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About The North Santiam's Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 194?-1949 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1949)
MILL CITY ENTEHPHLìE, FEBRUARY /glatü BROTHERHOOD WEEK FEStUAty K l> IMS ■J -tti ■ the Coeur d’Alene». I Coal mining came on with the growth of rail and water transporta-- tion; down in Southern Oregon, nigh Nevada and Yreka, hope held; and close to Canada Rockerfeller money kept the mines of Monte Christo go ing amid scenic glory. The main promis of the new rail roads was in opening of the Midwest farm markets for lumber to tl tim bermen of the Cascades. One wise lumber manufacturer said that if he could monopolize the Iowa market alone he would be more than satis- lines from the Columbia up Deschutes River Canyon to tap that timber. fied. A Rood many men and women now Similar markets in California val- leys inspired new logging ente'prises vet living, sound of mind and able in the Willamette Valley. The east '• >0, were out in the Cascades coun- slope lifted from the dense forest of try in 1890, seeking as the saying went, their fortunes. Such change has Douglas fir to rocks and snow. Beyond the peaks, the east slope been wrought, people have come so timberline was the shore of an ocean far in their values, however, that it of pine, mostly of the species now Js hard for them to cast back and grasp the simple life as it was then called ponderosa. seen in the mountain country. W Sen Timber Was a Mine. The main business there was fell- The early 1890’s were haul times. ing trees and forming them into mat There was pine logging along the erial for shelter, fuel and other basic new railroads in eastern Washington uses. That was work, dull, achesome but logging in the pineries on the kind of work in the vision of the east slope of the Oregon Cascades American tradition. was no more than a daydream to Most of the young men had not anybody. In 1910, hi wever, Harri- I man and Hill were building rival come west to grow up with the coun try but to find gold. The child’s fancy of a pot of gold at the foot of a Advertisement rainbow grew into a dieam of a rich outcropping at the end of the trail. where I sit... //Joe Marsh Timber was looked on as a mine, but as something less than a coal mine. Timber was dirt cheap any where. Lumber came free in the tree. All you had to do was track to it Duke Gets His Tractor and then fell it, buck it up, and get out the logs, maybee paying some body something for the stumipage. From where I sit, it’s that spirit Duke Thoma bought a farm with Our first (1878) important piece of of understanding that helps make the money he’d saved in the Serv national forest legislation was term ice, but lie couldn't get a tractor. our democracy so great. Under ed the “Timber and Stone Act," in standing for the other fellow'*» He needed it badly, but was tenth character and effect, a mining mea p oblems and respect for the other on the local dealer’s list. sure. fellow's rights — whether it's his "Tell you what,” old man Teters ri ht to earn a living, his right to Timber Is a Mlarket Crop. says. “If these nine fellows ahead c-.st his vote against your candi Today the people of the w o o~d s of you agree, you’ll get the next date, or even his right to enjoy a know that the market is the thing one I get in.” “No, thanks,” says moderate, friendly glass of beer or in their lives. The market pays log Puke, “I’ll just take my turn.” ale—if and w hen he chooses. Let’s ging wages. The market pays for But old Peters mails out nine always keep it that way! estry costs, except in tax-supported postcard«. And the other day he forestry. tells Duke hi.« tractor will be in tVhen two timber fallers leave the next week. “I simply wrote the old-style seven-foot crosscut in camp fact i to the fellows ahead of you. and start dropping the round stuff They deci<’ d it.” with a rig on which a motor spins a belt of linked safwteeth, they know Copyright, Iut9, United Staisi Urenti s foundation that their product will go' into a new hoghouse for some farmer near Ty rone, la., or into a Brooklyn husing project, or into the rebuilding of a boxcar in a Chicago railroad shop. The fallers know that the money that bought their new power saw came from such building ente prises. 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The building market for timber Street _ has brought the power-driven saw and the crawler-wheeled t. act-or into logging through the same force of NOTES ON THE PIONEERS In 181*0 men with money in the Pacific Northwest still could not tee the trees for the mineral wealth of the region, but they lookeast from the Cascades to the Bl’.’e Mountain» and demand that ha« brought the motcr- hauled combine harvester into the wheat. This is how you have to see min- _ __ ing and logging, past,' _ present and future. The pattein of growth, being and promise is complex and it has been formed by force* of investment am! market*. What I have tried to sketch is the proposition that logging in this re gion, in terms of t^e land itself and of the people on the land, is a pro cess of the tian&ition from old for ests to new, from an age of mining to an age of marketing. 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