V
Serving the North Santiam
\ 'alley
The North Santiam’s
Lyons, Mehama, Elkhorn
Mill City, Gates, Mongold
Detroit and Idanha
Mill City Enterprise
VOLUME V. NUMBER 17
MILL CITY. OREGON. THURSDAY.
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APRIL 28. 1949
SILO GOES UP IN DAY
I
A big silo was erected in a day on
the Paul Johnston farm near Lyons
Tuesday.
A new type, which is erected with
out scaffolding, it went up in short 1
time, with M. G. Huber, extension ag
riculture engineer of Oregon State ;
College, in charge. He was assisted I
by Kenneth Priest, assistant Linn
County agent, and Joe Myers, 4-H
By CHARLES WOLVERTON
county agent. Charles Power and Mr.1
The Mill City Planning Commis
Tony Ziebert and George (Spaiky) Johnston also helped.
The other day I asked our alert
sion
Tuesday night adopted a city
Ditter
were
approved
as
applicants
Inspection of the copleted silo is in-
police chief, J. T. King, what cit.zens
wide zoning plan, allocating three di
for a been tavern Wednesday night vited.
midst
had
strayed
from
the
incur
visions of commercial, industrial and
by the city council, culminating a two
ways of righteousness the past week. week’s battle of petitions.
residential areas.
“Nothing’s happened at all," he
Mr. Ziebert and Mr. Ditter submit
Thé commision, whose chairman is
replied.
J. C. Kimmel, also voted to submit
“That’s what you said last week," ted a petition with the names of al
Mill City went over the top last
most 300 local citizens. The two pe
the plan to a public meeting in the
I told him.
titions,
one
asking
for
a
Sunday
ban
week
in a local drive for funds to
high
school
auditorium
May
9
at
8
“And I told yo the same thing the
on the sale of beer and the other to
p. m„ to explain it to the townspeo- 1 I buy a respirator. Chief of Police J.
week befoie.”
urge that no more tavern licenses be
t h e effect that a privately owned T. King announced this week.
The Mill City Manufacturing Co.
It seemed, with such a disappoint
granted, bore 93 and 96 names res
has not been sold, the office of Cole
power company serving this area
record of news three or four weeks
Total cost of the lifesaving device
pectively. The Rev. Tom Courtney,
may be short of suppy of current in
man Wheele . Portland, a principal
running, and nary a headline from
pastor of the Mill City Church of
was about »670.
1952
when
its
contract
with
BA
ex
stockholder, stated Thursday.
Chief King’s department, that the Christ, an 1 the Rev. Hinkle, pastor
The drive was prompted by the
An official associated with Mr.
pires. The company does not have
city was wasting its money hiring a of the Free Methodist Cuich, led the
drowning about a month ago of lit Wheeler to The Enterprise that ru
generating
capacity
sufficient
to
sup
policeman when there were aieas un petition drive for the anti-beer sign
mors current that Mill City's main
Gates, apparently was taking th* ply the cut rent demnad in the area tle Dennis Bevier.
doubtedly where sin abounded a n i ers. They added more names to their
Aiding Chief King in the raising industry had been sold to the M. 4
where the talents of such a hound list in the week after their original lead this week over other Canyon it serves.
<«
M Woodworking Co. weie without
communities in real estate operations
Purpose of the meetings. Mr. Po- of funds were Mrs. I owell Cree. Mrs.
of the law might better be employed. petitions were submitted.
Walter Nicholson an I Mrs. Joe foundation.
j
if
not
building.
ple
and
to
hear
objections,
if
any.
in-
Mayor Dorothy’s Portlând, for
All three petitions weie advisory I George Manolis, Salem ami Silver-
The same executive reported that
The zoning plan finally approved Cribbs, of Lyons.
stance.
