Lincoln Bulletin Board

Local Moose Family Update

2012-01-13T20:12:00.001-08:00

Here is a photo of the local Lincoln Moose Family. Sid shot the picture up Underwood Canyon on Thursday January 12th. They were about 40 yards away.

Thanks for the photo Sid and Pat.

INFORMATION ON THE FIRST ANNUAL "LINCOLN DAYS PARADE" AND THE 2012 "FACES OF LINCOLN" CALENDAR

2011-12-19T16:06:00.000-08:00

Vic Dunlap is currently selling a very nifty 2012 calendar called “Faces of Lincoln, Washington”. The cost is $16 and all profits go to the first annual "Lincoln Mill Days" parade and BBQ which will be held on Sunday May 27th.

You can give Vic a call to place your calendar order (636-2016) or email her at vrdunlap@yahoo.com.

About the first annual " Lincoln Mill Days" parade and BBQ: It will start with a parade near the Lincoln Launch. Everyone who is available should be there for the fun. The parade will proceed from the Launch to the Dunlaps in Sterling Valley. This is the first annual parade, so be part of history and be a participant.

Vic is also interested in those who would like to be in the 2013 Lincoln calendar. If you are, please email her at vrdunlap@yahoo.com

WHERE IS A PHOTOGRAPHER WHEN YOU NEED ONE?

2011-12-18T17:59:00.000-08:00

Vic Dunlap is available for hire to take photographs for any event...senior pictures, anniversary, birthday, and family photo's.

Just call her for rates and bookings at 636-2016 or email her at vrdunlap@yahoo.com.

BOAT FOR SALE IN LINCOLN

2011-12-10T13:48:00.001-08:00

1994 Bayliner 24ft with 2001 easy loader trailer, 15 horse trolling motor, a full boat canvas cover, and a log of all boating hours. $14,500

The boat is currently located in Todd's Storage near the launch.

Serious inquires only .
email Pam Hill at

pamela-hill@hotmail.com

LINCOLN WEATHER FORECAST

2011-11-28T11:32:00.000-08:00

For the current weather forecast, click on the following link:

//forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?site=otx&smap=1&textField1=47.814583333333&textField2=-118.40875

HAIRCUTS

2010-09-17T11:23:00.000-07:00

Open for business. Haircuts are $10 male or female. Call Tamie for an appointment.

636-3366

2005 Outback by Keystone For Sale in Lincoln

2010-09-16T14:29:00.000-07:00

27'; 2 queen beds + fold-down sofa; dining booth also folds down for bed; outdoor cook station; furnace and A/C; less than 500 road miles; always stored inside in winter. $11,500 firm

Located on Highpoint Court across from water towers in Lincoln. Call 509-750-6347 or 509-636-2661.

SO JUST WHAT IS THE CURRENT LAKE LEVEL?

2010-09-16T13:40:00.000-07:00

If you click on the following link you will get the current lake level and the projected level for the next week. This is pretty handy when the lake gets low and you are thinking of heading to the launch..

http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=otx&gage=gcdw1

Also, the minimum boat launch elevations for our area are:

Lincoln: 1245 feet

Seven Bays: 1227 feet

Fort Spokane: 1247feet

COUNTY EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM

2010-08-23T13:22:00.000-07:00

In case you haven't heard, the county has an emergency alert system that can provide important messages to your cell phone, home phone, text message or email. This service would provide immediate notice to events such as wildfires and high winds. To sign up go to this Lincoln County website: http://lincolncountywa.mystateusa.com/

NW MEDSTAR HELICOPTER AMBULANCE

2010-08-22T14:01:00.000-07:00

This air ambulance provides service to the Lincoln and Sterling Valley areas. However, the service is not free and if your insurance does not cover this type of transportation the personal cost to you would be in the thousands of dollars. However, MedStar provides a membership option. Double click the brochure to the right to read more.

The membership application is below. To get a copy, after you double click the image, print a copy for your use. If you have any difficulties, contact Jim at redwinecanyon@gmail.com and I will get a copy to you.

