Wamic Welcome

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003399" TEXT="#080000" background="040c8c00erkjxk.jpg"> <div> <B>Use the arrows to navigate the Wamic photos.</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#0066CC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Small Town Oregon     |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Small Town Oregon"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="16">     <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="16">     <A HREF="id864.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Wamic History"><U><IMG SRC="04710100.png" border=0 width="16" height="16" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>     <A HREF="id861.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Wamic"><U><IMG SRC="048100e0.png" border=0 width="16" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A> </div> <div> Wamic Welcome</div> <div> <IMG SRC="10b33dae0.jpg" border=0 width="573" height="430" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> The welcome is warm, but we hardly saw a soul!  Note that Wamic is on the Wamic "Market' road.  </div> <div> These market roads are spread throughout Oregon, and indeed throughout the nation.  The government </div> <div> built them as part of the depression recovery program to help farmers get their products to market. </div> <div> I frequently use one of these roads in Canby, and have for years.  When I first moved to Canby in 1969 </div> <div> the road had one concrete lane and one asphalt lane.  Of course the original was just the bumpity old </div> <div> sectional conrete.  The asphalt lane was an add-on.  Now the whole thing is paved smoothly and one </div> <div> hardly is aware of driving on a "market" road. </div> </td> </tr></table></body>