The respirator will be kept at the the mill, which sawed its last log
to the council only, having no legal I , ton restauateur, purchased 22 acres by the commission proposes the fol
pro-
Even my home town back in
status.
from Steve Champ, along with about lowing areas in their respective cat Fire Hall. Three siren blasts will last Thursday and laid off all but
hibition Kansas the crime news was
t be used to signal for it
The vote on approval of Mr. Ditter 700 feet of highway frontage, for a egories:
Its planing and resaw crews, is be
substantially moie ample. The local and Mr. Ziebert as applicants was
The «levice is good, not only in ing shut down indefinitely becauso
big cafe an«i dancing place. Mr Han-
Commerial
—
100
feet
on
each
side
characters managed to get themsel three in favor, none opposed. One
olis owns and operates a restaurant I ()f gantiam Blvd, ( Highway 222, both .drowning cases, but for heait attacks of market conditions.
ves in jail more regularly on canned council member Hbstaiied, and Mayor
! strangulation and other treatment
Despite the big increase in employ
in the Capitol building in Salem and
heat and 1 emon extract beverages Harold Kliewer did not vote because has owned a big restaurant in Silver- on the existing route and the pro I when a victim is hampered in breath ment in the Canyon with the start of
west of the down-
posed
new
loute
than Canyon folk do on the brew sold a majoiity already had been tallied. ' ton for many years. Reporte«! plans
construction of the Detroit Dam, a
town section; all of the present bus- ing.
hereabouts.
Chief King has been trained in its serious dislocation of the community
The action does not grant the two are for a 40 x 80 foot building with a iness section on the Marion County
But my estimate, and Mr. King’s applicants a tavern license—it mere | large paiking area. He may use part
side of the river; 100 feet on each operation, and member* of the fire has been felt, because many of the
on the #slow progress of sin in o u r ly recommends them to the State Li , of the ground for a trailer cam p.
side of Broadway (the route of High department will be given instiuction. pei manent resident* were regular
midst apparently was wrong. For the quor Commission which has the final
employees of the mill.
Work on the housing project being way 222 on the Linn side)and the
very same night two petitions, borne
Mr. Ditter and Mr. Ziebert recent i built by the C. J. Montag Construc highway from the railroad crossing
Much inseerr ty over Uie future of
CHAIRMEN CHOSEN
by ministers of two local churches, ly purchased fiontage on Highway tion Co. on the former Millsap pro- to the city limits below the Silver
the industrial plant has been current
were presented to the city council. 222 near the Silver Saddle station. i perty has progressed. It is beginning Saddle station; 100 feet on each side BY GARDEN CLUB
ever since the M 11 City Manufactur
Those who diank beer, the establish
ing Co sold its timber holdings to M.
j to look like a little village.
of 1st St. (the Hilltop road) fiom the
Chairmen of special committees of
ments who sold it and the council NEW MILL TO OPEN SOON
Floyd Vplkel and Fay Collins of corner of Broadway and 1st. to the the Mill City Gai den Club were a p & M. in 1947. Although the announc
The new Oregon Pulp and Pap j Salem were recent purchasers of the county roa I (Kingwood Drive».
that tolerated the practice were the
ed arrangement at that time was that
pointed at its last meeting by Pres M. & M. would continue to supply
targets of the reform, whoch was Co. mill now under construction be Dan Morrison trailer camp and tour-
Industrial—Beginning at a point
apparently the reflection of a wide tween Mill City and Gates, will he I ist cabins. Mr. and Mrs. Morrison 100 feet east of 1st street on the Mar ident Mrs. Charles Dolezal.
the local mill with logs, by last sum
They are.
leady
for operation in about three plan to erect a duplex on the pro ion side, following the railroad light-
mer that arrangement was discontin
sentiment here, because of the large
Mrs. Howard Farmen, yearbook;
weeks, Tony Ziebert, superintendent. perty they reserved fiom the sale.
nurrtber of signatuies.
of way east to the city limits; thence Mrs. Curt Cline, flower show; Mrs. ued, and the manufacturing Co. be
gan to buy togs in the open market.
Maybe Mr. King anti myself are said.
Robert Cunningham of Salem has south along the cty limits line to the
The mill anil the timber curation I purchased a lot, with 100 feet of high mill -load on the Linn County sidrft Dairel Hindes, Jr., publicity, M r sa
• In the middle of the month Wil
overlooking the existence of sin lurk
Mrs.
