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VOLUNTEER OR DONATE TODAY! Within the Inland Northwest community many people work to inspire young people and help bring their dreams to fruition. The volunteers at the “Healthy Equine Association for Rehabilitation and Training” (HEART) are such people. HEART’s acronym is an appropriate one and describes the place that every volunteer comes from when working with the horses or the children.

In their words, “First we save horses, then we teach children to ride.”These volunteers and the youth riders who participate in HEART’s programs have come together to create the “HEART Drill Team,” the first Cowboy Dressage Drill Team in the United States.

Based at Relational Riding Academy in Cheney, the group practices three times per week and has raised funds for the entire team to travel to Cowboy Dressage World Finals this November to perform. The most extraordinary thing is that most of the horses on the team are rescue horses.

HEART is a Washington State Charitable organization and a Federal 501(c)3. The motto “Making the impossible…. Possible” is the guiding principle for the organization. HEART’s mission is to rescue horses that may be candidates for euthanasia, rehabilitate them and return them to a useful life in lesson programs and activities for young people and the

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disadvantaged youth. Twelve horses currently support programs provided through Relational Riding Academy.

Children participate in lessons, day camps, horse shows, and special activities that HEART horses attend.

Consistent with HEART’s mission to improve the lives of children, an active Scholarship program provides funding for young riders through national, regional and local organization’s youth programs.

For Drill director Michelle Binder-Zolezzi and all the riders, this first time endeavor has been an exercise in team building, communication (between themselves and their horses as well as each other), and trust. Building that trust has been an important dynamic as each rider learned to manage their own part and to have confidence in fellow riders to do the same. A wide variety of horses and riders make up the drill and finding a working dynamic between all was challenging but has resulted in a beautiful smoothly performed demonstration of precision horseback riding.

Hardworking, talented HEART students and volunteers raised the bulk of their funds to go to the 2015 Cowboy Dressage World Finals in Rancho Murieta California by creating a business called “Hot To Trot Horse Show Concessions.” Local horse shows connected with the Washington State Horsemen provided venues for the students to earn money and learn basic business skills, menu planning, food preparation and money

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HEART--Horse Rescue The Agreement--Weigman Honoring our FireFighters THANKING Our Veterans History of Farming--Robert Singletary, Historian PAGE 14 A Silver Valley Timeline-Jerome Bunde Story PAGE 15 Evergreen Foundation News Jim Peterson, Founder PAGE 18 PUMPKIN SOUP PAGE 20 Economic Indicators-Chris Mefford, CAI Pres.

PAGE 21 Veteran Ed Hempel Story PAGE 23 Pelicans in Pasco--Butler PAGE 25-25 COVER STORY--Mountain Plating, Masterson Family PAGE 30 UI, Forestry-Health Program PAGE 31 PAULSON Investment Co. PAGE 39 ALZHEIMER’S HELP PAGE 40 CAREERS . . .and more . . .

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“Ya,” said Karl. “I made a mistake once and p an p beef, beets er. We take su p p su re o ef b at I... I will make what I can of life and then be done.”

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Karl gripped greenwood fence rail with d seals bobbed in the ade of wood an m is h g u o tr g gnarled hands. “I left wife and son in Ohio.”

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FireFighters & Smoke-Jumpers Summer 2015 . . .

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Fact: 2015 “Forest” Fires Burned 1,516,938.6 Acres!

Continued From Page 3 management. Additional fundraisers, private matching fund donations as well as local business sponsorshipsmade the trip possible. Donations included feed for the horses, bags of animal bedding for stabling, tack, equipment, even a car. One special rider, sponsored by two area businesses, received proper show attire, a western hat, even a saddle.

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History of Farming in Northern Idaho

Robert Singletary

Program & Marketing Director

Museum of North Idaho

There is no doubt that the mining and timber industries had a major influence on the early development of communities in northern Idaho, but we should not forget that the miners and loggers have at least one thing in common. They all needed food. So farming and the raising of poultry, cattle and hogs were also essential to the growth of the area. The growth of agriculture not only produced much of the food for the area, it also spawned the growth of businesses that supplied the farmers with equipment and supplies.

The first farming in the area was done by the Coeur d’Alene Indians. After the construction of Fort Sherman in 1878, the tribe and afew settlers began to sell farm products and beef to the military. One of the first settlers to attempt systematic farming in the area was Mathew Hayden, a former soldier from Fort Sherman.A homesteader by the name of Oscar Canfield sold cattle to the fort. Canfield also helped organize Kootenai County in the early 1880s.

Canfield Mountain and Canfield Middle School are named for him. There were over 20 farms in the region by 1880.

The timber boom during the early 1900s brought thousands of people to the region and farm products were in high demand. By the mid-1920s the number of

farms increased to 1,300 with over 83,000 acres of land under cultivation. The principal crops were wheat, timothy hay, oats, barley, corn and vegetables.

In the early 1900s, railroad builder Daniel Chase Corbin, became involved in farming and irrigation projects. He purchased a sugar beet plant in Waverly, Washington and developed a large sugar beet farm between Hayden Lake and Athol. He also constructed miles of canals and aqueducts in the Spokane Valleyand parts of Idaho. In 1904 he reached an agreement with the Washington Water Power Company to draw water from the Spokane River near the Post Falls dam, which was under construction. A section of the canal, known as Corbin’s Ditch, and a water gate can still be seen today.

The principal crops in the irrigated areas were apples, pears and vegetables. One of the roads built through the irrigated area is still called Apple Way.

