October 14, 1921 Shelton Mason County Journal | ![]() |
©
Shelton Mason County Journal. All rights reserved. Upgrade to access Premium Tools
PAGE 1 (1 of 8 available) PREVIOUS NEXT Jumbo Image Save To Scrapbook Set Notifiers PDF JPG
October 14, 1921 |
|
Website © 2025. All content copyrighted. Copyright Information Terms Of Use | Privacy Policy | Request Content Removal | About / FAQ | Get Acrobat Reader ![]() |
T
, ,'RID Y OCTOB,'00R 14, 10021 ---
PAVING COMPLETE ,-. MQ_V_E_T__O..SETTLE I OUT 0000aocy +.,,eV m00rov,
PROMISE H . ' " FIN ES FOR ,o,. ,:. INJURED WHEN BIG
district: The count*T around Dewatto, -
Tahuya river country across from WARDENS BUSY ROUNDING UP a blue ribbon for being the handsom STATE TRUCK RUNS OFF HIGH-
CONTRACTORS RUSHING W.ORK Union City, Purdy Canyon, Rocky
WITH LESS THAN MILE OF Canyon up the south fork of the Sko-
pAVING TO CLOSE GAP komish river, up the south shore
road from Union City, all the coun-
FILES SUIT AGAINST STATE
FOR LONE ACRE OWNED ON
POWER SITE .LAND NEAR
GAME LAW VIOLATORS AND
EXAMINING HUNTERS
est (7) man on the fair grounds.--
Elma Chronicle.
The Journal notes that A, E. is
WAY NEAR LILLIWAUP
WHILE RETURNING TO
ROAD CAMP
FALLS LICENSES leading the half-dozen who would be ---- -
• - Elms% next postmaster Four of the eight men riding in
\\;With less than a mile of paving left try around Mason Lake, along the v ............ lose of ttle big state trucks to their
tb connect the two strips on the old upper Skokomish road and the
Olympia highways the contractors old Union City road past what is The City of Tacoma has filed in The game wardens have been ....... ..... ...... ]camp on the Olympic Highway near
are rushing the work in the hope of known as the Emond's place.--Seat- the Superior Court of Mason County scouring the woods of late and this V{]{ l{lN| l g ILitliwaup last Thursday evening were
completing it before they are hamper- tle Times. ' the record of judgments secured by week especially so rounding up the _ ,,. ............ ]more or less injured when the truck
various defendants against the city hunters and looking over their papers K||.|:] ..'- '" rolled over several times, throwing
ed by the threatening rains. At the A in its condemnation proceedings, and and just to show that the woods are ............. ,,L,,.,, ,as !the men in all directions and landed
present rate they expect to close the
gap some time next week thus as- ORIENT DEl will probably doubtless before long full i of hunters report comes that N[VUpla ].].P]T| [fifteen feet below, although it might
take action toward the payment of onlyi 79 cars were counted parked ,aaaAvaaax aavk#aaaxiJu easily have dropped nearly fifty feet
uring the opening of the entire
pavement between Kamilche and FOR CEDAR L S • the various surfis awarded through an between Belfair and Dewatto, most Of at that point.
ordinance through the city council, them in the Oak Patch country, which BREAKING OF BLOOD VESSEL IN I The four injured men were brought
Olympia by November 15th, as pre- SHOWS STRGTH The judgments covering the riparian HEAD CAUSES DEATH OF lto the Shelton General hospital,
cases along the river and the right CLARINGTON N. ALLEN J reaching Shelton about 7:30 o'clock,
..... and the hospital was a busy scene
The death of Claringon r. Aries l for several hours while the injuries
occurred at the St. Peters Hospital in I of the men were being treated and
Olympia, Saturday, Oct.. 8th, fol!ow: dressd. Line Broti was the most
ing an operation to relieve a t)looa]seriously injured with a broken rib
clot at the base of the brain. Mr. I which had punctured his lungs, and
Allen was 67 years of age and wa.sllittle could' be done to relieve him,
for many years a resident of thin I his death occurring the following
is considered the best deer section.
