Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1921-01-14
SILETz

]. D. Mickle, ex-food and dairy com.
missioner, accompanied by Con Christ.
Jansen, live dairyman of Depoe
Slough, visited Siletz Monday coming
from Toledo afoot. The ground was
frozen and these gentlemen enjoyed
the trip very much. At the King a
good warm supper was awaiting them.
The walk Of nine miles gave them a
keen appetite and of course they eh.
Joyed their supper very much. A
meeting was hastily gotten up at the
Grange hall to commence at 5 p. m.
Some fifteen or twenty Of the prom
inent dairymen met and Mr.. Mickle
addressed them on the subiect of
much Importance THE Oregon Dairy
mems Cooperative League" The
speaker showed in very conclusive
way the Importance of organization
and showed very plainly that the
League with its strong articles OF
agreement was the best form OF organ
ization that could be produced to pro-
tect the dairymen in their rights and
to assure them Of the best market for
their products. The farmer in the
past has been imposed upon. He
never could control the sale of his own
products. The merchant and the mid
dleman set the price on their own
goods as well as on the product of the
farm and the farmer could not help
himself. Mr.. Mickle showed how the
League would do away with this kind
OF thing and pass the products of the
farm directly to the consumer thus
cutting out the middlemen and saving
the profits to the producer. The clear
logical way in which the speaker ex.
planned the working Of the League for
the benefit Of the farmer made q deep
impression ON the minds OF his audi.
ence. Had the lecture been we'll ad-
vertised large audince would have
been present
Mrs. Wade Hampton Daniels of
Colville Reservation is now on visit
with her son, Jess, and heradaughter,
Mrs. May Calkins, who Owns the
Crawford hotel and barn, and Jess and
Calkins are engaged in the trucking
business. Mrs. Daniels will remain
here for several weeks and before go
ing back home she wants to visit the
old home on the Big Elk where she
spent about thirty years of her life.
When she first went there the hills
were covered with charred stumps and
the great fire that swept over the
country some seventy or eighty years
the underbrush was all burned off by
ago. From her own cabin door at
that time she could see herds of elk
and deer playing and grazing on the
green hills and drinking the water of
Big Elk; and she could hear the
scream Of the panther and growl of
mountain lions and listen to the soft
cadence Of the ripping of the noun
tain streams as they passed on to
mingle their waters in the bosom of
the great ocean. Here her children
were born and here they played upon
the green and bathed in the sparkling
waters of the beautiful river. She will
never see those things again. The
children have all scattered to the four
winds. They are net there. Things
are changed. The birds may sing as
sweetly and the chipmonks may greet
her with their chatter and the cotton
tail rabbit may scanper over the hills
but the scenes that were once fami-
lar are now gone.
]. K. Weatherford of Albany, with
a couple of strangers visited our town
Tuesday. They passed on down 10
the Lower Bay. Ira Wade, the good
looking, indefatigable real estate
agent was also with the party Tues
day.
AS spring opens we expect great
many visitors. Real estate will be-
gin to move as good weather approach
es. Mr. Mickle thinks the Siletz Val
ley will be as good dairy country as
the famous Coquelle Valley of Coos.