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Mail Tribune 100, Aug. 3, 1922 By Alissa Corman Aug 03, 2022 12:00 AM A A News from 100 years ago The following news items were drawn from the archives of the Mail Tribune 100 years ago Aug. 3, 1922 TO PLANT 30,000 SILVERSIDES IN CRATER L. WATER An increase in the finny population of Crater Lake is about to take place through an experiment by Toggery Bill Isaacs, Alex Sparrow and J. W. Berrian. Thirty thousand silverside salmon fingerlings are to be placed in the cold, blue waters the end of this week. Jim Berrian of the Butte Falls fish hatchery has agreed to furnish the fish and is eager to see the result of planting salmon in a land-locked body of water such as Crater Lake. He has also agreed to furnish feed for them, sufficient to last until they become acclimated to the clear, cold water which is so sparsely provided with food for fish. Alex Sparrow, superintendent of Crater Lake National Park has agreed to furnish a truck to transport the cans of small fish from Butte Falls to the rim, and the men to carry the cans from the rim to the water’s edge. Bill Isaacs come in here thought of the plan and urged its execution. It is thought that the fish will do well in the lake and that they will provide good fishing within a few years as they grow with almost twice the rapidity of a steelhead. HAY CROP SHORT IN WILLAMETTE VALLEY THIS YEAR “A lot of the valley dairymen and cattle and hose feeders are due for a rude surprise, when they go out and try to buy the hay they want for their stock this winter, and find that it’s practically all gone,” says the Salem Statesman. “According to one of the best known buyers of the valley, fully 75 percent of all the hay that’s grown in this section, that will be sold at all, is already marketed, and a lot of it has already been moved out. The dairymen of Tillamook and Coos counties, where there has been an unusual shortage of hay this season, have come into the Willamette valley, and bought most of the hay that is for sale. They are rushing the railroads to handle it; and some trucks, too, have been mighty busy, with this bulky but valuable crop. “There is alfalfa hay over in eastern Oregon and in Idaho, hay by the hundreds of thousands of tons, but the railroads shipping conditions have not been stable enough to warrant buying and shipping to the coast. Consequently the western feeders, without waiting for something to turn up, have come into the valley and snapped up the bales as fast as they roll out of the balers.” — Alissa Corman; [email protected]