¿—THE Mil J- < ITY ENTERPRISE
Auguxt 10, 1950 FOR RENT—3-rm. furnished apart
ment. E. D. Cooke.
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By JIM STEVENS
PLEASE LIST all available rooms,
room and board, houses and apts. Forest Fire Flickers . , .
Write, telephone or visit Personnel Working around a forest fire is not
Dept. 10 a m. to 3 p.m. Consolidated exactly safe, but the danger is not as
Builders, Inc., Detroit Dam.
12tf i great as the stories make out. It is
FOR SALE Wedgewood gas range,
nearly new, DuoTherm oil stove.
nearly new, D. B. Hill
31tf FOR SALE — 6 ft. Maytag Freezer , only once in a great while that any-
$189.00. Stayton Hardware & Fur I body is trapped or overtaken by fire.
25tf The old yarn about the greenhorn
FOR SALE—2>4 HP. Lawson out niture Co., Stayton, Ore.
board motor $7950; Maytag Pro
who got his shirt-tail on fire and ran
WANT
TO
RENT
—
2
or
3-bedroom
pane gas range $225.00. Stayton
nine miles, setting a fresh fire every
house,
before
school
starts.
Phone
Hardware & Furniture Co , Stayton,
26tf quarter, is unverified.
Ore.
25tf 5807.
A forest fire is commonly dull busi
FOR SALE — Trailor house, 20-foot i,lST YOUR homes and farms with ness. Here are snapshots of famiilar
me. Have cash buyers. Mill City, items.
good and clean, has good daveno,
David M. As a rule, humidity goes up and a
extra bunk bed. oil heater and lots Gates. Detroit, Lyons.
3tf
Reid, Real Estate.
of built-ins, a bargain at $25000
forest fire dies down at night. On a
Red's Hill Top Trading Post. 32tf WHY PAY RENT ? Buy income prop normal day, when the crew gets on
FOR SAI J) — Late model Dexter erty. New duplex for sale. W. L. the fire line—soon as they can see
20tf daylight in the smoke—the fire may
washer $65.00; Columbia bicycle 26 Peterson, Swift’s addition.
inch $18.00. E. D. Cqoke.
32tf FOR SALE — Cabin 12x18, shiplap seem dead. Then long stretches can
be cold-trailed, shoveled through ash
FOR SALE—1947 Mainliner, 18-foot floor, located on West Alder Street and char. On others the smoldering
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trailer house, butane gas and elec to be moved. E. D. Cooke.
fuel can be shoveled onto ash heaps.
tric brakes, all in good condition,
reasonable. Inquire Gates Trailer A GOOD SELECTION of linoleum The wind is likely to be quiet. Fire
Court, Gates, Ore.
31-3p yardage, 6 and 9 ft. widths, 69c per lines can be dug fast. Dawn might
sq. yard. Dave Epps Furniture Co. be called the true time to fight forest
(¿XPERT AUTO and home radio
fires.
service, 20 years experience, all FOR SALE Black and tan hound, Then the rising dawn wind, sun-up,
one year old $50.00. See J. O. Her heat in the air, the night damp
makes. Guaranteed service.
Stiffler’s Radio and Appliance. 3tf
ron, Route 1, Lyons, Ore.
31-3p
streaming out of the fuel, and again
$50 00 PER THOUSAND truck scale
flames crackle. From 10 to 4 o'clock
paid for 24 ft. to 40 ft. small Doug
the fire moves—as a rule. Its head
las Fir logs suitable for piling. High
will be hot, smoky, mean to work
prices paid for barkie poles and
against. By the book, the wind
piling Call Albany 1287 or write
drops at 6 or 7, the air cools and
Standard Pole & Piling Co. for price
dampens, the fine fuel doesn’t spark
lists.
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so easily.
FOR SALE — Baby cribs $5.95 and
Canyon Drafts . . .
up, crib mattresses $2.00 and up.
Sundown and nightfall are a good
Red's Hill Top Trading Post
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I time for trail making, if the country
is not too rough and there are no
WANTED — A partner, Must be
spots for mantrap fireholes. If the
either a first-class painter (Interior
| crew has miners’ lamps, they can
and exterior painting) or a good!
Room
sign man.
First-rate proposition
walk right up to the head of a fire
for the right man. Small invest
and beat it down.
ment required. Call Bill Obershaw.
In most canyons the air blows
phone 3215, or write Box 607, Mill
down grade at night and in the dawn
City.
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turns tail in an up-grade draft,
¡That’s a time for backfiring and.