One of the most successful industries in the area was Seiter’s Cannery which began operating in 1918 and was first located in a vacated brewery building in Coeur d’Alene. Edgar Seiter, owner of the cannery moved his business to Post Falls in 1931. By 1935, his cannery was serving growers in the Spokane Valley, McGuire, Dalton Gardens, Hayden Lake, plus the Post Falls area. Seiter’s Cannery processed a variety of products including cherries, pumpkins, beans, tomatoes, plums, apple Continued on Page 12

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“A neighbor kid and my boy, Tim, was playing,” said Karl. “The neighbor kid was rough and I told him several times to settle down with swinging that shovel.”

Karl paused, looking at folds of grass carpeting the rolling prairie. He tipped his head down. Eyelids closed as though he wanted to shutter off old pictures that wouldn’t leave.

“I was walking past the boys when the shovel flew into my son’s head, cutting his ear and just missing an eye. I backhanded the kid and he fell back. His head hit a rock like a lemon on a juicer.”

Karl spat through his teeth, “Kid died then and there.” Karl’s soft, gray eyes sought a pillow of forgiveness in young wheat waving with the breeze.

“I told my wife what I done. I said we’d get together again some day. Then I saddled the horse and left. I won’t go to jail. I’ll figure a way to die first but for now, nobody knows where I am.”

Dutch Henry said nothing. America was mostly vacant land untravelled by anybody. The law, like a sleeping wolf, doesn’t want to be bothered.

When it wakes it wants meat, any meat. Jail was an unspeakable hole with no room, no light, no food and no hope. Jail was a place for a man to die slowly, wishing only to die fast.

Eula Ranch flourished under Karl’s husbandry.

Three years passed. Dutch Henry heard that there was a woman and a strapping boy of 14 living on the place. The boy was German through and through, the kind of youngster who matured with integrity and liked hard work. Tim was missing part of an ear.

All things have their time. Fall brings first snows. Eula Ranch now boasted a cabin with a stone fireplace. Karl and his son built a lean-to they called “the barn.”

On Dutch Henry’s ranch, chickens and pigs were secured in their own parts of the house. These kept the home noisy. When you lived with it, smell and racket were the core of life.

“Harold. Bill.” Mary’s voice commanded with authority that only mothers own. “You watch the stove. Fire could take everything we have and take you, too.” Her fire lectures were constant and unrelenting. “Watch for sparks. Keep water at hand.

Clean the floor. Make new brooms when you need them and remove the waste straw. Always.” Mary lectured the boys throughout every day on the dangers of fire. “Always.”

A small iron stove served as the kitchen’s center and heart of the house. At night the brothers slept together. Your friend is your heat. Mary’s quilts recycled old clothes and made a playhouse of a creaky bed. On a cold morning you may discover the bed pan frozen but you laugh just the same. By sunup you think about rolled oats cooking over a wood fire. By noon you think how wet are your shoes. Instructions flowed without end.

“Dutch Henry is with the cattle. I will be with the little ones. You are to kill two chickens, scald them and pluck them. Go now. I’ll put water on the boil.”

Harold and Bill ran to get birds and take them to the chopping block. Harold, the elder of the two, rocked a hatchet out of its block. Holding each bird still, he lopped off its head, careful to cut just so, leaving plenty of meat in the neck and keeping his hand safe.

Blood spattered snow about the chopping block.

“They’s running everywhere with no heads,” Bill giggled.

“They won’t run far.” Harold leaned on a fence post. “They oughta be a law that they only be drumsticks.”

Law is a haughty mistress and she knows Justice only as a nosy, noisome neighbor.

A horse and buckboard rolled through distant brown grass spattering slush. Neighbors said it was the new sheriff, three-days’ ride out of Spokane. He was asking about an Ohio man. Had heavy manacles hanging on the springboard seat.

German peasants won’t rush to tell you all they know but they tell the truth when asked. The officer found his way to Eula Ranch and knocked on the door. Said he was looking for Karl.

“Look in the barn,” Eula said stoically.

Donohay introduced himself as professionally as he knew how. “Karl, I’m here to arrest you.”

“I’ve been waiting... a long time.”

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Agreement CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 Manac led hand and foot, Karl closed his eyes, remembering the kid’s death and considering his own dark future. Karl’s plan was set. Donohay loosed one anklet and Karl mounted the wagon.

Eula looked at the ground. “I’d offer you supper but it doesn’t seem right. I’ve wrapped some lamb in a towel for the road. I’ll pray for you both.”

“Yes, Ma’am.” Donohay’s quiet manner hid weight in his heart. Donohay clucked and the buckboard lurched forward. Winter paints the clouds with lampblack and ash gray. A day with slush is darker than one with blowing snow and crystal ice.

The cold reaches further.

Karl’s frau paused a moment to fight the knot in her stomach. Unfortunately, certain pains are inexorable and this pain was that kind. In 30-minutes, she found Tim in the woods cutting a tree.

“Tim. It’s happened. The sheriff took your pa.”

Karl had committed his family to The Agreement.

The time to fulfill that agreement was now.

Tim threw a blanket and saddle on the family horse. Winchester in hand, he spurred the animal forward. It took three hours racing through tall grass, slush and trees to gain sight of the buckboard.

Tim stopped on an outcrop. His lathered horse heaved strongly and shook.

Ahead, two men rode the wagon in silence disturbed only by creaking wheels and plodding steps of the sheriff’s horse. Sheriff Donohay thought

sadly of the terrible burdens of office. Karl thought of winter.

Tim climbed down, hid his horse and braced himself carefully against a tree to aim. He fired one shot high, over the wagon.

Surprised and suddenly tense for battle, Donohay dived off the buckboard, rolling through mud, slush and rocks.

The horse plodded on. With the wagon bobbing gently, Karl stood up, his manacled hands linked to feet with just enough slack to straighten his back.

