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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGONT, FRIDAY, DECE!TOER 1. 1939. PAGE SEVEN Ashland Citizen Urges Closer Cooperation With Klamath Co. Ranchers To the editor: After spending ft week In the Klamath country I am ! convinced that we Rogue River val- 1 toy residents are not taking full advantage of the opportunities for co-operating with our neighbor on the other aide or the Cascades. The things referred to are chiefly recre ational, but some good commercial bets also are being overlooked, such as the exchange of full fruit and potatoes. The latter make good stock feed and can be bought over there for a dollar a ton, while Klamath housewives would be glad to get the cull apples and pears which go to waste here. In spite of the low price of Rogue river apples, Columbia river orch ardists not only undersell us In Klamath Palls, but some of thetr fruit is trucked from there here and sold to Medford dealers. Klam athons complain that many Rogue river apples are not properly graded and packed, while an Ashland grocer reports seeing wormy apples selling In Klamath Falls for 11.39 to tl.89 per box, fruit which would be kero sened by Jackson Inspectors. The Lam Berts of Klamath A brief visit Saturday to the fara ' ous Lava Beds, 36 miles south of Klamath Palls, convinced me that most southern Oregon residents have missed seeing one of America's great est natural wonderii. Although cold November wind and rain cut my visit short, I saw enough in a cou ple of hours to amaze and delight any nature lover. Over 300 caves have been discovered In this won derland and one of them explored for three miles. Forest Ranger Brainard. at the Indian Wells station, showed me through one of those Interesting subterranean caverns, which were formed by streams of lava flowing V after surrounding material had sol idified. In addition to common black cinders and lava rock, there are many curious formations of various colors and shapes. Fleenor Chimneys, west of Shonschin butte. are marvelous fumaroles. In places the molten lava hardened Into a resemblance of mo lasses, while In other places It looks Ilka miniature stalactites. The in tense heat of escaping gases burned the chimney walls In spots which remind one of furnace fire brick. The age of the lava beds Is esti mated to vary from a few hundred years to many millions; Med ford people may learn all about the lava beds from Professor Doerr, expert geologist, at Crater Lake park headquarters. There are two entrances to the lava beds. The nearest one Is at the lower end of Tule lake bed, next to Howitzer point, a GlUem's Bluff butte. Here a CCC camp occupies the former sit of U. S. army head quarters during the Modoc Indian war. To reach this place, turn off the highway two miles east of Mer rill and drive south 15 miles.. The forest station Is 10 miles farther south. The east entrance Is reached by turning off the hlchway U miles south of Tule Lake town, which Is 28 miles from Klamath Falls, then driving 14 miles west to the lava beds. No food, gas or other supplies are sold at the lava beds, but guides may be arranged for by phoning or writing the ranger at Indian Wells ranger station via Merrill. S. P. SupiHr Water Tule Lake is a typical frontier town of 1.500 claimed population without paved streets, water system or sewers. Water for drinking and cooking Is furnished free by the Southern Pacific, which ships in a 10,000-gallon tankful every other day. The soil there is so soft that a seven-foot layer of cinders on Main street has been mashed down to ground level. In sinking a 2,200 foot well the city bored through 1,500 feet of soil, believe it or not. The best sources of information I found at Tule Lake are Ed Davis, publisher of the Reporter; Bill And erson, agricultural Inspector, and Flo Boyd, Implement dealer. Those boosters urged me to stny for the Legion goose-bake and dance the previous Saturday night, when I first visited that wild and woolly border town. The feed sold for a buck a plate and the shindig another iron man, and was largely attended. The Tule Lake district is lousy with legionnaires, hundreds of surround ing homesteads being occupied by ex-service men, somo of whom have paid for $150 land with one crop of spuds. No Depression or "Okies" While visiting a Merrill rancher, Troy Quails, he paid 14 to phone to his brother In Arkansas about their sick mother, then started the next morning on a 2,000-mile drive over desert and mountains to visit her. taking along his wife, three married sisters and four children In his Chev sedan. Troy and his part ner. Roy Heaton, are two "Okies" who came to Oregon shortly after the present hard times began, when they were 19 and 20 and had only a few hundred dollars. After work ing four or five years for wages thsy raised potatoes on rented land for two years, then bought a 16.000 farm. During nine depression years they have accumulated over 630.000 worth of property, which rather re futes the common complaint that young people have no chance to get a start nowadays. Better Opportunities Today William Klitrede. largest stock man In the Northwest, says that young men have a better chance now to make money than when he began getting a toe-hold In mother earth. He used to work for $20 a month and board, now pays buck aroos $45 to $60. Klttrcdge has 40. 000 acres of irrigated land In War hls operations appears In the current Issue of the American Hereford Jour nal. This very successful stockman Is president of the Production Credit association at Klamath Falls and has a 100-percent reputation for character and business ability. Charles McMullen. secretary of the association, attended a district meet ing at the Hotel Medford last week. OWEN H BARNHILL. Ashland, Oregon FOOTBALL FLAYER IS SHOT BY CO-EO Fort Collins. Colo., Dec. 1. (IP) A Colorado State college co-ed fired a bullet into the chest of her football-playin? sweetheart because. Deputy Dis trict Attorney Winton M. Ault said, they had reached "the parting of the way." Twenty-one year old Walter (Bud) Lyons, 195-pound fullback on the Aggie team, is in critical condition at the Larimer coun ty hospital. He was struck by one of three shots fired yesterday by Jois Jeanne Vannorsdel, 19, a soph omore with whom he had been keeping company for eight months, Ault said. The bullet punctured Lyons' lung and a fragment lodged under his lett shoulder blade. The shooting oc curred at the girl's apartment. TAKES 01 LADY LIFE Roseburg, Ore., Dec. 1. (P) Death of Mrs. Sadie Henderson, 60, found drowned yesterday In Scofield slough, about four miles from Reedsport, was pro nounced suicide today by Cor oner H. C. Stearns, who report ed a note had ueen found in the woman's home, telling of her intention. The note, the coroner said, gave no reason for the act, but it was believed she was despondent over con tinued ill health. She recently had been receiving treatment in a Marshfield hospital. After attending to her house work Wednesday morning, Mrs. Henderson apparently walked to the slough, tied a rope to a bush and to her right ankle and waded into the water where her body later was found in a sitting position in about five feet of water, the coroner said. The body was found and re covered by her husband. Ace Henderson, and son, Stearns reported. The Strike Is Over We navs the largait stock of 1940 Plymouth in Southern Oregon. 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