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Siuslaw River Farnell�J� ��I �! { R14�+�i? "��������'��._T�f ��m�� by James E. Farne7.1, Ph.�. Research Analyst DIV�SION QF ����F LANDS Salem, C�reqon Ma.rch, 1.979 FNTRODUCTION Under the Equal P'ooting clause of �he Oregon Adm�s�ipns Act, the Un�ted States Government transfexxed awnership of the beds of all navigable waterw�ys to the State af Oregon in 1859. At the tisne of this report, the full extent of Oregon's awnership is unknawn. xhe present development trenda along ou,t waterway� tru�kes it �pparrent that the locatfan of tt�e State/private baunc�aries is of extreme importance. The 1973 �gislat�re recognized this and passed ORS 274,p29-034. This la►w ditects the 1�ivisfon of Sta�e i�ar►ds ta make a study of all Oregon's waterways atnd �o [aake publlc their find3.ngs. This report is the Division's study of the Sins2ttw Rlver. According to local tradition nea�r Florersce, the Siu�law was named for a tributaucy of fts narttt fork aryd lfterally meaas "far away r3.ver" which for t he Indians was idiomatic for a di.minutive stretun; the Indian name for the main river was Ka-hits, gleamiag rfvsr. Oregon Geographic Naimes asserts that the Sius�a�w received its name frae a;n Indian word meanir,g "people" and was in this case applied ta a locality. l� Sius�aw post office was e�tebiished ciose to its saurce near Lorane, the first part of the wa��erehed to be settled, in 1852. T'�e Siuslaw was explored from its head�va►ters to the mouth by the Elijah i�hite party in 1845, and a►gain by Nathan Schofie�d fraat its mouth to the head of tide in 1853. Because it formed pa,rt of the Siletz Indian lteservation, howrever, white �ettlemer�t was de7.ayed on the lower riv�er until I876, a campar- atively late date in the �3stary of western Oregon. When the settlers arxived most areas nenr �he mouth were scarred by a mass�ve burn which le�t silvered sna�gs as part of the ��1�$Cdp@ far inany years after, 'i51e researcher wishes �o thank th� following �nstitutidns for access to their recor@s and materiala an the history of tihe Sius2aw: Lane County Court House Water Resourcas Departntent Oregon State �ibrary U. S. A�ny Corps of Engineers Oregofl Histarical Society Ozegon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Special thanks are due to the Lane County Museum, Esiqene and the Siuslaw Pioneer Museum, Glenada for permSssion to reproduce phoCographs from their collections. The late publication of the Siuslaw Historical Society, The Siuslaw Pioneex has a�.so beea invaluable for this study. Cover: I,umber schooner Oaklan� under full sai� after loading t�t the Saubert sawsnill, Acme. Siuslaw Pioneer Museua�. _• . � szt�s�w �zv�x �psr�t The Siuslaw is the fifth largest of the rivers within the borders af C�reaon which £lnw directly into the Pacific Ocean.� It forsns a tornado shaped valley with the tip at its source above Lorane; the cloud cdver extiends from tha river mouth in the west to the souce of Lake Creek in the northeast. ft has a drainaqe area of 773 square miles virtually a1I of it in Lane County due west o£ Eugene (Fig. 1). The Siuslaw ris�s in the Coast Mountains, the hiqhest pointi in the basin �s Walker Point which rises to 2,343 feet L�etween Lake Creek and the main stem of the Siuslaw. IR general the river slopes are moderate, even in the headwaters. There is a stieep cascade below Triangle Lake on Lake Creek and raugh water a mile above its mouth ca].ied "The Horn" (Fig. 2). On the main stem there aze two bad stretches of water, one at Tilden Rapids (RM 3Z) and Beecher (RM 38} CFi.g. 3). Otherwise the river ahove tidewater - which ascends to River Mile 23, above Mapleton - is relati.vely free of obstructions. It was for this reason that it enjoyer3 the reputation of being one of the finest log driving streams in �he state.� Stream flow daka exists for three points zn the basin, A.t P3�I 23.7, just above Mapleton and the head of tide, th� average discharge for the ten year period 1967-77 has been 2,223 cubic feet per second; hiqh 49,4�0 and low 45 cubic feet per secnnd. an Lake Creek near Deadwood (RM 2.6, 7,a,ke Creek) the average discharge has been 746 cubic feet per second during the same period, high 19,700 and �ow 12 cubic feet per second. On the North Fork (RM 13.9) average stream flow has been 293 cuk�ic feet per second, high 3,04� and low 12 cubic feet ger second. High flows come with the rains from Novem}�er through May, wi�h peak fiows r�uri.ng the limited period of record during the rnonth of February and April. 1 � �� �� � G� � M . �� f �� �f �f ��. 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NAVIGATION The piansers of the Siusla►w River valley when asked to recall the early daps made constant reference to the fact that the Sfusiaw River was the anly means af C�tAIIfCd��,Criy it was their highway.� So it h�►d a►lsa been far the Indians before the arrival of the whites. A descendant of the native peop�e described �tte vessels: dug-out csusaes were made fran cedar or spruce logs. or so�netimes fraoa animal skins or bark stretched over frames. The size of the canoes 8epended on what they were to be ysed for, small ten or twelve foot cannes were for the use of one person. Larger sized Eor family groups, and same nearly thirty feet fn length, made from Zarge spruce logs and paddled by twelve or �ourt�en men, were used in pursuit of seal and ses 3ion on the ocean. One of these, a 21 foot freight ca�noe built by Indi�ns in 1862, is on displ�y at the Sius].aw Pioneer Museum in Glenada. Some Inc3ians continued to ply the 5iuslaw in these craft in the service af the white settlers. At the end af the century sqeiaws atill paddled their canaes up and dawa the river sel�ing heaping 5 gallon tins vf claats for 2�� ta 5Q� apiece.�"� Many of the 5iuslaw pioneers were brought to the3r homesteads by Indians. Fra►nk and Elizabeth iCs�o�w�3es w�re brovght upstrea�m with their possess- ior►s by Indians fn canoes and deposited at the mouth of the creek which bears their �aame neaa� Mapleton. Knowles arecalled that i.h the 1880's settlers who we�nted to make n trip an khe river could hire nat�v� boatmen like Indian Ch�►rlie or Indian Lester, two who apoke some English, to rpw them fram the head of tide dowa river and back for a dallar or two. Tndian Lester was also said to have hauled tons of goods in his cainoe farom Beecher {RIH 38) and Tilden (RM 31.5; Fig. 3), the two rough sectios�s of the main stem, down ta the head o£ tide.�"� 4 Other set�lers �ailt them�elves dug-nut ca�noes and �ater r�wboats on their arrival in the n�w la�nd. These small boats were a�a.mily necessityr, 'i'hey Were 14-faot,l6-foot, and even 18-foot ia lenqth (Figs. 4,10).i was because they served to carry produce and gcoc3s as well as passengers. Many of the settZers had the�.r vwn dorks on the river. The most dramattic of the d�nestic voyages was hause moving. Several houses were removed to new �ocations by water; "Using an old scav and a log raft, Ha�xry �enson floa�ed a 64-fnot aibandoned dance hall up river to the present site of their home, a mi�e above Tierna�.�� F'erries were late in ceming on the Siusla�r�. The first was a private free ferry run by O. Wi2c�tt across Lake Creek at Greenleaf, whirh was operated between the late 1890's and at least 1909. rn 1913 there wa.s sta.11 no ferrp on the Florence-Glenada run Y� and the local citizens threatened ta form a new county of "Siuelaw" in protest aga�inst this and cther slights by the Lnne County government. The ferry was everstually estabiished� ho�wever, and served until the Hiqhway ldl �ridge was campleted in 1936 (Fig. 5). Steamboat navigation of the �inslaw commenced with t�e entry of tt�e �uncan intn the r3ver's mouth an July b, 1877. It brought or�e Gearge Duncan a►nd his family, camplete with m�tchinery far a sawtni�l ar.d sslmon car.