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About Cascade Locks chronicle and the Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Cascade Locks, Or.) 1939-1939 | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1939)
« • I \ I CUNT Y I LIBRARY Gir/ CASCADE LOCKS CHRONICLE AND THE BONNEVILLE DA\1 CHRONICLE Picnickers Throng to Eagle Creek ♦ Three hundred sixty-two cars were checked in at the picnic grounds at Eagle Creek last Sun day. It is estimated that more than 1235 visitors used the picnic grounds. Many made the trip up the Eagle Creek trail to the punch bowl. The Eagle Creek trail is in fine condition, having been cleared of all slides, etc., recently by a crew * 1 !' CCC buys from the Wyeth Camp. The splendid work done by the Zig Zag CCC Camp during the past winter in constructing a large num ber of picnic tables and rock stoves made it possible to supply the Eagle Creek Forest Lamp with 2*5 stoves, 34 picnic tables, and 16 rustic benches. Most of this new equipment will be placed on the over-night camp grounds and on the new over-look area which is near the mouth of Eagle Creek. When the road to YVahtum Lake is clear of snow stoves and tables will also be sent to Rainy Lake and Wahtum Lake. A large Forest Service flat bot tom truck is now delivering the stoves, tables and benches from Zig Zag to the various forest camps on the Mount Hood National For est. The new information station at the entrance to the Eagle Creek Forest Camp Grounds on the Co lumbia River Highway is now open to the public. Senior Forest Rang er Albert Wiesendanger, who has charge of the Eagle Creek Area, pioved into his new office on May 1. The furniture in the new build ing was all made in Portland in the shops on East Division Street by the National Youth Adminis tration. Shrubs are now being planted and rock paths completed in front of the new office. The new building has three rooms a reception room and infor mation counter, the ranger’s office and one room which will contain exhibit material for information of visitors. 1 CAPTAIN DES ISL E T S TO rELL OF Mil l I 111 M vdi Ml ♦ Captain Robert Des Islets of the Army Engineers will be the prin cipal speaker at the regular meet ing of the Sunday Evening Club at the Civic Auditorium at Bonne ville, Sunday night at 7:30 p. m. “The Military Academy and Its Purposes" will lie the subject of his talk and will be discussed from three angles: (1) Types of Edu cation it provides, (2) Character Building Influences, and (3) Ad mission and Staying Requirements. An open forum will be held fol lowing the speaker’s address. Ev erybody is welcome to attend. Must Pay $5300 For Bridge Land ♦ A jury in the court of F’ederal Judge James Alger Fee Wednes day night fixed $5300 as the price to be paid for 6*v acres of land which is being acquired by con- , deni nation for the construction of a new south approach to the Bridge I of the Gods, spanning the Columbia river. A new approach was necessitated ! by the fact thut it was necessary ! to raise the bridge 44 feet follow ing the construction of the Bonne ville dam. The Wauna Toll Bridge company brought the condemnation suit, naming as defendnts Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Laber, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Lan- don, Mrs. Lilly M. Buxton ml the Pacific Telephone & Telegruph company. The Bridge Company had origin ally offered the owners $3.375 for the property. Carey Urges Broad Industrial Policy Need for a broad, well-founded industrial policy for the northwest in order to fully benefit from fed eral power projects was stressed Friday afternoon by Acting Bonne ville Administrator Charles E. Carey in an address before the SECTION OF HIGHW AY fifth Pacific Northwest regional HAS SINKING SPELL planning conference in Seattle. ♦ "Power and industrial develop Motorists on the Columbia River highway just east of Cascade Locks ments in this region have import received quite a thrill early Tues ant relations which are delicately day morning when a section of the interwoven with the economic bal highway about 75 feet in length ance of the nation," he declared. directly in front of the State Foun “The big question is naturally tain Cafe, settled from 3 to 5 raised: Should the northwest seek inches. The location is about half to expand industrially by encour way between mile posts 50 and 51. aging branch plants from the The State Fountain Cafe build eastern seaboard or should it ax- ing, which is not occupied at the pand by encouraging infant indus present time, moved about four tries to begin operation? inches toward the river. Highway "It is generally felt that a great crews immediately patched the two er future lies in pursuant of the broken places in the road. latter course.” The fault was apparently caused Carey pointed out that the per by the operations in the excavating manent success