The North Santiam's Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 194?-1949, August 11, 1949, Image 3

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    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.
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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
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The ireeting of the Women's So­
ciety of Christian Service was held
at the community clubhouse with Mrs.
Wallace Power, Mrs. Floyd Bassett
| ard Mrs. Anna Johnson as hostesses.
The regular business meeting was pre
sided over by Mrs. Laurence Wal­
worth. Many plans were made, and it
was voted to have the interior of the
clubhouse and kitchen i epainted. Fol-
' lowing the business meeting Mrs.
Phillips of Albany and Mrs. Wallace
of Albany had charge of a plastic
demonstration. At the close of the
meeting dainty refreshments were
served to Mesdames Chatles Power,
Hugh Johnston, Ray Mohler, Ixiren
Chamberlain, Willard Hartnell, Wal­
ter Bevier, Clyde McRae. Glen Jul­
ian, I.auience Walworth, Eugene
Roye, Clyde Bressler, Wood Oliver,
W. H. Johnson. Mrs. Daisy Johnston,
Mrs. Catherine Julian, Mrs. Minnie
Smith, Mrs. Alice Huber, Mrs. Phil­
lips, Mrs. Wallace, the Rev and Mrs.
O. A. Jewell, Mrs. Floyd Bassett,
Mrs. Wallace Power and Mrs. Anna
Johnson.
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