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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1949)
WEDNESDAY. OCT. 26, 194? Salute to Merrill, Founded 1894, Busy, Bustling Community Today By HJIX JKNKINH Klamath rails sslutst Merrill, hub nl Ilia iUla producing laud In 111 Klsmat basin and buay apud and (rain processing center. rrum lla briilmiliigs in Mitt until Ilia present day, Merrill haa had a liiiil history o( agricultural (rowlh and progress, and a colorful bars ground of wlitr-open dayi, new crops, tha cat! la Industry and a plagua of flrra that mure than one a threatened tha town. Mine 1 1194 Merrill sprang Into bring In MM when 0. B. Martin built tha flmt grltt mill there to prom the wheat cmpa. At that time the nearest town waa a tiny village railed Clair, lo. calrd enme two miles or so to tha northrast of tha present lite of Mrrrlll. dale cniuUtrd mainly of a blark arruth ahop, a store and a pout olflre operated by a man mined OTsrrrll. When the grut mill was built at tha Mrrrlll alt ha moved his ape rations, lurk, atnrk and bar rel to that location. Tha old store building from Clsle was used tern pnrarlly for a phone offlra In Mer rll' and tlim to oilier uses until lnds when It la part of the Victory lounge. I (irows I'p By ISO the town had grown to slsrable proportions for that time and was loused on as a pretty wide, open x)t. Tha first mrellnc of the t'wn trustees waa held In that year with Oeorge W. Offleld arUng as president and B. X. Martin as re. rordrr. The towrulte had been sur veyed In MM and laid nut on around donated by Nathan Merrill. To Uw Merrill trart were addrd the Trrwllllfrr and Khndra trarta to make the town up to lla present slae. 1 Tha city waa Incorporated In loi and Ctronie Offleld served as the first mayor of the new city. In these early daya Mrrrlll waa mainly Interested In the growing of varloua grains and alfalfa and do ver. Cattle ranrhea ran on a huge stale and calUa were wintered In tha area rather than being moved out during the stormy period. Bpuds, one of the mainstays of the country now, were not grown In any numbers till Uia Ms. Home people believed that polatora would not grow In Irrigated land. Others weren't Interested. What tubers were raised clung to the steep, rocky hillsides rathrr than flourishing on the rich loam flats. Accrsa to Merrill from Klamath Falls was gained by tha old hill road whlrh followed tha base of rllukrl mountain and then entered Merrill from the north, netting a doctor from Klamath to Merrill, for Instanre. took a matter of some sis hours. Before the phones came In Wo It was the custom In emergen rlrs to ride for aid. One of the fVikel boys had a particularly fine horse and many times someone would ride that tar, relay the mes sage and tha youth would race Into town to fetch the doctor. Irritation Irrigation on a large scale waa started In the area In the We when J frsnk Adsms and Dan and Clint Van llrlmmrr opened up the cut from While Lake to bring water to the fields. Electricity came to Merrill In 1911. That year also marked the Ilrst of the major flrra that were to plague the city for the nnt 10 yeara. A llrry stable, a store building and a resident- owned by the Martin brolhrrs and R. II. Anderson went up In flsmrs on April I of that year, killing 13 head of good horses In the barn. Tha building waa then located at the slta of the Old Bate way store building. R. II. Anderson was again the victim of a fire In 1D14 when a blare wiped out a store and butcher ahop ha had built on tha opposite side of tha street from his first store. Big Blase Then followed a period of five yeara In which there la no record of a major fire, only to be followed In mo by a bias that claimed th old opera house and part of tha hlnrk on which It was located. In cluding a tavern on tha corner where the Hhell station Is now situated. That fire occurred In May on the night of graduation exercises for the grade school, faulty wiring was blamed for tha blase, which broke out shortly after the crowd had left the building. In mi the last of th big fires broke out and claimed the city hall, library and other civic ofllres as well as several store buildings which were located on the main street. Th present highway leading through Merrill waa completed In im to replace the hill road which had been In use up until that time. Buay, Bustling Merrill today Is a busy, bustling town filled with grain and spud trucks and with the towers of the fk.ur mills and apud plants Jutting up along the Oreal Northern tracks on the north edge of town. Modern stores serve the needs of the citt erns. In addition to their potatoes tha country raise great quantities of grains, alfalfa and other crops. This year there were between 600 and 1000 acrea of onions raised and a few sugsr beets are grown In the aire. That It Is a prosperous and far HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON WHY WE SAY , llri I Hern I ARROW ROOT " X ft1 Arrowroot dYrivrtl ita name from the? Ij fact South American Indiana applied 1 the root of the plant from which it was made to around cauaed by poisoned 1 JO'jx arrows. otiiuii. flung farming community waa dem oi a Ira ted last week end when farm era and visitors Jammed the place for the Potato Festival. Some 2 COO persons were fed at the barbecue and crowds watched the colorful parade. (lire pictures en page II.) Winter I here and yea can save I on your fuel bills if yoa In sulate!! Kee us about ear Poor la and Blanket INSULATION . . . DRAKE LUMBER CO. 1 Spring. Phone Mil. It Payi to Use the Want-Ads I Trade Associations Have Big Hand in Way We Live By BAM DA WHOM NEW YORK W-Therea a group of men meeting down In Weat Vir ginia today who have a greater In fluence on your dally Uvea than you may suspect on the goods you buy, the prices you psy, the law you are governed by, and. sometimes, on th conditions under which you work. They are th executives of 11M trade associations. The members of their various associations range all th way from grocers to giant In dustrial corporations. Trad assod a lions are. or should be. group of natural competitors seeking to bet ter their own Industry without lim iting competition, or harming the public Interests. These men meeting today In Whit Sulphur Springs, for the 30th annual gathering of the American Trade association executives, are busy studying th climate the cli mate of business. Their president, T. Z. Velfort, manager of the Copper and Brass Research association, New York, tells them: "Trade associations must be quick to sense changes In th clh mat In which business must be done. Th business weather has been stormy and changeable and presents a challenge to trad as sociations which Is obvious and in disputable. Th climate to which Velfort al ludes la not only the business slump but also the attitude toward busi ness by the government, labor and th public. And a growing Interest since th war In examining th function and operation of trade assoclatlona themselves. Trade assoclatlona have grown rapidly. They have been widely ac claimed, not only for their work In th last two wars, but also for the praca Urn soma of them do In Jobs of Improving business condi tion and policing th practices of their own member. In 1M0 there agi mm war about IM national and Inter stat trad assoclatlona. 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