THE HISTORY OF THE LINCOLN MILL

2010-08-20T13:57:00.000-07:00

The G.W. Emerson Lumber Company originally owned a sawmill near Deer Park in Spokane County. In 1908, it was moved to Gerome in Stevens County, and in 1918 it was moved again, this time to Old Lincoln, located at the mouth of the Spokane River, where it employed 30 to 40 men. In the late 1930's, during the construction of Grand Coulee Dam, the family company sold the mill to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
Lester Farrish, with Hal Dixon as his partner, bought the mill from the bureau and moved it to a new site at what is called Lincoln. With the mill in its new location, they began to operate the Lincoln Lumber Company, sawing logs that were being cut from the clearing for the Coulee Dam reservoir. As the water started flooding the reservoir, rattlesnakes were regular visitors to the camp area, and some would even ride the logs right into the mill.
While the reservoir filled up and the logs were sawed, World War II began. With their lumber business doing so well, the owners decided to extend it. The lumbering prospects on the Colville Indian Reservation looked good, and in the spring of 1942 a contract was negotiated with the Colville Indians for timber.
In 1941, laborers of the sawmill organized a union shop, forming Local 2935 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, with Orin Little as the first president.
It wasn't long until a mill town began to grow around the sawmill. During the early years, a bunkhouse and cookhouse were maintained for many of the workers. About 40 homes were soon established in the area, and in 1940 Areta and Ella Davis built a store and post office. Students from Lincoln attended school at Creston, and the two communities became closely related.
The company struggled through the war years, going without repair parts for equipment, but it continued to cut lumber, which was shipped by barge up the river to Kettle Falls, then by rail to the Western Pine Company in Spokane for final processing.
After the war, the Lincoln Lumber Company continued to grow. It had big plans that were quickly changed when on a January evening in 1946 a fire, started by an arc welder, leveled the sawmill to the ground. First of many changes was the reorganization of the company, with new partners -- Dr. Ed Abrams, Grant Dixon Sr, Grant Dixon Jr, Harold Carmen and Gayle Beals. With reorganization, plans were rapidly made to rebuild the mill on the same site. Three portable circle mills were moved in to keep up production during construction of the new mill. Enough lumber was produced to build the new mill and continue to sell on the market.
At this time, new equipment was difficult to obtain, and as plans began to develop, Beals and Lester Farrish, one of the original owners, spent many hours traveling to assemble parts needed for a sawmill. In May1948, the new mill went into operation, a dream come true for Farrish. The new mill was the most modern of its time.
Disaster again struck the company in July 1948. Farrish was killed at Grand Forks, B.C., when the plane he was flying failed to clear some trees on takeoff and crashed. Between July 1948 and January 1953, the plant was operated under the guidance of Beals and Carmen.
On 1 January 1953, the Lincoln Lumber Company merged with the Valsetz Lumber Company of Portland, and shortly after, Beals became general manager of the sawmill and the woods, and Leonard Johnson became the plant manager. In 1955, Beals moved to LaGrande, Oregon, to manage the Valsetz Company, and Royce Saterlee became manager of the woods. The mill was now operated under the name of Templeton Lumber Company.
In July 1959 the Valsetz Lumber Company merged with Boise Cascade Corporation, and in March 1960 the mill began operating under the Boise Cascade name. While with Boise Cascade, the mill had three managers - Leonard Johnson, Robert Beckley and Larry Miller. The Planer mill was moved from Spokane to Lincoln in September 1967, and the Boise Cascade Trucking Division was relocated to Creston shortly afterward. A lumber storage yard was laid out in Creston and the finished lumber was shipped by rail.
The sawmill was sold to Biles Coleman Corporation in 1971 and was known as the Lincoln Mill Corporation, with Harold Wagoner as manager until March 1974, when Crown Zellerbach Corporation took over the operation, and John Watson became manager. The plant operated under Crown Zellerbach until it was finally shut down in June 1983, after a year of layoffs and callbacks. At this time the mill was dismantled and sold to five other companies.
At the time of the shutdown, a Crown Zellerbach spokesperson said the mill had lost its margin of profitability. The lumber industry had provided many families in the area a good living for over 40 years, and it was hard for the 65 families, finding themselves out of work at a time when the job market was low, not to be bitter. Many of the employees had invested a lifetime in the mill.
Those who owned their homes tried to find work in the local area; some lost their homes, and many left their unsold homes to find work elsewhere.

THE HISTORY OF OUR COMMUNITY OF LINCOLN

2010-08-10T20:43:00.000-07:00

A Photo of Peach, Washington.

