The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1921-06-16
INTERESTING NEWS FROM
THE UnAT|llA FOREST
.Gurdane District.

The regular spring maintenance work
on roads and telephones has been com
pleted on the Gurdane district For the
next month it will be stock driveway
business and after that the locating Of
sheep assigned to this district and then
it is FIRE.
Ross Brown of Lena recently called
upon Ranger Woods at Gurdane and
made purcase of Western Larch post
timber. Mr.. Brown expects to establish
camp at Coal Camp on the head of Lit
tie Butter creek and will soon have
fence posts ready for market. The
forest service has large supply Of ex-
lellent post timber at. this point and
Mr. Brown expects to make additional
purchases as more timber Is needed
]. D, French of Gurdane and Phil
Higgins of Lena, representing the Five
Mile Cattle association were in the for
est inspecting that part of the Five
Mile drift fence that has been compile
ted.
W. S Casteel, forest guard at Ditch
creek. accompanied by Mrs. Casteel
made a recent trip to Albee for mail
and supplies, They patroled stock
driveway both going and returning, All
ranger stations are now being provi
stoned in readiness for the fire season.
Severe freezes have recently reduced
| the prospective huckleberry crop. In
some places, notably in the vicinity of
the Jones praries, so severe was the
freeze that the halfgrown leaves have
| turned brown and are falling off. A
| few places are reported to have escaped
| the freeze.
The trail sheep to the number of
! about 100 900 are now entering the Cur
dane district of the Uuatilla forest en-
route TO summer range in this district
and in other parts of the mountains.
All Of the sheep are in much better con-
dition than for several seasons and the
lamb crop is unusually large. Many
sheepmen place the estimate for Una
| tlla and Morrow counties at 120 per
cent Last seasons crop was estimated
at rs to so per cent
Very few new names are noticed on
the crossing permits, The old familiar
names and faces are coming along In
regular order indicating that the great
majority Of sheep outfits of Morrow and
Umatilla counties are able to weather
the present financial storm.
Every forest officer is now in the sad
die early, long and late patroling drive
ways issuing crossing permits and at
| 70 atn ri
business. Also acting as bureau of
Information, endeavoring to answer:
| How far Is 1t to -" How do we
go from here" rs there horse feed at
-?' Cant you give me some grass
for my Sheep Have ye seen any
thing of the bean -heaver.."
Mr.. All Gentry has been engaged to
salt the cattle on the Five Mile Cattle
range, Ranger Woods has been assist.
ing him to become acquainted with the
range and together they have beer
working out sailing and grazing plans
for the season. About one-thousand
seven hundred head of cattle and near.
ly hundred head of horses have beer
allotted to the Five Mile range
, OF special interest to the ladies anG
to cooks in general is a report from
one of the Five Mile construction
camps, According to the report, 1t fel
to the lot of the mule skinner tC
build the breakfast biscuits AS h,
, measured out the ingredients witt
swift and accurate hand. the mule
skinner informed the hungry ones thai
, his accomplishments were not confined
to the fine art of mule whacking bu
that on divers occasions he had con
, structed biscuits that had been eater
: with more or less gusto by hungry mel
, and boys. And now II they would Jus
r stand back so as to keep their eye sigh
clear and not get dough bespatterec
they would have an opportunity OF oh
a serving an accomplished biscuit builde
in action. 1t Is further reported tha
1 when the oven door was opened for al
inspection of the finished product tn
I biscuits were so light and fluffy tha
I they arose from the oven, like flocl
K of pigeons from barn, and went soar
ing in the air. The boss immediatel
ordered that each man in camp be sup
piled with a butterfly. or biscuit ne
In hopes Of keeping down the soaring
a cost of high living,