Elmer
Art Robison, finance;
ing in these hill*. Well; or : <.ybe in connection w!O> t will ei-.p.oy 25 way frontage, from Dave Epps of thence west to a oint where the river Sliaw. garden center; and Mrs. Albett lis Potter, general manager of the
that which is called evil by some is or more, he sad.
Sweet Home. This lot is just east of shore is closest to the railroad siding Toman, membership and Mrs. Frank company, left to take up a posit on
with the army as a lieutenant colonel.
simple innocence and pleaspre.
the post office and is planned for a several hundre«! feen east of the Shell Hunter, refieshments.
Clarence Rosheim, superintendent, is
Saturday night tve went out to the
business location.
storage plant; thence across the riv
and
M
r
s.
Mrs. Rachel Olmstead
Bohemian Hall where people were
T. W. Lord of Salem has bought er and down the shore in a westerly i Dolezal volunteered to make reports present general manager.
The mill was closed down, because
having a lot of fun dancing. And I
' four lots of Jerry Lyons adjacent to direction to the point of beginning. |for the coming meeting Friday eve-
"of market conditions,” in the early
thought, as I watched the people I
the Lyons residence.
Under a zoning ordinance, a resi j ning on when and how to plant.
part of December. Its reopening was
saw there, swinging aiound gaily to
Mrs. Ruth Kerr obtained for the
The Mill City Hotel was given five . Other real estate transfers .in the dence may be built in a commercial
the friendly shout of “allemand left” days to commence renovation to el (Gates area are pending — some of or industrial area, but it cannot get members six books on gardening a cheering note about the commun
and “do-se-do” of the caller,
protection in the event of complaint from the state library., for study by ity-
iminate alleged fire hazards but was substantial proportions.
“In the minds of some, this simple not condemned, as reported last week.
In Mill City, C. E. Mason began the against practices aiising from ordin the members.
I
pleasure would be sin."
I
Arlo Tueis, fire chief, said a letter construction of a two-store business ary commercial or industrial endea
But was it ? I see the faces of the from Seth Thompson, state fire mar block on Broadway act os* frm the vors. However a commercial or in
people who were at that dance. They shall, ordered work to proceed on the Presbyterian Church.
Floyd Fleet dustrial entenpiise may not locate in
Francis Bodeker, employed on the
are friendly, good faces. For several hotel without delay, or face condem wood was getting plans ready for a a residential area, if a zoning ordi-
'construction of the Bonneville Power
Other nance exists.
years I have known many of them in nation. Louie Rada, its owner, ha* building across the street.
Mr. Kimmel will show a large line, suffere«! a broken leg Thursday
structures will be under way soon on
their daily lives. Not a maik is upon begun work.
their character. Unless—
Chief Tuers said the file marshall’s pioperty recently purchased from map of the city with the zone areas when a steel beam fell on it.
• • • •
office listed 19 defects in the building Dick Turpin and from Mrs. Anne (pearly marked. The map is now on
-Miss Mildred Toman, a student at
A city owned power system may be
Dawes, both on the highway on the {view
in the city hall.
7
It seems rather odd to have to re —several of them minor. He said the Marion County side.
Ix«wis
and
Clark
University
in
Port
the
solution of future electrical cur
Other
members
of
the
planning
order to eliminate them had been
call again the days of prohibition and
Mr. Mason’s building has a 60 ft. commission are Neal Marttala, Roy land, spent the Easter vacation at rent shortages, Arey Podrabsky, a
given in December, an extension
the reason why an exasperated peo
granted to April 1, and lately the frontage, and the building permit is Beebe, Frank Rada, Arlo Tuers, Ix-e the home of her father, Albert To member of the city council, repo ted
ple heaved the whole experiment out order to proceed on renovation im for $7000.
man.
to that body Wednesday night.