Our community of Lincoln has quite a past. The town by namesake did not start here, but rather started where the Spokane River meets the Columbia River, nearly across the Spokane from where the casino is today. The site was actually platted as Miles, but the name Miles was used on a post office located two miles to the east. So on September 28, 1911, when the post office was established, the name Lincoln was picked in honor of the 16th President. In 1917 the town had a population of 200. By the 1920s it had grown rapidly and appeared to be on its way to becoming a town of considerable size and importance. The Great Northern Railway had already begun to build a railroad bed that would connect the Lincoln Sawmill and Flour Mill to the outside world. In addition to the Post Office, Lincoln boasted a telephone office and a weekly newspaper, The Lincoln Herald. There was also a grocery store, hardware, two restaurants, a dance hall, a theater and a women’s hat shop. The fare for stage to Davenport was $1. But the dreams of becoming a major industrial and shipping center were abandoned when word was received in the late 1930s that the swift waters of the Columbia River would be harnessed by the building of Grand Coulee Dam. The railroad was never completed and business began to die, knowing the town would eventually be inundated by the backwaters of the largest hydroelectric project in the world. Late in 1939 the exodus from Lincoln began, with the post office being discontinued on February 26, 1940. The Creston School District took in the students from the closed Lincoln and Peach schools. The mill in Lincoln that had existed since 1918 was sold to the Bureau of Reclamation. Shortly thereafter, the mill was purchased by Lester Farrish and Hal Dixon who moved it down river to the location of the “new” Lincoln Mill. Their intent was only to process the logs that were being cut for the clearing for the reservoir. While the reservoir was filling up and the logs were sawed, World War II began. With their lumber business doing so well the owners decided to extend it. In the spring of 1942 a contract was negotiated with the Colville Indians for timber. The cut timber was barged up the lake to Kettle Falls then shipped by rail to the Western Pine Company in Spokane for final processing. It wasn't long before a mill town began to grow around the sawmill. About 40 homes were soon established in the area and in 1940 Areta and Ella Davis built a store and post office. The community adopted the name of the Sawmill, "Lincoln". The "new" Lincoln Post Office was less than a mile from that of the old Peach Post Office, in fact old residents of Peach had a "pinch of resentment" at having the name Peach abandoned. The Lincoln Post Office was a small caged-in space at the rear of the town's lone general store and mail was supplied daily on a Creston Star Route. After the store was closed in 1974 the Post Office was moved to the Lantzy home. The Lincoln Mill, a victim of corporate takeovers and changing economic conditions, shut down in 1983. After a history of abandonment for the rising waters of Lake Roosevelt and the lean years following closure of the "new" Lincoln Mill, our town of Lincoln is once again quickly growing and becoming a first class community.

