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BIX MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thurdy. March n, 1950 , UnfoenUy Women Set
Further History
01 Highway Work
in State Related
(Thli l another In series of
articles on Oregon nignway
hitory prepared by the ttate
nignway commission. i
By Ralph Walton
Highway Department Writer
HIGHWAY HISTORY
GLIMPSES IV.
Just at what point Oregon's
highway system lirst started well
might be the subject of debate.
Like Topsy it seems to have
"just growed" at widely separ
ated points in the state and at
about the same times.
Samuel Lancaster recalls in
the first annual report of the
commission that road viewers
had been appointed in Multno
mah county May 25, 1910 at the
insistence of E. Henry Wemme
and other original hiRhway en
thusiasts, to mnp out the Colum
bia highway through Multnomah
county to the Hood River county
line. The survey was made, the
road formally declared a public
highway on April 21), 1011, and
a county work force built 1.8
miles of steeD and crooked road
way. The county ran afoul of
the Union Pacific right of way
and work stopped.
Use "Honor Camn"
In the fall of 1912, Simon
Benson advanced $10,000 to Gov,
Oswald West with which to fin
ance his "honor camp" where
convicts were employed to build
the roadway around the base of
Shell Rock mountain In Hood
River, which had been assumed
to be an impassible barrier. In
1913 construction was under
taken all along the line.
The influence of Samuel Hill,
railroad builder and highway en
thusiast, in the mapping of the
first highway routes ought not
to be lightly considered. Prior to
1913 he had been actively loster
Ing the construction of an "in
ternational highway," to reach
from Canada south through
Washington, Oregon, California
to the Mexican border. He built
a road from Goldendale to his
"castle" at Maryhill, established
a ferry across the Columbia
from there to Biggs, toward
which he contributed largely of
his own funds, and was voted
money by the Washington legis
lature to build along the north
bank of the Columbia. When his
construction there ran into
reaches costing $30,000 a mtle,
the Washingtonians developed
cold feet, failed to vote more
money, and Sam Hill came across
into Oregon, bringing Ma. Henry
L. Bowlby, Samuel Lancaster
and Charles H. Purcell with him.
First Department
The 1913 legislature establish
ed the first highway department
under the command of the state
board, Gov. Oswald West, Secrc-
65 Farm Units To Be Opened For
Homesteading By Veterans This Year
Salem, Ore., Mar. 16 (U.R)
Sixty-five farm units totaling
7,273 acres will be opened to
homestead entry in the north
west this year, with World War
II veterans having priority, the
urcgon department oi veterans
affairs was informed today.
Eleven of the farms covering
723 acres are in the Roza divi
sion of the Yakima project in
Washington.
Some In Wyoming;
fifty Hour units totaling 7.000
are in the Riverton, Wyo., proj
ect, according to a brochure re
ceived here from the federal bu
reau of reclamation, which ad
ministers public openings on ir
rigated lands.
An additional 974 acres In 50
farms units will be sold by the
reclamation bureau this year in
the Burbank unit of the Colum
bia basin irrigation project.
These are lands bought from
private owners and irrigated by
the government. Veterans of
World War II will have priority
on these acres, also.
None In Klamath
No homestead openings are
slated this year in the Klamath
project at Tule lake or in the
Boise project in Idaho, but the
reclamation bureau said future
projects in the 17 western states
now under construction or to
be constructed will create an
additional 100,000 family-sized
farms."
The reclamation bureau said
a total of 802 public land farm
units amounting to 74.133 acres
have been opened to homestead-
l W
CIWCCT UPSIDE-DOWN
Oil LCI BRAN MUFFINS
Ho creaming, no mg-beatlnn one
cuy mixing thU Kellong-qulck weyl
1 cup Kellogg'i
Ail-Bran
i cup milk
1 cup sifted
flour
3i Una. baking
powder
4 Up. aalt
4 cup sugar
1 era
3 ttupa. toft
shortening
114 tbapa. melted
butter
8 tbspa. brown
sugar
cooked prunea or apricots, pitted
1. Soak All-Bran and milk In mixing
OORl.
Z. Sift together flour, baking powder,
salt; add to bran with sugar, egg,
hortenlng. Btlr only to combine.
9. In each greased mutSn cup place
St tap. melted butter, 1 Up. brown
sugar, 1 piece fruit, cut side down.
4. Add dough to All cups S full. Bake
In mod. hot oven MOOT.) about
36 mln. 9 med. muffins.
gnu rraa'i ami twt
m natural laiatrva
aaraal tar alts al
InMiTfKMflt aura
try a knllal Mart
tary Ben W. Olcott and Treas
urer T. B. Kay, and they took
over the job by hiring Bowlby
as the first state highway en
gineer, who In turn made Lan
caster his assistant and put Pur
cell at the head of the bridge
engineering division.
