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About The North Santiam's Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 194?-1949 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1949)
U AB Y H. ^49 « 0RC !"<RHOOO WEEK dently a shotgun was considered safe IJgUAir» »o-t». >♦«• for them. "We jest figgered to camp h«re while Pa was workin’ yonder,” Ma explained “Hope you don’t mind. 1 always hate to see a feller with a natural-lookin’ face trit into tiouble with Pa. It always changes a feller and take anything away that was FOREST PROPERTY RIGHTS to." I loose or which could be dug up or They were good Christian folks. Sixteen years back I gave up a 62- cut down. No evil was meant. The custom of acre stump ranch, one into which I’d There were »word ferns, for ex put years of savings from green ample, the biggest and greenest I’ve the country was be ig followed. That chain labor and logging. I let it go ever seen anywhere. And a number was to make free"with any unoccu for taxes. One leason was that just i of cascara trees among the giant el pied property out in the woods. When about everybody who came along felt ders along the river. People went in another neighbor made free to use free to enter and use the place at Will | there regularly and—uh — boi rowed my ranch as calf pasture, I did not venture a murmur. ‘ the bark. I took care not to show up I Ji nd while they were doing it. Among Lost If I had valued the land and what these here shootin’ Tarheels, I’m a was on it in the light of today’s val LADIES A < HILDKEN'N yellow coward. ues, I’d have put up a fight for my You may not believe this one, but American citizen’s property rights DRESSES if put to it I can p.ove it. The sum- there. Butmy personal situation was the one who can make the most out r mer was that of 1926—or maybe such that I could do nothing to real of cascara <bark, Christmas trees 1927. A lot of highway work was ize on the cascara trees and Sword sword fems, huckleberries, alder being done between the towns of Al ferns. At the time I had no hope of wood and other minor forest pro- sea and Waitport. My shack and barn selling timber from the river or from ducts. The first thing ou this need were across the river. I did not argu<* the second-growth fir up the hill, al is a force of public opinion in his with the occupants. A shotgun stood though some of the latter was swell behalf. in a corner. A rifle was hung on the ing into sawtimber size. And there wall, out of reach of the kids. Evi- was never a thought that a huckle berry patch held promis of a maiket or that clumps of young firs that By MRS. SCOTT YOUNG grew in spots could be thinned and Mrs. Scott Young and Mrs. Vem the thinnings sold as Christma trees Morgan spent the greater part of Whoever has that 62 acres now is thinking of such market possibilities. last week in Poitland on business. It may be that the big alder has al They visited with Robert Young. He 7. E. ‘Pink’ Mason, Prop. ready been cut for furniture stock. is drivin gcat and carryall rebuilding SHELL PRODUCTS I'm sure there’s a pile of sword fems the dike on the Columbia. Speaking of snow, we have it at AUTO STORAGE' BATTERIES shipped regularly to Portland, with Marion Forks and I think it will be /IMI II TIRES hucklebe' ry brush hitched on the shipment. Cascara bark, of course, the Fourth of July when we will see FISHING TACKLE is worth more money year after year. Mother Earth again. It is only eight feet deep on the level. The Lodge is So are saplings for Santa Claus. But it is lost land to me. And the barely visible from the highway. One losing was largely due. to my letting way traffic from the Santiam Junc it go to avoid trouble with people tion to the Tucker’s operation nine Need Help on Your who held the old tradition that squat miles from here. No traffic is allowed MASTER INCOME TAX? ter's rights were equal, at least, to i except on business. We are marooned. Popular - - betaut« il'« Qaa^' If you had mare than on«* rm- the property rights of an absentee A total of 69 inches has fallen the ployer in 1948, you may be en owner, in making profitable use of last nine days, in fact the govern ment weather records shoy 186 inch titles to refund on social secur the land and its products. es has fallen to date. ity tax. tbnsult— The courts of justice, law enfo ce- Howard Tidrick and Floyd Green and legislators often ment officers VAL C. W II I T E hold to the tradition of the early of Portland braved the storm and Moat Treasured Document» day of pioneer development, Doubt- came up to work in connection with less there was reason then for the the new hatchery to be built here. Phone 3408 Mill City NEXT WEEK attitude. Only a few years back I They could not find a place to work Notary Public so returned with a few pencil marks Funny bu t Plain Stealing. T7T Systeme Sheet Metal Lincoln's Plan for Most good Christian folk who live Water Softener» Oil