Two parties have been brought in
wiously promised• ^ ........ are included but those so far, both charged with shooting
The contractor on the Mason Coun-
ty end completed his paving las BRITISH COL REPORTS A .... • '°y .. ' ....... pheasants and taken with the game
on appeal to me supreme c?u; , in eir ossession Last Friday
week and has been busy since clear- rein the number xilea. .n .h 1-- •
ing it off and building railings. The HEAVY DEMAND FOR BIG excepted f .... eaied wardens McConkey and Christensen
• l'hurston county contractor, who was TIMBERS IN JAPAN the Putnam case :tacoma app ---Iha,,tened on a party of four near
it was not ranect a new, vv
because " -, - Detoit with a fresh killed bird, and
abliged to hold up operations unto trial and on the Olympia uoor wom-, v ........
•his end was completed is now fast Vancouver, B. C., Oct. 8.--The ....... ,1 Sallin, Hansen timber Imey were t)rougn oeore usce
........ . . Ni.ClOl ad:%gu :lll!!
losing the short gap, which extends cream of the cedar logs of British ass the appe grnrt bt e I Wnra Min
from the top of the Solbeck hill to Columbia is going to the Orient. For l.:ground s s°ndPe county having made his home in the'
¢he temporary bunkers erected on the past four months there has been cause the new .... | ler and E Senn vleaded not gu" Kamliche Valley.
owners. Appeals were also ma(m m I . • ..... ..... :
the bay near the Simmons place, a an average export of high-grade ,.^ _as^s of non ri,,arian owners iaml were a nue grouchy avous ],
total distance of about three-quarters cedar logs per month of about 3,000,- " = . - - e |drawing fines of $15 each and costs,
who secures aamages.
000 feet, British Columbia scale. It is understood that Tom Webb
'of a mile.
The highway direct with the short Cedar booms coming down the and Cameron have decided to
,detours is in fair condition for light coast are eagerly bought up by the
travel at present and a large num- brokers and divided into grades, gccept the damages allowed by the
ber of cars are gettin through They take the specials and the num- jury in their cases and will not carry
without difficulty. The paving on ber Ones for the Orient, and the bal- their cases to the supreme Court.
this end is now open to tlle CountlT- ance is sold to the local shingle They, in common with the other
owners who were allowed damages
man store and from there several mills.
miles of detour are necessary on the Rough fall weather has hindered are beginning to wonder when the
old road paralelling the highway. At operations in the logging camps coin will be forthcoming and the
the Jim Draham place on Mud Bay along the coast and the cedar booms cases closed.
a heavy grade connects with the Mc- are not as plentiful as the market Tacoma this week filed its com-
Clearv road and although this is would justify, plaint against the State of Washing-
causing no trouble at present, it is] When the steamer Delagoa Maru ton, which had not been brought into
likely that continued rains >voum sailed from this port this week she the previous cases. The land involv-
hi- hart of *,he route diffi-had the first deck load of these cedar
........... • i ed is a lone acre of land near the
cult. is Ilogs to leave ths market. Th s
On the Olympia end the paving ' steamcr was boun(! for Japan and if falls of the Skokomish river which
)pen from the McCleary junction:nsuccessful in carr.ing her deck load, was used some twenty-five years ago
in to Olympia. The dirt road -I further shipments will be made in as an eyeing station for salmon in
rosining let•een the end of the pav-lthis way. The lumber mills of the 'connection with the state hatchery
ing on the Kamilche hill aotO aWsOrient take these logs and utilize of the lower river. The state has de-
is in fine condition and al '. almost every inch of the material, clined to release its claim to this
as accessories, while a young lad, L.
Senn, was discharged•
Monday deputies Stetson and Cun-
ningham found Messrs• Stout and
Werner out Dewatto way with a
pheasant in their car, and they ac-
knowledged the corn, drawing the us-
ual fine of $10 and costs before Jus-
tice Ward• They paid the fines and
departed, but the three members of
the first party refused to pay and
are staying out their fines, in addi-
tion to losing their artillery.