Lancaster was assigned me
task of laying out the Columbia
highway through Multnomah to
Hood River county, aided by
$75,000 appropriated by Multno
mah county to help finance the
work.
Jackson County First
Jackson county was the first
county to take advantage of the
county bonding amendment by
voting $500,000 bonds In No
vember 1913 to start at the Cali
fornia line and build north over
the Sisklyous "as far as the
money will go."
Clatsop county followed suit
with $400,000 to start at the
Tillamook line, north through
Seaside and Astoria and on east
to the Columbia boundary.
Columbia county added $300.-
000 in bonds and a $95,000 spe
cial tax to finance its section of
the highway, about which a re
call election swept one set of
county officers out and put a new
set in before the funds were ap
plied as Intended.
Hood River voted $75,000 In
bonds in July 1914. Wasco sur
veyed a route across the county
and scheduled to construct in
1916.
In Two Years
Bowlby assumed office June
3, 1913 and went out March 31,
1915. State Engineer John H.
Lewis was given the dual role In
cluding that of state engineer by
the 1915 legislature. He dele
gated the job to his assistant. E.
I. Cantlne, who served until Jan.
19, 1918, when the sunreme court
dumped the Job back into Lewis'
lap where it rested until the re
organization of the department
by the 1917 legislature when
Herbert Nunn became the first
state highway engineer, as the
commission now is set up.
Hnplrt strides were made in
construction in the period be
tween Juno. 1913 and the close
of 1916. Major Bowlhv, In sum
ming tin results to Oct. 1, 1914.
shows that from 1903 to Oct. 1,
1914 a total of S2.0B7.RH9 had
been snout in bridiio construc
tion while $19,883,259 had gone
into highway construction., a
large part of this having enme
from rnuntv bonds and countv
road levies. The state really
took over the highway construc
tion program commencing with
the administration of the first
appointed highway commission,
consisting of Simon Benson,
Portland, chairman: W. I.
Thompson of Pendleton. F. J
Adams. Eugene, appointed Mar.
8, 1917 by Gov. James Withy-combo.
Ing since World War II.
90-Day Period
The Oregon veterans' depart
ment explained that veterans'
priority on homesteads and on
public Irrigated lands for sale
amounts to a 90-day application
period before other applications
are considered. Requirements
usually include two years of
farming experience, health and
character qualifications and cap
ital amounting to $2,000 to
$3,500.
Applications for public no
tices, when openings are an
nounced, should be made to the
regional director of the reclama
tion bureau, the department
said. The region No. 1 office for
the Yakima and Columbia basin
projects is at Boise. Ida. Those
interested in the Riverton home
steads should address the bu
reau's regional director at Bil
lings, Mont.
Oregon Weather Poor
For Early Lambing
Weather conditions during Jan
uary and the first part of Feb
ruary were generally unfavor
able for lambing in all parts of
Oregon, particularly in the main
early lamb areas in the western
part of the state, according to
the bureau of agricultural eco-
nomics of the United States de
partment of agriculture.
The bureau said snow cover
ing and freezing temperatures
shut off the usual winter graz
ing and heavy supplemental feed
ing was necessary in practically
all areas. Losses, however, ap
pear to be lighter this year
than last year.
The weather since the first
week of February has generally
been favorable to lambing. With
a normal spring season, lambs
expected to ake rapid de
velopment and be ready for
market r t nearly the usual time,
the bureau reported.
Jump-of-Joe creek is the name
of a southern Oregon stream into
which a pioneer, Joe McoLough
lin, is said to have jumped in
1839, apparently for the joy of it.
Reading Of Wilde Play
Ashland, Mar. 15 Members
of the local chapter of the Amer
ican Association of university
Women will present a play read'
ina of the Oscar Wilde play,
"The Importance of Being Ear
nest, in unurchiu nan auditor
ium, Friday at 8 p.m.
The reading will be similar
to a radio dramatic production.
It is a rapid-fire presentation
of the play without scenery, cos
tumes, or the usual pauses be
tween acts.
Admission will be charged and
proceeds will be used for the A.
A. U. W. fellowship fund which
includes the donation of schol
arships to qualified college students.
CHAIRMAN NAMED
La Grande. Mar. 16 Lee
Ragsdale, of Medford, has been
named Jackson county chairman
of the Eastern Oregon College
Alumni association. Association
President Hugh Bunten, Baker,
also named Henry Anderson, of
Grants Pass, chairman of the
Josephine county chapter.
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