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
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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
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and Blanket INSULATION . . .
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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.
Now th department of eommerea
lists 4400 national and Interstate
groups a trade, professional anal
scrric assoclatlona, with a mem
bership totalling two million firm.
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MOST people have a habit of getting
their sights on cars of a certain
"price level" and making a choice on
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turned a whale of a lot of decisions in a
brand-new direction.
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Why not get good, substantial road,
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traffic?
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handy size.
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Buick ride-the silken luxury of Dyna
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pan shopping comparison open your
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"sbur Buick dealer will gladly let you
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