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HCC"' RIVER COUNTY* LIBR A RY CASCADE LOCKS CHRONICLE I • r»r 1 T and The Bonneville Oam Chronicle Vol. VI. No. **- y nONNKV II I 1 CASCA P I l.OCKS M \SO \ll i l l H MEETS Power Rate The Columbia Gorge Masonic Club will meet at the Bonneville Auditorium Wednesday. August To Be Here , 16. J. C. Failing of the Research will give an address on “The In Near Future Lodge Working Tools.” Hugh Ball of I Hood River will give an illustrated Within a few weeks the Bonne talk with color pictures of “Trail ville administration will publish 1 Trips of Mount Hood Region and the retail rates consumers wil. have Alaska.” to pay for government power, it was revealed by Herbert S .Marks, new general counsel for the proj ect, after his arrival in Portland Monday. These rates will be the actual charges to be made to domestic users, not the “objective” retail rate schedule announced before his death by Jam es D. Ross, the late ♦ SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 9— The administrator. Pacific Northwest is an almost un Marks, a 32-year-old legal ex touched storehouse of minerals and pert, drafted from the staff of the Tennessee valley authority for the hydroelectric power to which the chemical industries of the nation northwest post, would not conjec ture on whether the new rate now profitably can turn. Ivan Bloch, Bonneville industrial schedule will vary or dove-tail with the “objective” s c h e d u l e , or research engineer. Wednesday di whether the rates would approxi vulged to the Western Chemical Congress gathered at San Francis mate those charged by TYA. co the immense deposits of raw He and Jam es Lawrence Fly, materials that await development who has been acting general coun in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and sel for the Bonneville Project since Montana. He pointed out these June and will leave in a few days i states together have all the 34 to become a member, and probably geological resources basic to in chairman, of the federal communi dustrial chemistry. Most are found cations commission, declared that within a radius of 500 miles of the Bonneville retail rate schedule Bonneville Oam, first navigation will be similar in form to that of and hydroelectric project on the TVA. Columbia River. • Kates Standard Detailed maps of these mineral The same retail price for elec deposits today were made available tricity will be charged by all people’s utility districts, munici to the chemical industry for the palities or other public systems, first time by Bonneville Adminis but there will be a “sur-charge,” as trator F. A. Banks. They were prepared with the assistance of the in the TVA structure, which will mining departments of the four raise the rates in some districts. states and show practically all im Where a surcharge is necessary portant known deposits of iron, to help the system get under way lead, zinc, chromite, copper, an it will be dropped as soon as facilities are paid for or when it timony, gold, limestone, manganese, is no longer needed. The TVA mercury, nickel, tungsten and 12 other minerals. Fourteen more surcharge cannot exceed 10 per maps are in course of preparation, cent. and all will be kept up to date to TVA Kates Eyed show latest discoveries. TVA’s retail schedule for domes Despite these vast deposits, the tic users is $2.50 for 100 kilowatt Northwest chemical industry is in hours, the average amount of elec its infancy, with only 9% of the tricity used in the home. Ross’ “objective” schedule listed $2.25 for per capita production of the aver 100 kilowatt hours, but he was age state. Bloch said, “Deep-water frank to state that this was only transportation and low cost power “something to shoot at,” or an restilting from completion of Bon “ideal rate,” and probably could neville Dam now will make it not be realized immediately in all profitable to develop a large part Bonneville’s districts or municipalities buying of these minerals. uniform rate along its broad trans Bonneville power. mission network should permit Engineers and rate experts have been working on the retail schedule opening of many of these deposits.” As a potential market, the North under direction of Acting Admin istrator Frank A. Banks. One of west outstrips most other regions, the problems not yet solved is that the Bonneville engineer pointed of what private utilities, such as out. Already its retail sales per Northwestern Electric or Pepco, capita are 25% above the national Consumers in t h e s e should charge their customers when average. they buy and resell Bonneville states also purchase 50% more automotive equipment, 43% more power. general merchandise and 50% more Approval Expected Announcement of t h e retail building materials and hardware. The Northwest is a growing mnr- schedule will follow approval by the federal power commission of ket, its population increasing much proposed supplementary wholesale more rapidly than the rest of the rates f o r Bonneville, expected nation. Bloch said. Irrigation de velopments at Grand Coldee will within two weeks. With the kilowatt-year and sup bring an influx of thousands more plementary month-to-month and people, and Columbia river navi "dump” power wholesale rates de gation will extend the Northwest termined, the Bonneville project market to the world. As to pur con establish the retail schedule and chasing power, the Pacific Coast start signing contracts with region has the highest median in come in the nation, and a slightly P.U.D.s and other agencies. lower mean income of $1775 per annum. Administrator Banks announced that copies of the mineral maps and research data will be made available for study by industries, banks, chambers of commerce and A ST O R IA — Commercial fisher local government officials. men pointed to fish escapement figures at Bonneville dam for the • week of July 29 to August 4 Tues day as argument in support of their claims that commercial fish ing does not destroy steelhead runs and the fish should not be classed ♦ as a game fish. ASTORIA Numerous boats re Fish commission figures indicat- turning on Wednesday with 1000- «■d that 17,331 steelheads went up pound catches reported a heavy stream over the dam during the August Ch!