So far very few decr appear to have
beds killed since Sunday, only one
paslng through town, and :cveral
town parties have returned from
hunts without "seeing a hair."
r
THIRTY-ONE FAIRS HELD
Reports to the Department of Ag-
riculture show 31 local, county, see-
smooth as pavement. As this road Frequently a quarter inch is ripped lone acre without considering the tional and state fairs hehl this year.
has a hard gravel base it usually re- off a slab that will make a good pan- matter further, and the city will take Inclement weather did very little
mains in good condition throughout el, which in 'this country woula go the matter into court on condemns- damage and Director E. L. French
the winter so that Shelton is assured into the burner. Small short stuff tion pro'ceedings. Tacoma must se- reports the displays showcd surpris-
of easy travel over the highway to goes into boxes, cure title to the land before it can ing improvement over exhibits in pre-
Doing away with hand power in ed further with its power pro- vious years. Beside the number of
,Olympia from now on ....... ,
the saTnills of Japan has g,ven a [ect because it is included m the area fan's as increasing, M1. l. rench .says:
LM gigantic impetus to the export.of ;o 'be flooded and the fisheries de- a sign of better community spim an(;
E A IRON ORE timbers and logs for resaw purposes artmnt is investigating to deternine improved production. Tle state is
HEL D HIGH GRADE in the mills of the Nippon Island. hether the merits of the Skoko-l anxious to cncou'age the county fair
.Orders have been placed here and mish river as a salmon and trout lspirit, Director l, rench announces.
tonnage arranged for an average of stream would justify an active con-/ -
AVYNOOCHE COPPER DEPOSITS 1,500,000 feet of these short cedar teat at this late silage in the pro- / Just now the big cities are doing
logs, per British Columbia scale, per ceedings, the state not having been:a lot of talking about 100 per cent
BEING DEVELOPED month for the next six months, with made a party to the early proceed- Americanism. In the country dis-
SLOWLY one company alone• lugs. . tricts they are content to practice it.
Other concerns have large orders
There is ample ore of a high grade on hond, but are finding difficulty in
in Grays Harbor county and other securing tonnage.
• parts of the state to start a large
smelting and milling industry in the
state, according to A. K. Johnson, of IMPROVING STATE PARKS
Aberdeen, owner of iron ore lands The state parks committee, whi
near Elms. Olaf P. Jenkins, an econ- consists of Treasurer C. L.
.omic geologist from the state college
in Pullman, was here to investigate Secretary of State J. Grant Hinkh
and reports the ore to be high grade, and Land Commissioner C. V. Sar-
A carload of ore from the Elms idge, will prepare this winter for
clearing and mproving park sites
mine was recently forwarded to an most needed by automobile camping
electric smelting plant at Tacoma, and picnickin parties. There is now
where it was converted into a high about $4,000 m the park fund ,which
grade machine steel," said Mr. John- can be used to prepare for next sum-
son. " in mer. It may be possible next year
"The actual mining of iron ore to employ a park offi'cer to aid the
this state has already be ..n at Ham- highway patrol and county officers
ilton, but owing to con&tions of the in protecting the state parks.
market and money stringency the op-
ening of this industry in Washington
Ires been very slow. There is at BIG BROWN BEAR
present a persistent rumor that a
large smelter is to be erected on Pu- BUSY, BM) BRU00
get Sound, but no confirmation from
authoritative sources can be obtain-
ed. The 'complete report of Mr. Jen-
kins, it is thought, will greatly hasten
any such action.
"The various copper deposits on
the upper Wynooche and. around
Quinau[t are being openect slowly;
but work is progressing as rapidly
tts could be expected in a rough corm-
try with the present difficulty of ob-
taining capital. It has taken about
four years to convince the people that
Washington ore could be reduced, but
now it has been proved, and I look
for rapid advancement toward a
large mdustry."--Elma Chronicle.
LOGGED LAND POLICY
NEEDED BY THE STME
.COMMISSIONER SAVIDGE, STATE
AND COMMISSIONER, TO
PLAN FUTURE USEFUL-
NESS • •
Immediate and intelligent efforts
o solve the logged-off land problem,
which may require a constitutional
amendment, are urged by Land Corn-
*missioner C. V. Savidge.
