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TElf MTDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. October 14, 1955 Harpers Ferry Developed Into National Monument Washington A national mon ument Is developing at Harpers Ferry where John Brown's rifle once rattled and Stonewall Jack son's cannon roard. West Virginia has given 500 acres, including a portion of the town, to the Harpers Ferry Na tional Monument project. Mary land, facing the town across the Potamac River, may donate 800 more. The National Park Ser vice envisages a museum and restored buildings, tied together by pleasant walks and trails ex tending to the Civil War trench es on Bolivar Heights directly behind the town. Famed mainly for John Brown's abortive raid in 1859, Harpers Ferry clings to a ridged tongue of land above the tur bulent meeting of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, 50 miles northwest of Washington. Neigh boring hills loom gaunt in winter and soften under dense summer foliage. Floods and Pumpkins O Near the mid-1 8th century the wild site was picked for a ferry by Robert Harper. Settlers soon experienced the capricious pow er of the rivers, for one roar ing flood spewajd pumpkins from upstream Indian fields along the banks at Harpers Ferry. Recog jiizing water power potentiali ties, Congress in 1796 ordered an arsenal built at the ferry. From Hall's Rifle Works issued thfc, first breech-loading rifles for the army. f killed artisans flocked in, Harpers Ferry became one of the important towns of Vir ginia, the state that possessed it before the Civil War but only glimpses it now across the Shen andoah. The sleepy, ante-bellum com munity was suddenly aroused on October 16-17 when John Brown's abolitionist raiders, hopeful of a slave uprising, seized the town armory. Vir ginia and Maryland militia later cornered them in . an engine house but not before several residents were killed, including the mayor. Dislodgement of the raiders was hindered by fear for the safety of several host ages, among them Col. Lewis W, Washington, grand-nephew of George Washington. Shortly afterward Col. Robert I. Lee and Lieut.- J. . B. Stuart, both U. S. Army officers but destined in a few years to be come noted Confederate lead ers, arrived with a Marine de tachment from Washington. Aft er a futile doorway parley be tween Brown and Stuart, Lee signaled the Marines to batter down the door. Acting quickly lives hung delicately in the bal ance they seized the raiders . Ah the hostages survived. The Civil War, partly kindled J by Brown's foray swept quickly to Harpers Ferry. Eyeing the arsenal and the strategic Balt imore & Ohio Railroad, Jackson truck, only to find them wreck ed by the retiring garrison. During Lee's 1862 invasion of Maryland, Jackson struck again. The defending Union troops capitulated in time to enable Jackson to rejoin Lee's imperiled army for the battle of Antietam. As a battleground and camp site Harpers Ferry became a shambles. Its few citizens, be reft of their earlier industries, turned for income to a modest resort trade attracted by the lovely mountain scenery. For even then, as now, the onlooker was struck by the truth of on ol Vial BUY THE NEW Quick G P AUTOMATIC "E ELECTRIC Water Neater Wash a- Load of Clothes EVERY HOUR -All Day Long- ONLY$5.00 A MONTH NOTHING DOWN HOME APPLIANCE . 115 EAST MAIN Authorized Dealer GENERAL 0ELECTR,e Water Heaters Thomas Jefferson's judgment rendered while he stood on the heights at Harpers Ferry: "On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Patowmac in quest of a pass age also. In the moment of their junction they rush together against the mountain, rend it esunder and pass off to the sea . . . This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic." Lake Labish Crop Damage Survey Due Salem CU.PJ Kenneth W. Sawyer of Portland, state di rector of the Farmers Home Ad ministration, will make a survey of water damage to the onion crop in this area, according to Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.). If the report indicated a need for disaster assistance through low-interest credit, the area would be designated for this fed eral program, Norblad was told in a telegram from K. L. Scott, agriculture credit director. Most of the damage occurred in the Lake Labish area. Jefferson Pioneer Dies at Age of 83 Madras, Ore. (U.R) Wil liam Brownhill, 83-year-old pio neer resident, of Jefferson county and former county assessor, died yesterday at his home here. Brownhill, who homesteaded on Agency plains in 1902, came to this country from England in 1887. He was Jefferson county assessor for 16 years, retiring in 1949. Michigan's 4V6 million popu lation is divided approximately 70 per cent urban and 30 per cent rural. Farm Marketings in Oregon Last Year Up Over Totals for 1953 Salem (U.PJ Oregon market ings of wheat last year slipped more cashwise than any other major crop, figures received by J. F. Short, director of the Ore gon Department of Agriculture, show. 1 The same report showed that total farm marketings in Oregon last year were $382,661,000 com pared with a revised 1953 total of 5401,381,000. The 1954 farm income from wheat was 853,973, 000, almost a $1,000,000 drop from 1953 and the lowest since 1950. Gross Income In releasing the figures, Short pointed out that they represent gross income out of which farm ers had to pay all farm and labor costs as well as taxes. Farm receipts from cattle and calves last year were $57,397,000 or almost 3 million dollars above 1953. Oregon farmers marketed $50,800,000 worth of dairy prod ucts, 53,500,000 less than in 1953; $32,600,000 worth of poultry products, down $8,700,000 from the year earlier; and $6,700,000 worth of other livestock. Market ings of all meat animals were a little over $74,000,000, up $3, 000,000 from a year earlier and the total on all livestock and livestock products was $164,287, 000 or $9,200,000 off from 1953. Barley Second On the crop side of the picture, barley ranked second for a sin gle commodity, bringing in $15, 000,000 or $5,000,000 more than in 1953. Snap beans and potatoes each "produced more than $1, 000,000 of farm income and hy was worth $7,600,000. Seeds were worth $18,340,000 with common rye grass producing $6, 800,000 of seed total. ) As a group, fruits and nuts at $50,800,000 held fairly even with 1953. The vegetable group at $34,800,000 was off almost $4, 000,000. For the sixth straight year, pears brought the largest cash receipts of any of the tree fruits, berries or nut crops. Pears grossed $13,400,000. JUST ONE -Block Island, R. . I. (U.R) Elizabeth Swancott took all the applause when she was graduat ed from Block Island High School. 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