HISTORY OF THE PEACH CEMETERY

2010-08-08T21:01:00.000-07:00

The town of Peach which flourished on the banks of the Columbia River below this site for around fifty years had three cemeteries. These were the W. L. Brannon Cemetery, the W. H. Balcom Cemetery and this cemetery which fortunately was located above the future water level of Lake Roosevelt. The two cemeteries that were to be flooded were moved to this cemetery in 1939.
More than 50 cemeteries that fell within the Grand Coulee Dam/Lake Roosevelt footprint, many of them Indian burial grounds, were moved to higher ground. A Spokane funeral home, Ball and Dodd, under contract to the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, was responsible for these grave relocations.
The earliest headstone at this cemetery is 1892 and the last is 1953. There are a number of unknown and unmarked graves.
The names listed with an asterisk (*) were graves that were relocated for the rising lake. Notations on the markers are listed.
Anderson, Hans, d. Dec 01, 1905
Balcom, Henry, b. 1912, d. 1933
Balcom, John W., b. 1883, d. 1905
Brannon, Almira, b. 1836, d. 1922 *
Brannon, Dora J., b. 1883, d. 1959 *
Brannon, Esther Irene, b. Apr 25, d. Sep 25, 1899 *
Brannon, Lloyd V., d. Dec 22, 1896, Aged 8m 11d*
Brannon, Luretta, b. 1876, d. 1904, w/o W.L. Brannon
Brannon, Marcus E., b. 1873, d. 1947 *
Brannon, Thomas, b. 1830-1894
Denney, William H., b. Oct 1836, d. Dec 1922
Emerson, Guy B., b. 1895, d. 1931
Ensley, Abram, d. Mar 26, 1902 Aged 69y 1m 15d, "In Loving Memory", "Another link in our household is broken, but a chain is forming in a better land"
Fisher, Baby, No dates ,(Baby of Mrs Maude, moved from Brannon Cem) *
Gabbert, George, b. 1860, d. 1914
Gabbert, Minnie, b. 1866, d. 1953
Hill, Alice E., b. 1858, d. 1924
Hill, Charlie, b. Feb 01, 1890, d. Jan 15, 1904 Son of J.R. & A.E. Hill, "No pains,no griefs, no anxious fear, Can reach our loved one sleeping here"
Hill, Frederick, b. 1917, d. 1919
Hill, John R., b. 1855, d. 1922
Jump, Phyllis A., d. Oct 10, 1924, Our Baby
Jump, William, d. Sep 24, 1929, Our Baby
Kirby, Clarence D, b. Jan 17, 1898, d. Nov 15, 1902"At rest"
Layson, Howard Ivan, b. Aug 21, 1901, d. Aug 27, 1902, (Headstone not found)
Layson, Martha B., d. Aug 16, 1902 @32y 4m 3d, w/o Samuel Layson
Layson, Mary A., b. 1892, d. 1910
Layson, Mary E., b. Jul 21, 1832, d. Nov 21, 1904, Aged 72y 4m
Layson, S. L., (Headstone not found)
Lynn, E. T., b. Jul 28, 1857, d. Nov 11, 1909 "Beloved one Farewell", "Here rests a woodman of the world"
Lynn, Harry G., b. Aug 25, 1902, d. Oct 07, 1902, s/o J.E. & L.A. Lynn
Lynn, Joseph M., b. 1881, d. 1931
Lynn, Mary A., b. 1845, d. 1930, Mother
Lynn, William, b. 1831, d. 1909, Father
Messenger, Charles, No Dates, (Moved from Brannon Cemetery) *
Pugh, Fields L., b. 1852, d. 1921, Father
Pugh, Mary C., b. 1855, d. 1932, Mother
Pugh, Nora, b. Mar 06, 1883, d. Oct 02, 1912, w/o Charles B., "Rest Mother rest in quiet sleep, while friends in sorrow oe'r thee weep"
Richardson, Laura E., b. 1874, d. 1911, w/o J.E. Richardson, "Gone but not forgotten"
Scott, Marvin W., b. May 13, 1904, d. Aug 28, 1904, s/o W.Ward & Nettie L.
Shock, Ann Balcom, b. 1906, d. (Jan 30)1927
Timm, A. L., d. Aug 1894, (Moved from W.H. Balcom Cemetery)
Timm, Beatrice, d. Dec 20, 1903 (Headstone not found)
Timm, Thomasa Q., b. 1867, d. 1903, (nee Uribe), "I've gone to be with Jesus, my labors are all oe'r., Oh dear one come and meet me here on this peaceful shore"
Tucker, Beulah Belle, b. Dec11, 1880, d. Mar 01, 1913
Tucker, Dixie Lee, b. Feb 12, 1913, d. Sep 23, 1913
Uribe, Alice May, b. Dec 31, 1901, d. May 19, 1905, (d/o Roque & Nell)
Uribe, Charles, d. Apr 22, 1908, Son
Uribe, Timothy, b. 1882, d. 1918, Father
Waters, Twins, No dates, c/o Joe & Emma (Moved from Brannon Cem)
Yeaman, Malcolm C., b. Sep 30, 1878, d. Mar 21, 1906
Young, Edna, no dates, (Moved from Brannon Cemetery to the Young lot) *
Young, Emma Gertrude, d. Aug 1, 1899, @3y 10m 15d, d/o George B & Emma
Young, George D., b. 1858, d. 1903, F of A
Young, Merritt A., b. Aug 25, 1899, d. May 22, 1903, "In heaven with Papa and Sister"
Most of this material was provided by Rella & Jim Gleaton

OLD LINCOLN AREA PHOTOS

2010-08-07T21:05:00.000-07:00

This photo is looking downstream toward Whitestone Rock. The yellow line is approximately the current water level.