*’o«*ir salmon run had week, the smallest single day's run started in *hc Columbia river. being 1568 fish and the largest Silversides taken on troll aver 1857. aged seven to eight pounds. Escapement of these fish is heavy The Columbia River Packers’ because few small-mesh nets are association floating cannery. Mem- being used by commercial fisher non. was due Wednesday night men on the Columbia at present, it with 30,000 cases packed at Bristol was said here. hay, Alaska. The amount was Ihiring the same week *90 blue- 20,( mmi r a « * « le«s than a year ago backs passed the dam bound up The steamer William I. Thomp- stream and 4093 Chinook salmon s<n will dock August 14 with were counted. 100.000 cases from canneries at Brist/d bay Nushagak and Naknek Mr and Mrs. Lari Floyd of South l-ast year’s Nushagak park alone Bend. Wn., arriv'ed Wednesday was 76,000. The Naknek operation fr<m a vis.t with Mrs Ed Mather.y is new this season. Engineer Urges Chemical Development Lane P. V. D. Lines Fixed ♦ SALE M A supplemental report fixing the new boundaries of the proposed Lane county people’s utility district was completed by the state hydroelectric commission • Contractor F riu Z.iebarth Mon day started work on the longest Monday. The new boundaries eliminate circuit of Bonneville’s northwest from the project all that area powoi network yet to be under served by the Eugene municipal taken, tin1 235-nnle 220.000-volt electric plant. This was made transmission line between Bonne necessary under the provisions of ville and Grand Coulee dams. First hole for tower foundations the new 1939 people's utility dis weii sunk near Goldeinlale Monday trict law. morning, and Z.iebarth expects to District Vrea Cited The district, as now proposed, complete the $947,720 contract in would include approximately SOO one year. Approximately 500 men will be square miles, with an assessed val uation of $16,880,000. It embraces employed continuously until the line what the commission designates as is completed, to erect towers and the Willamette valley area in Lane string cable. county. W PA Helping The date of the election, to vote Additionally, WPA workers are on the creation of the district, has pushing clearing of right-of way not yet been determined, officials in both directions from where the said. start was made at Goldeinlale, sev eral hundred men working out of the WPA camp on Little White Workers to Register ♦ Salmon river and others building a Mrs. Jimmie Catherwood, of the camp at Appleton, on Klickitat Oregon State Employment Service, river. this week announced that they are Work on the “inter-tie” line anxious for all who are interested linking Bonneville and Coulee gen- in fruit work this fall to register j orators has been divided into three at her office as early as possible sections, according to ice and wind as harvest season is almost here. conditions prevailing on the route. Mrs. Catherwood further stuted The first 33-ntile section through women interested in domestic work the Columbia gorge involves con please register now as there are st ruction of a line capable of with several positions open at this standing heavy icing and strong time for permanent work. winds. SOFTBALL SUNDAY, AUGUST 13 3:00 P. M. Q Engineers DM Eli V I Hl 1' V K1IO GIK1 S IIOl D Ml 1 lIN t, ♦ The Omega Theta Rho girls held their regular monthly business meeting Tuesday afternoon with Eileen Sprague conducting the meeting Dorothy Mohr and Lois Potts were initiated into the order. The girls, with their adviser, Breta Morgan, planned two outings be fore school starts and their coming meetings will be held in the even ings. a The Cascade Lin ks Pioneers meet Sunday for their 16th annual pic nic and reunion with a somewhat smaller crowd than usual. Mr. l’rask conducted the meeting, and several of the teachers of 1886 and on were present and called role, several responding to each teacher. President for the coming year is Mrs. John Cates of St. Helens, l’here was a suggestion to start a collection of historical things of the region here, namely Indian relics und things brought in by the pinnovr a. Those passing away the lust V» ars were Frick Grandstmin of Cascini c Locks an i Mahle M«Geo W iblei of Mosier. Out ef-town people here for the picnic were: Johannes Fosse, John Skaar, Lou Ininn, Ed Benson, B. Kclsay. Mr. and Mrs. Orln Me-. Kmuon, Stevenson, Wn.; (\ Mor gan, Selma Vanstrum Grant, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Madder ami son, Vincent, Mrs. A. L. Cates, The Dalles. Mr, and Mrs. Wm, l.ahey, Mr. and Mrs. A W Meyers, ( ’apt. and Mrs Arthur Riggs, Mrs. F.dda Iverson, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schmid, Mrs. Otto Schmid, Mrs. J. Gamble, Sr., Seth Leuvons, Mrs. Joe Schmid, Amy L. Kan, Mr. and Mrs. K S. Pennock, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Meyers. Kenneth Leavens, Cora D Fraine, Mr. and Mrs. K. B. Clark, all of Portland. F. M Lillegurd, Hillsboro, Ore.; Marie Nelson, Washmigal; Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey