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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1906)
12 THE MEDFORD MAIL, Friday, March 9, 1906. ONE DF NATURE'SVVONOERFUL MARVELS Crater Lake, Over 6,000 Feet Above Sea Level and 2,000 Feet Deep, Surrounded by Perpendiculrr, Walls. lu by-gone ages tun sun, sinking below the curve of the Paolllo ou this northwestern shore, each evening flush ed with h's afterglow four of uaturo's mammoth monuments to the upheav ing strife of primordial periods. Now only Shasta, Hood and Hauler re main ; for the fourth unnamed and unoharterod, once us majestic and sublime as the other trio, towering to a loftier summit, and for ages vomit ing forth fire and smoke and the un digested venom of nature's bowels, foil, Ike Milton's angels, from Its high estate, with a crash that Bhook the world and perpetually olosed one of the. earth's safety valvos. And ua ; Its waterB, reflects baok the glory of the UrmauiPUt like a gem upon na ture's bosom. It is emblematical of peace after agos of war ; so lovely, bo alien, so majestic aud sublime, so un responsive to elemental stnfe, that on viewing It man's heart goes up to nature's (Jod with a veneration to which It is a stranger amid ordiuary sceues. Quickening the intellect and the luianlugation, viewing it is like association with mighty men, a grand oration, a seuitellent speech, an emo tional poem, a work of art. Tnere is a halo about it like the glamour of moonlight over a battlefield, when man's exhausted fury bas Bought re- 'i'Ji A''-' :-Jet -'' -.'(.' One of the Views of Crater Lake. Photo by Hull deop according to government sound ings. Near the northern shore of the lake a cone called Wizard Island rlaca sev eral hundred 'eet above the surface of the lake and In the center of the cone- shaped inland Is a second crater. This Island Is supposed to have been once the true summit of Alt. Mazama, and when the last great eruption took place and the great shell of the moun tain was blown out or crumbled the summit sank Into thegreat abyaa tnuB formed. No morejwonderful aud awe inspiring p'ece of nature's handiwork exists in the world. Standing upon the brink of those mighty cliffs one gazes down to the lake, and so clear Is the air It seems that one oould toss a stone into the water. But propelled by the etiongest arm the stone after its outward fllgh turns down and Beems to onrve In toward tbe cliff un til It finally disappears from sight be neath the cliff. Tbe surface of the lake Is 0,230 feet above sea level and tbe sum.nit of the enotrollng cliffs run 8000 and over. No tour of South em Oregon 1b complete without a visit to Crater Lake, The trip can- be made comfortably In wagons all the way, to the rim of the lake, and tbe trip can be made easily in a week, allowing three days at tbe lake. The region surrounding the lake bas been pet apart an tional park, bo that itB scenic beauty may be preserved. HOW TO GET THEKE. I j The best route- by whiob to reach Crater Lake Ib from Medford, and I upon the completion of the already I partially built railroad to Butte Falls, ' thirty-five miles of tbe trip by wagon I will be cut off. Leaving Medford the traveler passes j for twenty or mure miles through the : beautiful Rogue river valley, past fields of waving grain, orcbardB bending I 'neath. their loads of fruit, green fields of alfalfa, until on tbe steady upward I ollmb tbe timber slopts of tbe mighty CasoadeB are reached. There tbe road takes b more deoided upward trend ture, weepiug over the downfall of one of her greatest achievements, flllod 'the hollow in tbe shell of tbe moun tain with her trickling teurs, forming a lake of Buoh. Burpasslug beauty, framed in the ragged baealtlo oil Its, which buttressed the base of the fallen mountain, that man, first viewing its beauty and sublimity proclaimed it "Lake MajeBty," the seventh woudor nf Mia tvnrl.l Today that lovely luke, fourteou miles in olroumfereuoo, two thousand feet in depth, eusoouucod among the belting orags, with the summit of the one-time mountain protrudiug above ! the United States, being 2,200 feet ,a"9 lu America. Nothing intervenes pose aud nature'a peace descendB up on the scene of courage. Here wbb one of nature's own j and follows the bank of tbe river, Uoroiost contests, fought to a finish: whiob dashes madly on itB headlong when order was ouming out of ohaos, j journey to tbe Ben, sometimes hun- and though but a relio of its former j dreds ot feet below, where the narrow splendor when the mountaiu was vom- road haB been builded upon the moun ting sulphurous flauieB, there is yet I tain side. Among the first scenes of an awe-inspiring oalm and repose, a interest are tbe Mill oreek and Kogne majesty and grandeur that impresses, river falls. Here tbe river falls in a betweeu its leap from tbe verge of the preolploe to where it strikes in foam and Bpray upon the rooks at tbe base of tbe oliff. Twelve miles further on the traveler comes to Uuiou oreek. Some three- fourths of a mile from tbe oaniplng place is the "natural bridge." This is an arch of lava Hoross tbe stream, made probably when old Mount Maza ma "blew Its bead off" and created Crater