��ry. L:snc�n became the son-a.n-law of R. D. Hume, the Rogue River sa].mon kfng, but his own eaterprises on the Sinsla�r dfd not prosper. Hume's own boat the Mar�r D.� Hume begar� regul�ex visits to the Sius].aw and the number of stean� �nd saiiinq schooners visiting the river swelled during the 1680's.lg At the turn of the century Wfl�iam Kyle kept a deta�iled account of shipping at the mouth of the Siuslaw for ths Corps af Engineers in connection wi�h the operation of his tt�g- Hoat the Rabarts. 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Cox built the Es__ca�e at Rnseburg, �ook ft dawn the Umpqua, and brought it by wagon up the beach l.naded with househnld goods and the supplies for the sawmill they gtanned ta build at Aeme. The Esca e ce,rri�d these on the Siuslaw and continued service in .�ts new river hame2 Williatn Bernhardt, who arrived in Florence during February 1884, recalled the early commerce artd industry on the r3.ver tSee Figs. 6-8 ) . In 2884 I was employed by Dr. .7, F. W. Saubert in buil.8ing the first sawmill [at Aame]..,.,After this job was dane I was empl.ayed or� the river and was engineex for seven years an the Ma►r [3a�.l,�he first Y-- steasnboat an the Siuslaw; le�er on the Robarts and other boa�s. The Lillian first gave tug servfce to ships can�ing �nto the harbor. There were 12 two-ma,sted schooners nukking the por� regularly. Their crews usually comprisec3 a captain and four seamen. These carried out from 80,000 Lo 200,OQ0 feet of lumber. After the Lillian came Kyie's tug Rabarts which carried on a freight service fra�a Yaquina Say. But the ffrst baa�ts to ca�� in were the Iittle sailing sloops that taok out 2oads of salmon. A benner day for the Robarts was March 19, �901. It �owed five schooners laden with over a�illion feet as their �umber cargo ovez the bar on one ti8e: Be11a Sacramento Wing & Wing Danfelson an�d Lizzie Prien The first bcat ta be built on the Sfuslaw was the Acme. It was launched f,n September 1887 for tRe Saubert mii1. Wi�liani Bernhardt alone built twa more bo�ts far Saubert, the Bel�.a at Florence and the Lue11a at Ac�te. The first gasol�ne engined boa►ts came about 1890. By that time there was xeqular service ort the Siuslaw between Florence and Seaton (Fig. 9A;10) for passengers, mail, and freiqht. The f�re in 189I was 25C per passet�ger. An ad in The West in 1892 statec3 that the ste�ner Coos made regular daily tr�ps between Flqrence and the head of tide, Amasa Hurd commander. 4ther steamers on that zun were the Lill�ain, Favorite, Mink and Hazel {Fig. 11). During the first decade of this century competitian between the Kyle and Hurd interests 8 ; _ . .. .. � ��„�,��7L ��' ' � , � �r:�►- x*�n-n--a +e� r. "l� Y ..�' �.. �.� r . �t .�C6� �� ? �,� . z . 1 „•3 . .,:. �' �� �� y , . Y � �+ k!.`� 4"'�.x � f , a I - � � . � _�E � � s 6 A a y -.; . . . � � , i ._,_ `7 t ;� q �e 1� , � 'r � . f . . . � 'ti "' �" C°"( � �. rt' � f - � .� � � � �, -. s ys� �'�'t1 �'�et � �� gk�z a.�; � "�' '�6 �r 7 . . .� i '�F'qd'q. $ '6::.'r, "� 4'. E - + '+�e: Aw. '�t k �+t ; � s ?a� �� . . y j(' �. w .x ��- Y f>� �� :�SM�y�� E �f . Y� '� i � '�' � � � � f � . .. 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" " P a 'M?�.r 1�i . .�1�.R.�.� . � °� .� , � X � � l 1 �.��1� '��� 1� , fY� Y4 �� ��,pi� G ���� ' ��I�� Y �t�t�"dy �tl4 1�ti� �.j d e'� � 1�V �, h y1�{ �,�� �� 9 � ��� t� �r1 • t ' +�' b r ���R �`w , f w�i"�Ir�� 8�=� � ' � �:. �1w'( �� � n��w��s �t�A � d lr s��''i f , i, ^ "q � ^ �: d p�p � � a a�„M r, �� � M Q' ± : i y V y a���; ' ��'� � ��r.�►�, �s� + �, �*s �, ���,�� 4 � J � ?'� k+ � �'� ��c� � "�, , ° � . �„ ..w»�. �h the river was very strong, and both had baats serving the Siuslaw. Hurd's baats incre�sed their schedule to two trips per day.� A new Isunch, the. Schian was put on the run fn 1908, nnd the post office alsa let contracts for �afl boats during this decade (Fig. 12?.�� �'wo other types of regulnr carm�erce nn the lower Siuslaw were cattle and fish transport. Catt�e were taken upriver to Seatoa an scows and there tra�nsported on the hoof over to the Willamette Va�lley. Fishing was carried on by many persons on the Iawer Siuslaw, I00 qill and drifL net fishermen were said to have fo2Za�wed the trade in 2900. Their catches were either brought by the fishermen @awn to the canneries in their own boats or picked up by athers and taken to the processing plants. The Hazel, for ex�ple, braught 3,500 fish to the HuXd �annery in November 1910.� The head of boat navigation on the North Fork of the Siuslaw was The Pnrt�qe, at which point gaods and passengers had to proceed by rowboat or sled (Fig. 13. 9B}, Ttsere was much pnlitical interest in Lane Caunty to maximize the navigable use of the Siuslaw as �he Hause Joint Memorial of the Qregon State Legislature ta the U. S. Conqress dated October 9, 1882 gives evidence: �'he entr�nce of the Siuslaw river in Lane County Oregar., i� qr�arly �n need of befng sarveyed, which can be made only by the Governmertt af the UniteB State�. The river drains a larqe section of country, rich it� soil, and the banks thereof abounding in forests of excellent timber. T1Yis country aZong the sa�id river is �ast settling up, and the 1�d befng clearec�, for agricultural purposes, and these excel�lent forests of f,ir, cedar and other varieties will soon be the foundation �f �;.ar�� cx�rv�L Lrade. The river tibounds in ].arge qttantities of se,lmon, which wil� in the near future create a iarge export trade. The ordinary tides of the said Siuslaw river ebb and flaw for thirty miles, and for about twenty-four miles, the said river is sufficient depth and wid�h to car�y almast any size rtessel,...,BUt the entsance or mouth af said Sius�aw river has not been surveyed and glatted, and hence vessels wiil not venture in, Eor want of soznething to guide them. 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Young, Captain of Engineers, recommended that the harbor be improved. One of his principal reasons for making the recotnmendat�on was that: There a�e iarge bodies of the finest kind of timher along and tributary to the upper river which can not now �e gotten to market at a reasonab�e cost....The t�mber could be gotten out with railroads, but on�y at a cost much in excess of that by boat. The hoclies of tim3�er that would natiurally seek a market by going down the xiver and out over the bar are so extensive that the saviag of even $1 per $1,0�0 £eet Isicj in the cost of produc�ng and delivering the lumher would amour�t ta a sum several times greater than �he total estimaked cost of improvzng �he entrance_ In 1893 �he Engineers estimated that 380 ta 90� square mzles drained by t�e 38 SiusZaw had merchantable timber in the amount of 13 hiZ�ion feet. Funds for the improvement were appropriated in 1890. and wark on the north jetty begun in 1892. The work was vigorously prosecuted for a decade. A second period of wark occurred in 1910-11. r2uch of the stone for the jetty came from quarries near Point Terrance and were taken by tug driven scoks down to the construction site. In 1909 the �ort of �iusiaw was established. It would be pointless to gather redundar.t evi�ence on navigation o£ the tidal portions of the Siuslaw (Fig. 14). Commercial navig�tion of a�l tidal reaches, to fliver Mile 23 on the main stem and River �4ile 7 an the �!arth Fark, was a fact from the first days of whi�e settlement. Today these areas remain a vital commercial waterway. 