This time a single, well placed shot pierced the back of Karl’s head. …∫…

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Continued from page 9 cider, and their famous apple butter. At its peak the cannery employed about 45 workers. In the 1940s Seiter purchased over 400 acres of land and planted cherry trees.

At one time cherries and golden delicious apples were major products in Kootenai County, especially in the Hayden Lake and Dalton Gardens areas. However, during the mid1930s and again in the early 1950s, sub-zero weather created problems for fruit growing in the area. Many orchards were destroyed and had to be replanted. Faced with competition from Washington and other places in the Pacific Northwest that had better climate for growing fruit, many of the local growers saw no reason to replant their orchards. Some of the fruit growers in the area switched to green beans, which was a very successful crop for many years. Seiter’s Cannery, which processed a lot of apple products, also made the change. However, by the early 1960s, changing tastes and the packaging of frozen vegetables took its toll on the canning business. According to Chap Brugger, a former Post Falls farmer, the cost of cans was more than the cost of beans at that time.

Locally owned canneries, like Seiter’s, found it difficult to compete with large companies such as Green Giant, who offered farmers better prices for their crops. As a result of competition, changing taste and changing technology in the food industry, Seiter’s Cannery went out of business in 1969. What was for many years beautiful and productive farm land is now housing districts, businesses and shopping centers.

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Jerome Bunde, Longtime resident of Wallace, Idaho--Husband, Dad, Grandpa, Great-Grandpa, Friend, Farmer, Miner, Lumberyard Expert, Penny- Stock Broker for Pennaluna, and Storyteller.

The Human Library of the

Silver Valley: Jerome Bunde

by Julie Lilienkamp

Jerome Bunde, a 21year-old son of a North Dakota farmer, safe on the family Homestead, threw caution to the wind with two friends in 1955 and drove to Wallace, Idaho where they’d heard money was in mining.

Bunde’s Aunt and Uncle owned a tavern called the Midway in the Silver Valley, known as one of the miners’ watering holes, so once the three took residence at the tavern’s back apartment, and with the help of Bunde’s Aunt and Uncle who knew nearly all the supers and mine bosses, all three farm boys found mining jobs within a week. The rest is history.

Jerome Bunde’s Timeline *1934 Born in North Dakota—“Born in a hay stack and grew up on a milk stool” said Bunde.

Father: Oscar Bunde--Norwegian and born in the

Homestead home in North Dakota Mother: Ruth (Doud) Bunde—Scotch-Irish Siblings: 3-Brothers, 4-Sisters

*1934-1954 Farmers were caught up in the Marshall Plan of the 40s to help feed Japan and Europe, during the war. “Price of wheat went from $1.00 a bushel to $5.00 a Bushel, which made farmers quite wealthy--unless you were small like our Family. We found more land to lease to g row more crops, but we didn’t own enough acres to make much of a difference,” Bunde explains. “Big farmers were buying all the new equipment and buying up and farming more and more land.” Bunde continues, “After the war grain prices dropped drastically, which left lots of surplus, so Eisenhower put a plan into place to pay the farmers to not grow any [crops]. All these big farmers had to dowas go to the US Post Office every week and pick up their fat checks. My friends and I didn’t want any part of that so we decided to go for the gold.” *Nov-1955 On Thanksgiving evening, Bunde and two friends, two ages 21, the other age 22, decided to make good on their plan and started driving west to Wallace, Idaho for a new life, a new career.

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“Many people have been chasing consistent and viable forest thinning programs – what you are calling ‘certainty’ – for most of their professional lives. The timber industry, the Forest Service and our many forest stakeholders have been looking at overstocked forests and testing different treatments and thinning equipment for at least 25 years. We’ve done some things right and some things wrong. And then we’ve started over again in hopes of finding better results next time. I know this because I’ve participated in quite a few of these projects.

During the same time frame, we have watched mills disappear because they could not find enough timber to keep operating. Every time we lose a mill we end up hauling logs greater distances, which is more costly. The greater cost undermines the viability of thinning and restoration projects like this one. We don’t need 50,000-acre projects that take 10 years to complete. If we keep it practical, as we have here, we build a base of public acceptance and trust based on visible results that are pleasing to the eye as well as environmentally and economically beneficial.

We will not have the certainty we all seek until we earn back the public’s acceptance and trust, but once we have it, I’m hopeful that the public and its elected representatives will be willing to leave the forestry job to the professionals. Until that day comes, you will continue to hear me say the same thing that I’ve been saying for years: ‘Same promises, different year.’”

David Ehrmantrout Ehrmantrout Thinning Service

Priest River, Idaho

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David Ehrmantrout is a professional logger with more than 40 years of experience in the Inland Northwest and the Southeast. He is a recognized authority in the development and operation of in-woods chipping systems used by biomass and chip producers also in computeraided cut-to-length mechanical harvesting systems that are the workhorses most frequently used in thinning and forest restoration work in the Intermountain region.

He pioneered the use of light weight CTL systems that significantly reduce undesirable soil compaction.

Mr. Ehrmantrout and his three sons log mainly in northern Idaho and Northeast Washington. In this interview, he discusses the 230-acre Templemental Forest Stewardship Project they recently completed on Forest Service ground near Bonners Ferry, Idaho. We toured Templemental twice, and in so doing, learned that there are about one million national forest acres in northern Idaho and western Montana that need to be thinned soon, or they will begin to die. READ MORE AT . . . http://www.evergreenmagazine.com/ JIM PETERSEN, co-founder of the non-profit Evergreen Foundation, and publisher of Evergreen, the Foundation’s periodic journal.

