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the people, who were listening in affords one a chance to get a splen- m anufacturing sugar from beets, the ground and left the wheat in
T his will hr quite an industry and sacks, three in a pile, and the straw
tently to w hat he had to say.
He did hird’s-eve view of _ the valley.
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Union, a town of one tho usand will give em ploym ent to a large in little ‘‘wads,” all over the field.
proved to be the young m an who is
W e hurried on, and at 6 o’clock
traveling around the world for a in h ab itan ts and the county seat of num ber of men, and sugar beet
^ r l and $5,000. He is to make the Union County, is situated at the raising will he a profitable industry in the evening were at S h era r’s
upper end of the valley, and is for the farm ers of the valley. Bridge, where we had crossed more
trip in 18 m onths from the time he
started, is to earn his own way as alm ost hidden by the num erous G rande Ronde Valley is surrounded th an two m onths before. It was
huge shade trees th at have been or. all sides by lofty m o untains, getting dark, b u t we traveled on to
he goes, and is nut allowed to ride
on railroad train s.
He travels by planted along either side of the covered with vast forests of pine. Tygh \ alley, and as the moon was
street8
The railroad leaves the valley a t shining I determ ined to go on to
water whenever he can, but at this
There are few places in Oregon La G rande and winds its way up W am ic and the home of S. B.
time was traveling on horseback.
where I can not find relatives, and the G rand Ronde R iver to the sum - Driver. W e reached there a t 9
He is to reach Springfield, Missouri,
here I found a cousin, Mrs. C router, m it of the Blue M ountains on the o’clock and found the people in bed,
by Nov. 15th, and then receive the
and fam ily, where I spent a very west.
but I succeeded in arousing them ,
$5,(XX) and the young lady. Who
Next m orning 1
After visiting and dining with and Mrs. D. was kind enough to set
wouldn’t go around the world? pleasant night.
called on the editors of the Scout, friends, th e bike and I started up me a lunch, which I devoured with
There are two great tem pter? in
who are both F reethinkers, and are the road leading along the river, a relish and then retired for the
this world: W om en and money.
night.
I had traveled 70 m iles
This young m an is tem pted by highly pleased with the progress winding am ong the hills and occa-
th a t day and tlie bed was an appro­
both — perhaps has a weakness for th a t is being m ade in Secularism sionally going over the top of some
priate place for me. The hike re­
both — and who could blam e him in Oregon. Next door to the Scout of them , till we reached the sum ­
posed on the front porch.
rf he would even com m it suicide? office Mr. Vincent has his place of mit a t M eacham, where the O. R.
Next day I rested, and during'
I soon m ade myself & N. Co. have a neat log cabin
Perhaps he will after a while. He business.
t h e day went with the D river fam ­
has seen m any strange things on known to him and found him to be eating-house, well known to all
travelers over this railroad. Night ily to W am ic, where we visited
the face of this old earth. He w it­ an enthusiastic Secularist, and he
was coming on and I decided to friends and transacted business for
nessed the naval b attle in M anilla subscribed for the Torch.
The a few hours. I intended to lecture
After visiting with other friends travel th a t night by rail.
harbor, and saw people starving to
train soon came along and away theie, hut my letter did not reach
death in India. Let us hope th at about town we started for Cove,
we went to Rufus, alm ost 200 miles Mr. D river un til after m y arriv al,
he will not witness like battles and and the home of an uncle, Hem an
away on the Columbia River. We and the lecture had to he postponed,
starvings in his own household J. Geer, who, it may be well to add,
is the father of Oregon’s governor reached Rufus at 3 o’clock in the Mr. Driver added a d o llar to the
when he gets one of his own.
shingle fund.
B aker City is situated in Powder elect, of which fact Uncle Hem aft m orning and alighted in the sand,
Sunday m orning bright and early
There are m any with no depot and no signs of life.
River Valley, one of the m any is justly proud.
Over the sage-brush covered m oun- I m ounted the hike and started foi
pretty valleys in E astern Oregon. lovely homes in G rand Ronde \ a l­
tain s the silvery moon shown and Silverton across the Cascade m oun-
The tow ering m ountains on the ley, but Uncle H em an has the
I t is on the revealed to sight a little village tain s over the Barlow route, where
south form a sight beautiful to be­ finest one of all.
huddled against the side of th e my father traveled by ox team 51
hold.
The citizens of the valley m ountainside, overlooking the v al­
m ountain.
We started up the years ago.
My m other followed
say they have b» come so used to ley, and directly opposite the city
street through the sand and finally five years afterw ards, and now it
these m ountaius th a t they could of La G rande, tw enty miles d istan t.
reached the hotel, which we entered, was my turn. Mrs. Driver gave me
h ardlv do w ithout them. I suppose All kinds of fruit can he raised
and we found alm ost as much sand a lunch and I was quite independ-
they have become so used to the here, and I never tasted peaches
on the hotel floor as there was in ent. The road is up grade several
pold they contain th a t they could th a t equal those raised a t ‘‘ The
the street.
we descended
- No - - landlord could he , miles, and then
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t>- a
h ardly do w ithout it, too.