2 fJ �Of_; nRSVF� The auestion of the u,pper Zimit of r�aviqation on the Siuslaw heyond the head of tide depends on the river sections used for 1og driving. Florence's newpaper The 4'est regularly extol�ed the merits of the Siuslaw for the �ransport of logs. The N4arch 14, 1899 issue asserted, �'The numerous streams furnish an easy an8 inexpensive means of txansporting the logs to the lower river." In 1911 they recalled that lumbering dn the Szuslaw hac� been carried on for ahout 20 years and tha�, "Logs ak�ove tidewater are put intp the creeks to he carried downstream by high water c3uring th� winter." Z'he West also gave circumstantial accounts of loqging and lag driving in its pages. Many parties engaged in this business. Betiwean 1890 and 1931 aver 3.25 separate outfits registe�ed their log brands with the Lane County Clerk to put logs irsto the Siuslaw and its tri�utaries. The app3.icants, their addxess other than �a1em when given, the dates of applicati.on, and the river stretches they proposed to use far floating logs are gaven i.n the following list:'� TA$LE i. LOG NfARi`.ri iSSiJEl3 FOR �IUSLA�N RIt%F.ic Name Address Date Portian of Riv�z Sius�aw Lumber Ca. Capt. W. A. box, "Siuslaw" Maurice Johnson Mi±chell & Baiiey Phn. Hardell & P. P. Be�hart J. L. Taylor 4dm_ SutheYland w. We17s W. L. & O. 5. Phelps Spencer Lyons 3. C. Phelps A. P. Condray u7. Nichols W. T. Bailey seaton GZentena Meadow Meadow 8 �4ay 189� 5 Apr 1891 3.8 Jun 189 3 4 Aug 1892 15 Feb 1893 2.4 Sep 1894 �7 i�tnv 1 Rgd 28 rdov }�89� �.9 r,ov z�3g� 10 bec 1894 10 Dec 18�4 12 Dec 1894 11 Feh 1895 28 F'eb 1895 i,ogs run on Siuslaw Sie�slaw River and tribs. 21 SiusZaw P.iver ar�d tribs. Indian Cr.,Lake Cr.,Sius2aw Girag],�E �n� tri}ig, Siuslaw and tribs. Siuslaw and trihs. Siuslaw and tribs. Siuslaw and tribs. Siuslaw and tribs. Siusiaw and tribs. Sa.usl.aw and tribs. TABLE I. {Con�.} Name Isaac & B. H. W. Thompson L. E. Milledqe U� L. Phel�s Wm. Ferris �'. C. Popett .7. C. Pettit L. Leopold J. C. Pettit A. H. Hinkson & W. H. Sa�J.ee Charles & Stephen Q�ainn A. M. Richardson M. D . �TOhnson D. M. Purkerson Hurd & Davenpprt Jesse A. & Tr3ise L. Phelps George Pxesco�tt w. H. Salle� Frank Hadley Char2es E. Schau�l Wiiliam R. Bernhardt F. �. Makemson Lyons Rros. S. L. Tay�.or t�Tiiliams & C�ippin A. C. Barbour Am�s Fiadsall �. McCul.lo�agh Ear2 Baldwin L. Leapold G. VI. Luce S. S. Miller Address Hermann Glentana �lentana Alma Al�na Aima Myrt�.e Point *4ound F1.orence Mbund Alma Crow A lma Glentar�a R lma Glentana S. W. Porter, R. Rob�rtson Frederich LaRue Jesse J. NicYtolle A. A. Gihson �Tesse Co1e E. W, HoseZton Abe Gilbert P. E. 5nodgrass [ Meaflo�a 3 Date 23 May 1895 21 Nov 1895 2Z Dec Z895 17 Feh 1846 Z7 Feh 1896 Z$ Feh Z$96 27 Mar 1896 15 Mar 1896 l� Apr �896 30 Octi 1896 5 Nov i896 8 �ec 1896 19 Dec 1B96 2 Jul 1897 ].4 �ct 1898 5 Sep 1999 14 Sep 1B9Q 19 �e 2899 9 Oct 1�399 6 �ct Z899 3 Nov L899 ld Nov 189� 25 Nov 189Q 29 i�ov 1.899 2 Dec 1899 13 flec 1R9�3 I9 Dec i849 3 ,Tan 3.900 �9 Feb 1900 21 nec 18g9 7 Fek� 19Qi� 5 Ma� 1900 Feb 19C}0 13 Mar 19f10 6 Apr 190Q 2 JuI I900 2 3 .7n1 1900 ]� Sep 190D 14 5e,p 190Q 22 Portion of River Siuslaw and tribs. Siuslaw and tri�s. Siuslaw ana tribs. Indiar► Cr.,Lake Cr.,Siuslaw Siuslaw and tiribs. SiusZaw and t�tihs. Refiles for Sit�slaw & tribs. Siuslaw and trihs. Sius�aw and tribs. Siusl.aw and tribs. SiuslauT and tribs. Sie�s�aw and �xibs. SiuslaF� and �ri�s. Siuslaw and tribs. Siuslaw ar�d tribs. Siuslaw and tribs. GivsZaw and tribs. 5iuslaw and tribs. Siuslaw and tr�hs. SS.uslaw and tribs. Logs floated and run on Siuslaw & trihs. Siuslaw anfl trihs. Siuslaw and tribs. {Run ar�d floated} siuslaw and trihs. Siuslaw anc� trihs. (Rtin and floated) Fiuslaw and tribs. (Run and flaated) 5iuslaw and tribs. Siuslaw and tribs. Siuslaw and tribs. Sius3.aw, Lo�7q Tom, willam�tte, McKinSey sius].aw and tiribs. (floatina) Gfu5lata anr� tr;1,� (floating) �+ y. Siuslaw and Lribs. (floating) Siuslaw and tribs. G?olf Creek (�Zoat�d� Siuslaw and tribs. (flaating} SiusZaw and trihs. (flbating) Siuslaw, Willamette, McKenzie �AS�� z. tcont.) Name B. J. Watts C. L. Kelsey Ona Phe2ps A. C. Barbour John N. Woods w. E. Curtis Sutherland, Frazer & G. S+I. Griffin W. L. Phelps Robt. Poston Clayton Pope F. LaRue B. J. Watts E. F. Da�vis & M. P. , Mope J. h'. Daster Joe Johnston Wm. Haskins C. Z. Sw�:et F. L. Berkshire Siuslaw & San Francisco Lumber Co. by S. B. Cushman Scott Gillespie C. E. Lewis from C. T.. Kelsey i. i�. Nfic'r►aei J. A. & J. L. Fii11s hy L. S. Hills Siuslaw E.u�rtber Co. Tucker Bros. & J. �I. Sutiherland Address {Eugene] Crow C'row Acme Walton Date �3 Nov 19�0 23 Oct 1900 8 Nov Z900 6 Nov 1900 I2 I3ov 19C10 r*ov 1G00 23 Nnv 190�3 19 hov 1900 4 Dec 1900 Dec 1a00 *1ov 19Q0 28 Nov i9pc� 21 Jan 19t71 20 Jan 1901 17 nec 19aD lI .7an 19�1 i� �iar 19c�1 20 May 1901 10 4ct 1902 24 Oct 1902 6 Nov 1902 10 Jan 19D3 1F, Feb 1903 9 Apr 1903 10 Apr 1903 23 Portion of Rzver Sinslaw and �ribs. 5iuslaw and tribs. Siuslaw and tribs. Siuslaw and tribs. (floatzng} Sius3�aw and tribs. Siuslaw and tribs. (floating) 5ivslaw and tribs. (f2oating) Sius].aw and tri�s. �iuslaw and tzibs. (floatinq� Siuslaw and tribs. (floating) Siuslaw and tr,ibs. (floating} 5iuslaw and eribs. (floating) Siuslaw and tribs. (fioating) Si�slaw and tribs. ( f loatinq ) Siuslaw and tribs. (floating) Siuslaw and trihs. (flaating) siuslaw and tribs. (floa�ing} SiusZaw and tribs. (fZoatinu) Siuslaw R. & Siuslaw Eay (floatinq) siuslaw and tribs. {fioating) Siuslaw and tribs. Siuslaw and trihs. (fZoatfng) Saw logs and timber �iuslaw and tribs. (floatinq) S�.uslaw and tribs, (f].oatinq} TASLE I. icont.} Name S. C. Lewis C. F. cax P. E. Jacksnn P,. D. Reev�s �� J. H. Beckley 0. W. Hurd S. L. R. Maine Alfxed Friedrich F'unke 5iuslaw Lum}aer Co. I. B. Cushman, Pres. Brown and ��andsaker W. E. Wells Siuslaw Lumber Ca. .T. B. Cushman G. W. Layne H. Ii. Fi.sk f�uzd ?,um.�er and Navigation Co. J. C. Sorton Bros. Lumber Co. C. M. And�ewS Siuslaw Lumber Co. Ira ti•Y . Brown I,ouis W. Hunziker Ka.nley Bros . o:. ..1 � n.....� r_ .�lua;QyY AlJlll�l LU. Whisman Bros. B. J. Doninq (A.�r". ) Camp Bros. Wi�lamette Pacific Railroad �� Address Acme Hale �� Florence P.].ma Flprance Acme Mapleton Acme �to und Florence B�achly Blachly A cine E�achly Mapleton liC:iT7� t,Talton Blachly flate 3 3une 1903 21 May 1q03 14 �ul 1903 6 �ec 1902 24 .7u1 1903 12 Aug 1903 13 Rug 19�3 15 �1ct 19Q3 12 Sep 1�04 3� Tan 1905 15 Nov 1905 29 ,Tan 1906 6 ApY 190E 6 Nc�v 1906 16 Jan ],9�7 6 �:ay 1Q(?7 6 .7an 19(�9 IB Dec 19b4 �1 Jul Z91�s 29 �7u1 �.911 3 tdov 19 �.1 31 c�ct 1911 2s" ivav i=+ii +�ec 1911 15 .7an Z91.2 L8 oct 1912 IS Aug 1912 I6 Feh 1914 24 Portion of River Si�slaw and tri�s. {floa�ing) siuslaw and tribs. (£loatina) Siuslaw and trtbs. (flbating) 5iuslaw and tribs. (Ploating) „ Sius�.aw and tribs. (floatina) siuslav�� and trihs . (flaating) �iuslaw R. & Sie�slaw Bay (floating) Siuslaw and tribs. (fioating) Siuslaw River and Bay Sius law and tr i.?as . �floating) Siuslaw and trihs. 5iuslaw and tribs. 5iuslaw and trik�s. (£loatinq} Siuslaw and tribs. t�loatinq) Ciuslaw and tribs. Logs run in Siuslaw iG tribs= Locts driven on Siuslaw & trihs �� Logs & timber put in Siuslaw and tribs. Loqs flnated in Si�slaw R., tra.bs.,sloughs & bayous 5iusiaw anci triibs. Sivslaw and tribs. (f1oaY.ina) Siuslaw and tribs. {floating? Siuslaw and tira.bs. �� �� TABLE Y. (Con�.) Name (No address for these} 3ohnston P. Porter L. Boring Tide Y7ater Mill Co. (J. P. Porter) (L. C.