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
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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.
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