Illinois Valley News, Thursday, May 11, 1939
Page Eleven
ing 1939. Counties which receive □'
the aid, based on the necessity for
control and eradication of preda
tory animals and on financial co
operation, are as follows: Baker,
Illinois Valley News,
Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Jackson,
Cave Junction, Oregon,
Klamath, Lake, Malheur, Marion.
Gentlemen:
Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, Wal
The California Oregon Power lowa, Wasco and Wheeler.
company wishes at this time to ex
o
tend its hearty congratulations to
the Illinois Valley News upon the
celebration of its second anniver Bulletins Available
sary.
At Forest Service
Since another year has passed,
there have been some important
G. E. Mitchell, supervisor, Siski
developments in the Illinois Val you National Forest announces the
ley, among which have been the forest service has available for
further extension of our service free public distribution, bulletins
lines to more adequately serve its and circulars covering subjects on
residents. At the present time the General Forestry. Forest Protec
company is spending a large am- tion, Forest Botany, Silviculture,
out of money in re-routing the and Utilization of Forest Products.
present line between Wilderville
Detailed information concern
and Selma. We have recently ex ing specific subjects may be se
tended our line from O’Brien to cured from the supervisor’s head
the new resort. Rainbow Gardens, quarters, Federal Building, Grants
and we expect in all probability Pass, Oregon.
to build an extension along the
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Caves highway past the Anderson
Mrs. Lucille Floyd, Mrs. Helen
Sawmill. Other contemplated ex Ulrich, Mrs. Florence Hallock, her
tensions are being worked on and sister Mrs. Carol Martin and Mrs.
it is only a matter of time when W. F. Darger attended the lunch
our facilities will be available to eon and conference of the South
a greater number of people.
ern Oregon D. A. R. held at the
We feel that we have been a Medford hotel last Saturday.
partner in the rapid growth and
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progress of this valley and the
F H A LOANS
greater we can make our service
available the more it will help pro
BUILD NOW — PAY BY
THE MONTH
mote commercial and agricultural
activities and in general help the
Valley Lumber Co.
growth of the entire district.
West F St.
Phone 47
Again we congratulate you and
wish to assure you of our contin
ued cooperation and good faith in
any enterprise which will help the
WALT’S
Illinois Valley.
Very truly yours,
RADIO SHOP
F. L. BREWER.
District Maager.
OFF IN THE CORNER CALIFORNIA OREGON
WITH PHIL SNORT
POWER COMPANY
SENDS GREETINGS
Strychnia, or strychnine, one of
the most powerful poisons known,
a poison that will kill any form
of animal life if administered as
a poison and not as a stimulant,
now comes our county agent and
says that it will not kill quail.
pheasant or chickens. I wonder
how many residents of the Illinois
valley, who read either the News
or the Courier, who believe this
poppycock. I will tell you how this
question can be settled: Buy your
selves a 25 cent package of poikon
barley and feed it to your chick
ens. I do not believe many are
going to chance the risk. Just what
the scientist can do to strychnine
that will cause it to kill ground
squirrels and be harmless to quail,
pheasants, silver grey squirrels—
in fact, any seed eating bird or
mammal, is more than I know, or
anyone else, for that matter.
As a member of the Kerby Rod
and Gun club I have been designa
ted to write a serial of letters,
pointing out the causes of wild
life disappearance and the means
of restoration. I have been a firm
friend to wild life conservation
for more than a quarter century;
I hate hypocrisy in any form; I
hate any science that interferes,
in an.y way, with God’s plans; I
pity any so-called scientist who is
so ignorant that he will upset the
Almighty’s plans by “improving”
on them; I more than pity these
“scientists” who think they know
more than God Almighty Himself.
NEW CAVE CITY
In days past and gone I 1 have
pointed out, both in verse and
prose, that man is the most . de-
structive
predatory animal on
DEEP CUT PRICES
earth. You can not point out any
other animal on earth, other than
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man, that has contributed to wild
life destruction. Before the advent Exceptional Pinochle
of man—“white man'—to our
For
southern Oregon, our forests and Hands Held at Party
waters were teeming with wild-life
MOTHERS DAY
Recently Mr. and Mrs. George
and there was no destruction by
W.
Martin and Mr. and Mrs. Alva
any predatory animal. Nature so
Mother’s Day Cards
Laws were having an1 evening's
balanced things that the carnivor
Mother’s Day Candy
entertainment of pinochle at the
= ous feated and the
herbivorous
ENGAGEMENT AND
Martins. Mr. Martin and Mrs.
thrived.