} Kirby Bros. ,� August nscar Funke senjamin� Martin �. F. Peck Chepear Wi].cut Sdgar T�Ianndn {Wm. W. ) trlilbUr & Sons E. J. Jen3cins R. Wadsworth �� J. A. Ruth transferred fram Ben�. Martin oscar Olsan „ Tu�t Lumber Co. St�phen F, Mead Elmer Russell Delta Shina�,e Co. (H. L. Rergman) Wm. w. f�7ilbur w. C. t]avis Graves & Balon Logqinq Co. from L. Roring A. L. Gray (h'. �,. ) Graves & Baldon Albert C. Finseth Siuslaw 'Timber Co. Smith & Lane G. t�;. Steinhauer Staut �.umber Co. �� hfieeler Bros. (Remesen) 4?adsworth & Wil�iams Nick Saul Jack Wells Roy W. Swearingen J. A. Rust Crown Timber Co. C. VanSwayze W. R. Boring 3. E. Cox E. B. Goude Walter Severy GiZbert Henagin Date 1 Nov 1912 12 Nov 19I2 14 �]ec 1912 26 M�y 1913 6 Jul 191p 9 Aug 1913 13 Dec I917 5 Oct 191B 9 I�ec i9�.8 20 Jan 19I9 19 Nov 1919 18 Feb 1920 17 Aug 192� 29 May i923 19 Aug 1920 29 Oct 1920 I8 Jan 1923 3 Nov 192D 27 Nav I92D 5 Ma� 1921 8 rlcv 19 21. 22 Nov 1927. 2 D�c �921 26 Jan 1922 21 Mar 1922 5 �c� 1922 28 Feb 1923 7 May 1923 I Jun 1923 5 Jun I923 18 Auq IQ23 2 �an 1924 24 Aug 1923 8 act Z923 9 �TOV I923 9 Nov 1923 I4 Diov 1923 15 Nov 1924 �.2 ,�un I�25 �3 Jan 1'?26 6 Mar 1926 17 ,Agr 1928 I Aug �928 ZO D�c 1931 ZO Dec 1931 Portion of River Siusiaw and tribs. Siuslaw and tri�s. Siu�law and trihs. Sius�aw and tzzhs. k�aters af Lane Caunty Siuslaw and tribs. 5iuslaw and tribs. Lane County Coos County SiUSlaw and tribs. Siuslaw and tribs. SiusZaw and trftas. �� Siuslaw and tribs. Siuslaw and tribs. Siuslaw anc� tribs. Siuslaw and tribs. 5ius�aw and triY�s. Siuslaw and tri�s. Si.uslaw and tribs. I,ane Caunty Logs & timbers {nq glace) Siuslaw R, trihs, sloucrhs. }aayous Siuslaw and trf.bs. �iuslaw and tribs. i�iver 5i.uslaw and tri�s. Lane Cannty Siuslaw and tribs. River River Si.uslaw and tribs. Siuslaw and tribs. I,ane County Siuslaw and tribs. SiusZaw and tribs. 5�.uslaw and trik�s. Lane County Siuslaw and tribs. Siuslaw and tribs. 25 They were put to use, because the log brands of 50 separate logging outfits aze said tq have been d�scovered on the logs washed upon the oc�an beach wheri high water took over 7 milliaa feet of �aw logs ov� to sea at the end of the year 1900� The voluaie of timber moved can be gauged by the report in January 1906 that the freshet had brought 12 mill�oa feet of logs from the river and creeks ak�ove tidewaLer to the Point Terrace and Acme booms. Thi� was but a portian of the year's cut floated fror+n the upper river. zn the w�ek b�fore March 2 of the same yea� the people af Mapleton counted 1500 logs passing the tawn from upriver. In April pf a later year, 1913, duriag one freshet it toak �he ioqs five hours to pass �iapleton going at a steady rate.�� In 19Qb the mills nn Sius�aW Bay had A co�nbined daily capacity of 2b0,000 feet. The peak year of lu�ber export froat the Siuslaw �as 1902 when �0,201,540 board feet or 22,�97 tons were shipped. what were tt►e upper 3imits of log flo�ation an t.h� Siuslaw and its tributttr- ies during �he years fran beEore I89Q to the 1.920's? betern►ina�ion of these points would estal�lish the tatal portiar�s used to f�ont loc�s, because their only market was the �our or f�ve large sawmil3.s nea►r the moUth of the r�.vez which had heen estab].ished by 1893, ar�d during the main period of dri.ving were variously aaned by a.w. Huxd, Wi13.iam Ky�.e, M. E. Saubert, �. B. Cushma�z�. A.w. Beadle and Charles Davfd, A chf.ld of ane of the above a►pplaica►nts, Maurl.ce D, ,Tohn�on, Who registered his marks in 1893 r�d 1896. reca�,led his father's loa drives on the upper portions of the a�ni.n stem of tihe Sius2aw. In 1890 the e2der �ohnson: filed on 1fi0 acres in the heart of ta12 old growth fir on the bank of the Siuslaw rivex a�aut 43 miles up river fr4m MapFeton. �ur father startec3 logqing with 2 oxen in the lead ar�d 2 horse� behf.nd. They rolled the logs into the Si�sZaw river and when hi,gh water caime in the winter the log driving crew fblloaaec� r�e logs, breai�ing ja�ms and ge�t3ng �hose that hung up in brush or or� banks, back in�o the current, The lag driving crew r�as coanpri�ed of 2�iork boats with five men in each boait arid one cook boat with twa men, fo�d, 2h tents, dry clothing and bedding to enable them to camp along the way wherever night found them. it generalZy took then► ten dAys to get the logs daMm to eenedict's boo�n where they were sold ta Acme and Florence sawmills. The most received �as $4,50 per �000. These boats were abou� the same type as those u�ed by t}Ye I�cKenzie river guides, meant to r�de very rough water a�d handle easily, There were two rough spots on the x#.ver crtlled Beecher and Tfl�en Rapids, whfch we never dared go over in a�aoati. (Fig. 3) F3e remembered the nearly fatal tStne they did run the rapid and concZuded, "we nener tried to ride Beecher Rapids again." 15A) Johason'a claim was prabak�ly near �ohnson Creek at R�ver Mile 72 af the Siuslaw (Fiq. 15B). The West contafns severa� reparts or► Johnaon's dr�ves. On 3anuary 12, 1900 they recorded the "MOrris .7ohnson of Mound has put 1300 loqs iato the Siuslaw River and intends to drive next n�nth." 5 � The next seaso�n he was a heavy �oser i.;n the h#.gh water that took logs out to sea. He came to the lower rfver in .7anuary }.901 and discovered that 2 million feet of his logs had been swept away. Five years ].aLer he had better success: "Morris Johnson the we21 knawn logger of Mound was in Florence yesterc3ay raornir�g, He qot a�� his Zogs dawn save a few above the mauth af Lake Creek scatterec2 along th� river bank. during the winter." �� He had hi.� crew of river drfvers out working ffve times Frank Hadley of Mound, which is at River Mfle 85 of the main stem of tne Siuslaw, had 300 loqs in the riv�r durfng Jar�uary 1900; and ther� was a ca�p at Alma, River Mi�e 82, during the same month. _A.H. Hinkson'� loggfng camp was reported on geveral ti.in�s by Z'he West and was probably near riis property a��ached in i9ub between River �4ile 54 and 5fi.' No reference to log driving higher than Mouttd ar Alma on the �aa�fn stem hds been discovered. 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D. ueeley and Oscar Gates were Zoqging there durinq 1898-1900.�� t�illiam Kyle received logs in the �atter year from wiliiam Nicholas of Meadow.