m arked th a t if such/ Conditions
continued th e re w ould too w orse
floods th an th e re wr?re in ’62
E llerfsburg (Gold IV a c h ), S u t
To verify stories of old timers hey b ad to Jim lo r fre sh vege the m onth of Ja n u a ry and the ton says, was saved fnom L i n
w iped off th e rna.p by th e s h ift
w ho contend th a t the w eath er
tables.
firsH three days of February, ing of th e riv er channel and thv
changing possibly a review of
M r Moore told me th e field 1890.
w idening of th e R o g u e’s m outl
w hat actually did happen vv . w ent <• it and the m ain Rogue
Rain for th e first m onth m eas by th e trem endous am ount ol
back up some ol th e ir stones.
channel shifted from its course ured 31 94 inches. D uring th e w a te r flowing plus 4h* heatin',
Several y ears ago I was ta lk right un d er w here the Sunset la tte x p a rt of this period, w hile
of a v. ry high sea and tide.
in g w ith th e late Kred Moor,.*, Inn now stands, c le a r across to la in w as falling at Gold Reach
T he stream w as Literally cover
w ho was probably the lu s t w hite th e opposite shore, sw eeping out th e r e w as a g re a t deal of snow
ed
w ith enorm ous q u ar/tities ol
child born in Curry County, and M u rth a ’s hay field in one night w hich m ay lx* m ore in this sto ry .
d
rift,
tens of thousands of trees,
he w as tel
in«* of helping D u rin g the high w a te r a scow
On th e first of F e b ru a ry , 6.18
M urtha Doyle h ay on an eighty cam e a d rift, u p stream , floated inches fell; on tb “ 2nd, 6.12 inch- hundreds of thousands of cords
of wood, w recks of houses, m ills,
acna field w hich lay up and down down and caught on th e rock just
s. and on the 3rd, th e sto rm
the Rogue from H unt Rock. The above the south end of the pre- slacked off and only 4 25 inches barns, and things of every d e s
presen t bridge across the river, sent bridge, tilted by th e freshet fell, a to ta l of 16.55 inches in th e cription.
Rut the saddest of all is th e
betw een Gobi Beach and Wed- and so powerfully held all eeorts
th re e days.
c e rta in ty th a t behind this flood
d< -' burn is anciiored, on *h< north j failed to dislodge if.
T o get an idea how m uch w a te r th e re ru n s a n o th e r— a flo<xl of
end
J m H u n t1
, . to H u n ts . Rock.
.
Mr. Moom* was volunteer
liad a big garden, ju st bel ,w tb w e a th e r m e a su re r lor the gov tell, ju st In C u rry county, w hich tears, w rung from ruined houses
rock, and possibly rnadi m ore ernm ent and had pres rved the has an a re a of a little m ore th an and t broken hearts. E llensburg
th a n most ol th e gold m iners did, re p o rts ol th a t storm . The figure's 1600 sq u a re m iles; if all this w as com pletely cut off from all
th e la tte r swapping w hat dust quoted «u'o from these rep o rts for w a te r w as piled up on one sq u a re com m unications so S u tto n could
mile, th e colum n w ould be over not report on an y th in g but ev en ts
1600 b e t high and if the base* ol w hich took place in the imm ed-
the h<**p covered just an acre, ia te neighborhood and old tim ers
th e pit * would reach upw ard 20 said the freshet was m uch higher
Styling That's Stealing
than the th a t of ’62. a great deal
miles, or more.
of dam age w as feared S u tto n
Fred
told
m
e
th
at
along
in
th
e
I he I iiHtjJii hroni The
aftern o o n of th e second ol F e b r e to r te d seeing th e desks from
/ Ugh l\ a e l Cars
ru a ry a re g u la r Chinook wind set th e J e rry s Elat school float past,
in, m eltin g the deep snows, and on th e 4th. and a lo u t every
building in th a t a re a w as w arped
th en tin? real tro u b le began.
W a lte r S u tto n cam e out in the and boosted off its underpinning.
