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o o o o o G o 0 O O o EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE O o Sunday, December 1, 1957 o o Flood Control StiouEd onsiieraOaa jrst Says0 IB " V - ' ! ' 0 o 3 cT ) 0 ou - I of An ; :o i o oo Se f, ?0 L o . -- f i 0y o&a? o ' n ; - V Q, i U 7 rtL, it; I - co!,rT,ar; .c ' ,15--... o u k o o j V IXT56 K O o V-N rJ&r-f PCTCMmi nav ?itc? o iioer war JL.; -11 4 J " ( h O d( " P0 i!'- 1 1 STATE RESOURCES 8OAR0 : ! Q " o. s rogue drainage 0 P rv n y JD O BASIN o i v.v- "-v ) s0 o Ni,-- U - 1 i! . -zr. OfV : . - . -- : ... - .. . .. .j. A..-,.., VI r, ,, , ,v. Y?i t-J 7,,,Y.. .. -. -'I.-.'.. . 1 .....,.,.,. . , .r.fi-.tn,, f V I POTENTIAL DAM, RESERVOIR SITES The map above shows some of the potentiM; dam and reservoir sites in the Rogue river basin. The num bers below correspond to the numbered sites on the map: 1 Hamaker, 2 Diamond, 3 Castle creek, 4 Union creek, 5 Top creek, 6 Riter creek, 7 Cascade gorge, 8 Cascade, 9 Lost creek, 10 Rancheria, 11 Butte Falls, 12 Mc Neil creek 2, 13 McNeil creek 1, 13a McNeiQ creek, 14 Big Butte creek, 15 Butte creek, 16 O Elk creek, 17 Elk creek, 18 Lewis creekg)18a TrailSbcreek, 19 Trail creek, 20 Indian creek, 21 LQig Branc 22 Debenger gap, 23a Reese creek, 23 geese crcc, 24 Long creek, 25 Rpese creek, 25k HowardQ26k Grizzly, 27 EMid Indian, 28 Little Butte, south fork, 29 Lake qryek, 30a Upper BrowSsboro, ,50 Browns boro, 31 Antelope creek, 32 Dry Vreek, 33 LiWe Butte cre$, 34 Emigrant enlargement's Clawspn, 36 Ashland, 37a Gold Hill, 57 Gold Hfll, 38 Rock Point, 39 Meadows, 40 Upper Evans, 41 Lower Ejins, 42 Evis Val ley, 43 Ament, 44a Carberry creek, 44 Squaw creek, 45 French Gulch, 46 McKee bridge, 47a lCormick, 47b Little Applegate, 47 Ruch, 47c Applegate, 48 Williams creek, 49 Apple gate, 50 Slate creek, 51 Sexton 52 ell Gate, 53 Taylorreek, 54a Pease brttige No. 2, '54 -Pease bridge, 55 Swini bridge, 55a Ramey tails, 56 Horseshoe Beild, 57 Stairs creek, 58-Upper QAlthotise,' 59 Althouse creek, 60 Sucr creek, 61 Lone Mountain, 62 Indian hill, 63 Kerby, 64 Deer creek, 65 Crooks creek, 66 McMullin creek, 6T Draper creek, 68 Fall creek, 69 Clear creek, 70 Bald0mountain, 71 Collier twMr, Libel Suit iiled OO Against Hewsman On Portland Paper Portland (W Stanley Wq jLaji, a .roruana city commis sioner, Saturday filed a half-million-dollar libel suQ against the Journal Publishing Company j and against former Journal p porter Arthur Bradley "Williams. The suit charges that the news paper and Williams provided ColurOnst Drewr Pearson with material for two columns which purported to link Earl with Port land racketeer JamesQElkins. 0 The two columns were not j primed in The JourfSil but were i printed, acceding to Earl's com plaint, by most of 700 newspap er subscribers to the column afti by the Oregcft Teamster, a un igji publication. O Olher Suits FilGfl Libel suitsohave also been filed by Earl againstthe Coos (pBay World, the Seattle Post-In- telligencer Sjjid the Oregon Teamster. O Erl claims he has been ex posed to "public contempt, hat red and ridicule" and that he is suffered "extreme mental agony and suffering.' o The suits asserts that the Jour nal gjublishing Company and Williams "knowingly and ma liciously published of and con cerning Oie plaintiff to og Drew Pearson and one Jack Anderson, a Pearson employee a certain false, defamatory and libelous : . i. O Earl asks a trial by jury. A record production ol sor ghum grain in 1957 418 million bushels is forecast by the U. S. Department of griculfire. That would more than double the (pi 95J? crop and would be 72 per cent above the record crop of 1955. Use hard paste wax over shop tools that rust easily. The wax seals out moisture and alsowill help tools shed dust and dirt. The key deer is the smallest of several forms of the white tailed door of the eastern half of the Unjjed States. Water Resources Group Points Out Expense of Floods First consideration should be given to flood control when the state water resources board plans O the future development of the waters of the Rogue river basin, the subcommittee on flood con troloirged in its report to the Jackson counr Tester resources committee. " It is our considered opinion that there is no problem more Important facing the Rogue ba gin," the subcommittee members stated in their report. "Floods are expensive. They 0 are costing the people of the basin an a&rage pi $400,000 per year