PLSO The Oregon Surveyor Mar/Apr 2019

From the Editor which is a linear park built over an old railroad grade that connected the Ore- gon American Lumber Mill with markets in the Willamette Valley and beyond. I have ridden both the train and my bicy- cle over that old grade and have several fond memories of train rides with my fa- ther as he volunteered as part of the team who set out to turn that rail line into a tourism venture (which obviously failed). I also remember riding in our old Chevy around the inside of the wigwam burner at the old mill site shortly after it closed. As Pat also mentioned, the Banks-Verno- nia trail passes through Stub Stewart State Park. Stub Stewart owned Bohemia Lum- ber Company, representing yet another timber-industry thread through Pat’s story. There is also the matter of Glen Hawkin’s work for the Clark and Wilson Lumber Company. Quite a few folks in the Pio- neer Chapter of the PLSO have attended meetings at the Camp 18 restaurant along 3 Highway 26 near the summit of the Coast Range and the town of Jewell. Gordon Smith is the owner of that restaurant. He was a logger for many years and several of the pieces of equipment on display at his museum were donated by the Clark and Wilson Lumber Company, because Maury Clark (son of one of the founders of Clark and Wilson) was heavily invested in the construction and outfitting of that massive log cabin which is the focal point of the restaurant grounds! I met Maury Clark one day during the construction of that restaurant and he was a great guy. Gordon was truly fortunate to have cap- tured Maury’s interest. Those of us who have attended Pioneer Chapter meetings at Camp 18 have certainly enjoyed tour- ing the museum and walking around all of the old equipment. Needless to say, I have to say thank you to Pat for his arti- cle, which obviously connected a lot of dots for me.  x grow back, but old-growth is gone for- ever, so if you get the chance to visit an old-growth forest, by all means take it, es- pecially with your kids. The experience is truly spiritual and likely to be your one and only chance! Returning to my story, if you’ve ever driv- en north on the road between Netarts and Oceanside, just before you get to the city limits of Oceanside, it winds around a large switch-back which basically encircles a five or six-sided house with spectacular ocean views (think of planting a home in the middle of the Rowena Loop along the Columbia River highway as shown in the photograph taken by Chris Glantz on the cover of the July/August 2018 issue of The Oregon Surveyor). Glen Hawkins had that home built after he retired from Crown Zellerbach in the early 1970’s. Yes, Glen was the tree-farmmanager at their Tilla- mook Division and he had obviously done well financially as I’m certain that home wasn’t cheap! I had the occa- sion to meet Glen several times duringmy timework- ing in Tillamook, so reading about his philanthropic ef- forts in Vernonia came as a bit of a surprise to me, as personal encounters with him seemed inconsistent withmy impressionofwhat a philanthropist would be like (if you’re thinking of taking a drive betweenNe- tarts andOceanside to see his old home first-hand, I wouldask that youbecare- ful about when to gawk. I worked part-time as an Emergency Medical Tech- nician out of Tillamook County General Hospi- tal for a few years (as a means of breaking up the monotony ofmy forest en- gineering work) and had the occasion to respond to several fatal automo- bile accidents on that stretch of road). My s tor y doesn ’ t end here, however. Pat mentioned the Banks-Vernonia trail,