of the northwest’s for the new railroad bed directly great power projects depends al below the cafe building. most wholly upon a suitable indus trial expansion. "The future value STL’DENTS V ISIT AREA *“ of these great publir works proj E. Blanchfield of the Regional ects will depend on their use," he Office of I,ands, in charge of Land said. "When all the power of scape work for the Forest Service these projects is utilized, there visited the Eagle Creek Forest should be many more employment Camp Grounds last Sunday with | opportunities." a group of University of Oregon Among suggestions for power students from the Landscape divi use Carev mentioned was electri sion. After their inspection of fication of western railroads. He Eagle Creek area they visited the suggested that an answer be sought Bonneville Dam. to the question whether rail elec trification ran effect relief in rail transportation costs. Carey also sketched briefly the history of Bonneville, pointing out that of the $53,lHM.8<)0 spent on the ♦ dsm. only $11.6*2,400 was charge Two maintenance crews have able to power. He outlined the Started functioning in the Mt. Hood plans for ultimate construction of Nanonal F rest. Roy Weeman, a master plan which will tie in all District F"re«t Ranger of the Co the great public generating plants lumbia Gorge Station, reported of the northwest. when in Hood River yesterday. The crews will work on telephone lines, trails and highways. One crew of RHODODENDRONS IN BLOOM 10 ,n charge of fcd Mntheny will Bonneville Reservation the past be situated near the Hood River •wo weeks has been a beauty spot reservoir at Green Point. The other crew, in charge of that could not easily be surpassed. Robert Ellis, composed of eight The Rhododendrons have been in men. will be located at the foot of bloom in great profusion and in great variety of colors. The native Ijirch Mountain Summit Road. The crews are composed of For- flower« were also supplanted by en- many other kinds and colors of t»nt S frv ic p gruir«!» Arid i t plants which are now in bloom. rol« Forest Service Starts Maintenance Crews HON N F \ II I V l' \ SC ADE LOCKS Yol VI, Number Industrialists Study Uses Ot Power ♦ 1 OM SI BST \ HON BIDDER Drake, Wyman Jfc Voss, Inc., was apparent low bidder Tuesday at $ll.34S for a Bonneville dam substation on the south hank of the Columbia river near the dam’s sea locks. From this station lines will ex tend to Hood River and Cascade 1 .ocks. Following his address before the Electrochemical Smiety at Colum bus, Ohio, Saturday, Ivan Bloch, chief of Bonneville’s market devel opment section, gave engineers and chemists gathered at the national convention specific information on 23 new industries which are feas First of the Hltichack run to ible for immediate development in icach Bonneville dam glided over Oregon, Washington, Idaho and fish ladders on April 23. Bonne- Montana. v ille fish men announced. Eight He especially stressed the oppor ot the high-grade salmon, which tunity for large electro-metallur command the same price as Royal gical plants to take advantage of Chinooks, were counted over the the unusual combination of cheap dam on the first day of their ap Bonneville power, tidewater navi pearance, I‘J on the second, 12 on gation on the Columbia River and ihi1 third and two on the fourth. plentiful raw materials. In answer None appeared on the fifth day and to inquiries, Bloch described the only one on April 2H, the last day iron ore deposits in the Bonneville for which migration statistics are area, and outlined local and west available. ern markets within easy reach. Ibi April 23 the Phinitik run Metallurgical coke and limestone reached 5520. the high mark for I for such an industry, he pointed the spring migration, as opening of out, are available in the Pacific the commercial season on the river Northwest. will prevent large numbers from Low Power Rate escaping thousands of gillncts. Es 1 In view of the increasing demand capement of Chinooks on the five for ferro-alloys, he said, steel man ucceeding days was 3312, 3458, ufacturers are studying arc and 2317. 2400 and 3018. Steelhead migration, peculiar in induction furnace methods suitable for use in the Bonneville region. that it is the most irregular among Manganese and chrome ores are food fishes, varied for the week available in large quantities in the beginning with April 22 from a Northwest, and silicon, tungsten high of 681 to a low of 127. A total of 69,564 fish used the and molybdenum for ferro-alloy use are found in the western states. ladders during the month of April. The count for the last six days in Power from Bonneville Dam will be available for electric furnace April follows: April 2 5 ..................................3773 use at a wholesale rate between one April 2 6 ............................... 