along the msiVi stem of the Rogue river alone," according to figures from the bureau of recla- only1 Magnm so much Exe!uiv Gold Sal Warranty, for a full year on all part end tubi, plus 90-days guar anteed jervlce.at no extra cost to you. Look lor this seal... V. ,vf . . m a Th Nw Yorktr oQ50 in mahogany-color finish, only Big 21-Inch TV Contemporary design and ssic Magnavox quality ... combined in a set with full transformer powered chassis, two 8' extended-range speakers, 262 sq. in. picture, and convenient top tuning. Also in cherry-co'or finish. D'egonel iasur SEE and HEAR a MAGNAVOX before you buy Come In today for a damonstraiioir- PURUCKER PIANO HOUSE "Your High Fidelity Center" 111 No. Central SP 2-5702 O. mation. The December, q1955, flood cost the basin moi thanage in the Rogue rive) basin $4 million, according toljArmy -amounted to $4,048,530 of which engineers. arty and 5503,315 was to public Other results of a flood, though-kerty and S503, 370 was to public less tangible, include disrupted i property." gineers report, "The total dan? lives, interference with work. job?, schools, a lowering of prop erty values and loss of tax revenue. o Fear of Floods O The fear of floods keeps much of tQ best land from being de veloped, it is pointed out. Rich bottom land which goes down the river is forever lostQto its owner, the county, state and na tion, and the yearly) revenue from that land. Far from the least of the flood losses are the damage of floods to fish and wildlife. Ben Hilton of Grants Pass testified that im mediately after the 1955 flood, he saw sand bars pink with fish eggs downstream from Grants Pass. This is mute testimony of spawning beds destroyed and a terrific loss of fish lifeQthe re port stated. q Frances Krouse, of Applegate, testified he countedQmore than 50 salmon spawning in a hole on his place prior to the 1955 flood. After the flood, spawning bed and fish were gone and a sand bar left in its place. "A mighty avaienche tearing down a mountain' side over a busy highway has no greater des tructiveness nor greater poten tial danger than raging flood waters which roar down our strecis in time of flood," the subcommittee stated in its re port. "It was only by the grace of God and the unselfish efforts of our Civil Defense and volun teers along the river tharno loss of life resulted frcwi the De cember, 1955, flood." Joe Shaw of the Rogue Rod and Gun club testified before the Congressional hearing in Med ford, 1956, "all the filing and allthe hunting is not worth one human life." Should Be Cooperative Effort The securing of flood control in Jackson county and the Rogue basin should be a cooperative effort on the part of every land owner in the basin. Good forestry practices in timber land, with j reforestation and the seeding of bare land to grass, sensible range ! management, with the controlled grazing of mountain pastures, soil conservation practiced on every farm all of these things will help, it was pointed out in the report. ) The one thing which ap parent during the last two years j is ovily storage will give ade flood protection. That weVns storage on the main stem of the Rogue river itself and on the larger tributaries. The committee listed several miscellaneous facts regarding the 1955 flood. Among them were: "The-flood of December, 1955, l t L i a coos one in CUM JSCiMIl UULlIliy OJU-JJJJ Ail loss or damage to roads, badges, buildings and other county prop erty," County. Judge Rodney Keating testified during a con gressional hearing in Medford in 1956. "Nearly 14,500 acres of farm land valued at over $6 million worn flnnrl t fimna (pamouriWd to about $2GT),000, "Residential property owners suffered damage amounting to over $Pmillion." q "The Red Cross spent $M,380. However, total public aid and relief amounted to $153,420." 07ZfedCopper canyon Lewis -eek danPsite wfjuld h-e been effective in reducing) the 1955 flood stages oh? the lowSr Rogue liver." O fT"l 1 . t y. ue luiiuwius idtciiicivc was wssusd by the bureau of reclama tion under its alternative plans for the development of tf?e Rogue river basin in 1948: q Wuires storage reservoirs, supple mented in some cases by channel confection, levees and bank im provements." n h"Studi& show that the great- I , 1 3 A 1 Q, esi Kiiuwa nuuu iuuk uiace in Reservoir Would Have Helped Ql861 when the area was vir' "The reservoir proftd for illy untouched O by man. 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