(double click for a larger image)

The photo is looking up river from a location probably near Halverson Canyon. It is looking toward Sterling Point which can be faintly seen on the center right. .
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THE STORY OF HARRY TRACY

On August 6, 1902, Harry Tracy (1877-1902) takes his own life rather than surrender to authorities, after being wounded in a gun battle in a Lincoln County wheat field. Beginning with his escape from the Oregon State Penitentiary on June 9, 1902, Tracy killed six men throughout the Northwest, and in the process became known as one of the last desperados of the Old West.

Heading East

In late July, Tracy crossed the Cascade Mountains after a week-long crime spree in King County. He was seen near Wenatchee on July 31. Two days later he was seen aboard a ferry crossing the Columbia River, and following that he was seen near Coulee City. He appeared to be heading for Spokane.

On August 3, near the town of Creston, 18-year-old George E. Goldfinch was hailed by a dark stranger riding a bay horse, and leading a sorrel. “I’m Tracy, the convict,” the stranger stated. “Who are you?." In reply, Goldfinch told him his name, and said, “Pleased to meet you -- I think.”

Tracy asked the whereabouts of the nearest ranch. Goldfinch told him that the Eddy ranch was nearby, run by two bachelor brothers. Tracy told him to go there, and let them know he was coming.

Closing In

Once Tracy arrived, Goldfinch introduced him to Lou and Eugene Eddy. Tracy looked around and decided to stay at the ranch for a few days. He let the boy go, warning him that he would kill the Eddys if the authorities were alerted.

Over the next few days, Tracy tended his horses, shaved, and took a bath. He even showed off his gun slinging prowess to the Eddy brothers by pegging a knothole in a pine board, 60 yards away. They were impressed.

Meanwhile, Goldfinch had disobeyed Tracy’s orders and had phoned the Sheriff in Creston. He also offered to act as a scout and advisor in the capture of Harry Tracy. A posse was formed, and on the morning of August 6, it approached the ranch.

Going Down

The posse met up with Lou Eddy who was mowing hay in a pasture. As they conversed they saw a man step out of the barn. “Is that Tracy?” they asked. Lou said yes, and was ordered to drive to the barn, followed by the possemen.

As soon as Tracy saw them he asked who they were, “Hold up your hands!” yelled policeman C. C. Straub, “We are constables of the law!” Tracy bolted back into the barn for his rifle and started firing. He ran from the house with the posse in hot pursuit.

He reached some rocks, and leapt behind them. The deputies hid behind nearby rocks, and shots were exchanged. The lawmen began jockeying for better position. Tracy ran towards a wheat field, but in doing so got hit, and fell to the ground.

The End

Two bullets had ripped through Tracy’s leg. One caused a flesh wound in the back of his thigh, but the other had hit midcalf, shattering both bones. Tracy wrenched himself forward by his hands, and took cover in the waist-high wheat.

By this time reinforcements had arrived back at the ranch, but no one was willing to travel into the field to find the cornered, injured man. Not knowing the extent of Tracy’s wounds, they surrounded the field, in case Tracy tried to escape once again.

He didn't. Tracy had dragged himself over 75 yards, hoping to find a vantage point from which to shoot, but his wounds were too great. Blood flowed out in pulses. A major artery was severed in his leg, and although he had stuffed a handkerchief down inside the wound, the flow could not be staunched.

Having vowed to others that he would never be taken alive, Tracy kept that promise. His energy draining, he brought his revolver up under his right eye, pulled the trigger, and blew out his brains.

The Last Desperado

The posse waited until next morning to enter the field. The body was removed and brought to Creston, which by this time was filled with throngs of oglers. The Sheriff allowed people to see the body, but many started ripping at Tracy’s clothes, and snipping locks of his hair. One man pulled the handkerchief out of Tracy’s leg wound, but found it too clotted and wet to put in his pocket. He wrapped it up in paper instead.

After a few days, it was decided that Tracy would be returned for burial in Salem, Oregon. Tracy’s coffin came through Seattle, under guard, and was shipped south. Back at the penitentiary, chemicals were introduced into the casket, so the body would be destroyed, lest someone try to steal the remains.

The manhunt was over, but legends quickly built up about Harry Tracy. Mere months after his death, dime novels were written and plays produced. After film became popular, at least two silent movies told an embellished version of his story. It wasn’t until the rise of more modern criminals like John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde, that Tracy’s tale began to wane, although the film Harry Tracy starring Bruce Dern was made in 1983, and more scholarly histories have been written since.

More than a century after his final days, there are many who consider Harry Tracy to be the last desperado of the Wild West.