Gramdpa near Danville's. The sign says the Douglas Fir were planted in 1988 or 18 years ago. These were the first of over 10,000 trees planted and the ground was scraped bare at the time. All the trees had plastic webbing at the base to protect from rodents.  

We go into the deep forests of the Tree Farm and seldom see any wild life. This fresh shot of the Bear droppings prove they were there. Herds of Elk, lots of deer and occasional porkupine will be encountered.  

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The bottom land fields near the Lake are filled with large white bags of straw. They look like hundreds of Marshmellows in the fields.

Georgie and Chuck near Paul Danville's. This Douglas Fir was planted in 1990, see sign. It is about 9 or 10" in diameter. There are over 10,000 Douglas Firs on the 37 acres.

CALIF REDWOODS GROW MUCH
FASTER THAN DOUGLAS FIRS.
Chuck on the left and George on the right. The Calif Redwood is about 7" in diameter and 30 feet tall. They seem to grow much faster than the Douglas Firs.

George Sr. in front of the hot or lath house used for small seedling trees. It is totally enmgulfed with brush. We have tall Calif Redwoods and smaller Calif Sequoias.  

Compare this picture with our trip to the tree farm last year. The growth of the under brush is totally out of control. Remember only 4 years algo this land was scarified, plowed and terraced using a dozer.  

40 ACRE TREE FARM ON SHUTTER'S

ARM SOLD TO JOHN MOORE of PLUM

CREEK TIMBER, DECEMBER 2,005.

Chuck and Ann came down to visit the old folks on Jan 19, 2,006. Chuck and Grandpa drove up to the 40 acre tree farm. We have had real heavy rain storms, so Chuck had to ford part of Kellogg road that was under water. This is probably my last trip to the tree farm My first trip there was in May 1977. Over 10,000 Douglas Fir trees are thriving there, today.

LAST TRIP TO TREE FARM

CHUCK & GRANDPA GEORGE

This is probably my last trip to the 40 acre tree farm, since it was sold to John Moore in Dec. 2,005 Grandpa planted 300 of these Calif Redwoods, but only 70 made it. Vic Demarest and George "over fertilized" them with Ammonium Nitrate. A big handful of fertilizer at each root became too toxic for the tree when we had a big rain. Sadly, many of them died.

IN 20 YEARS THESE REDWOODS WILL BE HUGE

A good shot of Chuck by one of the 25 ft. Redwoods. There are about 50 of them like this tree with a 5" diameter trunk.

ALDER GROWS MUCH FASTER
THAN EVERGREENS & CHOKES IT
We are now at Dale News. Alder is everywhere and choking out the small fir and redwood trees. The alder should be cut down, but the new owner is not doing it.

George near Dale News place, in front of the hothouse. Note tthat some Calif Redwoods are 25 ft tall and others only 5 ft.

MANY VOLUNTEER ALDERS SHOULD BE CUT DOWN

Chuck in front of the green house where we had the Calif seedlings. The hot house should be removed.

We loaded 6, five gallon pails with 3/4" minus rock . After Chuck lett for Portland, George mixed one sack of cement with the rock to form a concrete road strip for his car. Good job for a 90 year old man.

THIS LOAD OF ROCK BELONGS TO US, ON ALDRICH'S PROPERTY

Grandpa decided he needed some rock for his driveway at Shorepines. We are at the foot of the steep entrance road. Chuck will load the buckets.

Jan 2006. Chuck at tree farm, by Dale News. A 20 ft. Calif Redwood is behind him. It is about 5 inches in diameter 

SILVER WAS STORED FOR 20 YEARS, NOW, JAN 10, 2,006.

On 9/28/86 George purchased 520 one oz rounds of proof silver at about $9.00/oz. I put 20 per square plastic cup and stuffed 26 cups into this 4 foot blue tube shown above. 19 years later they look beautiful, see above. On Nov 17, 2,005 they finally hit $8.05 and I decided to sell this tube for $4,186. This is a loss of about $500.00, but it is time to move on.

This is a different view of he container that held the 520 proof oz of silver rounds,sold at $8.05 ea. for a total of $4,680. Note the small packets on the left. Each contains .77 oz of silver flakes I got at the mint in San Francisco in 1968. At that time I turned in 142 one dollar silver certificates to get a 100 oz silver bar. They gave a packet of silver flakes for every extra dollar turned in. My next sale of silver will include this 100 oz Mint Bar plus a lot of other silver rounds I still hold. This all depends on the spot price of silver. $8.05 is the highest it has been in 3 years. I also hold some platinum which is worth $980/oz and rising. I am told that the Chinese Gov. is the cause of the rise in precious metals.  

INSPECTION TOUR BY TWO FORESTERS

John Moore and Chuck Gebhardt, next to the barb wire fence, E. of Danvile's. The Douglas Fir trees behind them, planted in 1988 are about 8" in diameter.There are a total of 10,000 D.Firs on the 37 Acres. John works for Plumb Creek Timber and is a potential buyer of Chuck's 37 acres. The deal should be completed by Nov 30, 2,005.

JOHN & NIKKI MOORE BOUGHT OUR
HOME IN SIMPSON HEIGHTS. THAT'S
HOW THE TWO FAMILIES MET.
George Gebhardt with John Moore by Chuck's 4 wheel drive.,near Dale New's home . Originally, 500 Redwoods trees were planted just above this spot.

SIGN SAYS, TREES PLANTED 1989

DARK PICTURE, NO SUN, HERE

Chuck and John Moore in the deep forest, next to the barb wire fence, East of Paul Danvilles. Trees here are 8" in diameter planted in 1989.

JOHN MOORE & FAMILY AT 505 ISABELLE, SIMPSON HTS.
John and Nikki Moore with their little boy and baby girl inthe driveway of their home at 505 Isabelle, North Bend, Or. John is with Plum Creek Lumber Corp.

GEORGE SOLD 45% OF TOTAL RAFFLE TICKETS
George sells a raffle ticket to Joe Stoffel, the great singer and guitarist who plays in our church and performs in LOTB shows. His girl friend came back ten minutes later for one more $5.00 ticket. Way to go Joe.

GEORGE ALWAYS WORE THE
" SANDWICH BOARD" WHEN
HE SOLD THE RAFFLE TICKETS
That building behind George is the Bank Beer Cafe, now closed. Our raffle ends on Oct 13. Only about 1 month to go.On Sept 9, 2005, George has sold 850 tickets @ $5.00, for a total of $3,675.00 Total for entire club, now $8,200.

George is selling this gent from Santa Barbara, CA. Friday Sept 9th,George turned in $400.00. Not bad for the week.