Ross and Charles Wolverton.
with a sigh, like the raven, “Never
His report was based upon his at
mediately was given.
more!” Are we about to try the whole
tendance at a number of meet ngs
hopeless business out again here?
in Stayton and the Valley, sponsored
by various REA and electric co-oper
Why?
I’ve never seen, in any community,
atives.
Mr. Podrabsky quoted W. E. Trom
a better regulation of the sale of be
mel shausen, district director of the
verages than here.. The effect of a
the 160 acres of timber Hennes had
Sunday ban on the sale of beer, it
Before he died a few months ago [beyond. My brother, 'onff departed, teresting interview with the late Eph purchased for »15 from Tom Raines. Bonneville Power Administration, to
Henness,
dated
in
1941.
His
story
drabsky reported, was to get the fed
made
trip
seems to many, is to drive the trade Ephriam Henness, aged pioneer
neer of|and
oi I—— I - —
-— the
-
- " '
. •
The man and boy batched it that eral agency to reserve a block of
follow’s):
to other towns, with the consequent
often
Pass
(shoul
be
Henness
Pass)
i
n
the North Santiam Canyon
Eighty-eight years ago Ephriam summer on the Prairia and brought electric power for the future needs
___ 1873. Were ten days making
hazards to traffic.
the family out next year,, after five
claimed that Minto (Santiam) Pass ' June-
One time Sally Rand, the bubble
the trip. We carried our blankets an«i Henness first saw the gieen hills of the children had received their ed of this area.
bordering
the
North
Santiam
River.
named
Henness
should
have
been
It was pointed out that Mill City,
dancer, was charged in *a Chicago
piovisions on our backs, having no
“Yes and it’s still paradise to and ucation that winter in Sublimity.
as an incorporated town, could quäl'
court with unnecessary exposure of Pass.
tent we had to improvise cedar bark
The urge to seek adventure that ify as a Turchaser of Bonneville cur
His account was containe 1 in a sheets to sleep under. Building camp old man of 91,” said Hennes, then the
her ample curves to the crowds at
was to keep eph away from tha Prai
the World's Fair. The judge, a human letter he wrote t o the American each day prevented us from traveling oldest old-timer living along the San- rie for a dozen years led him to a rent.
The BA representative told of the
sort of a qent, heard the evidence, Guide, a historical project.
a greater distance. I have since 1 een 1 tiam. (His brother, ‘T’ Hennes, now trapping expidition in the Blue Moun
dismissed the case with these words:
His letter follows. It was supplied able to make the distance some 30 | holds the honor of the oldest living tains in 1873, when he was 23 years expeiience of Monmouth which took
over the distribution f electricity in
“Some folks want to put pants on t n The Enterprise b y Miss Daisy miles further in eight hour*.
, native.
old. That summer he returned, and
a horse.”
Ephriam Henness was one of the with a brother, now deceased, pion 1941 and finished paying fr the sys
Geddes, herself a member of an old
“
The
Bieitenbush
Springs
were
• • •
tem, with lower rates meanwhile, in
pioneer Santiam family.
discovere«! in 1875 by Judge John B. , few men then living of that haidy eered a trail to the summit of the
1947. He warned that federally pro
In Gates, we are told, there is an
strain of pioneers who migrated west Cascades.
“I take pleasure,” he wrote, “in Wahdour ami Henry State*.
On June 10, 1X73. Eph duced power generated in the North
open well which up to a few- days giving you what information I can
by
wagon
train
in
the
'50s
of
the
last
“My brother, L. T. Henness, was
stood on the shores of what was lat-
ago, at least, was uncovered. Such concerning the history of the disco employe to go with them on that century. When he was two years old er to be named Marion Lake, the west at the great dams, including
a tragedy as happened in California very of the Breitenbwsh Springs and d scovery trip but something prevent- Ephriam was bundled up for the trip first white man to gaze into i t s the Detroit Dam now under construc
tion, may go to other states unless
can happen here to some child if *1*o the Santiam highway
_____ e«l it.
from Des Moines, la., to the great depths.
actin is taken.
such danger spots are not eliminat
“I am the only one living who can
Because he had been the first man
“Lewis Breitenbush camped at the and fabled Northwest. In a party
In 1946 a Public Utilities District
ed. Check the location of old wells give a true report, as all who lived
to
the
summitt,
a
that
included
Dallisan
Smith,
Ezra
to blaze a trail
and septic tanks. New children are in that time that were cognizant of mouth of this stream about 1879, with Meeker and Epriam Stout, the Hen Marion County surveying party call election in Lnn County was defeated.
