Vol 1, No 2, Spring 1962

NRVALLIS PUBLIC LIBRAKK Spring 1962 NO.,^ 35c CORVALLIS COLLECTOR'S ITEM You will want to save your copies of "Corvallis," for in it you will find the most complete record, old and new, of this city and county. The anatomy of a home- town where you live or through which you are passing. Pictures galore, and we need more! Do you have a story to tell? What's in your attic, neighbor? Do you remember? - General McAlexander "No. 9 Wants a Job'' Dick Kiger Marshall Miller Ned Smith 'Ihe big flood of 1861 A's and K's Gun Hodes Read the "Corvallis" magazine and you will better appreciate this town and the republic that is America. P. 0.Box 122 CORVALLIS, OREGON Looking Forward eat other animals. His cousin, GOOFS & BLOOPERS Australopi thccus africanus, who with TOM WILSON lived in central Africa near Lake LAST ISSUE VOLUME I SPRING 1962 NUMBER 2 Victoria, was carniverous and Page 4: Photo at top of page, CORVALLIS is published quarterly by OF THE MANY USES of history, the found it necessary to eat meat should be 2nd St. looking north Thomas A. Wilson, P. 0. Box 122. Cor- foremost is that through its to live. He was not a big fellow, vallis, Oregon. Business office at 225 So. from Jefferson. 2nd St. Printing plant on Hwy. 20. north. study we can learn what we are, only about 90 pounds, had finger Page 15: Spur1 in and ~obnett Published privately and independently. our identity, our problems and nails instead of claws, lacked store is at 2nd and Adams Sts. MEMBER what other men have done in try- canine teeth, and walked on his Benton County Pioneer-Historical Society ing to solve similar problems. hind legs. How in the mrld could THIS ISSUE , Oregon Historical Society Ordinarily we think of history this little fellow kill the big- Page 18: 1915 Hudson shown in Classified Advertising: 10 cents per word. as being the affairs of man since ger, more cunning, swifter, more 1913 photo. GOOD GRIEF!! Display: full page, $25; M page, $15; , he first began remembering the ferocious beasts, such as ba- Page 22: Carriage factory shown 1/4 page. $10; % page, $5.50. SPECIAL past by means of language. In boons, hyenas, wildbeest, ante- in photo was between RR St. and RATE for business and professional cards: $5 for 4 issues. Subscriptions - $1 a year. the broader sense anthropology lope, or lions? A Street, one block south of WANTED - Short articles, old photos. is the entire history of man He used weapons. Among; his Washington. drawings and other appropriate material. from his earliest beginnings, No payment except in extra copies. earliest weapons was the femur which leads us back to the first p-- bone of the antelope, which he COVER DESIGN by Doug1 as Downer, appearance of life on earth. used as a club. For a cutting EVERYTFUNG FOR Corval l i s High School. Whether the history of life in and slashing weapon, he used YOUR DUMB FRIENDS outer space will become a special half of the lower jaw of the Subscribe Now branch of anthropology remains small Duiker antelope. After to be seen. a few hundred thousand years he In general, the behavior of learned also how to chip out man today is bound to be what he flint hand axes. has inherited from his past mul- These ~ustralopithecines tiplied by his present environ- africanus and robustus were not mental circumstances. In other men, but their invention and use words - man is what he is plus of tools and weapons proves that what he has to do to keep going. what r hey learned to do in early Anthropologists used to say ~leistocenetimes became part of that man was the first tool- the history of man, whose com- making animal. However, in the puters and atomic weapons of "new" anthropology of the past today make us the tool-makers years, some old ideas like 30 and killers par ezcel lence.1 that one have had to be discarded Is war an instinct of man? in the light of more recent dis- Looks like it. At least that is .i coveries. For example, a higher one of our big problems of these ' ape, the Aus tralopi thecus ro- present times. And if we can bustus, who lived nearly a mil- learn from history how to prevent ( lion years ago, made and used war, perhaps we shall survive and simple stone hand axes for dig- make more history. ging roots out of the ground and insects out of the bark of trees. More on this subject may be found in AFRICAN GENESIS, Robert Second Street in late 18001s, looking north from Adams. He was a vegetarian and did not Ardrey, Atheneum, N. Y., 