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“It was raining like hell, practically a flood when we arrived in Wallace,” Bunde tells. “We followed the Missouri River, the Yellowstone River, the Clarkfork River, and the St. Regis River, in that order, and we were in awe of the beauty of the things we were seeing, until we came up and over Lookout Pass. As we started down the Coeur d’Alene River, we could hardly believe the thick grayness of the water, later finding out it was sewage and mine waste.”

“Three names,” Bunde went on, “Kenny Cattanach—worked at Sunshine Mine (he knew lots of bosses in the mines and ran a tab at the Midway Tavern),Charlie Angel, Superintendent/Mine Foreman at Sunshine, and Blacky Day, Hiring Manager at the Sunshine Mine; Kenny recommended the three of us farm boys wrestle Blacky Day every day in Wallace until we get a job. After a week, Kenny told Charlie he had three farm boys from North Dakota needing jobs. The following Monday one of my friends got a job, Tuesday, the other, and by Wednesday, good ol’ Jerome had a job in the mines. We started work in December.”

*1956 Married Anna Kirkwood.

“I met Anna at the Sunshine Mine’s Christmas Party at the VFW in Silverton,” Bunde told with a smile and blew a kiss into the air or to Heaven. “We were married the following year. Now Anna has passed away and I got remarried recently to an old North Dakota High School acquaintance. Anna and I have four children, but you know that—you went to school with them in Wallace, didn’t you, Julie?”

Bunde --Continued from Page 16 *1960 “The government purchased nearly all the silver

available, approximately $2 Billion ounces, and by

1963 it was nearly all gone,” told Bunde. *1961 “Worked from 1955 to May 1961 at the Sunshine

Mine, I started out as a helper then finally worked

as an independent contractor miner, a Gypo miner.

Silver market started to really pick up, prior to

Government buy-out of silver, guaranteeing silver

prices,” explains Bunde. “If you weren’t a lead-

zinc producer during the war times, you’d pretty

much call it good and shut down. As a Gypo, I was

paid my pay plus my contracted bonus, and I got

benefits.” *June 1961 to Jan. 1962

Worked at the Wallace Brokerage Company. . .

“Pennaluna Penny Stock opened in 1926, now it’s Paulson Investment Company,” Bunde said. *1963 “Silver became a commodity and birthed the

Trader at Merrill Lynch, with Robert Holder of

Spokane, WA—who just recently passed away.

Silver went from $.91/oz. to $2.70/oz. by 1964.

That was a turning point for the Silver

Valley. New production in all mines and old mines

grew, shut down mines opened.”

*1962/3-68 “Worked at Wallace Lumber Co, now

Wallace Building Supply, which Bergers

now own. Back then then, Fred and Dorothy Kott

key ran the place.”

While at the lumber yard, Bunde met new friends,

and became acquainted with most families living

in the Silver Valley. After the Korean War, many

came to Wallace—“especially Pine Creek,” said

Bunde, from as far as the east coast.

Gus Votolini, who was the personnel

manager and hiring manager at the Hecla Mine

counted on Bunde’s social gift and mining

experience. After 2-3 days of visiting with

“transients” who came mostly by train, Bunde

would recommendgood fits for “tramp mining”

to Votolini. Tramp Miners would stay no more

than six months and move onto other locations,

other jobs, other mines. Plus they cost the mine no

benefits. He’d call Votolini after about three days

and say, “Gotta good deck-hand for ya.” He said

most were from Butte, MT. *1967 “Silver dropped to $1.67/oz.—so investors

jumped on it and bought it up again.” *1968 “Silver was booming!”

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By Julie Lilienkamp

“After graduation, I had every intention to get into forestry, but couldn’t help wanting the pay of a miner.

So, I got a job at the Galena Mine,” explains Ed Hempel, an Idaho native born in the Providence Hospital in Wallace, Idaho in 1953.

Hempel’s father, who was raised in Rose Lake, Idaho, worked for the county in the Silver Valley before working and retiring from the US Postal Service in Wallace, and his mother worked as a county clerk.

“My mom was a Blum, you remember Blum’s Flower Shop in Osburn?” Hempel asks.

Of course, my mom went to work for Blum’s after I graduated from High School.

Hempel continues with his reflection, “My grandmother owned the Ryan Hotel in Wallace, and my father and I took care of the boiler while I was in high school.”

Hempel graduated from Wallace HS in 1971.

“I got my draft notice a time later, while in Boot Camp, so I checked into the Navy. I signed up instantly.

One year later, in 1972, the Sunshine Mine Disaster.”

Hempel pauses to remember [lives lost]

Ed Hempel in the fire, then continues. “I then spent the next six years in Idaho Falls, at the National Reacting Station.

Following that and getting most all my engineering, I left for Vallejo, California for six months.”

Ed Hempel was a nuclear propulsion mechanic while in the Navy, under direction of Admiral Hyman Rickover, known as “Father of the Nuclear Navy,” who was instrumental in directing the development of the Nautilus, a submarine designed to run on battery during the day and diesel at night, submersed [Russian Harbor] where US “quiet” submarines could “strike first and strike fast.” The idea was to stay under the water against enemy detection, and it could maintain this position for hours.

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Tri-Cities refuge boasts a surprising diverse selection of wildlife.

At first glance, newcomers to the Tri-Cities may only expect to see vistas of high-desert scrubland. But then you see the three rivers which really make this central Washington community unique.

The combined lifeblood of the Yakima, Columbia and Snake rivers, some of the West’s most prominent waterways, means so much to people here, including providing irrigation for farmland and sustaining the state’s

fourth-largest population center.

Easy waterfront access makes it easy to cool off and enjoy year-round recreation, from swimming and boating to cheering on hydroplanes each spring.

