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About The North Santiam's Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 194?-1949 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1949)
MILL CITY ENTERPRISE. Al GI ST 11. ISIS The Human Race BIG REDUCTIONS the harvest of second-growth, the ten . acres were bearing a dense stand of trees, averaging about 40 feet in height, with the strongest growing ■ about two feet taller per year. Good ¡farm forestry dictated that thinnings begin in cuttings for posts and poles. Mr. Barnes believes that with right I spacing between the stand that is left an average of an inch in girth lean be added to its tiees in a year. He has done this with trees on an other part of his woodland. Horse Thief Valley. John Barnes learned farm wood land manage rent by hard experience i Today the young faimercan profit by i that ekperience and by experience o. [hundreds of others. Some of the ex- * jrerience is valuable as horrible ex t ample». In our fores legion are many out" |of-th-way locations in which the peo ple have been given bad reputations. One of these is popularly called Horse Thief Valley. . Around 70 years ago this valley j was a hideout for horse and cattle rustlers. Perhaps it was part of the I game of outlaws, but for one reason or another in any period of dry wea ther Horse Thief Valley was clouded ■ with smoke. This was the condition ion through the 1920’s and through the depression. Then the people had changed from rustling to distilling whisky illegally. Now the back-coun try strip of valley is a spot of ruin in the forest. There is little or no tree giowth on most of the valley's acres. Seed lings and seed trees went up in smoke year after year until there weie no more. It is a land of bitter earth, stones, fireweed, salal and other brush and of brier patches that only bears can break through. Ill Fares the Land. Horse Thief Valley has acres on which the blackberry and other cover 'is so dense, in root systems under ground as in vegetation above, that growth from tree seeds has no chance. Even buining followed by iiaml-iplanting of seedlings would be a great gamble. There are south and .vest slopes on w'hich heat and drouth kill tree starts. On other site dry, freezing winds and the swelling and ciacking of the frozen ground are the little tree killers. Horse Thief Valley has a population of tree seed and seedling eaters in its wild life in its mountain beavers, white footed mice and other rodents. On good or fair sites quality of farm forest soil that has not been abused by repeated burnings and where seed sources stant, it is hard to keep down the growth of new ctops of Douglas fir. Western hemlock and other tree species of the region. John Barnes’ example is one that is to oe met at every turn of faim roads in western Washington. The Horse Thief Valleys are comparatively rare spots. But they do exist, and where they do they aie had indeed—black sores on the soil. on Unredeemed Jewelry, Luggage, Musical Instruments, (¡uns. Cameras, and Field Classes Lyons S am S c AT&ACK MAKES THE TRIP HOME PROM THE SHOP EVERY PAY IN |0 MINUTES FLAT— Íffveitrí Safety Service Out of the Woods By JIM STEVENS TALE OF TEN ACRES In 1920 John Barnes (real farmer but not his real name), added ten acres to the pasture land for his dai ry held by clearing off the second- growth Douglas vr. The oldest tree had 40 annual rings. The yield was a giant pile of sawlogs and cordwood. Burning followed the harvest, and then the ground between the stunmp was seeded to glass. For five years I the cows and calves grazed over the I *en acres. Little Douglas firs kept popping op under the hoofs of the cattle, who found the grass to be lean pickings. At last Mr. Barnes gave up the grass and allowed the land to go back to t.ees. It was a number of years, how ever, before the struggling forest of Douglas fir third-growth was fenced for its protection. By 1949, less than 30 yeais after August Special Airplane Ride Free! 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