2498 and two mills per kilowatt-hour. April 2 7 .............................. 2690 Other local ores which can be j reduced or refined by electricity are ! April 2 8 .............................. 3146 April 2 9 .............................. 3727 magnesium, aluminum, zinc and •copper, he said. Electric furnaces i April 3 0 .............................. 2642. For the first two days of this can be kept running to produce month, Mondav and Tuesday, the copper matter f r o m low-grade northwestern ores if cheap power count was: Stcclh’d Blue Barks is available. Finland now success Mav 1 Chinook 3310 348 4 fully produces copper by this ' May 2. .3060 238 4 method. The Bonneville Project is cooperating with the state mining Ni 'N FIRE CHIEF N w i l d boards of Oregon, Montana and At the last meeting of the Cas Idaho in the preparation of maps cade L o c k s Fire Department, that will show the location of min- j Elmer Erickson resigned as Fire erais in those states. Chief and Jack Cornet was elected Bloch pointed out that unusually to take his place. The fire Inddies fine power and navigation facili- j are busy this week painting the (Continued on page Eight) fire station and city hall. Salmon Run in River Continues ♦ .T.. FRIDAY. >1 VY 5. Describes Scope of Huge Network ♦ "The release of low-cost hydro electric power over the far-flung federal transmission network opens an uncqualcd opportunity for the exploitation of northwest mineral resources." This was the major theme of Acting Bonneville Administrator Charles E. Carey recently in an address U'fore the fifth Pacific Northwest regional planning con ference at Seattle. Carey s|H*ke jointly with Walter W. R. May of Fort land on the place of power in the northwest’s general economic situation. Defining the northwest’s basic problem as its position "ns colonial empire to the rest of the nation— a region from which have been extracted exhaustible materials and to which, in return, have gone manufactured goods" Carey de clared a solution to be suggested by the fact that the growth of national industry during the last 70 years has depended to a large extent on cheap power. "During the period when the number of the nation’s workers doubled, power installations in in dustry more than trebled," he declared. "Since the advent of federal de velopments on the Columbia river, low-cost power has been promised over a sufficiently wide area to permit reaching the low-grade min eral resources with which the Northwest abounds." Electrochemistry has devised the means for treatment of most of these low-grade ores. Carey pointed out that the elec trochemical industries in some ways will fill ideally the north west’s need for basic industries. "By means of distribution of low- cost power at no premium due to distance from the generating plant, industrial congestion can be min imized and desirable decentraliza tion promoted," he said. Following May’s nnd Carey’s talks, discussion was led by C. E. Magnusaon, director of the engin eering experiment station at the University of Washington and Homer Grant of the Washington | state department of public service Odd Fellows Hold Dist. Convention • “ During this week you can only sample the fine products of the Columbia Empire. As long as these products have merit—as long as they pro duce prosperity and employ ment for us, the people of^ this vast area, let's always give them first and permanent consideration-’* One hundred and fifty delegates of 16 lodges of the 11th district of Oregon " f the I O O F gathered at Cascade L<»ck* Monday for their 29th annual convention. Closed meetings were held In the afternoon and in the late evening Dinner was nerved by the Cascade Locks Rebekahs at Penn's Tavern followed by an open meeting at the Cascade Locks High School where the Cascade Locks Rebekahs and Omega Theta Rho Girls gave drill and floor work exhibitions. I The next meeting is scheduled for The Dalles. M. L. Morgan of Cascade Locks was presented with a mandallion by S|>erial Deputy District Grtind Ma tei E a r 1 of D istrict 11. The uwnrd was made in recognition of • Morgan having secured the greatest number of new members in the I. O. O. F. order in District i II After the dinner, the delegates j made tour of Bonneville Dam, being personally conducted to the various points of interest by Major Weaver. LEGION AI XII.I ANY MEETS Members of the Honneille Amer ican Legion Auxiliary will hold an o(*en meeting Wednesday evening. May 10, in the Civic Auditorium, at 8 o’clock There will be refresh ments and a social hour after the i meeting._______ BONNEV ILLE FOOL K U SE D Beginning Tuesday morning. May 2, the pool above Bonneville Dam started a gradual raise at the rate of about 0 5 feet per day. The water will be raised to normal oper ating elevation of plus-72. This elevation will be maintained in definitely. or until further notice, the Bonneville office reported.