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Thursday, July 29. 1943 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER BEL1AIEW IT TILS TO HIVE Mrs E. J. Russell left Monday HOT U NITIES NEXT WINTER for TsconiH. Wash after a weeks The Bellview School B.mrd held visit with her father and mother- their regular meeting last Thurs. in-law Mr and Mrs. C. D ItUHm'll. evening A committee from the Mrs. Russell hail driven through The great fur industry received llitent Teacher Associati«si met from North Carolina stopping In its death bk»w in 1840. Prince with them to work out plans for Wynoka. Oklahoma whore she was Albert, Consort of Queen Vic- hot lunches for th«* pupils this next joined by her husband* grand toria, introduced the tall silk ¡winter. Mrs. George Nichols is parents Mi and Mis. L. F. Dicks hat in that year and the beavw chairman of th«« boai <1 Verne Boe who made the trip on to Ashlund was on its way out. Bad times had ami Ted Getslaugh ar«* the other with her and will spend several come upon the free and independ board members. Mrs Claire«* And weeks with their daughter and family here. ent trappers who had made imper erson is clerk. ishable history for the west. The old care-free, hard-drinking, hard- Dallas Martin returned to his Mr. ami Mrs Rus«« Havs have riding, hard-fighting, free-loving, returned to their horn«« in Calif, home in Tacoma, Washington last vagabond days were over for the after a few days visit with Mr. Friday, after spending a week with Mountain Men. and Mrs J. T Hays his uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs What to do was the question. W. A Martin Robert Newell, a leader among the i The Miner for Quality Printing. Mountain Men, supplied the an swer. He suggested to his old trapper pals that they emigrate to the Willamette Valley. The idea stuck, so on August 5, 1840. Rob ert Newell, Joe Meek. William Craig, Caleb Wilkins and a few others set out from Fort Hell with three light wagons which had been abandoned by mission aries. \\ ith them were their Indian wives and half-breed childern. It was not an impressive cavalcade by any means, not one you would associate with empire building, but it deceived its looks. Newell led the way through sage and sand to Fort Boise, where they saw the cart Whitman had left there four years before. From Fort Boise no wheeled vehicle had ever gone. Newell and his men proceeded on their way. mak ing wagon tracks and history acros the Blue Mountains and on to the Whitman Mission, where Meek left his young daughter, Helen Bar Meek, to go to school and grow up to be a lady. After a short visit with the Whitmans, Newel and his party pushed on to Fort Walla Walla on the Columbia. There the wagon tracks ended, but the way had been blazed. Newell's K'.« -M party had added three hundred miles to the wagon trail and another chapter to western history. Mountain Men Migrate • CROSSING THE NORTH PLATTE Crossing the North Platte was a dangerous task. It was not as wide as the South Platte, but was deeper and its current was more swift and treacherous, with con- s siderable “swimming" water. Some of the emigrants used their wagon boxes as boats. Others forded the stream by hooking a number of wagons together, hitch ing several yoke of oxen to them A long rope was tied to a ring on the lead yoke, while 30 or more men on the opposite bank pulled on the rope to keep the cattle straight and help them ashore. William Newby's wagon broke loose and floated off downstream, rolling over and over as the swift current played with it as a cat would a mouse. Newby, Lee and Williams swam after it, but al- most lost their lives in the fool- hardy attempt. The next day it was found foundI three miles below, on serr.e riffles, but little worse for its rough ex perience. It,was soon repaired and continued on the-trek with the other wagons. , . In 1847 the Mormons established i a ferry at the ford. It was a skin j boat and did a thriving business ferrying emigrants. Pay was ac- j cepted in provisions at Missouri prices. The ferry rate was high and the price for provisions was low, so the Mormons likened it to manna from heaven. The Mor mons had been run out of Mis souri several years before and took a keen delight in extracting! a heavy toll from their erstwhile enemies. The ferrymen jokingly referred to their boat as the "Revenue Cutter." In 1852 a bridge was built across the river by Louis Guinard near the pres ent Casper, Wyo., and the peril ous ford was a thing of the past. Ed. Note- This is one in a series of stories commmorating the Old Oregon Trail Centennial. George Nichols returned last week irom Klamath County where he hud been bailing hay for a few days. Kotiert Dodge Is among thorn* By Ituth Taylor ap|H>mt«*d by Governor Earl Snell What do we want after this to take ¡ hu t in the anti-for«*nt fire ¡war? We nay we want an etidur- activities I mg peace, timt wo are fighting - . ........ . <► —— ■. . I to disdroy the Ideologies of nggres- Wm. Hollingsworth hud his I sloii and opprealon that have tonsils removed yesterday nt the 1 forced war upon the world. Community Hospital. We can have ¡n*nc«* if we want - ■ , . . ■ Qi ' it. The trouble is that up to now WILL TRADE—3.11 rifle shot's or | we have never wunted ] m * uco ,'J.I nil tornitile pistol shells for enough to put aside our own 80-30 rifle shells. Phone 71113, |s*tty desires and prejudice* ami Ashland. i selfish wishes for mirsolvre to • . | have it. Pence has never come Subscribe for Th«* Miner today, fijst In our livre. To have pence, we must sec to it that AIJ. people have tui op- | fiortuidty to progresH Ax Mme. Chiang Kai Shck Mid: "Nations, like individuals, cun only perma nently enjoy privllqpM and rights If they are willing to shore them with others. If they attempt to preserve them solely for them- selves, th««*.* will lose them." We cun have peace* If we eradi cate the causes of war. If we st«»p troubles before thry start If we are law ubldlng. we will create faith in lawn. We cannot rxjivct thos<> who are brought up to think it smart to <*vn<le th«« I hw , to k«*«*p th«* laws We can have peace if we will train for |x*a«*«* If we so plan our educational system, we can emd- Icate tn th«* nrxt generation the hatreds, resentments, prejudices uud «listrusts which have bogg«*<t down all attempts at umlerstand- Ing in the past. Wo can have peace If we will work at it us hard as we work al war We cannot wipe out the causes of war by law. but we can wipe them out by umlcrstanding. upon Understanding 'is built knowledge, and knowledge means applied learning. We state that we believe in the ««quality of ail before God Now we must prove our faith In that creed by affording to each the equal opjsirt unity, th«* equality of rights to which they arc corre spondingly entitled. Wi* have th«* vision of peace ex pressed in the Four Frcctkims and in the jxict of the Unit«««! Na tions We must also have the practical application of this vision in the terms of everyday living, in our ««conomlc and political structure. Only freed«»m which is strong can endure, and only a l>eaco that is made by free men In a world frre for all can sur vive, We can have peace- If wo want it. The DEBUNKER By John Harvey Farbay, PhJ). Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great essayist and philosopher, tells about walking through the country one day, and coming on a boy trying to get a calf through a gate. The calf was stubborn. He stood there with his legs stiffened while the boy tugged and pushed and threatened. About this time a young girl came along and watched the boy’s futile efforts with a good deal of amusement. Finally she said: “Here, let me show you how.” And she stuck a finger in the calf’s mouth and led him gently through the gate. Well—when you know HOW to do a job, the job is half done before you start. There was another good example of this after Pearl Harbor when America’s business-managed electric power companies were suddenly called upon to supply power for expanding in dustry in quantities unheard of before. But they did it, just like that. They knew how. They had the experience, the skill, and the resources. The production of electric power in America has always been mainly in the hands of business men, and unde)* a system of free business opportunity and reward for individual initiative, these men have built up a national ser vice, dedicated to the conveni ence and necessity of millions of people. 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