1961, 380 pp. made nearly a thousand dollars "To add to the excitement, an FROM OUR READERS apiece for our hard work that inebriated local citizen, looking year, which looked like big for trouble, took an axe- handle Editor's Note: We have received Dear Mr. Wilson: money to me then, and it gave and proceeded into the room where many wonderful letters in re- " . .Have read your snappy me a love for the woods and the hungry Orientals were eating, sponse to our Vol. I, No. 1. magazine with much interest. I timber that still lives with rne. and began whacking them over the Lack of space prevents us from came here via covered wagon in " . .Your story of the Corval- head. You should have seen them printing more than some brief the fall of 1884 from Corvallis. lis and Frustration railroad is scatter, as they jumped through excerpts from only a few of them. The Yaquina Bay country and your interesting, as the first job open windows or any available The following selection, how- city have always had a lot in I ever had in Oregon was working exit. Soon the town marshal1 ap- ever, will show the warm and common. " on the grade of that road. " peared and carted the drunk off sincere interest with which our Jack Fogarty A. W. Morgan to jail. first issue has been received. Newport, Oregon Portland, Oregon "The greater portion of that entire railroad grade was built Dear Mr. H'ilson: Dear Mr. Wilson: Dear Mr. Wilson: by Chinese laborers, using ordi- "..........I found the first ". ...I worked for Jake Bloom- "Having just fallen into pos- nary hand shovels and wheelbar- issue of "Corvallis" extremely berg for two months when I re- session of your new magazine, I rows - a far cry from the methods interesting and informative. turned to Corvallis from Alaska could not resist the urge to now in use. %is little magazine should fill in 1890. He ran a grocery store send you a few lines. particu- "I knew 'Jackie' Horner, as a real need in providing data and kept hides, wool, chittum, larly about the railroad from you call him, when he was attend- relative to happenings of his- and what have you in the back Corvallis to the coast. ing the small college in Philo- torical importance in the Cor- room. It was the dirtiest place "As a boy and a resident of math, and that was before he was vallis area, and should be a YOU ever saw. " Philomath in the 1880's, I well married. I well remember that he worthwhile addition to the ref- Jay W. Dunn remember that the railroad grade was the life of every occasion erence files of many people. Eugene, Oregon was built by Chinese who were that he attended. "With all good wishes. " shipped from China to Portland, "It was my privilege to serve Mark 0. Hatfield Dear Mr. Wilson: then transported up the Willam- Benton county in the office of received your nice little Governor "I ette river to Corvallis by stern- Recorder from 1896 to 1900, magazine and find it very inter- wheel river boats and from there having been elected when William esting. Dear Mr. Wilson: to work camps by horse-drawn McKinley was chosen President of "I went to Corvallis with Dan wagons, over very muddy and al- the United States. In the old ". I can see very interesting Neal in the spring of 1890, and most impassable county roads. courthouse, still standing, are possibilities in "Corvallis". and good old Max Friendly gave us a "In those days the Chinese stored a lot of record books would like to help if and when contract to get ash and maple " wore their hair in long cues, which contain page after page of I can. logs for his little sawmill. We and the first wagon load created my handiwork. Bertha King had the logs cut and banked and consternation when it reached "Wishing you every success in Corvallis, Oregon we drove them down to Friend1 y' s Philomath after dark, in a down- your new endeavor. boom at Corvallis - made two . " Dear Mr. lilson: pour of rain. None of us had drives during the summer on that John A. Gellatly "1 surely enjoyed reading the ever seen a Chinaman. Wenatchee, Washington 'Beautiful Willamette. " Really copy of "Corval lis" and would "They were unloaded into a the river did not look so good even like to reprint a story or building and all of the Dear Mr. Wilson: to me that summer, as all the two in our monthly magazine boys in town surrounded the "It is good! And I am convinc- logs would roll up on the bars ed that you believe in what you 'Covers.

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