� �he �Test repprted in March 19Q0 that 2 million feet of logs were hung up on the river banks between Neadow and Mapleton, expecial�y near Tilton rock, w. wells' place, and below the mouth of Thompson creek. Du�ing the season 1903-1904 Kyle contracted with J. H. Beckley to log the Tallman place near Meadow. Kyle transferred his interest in that timk�er to Jospeh Fellman and J. J. Nicolle wha Iogged there the following two winters. Tn 1911 �ae and Fozest �fiis- man �ogged the L. Borinq property at Rock Creek near Meadow (FM 39.5) beginning in actober, but Ieft the site in an altercatian with �oring in July 1912. As �ate as 1920 R. E�. Davis put 900,�00 feet of sawlogs into the Siuslaw between Nekoma (RN4 32) and Swiss Hpme from February through April af that year. 6 � Tne general situation of �ogging on the Siuslaw during the earlier years i� revealed in one of William Kyl�`s Ietters to a prospective �og contractar, which is repoxducad exactly as it was typed. August 22nd, [1$9] 9 Mr. P. E.Snod,grass. Eugene,Or. Dea� 5ir: I have your favor of the 19th inst.and note what yau say regarding the logging proposition,Your �aggers ask to much, ta do the logging,Two Dollars to put them into the river is all that i� is worth and you should not pay any more,I dont see how the Mi11s here can pay more than $3 D0. for the logs as u�e have to pay sa much mnXe freight to get the lumher out than they do on Coos bay or the �ound.T�en we 30 have onl�ey one market place S.F, we cannot load Zarge enough vess2es to go south or to the is2ands,small vessles does not carrey enough to make iong trips,and large ones we cant get over �he bar.so we have some difficulties �hat we cant overcomeno matter haw we figure it out � Chink in the course of a month or so I can pvt yau on to a plans [sicl that yau wili be a�s1e to get yovr tiniber out fox two dollars into the river.This idea of hauling logs into the river with bull tea�ns is out of date,and fs to castly,the proper way is with a logging engine and wire rope,when the machfne dont work it dont cost any thfng to keep it and you dont have ta feed it when it is not e�rning aflythg, I aim trying to get up a s:nall company to buy an outfit wich wil� cost about Fonr thousand dollars,and have it go fro�m place to pince and put the logs ir�to the river. I1 wrfte yau lntter on a�bout it. Yours resp. W Kyle As for log driving technique Kyle had this saqe a8vice for Snodgrass, "Runaing the logs in the creek depends on what candition the creek is fn."� As for the tributaries of the upper Siuslaw, �he Tintbermdn reported in Octvber ].900 that laggers were preparfng to get charters to run 4vildcat and Walf Creeks. The researcher has discovered no references to loqging on Wolf Creek, but a number exist regardfng log flotation on Wildcat. The loggers referred to in the Timberman articl� were probably the Lvons brothe�4 who purchased �he Washburn timber on la,rer Wildcat in the Autumn of 1899 and on December 22 af that year were said to have gotten a nice Iot of loqs ready for the wint�r run or� W�.ldcat Creek. By March af 1900 they had rua 400,000 feet of logs to the head of tide. A freshet fn November of the saaae year took more of their logs out. The 'Ivisor�' correspondent cos�►mented, "we think 3 ]. Wild Cat ctu�npt be beaten �s a logging stre�m in the county." Ivfson was former�y a post office a couple of mfles e�st of Walton, probably at the �outh of Fish Creek (RM 9.9, Wildcat Creek). Levi Vaughn & Sons nF Ivison ware lagging on Chickahominy fn January 1903, and had banked a�ot of �ags on J. L. Atkinaon's pZace on Wil�cat. The next month the Lyons brothers of Walto� were reported to have contYacted �o furnfsh 1.5bD,000 feet of logs to �e Siuslaw Lumber Co., and a Mr. Reeves succeeded in getting hfs logs out af wildcat i� Marc� 1904. It speaks to the importance of �ildcat as a logging center that the Siuslaw Tiinberman's Union met at Waltan during March 1905 to set the price for logs delivered at tidewater. Thir�y timber awners frarn the 5iuslaw valley were said to have atteaded that meet�ng. Lyans Bros. of Waltor� were still contracting for logs in 191I. The abeve information would indicate the Wildcat Creek belo�w Walton �Q at River Mile 7.6 was regularly used fnr 1og �ransport duririg the first decade of this century, LAKE CREEK �ice Creeic, whici� cons�itutes the true north branch of t�ie Siuslaw river was, with its �ributaries Indian and Deadwood Creeks, heavily used for log drivfng fram before 2890 to the 1920's. The Vdh�smaz brathers, who settled across the ms,in stree�m from each other at the mouths of Deadwood and Nelson creeks (Fig, 17) begarn to put logs inta Lake Creek for transport to tfdewater �.n the �ate 1880's; the date is esta,blished by the fact tha� their Zoga were carried out to the ocean in the f�,aod of 1890.� Herman Steiahauer was reported by The West during December 1900 to have bl.asted many rocks fn Iake Creek �sbdve Deadwoad (R�1 3} in order ta sid log driving on the creek. 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"'1 � , Li)G �.'•ay"�`5 �L(���' 2��:?�PI��,`I'C7�T, 1979. T �J fi ' � �. r'ic�ur� �3�;. G� ��.�L��;_ CP,EL•�+., FQEti.��'�RC7U?3�� E�T��; ;- I£�TG I.��KE CZEI:K, � T��arclz Z979. r� �, i,��� , d �' { ' p � { N\� � � "'!ar� ��i� �, ������ �' �, �;; , ` ��rt�� �. �� � r > . � � �r ,�4� '� .. . ; +�.",��1, ,. �-��;; �;��� �„�"�� ►� , � � . ; .,� ��; • � '�' _ .. ���Yd,v� Ys _ _ . ,� ° � � �,,� � ,, � �°� � � �� �., � � ' , 1 , � ��a�w"i� _. } � '�" � �"r �I�� a " ,t�, F� � � 9 �.i'.:. ��� , . . � �' � _ �� � � . .. . _ � � i�u�'� ? �� . �'L�I7I;y ;' . �;.r-` BELQi�7 G�.E�iLE��l�' �C33�? Lr'�KE C?��" ��. � r.�� �e3� J_979. 34 ` �- ,._. ���� were putting in 1ogs. The head of Zoq drivinq on Lake Creek was near C,r��nleaf Post �ffice, which, at least xn �$94, was near River Miie 15 of Lake Creek; it was not moved to its pxesen� location 3-1/2 river mil�s belaw Greenieaf Creek until 1908.�� The Frank Eldridge place at River Mile 15 an Lake Creek was loggea early in 1903. Other references to lagging activity in �ne GreenZeaf area abound. William Kyle agreed to b�y 50�,000 feet of logs from �. A, Burnett of Greenieaf in August 1899.�� Logs were put anto Greenleaf Creek itself from the Fred Pepiot claim n�ar the mouth of the creek (Fiq. 18) and from other points.�� T�e 'Greenleaf' correspqndent of The West also reported that the Charles Cox, CZarence Burnett, Downing and Roe properties in hzs section w�re also logged. Thes� properties were cut hy Ira Brok*n who used a boat during his logging and driving operations.�� Jess� Phelps, Louis H�nziker, Porter Bros., B. J. Downzng and C. M. Andrews also iogged and drove in the Greenieaf area during the years 190g-igZ4, Andrews undertook an extensive loq drive on upper Lake Cre�k fox the Hurd Lumher and Naviqati�n C�m�any neLk �ebruary and August 1910. He was to deliver 10 �illion feet of Iogs between 19ZQ and 1912; over 3,200,Op0 feet of yellow fir Iogs were cut near River MiZes I1.5 an� 15 of that stream dur- ing the first year.� Lnagers had worked du��nq Februazy 191� to improve Lak� Creek for driving purpases,�� The spring drive of 191I was not fortunatp. hnw- ever, for a very large jam developed at Greenleaf bridqe (R� 14.47}. I���;G Hunziker was busy trying ta clear some of the logs during the next July in order to facilitate the fol�owing w�nt�r's effort to remove the jam. Johnson Parter also V�orked on the jam during Naver.+ber I91I. 750,0�0 feet of iogs in zt kere supposed ta have b�en C. M. Andrew's logs. The Fish Commissioners complained in 1911 that the log dri��inq operations on Lake Creek hampered their operatians.� These aggrega�ed �acts wau�d indicat� that the upper head of log naviqation 35 with unaided stream flaw an Lake Creek for many years before 1914 was River Mile 15. The two main �xihutaries of Lake Cr�ek which �sad significant use for log flotation over long distances and many years with unaided �treem flow �ere Deadwood anr2 �ndian Creeks. As for Deadwood Creek, l.og flotati�n prabahly began at the turn of the century becau�e at that date the "Alpha" carre- spanc3ent ncted that Deadwood had a f�,r mi�lion feet of fine fir along the creefc e�t that place which could be logged and �nsi.ly floated to the bay.� Alpha is at itiver Mile 12.7 of Deadwood Creek. On JAnuaxy }.9, Frank Potterf, whose claim was at approxim�tely River Mile 9 on Deadwc�od C`reek w�,s reported to be putting 800,000 feet af green fir timber irito the creek. He was alsn p�anning to Iag 500,OOa feet far C. A. Patterf. 