This water also provides shelter for thousands of animals, including some who live here year-round and others who pass through on seasonal migrations.

Much of this animal activity takes place at the McNary Wildlife Refuge, which comprises nearly 16,000 acres of diverse habitat along the east bank of the Columbia near Burbank and heading to Oregon.

The refuge, a collection of seven smaller units, is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and is considered one of the country’s largest urban refuges in terms of concentrations of wildlife. Visitors will find more than 200 species of waterfowl, raptors, and migratory birds, all part of a larger ecosystem.

One of the more unexpected fauna that calls McNary Refuge home is the American white pelican, a different species than brown pelicans seen along the Pacific Coast.

Though white pelicans are common worldwide, these particular pelicans are actually classified by Washington State as endangered.

The refuge has turned out to be a perfect example of a win-win for the community and the country.

In the early 1940s, work began on the McNary Continued on next page

Dam on the Washington-Oregon border, the third dam authorized as part of the larger Columbia hydroelectric power project. The dam was completed in 1954, and generates 5.2 Megawatts of power annually.

Though the power has been a definite boon to the country, and the dam’s initial design included two fish ladders, local leaders and local tribes were concerned about the loss of habitat for other wildlife.

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Hempel--Continued from Page 21 This became known as the way to win a war. The test site during World War II was Farragut Naval Training Station, Pend Oreille Lake, Athol, Idaho, which is still a testing station today, for “silent” testing.

“I describe being in a submarine, 30 feet in diameter and 298 feet long, as similar to being 3700 feet down in the Galena Mine, just cleaner,” Hempel smiles and continues. “I went from nuclear to ‘fleet,’ allowing me to skip submarine school. I was on the same ship for 4-1/2 years, from the time of construction till the first major overhaul in Bremerton, WA, at which point I was discharged. That was 1978.”

“You know, hindsight is 20/20, and when I look back on the service in the Navy and my years on the submarine, I gotta say, I hated it then, but I sure had a good time—and am grateful to this day to have missed the draft of the Army by signing on for the Navy.”

Hempel continues, “PRIDE runs deep, was our [Navy boys] slogan, something Chevrolet stole from the Navy. Working in the engine room, unlike the front of the submarine which housed the cooks, torpedo men and weapon guys, was like Disneyland.”

Hempel was also trained in thermal, refrigeration, and air conditioning while in the Navy, giving him the tools to find variety of jobs or a career once out of the service.

He worked in a shipyard immediately out of the service, but with little to no time between, he moved to Boise, joined up in business with a friend, and they opened a thermal and refrigeration business. He was in his early twenties at the time, and Hempel has been in the thermal business ever since. Now Hempel works in Spokane, Washington for Thermal Supply Inc.

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Bunde--Continued from page 17

*1968 (still) Canyon Silver Mine “the Old Formosa” up by the Gem Mills in Burke Canyon, had been closed for years, but Bill Morrow saw money signs.

He had known Bunde and watched his interactions through the years, as he was local auto mechanic working near the lumber yard, listening to Bunde’s stories. Morrow sold two of his choice Cadillacs for the mine, and then he asked Bunde to help scope out the mine and get it up and running. So, Bunde spent days working at the lumber yard and evenings working the mine for Morrow.

Morrow knew the ropes a bit, as he had incorporated and asked the public for [Stock purchase] money to raise enough cash to finance and open the mine.

Within no time at all, within the first cave, Bunde noticed an old 5” vein, he said the old-timers worked.

“The fault was on a 45 degree, so we decided to dig in that wall, about 50 feet in to offset the dip.”

Bunde exclaims, “We took a pick and rolled out a 15 pound high ore body. Ten cent stock values then skyrocketed to thirty cents a share. Morrow soon had his cash, a whoppin’ $300K to be exact.” Bunde smiled.

“We started mining with jackhammers doing upsidedown mining. We bought up the old equipment from the Page Mine. We sunk down and followed the vein about 15-20 feet, which notoriously filled with water.

That’s when we made a joint decision to sink the shaft to get under the ore body. So we did. We sunk the shaft from 120 feet to 220 feet, then drifted on the vein until we hit a kidney. We his an 8-foot wide, high-grade, lead and silver ore piece. It sparkled like a house-of-mirrors! It was two ounces of silver to the percent of lead. A keeper.”

Bunde quit his job at the lumber mill to work the mine after that strike of silver.

The mine continued progressing until 1972, the year of the devastating Sunshine Mine Fire and Disaster.

Miners to remember: All Sunshine Miners who lost their lives in the fire and/or trying to rescue those who were in emanate danger.

Remembering too, said Bunde, “Kenny Prichard, who was instrumental in re-opening the mine with Jim Striker and Pete Bato, lost his life one night while working with Dick Eikenger on sinking the new 220 foot shaft to 400 feet.” Bunde went on to explain the accident, “They had just blasted and were resetting the ‘battleship’. The two had hooked the chain to move

the timber platform, which was a 20 foot cable with chains and four hooks. They accidentally hooked a rail near the shaft, which swung around and knocked Kenny down into the 400 foot shaft. Kenny died that night.”

Bunde took a minute remembering before he could speak again. *1972 The 1972 fire at Sunshine brought new safety from state and federal government. MSAH and OSHA . That was a down time for the smaller, unsafe mines.

Many shut down, as they were not up to code and the owners/stockholders did not want to go to the expense to upgrade, some could never meet code, and any without a second escape route were immediately shut down.

“We went on to shut the Canyon too, but prior, Bill Morrow and Leo Miller were preparing to reset a new water pump in the shaft, which was now at 800 feet,” tells Bunde., “with 440 power running to it—Mark Fowler or Roland Morrow was the hoistman that night.