WEDDING RINGS
Laws
were partners and Mr. Laws
When white man found his way
and
Mrs.
Martin were partners.
All Diamond* Guaranteed
I to our forests here, he found In
Nearing
the end of a perfect
dians, couger, bear, wildcats, fish
evening,
the
bidding became spir
ers, wolves and many other preda
ited
between
the two gentlemen,
tory small animals, and, in addi
PHOTOGRAPHS
finally
Mr.
Laws
sold out to Mr.
tion to these, he found herb eat
Developing and Printing
Martin
for
a
750
bid, thinking it
ing fauna of all kinds. The Indians
Cameras and Supplies
was
impossible
to
make the bid.
fished with bone fish-hooks, spears
Mr. Martin asked his partner if
Artcraft Camera Shop and arrows; they hunted with she had any spades and she handed
113 N. 6th St.
Grants Pass spears and arrows; the cougar ate
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what deer he needed; bobcats, him enough to make 1500 trumps.
Mr Laws asked his partner if
fisher, foxes, mink and martin fed
she
had any diamonds, and she
Del Rogue Coffee Shop mostly on rodents; wolves and would have made him 1500 trumps
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Patterson coyotes fed upon rabbits, rodents as well. These two exceptional
and fish, and many of them were
OPEN ALL DAY
killed by salmon poisoning. Some hands broke up the game.
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wolves are immune from salmon
Grants Pass
Department
Allocates
poison, as are some dogs. Since
I have been here I have been a Predatory Animal F’unds
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EXPERT REPAIRS. :: poison. All the foregoing white The allocation of the $36,000
: man found here and no destruction appropriated by the recent session
AU Work Guaranteed
going on, no need for rehabilita of the legislature to provide for
| MURPHY HICKS
tion in woods or waters. God did state aid to counties in employing
= ILLINOIS VALLEY GARAGE
not extract strychnine from harm predatory animal hunters was an
E......................................................... 4) less plants and broadcast it to kill nounced this week by Dr. W. H.
predacious animals or obnoxious Lytle, chief of the animal industry
rodents
division of the state department
Notary Publics
I am in this wild-life conserva of agriculture.
AMY HUSSEY
tion matter in dead earnest; I
Under the provisions of an of
M. C. ATHEY
mean it will do by word or deed, ficial order, $17,250 will be the
LUCILE FLOYD
all that I can to stop this awful maximum allotment to 15 counties
Holland
waste of wild-life, animate or in for predatory animal control dur-
animate. I will forego the taking
« of life in any form unless it is
Josephine County
REDWOODS HOTEL absolutely necessary to take it.
MILLS
Will all members of the Kerby Rod
Grants Pass
dn Gun club follow suit? Will
Cash prices for Feeds and
the friends of conservation, every
Seeds of all kinds
where, do the same? Will the Phone 123
Grants Pass
SOLICITS YOUR
friends of conservation chase the
PATRONAGE
foisoner and the sportsmen with
guns off their land. Will they de
ny the trapper access to their land
Excellent Coffee Shop and streams, banks? Let the cou
IN CONNECTION
gar and coyote hunter discard his
REASONABLE RATES
j traps or poison and use trained
dogs instead, but for God’s sake
let the bobcat, the fisher, the mar
ten, the mink, the skunk, the ring
tail cat and the fox live; all these
«’fix.
are beneficial friends to man; all
except the skunk are rodent catch
ers. While the skunk will eat birds When shopping for bar
eggs, if the opportunity comes his
gains the natural place
way, but he is the main insecti
vorous. All the foregoing small an to look is at the Bargain
imals are predacious by nature,
but if you let them live they will ' House. We buy, sell and
take care of the crop destroying '
rodents. Sometimes I think that j trade in all kinds of new
the trapper is the most criminal
and detsructive animal on earth. ; and used merchandise.
I never knew but one who ever |
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amounted to a tinkers damn, and :
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he was a trapper by winter and an ’
honest-to-goodness rancher the,
GRANTS PASS
rest of the year.
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He who causes poison to be dis- ■
Don’t Wait Until it is
BARGAIN
seminated thruout the woods and
TOO LATE I
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fields is a greater criminal than
HOUSE
You can’t afford to be a dozen Lucrezia Borgias. Let us
have conservation and less conver
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