"We realize our timber resources
are limited, we concede the neces-
sity for reforestation and acknow-
ledge it will take at least 45 years
to grow a merchantable second crop
of timber, yet we do nothing," said
Mr. Savidge. "Private owners of
land suitable for reforestation cannot
Iear the expense, pay taxes and pro-
¢ect a second growth they will not
live to cut. Much of this land al-
ready has been forfeited to counties
for taxes. We object to the federal
,ANK VISS PROVES HE HAS
NOT FORGOTTEN HOW TO
CLIMB TREES
(Hyder Miner)
Forest Ranger Cy Wickoff and
Cruiser F. E. Wiss are now pre-
pared to fully endorse• everything
the Juneau Empire has ever said de-
rogatory to the Alaska brown bear
and all his relatives, especially his
grandmother. While they were cruis-
ing a patch of timber the other clay
for the Hyder Lumber Co., the afore-
said brown bear grandmother chased
them bo.th up a tree and kept them
marooned for an hour or more. And
they hadn't done anything to the bear
either, hadn't even gossiped about
her. The worst of it was the tree
was a shell-bark, and they kept slip-
ping, slipping downward toward the
half ton of ferocity that waited with
slavering jaws and bristling toe-nails
to rend them to shr-r-eds. And that
wasn't all, either. The.old strumpet
called them all the vile names in the
dictionarr which they didn't have
coming,because they are both nice
young men; as proof of which they
didn't have a word to say to her in
reply. But eventually she went to
tell her neighbors about them, allow-
ing them to come down and finish
counting the trees.
They left yesterday on the Range
I for Ketchikan after spending a
week cruising timber and allocating
forest reserve lots. They also made
a trip to Fish creek to
runs of the silver fir, which
as known, grows nowhere
Alaska.
Frank Wiss is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Chas. Wiss of Agate, and has
government's extending _its grip on
ur timber resources, therezore the spent several years in Alaska. He
'state must act is now emolpyed in the government
• "The first ste,, is a classification servi:ce, cruising timber for. sale to
of all logged-Jr lands into three saine%gla°$
ETou s" t}lese suitable for agmcul-. .. v
- P " • ..... " .... *-*;-n Soil I in razing measurements near. K etchl-
rare, ffrlnff ann ,-uux,,,. • ,- . ,. - ,, •
analys, t'ansportation conditions, ]cKlenclY umeaan °fnt:°:s, s, Cnwm
etc, must be studied Those tunas! • l,
suitable for agriculturai':a rid. gr.a,z'/lasteTe: th°uhinthec,Yidbtoh
ing purvoses can be certified by tae ! v ....
state; tlae rest reserved for reforest]l Southeastern Alaska eeping an eye
aion under some plan to be evolved, on Uncle Sam s virgin timber.
DO THE "CHRISTMAS TREES" PAY?
This is the season when the traders are begin-
ning to seek those handsome little trees destined to
gladden the hearts of the ypungsters in California
and all through the East, and the Northwest is the
field from which these trees are secured. A San
Francisco firm is now asking bids for the supply of
25,000 of these young fir trees and doubtless other
concerns will be in the market. The trees bring the
people who furnish them from ten to fifty cents
re.cording to size, and must be selected and neatly
bundled for shipment.
Until recently there has been no demand for the
young trees except for an occasional Christmas tree
in local homes and they were left to grow until in
years the second growth has become fit for ties, then
piles and perhaps if left alone for fifty years would
be suitable for logs and lumber. Being considered
of no value by the average owner cutting was per-
mitted wherever young trees might be found, but
now owners are becoming interested in reforesta-
tion and if they permit young trees to be cut are de-
manding "stumpage" as with the_larger trees.
The state is waking up to the act tha some-
thing must be done with the vast areas of logged
lands which are being left waste.after the wreck of
the logger, and is finding that one of three methods
must be followed to reclaim these lands, if they are
to help out the taxpayers Lin future. Clearing for
agricultural purpose% seeding for grazing or efor-
estation for future timber supply represent the three
means by which these lands may be utilized and made
valuable to the state, depending upon the land classi-
fications.