Now if the pump is wired wrong, the electricity works backwards. Just as they got it set up, with Leo by the pump, Bill told Leo he’d go flip the switch, with both men waist deep in water. Bill walked on over to the controls and Leo said later, when nothing happened he looked over and saw Morrow floating face down in the water.”

“I lost many friends in the mines, three from Minnesota, Wayne Alan, Kenny Prichard, and Arnold Anderson, and Lester Olson, who was from North Dakota,” continues Bunde. “I was done with mining and thanks to Jack Hull and Boyd Baker, I got hired in construction. I stayed in construction until 1977. *1977 Agent Broker-“I got my license and worked for Pennaluna in Kellogg, Idaho—the main office was in Wallace, and they had another in Cd’A and one in Spokane,” said Bunde. “My time being a broker was eye opening. I really got to know the ins and outs of the mines and goings on”. But that can be told another day.

More about Jerome Bunde in our next edition, or for those of you in the Silver Valley—stop him on the street to ask more about “The rest of the story.”

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A History of Idaho Forest Industries and the Atlas Tie Company

By Tom Richards

Part II (Continued from July 2015 Timber Construction & American Harvest)

John Morgan Richards

purchased a controlling interest in Atlas Tie sometime around 1920. Richards was born in Pepin, Wisconsin, on August 3, 1871. His father, Horace Richards, owned a boarding house for lumberjacks and sawmill workers in Maiden Rock, Wisconsin. Richards married Eylfa Maude Smith in 1896 and moved to Bemidji, Minnesota shortly thereafter. After several years working for the Crookston Lumber Company, Richards and W.A. Gould built a sawmill on the east end of Lake Bemidji in 1905. They later sold this mill to Crookston, making it the largest lumber company in Minnesota. At some point Richards went to work for the Weyerhauser company in Minnesota. He was then transferred to Spokane, Washington to manage the Spokane branch of the Idaho White Pine Manufacturer’s Association (IWPMA) in 1918.

Weyerhauser had established four sawmills in North Idaho. The Sandpoint Lumber Company was purchased in 1900 and reorganized as the Humbird Lumber Company.

The Edward Rutledge Timber Company in Coeur d’Alene and the Bonners Ferry Lumber Company were established in 1902, and the Potlatch Lumber Company, as well as the town of Potlatch, were both established in 1903. In 1914 these mills joined together to form IWPMA in order to more effectively market their products. This organization then combined with the Northern Pine Manufacturer’s Association, a group of Weyerhauser mills in the Great Lakes, to form the White Pine Bureau. Headed by George F. Lindsay, the Bureau placed advertising in popular magazines and published the White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs, edited by a prominent architect, Russell F. Whitehead. These monographs highlighted the use of white pine in famous American homes.

The second part of the White Pine Bureau’s program was more controversial. Lindsay wanted to develop a trademark and a series of grades for Weyerhauser lumber that would be applied at the mill. Mill managers resented this, believing that lumber yard owners did not want their lumber to be pre-graded by a mill, preferring to sort and grade their own lumber. The idea of grade stamps would not be fully accepted for years to come, but in 1919 the Bureau’s advertising program was approved and put into

full swing. The same year, however, the Spokane office of the IWPMA was closed. Richards set up his own wholesale lumber business in the Old National Bank Building, the same building that had housed the IWPMA.

The following year Richards purchased the Atlas Tie Company from T.J. Stonestreet. He ran the company from his office in Spokane, while George Straughan continued to manage the sawmill. In 1921 Atlas Tie purchased property on Hayden Lake that had formerly been the site of the Woods Brothers & McGee lumber company. This property was purchased to use as a railroad siding. Timber felled in the area surrounding Hayden Lake was barged to the site, where it was transferred to cars and hauled to the Atlas mill. Richards established the John M. Richards Lumber Company in Spokane as a lumber wholesale firm in 1924, and the Richards-Goettel Lumber Company in 1930 with August “Bert” Goettel. These companies, based in Spokane, continued to handled the sales of Atlas Tie’s lumber until the 1950’s.

John Morgan Richards’ background was much closer to that of F.A. Blackwell, Fred Herrick or even Frederick Weyerhauser than to the background of Marcus Wright.

He had learned the white pine business in Minnesota before moving west. In the Inland Empire, he had worked for Weyerhauser, marketing white pine, then with his own wholesale lumber operation. It is likely that he sold white pine as an independent wholesaler, given his background and the connections that he must have developed working for the IWPMA. Some pine mills in the area had already experienced financial difficulty, but many owners were still full of enthusiasm for Idaho’s white pine stands.

Weyerhauser would actually build a sawmill in Lewiston as late as 1923, primarily to produce white pine boards.

Despite his background in white pine, or perhaps because of it, he chose to follow Marcus Wright’s lead and commit Atlas Tie to the production of ties and timbers for the

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Richards retired in 1932. He lived in Seattle for one year, then moved to Glendale, near Los Angeles, where he died on July 24, 1946.

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was born on Feb 13, 1904 in Crookston, Minnesota.

He was 16 years old when Weyerhauser transferred his father to Spokane. Richards attended the University of Washington, rowing on the crew team. He then attended the graduate school of business at Harvard. In 1931 he took over the operations of Atlas Tie, although his father maintained the title of president until 1945. Richards married Ruth Triplett, the daughter of a prominent Spokane banker, in 1932. Shortly after that, the Richards moved to Coeur d’Alene, and then to Hayden Lake.

