Talk:Skipanon River

message: I copied the following from User talk:66.91.0.39 Katr67 17:25, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Skipanon River]]

message: If I don't hear any objections, I'd like to revert all the anonymous changes made to this article in November and copy them here where they can be reviewed and slowly added back to the article. I think there's too much point-of-view and original research to try to work with the article the way it is written now. Thoughts? Katr67 08:01, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hearing no objection, I'm going to revert the article. Katr67 03:06, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: (from:  http://www.oregonpioneers.com/doc45.htm)
West of McClure's claim began that of Tickey Smith, who named Smith's Point. In January, 1845, he had a log cabin there and in it the writer met J. Teller, who located Skipanon, calling it Lexington, and two brothers named O'Brien, or Bryant, who had located claims from Tansy Point, east and west. It covered, of course, two miles of river beach, including what is now Flavel.
The Clatsop settlement was west of Young's Bay and nearly one mile up the Skipanon. Indian Cooper had made his claim and had the walls and roof of a prententious blockhouse started. To reach the Methodist Episcopal Mission site and the house of Solomon S. Smith (image), the pioneer homebuilder, nearly half a miles of swamp land had to be crossed by carrying goods over on men's or women's backs. At the Mission and at Smith's, dairies of about a dozen cows were started, and Captain R.W. Morrison had leased the Smith cows and farm, the Mission cows being tended by __ Trask (Note: Eldridge Trask), subsequently pioneer of Tillamook. William Hobson had located his home north of the Mission claim. Calvin Tibbitts was south of both the Mission and Smith claims. That of George Summers, south of Tibbits, became the Mission home. Mr. Wirt was next south, then the Perry place, soon the home of the late John Hobson; next the Trask claim, which became the home of Colonel James Taylor; next the Thomas Owens claim, and still south William McDaniel, Ben Wood and Major Hall.
These were the settled places here in January, 1845.
Mrs. Sarah Owens was the only one south of Tibbitts making dairy products then. By July 4, 1847, W.H. Gray, Colonel Taylor, B. Kindred, Alva Conditt ("Condit"), Captain John Robinson, Obadiah Mottley, and __ Thompson (Note: Arthur H. Thompson or Rev. Lewis Thompson), all clean handed people, had settled and started dairies, Mr. Conditt devoting himself to cheese making. The National day was celebrated and a very happy community spent the day together in good neighborhood style. There were eighteen homes represented, and at least half as many bachelors' halls. Later there was some increase, till the Rev. Lewis Thompson had more than three times the audiences at the Morrison private school house than now gather to hear his successor at the Morrison church.
Now there are but eight of those places run to dairy products, two to dairy and sheep, one to sheep only, one for pasturing seine-hauling horses and one without tenant or resident owner. The cause of the decline of dairying is labor requirements and the difficulty of keeping steady trained help on account of more attractive logging camps, lumber milles, salmon fishing and even clam digging. From some of these natural dairy farms money has been spent by the Morrisons, Taylors and Carnahans, to open a channel from tide flow on the Skipanon into Eulaby lake of depth to float out logs taken from the east end of several of the places.
This lake is the remains of a much larger area of one lake, now marshland, to drain which, even for cranberry culture, would require the deepening of the drain channel at least two feet, but which so lowered would form sites for 1000 three-acre cranberry farms, where now is more than 3000 acres of sedge grass, cat-tail, flag rushes and scrub alders. It is, in my opinion, a very inviting field for associated capital and labor. Drained and planted to the best New Jersey cranberries, this body of marsh would have a value of $100 to $300 per acre.
Of thirteen owners or tenants, eight are of English birth, for which climate is the chief reason. There is not, perhaps, a limited district in the United States equal to the east side of the Clatsop plains for the production of rutabaga turnips--an A1 winter feed for mutton, wool, beef or milk making. Of course, it is equally good for carrots, parsnips, and other vegetables of all kinds grown in the temperate zone. The locality has now the best local markets in Oregon for small fruits and fresh vegetables, especially in the summer season, and every proprietor has a seaside resort of his own. John Minto" (Oregon Statesman Feb 4, 1904, reprint of an article that was originally printed in the Oregonian)
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End of material removed from article. Katr67 03:14, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
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