110 years ago
October 8, 1914
A universal eight-hour league of some kind is asking the voters of this state to forbid farmers requiring their employees, whether man, woman or child, to work more than 48 in any one calendar week. At the election of Nov. 3, those going to the polls will decide.
If an affirmation vote is given, reaping Oregon crops will be made largely impractical. If, like the Chinese, each farmer would cut his land into a few square rods, making that square support a family and making a family do all the work required on that ground, there would be no need of hired help during the harvest. But while the farm is the size common to America, help must be had, or the harvest will fail. That help must work more than eight hours, or it cannot accomplish much.
75 years ago
October 13, 1949
Timber cut in the Ochoco National Forest for the first quarter of the 1950 fiscal year – July, August and September – reached an all-time high in both volume of timber cut and revenue received, according to figures released by H.C. Hulett, supervisor of the Ochoco National Forest. The timber cut not only exceeds the comparable cut in the previous fiscal year by nearly 8 million feet, but the increased value of stumpage more than doubles the return for the same quarter in 1948, Mr. Hulett said.