FOR SALE Washing machine $20.00
when the smoke thins, to dig a trail
fair condition. Burton Boroughs,
A Friendly Place
one block east of Red's Hill Top
I around the head of the fire.
Trading Post.
31-3p
But maybe an east wind keeps up
To While Away
|
for
days. This may even dry out an
FOR SALE OR TRADE — For good
ocean beach, right to the high-tide
used car, lots 11 and 12. block 12,
Your Idle Hours
line. In the Cascades the night down
Shaw's addition to Mill City, each
' draft in the west side canyons will
50 x 100, young nut trees, city
water. Easy terms. Write Darrell
carry hot, dry air from the east side.
L. Orr, Route 2, Box 748, Coos Bay,
¡Then, at 4 in the morning, when the
Oregon.
31-3p
woods should be damp, they’ll yet
| be so dry that sparks will fire the
FOR SALE
2-wheel trailer, ball
boughs of standing timber, leap up
hitch, removable stock rack, good
ward. and carry from tree crown to
tires.
Call evenings or Sunday.
I tree crown. Facing a crown fire in
John Kunkle, Lyons, Ore , phone
I big timber, man is helpless.
122, first house east of Fox Valley
school house.
32-2p
Sidehill Fires . . .
GATES
On still days and on level ground,
FOR SALE — Tents, wall, ridgepole,
flames, smoke and heat go straight
new, fire proof, waterproof, mil
up, and the spread, which depends on
dewproof, 9x9 $24 50; 14x14 $49 00;
the baking out of surrounding fuel to
16x16 $59.00. Red’s Hill Top Trad
a point at which it kindles easily
ing Post.
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from sparks, is a slow spread.
A strong wind turns the flames on
their sides, forces the heat close to
the ground, and so bakes the fuel
ahead to a quicker kindling point.
A slope has the same effect—the
fuel on the slope above the fire is
closer to the rising course of flames
and heat. Fires on step hillsides are
hard to hold. Fire "slides" uphill.
Y’es, sir, a right dull business.
Maim Street
(hit of tin1 Woods
JFanis and Sales
FOUND — A little brown and white
* dog
- with
- harness
•
— on.
— Found
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the \
vicinity of a tavern east of Gates
around the Fourth of July. Harold
L. Wells. Fir Grove Trailer Court,
Mill City.
31-3p
FOR SALE
New 8-inch Skookum
block. Call evenings or Sunday,
John Kunkle, Lyons, Ore , phone
122, first house east of Fox Valley
school house.
31-lp
FOR SALE—3/4 Beds with first qual
ity Serta inner spring mattress and
box springH, like new. W. L. Peter
son, Swift addition.
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WE BUY—Fir pitch 75c per gallon.
See us for containers. Red’s Hill
Top Trading Post.
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WANTED- A home for a good cattle
and watch dog.
Inquire at The
Enterprise.
32-3p
FOR SALE Ice boxes $7.50. Red’s
Hill Top Trading Post.
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FOR RENT — Clean, modem apart
ment, partly furnished. See Pen
nick & Pennick.
32-1
WE REBUILD Furniture like new.
Call 21F71 for free estimate. Stay-
ton Upholstering, Rt 1, Box 177A,
W. Washington, Stayton, Ore, 28tf
FOR SALE — Three choice building
lots in Swift’s addition, water, elec
tricity available, level ground. W.
L. Peterson.
20tf
FOR SALE Steel bunk beds $9 95 a
pair, bunk bed mattresses $4.95
each. Red’s Hill Top Trading Post.
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FOR SALE — Forty large year-old
handsome White Leghorn hens lay
ing good, one or all. $1.50 each.
Hampshire Reds $2.50 each; extra
large White Rocks $3.00 each;
Guernsey cow three years old, fresh
nine weeks, bred back to registered
Jersey. Gentle, easy milker, dou
ble-tested, price $200. George Cree
Mill City, phone 924.
32-3p
FOR SALE - Laundry trays, complete
With faucets and legs.
Roy S.
Kelrsey, east on Kingwood drive,
first lane on right.
31-3p
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est service in Portland and satis
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oldest company. Eight picture roll
developed and one print each 35c.
Two prints each 50c. Rolls with
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it’s the
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RICHARD’S
“At the Bottom of the Hill”
TAVERN
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MILL CITY
Headquarters for Harden Seeds
(Packet or Bulk Pack)
ALSO FIELD AND GRASS SEEDS
Various Types of Garden Tool«, Etc
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