Lake, sending a stream of molten rook down aaross the oourse of Rogue River, tbrougb wbloh the turbuiont etream found a devious path. The r'ver at this point oomes down between solid walls of lava and 1b oonflned to a very narrow channel. It disappears beneath tbe bridge, but, strange to say, tbe water upon the down stream is not the impetuous, roaming current like that above. Ou tbe contrary It la eddying, and appar ently flowing up etream. A journey of 150 yards down the bank explains the matter, however. Bursting from the east bank at right angles to itB former course oomes the immense vol ume ot water which rushed beneath the- bridgeabove. By a subterranean channel, nobody knows how long or tortuous, the water finds an outlet That the channel la a long one has been- demonstrated. Should a piece of wood be dropped into tbe river above the bridge one will have time to walk leisurely down to tbe outlet! and' must wait several minutes before- tbe objeot dropped in it hurlB forth- into tbe-main river. The "Rabbit Ears" two enormous: piles of rook standing clear against tbe Bky on the-summit of the Umpqua divide so named from tbeir "esem blanoe to the ears of a monstrous jaok- rabbit, CaBtle Ureek foanyon, where the elements' have worn the rooks into iantastlo shapes are passed until fin ally: we come-to-the crowning point of- the trip. The goal we have had in sight since we left our home, be it in the'far eastern- states, or beneath tbe shadow of the lofty mountains upon the summit of whioh we will soon- stand. Five miles away from us lies the "oem of the mountains." thai grandest and most mysterious and tbe light of the rising sun lies the dear water of Crater Lake. It is only a little way to tbe water you think, but when you have made half tbe jour ney down the rugged mountaiu path, look baok and measure thp distance you have come with that still to. be traveled. At tbe foot uf tbe mighty ollffs, at tbe water's edge, one begins to realize the Immensity of the grand natuial wonder, and to speculate up on the mighty foroes necessary to tear the top from a mountain, which must have been the twin of Shasta,aud leave a hole 1000 feet deep and seven niilee'aorosa half (llltd with rippling water, as ' the only remembranae of wi.at was onoe one of the monarobs of tbe Cascades. But there is no use try. lng to describe It. No painting can bring out tbe majesty and sublimity of the scene and the tongue or pen of man oan never depict its beauty or its graudeur. bappy conditions for poultry, while the large proportion of warm sun shine lu winter, when the ouuntry to the north ib enveloped In mist aud cloud, ie doubtless the oauBe of the much greater number of eggs which the heu claim credit for here in tbe wintei months, when the price is tbe btghest. Tbe fact that the Industry leuds Itfiulf bo kindly to the orchard business, providing luoome when tbe grower is waiting for his trees to get to bearing stage, especially oommends it to those who are setting young orohards. The capital required is not large, and many who have recently aotue into the country are now raising chtokeos and eggs. We believe there is nothing which a man of Binall capi tal pun make pan out so well as a care fully conducted poultry farm, especi ally where alfalfa is available for for ige. We are a trifle shy on high-bred poultry in the valley as yet, but the class of Rogue River Valley poultry is very good. The dining oar seivice ot Pelican Bay A Sportsman's Retreat. Photo by HuU POULTRY RAISING the beholder aB perbups no othor Bcen io woudor of Amorlca. ; Tiro lake la located lu what was onae the crater of an active voloano, series nf oascades over niuety feet in the distance of a few hundred yards At tbe foot of tbe descent, from a oliff 110 feet above the bed of the river and Ib the deepest fresh water lake in leaP9 one of the m0Bt beautiful water awe-inspiring? of any Bpot upon Pacific slope Crater Lake. "In tbe fragrant hash of tbe morn ing," one leaves bla oamp two miles- from the rim-of tbe lake and travels upward, eves upward, beneath tbe serried ranks; of anoient fliB,untiI sud denly, almost without warning,' he stands, it seems, on top of the earth. There ia nothing above him but the blue and oloudless sky and below him -2000 feet below him shimmering inv Few seotions on the PaoiSo Coast are aB well adapted to this industry as the Rogue River Valley, and the local markets are of tbe best. As stated elBewbere,the mines and lumber camps of Northern California here get most -of their supplies, and eggs ale a very large item in thoir wants. For years past the price of eggs for shipment from Medford baa ranged' from 15', cents to 35 cents per dozen, and- the local market ie never glutted. Climate and the formation of tbe soil are- the Southern Paoiflo is supplied here, and usually broilers aud fryers are bigb in price. Within a year, the dealer who supplied the diner, bad a standing advertisement offering five dollars per dozen for fryers whioh would weigh two poundB. Activity ie not always usefulness. Ten minutes of activity in the morn, ing can do more mischief than ten hours can undo. 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