2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE
The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE
JOE BEAVER
MILL CITY. OREGON
DON PETERSON. Publisher
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Mill City. Oregon, under the Act of March 3. 1479
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What Is Easter?
88 hat is Easter? Easter is the black velvet oriental night, (he silvery
»oft light of a star, and a small mean chalk cave; the warm close presence
of resting animals, and a woman and a small babe (hat reaches out with
tiny hands and lifts your heart away. It is a million hosts of angels
singing Gloria!
It is three anxious days of searching 'mid the streets of Jerusalem
while a mother stops each small child and looks to see, and asks: "Have
you seen a boy, just so? My boy!” And the ever-conscious awareness of
the slave market throws terror deep into her soul. Then a little Boy is
found midst the wise ones of the world, in a House of Prayer, leaching.
Six large stone jars are there filled with water, when suddenly, there
is wine because two were joined in love and a woman said: "They have
no wine.” Leprous bodies cleansed, crooked limbs straightened, eyes that
have seen the light of the sun hut a short time, and ears that listen curiously
to the song of a bird; all these are there and an alabaster jar, smashed.
It is also a wooden fishing boat lifted and tossed with a surging fear
of wave and blustery driving wind, a cry for help, and suddenly there is
Peace.
A whipping post is there and the naked body bent, and the terrible
flagella with leather thongs on which are spaced bits of bone to dig and
tear rough little furrows in the flesh; and a drunken garrison of poor blind
men. mocking, cursing, blood spattered, and the dull thudding snap of blood
soaked leather lash, and the ripped wounds. It is a trail of bloody footsteps
marked in the stones of a street and the scrape of a dragging timber and
the shuddering of the earth.
Then, three days hence, in the secret silence of another night and cave
that body lives again, and leaves, and makes no mark of its passing. Men
come and see where it had been, and hold the knowledge in their hearts,
and wonder, And the alow dawning realization floods over them, and they
cannot quite understand but they know that nothing will ever Ire the same
• gain.
Suddenly He is there; the Wounds are there; the Knowledge of His
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Presence and Peace.
HUM
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There's Gold In Your Farm Woodiot
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To get the most cash from your
forest crop requires some study.
For instance, a 12-inch tree. 90 feet
tall contains 100 board feet of saw
logs at an approximate value of
$42.50 per M feet or $4.25. It con­
tains .33 cords of pulpwood which
if sold at $13 would bring $4.29. It
contains one 40-toot barkie (un­
peeled i pole which if sold at 12
cents a foot would bring $4 80.
A 16 inch tree 100 feet tall con­
tains 240 board feet of saw logs at
$42.50 worth $10.20. In the same
tree is .62 cords of pulpwood worth
$8.06, but the highest return comes
from a 55-foot barkie pole at 19
cents which could bring the farmer
$10.45.
A little mistake in judgment on
an acre of poles could cost hun­
dreds of dollars.
The same loss can be sustained
from a poor job of logging. Here
are some positive rules for logging
to protect your own best interests.
Plan your roads before falling and
bucking. Pick your best season,
winter or summer. Mark every tree
to be cut well in advance of cutting
Insist on care when trees are being
felled so that a minumum of break­
age occurs and the least possible
damage is done to young trees.
Insist on your "cat" skinners being
careful with small trees left grow­
ing for your next crop. Keep your
stumps low, because only you lose
Editor's Letter Box
I To the Editor:
If the shoe fits, wear it. Guess
I there has been a few wearing them,
j since the latest edition has been
printed.
It’s about time some one has taken
action and turned on a light to the
subject, and using freedom of the
press.
It is quite obvious that our press
has printed the truth.
We don't feel that the grocery sur-
vey has hurt the grocery business. It
is the grocer’s actions toward the
public.
We should be grateful to know we
have a person like you, who is intelli­
gent and progressive, who is working
for the welfare of the community.
We housewives have decided that
we can take our business away from
the canyon also..
Better start hanging onto those
greenbacks, because a lot of them are
leaving town. There may be a few­
left over for our pocketbooks too.
You would be surprised how many­
local people haven't been able to cope
with prices and have been taking their
business elsewhere, where prices fit
their pocket books.