Just now we are concerned with the latter ques- •
ties, and it will be conceded that natural reforesta-
tion is the best and quickest method of starting new
timber growth on such lands as are not adapted to
other purposes, and land owners should consider
whether it pays to allow these small natural "Christ-
mass" trees to be cut at the nominal return either to
the owner or the shipper that comes from harvesting
them. The Journal thinks it would be all right to
cut trees from lands which could well be cleared and
turned into farming lands, or seeded and made pro-
ductive for grazing purposes, for in the belief of this
paper it will not be many years before general atten-
tion will be turned back into agricultural channels
and cheaper mearis provided for developing the
state's better lands. Should land reforestation be
taken up in the future, as in the old world countries,
it will be found an expensiveproceeding to take the
place of what nature will do so readily if left alone.
morning.
Chris Neirgard and Heilberg Has-
He was taken ill suddenly last son, both Tacoma residents, suffered
week at his home in Olympia and similar injuries, broken collar bones
was taken to the hospital' where an and minor bruises, and Mike Borg-
examination disclosed a burst blood ford, whose home is at Hunter's
vessel in his head. He left to mourn Point, has a disarranged back, but
his loss a ife, Mrs. Ella Allen, whoall well on the road to recovery us-
was fol-merly Miss Ella Hurley, one der the care of the hospital.
daughter, Mrs. Edith Tish and four The state highway camp had re-
sons, Clarington, Prescott, George cently been moved to a new location
and Ethan. • thrce miles beyond Eagle Creek and
The funeral was held Tuesday af- in advance of the widening work un-
ternoon from the Mills Undertaking der the steam shovel crew. At sev-
Parlors, with a large number of eral points the present road is quite
relatives and friends of the family narrow and more or less dangerous
in attendance, in turning out. No blame attached
to the drivcr, as the soft part of the
road gave way beneath the hcavy
MOTOR FEES SHOW truck and it went over without
enough warning for the men to jump.
AUTOMOBILE GROWTH state il,ghway dopartment
caring for the injured men amt also
HIGHWAY PATROL 1S MAKING arranged for the funeral of Line
1T EXPENSIVE FOR DE- Broti, who was buried from the Chap-
LINQUENTS el Sunday morning, with se]-¢ices by
Rev. W. H. Thomas. Broti is a ha-
Olympia, Saturday, Oct. 8.--A re- tire of ],"rance and recently came to
port of the activities of thc motor this country. He left a wife in that
vehicle department made by Supt• R. country, but so far as known had no
Franklin Hart to Fred J. Dibble, di- relatives in America. The road crew
rector of licenses, reveals the effe'c- under Foreman Jorgensen with which
tiveness of the highway patrol under he was working 'came over to attend
the Department of Efficiency, L. D. tile funeral.
McArdle, director, and Louis M. Lung
supewisor, which t)ean its activities WASHINGTON FARMERS
September the 1. Althou'h not many IIAVE ItARVEST MONEY
men are emph)yed by the patrol yet
they llave succcedcd in in(luting , a Olympia, Oct. 10.--A conservative
conparativcly large number of mo- estimate fixes $50,000,000 the
torists who vere evading the law to amount oY money farmers a: the
make applications for their licenses. Northwest have received from one of
Every part of the state has furnish- the finest halwests of fruit and grain
ed a large increase of motor vehicle ever known in this newer section of
licenses and fees for the month of the country. The benefits of this
Septembcr. income are already evidenced in the
The comparisons made are by calen-, extensive purchase of falm machin-
dar months, although the actual corn- ery, houschold furnishings, building
pamson should be for different material and other commodities.
months on account of the change in
the date for beginning the issuance WASHINGT000S FUERE
of licenses. However such a compar-
ison would show an even lar'er in- R ON ITS FRUIT
crease, and the statement below of
the minimum is sufficient.
For the fiscal year 1920 up to Au- GREAT ADVANCE OF FARMER
gust 31 a total-of 172,046 licenses IN PAST GENERATION
were issued for all kinds of motor
vehicles. To the same date in 1921 That was the statement made by
a total of 182011 licenses were issued John A. Gellatly, president of tho
an increase of 9,965, the rate of in- Pacific Northwest Fruit Exposition,
crease being .058. For the month of which is to be.held at the Bell Strbet
September, 1920, 5,354 licenses were Terminal in Seattle from November
issued and for the same month in 21 to 26.
