The West Shoke.
VOL. 6 No. 3.
!U ImhmI Pnliltunor,
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Portland, Oregon, March, 1880.
rr Annum, I Ninglp itoiIm
YONCAI.I.A VALLEY. Yoncalla Village contains two stoics
This beautiful lley is situated j ; nd a postofficc, and three grain ware-
the northern portion of Douglas county, ho,,scs- & surrounded by a large
is about eight miles long from north to aml wealthy community, who arc noted
south, and from three to five miles wide for their &enmI tatrtJIgpnM and enter-
from east to west, it derives its name Pnsc' nd PbWjf 00 farming com-
from the Yoncalla tribe of Indians who ,mm"v in Oregon, of the same number
occupied it previous to its settlement of Pn, will equal then, in wealth
by the whites. A few of the tribe still fr ca"'"-
live In the vicinitv. havimr settled down 1 lu,.,!.rs' wll,U s WMlsting, of Rob-
J (MI Mill IHlll'K I nu n i.,. I I
Tef.
1848.
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on iana 01 tneir own, aim aie goou r,.icS M.u., ;,, his vnjej
farmers. They arc well
civilized, send their chil
dren to school, and arc
anxious to secure for them
a good education. One
of the tribe, well known
amongst the settlers as
old Halo, died alnut a
year and a half ago. From
his appearance, he must
have been near a hundred
years old, and he claimed
that to be about his age.
His wife, who was about
the same age, died about
a year before the old man.
They were respected in
the community, and ev
ery one treated them
kindly. Their children
still live near, have quite
large families, vote regu
larly at election, and arc
esteemed by the Mttlera,
The village of Yoncalla
is on the O. ft C. R. R.,
five and a half miles from
Drain, fourteen miles by
railroad from Oakland,
and thirty-three miles
from Roseburg.
No place in Oregon en
joys a more pleasant or
more healthy climate, the thermometer Robert Cowan was killed by the fall
ranging from thirty to fifty degrees, on '"K ,,f a trcc which he was cutting for
an average, in the winter, and from r:lil"- IIc a large family, most of
seventy to eighty-five in the summer, whom still reside in the valley. Thos.
rarely going above or below those fig- Cowan died recently, at an advanced
ures. The soil is generally of the first- nBc unmarried. Mr. Jeffries now lives
class, and in past years has produced in BptOO county. In i.S.o, Jesse Ap
immense crops of grain and grass, but plegate and his brother Charles came
owing to long continued, ow--. farm-! to the vallcv from Pdtk couutv, and
ing, the fertility of the soil is greatly thencxt ' I(imUny tnother ,,r(lthcr
....:,. ,.-,1 ,:n ... i.icame. Hon. Jesse Apple-gate still
1 ... .1
formerly did until it gets it
Lindsay lives in the extreme southern
part ot Oregon. Messrs. Long, Rich
ard Smith, Robert Smith, V. II. VViU
son and A. T. Ambrose, came about
the same time that the Applcgntcs did.
Nearly all the first settlers, who have
not died, are still residents of the valley,
Yoncalla village seems to he at a
standstill nt present, but with so large
and wealthy a farming country to sus
tain it, the town is sure to grow to a
place of some importance. There is a
splendid opening here for
a steam (louring mill. Saw
mills are conveniently lo
cated near, and good lum
ber can be had at ten dol
lars per thousand.
VONCAI.I.A VA1.I.KY Ork;on.
Ives here; Charles died last year, and
A NEW OREGON FLOWER.
The l'olemonium is one
of a genus of plants of the
order Polemoniicen, to
which belongs the well
known Phlox, and is the
representative of the order.
The species of which I
write is by far the prettiest
of the whole genus. So
far as I know, it grows
only in a few places along
the South Umpqua river,
Oregon. I have never
found this species described
in any work on botany that
has come under my notice.
It grows in clumps of about
a doen or two stalks about
eighteen inches high, each
stalk In uring a cluster of
I n 11 n e I - shaped flower,
Which, when first blown,
are of 11 light cream-color,
with orange centre, chang
ing gradually to a pink,
or rose-color, so that there will lie a
half-dozen different shades on one
stalk. The plant is perennial; (rows
on sandy soil in its wild state, dying
down after blooming. When culti
vated it remains green the year round,
and the pretty pinnate leaves are highly
ornamental.
Hut it is bOtH the plant in cultivation
that I wish to speak. I have grown it
for a number of years, and find it of
jeasy culture, growing anywhere it it