'Alpha' anticipnte that lags would be put in at Alpha and for several miles abave durfng the coming s�xnuner. Zn March of that yea� the sa�e correspondent said Vie Berkshire had 8S put 75,000 feet into the creek since 3anuary 1 and agai.n during the first week af 1Vovernbez 1901 that Levi Berkshire had put same fine Zoqs ia ❑eadwood Creek for Martin O�son which were destined far the mi.11s an the lpwer Siusiaw. In the saine month Hadsall and woads stopped Lheir logginq on the Mnrford place on Deadwood. By Navember 29 all the banked locs on Deadwood h�d bsen taken oe�t by a freshet.�� During the following logging season "Glenarbor" reparted Levi Berkshire's camp ran until the end of �anuary 1903. He had put 50,000 feet o�' logs in the East fork of Deadwood Creek for the mills at Acme.�� It was nat until the end of the decade that splash daims were put on Dea�dwood, probably in connectfon with the large Hurd drive which include@ sections of Deadwood Creek. 'Greenleaf` reported on March 10, 1911 that ,3esse Phe�.ps was talking nf putting anather drun on Deadwood for logging purposes. But Det�dwood Creek susta�ned Iog drives 35 from at least River Mi2e 15.5 (the junctfon of Panther Creek) to �ts atouth for several seasons beginning in 1900 with una�ded stream floar. Log drivinq continued on Deadwood Creek unti� at least the winter of 1922-23 when F. E, Boyles had saw �ogs and pilirsg on that branch of the creek (Fig, 19). Indian Creek, a iarqer strex►m than Deadwpod, also ha�d extensive log drives on �.ts waters. At what date Zog flatatfon on Indian Creek cor�menced has not been determined, b�t 'Herman' (at the canfl.uence of the West and Nvrth forks of India�n Creek, River Mile 12; Fig. 20B) reported S. L. Tdylnr and L. E. Mi�ledqe had a loggxng camp on the upper pazt o£ the Last F�rk of Indian Creek. �aylor made a trip to the mouth of the creek in order ta bring back a boat u�ed in their aperations. At the same tfine� the Phelps boys were blastinq and removing obstruct�ons until L3iey were satisfisd that the creek was ir� gcod aondition for driving. At the Phelps camp, e�onkeys ran f�ll hlast and had the creek filled to the banks w�.th logs.g� By February 16 they had finished Lheir wfnter logging.�� The fo2lawing November Arsdrew Gf.bsan's logging caatp nenr Herman was goir�g full blast. At the tuxn of Che year that operator and Willie Mead rnde their Zags d�wr� �n�i�n Creek.Q Gibson was xeportect by 'Fteed' (River Mi�e 15.�} to ha�e canpleted his winter lagqinq at ��Sati pofnt an Tndian Creek in early February 1902. Taylor and Mead of Reec3 had a contract ta put 300,000 feet of lpgs into the SiuBiaw for William Kyle fn Novem�er 1904. No� quite rs third of their cut, 275,027 feet got out, hawever; 670,233 fe�t did not get dawrs to tidewater, anc3 they faced a reduction in thef�r price even if they canre out the fal�.owing season.g'� Fel�.ma�» nnd Nicolle had a logg�ng camp on Indfaa Creek duxing December 19�5. 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(*�,�.-' -' I � y ��� , ti` ,�_"'�p1�,1�m` � I. �c"��'��. ��' ,la, . ... ..�.m.�"'S� �f'.Aa�e �.���� . � ' t . . _ , �'_v�. 0. � 39 �1C�11�E.' ��.�s • �L?���� �I���Y+ ����R '_�ZiMi � � I�iar�h �„ 1979 « 1 `'r'._ t�C;�� �•`A��J�`,,Ci. C)�' ���;ST Fc]?� { L�F'�' ) �r�D Tk�DZ�.r� c���� �� _��a���r�r� , �����s��x����� � z�, ��Ia�ch F?� � 97�. trouble getting th� 604,00� feet of old growth fir loqs they had contracted for out of the West Branch af In�ian Creek to t�e Siusiaw �oom Cpmpany. Freshets in Novemher and Decer.iber 19Q7 brought all the logs out includinq those of Fellman and Nicolle on Indian Creek. Taylox had a logging camp busy on Indian Creek during the first week of January 1909.� R.ecord high waters again brought all the logs out of the creek during the £ollowing �ovember. During Septemk�er 1911 Kirby �ros. obtained a contrac� to log on Indian Creek. The cantract stipulated that they were to remave timber from Section 30 of Township 16 So�th 9 West and Toknship 16 South 10 west hetween Reed and Herman hefore nece�sl�er 1912 without the ase of splash dams. The logs �vid�ntly backed up the water and in the freshet so�e of the land was washed a�*ay, and a lai•:suit resulted. Thus 15.5 miies of Indian Creek be�ow Reed were used, by unaided stream flow, for log transport during at least a decade before 191D. Three streams which em�ty directly into tne tidal portions of the Siuslaw, Hadsall, Knowles and 5weet Creeks, also had recorded lpg operations and drives. �"-.i� unsuceessful �r�.v� �i+ '� � ^ �^ cnn n n r i a tiausa�l �reek .,ung up ���,��0� �ee� �f �ogs destineu far the tIUrd miil for several years. It was finally brought out by a high freshet and a large crew during �anuary 1°�7. ,7. �. PdicolZe hac3 built a skid road along Hadsall Creek to do his logging in 1903 (�'ig. 2�). 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'' '' � . _` i`'�� i-- a; sa � _ ��� • ; a— __ . � , . � . `�� �� f ' � ��; <`.f. , - _- _ ~' � y� � �' + - :� � �"° , _ _ _- __. _ '�S� �� ? , � � _ __ ---- — - - , _ -. - .�_- - ----- _.a --- y �` _ _ _ _� ..' . - �:-., � j A� � � f . `-z:..J�� ' . . .. ' . . �'1C�LIr'� 23.. ��,`I' ��' 1 IaQGGII�TG SKID ROr�D �I�OI�TCi H.�DSiiI�L CREEK P L�NE CO C I RCUI T COURZ' JUDGEME�TT ' ' P.OLL� NOs S107. � - -. . __ ___ _ . . . �.<. .. �.. .. � �_ ...¢ ��.,.,... .� -,,.<------ SIUSI,AY7 BC)()Ti CC}MP?1i�IY T'FANC'HTSE The 5iuslaw Bqom Campany, +��hich had lonq been engaged 9.n catchincr, sortinq, and �oominq logs in the tidal pprtion of the Siuslaw under its 1899 ar�icle of incorporation, toak immediate advantage of the 1917 statute providing for franchises on the navigable ri.vers of OrecTon. �1t a hoard o£ director's meeing in May of that year, it rec�uested such a privileqe ta improve the Siuslaw and its tribu�aries for driving as weli as booming. The franchise applied far was on the Siuslaw ta Siuslaw Fa�Is aC P.iver Mile 1Q0 and Lake Creek to the f.aot of th� falls below Triang.�e Lake at F?iver tsiZe 17.5. The cornpany also asked Eor section� of the fpllcnai.nq t�ibutaries u� to one mil� abo�e their mouths: f:smond Creek, wolf Creek, Whitaker Creek, A�ild Cat Cree3c, Indian Creek, and Deadwood Creek. It would seem that they wished privilec�es on these feeder strea�s in order to construct reservoir dams to aic� sluicina aperations on �he two main branches of the ra.v�r abave �idewater. They also requesteci the tidal portions of Knnwles, Hadsal2 anri SwePt Creek and the North F'or3c. The testimony of twenty-ana �ocal residents, mostZy loqqc�rs, on the early histary af the river's use a.s presently undeci�hera�le in an outdated court reporter's shorthand, but the Fublic �omr�ission's findino of fact was "that loqs and other tiinber praducts can �e fZoated during.,...certain p�riods of the year upon the ...parts of streams heretofore mentioned ... and sai� streams ... are susceptible of practicable improvements for flaating, driving, booming and rafting laas and other timber products." The franchise was granted pecember 27, 1917. The landowners on the tidewater trihutaries protested this action and in tlarch I97.8 hearinc3s were reapened. At that tiMe the boom company's qeneral manager, Ii. A. Starret, qave testimony which throws additiona� �iqht on earlier lag driv�;s on the Siuslaw and its tiributaries. With rec�ard to Wolf Creek, which had earlier been suggested as a drivinq stream� Mr. Starret stated, "I CF% haven't had the surveyors over it, but with the conditions and amount of water in �he stream when i viewed it, I wouldn't personally want to drive C�iolf Creek." But as to the main stem he said: "From above Knowles Cr�ek to �ound [RM �S] has been