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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1889)
WEST SIUIKK. if' :"fk tfCWUtt t. r- w . A- h llorton's cabin, weary, footaor and with aching hack, after two mow day of toil. After a few tiny of much needed nut at Morton', wo were gladdened liy the arrival of the nMMir, bringing two aouthern touriat. who wore well uipNd fur deer and War hunting ; but the linn had driven the pine out of thin region, and we had to content oiintelven with trollinn for trout in akin. The favor ite Kmt wn olV the mouth of the river, and with hhhi huit we hiniieil in one day upward of forty large trout, mcamiring from fourteen to twenty-two Indict In length. (ialona ha leen found in paying unntitic near the hend of the Stchokin river, and tevoral claim ar lioing dcveliiMd there. Over the doorway of Morton' cabin in ft lgn, of which a frtc-niinile in given in the niwmpftnyltig akotch OSS? ipJ noHToH'a m. apoed of a hurriciuie, accompanied hy terrific crack ling nnd roaring. It wan a grand, hut fearful, eeta cle, hh we lay on the untul har on the nighf of Auguat Jinl, watching the ininicnw aheet of luri.l llaine lick ing up everything in their ath an they followed along the nhore of the lake, from the water' edge to the very Hummit, making a veritnhle mountain of fire. At fre quent interval huge rock loosened hy the great heat went tumbling down the precipitoii mountain idc with n mailing noiao and plunged into the lake below, throwing up great mliiiiiim of water, red tinted in the glure of the burning forcat. The next day. finding the .ny nimble to travel, we left him in Morton' care, and, dividing the pack Mween uh. ntarted once more for the paw. After twelve hour of trudging over a trail for the nt.-t part obatrnotod by burning I., and our (M king en Htantlv in hot nahoa, we laraine weary and Ut-'rc We at'e of our frugal ropaat and apr-ad our blank. ! for the night, but the all-devouring lire ratiaed u. to aeek other Muartera. hich we f...md in a art near by which had previouHly Un burned over The next day we plodded on through hot nahc and over burning ..g. Our M lH.-omi.ig badly bli-teml by contrac tion of the leather bv the heat, and the trad ahead ' fur a we could ee king till thmked by (In-. re luctantly wen- eo..eed n-trarr our .t.. rra m p. f Si. - t-i ' . , T IJ I ' ti "im ru, ut imiti