Burners in Pacific No thwest citie« and towns Abolition of Slavery JUDSON’S still think it is perfectly honest and Plumbing - Heating fair to drive out before Christmas “Service Anywhere” In our display window and take their trees from anybody's Tel. 3 1414 279 N. Commercial land without asking permission to do Salam, Oregon ft. Many, far too many, still think nothing of flipping burning cigarets and matches out of a car window on anybody’s land, although they know BE COOl) this act is the mein cause of forest A Self Supporting, Tax Paying fires. TO ŸOURSELF I’rii ate Enterprise How would they feel. I wonder, if AND ENJOY a logger should walk by a city home on a hot summer Hay and toss a lighted cigaret into a living room, OF GOOD HEALTH through an open window? How would We specialize in the treatment they feel if loggers should stop by of rectal disorders. and uproot any s ibs they fancied No Hospitalization from the front yard? Meco A National Apparatus No Loas of Time What’s the difference? Stealing is lancoln Elect roden A .Machines where you find it, without regard to Dr. R. Reynolds Clinic Everything for Weldin? the location and ownership of the Naturo Proctologist CALL US OR COME IN AND SEE OUR COMPLETE property; so it is with vandalism 218 N. Liberty. Salem, Ore. LINE OF APPAR ATI S AND SUPPLIR» that causes fires, in homes or on P. Seitz. Mgr. 205 Chemeketa St., SALEM fores’s. Phone 2-1605 Phone 2-3581 The farm forest owner needs more protection from thieves and vandals than he is getting now. So do all for est owners, both private and pub’ic, for that matter. But the farmer is ■■ WISE-ECONOMIZE ■at at th« MILL CITY CAIE 'Sterefts Wood’s Store Marion Forks MILL CITY Service Station AMERICA’S Tex’s Tavern Mountain States Power Company A friendly family atmosphere prevails Mrs. Ernest Biown is back work- on their memo book. inj at tae Mdl City Bakery. Recently Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mar Homer Thacker and family of Id- tin and Mr. and Mrs. L. Heinsohn of Santiam Junction spent the eve andaa have been in town for a few days. ning here visiting with friends. The Detroit Ranger and his crew have been feeding deer in this local ity and on the Breitenbush. The Women's Council of the Church of Christ will hold an all day meeting in the basement of the church Wed nesday, Feb. 23. The purpose of this meeting is to wrap gauze bandages for India missions. SANTIAM GARAGE GENERAL AUTO AND TRUCK REPAIR ARC AND ACETYLINE WELDING Mill City State Bank PHONR $462 Mill City, Oregon A Home Bank,Owned and Managed by Home People. CAPITAL Monumentai Works Established in 1919 J. C. JONES, prop. All Depositors Insured up to $6000.00 Under the Terms of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Fire and Automotive Insurance Notary Public. MAKE YOUR ARRANGEMENTS NOW 2210 So. Commercial St. Salem Office Ph. 6887 Re». Ph. 6887 I n U^v wAaK. 11 CAfiDS I Featuring \ HALLMARK r CARDS Ox«><» Unusual Cards HALLMARK " CARDS for birthdays. anniversaries HALLMARK rr CARDS and birth congratulations I IIALL/AARK T1 CARDS IALLMARK 11 CARDS Salem Welding Supply Edward Williams 330 Court SALEM IffiiiMam You will find « urwl» or« of ’unity ». wix otturi wfM-n Real Estate & Insurance Jtraks, ehops, French fries, chili STAYTON Subvert»« na •hit 8F»cle' "get* acquainted et et "I •*<•*•••• SI IL » ’u • Trade ’h» Ch<t*tfOn Science P tbli’*'”>g < Norway Strict tutor i j. Mu> X. I I I «...♦■»<■• ♦ Man* tot »i » .'>>« Nam»__ <>,«,’. n« ith ,..,j ., J, FOOTPft . SANDS er TIME *■"•____ Slot« MHAT IS \ 11'KER'S DOZEN? F<r one thin? it*» a I moat a thing of th« past. The idea, though, »aa that you alwtya got what you paid for —with « little »omething extra tb-iwn in. And. being old-fashioned, bk ■ tS* ratv* steel yngraving shown h<r«t ww like th« idta of always I.ÎI.P fill THE ORiGOH CROP TRAIN Us ■ s Coupon for Your Contribution to he Christian Rural Overseas Program a In c r.< He ics it may not be pauibls to visit every person . K I) oi , to CROP If no neighbor call» on you to , I yojl lO.1l. AH, moil it |0; '•tC * ¡»«»♦•'U $!<$»• Cß«?F- throwing in something extra—extra can*. extra personal interest We make sloes, sell shoes ant repair almro at nur place and we have the ■HMt up lo-ihr-nunule maduucs and materials. hut »till must take the time to he sure that everybody is l»e winally wtisli d. Me tiy .<> ihrow in something extra. «*•» 415 Tim«» HJ g Fu» fir id 4 Ur» I OO; r> /« t'i« ' er' of th« Ch i c i It • I c, -• »Pt -i -n In ftnrfir j hungry fellow m«n abroad, and in rehabilitating di«- rup ?d l»v •1. I contribute herewith $ in cosh. Fea.ei e my g.ft through the following ogency or church ] Catbo'ic Liol L4e, L Chvrch W oh J »ice, . Lun e ui d tel ef, or Your Old Furniture for New We anticipat a brisk trade in used furnitures when the dam gets going. Why not ret rid of your old »tuff NOW? » s Adirai« Ci Sta*« J 'TSMHlGffSTREET Mill City Furniture Co