News from 100 years ago
The following news items were taken from the Mail Tribune archives 100 years ago
August 3, 1922
PLANT 30,000 SILVER BANDS IN THE L. WATER CRATER
An increase in Crater Lake’s fine population is about to take place thanks to an experiment by Toggery Bill Isaacs, Alex Sparrow and JW Berrian.
By the end of this week, 30,000 silver salmon fry will be put into the cold, blue waters. Jim Berrian of Butte Falls Fish Hatchery has agreed to supply the fish and is eager to see the result of planting salmon in a landlocked body of water such as Crater Lake. He has also agreed to provide them with enough food to last them until they acclimatize to the clear, cold water that provides so little food for the fish.
Alex Sparrow, superintendent of Crater Lake National Park, has agreed to provide a truck to transport the cans of small fish from Butte Falls to the rim, and men to carry the cans from the rim to the rim of the water
Bill Isaacs came here thought of the plan and urged its execution. It is believed that the fish will do well in the lake and provide good fishing in a few years as they grow almost twice as fast as a steelhead.
FENT CROP IN THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY THIS YEAR
“Many of the valley dairymen and cattlemen and hose feeders are in for a big surprise when they go out and try to buy the hay they want for their stock this winter, and find that it’s pretty much all gone,” says the Statesman of salem .
“According to one of the best known buyers in the valley, 75 percent of all the hay that is grown in this section, which will be sold, is already marketed, and a large part has already been moved. Dairymen from Tillamook and Coos counties, where there has been an unusual shortage of hay this season, have come to the Willamette Valley and bought most of the hay that is for sale. They are rushing the railroads to handle it; and some trucks have also been very busy, with this voluminous but valuable crop.
“There is alfalfa hay in eastern Oregon and Idaho, hundreds of thousands of tons of hay, but railroad shipping conditions have not been stable enough to warrant buying and shipping to the coast. Consequently, the western feeders, without waiting for anything to appear, have entered the valley and broken the bales as fast as they come off the balers.
— Alyssa Corman; acorman@rosebudmedia.com