Riggs, Weiser, Idaho; Stanley O’Connor, Mrs. K. G. O’Connor, Mrs. Bessie Ramey, Los Angeles, Culif.; F. T. Anderson, Hood River; J. F. Ridenour, Aman da and Dorothy Gardiner of New- berg; Mr. and Mrs. K. P Knighton, Kstacada, Ore.; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Greer, Carson, Wn.; Mr. and Mrs. John Cates, St. Helens; Mr. and Mrs. P. 1. Lillegurd. Fire Kills Fish It was culled to the attention of people along the Hood River water front this week that some scrap fish, particularly suckers, did not fare so well when they stayed in the vicinity of the recently-burned warehouses where brandy, spray materials ami ammonia hud flowud into the Columbia River. The better claaa of fish, it was observ ed, did not remain in the polluted i water of the region, but the suck ers, with u taste for brandy or arsenate of lead, continued in their habitat and met their doom. VS. Bend O AT BONNEVILLE 0 Bend whi>se lineup is dotted with ex professional baseball players, is the final hurdle for the Engineers to surmount in order to compete at Salem in the Slate Tournament Both teams were there a year ayo. but this year, due to re division of the State only the winner of this game may go. ho . rome on out and give the hoy* your full support. lo r a I The City Light of T’aacnde Locks Monday night purchased the prop erty of Jam es Merrill in the cen ter of the city, for their office and storage room. The property at the present time is occupied by one residence and M errill’s Tavern. Alterations iii the tavern build ing ale being made to convert It into office and storage space for the light company, City Recorder’s office, council chambers and fire station for the city. Hie city council, on recommenda tion of the Power Committee, adopted a rate schedule similar to the schedule in effect on the sys tem before taken over by the city. Light Superintendent Chess Brasil is busy analysing the rate struc ture and hopes that In the not-too- distant future to lie able to report to the City Council a rate reduc tion Although this reduction will not be made until the power com mittee and superintendent have hud a chance to see the system in oper ation at least one month and probably more, so that they are certain that a reduction of rates is advisable from the point of view of good economics for the system. Funds for Transmission Line Sought ♦ VANCOUVER, Wash. Largest W PA project in the state, u $5,413,- 000 project for construction of the Bonneville transinlksiun line from Chchalis to Seattle and Grand Coulee, was forwarded to Washing ton, D. C.. Saturday by T o « C. Hendricks, WPA engineer in charge of construction of the Honaeville transmission lino throughout the stato. The application is the second made tor the $8,000,000 transmis Sion system. It calls for $933,000 from the Bonneville administration, us sponsor, und for $4,480,000 from the WPA for labor. It provides for construction of transmission lines north from Chchalis to Seattle and then eastward across the state to the Grand Coulee dam. Clearing of several hundred miles of right of wuy, construction and maintenance of roads and bridges necessary to reach the right-of-way are included in the $6,413,000 ap plication. The project will employ several thousand men from various counties along the route of the trim-mission line. First of the Bonneville transmis sion line projects, covering the “backbone” line from the dam to Vancouver und the line from Bon neville to Grand Coulee, totaled $2,074jMxi, Workmen are nearing completion of the roadwork on the line from Bonneville to Vancouver as the line itself nears completion by the F rit* Z.icburth Construction company. PI III.If NOTICE I. Apple ation hus been made to this office by Ray C. Hansen of Port land, Oregon, for a permit to con struct a float in Columbia River approximately I H miles above the Interstate B r i d g e , Vancouver, Washington. II. for the championship of District Id! C. L. City Light Buys Merrill Property Locks Pioneers Enjoy Annual Reunion ♦ Fish Count Backs Claim ♦ Chinook Run On in Columbia Bonneville Coulee Line Starts Monday ERI I* YY . \l G l ST II. 1939 Application has been made to this office by the Bonneville Project, IV 8. Department of Interior, Portland. Oregon, for a permit to construct a transmission line over the na.igntion canal in Columbia B iter at Bonneville, Oregon. III. Application has been made to this office by Blue Ox lag g in g Company of Stevenson, Washing ton. for a permit to ronstruct a log boom In Wind River near Home Valley Washington. Bonneville Yacht Club Organized The Bonneville Yacht Club re- ! cently organized, will he an asso ciated member of the Columbia Yacht Club Assn., which includes 1 U> clubs reaching from Astoria to Pendleton. A club house sits wss selected on the e««t end of Hrsdford Island Alder and Randall ars on the committee for foundation# and buildings and Johnson and Ksar aa finance. The following officers have been ; elected to serve: Met.'orroick, Commadore. W'hitscft, Vice-Commadore. Haight, Rear Commadore. Hlegan, Sec’y-Treasurer. Further inf' rotation desired by anyone may be »■ cured from Capt. B K W tut sett, L\ S. Guards. Map» «bowing exact location and extent of these proposed works may 1» seen at the office of the District Engineer, Bonneville, Oregon. Any objection from the stand point of navigation should be re ■ rived at this office not later than August 18, ]»39 Melvin t ollin- spent several K P M Des IS L E T S lays in Portland last week. < aptain. Corps of Engineers Mrs Lee Murray and daughter Acting District Engineer. spent Saturday in Cl