H um e very nearly lost his c a n
Ft h ru a ry 7, 1890, issue of his
| Gold Reach G azette, w ith a de- nery it was th e sittin g n e a r the
Ita ile d sto ry ol w hat happened in m outh of Indian C reek, thv w a fe r
Ihis neighborhood. Mr S u tto n says com ing up six inches on the
■ Hi«* first part ol the storm w as floors and d rift logs constantly
nudging if arid breaking through
I accom panied by e ’ry cold gales
Gold lieadi, Oregi u
p |lonc 411
p e a l gales, and the old tim ers re- H um e’s store, which stood on pil
ing, was benefitted because, w ht
th e w a te rs w ent down, the pil
ing w as all silted in S u tto n ’
print shop, and the jo s t office
wer«* banged and butted, and the
occupants im prisoned. The storm
sw apped the e d ito r’s woodpih? for
some valuable real-« s ta te in th<
form of hip deep mud which S ut
ton o p tim istically believed was an
im provem ent of no little concern
H u n te r C reek residents w e n
disappointed by the storm which
iiid not take out th e ir new bridge
despit’e th e ir being su re it would
go seaw ard w ith the first little
raise.
Pistol R iver bridge, the most
costly in the county, m ade an
early m arch to th e sea, according
to a rep o rt fro Asa Crook
H u m e s net rack, coal pile, anil
thv Indian C reek bridge "d< p a r t
ed e a rly in the fra y ”.
Six houses w ere seen passing
down the Rogue and several ex-
p< cted to have gone past in thv
night, G. W. C larno
(F erry
R anch) lost his h a m s and all his
g ia in and hay and th e Je rrv s
F lat school lot. "w hich w as about
a hundred yards from th e river",
disappeared,
w ith
the
schooi
house,
S. D. M errim an’s forty acre
fine farm , on? of the best on
Je rry s F lat, "is now an ugly
gravel bar
Incidentally, Mr.
M errim an was (M ay 2, 1881) th e
tirst m a ste r of th e Rogue R iver
G range. J. F W akem an, who had
a splendid ranch on the n orth
bank of the stneam , n e a r thv p re
sent Canfield Riffle, "is left w ith
out farm , garden, o r roof of any
kind.” S u tto n thought George
M iller's ranch, about w here the
L obster C reek Road ta k e s off
from 101, m ust have been tak en
out but th a t Tom S m ith ’s place,
up by Libby C reek, escaped w ith
slight dam age.
W ill H untley lost his bottom
land, up by Iz tb ste r C reek but
thought hv had saved m uch of his
saw m ill.
P lu m m er E m ory and his wife
w ere both sick in bed in th e ir
hom e
(about
w here
G arland
Moore has his a u to cam p' "hut
w ere able to escape from the
house which, though badly d a m
aged did not float off.
It is believed his b eautiful little
farm is ruined.
S te w G ard n er lost 60 tons
of hay, l(XX) bushels of oats and
two y earling colts, il have no re
cord of w here he lived but be-
livve n o rth of w here Mr ami Mrs.
Port have th e ir hom e.) E uchre
C reek bridge was rep o rted to have
held
S u tto n ’s "sn ap p e r” to his ac
count quotes an old resid en t;
l b ' m onth of Jan u ary has been
the vvettrst and most galish ever
known and the O ldest In h ab i
tant nearly collapsed
Going now to the diaries kept
lw the la te R D Hum e.
Ja n
21st, the mail e a r n e r s reported
tiu o e and one halt feet ol snow
a t S c o tt’s < D elm ar C olgrove’s and
•’ H Coy reported 15 feet in the
m ountains Iguessing from the
tops of tin e s a lx we tin* snow
country w ith which Cov w as ta-
m iliar)
Ja n 31st
V ||| G uerin crossed
river and brought n< ws of wreck
of schooner Roslind. north of
It Really Rained in the Good old Days
£ The New 1955 Chevrolet
ADAMS
CHEVROLET
WE
HAVE
to our NEW
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.•u oss th e board would do rr.s
t r i c k of balancing th e budget.