used for twenty- �ive y�axs foX the handlinq vf loqs....... �. Logs can at certain perio�s af the year be fioate� over that portion of the stream in its present unzmproved condition? A. Yes; they can exc�pt far accidentai ohstructians that are now in there in the way of drifts and jams....i took a boat and came down the river from u� here [RM 85).... h, I�ogs have heen driven from Maund? A. Yes. 5tarret gave his reasons for wishinq a franchise over tihe upper river: The efficiency csf the stream in its pr�sent condition I miqht explain by my personal experience in buyinq logs and pilinq. I was three years in gett�nq dawn the last bunch nf pi�ing that I purchased from Morris Jb3znspn Un�3er that method of operation I feel that the impxovement of the stream as contemplated by the Siuslaw Boom C�npany would re8uce this hazard and would also make it possin].e �or us to go ahead and with same assurance of getting the loqs down ea�h yeaz. �n the present operation here evsry man has an individual drive. He can't afford to put on a crew. In other �alaces they have crews of as high as sixty or a hundred m�n. Th��+ ha�e �ried to move a much 2arger loq here with anly four ar five men with a peavey. ns a sluice comes down there is always a bunch that sets hack. Some years if you have an expecially large freshe� or high water, some af which took p].ace as recorded in our records in Z890, and one about a couple of years ago°-I forget the exact year that we had that very high water--we gat down a fair proportion of the locrs. The other years we have always had a hang back that has been scaled up by the l�ack scalers in the river; and taking the bacic scale on the ri.ver, in some cases i� will rtin as hiqh as 50$ o£ the logs. In ather cases they wil� come dawn where the�e wauld be anly fifteen or twenty percent. I make that statement purely upon what inggers have ta�d me.i�-� As for Lake Creek, Starret aave the following testimony: "Mr. Browrs has �agged from where the river takes a very steep drop, commonly kr�own as the falls" below Trianr�le Lake.il 43 mhe �djustments in the coropany's franchise were made, and in September 1921 the company reported to the Commission �hat: "The main obstructions in the u�per river have been re�oved or so cut out and loasened as to be moved durin� the next winter freshets, hut there yet remains a considerable amount of imprnve- ment to be done �efore the said Siuslaw River and i.ts tributaries above the tidal area is in condition for the successful floating and handling of loRS and other timber prdducts, excepti durinq the high water stages of winter freshets; that the said neede� and additional improvements consist of the construction of dams for the holdinq of water far the flushing o� logs out of said �treams. That during �he years 1919-20, and up to the present time and since the qranting of said Franchise, Zumbering conditions on the Sfuslaw Rzver did not develop as anfiicipa�ed by your petitian- er at the time of the granting of the said £ranchise an� has nat been such as to waxrant th� large expenditure of man�y necessary for the canstruction of the flush aams that will be zecguized for �he successful handing of log.s and titn�er products at tzmes othex than during high water freshets. Because they had not �ade these improvements, they did not charqe logginq aperators driving the upper river. Conditions remained the same in 1923. Logging conditions, in fac�, never amproved to an extent that the co¢npany made the proposed spla�h dams. R. W. Fox of Notz inquired about building two or three splash dams an the upper Siuslaw to get his logs out in 1923 but whether they were buiit is not knawn.l�� A pos�script to log driving on the upper Siuslaw occurred in 19�8. The D.R.B. Logging Carp. notified the Public il�ilities Commissioner that, "Far aur next winter's Iogging operation we �ropase to Ploat Iogs down the Siuslaw Riv2z from paints itt 5ections 10 & 11 [RM 59-64j qf Township 19 South Range 8 West for a distance of a�Qroximately 10 �i1es to the county road at Austa where they wo�ld be loaded on trucks for shipment to our mill at Euaene. The loas would be floated �ndividually to the reload site aad would be boome� there in small cquantities fox immediate laading. The river is high enough during the winter months that we do not contemplate the use af splash dams."Z 44 R�cxEr��ror� The tidaZ portion of the Siuslaw, as reported above, formerly had an extensive commercial fishery, and now sustains a large number of sports fisherman. 4,I71 sports fishing trips were made near tihe mouth pf the river in i97I. There is also significant upstream drifti boat fishinq on the main ste�rt of the Siusiaw and Lake Creek. Even the North �'ork has drift boat fishing in win�er months when the presence of fish and hiqh water make the activity possible and inviting. As of 1967 �eadwood and Indian Creeks, thouqh reckoned boatabl� by the Oregon State Game Commission, had not sustained much sports boating. The present situatian with reqarc� to drift baat fishing on the Siuslaw is that the main stem is boatec3 from TrThittaker Creek at River Mi1e 4C�.5 to tidewater. The on3.y reason portians higher are not boated is because the slowar course of the stream is not favorahle to qame fzsh and are not stocked. Lake Creek is drifted from the winter fishing c3ead�ine at Greenleaf Creek to the mouth. Deadwood and Indian Creeks have smail �oat usage, anc� boats have even been used on the lower portion of Sweet Creek. The Nor'th Fork, which was not a satisfactory logging stream, now sustains drift baat fishing fxom Wilhelm Creek at River hsile 27..2 to the month. Ak,out 4,000 drift boats use these portions of the S,iuslaw system above tidewater. Sma].1 usage by �anoes and kayaks on Lake Creek and the main st�m of the Siuslaw also occur. �'he Horn on Lake Creek makes a challenging whitewatar run.�' 45 su�!r�n�r Ali tidal reaches of the Siusl.aw River, which exten8 to P.iver t�"i�e 23 on the Main stem and River Mile 7 on the Pdorth �'ork, have sustained commercial navigation from the fourth quarter of t�e nineteenth century to t�e present. Additiionall.y the t�orth �'ork raas meandered to River t�3ile 11.5. The State's claim to the bed of the Siuslaw above tic�ewater rests on some early canoe freightinc� to River Mi1e 38, but mainly on 1ng drives. mhase qccurred as follows: Watercouxse Vicinity Siuslaw M�'�d wiidcat Creek Walton Lake Creek Tri.ang�.e Lake Deadwood Cree}� A�Pha Tndian Creek Reec3 tlpper Limit t•tile 85 ^?ile 7.6 t��i le 17 . 5 t-!ile 15.5 "tile 15.5 ?dinimum Years 1890-1922, 1948 I899-191�. 1R�39-�.9i7 1900-1923 1900- 3.� 11 46 FOOT�QT�S 1. Siuslaw Pioneer (1952}, g, 7, 2. Lewis A. MacArthur, Oreqon Geographic Names, 4th e�. (POrtland: nregon Historical Society, 1974}, p, b74. 3. 5iuslaw Pioneer (1947), p. 14; �1a�han Scholfield, "JOUrnal of the Klamath Exploring Expedition", �re�on State ?ibrary, �a�em. 4. ii. S. �rmy, Chief of Engineers, Repart 1881 p. 2619; Siuslaw Pioneer (1947), p. 17; (1952} p. 11; (1958) p. 33. 5. WilZiam G. Loy et a1., At�as of Oreqon (Eugene: C�niversity �f �regon, 1976), p. Z42. 6. Facific Northwest River Basin Comsnission, Hydrology and �iydraulics Committee, River Mile Index Coastal Tributaries, Pacifzc Coast Basi.n Oregon {�9h8}, p, 4g, 7. Oregon State Game Commission, Lands Division; Master Plan for An ler Access and Associated Ft�creationaZ Uses, Giusiaw River Basin (1967), pp, 15,55; The Cplumbia River and Ore on Timherman, 2:8 (.7une 1901), p. 12. 