Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Energy & Erosion. Sam Carver, a fourth-generation native of Jackson County, Tenn., returned from a Union prison after the Civil War, gathered together what money he had, borrowed some more, bought about 800 acres along Dry Fork Branch, near Liberty, and set out with grim energy to wring his living from the land. Says Joe Moore: "He paid next to nothing for it-about $3,000-and he got his money back the first year on timber. His aim was to make all the money he could off it." Such an aim is one that Joe, himself a proudly acquisitive...
...product of a different day, finds less to respect in some of Sam's methods, because "He didn't think much about the people coming along after him." Old Sam cut down most of the virgin timber on his farm, snaked it out by mules to his own sawmills, then ripped into the job of converting the land into dollars, fast and plentiful. He brought in eight tenant farmers-Joe does nicely with three farm hands-and urged them to plow the steep hillsides year after year, planting corn in any and all directions without regard for erosion...
...taken away from its mother, one of Joe's six milk cows. First night away, the weaning calf tried to climb the wall of a barn stall. Next morning Joe found the struggling animal hanging by its right forefoot, caught high in a crack and badly cut. Old Sam Carver, neighbors remember, had hands as gentle as Joe's-but Sam had never had any sulfa and, very probably, would have lost the calf...
Dick Neuberger, a highly vocal anti-partnership partisan, was spoiling to get a Republican on the debating platform, when Cattleman Sam Coon bravely accepted the challenge to defend his bill in public. Said Coon: "I've never run away from a fight in my life when I've knowed I was right, and I'm right now, so here...
...Swallow? A debatable solution is Sam Coon's John Day bill, which proposes the most elaborate partnership deal so far. Three local private companies would pay $273 million for the power-producing features of a $310 million dam across the Columbia River, in return get priority on its output for 50 years. The Government would build John Day Dam, own it forever and pay $37 million for navigation and flood-control features, that return no profit. John Day would have a capacity of 1,105,000 kilowatts of power (twice the potential of Bonneville Dam), permit slackwater commercial navigation...