In the mid-1930’s, Atlas began selling lumber at the retail level in Coeur d’Alene. The process of turning a round log into a square railroad tie created a large volume of “slab” lumber that was sold as firewood. The mill also began to convert some of these slabs into framing lumber

to sell to local builders. Over time, these customers began asking for other building materials, and a retail lumber and hardware business was formed. The new business was called Atlas Building Center and was located in the same building as the sawmill office.

The Atlas sawmill was destroyed by fire on May 1, 1937. The sawmill was a complete loss, but the planer shed, office and lumber inventories were saved. The Blackwell Lumber Company announced their permanent closure just two days later. Atlas tried unsuccessfully to purchase Blackwell’s Coeur d’Alene sawmill. The company was able to lease the Coeur d’Alene mill from Blackwell while the Atlas mill was rebuilt with equipment from Blackwell’s mill in Fernwood, Idaho. The sawmill and planer shed were both destroyed by fire on May 28, 1948. Atlas was able to operate a night shift at the Northwest Timber Company sawmill in Coeur d’Alene, allowing them to continue production while they rebuilt after the second fire.

Industry wide labor unrest came to a boiling point in 1947, resulting in a regional strike. The 4-L had lost membership fairly quickly after WWI ended, and the Continued on next page . . .

industry was now organized primarily by the Congress of Industrial Unions (CIO). As opposed to the IWW, the CIO sought to negotiate contracts with sawmills. Mill workers were very aware that workers in the Douglas Fir region on the Oregon and Washington coast earned 15 cents an hour more than Inland Empire workers, and they wanted this differential erased. Potlatch Forests, Inc., the Ohio Match Company and the Diamond Match Company, three of the area’s largest employers, immediately agreed to a 7-1/2 cent raise and continued negotiations on the difference. Smaller mills in the area, including Atlas Tie, held out against the unions. Richards was a member of the employer committee in these negotiations, and acted as a spokesperson for employers to the media.

The U.S. Conciliation Service was brought in to help mediate the dispute. By mid-June, the small mills had also agreed to a 7-1/2 cent raise, but refused to make up the rest of the difference between Inland Empire and coastal workers. Richards pointed out that the woodworkers had received raises totaling 42-1/2 cents since the end of World War II, while the national average was 30 cents. The union responded by pointing out that the wage differential was established by the government during the war, and that historically mill workers throughout the Northwest had received comparable wages.

The workers finally walked off of their jobs on June 18, 1947, striking at nine mills in northern Idaho and eastern Washington including the Atlas Tie Company. Negotiations continued with the large mills on the remaining 7-1/2 cents, but these negotiations finally broke down, and workers at these mills walked out on August 6. By that time some 5,500 workers were on strike in the Inland Empire. Labor unrest was intensified with the Taft-Hartley act, passed over President Truman’s veto, that prohibited closed union shops. This bill allowed non-union workers to be hired at all union sawmills.

The first settlement was reached at the Post Falls Lumber Company, with Ohio Match following soon after. The workers received a total raise of 9-1/2 – 121/2 cents an hour. The strike dragged on through the summer and into the fall at the rest of the mills. One railcar full of Atlas Tie Company logs was dumped into Coeur d’Alene Lake by picketers, but the strike was generally peaceful. The rest of the sawmills began to settle in October with agreements similar to the Post Falls Lumber agreement, and by October 22 the last strike had ended.

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Continued from Pg 37 Hi. My name is Lisa Julian. I am collecting ski had held out against parity with items--good, used , ski & board equipment. I am volunteering coast mills, and they had seen the for former ski champions, now good friends for their nonpassage of Taft-Hartley, which they profit foundation, MOLDS (Malakand Organized Leadership welcomed. The effects of TaftDeveloping Sports). I will need donations for shipping, as well Harley were of particular interest to Atlas Tie – by 1970 the sawmill had as any and all used good ski equipment for the impoverished the only open-shop union remaining and disadvantaged young children & teenagers of Pakistan. in the Inland Empire. All other Donations can be dropped off @ my coffee stand Julian sawmills by that time were either Java in St. Maries. Or call me if you are out of my area for pick closed-shop union mills or had up. If you would like more information feel free to contact me no union at all. The CIO workers

by Facebook or call me at (208)582-2096. received substantial raises, although not as much as they had demanded.

Monetary donations for shipping costs can be mailed to Despite the passage of Taft-Hartley, me Lisa Julian, P.O. Box 463, St. Maries, ID 83861. union membership stayed strong and Thank you for helping me change kids’ lives! would continue to grow.

Richards was very active in the regional and national timber industry. He served as president of the White Pine Association, a grading and marketing organization of pine mills in the Inland Northwest. He oversaw the expansion of the WPA to include coastal sawmills by helping Owner of Julian Java to settle a dispute between coastal Photo courtesy of misswitha St. Maries, Idaho and inland mills over sizes of green mission.wordpress.com and dry finished lumber. Most of the

members of the West Coast Lumber Richards developed several business partnerships that Association (WWPA). Weyerhauser and Willamette Remembering Local resulted in the eventual merger of Atlas with several Industries, two of the largest coastal producers, joined other concerns to form a new company, Idaho Forest WWPA very early in this transition, leading to WWPA Industries. Of primary importance were partnerships with becoming one of the largest lumber trade associations Jack Durdy’s Alpine Lumber Company and the formation in the world. Bob Roberts, secretary of WWPA while of the R-D (Richards-Durdy) Lumber Company, and Richards served as president of the association, noted his association with the DeArmond Lumber Company. his considerable skill at settling disputes between staff Richards continued to act as president of Atlas Tie until members, mills and factions. Richards also served the formation of Idaho Forest Industries in 1968. He then as president of the Timber Products Manufacturer’s went on to serve as president of Idaho Forest Industries Association, treasurer of the National Forest Products until 1970, and then as chairman of the board of directors Association, and made frequent trips to Washington D.C. of that company until his death in 1971. to lobby for the timber industry.