Why- can’t we be broad-minded
enough to give you the credit due
you.
You have given this community
freedom of the press, and to hear the
voice of the public.
We know you nut your neck out
when you printed Elsie's letter - so
why hold you liable for what the
public speaks, You are doing your
job. And your job is to give the
public their Bill of Rights Freedom
of the Press.
United we stand, divided we fall.
KATHERINE
I cannot understand the attitude of
some of the merchants in their "all
out war" against Mr. Don Peterson. I
I am not a native of Mill City, but i
drifted in w ith some of the other “fer­
riners” as we are sometimes called,
and would like to put in my two cents
worth in the hope that it may bring
the light to some who are so bitter.
I have listened to and engaged in j
conversations pro and con on the only-
excitement that Mill City has had for
some time, namely, the desire of Mr. I
Peterson to have the grocers place
an ad in his paper each week stating
their weekend specials, Honestly, is
this asking too much? He, like you
grocers is only trying to make an
honest living. He is a family man
with six dependents, and I know it to i
be a fact that he spends all of his
when sound values are left in the
stump. Make sure each log is cut
into proper lengths to get highest
possible value. Avoid damage from
skidding Keep your equipment in­
vestment modest. A rollway or a
simple "A" frame will suffice most
loading needs. If you hire help re­
member payroll taxes.
After logging be careful with
your slash fires. Have tools ready
to stop any fire. Build fire trail.
Avoid damage to young trees. Pick
time when rains have eliminated
any danger of fire spreading.
You can sell your timber to a
logger as stumpage—a certain price
on the stump, or you can do your
own logging. Selling stumpage for
a lump sum is not advisable and
usually results in loss to land­
owner. It is best to sell by the
piece, at a fixed price per thousand
feet or cord and payment should
be based on a scale of logs cut.
Your woodlot is a valuable part of
your farm. Run it like a business.
If you protect trees from fire and
grazing damage and use reasonable
care in harvesting the forest you
will have an annuity which goes on
working for you yeai* after year. A
growing young forest is just like
money in the bank —
"Twenty-five percent of receipts from national forests goes to the State!
for public roads and schools—how about that?"
(For more particulars write your
State Forester at Olympia. Washington
or Salem. Oregon for your free copy of
YOUR TltEKS—A CROP." how to
grow and harvest them in the Douglas
fir region.)
money in Mill City, and patronizes
most of the merchants.
He is not
trying to hurt any of you. He wants
to help, but you grocers are not smart
enough to see it.
Yes, I guess he is a “ferriner” too,
but you take his money. You have
bled the rest of us. You all had the
same idea, "make it while we can.”
We ARE making good wages, but how-
can we save anything when we have
to pay such exorbitant prices for
meats and groceries, drugs and rent.
That is why we have been patronizing
the grocers in the outlying districts.
This is why we live in trailer housgs.
We also have families to support.
We CANNOT trade with you until
you ban to-gether, not AGAINST your
community paper, but FOR it, and
let the people in the Canyon see by
your ads in his paper that you have
called a halt to this thing that is really
only hurting yourselves.
It is going to hurt you long after
we “ferriners" are gone, because the
people that have lived in Mill City
for so long and intend to live here
the rest of their lives have had their
eyes opened too, and don't forget it!
If Mr. Don Peterson hasn’t done any­
thing else, he HAS DONE THAT!
We will all be gone soon, and we’re
sorry as we like the city, the people,
and the climate, but this episode does
leave a bad taste in our mouths, not
for Mr. Peterson but for the people
who have had their hands out for our
money, and have given us nothing in
return.
God Bless your little city, and I
sincerely hope you grocers will get
to-gether and talk this thing over and
trade with the man who trades with i
you—Don P< terson. Keep the money j
here and progress with the times,
Have love in your heart for your
neighbor—work together.
My wife and many others are over
anxious to see the weekend specials
in The Enterprise.
Try it!
Don't
be afraid of competition, that's good
for any kind of business.
I do hope this letter may be of some
value to someone. At least I've got
a few things off my chest altho I’m
no letter writer. Signed, OTTO.
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