Since that time no public power pro
coming into the community. Like all the fact have passed to the great Charley ami Bill Thomas.
“While in camp he told It* com ness’ took 160 days for the hard jour ed upon Eph to be it* guide in 1874, gram has been pushed in this area.
children, they will like to explore.
ney west, averaging 12 to 15 mile* when John Minto was looking for a
A little fore*ight now may prevent mous local market which might have pany about the usefulness of a bat *
a day with their oxen and wagon*. pass through which to bring sheep DETROIT PI PII.S EDIT P VI*ER
eye.
He
said
if
you
were
to
put
a
lieen expected, and already has come,
a tragedy.
When the train reached The Dalle3, from eastern Oregon. Nothing more
as a result of the dam construction. bat’» eye under your tongue you
• • •
The Detroit grade school ha* be
. the elder Hennes di opped out, bought was done about the road building job
could
travel
anywhere
on
th«-
darkest
If the question of shutting down
gun publication of a paper, called the
The shutdown of the Mill City-
until
1879,
when
Eiph
aga.n
cairied
a
sailboat
and
made
»1600
that
win-
night without a light. The boy* nam
Manufacturing Co. is well night in the mill were merely a problem for e i the stream Bateye Creek, which ter of 1852-53 transporting immi the compass for Surveyor Tim Dav Lumberjack. Mi*. John Ray, eighth
the
stockholders,
there
’
d
be
nothing
grade teacher, la supervising the ed
comprehensible. It is the most recent
name it carried for several years, grants down the Columbia to Ca«- enport. When the road did come, it
of a series of actions taken by the to say about it. But when this pa - when it was named Breitenbush and castes. With thia opportune cash. he J followed, as it does today. Ephriam iting. It i* published monthly. It con
tains local advertisements and new*.
firm in lecent years that don’t quite titular mill happens to lie one built the .«ptings naturally took the stream then purchased a farm near Mehama Henness' trail blaze.
by the townsfolk here, and when the
Already about »36 ha* been real
18X0
for
make sense.
Eph
left
the
Prairie
in
and settled there in 1863.
name..
I Kings Prairie, an island of level I ten years. He returned in 1890 with ized from the project, and prixeed*
First, the firm sell* it* timber, it* livelihood of so many depends on it.
“
I
hope
you
will
have
this
properly
will be used for equipment for the
lifeline to raw materials. Next, it Coleman Wheeler, principal stockhol
r-«orde«i in history. I don’t expect grassland in the middle of an ocean I his wife, the former Sally Olinger
»huts down its retal lumber yard, in der, ows the town a better expana- to stay here many more year? to cor* of virgin fir, looked like heven to • of Salem, and remained until a few cafeteria. Another fund campaign of
the face of a goo«! current demand tion than “market conditions." Other rect erroneous reports
Hennes* and his son Ephriam when i years before hi* death a few months raising money at a candy booth al»o
will contribute to the cafeteria.
(it was operating profitably when it mills are going full blast, with the
they came farther east in 1863 to ago in an Albany nursing home
(Howard
Kessler
has
written
an
m-
closed) and in the face of an enor- same market conditions
Commission
Adopts Plans
To Zone City
Looking Up New Petition
and Down Wins Council
the Canyon To Tavern OK
Construction
Rise Goes on;
(¡ates Leads
Sale of Mill Denied
By Portland Office
Respirator
Fund Raised
Shutdown Is
Indefinite,
Official Says
Fire Chief Tells
Hotel Ruling
City Power
Plan Studied
Eph Henness Was Real Discoverer of MintoPass