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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1877)
16 THE WEST SHORE. September. The Sfit cat Shotc, A sixteen-page Illustrated Paper, issued monthly, L SAMUEL, Publiiher. Business Officr, Morriion Street, between Fifth and Sixth, 'di rectly opposite Post Office, Portland, .... Oregon. terms ok subscription, (Including Postage loany part of the United Statu:) On i copy, one year, f i jo Single Number., -. 10 cent. Pontage to furetftn coiintrle", 2fi ct. additional V HubHcrlptloii iiiiiNt be pitld in advance, and all paper will positively be itoppeO at the end of the Mm trny r paid for. Remittance ran be made by reghtcred letter, noatodlee money order, or by onler on any of the I'ortlaiid liUNlneHH houjiei SHAKSPEARE ILLUSTRATED. The Wcit Shore has the largest circulation of any publication in Or egon or Washington Territory. THE OFFICE OF "THE WEST SHORE" HAS BEEN RE MOVED TO MORRISON ST. BETWEEN 6th AND 6th, DI REOTLY OPPOSITE THE POST OFFIOE. OUR THIRD VOLUME, Wc stjirt our third year with this issue, with a circulation of 7,200 copies, which is by far the largest subscription list ever attained by an Oregon publica tion. Wc intended to make a num ber of changes this month, but our clcctrotypcr disappointing us wc must necessarily postpone those changes un til next issue, when we can positively promise to adorn The Wkst .Shore with an elegant new heading, and make other changes to improve its general appearance. OUR SCENERY. Wc present in this issue another one of those matchless views of the far famed Columbia river scenery. It represents the grand and majestic Columbia about .(o miles above the mouth of Willamette river. In the dis tance (nearly 15 miles) may be seen the bold outlines of the beautiful "Castle Rock." The view near Dayton, W. T., represents a pleasing contrast, the re gion thereabout being unsurpassed as an agricultural and stock-raising country, "l'ilol Knob" is a pecniiur-shaped peak ol the Siskiyou mountains, on the over land stage route between Oregon and California, and was so named on ac count of the great distance it can be seen from along the route, thus in the early pioneer days piloting the daring frontiersman over the then difficult and dangerous trail. MAKE UP CLUBS For Tin Wiit Shore. In order to increase our list to to,ooo subscribers, we will, during the next 60 days, re ceive subscriptions at the following rates: A club of 1 at $1.40 each. A club of j at $1.15 each. A club of 10 at $i..-o each. A club of jo at flit each. A club of JO at $1,10 each. A club of 40 at $1,05 each. A club of 50 at $1.00 each. This a rare opportunity to obtain excellent reading matter at low rates, and these rates will positively cease after the month of November. Names for a club may come from any post office, but in all cases the cash niu-t ac company the names. Frank HonoKlx, formerly of the Ttltgram, is now city editor of the Paily He: Mr. Uodgkin is .careful ami pains taking writer, and although the Btt lias always been a good neper, its late growing popularity may he reasonably set down to Mr. HodgUnV, able Influence. I think this tale would win my daughter loo. Otiieu.0 Act I Scene 4. You must prepare your bosom for his knife. Merchant or Venice Act 4 Scene 1. NOTES AND REMINISCENCES OF LAV ING OUT AND ESTABLISHING THE OLD EMIGRANT ROAD INTO SOUTH ERN OREGON IN THE YEAR 1846. HY LINDSAY AI'PLF.CATE. After the lapse of 31 years, (as there has been no history of this circumstance placed before the public), I propose to give n plain statement of facts from notes taken at the time and from mem ory, giving motives that led to the en terprise. Our immigration of 1843 be ing the largest that had ever crossed the plains, our progress was necessarily slow, having to hunt out passes for our wagons over rivers, creeks deep gul lies, digging down the banks where nothing but a pack trail had been be fore, cutting our way through the dense forests before wc could reach the valley f the Columbia, and then it appeared as though our greatest troubles had be gun; for here wc had to encounter cataracts and falls of the Columbia and the broad nntl lofty Cascades, with their heavy forests. At Fort Walla Walla, on the banks of the Columbia river, with our teams about exhausted, wc were advised to leave our wagons and animals over winter at that place in the care of the Hudson Bay Co. A portion of the im migrants, including my two brothers' families and my own accepted the prop osition, providing we could procure boats in which to descend the river, as it was supposed we might procure them from the Hudson Hay Company. Un- Icr these considerations we made ar rangements with the said Company for the care of the latter through the win ter. We failed in our efforts to obtain boats; having a whip-saw and other tools with us, we hunted logs from the masses of drift wood lodged along the river banks, hewed them out, sawed them into lumber, and built boats, and with our families and the contents of our wagons, commenced the descent of the river. Dr. Whitman procured us the service of two Indians to act as pi lots to The Dalles. From there wc thought we WOtttd have but little troub le by making a portage at the Cascades. Wc did well till wc reached the Dalles, a series of falls and cataracts. Just above the Cascade mountains one of our boats, containing six persona, was caught in one of those terrible whirl. xols and upset. My son. Warren, ten years old, my brother Jesse's son, Ed ward, same age. end a man by the name of NLVlcllan, who was a member of my family, were lost. The other three who escaped, were left to struggle the best they could until wc made the land with the other Iniats. Leaving the women and children on shore while wc rushed to the rescue, it was onlv with the greatest cil'ort that we were able to keep our boats from sharing the same fate. Win. Doake, a young man who could not swim, held on to a feather bed until overtaken ami rescued. W. Parker and my son Elishn, then twelve years old, after drifting through whirl pools among cragged rocks for more than a mile, rescued themselves