Continued in our next edition, January 2016

Richards’ business and community activity in Coeur d’Alene helped build a reputation for Atlas Tie as one of the town’s premier companies. He was fundamental in establishing Kootenai Memorial Hospital in Coeur d’Alene, and served as chairman of the board of the Hospital as well as a director of Blue Cross of Idaho.

He acted as president of First Federal Savings & Loan Association and the Coeur d’Alene Realty Co., and sat on the board of directors of General Telephone Company of the Northwest.

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Becky Kramer November 6, 2015— Spokesman Review

Too many trees are growing on parts of the Colville National Forest.

Jonathan Day has counted up to 6,000 trees per acre competing for sunlight and moisture on sites that once had open, park-like stands of ponderosa pine and western larch.

“They’re not going to handle a changing climate very well,” says Day, a Forest Service silviculturist, who points to high-intensity wildfires on the Colville National Forest this summer as an indicator of future problems.

According to a 2014 report, between 35 percent and 60 percent of the forest in northeastern Washington needs thinning and controlled burns get it back to historic conditions, which will make the remaining trees more resilient to drought, wildfires and disease.

In a pilot project that has attracted national attention – and some controversy – the Colville National Forest has turned to a timber company for help.

Agency officials contracted with Vaagen Brothers Lumber Co. to do restoration work over 54,000 acres of the 1.1 million-acre forest. The target area burned during large wildfires in the 1920s, and the surviving trees were logged off. Decades of fire suppression prevented natural thinning of the forest that grew back, Day said.

The 10-year project includes thinning, controlled burns, stream restoration and road maintenance work.

Some of the logs will be turned into lumber at Vaagen Brothers’ sawmills in Colville and Usk, Washington,

which employ about 200 people. Other logs will be chipped and burned for wood-fired electricity.

“We’re leaving the biggest and the best trees,” said Russ Vaagen, president of the fourth-generation, familyowned timber company.

He said Vaagen Brothers is taking a calculated risk that it can do the restoration while turning a profit on the small trees harvested through thinning.

“That’s a risk we’re willing to to take to move the needle forward on forest management,” Vaagen said.

The Forest Service frequently awards “stewardship contracts,” where timber companies get to harvest trees in return for other work, such as repairing roads or enhancing wildlife habitat. But this project, called A to Z, is unusual because Vaagen Brothers is also responsible for the environmental review of the proposed work, which includes harvesting 30 million to 50 million board feet of timber, said Franklin Pemberton, a spokesman for the Colville National Forest.

Vaagen Brothers has hired Cramer Fish Sciences, of Lacey, Washington, to do the environmental analysis at a cost of more than $1 million, according to Russ Vaagen.

The project must comply with the National Environmental Policy Act and other environmental laws, and the Forest Service has the final say on what happens on the ground, Pemberton said.

“For us, it’s about adding capacity to get the work done,” Pemberton said. “We have a limited workforce.

At our current pace, we’ll never get ahead of the curve…

Disease, insects and fire will outpace our healthy acres.”

Nationally, the A to Z project has drawn interest as the cash-strapped Forest Service looks for way to address a backlog of unfunded restoration work.

Locally, the approach has the support of U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Spokane, and several environment groups, including The Lands Council of Continued on next page . . .

Spokane and Conservation Northwest.

The groups endorse the idea that careful logging can create a healthier forest, particularly when the focus is on restoring landscapes damaged by past clear cuts and fire exclusion, said Mike Petersen, The Lands Council’s executive director.

The groups also were willing to test whether a timber company could deliver a high-quality environmental analysis.

“We have peers who find that idea deeply offensive,” said Mitch Friedman, Conservation Northwest’s executive director. “I don’t have any such concerns. I’m open to experimentation.”

Others are suspicious.

“I think it calls into question the impartiality of the analysis when a timber company pays a consultant to do the work,” said Mike Garrity, executive director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies.

“It’s like having two foxes guarding the hen house,” said Barry Rosenberg, a long-time environmental activist from North Idaho.

They also say fire behavior has more to do with weather conditions – such as drought, heat and wind – than tree density. They cite research that says many recent wildfires in the Rockies burned through forests of lodgepole pine and subalpine fir, which tend to burn in large fires that kill most of the trees. That’s typical for those tree types, and thinning the forest won’t change the outcome, they said.

“There’s no evidence that thinning can stop fires,” Rosenberg said. “It’s one of myths the timber industry and the Forest Service use…to justify logging.”

Along with several others, they filed an objection to environmental analysis for the first phase of the A to Z project, which calls for thinning and controlled burns on about 4,000 acres in the Mill Creek watershed eight miles north of Colville.

Forest Supervisor Rodney Smolden withdrew draft approval for the project last month, but the agency remains committed to the work, according to Pemberton.

Withdrawing a decision gives officials time to review issues raised in the objection, he said.

“We typically go back out with a bolstered project, which we hope is better in the end,” Pemberton said.

It’s true that weather dictates how destructive fires are, he added.

This summer, some previously thinned areas of the Colville National Forest experienced high intensity fires on hot, windy days.

“Fire weather conditions set up so it was going to burn regardless,” Pemberton said.

But other areas benefited from previous tree thinning, allowing the fires to burn with less intensity and play a beneficial role on the landscape, he said.

“Six thousands tree per acre is unheard of in the natural fire regime,” said Day, the silviculturist. “If we walk away and let a fire burn, it will burn more severely.”

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