8. t7. S. Geological Survey, Water �±esources nata for Oreqon Liater Year 1977, Water-nata Fteport OR-77-1 {Portland, 1978}, pp, 422-24. 9. Siuslaw Pioneer {1949), p. 12; (1956), pp. 1, 5. 10. Ibid. (�960} . p. 2. 11. Ibid p. 26. 12. Ibid. (�.956), pp. 3, 5: (i9501. n. 12. �3. Ibid. (1956}, �. 3. 14. Ibid. (195D), p. 12. 15. Ibzd p. 20 I6 [�'lorence] The 41est, 8 Dec 1899, 17 Jan 1902, 29 Jan 1909. 17. Ibic3 2, Z7, 24 7an 1913. 18. Lane County Commissioners Journal, Vo�. 13, pp. 4Z1-�2, 29 Sept 1914. I9. Alfrec3 I,. I,ot►tax "Commerce and Trans�ortation in the 5ius�aw and Wiliamette Valleys, I850-9I," Oregon Historica3. Quarterly, 36-3 (Sepe 1937), p. 221; U. S. Ar�ny, Chief of Engineers, Re�brt,��1890, pp. 2999-300�. 20. WilZiam KyZe and Sans MSG, Lane County M�set�m, Eugene (from University of Oregon), (MSSBX '67), T,etterbook ?902-!}4, pp. 732-74�. 21. U. S. Army, Chief of Engineers, Reports, 1890-1q07 22. Siuslaw Pioneer (1957), p. 14. 23. Ibid (1954), pp. 33-34. 2�. Ibid {1958). P. 37. 25. Ibfd (19�7), p. 4; picture (1954), p. 18. 26. Ibid p. 33; picture of Thomas R. Cox, Mills attd Mark�ts (Seattle: U of Washington Press, 1974), facing p. 14i, far a discussion af the vessel`s operation see p�. 18I-86. 27. Siuslaw Pioneer {I�50?, p. z3. 28. Ibi� (19491, p. 18. 29. Ibid (195I}, p. 34. 3Q. U. S. Army, Chief af Eng�ne�XS, Report 2893, p. 3374. 31. 5zuslaw Pioneer (�950), P- 27: (296�), p. 37. 32. The West, 22 �ay 1908; SiusZaw Pioneer (�960), p. 33. 33. ibid. (196Q), p. 26; Kyle MSS, L�tterbaok 1898-99, p. 123; Lane County Circuit Caurt Judgement Ro1Z, Lane Caunty Caurt House, Eugene, rao. 4669, John C. Beck et al. v. Kyle & Meyer. 34. Siuslaw Pione�r (195�), �. 1�. 3�. �hid. (1�5$?, p. �3; �he west 26 May 1905, p. 3. 36. Reprinted in Siuslaw Pioneer (1950), p. 7. 3�. �. S. Army� Chief of £nqineers, Report, �8�0 PP. 30�1-30�2. 38. Ibid 1893 p. 3348, 39. Portiand Orego�ian, I6 Aug 1892, p. 8. 40. William Kyle believed �ork was morirund on the jetty and protested strongly in 3903, Kyle M�S, Letterhook 19�2�04, pp. 465-69; Timk�erman 6:3 (Jan 1905}, p. 19; Engineer Reports, 1893-190� passim (af index Siuslaw River). 41. Ibid.; SiuslaFl Pioneer (1957), pp. 30-31 w+ith a picture of the Robaxts pushing a rock scaw in Z9I1; (1954} pictures of the quarry and the jetty are in the same publicatian, pp. 25-29, and see (295d), p. 31. 42. Lane County Cosnmission �ournal, �'o�. 11. 43. The West, 1� Mar 2899, p, 2. 44. Ibid. 20 Mar 1911, p. 2. 45. Lane County, Record of Marks and Rrands I and II, Lane County tituseum MSS D & F°21, �ugene. 46. The west 25 Jan 1901. 47. Ibid. i9 Jan 1906, p. 3; 2?�ar 19Qh, p. 3. 48. Ihid. 2 April �9I3 quoted in the Siuslaw Pioneer (1961), Q. 27. 49. Sbid. (1954), p, t2; U. S. Army, Chief of Engineers, R�ort, 19(�3, p. 221. 50. Si�slaw Pioneer (a.g�i) pp. 19 51. The west, 12 Jan 2900, p. 3. 52. �bid., 4, 25 Jan 1901; other heavy iosers were Henry Hinkson, 2 miilion feet; George Prescdtt,l million feet; G. h'. Luce, 70Q,000 feet; Cale and 8aldwin, 600,QQ0 feet anc3 A. W. Gilbert and Rallin Johnson each larqe amounts. 53. Ibid., 2 Mar 1906, p. 3. 54. Ibid., 12 Jan 1900; 25 Jan 1901; Y,ane County Circu3t Court Judgement Ro�.i �io. 5824. 55. Lane County Corru�issioners Journa�, vol 12, Feb 4, 1913; no disposition on the pe�.ition was entered fn the journa2s. 56. The West, 14 Feb �.899, p. 3; Timherman, 1:8 (JUne 1900,p. 1$}. 57. Kyle M55, Letterbook 1899-1900, p. 11. 58. The [,�est, 2 Mar 1900, p. 3. 59. Kyle MSS, Letterbook Z902-04, pp. 585, 814 anc3 401-2, 576, 603-4, 648. 852. 60. T}se West, 24 Mar 1905, p. 3, Mar 1906, p. 3. 61. The West, 2g Sept, 3 Nov, 1911, 7,ane Countv C�.TCL11� COuTt .TUdae�Pnt Rnl� No. 6570, 7754 Richardson v. Fellman & Nico112. 62. T.ane County TiisEber and Log Liens T. 122, I,ane County Court House, �:ugene. 63, Ky1e MSS, Letterbook ],899-190�, pp. 2q, 72, 64. The Columbia River and �re qn Timberman, 1:12 (1900), p. 7. 65. The fnTest, 24 Nov 189a, p. 2, 22 Dec 1899; 2 Mar 190�}, p. 3. 66. Ibzd., 23 T7ov �900, p. 3. 67. Oregon Geographic Name �p. 3$5-66; T�ie S�7est 1b Jan 19�3, p. 3; River Mile Index p. 5b. 68. The h'est 27 Feb 1903. 69. Ibid 24 Mar 1905, p. 3. 70. Ibid 29 Sept 1911, p• l; River Mile Index p. 56. 71. Siuslaw Pioneer (1955}, p• 21• 72. The West lb �eb, lb Mar, 7 Dec 190�. 73. A. Gesner's Z894 plat of Township L6 S$ h�, bivision of State Lands, Salem; Oregon Geographic Names p. 329. 74. �he West, 13 MaX 19Q3. 75. Kyle MSS, LPtterbook 1899-�90D,pp. 7-e. 76. The 4?est 16 Feb I900, 18 Feh i910. 77. Ibid I5 Mar 1901, 13 t�a� 1903, 17 Dec 1910, 27 Jan 1911, 10 Mar A911, 23 June 19�1, 3 Mar 1912, 14 Feb 19�3. 78. Ib�d., 31 Dec 19d9, 27 Jan 19�1, 17, 24 Nov 191Z; Lane Caunty Lien Claims on Logs I, 1�4. 6-7, 16. 79. Ibid., p. 8; Lane Caunty Circuit Court Judaement RoZ� DTos. 7559, 7572. gn. The West 1B Fe� 191n. 8I. Ibid 7 Ju1y 191I, 24 Nov i911. $2. Fisheries Cammission, Report, 19I1, p. 32. 83. The �'est 15 Dec I899, 5 Jan 1900. 64. Ibid 19 �an 1900, River �i_le Index p. 53. 85. The W�st 16 Mar 1900. 86. Ibid 8,22, 29 Nov 19Q1. 87. Ibid., 23 Jan, 6 Feh �9�3. 88. Ibid., 10 �ar 1911, p. 2; Lane County 7�ien Claims on i�ogs I, 5-6. 89. Tbid., p. 278; River Mile Index, �. 53. 90. I�icI_, p. 53; mhe 4�lest, 12 Jan 190f1. 91. Ibid 16 Feb 1900. 92. Ibid., 30 �;ov 1900, 4 Jan 1901. 93. Ibid., 15 Feb 1901; F,iver 7�i1e Index, p, 53 9�4. Ky1e MSS, Letterbook 1898-99, 1904, pp. 320, 360. 95. The 4•7e�t, 22 Dec 1905, 26 Jan. 2 r�tar 1906, p. 3. 96. Lane Caunty Circuit Court Judgement Roll No. 6393, R A. Gi�rsan v. Hurd Tim�er Ca '" 97. 'I'he West, 2g Nov, 27 Dec 1907, the difficui�.ies in the winter 1905-07 ariving Tndian Creek would suqqest that i'ellman and Nicvlle had nat built a splash dam on that cree}; as they p�anned in the sprina of 1906, Ibid., 20 April Z906. 98. Ibid , 8 �7an 1909. 99. Ibid. , 26 t�1ov 1909. 100. Ibid., Lane County Ci.rcuit Caurt Judqement Roll No. 8fE7, A. A. Gib v. K�rb�+. -- - - i01. The West, 4�7an 1907 , Z3. J'an 1�3b7 , pp. 2- 3. IO2. Lane Coun�y Circuit Court .7udqement Rol� No. 5147. 103. 5iuslaw Pioneer (�958), p, 25; p. 9, For locrginq opPration on Knc�wles Cree3�;, see The west 12 ,Tan 19DD, 23 '�ov 1900, 15 Feb 2902, Z9 Feb 1904; for Sweet Creek Ibid 29 nec 1911. 1�14. Si. uslaw Paoneer (1958), �p. 22-23, Lane County Circuit Court Judqement Ro].� tlo. 4�25, C larn o & L Ze v. Siuslaw River Ti.mber Co.; Th� West 6 P7ar 190�. 1�5. �n£orma�ion trom '�z. & Mrs. "�oland ,7. tiuntinqton of the �iuslaw PZ.pY1�PX :"�luseum, I4 �ar 197g. i06. Advisory Committee �o the Gtate Land Boarc3, Seco Bienni Report, �rec�on's Suk�mer ec� and Sukars�ersible Lanc�s (5alem, 1972} , p. 13[1. 107. CII Corp., Articles of Incorpozation 7BYtC-F,0 (1), No. 6932, 5tate Arehives, Salem. 108. Public Gervice Commission hrder P?o. 3}.1, pp. 4, 5, 7. Fa1dPr L-F-2, PUC �'ile, State Archives, Sa1em. 109. T�id., Testimony pf H. T,. S�arret, p. 6. �.10. �bid., Transcript of I?1arch 1918 Fiearinq, Eugen�, "Starxet''. 11I. Ibid., Testimony of H. A. Starret, pp. 4-5. I12. Ibxd mestimony of H. A. Starxet - recal�ed, p. 25. 113. Thid Application foz extensinn nf time, 7 Sept 192�. 114. Ibid A. W. Fox, Noti to Pu�lic Service �ommiss�on, 17 Oct Z923. 115. Ibid D. R. B. Logging Corp. to Public Uti�ities Commissioner, �6 tdar 1948. 116. �'ish Cammissian of Oregon, 1971 G1.t151dW Riv�r Fstuary Resource Use Study, by Tom Gaumer et alo(1974), P. i3. 117. Master Plan for 1+.ngl.er I�ccess, Siuslaw P.iver, pp. 5, 15, 47, 55. 118. Information received from Jisn Hutchinson, Department of Fi�h and Wildii£e, intervi.e�r 26 Mar 1979.