by catching hold of a large rock a few feet above water at the head of Rock Island. At the time of the disaster it was utterly impossible to render them any assistance for it was only with the greatest skill that we succeeded in sav ing the women and children from shar ing the same fate. It was a painful scene beyond description. We dare not go to their assistance without ex posing the occupants of the other boats to certain destruction, while those per sons were struggling for life in the surging waters. The whole scene was witnessed by Gen. Fremont and his company of explorers who were camp ed immediately opposite,and were pow erless to render us any assistance. The bodies of the drowned were never re covered, though we offered a reward to the Indians who searched the river for months. We reached the Cascades without any other incidents worth relat ing. We then made a portage arotind the falls, packing the most of our effects on our backs, dragging our boats over the rocks, reloaded and proceeded on our way to Vancouver, ascended the Wil lamette river to the falls, there made an other portage around the falls, re-load ed again, ascended the river 25 miles, coming to a place called Champocg, where we finally left our boats and made our way across the valley to Lee's Old Mission, to miles below where Sa lem now stands, and on the first day of December entered one of the old build ings to remain for the winter. Previous to this, we had been in the rain most of the time for twenty days. Oh, how we could have enjoyed our hospitable shelter if we could have looked around the family circle and be held the bright faces that accompanied us on our toilsome journey almost to the end! Alas, they were not there! That long and dreary winter, with its pelting rains and howling winds, brought sadness t us. Under these sad reflections, we resolved if wc re mained in the country to find a better way for others who might wish to emigrate, as soon as we could pos sibly afford the time. From what In. I formation we could gather from old pioneers and the Hudson's Hay Com pany, the Cascade mountains to the south became very low, or terminated where the Klamath cut that chain; and knowing that the Blue mountains lay cast ami west, we came to the conclu. sion there must be a belt of countrv ex tending cast toward- the South Pass of the Rocky mountains, where there might be no very lofty ranges of moun tain) to cross. So in 1 S46, after making arrangements for the subsistence of our families during our absence, we or gnniied a company to undertake the enterprise, composed as follows: Levi Scott, John Scott, Hcnrv rW , Lindsay Applegatc, Jesse Applcgate, Benjamin Birch, John Owens MB - - -1 JVHU Jones, Robert Smith, Samuel Good- nue, Moses 11 arris, uavid Goff, Benit Osborn, William Sportsman, Wi!liln) Parker. Each man had his pack-horse and saddle-horse, making 30 animals to guard and take care of. To be Continued. TILLAMOOK COUNTY. A correspondent of the Astoria in speaking of this county, says: ft contains some of the finest land in the State, consisting of prairie, river bottom and tide land ; the river bottom being the most productive. Wheat oats, barley, flax, potatoes, and vege' tables of all kinds grow luxuriantly apples, pears, plums, cherries, goose berries, currants, strawberries, and in fact all small fruits do well, but the staple production of Tillamook county is grass. Timothy, red top, orchard grass, blue grass, and clovers of all kinds grow to perfection, making it, u it is, the finest dairy county in the State. The butter made here is the best in the Oregon market, and the amount nude is steadily growing every year. In or der to develop this branch of industry and render it as it eventually will be the main business of the' county, we need the same plan and system as that used so successfully in the State of New York, namely the establishment of cheese and butter factories at proper lo cations; each factory to consume the milk of 100 to 350 cows. Money used in these factories would be a surer in vestment than any other branch of bu siness in the State, butter never failing to bring from 20 to 30 cents per pounu wholesale, and cheese from I2J4 to 25 cents per pound, according to quality, too pound of butter to any common cow is the average for the summer, which, say, at 20 cents per pound would amount to $2,000 for 100 cows; It is calculated by experts that three poundi of cheese can be made to one of butter, we have the amount of 3,000 pounds which, say at nj cents per pound would amount to $3,350, to say nothing of the pork made at the same time. The Daily Standard. Since 'our last issue this most excellent publication has been changed to a morning paper, and Mr. Noltner, the enterprising pub lisher, made arrangements for tele graphic dispatches, thereby placing the Standard in the very front ranks of Oregon newspapers. As a local paper, thanks to the never-tiring efforts of its city editor, Mr. Jno. Burnett, the Standard has no equal, and it certainly deserves, and from all appearances re ceives, a liberal support. A Fine Apple. Two years ago we noticed at the Washington county Fair a very fine apple, which at that time attracted so much attention that Mr. Walling, the Oswego nurseryman, offered $;oo for the sole right of it, which, however, wus promptly refused by Mr. E. Barton, the owner. This apple is known as "Barton's Favorite. A few days ago wc had the pleasure of sampling some of them, and must s) they are just a little ahead in beauty and taste of any apple that has ever come under our notice. The Mechanic's and Farmer's Stort, under the able management of Mr. L Prager, who, by the way, is well awl favorably known here, is doing a very flourishing business. Wc refer our readers to his list of prices in anotbef column of this issue, and can vouch w Mr. Prager doing exactly os he vertises. When you visit Portland, don't fofftt to call on Himes the Printer, 5 WaW ington Street. Six millions of dollars worth ."fj wax is annuaHv produced in the L'nitea : States. Di Rtxo the past year the States exported flour and grain to U. value ol 100,000,000.