1921, 7,137, an increase of 1,783 li- "Just a glance at the agricultural
censes, the rate being .333. census for 1920 should be enough to
The same rate of increase is evi- convince one of the truth of this as-
dent in the fees collected. The fees sertion," he continued. "The census
to August 31, 1920, were $2,719,- shows that the 1919 fruit crop in
.05 and for 1921 for the same Washington was $51,662,307, as
months $2,817,001.12, an increase of against $5,270,473 in 1909, or a gain
$97,820.07, the rate of increase being o,f more than 880 per cent in a de-
.036. For the month of September, cade.
1920, the total fees 'collected were "Huge as this increase seems, it is
$47,608.55. For the same month in as nothing when compared with the
1921, $63,4775.90, an increase of $15,- increase which is certain to be shown
867.35, the rate of increase being when the 1921 'crop has been apprais-
.333, almost ten times the rate of in- ed. Fruit growers agree that this
crease for the period before August crop will reach a figure in excess of
31. $100,000 which will mean an increase
of about 2,000 per cent in twelve
PORT TAKES OVER WHARF ears.
Olympia, Thursday---' Oct. 8.--The "Due to improved agricultural con-
. the average value of the
Silverdale port comnnssioners have Washington farm has increased 40.6
taken over the wharf at Silverdale per cent in the last decade. This is
in Kitsap. county, formerly a big enough increase--but it seems
by the Sflverdale Poultry ) .tiny when compared with the ga'owth
the Department of Public Works
advised Wednesday.
CITIZENS FOR
of the value of implements and ma-
chinery on the average ranch.
"In 1910 the average Washington
farmer owned only $297 worth of
implements and mo;ehinery; today he
has $826 worth, which means an in-
FINAL DONATIONS TO crease of 1781 per cent.
BUILD MEMORIAL ,,it is indicative of tlle improved
conditions of life on the farm that,
in the same span, the value of the
COMMITTEE ASKS THAT SUB- average farm's building has increas-
SCRIPTIONS BE SENT IN TO ed 90.7 per cent---from $971 to $1852.
MAKE SERVICE MEI'S "While the actual land has not
HOME POSSIBLE ace with these two phenomenal
-------- it has shown an entirely sat-
Major F. C. Mathewson, ,Charles R.
Lewis and E. H. Faubert, members y growth in value,, its esti-
ted average value for each farm
of the County Memorial Committee
are armed wth subscription blanks having increased frcm $9,208 to $12,-
and receipts and ae ready to re- 033, a gain of 30.7 per cent.
' e Washington far
ceive any and all donations to the Today s averag " .... ".
lund. They expect to be busy on mer is" nearly six times as wen o
;h job until a sufficient sum has as his grandather was back in 1860,
)€ m collected to assure the building in the ays immediately after Wash-
)f the memorial hall for the sewice ington's organization as a territory.
In 1860, the aversge vame ota
men.
The committee is visiting the busi- farm in Washington was only $2,638,
aess houses this week but the sub- while today the average is estimated
scriptions are absolutely voluntary at $15,952.
and the citizens throughout the coun- The value of each gcre of famn
ty ar ¢1 to come loyally forward lproperty has increased at an even
• - ,?-:7"t,---;ons as it will be lgreater rate during this period. The
wm ** u,,?_ -o--ittee to visit [ exposition's figures show that in 1860
impossmm xor n ,,,, Inn acre of farm land in WaShington
them personally. - ........ , ] was worth onl, $9 58 Today the
Recei ts will be iurmsneu xor ..... " "
P ........ a I value for an average acre--which -f
to an o me aove n-*=,,,
funds sent, _Y .......... filledlcourse, includes undeveloped 1.and
persons ann suusclapuon vmn ---^lwhich is valuable only in a potentlm
, ure a men x0r a w,
n for fur. P Y ....... .^-. ne./wav--is $79.84, or more than eight
will make Known o nem *:=* -% | ,.:2f._ _ mueah
sire to take part inthe great worK. *,um ........