M1LL CITY ENTERPRISE, APRIL 21, 1949
TREE FARM TALE
Martha Hardy, mathematics teach­
er at the University of Washington,
worked and adventured in wartime
an a forest fire lookout on Mt. Tat-
ooah, up from the high prongs of the
Cowlitz River. She wrote a book
abut it an won acclaim and made
money. Now comes another book on
General
Contractors
&
Builders
Tracy Cox & Co.
the same orderu “Skyo,” with its
scene in the upper Cowlitz and the
story another one of real life.
This time the lady puts her money
into a tree farm nigh Pack wood
town, 130 acres with an old house
and other agreeably aging bhldings,
and cutover land that is fairly eiupt-
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ing with baby Douglas firz. There
are some old trees, too, enough to pay
oil the largest share of the debt
when slod as logs to the local lum­
ber company.
On this and other business deals
“Syko” strikes one dramatic note af­
ter another, all sharp vrith the com­
edy that ever tracks along in the
struggle of people on the land, all
colored with the hues of forest and
soil. P.ead these frest economics with
the bark on, and you are bound to
come t the conclusion that the busi­
nesses f selling stumpage, harvesting
timber and buying logs are mighty
tough indeed. Anything can go hay­
wire at any time. All hands are at
the mercy of weather and of fire
fools who come riding merrily along,
tossing live butts, leaving campfires
burning at every stop on the side of
the road.
“8” Is for Skunk.
Miss Hardy had one, excuse me,
hell of a time, How she enjoyed it as
much as she says she did I can’t
imagine. For she was conscious all
the while of the seamier side of life
in the brush and is ever ready to give
the dirt on it—and I do mean the
The ffiM chapter is hooked on a
book of Indian legends that was
found on a garbage dump in the
mountain woods of eastern Lewis
Fine Cosmetic« and Perfumes
County. One of the legends told of
Gifts for Men and Women
the amorous adventures of Mephi­
50 Cents up
tis Mephitis, or common skunk. The
book revealed that “tiskayai" is the
KAY COLBURN, Distributor
Klickitat word for old double M. A
Mill City, Oregon
Studio 200 feet West of Furniture version is “tiskyo.” A mountan that
sto 1 up a piece from Miss Hardy’s
Store
tree farm looked like a browsing
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skunk, it had sulphur springs that
smelled like a .skunk, the trespassing
and firebug tourists who used the
road past the farm were 90 per cent
skunks—so Skyo (for skunk) tree
farm came by its name honestly.
It should be noted the Oregon and
Washington now stand even in one
resipect in the tree farm movement.
E. H. Daniels, a forester and a schol­
ar, owns a certified tree Jrm out of
Molalla that bears the name of Skunk
Hollow. Miss Harys’ tree farm is not
yet certified, but true tree farm it is,
and her property is more delicately
called Skyo, but in both cases honors
are to the bashful skunk.
'Cougar Country.
I hasten to assure you that there
aie pages upon pages in “Skyo” to
delight the soul of the most poetic
nature lover in the woods. Listen
I here—
“Then, in a corner of my unfocus­
ed vision, came a '.small, stealthy
movement. Turning my eyes slowly, I
still not loosed from the clinging
magic, I saw the motion become a
shape, and the shape became a long,
lithe, catlike mature.
Brown and
soft as the earth itself. Like | rt of
the soil fused into fluid motion, it
crept from the brush on the far side
of the creek, paced a log across the
stream, and melted into the willows
not a hundred feet from where I
stood. It was a cougar.”
Such passages, and “Skyo” has
many, match the best in nature
writing.
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