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
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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.
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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
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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
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' 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
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| 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.
Today, over 80% of all electric power in America is produced
by business-managed, self-supporting, tax-paying companies
whose first interest, like yours and mine, is winning the war
A fish must live Its entire life
without ever closing Its eyes, for
it has no eyelids. Since a fish's
dfe is spent under water, there is
no n«-**d for an organ to bathe the
eyeball, as our eyelids do. Fishes
must also go through life without
ever 'winking." 'Ilie shark is the
only known exception to this
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