»-THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE THl RSDAY, FERRI ART 25. |S54
Reception Given Gates
Couples Saturday Night
THE OLD BRIDGE
Stand together in the moonlight
Vera Hathaway
Just above the rolling stream.
The old red bridge that spans
I can hear the foaming river;
GATES—A reception honoring Mr.
the current
I can see the old red span;
and Mrs. Joseph Bowes, recent bride Of the rushing Santiam
Yet I hear the softest whisper;
and groom and Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln ___
______
_____ _ ...
Brings
me romance
in the moonlight
"Do you love me?” “Oh yes, Dan.’’
Henness, who have been married for Tho'it’s little more than sham;
And beneath the giaeeful fretwork
60
t>0 years was held in
m the social rooms For the scaffolding is bare now
On the ancient worn-out arch
of. the high school, Satuiday evening, ( With no place to set your feet—
See them kissing in the moonlight
¡February 20. A large group of friends , Yet I see them strolling safely
While the moon-shadows march.
I and neighbors gathered there to wish ; As upon the village street,
Little grandma—glowing white,
¡the newlyweds and the "oldsters’ Yes, I surely see them walking
And young grandpa strong
Iinany moie years of married happi-1 With a.
% slow and even tread —
and bright,
ness. A gift for each couple from the . Little grandma in her bonnet
Standing where no others can
| community was presented by Mayor ' Grandma; hunting hat of red—
O'er the rushing Santiam.
| W. R. Hutcheson, who spoke in behalf Little grandma in her hoop skirts—
I of their friends.
Grandpa; new plaid shirt of gieen— Enterprise Class Ads Pay
Music was provided throughout
the evening by Mrs. Don Miley, Mrs.
I Walter Brisbin, Mrs. James Wiltsey
I and Mrs. Dale Reynolds at the piano.
I Special numbers included violin solos |
by Mrs. Ruth Osborne; two vocal
i solos, "1 Love You Truly" and "Sweet- j
, heart’ by Mrs. Dan Morrison and i
| •’Always” and "Because,” sung by I
I Mrs. Glen Goidon.
Bouquets of daffodils and blooming
| heather flanked by pink candles in
crystal holders centered the refresh-
: ment table at which Mrs. James Wilt
sey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henness
land Miss Geoigia Shane, both of
“At the Bottom of the Hill”
I Salem, poured, ladies of the Gates
Womans’ club, under the direction of
Mrs. W S. Hudson, served and assist-
, ed about the rooms.
Loading Logs in North SantiamCanyon
Never
a Dull Moment
MILL CITY TAVERN
Mill City, Oregon
Byron Davis, Owner
MEHAMA—Loading a log truck in the woods is done by a loading donkey. Above, the "crotch line”
method is being used to load logs at the Vincent Keller logging operations at the foot of House
Mountain in the North Santiam area.
Logging Big Business in Canyon
By Jean Roberta
Logging is still Oregon’s largest
industry and in this area logs and
lumber comprise the livelihood for
most of the population.
Logging trucks taxed by the state
and sometimes cursed by the motor
ists, are an important part of the
present logging industry’. They dot
highways from Salem to Marion Forks
whenever weather permits.
When
cats and donkeys replaced teams, log
ging trucks eliminated the river drives
and are now a necessary part of
logging.
Years ago, when the roads were
few and unimproved, the river was
the only conveyance for the logs. Tim
ber all along the river from Mehama
to Mill City was horse logged to the
North Santiam and floated down to
the Willamette where it was boomed.
Occasionally the logs would jam.
Ordinarily a peevee gang was sent in
to pry loose the key log and so free the
jam. When the water was too shal
low for the peevee gang a team of
Today’s work that is put off until horses w’as used to loosen the jam.
One horse was ridden and one man
tomorrow probably got
the same
was placed in the log jam to fasten
treatment yesterday.
the dogs onto the log. (A chain with
two dogs was used then, in place of
the now common choker.) Another
man rode the logs down stream to
unfasten the dogs. This man was
called a tripper.
At one time a team of horses, (be-
gonging to Floyd Martin) was di own
ed near the present Mehama bridge,
while loosing a log jam. The logs
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were lodged on the riffle above the
Overcomes A Major Cause
bridge and the tripper didn’t get the
team free in time. The logs floated
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out into deeper water and pulled the
team down, drowning them.
fill-----have
The load from the woods to the
been recognized for years as
river was called a skid road and was
a major cause of oil burner
made of poles, over which the logs
service calls.
| were slid. Logging camps in those
Shell Research spent 15
days had logging names that are
years developing a way to
unused today; such as “barkers” and
combat screen clogging. The
“snipers.” The barkers barked the
result was FOA-5X, an ad
flat side of the logs so they would
ditive that is now in every
slide better.
This was called the
gallon of Shell Furnace Oil.
“ride” of the logs and the old time
During three giars of ex-
loggers will say that a log only has
huustirc tmting of FOA-5X in
one side upon which it will slide.
thousands of homes not a single
Experienced loggers then could
case of burner failure due to a
easily tell which was the “ride” side
clogged filter screen was re
and this was barked. The hook
ported.
tender "sniped” the logs with a two-
For carefree heat all sea
axe snipe all around the the log so
son, switch to Shell Furnace
it wouldn’t tear up the skid road.
Oil with FOA-5X. It costs
The Little North Fork area, still
boasting several large stands of mer
no more than ordinary heat
chantable timber was once the scene
ing oils. Call us today. We’ll
of an attempted log drive. Logged
ms’.e all the arrangemei tn.
off the Darling place the logs were
pulled to the river which rose and
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flooded them away. They were scat-
tered along the bank and jamed on
every turn and riffle. When a new
bridge was under construction to re
place the Mehama ferry, those lost
logs came floating down and de
stroyed the first two spans of the
new bridge.
Anyone could salvage logs scatter
ed along the river. This was called
"Sharking”. The sharked logs could
be loosened, scaled and branded and
admitted to a regular log drive. A
team of horses was sometimes used
to shark the logs and one man had a
team trained to swim down the river
and pick up the tripper if he was
unable to swim.
Though the pace of logging has
been stepped up since the day of the
horse teams, it is essentially the
same.
Winter months have always been
slack times with unemployment high.
Logging vernacular though differ
ing slightly from the years past is
a language all its own and only un
derstood by woodsmen. Despite mod-
ern machinery, logging is still a haid
daugerous job.
Loggers—they differ little from
those in the past still fulfill the well-
known phrase of “once a logger, al
ways a logger.”—Cut Courste yof the
Statesman, Salem.
There’s more hard work than luck
in most success stories.
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