Agriculture, it looks
as though the opening up o f the
valuable timber resources adja­
cent to Estacada will be held up
for many years, unless the small
lumber interests are allowed to
buy on a scale, such as their fi­
nances will permit.
If the millions o f dollars worth
o f fir, cedar and other trees in
the nearby reserve are to be held
until purchased in large blocks,
it may be years before develop­
ment comes and no incentive to
build up an industry is given.
Experienced lumbermen have
stated that much o f the timber
in the Reserve is decadent, dotey
and past its prime, and if the
above policy is adhered to much
longer, it will result in a waste.
A systematic cutting o f the
ripe timber should begin now,
but if it takes a million dollar
lumber company to start the in­
dustry, Estacada and its limited
means might as well look else­
where.
Messrs. Cox and Park, who re­
cently purchased the Bittner
shingle mill on Clear Creek are
still hoping to be able to locate in
Estacada and obtain a supply o f
cedar from private lands adjoin­
ing the Reserve.
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