•'JOE BEAVER
Out of the Woods
By JAMES STEVEN’S
GATES
7—THE Mil.I. CITY ENTERPRISE
“Where
Not ember 29,
ne Fire, Chief?”
By MRS. ALBERT MILLSAP
The Old Woods. . . .
Members of the Carey family
Lumbering in the Lake States gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
stands in history as one of the biggest Donald farey in Stayton. Present
jobs ever performed by the so-called j from Gates were Mrs. Velma Carey
human race. The facts of it have been and son James who was at home from
put on paper only in records that mold Willamette University; Mrs. Norman
in vaults until some stray researcher ' ! Carey and infant son of Albany and
asks for them to look up sundry items | Lt. and Mrs. Gale Carey and daughter,
for his own uses; in such popular ac who had just recently returned from
counts as Stewart Holbrook’s HOLY i Phoenix, Arizona, where he has been
OLD MACKINAW; and in the folk I stationed
‘
for the past year. Lt.
| tales of Paul Bunyan.
uo v Camp Stoneman,
' Carey W1JJ
will lrpvrv
report to
Paul and Babe the B ue Ox come , Calif. before he will be sent t() Korea.
closer to preserving the life and color A1 Mr and M„ Eugene Carey alul
of a giant chapter of American devel- children of Portland.
I opment through timber mining,'
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Varcoe were
I through use of the forest resource j Thanksgiving
day guests in Mill City
without thought or plan for renewal, at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Larry
than any other form of art or history Kellogg.
that we have today.
Mr. and Mrs. John La Haie had as
One other item of the kind should
be cited, as a reflection of the might their dinner guest her ■ sister and
and scope of the lumbering enterprise brother-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Edward
of the Lake States. It is Menoir Welsheimer.
Thanksgiving was observed here in
Bulletin No. 4. entitled "Michigan Log
Marks,” published by the State keeping with the good old American
College Agricultural Experiment Sta tradition. Family dinners at the
various homes with relatives and
tion at East Lansing, Michigan.
The bulletin runs to 90 pages of guests from out of town. Many who
Little “Smokey" seems to be ready for a five-alarm fire as he stands
behind the wheel of one of the fire trucks at Lederle Laboratories,
wonderful reading and pictures, with did not entertain at home gathered
Pearl River, N. Y. If you haven’t noticed, this cute mascot is also •
the page margins illustrating a total with members of their families in
camera "hound."
of a thousand log marks. They make other places.
the days of King Pine in the Lake
States come alive, county by county, |
Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture
river by river, mill town by mill town.
"For goodness sake, if you're going in for planting trees, do it on
The log marks themselves are curios I
the millions of idle acres needing it!"
hard to beat.
Muscle Power. . . .
The statistices are worth nothing. I
Records of the old Saginaw boom com- I
AVOID DANGERS OF PAYING BY CASH!
panies show that lumbering had j
grown on the great waterway in 1856 '
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Peterson and to a figure of 110,000,000 board feet.
son Dale, formerly of Detroit with the In the peak year of 1882, the Sagi- j
MILL CITY
public roads, and now located at Port naw’s output was over a billion—all
Angeles, Washington, were calling on cut and hauled by the muscle power |
A FRIENDLY
friends in the Detroit vicinity over the of horse, ox and man, power stoked by j
Thanksgiving season. They were dis hay and beans; and then transported
FAMILY
appointed in finding so few of their by river and man power combined.
ATMOSPHERE
friends at home.
The big year of Michigan lumber
Mrs. Ray Johnson and Mrs. Cal ing, the record shows, was 1890, when
PREVAILS
Schaldor were Portland shoppers on mighty drives were still booming
Monday and Tuesday of this week.
I down the Menominee. Steam was ini
Mrs. Jerry Pittam of Idanha was i the pineries then, on railroads, and in |
released from the Salem uenerai on | the log loaders called jammers. Sum-
Monday, having given birth to an I mer logging was done by horse-drawn
eight pound boy on the 24.
j pairs of big wheels, which are backed
A group of Mongold and Gates i astraddle bunched logs for loading. |
ladies were present at the Hut in | The average log scaled 200 feet.
So the rivers ran in Michigan, and
EXMTLYt>36 AHO VOCTS
Mongold on Tuesday afternoon for the
Oregon Sweets demonstration
the I in Wisconsin and Minnesota as well, I
Extension service of OSC. The demon when the freshets would take off the
Your
stration included all sorts of confec snows and fill the splash dams in no
Physician
tions and sweets made from strictly time, back in the 1880s and the 1890s.
Oregon fruits and nuts. The sweets Away Back Yonder. . . .
All th* prestige and conveniense of your personal check
is no
were made by Mrs. Worthington of
An early picture of the development
assisted by Mrs. Clarence | of forest markets in the Lake States
’’MEDICINE MAN” Mongold
Rush from Gates.
is in the start, during the 1830s, o£
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Mr. Ralph Sigmund from Stayton furniture manufacture in the settle
sician to perform mira
will bring a moving picture to the ment of Grand Rapids. The hard-
cles. Remember, it takes
Detroit Christian church on i next ! woods grew at the door of the shop.
more time and effort to
—
Sunday evening, December 2 begin
, Settlers were wheeling into the
climb uphill than to coast
SIMPLi AS A. B.C.
ning at 7:30.
Mr. Sigmund has Northwest Territory as the Saginaws
down! Your patience and
brought these pictures periodically and Chippewas were forced to give us
Present amount of money
full co-operation are es
____
about once _______
a month ____
during
the ____
early I their tribal lands for lttle or nothing;
order,
plus the small fee.
sential to rapid recovery.
is no charge
whatso- ¡»nd into the
t summer. ’ There
_____________
________
. Illinois and Iowa
. country
ever for admission although contri- as tbe Sioux and other tribes were
g You receive money order
butions are accepted. The name of pushed west and north.
and your record copy.
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the picture has not been announced
The prairie pioneers needed wood
Salem
nor the length of the film, but those I {or fences and buildings as well as
1 C Fill out , ,v Sign . . .
«ho have attended previously will . furniture. For lack fence rails the
. * That's all!
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Osage
orange
hedge
was
introduced
' know that it is worthwhile.
in Illinois. For lack of workable pine
★ * * * * - Mrs. Carrie Clester was a guest in lumber in such settlements as Fort
Sweet Home with her son and his wife
| Dearborn, water power sawmills be
the Art Clesters.
gan to whack up logs where the pine
rivers emptied into Lake Michigan
and Huron. The first sawmill of the
Lake States region was built at Flint
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