These Cove.” I onlv intended to stop a .................
few hours, b u t’a shower of rain and found, so I deposited the hike in the steep m ountain to M hite River
m ountains are very rich in m ineral,
the delicious fruit, besides the pros- room below and went u p s ta irs . I which Hows from the very base o
especially gold.
p e c to f a visit with my relatives, found a vacaut room and bed, which Mt. Hood.
Ib is river l s i i g i y
Bike and I left Baker City after
I occupied until d ay lig h t, when I nam ed
T he volcanic ashes m ake
d inner an d traveled down the persuaded me to stop over night. went down stairs to breakfast.
the w ater m ilky w hite, and looking
valley to N orth Powder, a little Uncle H em an escorted me to the
After breakfast we started for the down into the deep canyon one can
town twenty miles away.
After peach orchard, and I never saw
home of Mr. Stone, five miles up see this white stream w inding its
spending an hour or so in pleasant such a sight nor ate so m any the canyon tow ards Wasco. W'e way for m any miles. I found a
I ate a dozen
conversation with Jack P lum m er peaches in my life.
had gone but half th e distance foot log on which to cross the river,
so and then asked my uncle if
and wife and Robert Ingersoll or
u ie y w o u .u „ u .v . . . . .
.xo
6.. when we m et a m an w ith peaked and then pushed the bicycle several
would h u rt me.
H e laugh-
Plum m er, we traveled on to G rand they
ingly rem arked th a t if such a th in g goggles on his eyes.
I ordered a miles through the san d . N ear the
Ronde Valiev, seventeen miles were possible I had already eaten h a lt and inform ed the m an with summit of the Cascades, by the side
farther. Eight miles over low hills enough to kill two or three men. the goggles th a t he
looked as of a sparkling stream , I canape o
with a smooth road and we wTere on So I continued to eat w ithout keep- though he had a h ard nam e, and I dinner and took a refreshing hath
the sum m it, an d began the descent ¡ng track of .he num ber.
D uring believed it m ust he Stone. He in- A few miles farth er and we were ...
down a long grade, following a creek
my Slav ttiere 1 m ust have eaten at formed me th at I was correct, and the sum m it, wil i . .
and canyon to the valley below. A least two boxes of those peaches, we had a very nice visit. H e had by ,,s reaching to the sky.
The
few miles farther we rounded a besides e a tirg l.eartv m eals a t the read of th e plan to buy shingles travel.ng from here wsb better,
curve and came in sight of th at
regular hours.
I m ight he justly and added his m ile to the amount, we were soon down the m ountain
most beautiful of all E astern Ore­ accused of intem perance in this T h a t is w hat it takes. If each s u b - , to Sum m it P rairie, where Dover -
gon valleys, the G rand Ronde. I
regard, but f have enjoyed good scriber gives a little, the L iberal m ent Cam p is located and t .e pa-
do not w onder th at the em igrants health ever since. Next m orning I U niversity will soon have a “ Torch trolm en are stationed, w atching .he
in the 40s were fascinated by this reluctantly took leave of my friends of R eason” roof.
j travelers and sheep herders to keep
valley, stretching forty miles to the and the orchard of peaches and
I had a hard ride th a t day. The them from setting lire to the forests,
north and averaging ten miles in sped away tow ards La G rande, sand and dust were h ard to ride Mt. Hood is hut three miles from
w idth, being eighteen miles at the
through and the wind was against here, and in fact the base extends
widest point. This valley presents halting only a m om ent to visit
W asco, Moro and G rass Valley to Sum m it P rairie. H ere the people
I found uc. .
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a pleasing sight to the travelers of friend« alone the road.
Mr. R andall a t work with his steam are the towns we passed through, cam p an c ira
e g
the present tim e as they pass by thresher.
He subscribed for the and th e prospects of railroad con- peak. 1 he m oun am is on y a
rail over a barren stretch of desert
Torch, and expressed his intention nection with the Columbia R iver | half covere wit » snow a
is sea
to the east an d w ithout w arning of locating a t Silverton a t some country m akes times lively.
The son of the year.
shoot out into plain view of this future time to get the advantages farm ers are busy a t this season of
We proceeded to the to ga e
paradise, at th is time one vast of Liberal U niversity.
the year, and I saw for the first where we stopped for he night and
grain field, interspersed with green
La G rande is quite a city, located tim e a m achine th a t reaps and got an early sta r nex morn ng
orchards laden with luscious fruit
on the G rande Ronde river as it th rtsh e s the grain as it is draw n Silverton, 7b miles away.
own
of all kinds. The railroad on en­ flows through its m ountain pass through the field by so m any horses the m ountain we went u n ti
tering this valley from the south­ into the level valley.
A large fac- an d mules th a t I could not count reached the foothills, and
ien
east, follows a long grade around torv is in course of construction for ¡th em . The m achine passed over started south across the C lackam as
the side af a m ountain, which