sznsESEa*
G roundw ork lor a predicted known to u n d e r* /tim in* th< it
‘sw itt arxl h o t’’ legislative session ge-»s.s* s on req u in m»‘nts
If they
w as laid d u rin g the first five get m ore th an they need it is not
w orking days w hich ended F r i diffieule to spend it.
day. J a n u a ry 14th
O ldtim ers here at the Capitol
ar'? saying th a t they can tell by
th e ir ulcers that this session will
he a big show, to exceed the all
tim e record session of 1953 in
2-HOL’R SP E C IA L SE R V IC E
1« ngth, n um ber of bills and fire
w orks.
i,
Hours 7:30 a. m. to 6.00 p. m.
Rig issue and p ressure group
b a ttlo lines w ere supposed to be*
Tuesday and T hursday Open 'til 8 p. in.
veiled by a chum m y G asto-A l-
phonse act the opening days of
the session.
M eanw hile the fix w as being
nailed down and logrolling p a t
P H O N E 2991
te rn e d for party fortifications. On
roll calls during the period jxirty
lines w ore split raggedly on all
but unam ious issues like the hill
providing $500.000 for the first
down paym ent on th e cost of the
session including
salaries
ol
A LM O ST N E TW O BEDROOM HOME on paved stre e t, close
m em bers.
to school, church, and park. Newly- pain ted .
Full
A ta x a tio n school set up for
price
$892?
00.
Im
m
ed
iate
possession
$1000.00
m em bers will hold up tax legis
down EIIA balance $63.40 at $56 00 .per m onth.
lation for th re e or m ore w eeks
Sm
all
m
o
nthly
paym ents on difference. Im m ed iate possession.
hut is e x p ected to bring tim e-
saving re su lts on th e 1< ngth ol
B E A U T IF U L B U ILD IN G S IT E close to new lib rary . O w ner
the session.
AV?/ In k
m ust sell. P riced a t $‘>00 00.
T he $63,000,000, w hich the
L arge ocean-front lot also adjoining lot. lia s alm ost new' 3
s ta te budget show s is tw d e 1 t >
room furnished house Ideal for coupl” . Fine rock p rom ontory
run the s ta te for th e next tw o
lor su rf fishing. T o ta l price, $7500. Som e term s.
years, m ust he produced largely
by new tax revenues or by tr im
Ten acres on Chetco R ;dg? Road w ith su b sta n tia l 3-room house,
m ing budget e stim ates.
All m odern conveilienci ■■ D ia stic reduction Io only $3(XX) lull
A fte r all th e hard w ork of the
price. 'Perms. S am e ow ner has 20 acres v 'f’h «»me tim b e r
of th e budgetvers th e budg
priced a t $4000.
et
is only
an
e stim a te
of
of w hat probably will be nteded.
F IV E A CRES w ith very sm all built house has fireplace and
D ep a rtm e n t heads and institu tio n
many o th e r desirable fe a tu re s Ideal for larg e fam -
su|x*rinf?nden’s have never been
ily. Short ('istanee from B rookings off N o rth B ank
goad. Ju st reduced to $10,500 for quick sale.
O tte r
Point
(B ailey
R angel
w recked. Ja n 28th.
HOME AND B U SIN E SS LOTS A wide selection of locations
Som ew here in my ra ts nest I
from $650 and up. S e v u a i w ith low down paym ents and sm all
have e x c e rp ts from Del N orte
monthly installments.
county notes re la tiv e to the
L IS T W IT H U S ~ W e hare prospects for nearly all types of
snows lay ing in the m ountains <o
the e a stw a rd of S m ith River. ‘
c if j/ and rural property
As I rem em b er these re|x>rts,
See Hom er H aggerty or Eva Lee Long
possibly they an? best not includ
ed, e stim a te d dep th s being so
g re a t it could not yet be all m e lt
ed. As I rem em ber, it was m ore
th an tw o w eeks before the m ails
Also the BEST in Insurance Coverages
got th ro u g h from Cresct nt City
S m ith R iver Jacksonville and
thence.
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