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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1909)
VOL. 12 OCTOBER 29, 1909. NO. 16 Along tHe WasKington Coast Glimpse of the Quinault Indian Res ervation and a Trip to' Its Rugged Confines. ' - " Westward, towards the shores of the Pacific Ocean, and across through South western Washington, the Northern Pa cific Railroad has pushed its present limit.' Here a vast empire of great pos sibilities presents itself to the traveler in the face of what is and what is to be. For here is the . great lumbering center, apparently without limit, when one gets glimpses of the forests and comes within sight and sound of the great mill?, vie ing with each other Montesano, Aber deen, Hoquiam and others we did not see sitting here on the edge of Grays Harbor; these gi.nt mills of which none in all the world are so great, and whose output goes out in 6hips to far and far ther lands. The ' Northern Pacific, leaving Ho quiam, continues its course some 30 miles in a northwesterly direction mostly on a sea level -to it ;., .west ward termination; This is M ;:lips-by- the-sea, an attractive little watering place on the edge of , the Pacific Ocean, where the blue waves surge, over" long stretches of, hard, pebbly beach, . Al ready is Moclips a favorite Summer resort, where people come yearly from many sections of -the country. .This beach, bordering on the Quinault reservation, is a peculiarly attractive one, and, all go this way who ' visit the agency or make those wonderful trips up' to Lake Quinault. Moclips is the boundary line to a reservation that covers something like 240,000 acres. ; , 7 ; " ' The early treaties with these North ern Indians dates back to Buchanan's Administration, when these tribes ' were very troublesome and warlike. In more recent treaties the Government has suc ceeded in bringing together, the scatter ed .remnants of; four different tribes, whose former and ancient haunts rang ed all the way from'the extreme north in Clallam county and much of the coast and interior of Jefferson and Che halis counties. But the reservation proper is in Chehalis county. The In dians are of, the Quinault, the Quilleute, the Qtieets and the Hoh these last fig ure in the history of the early explor ers of a century or more ago as especially- (Coutinned on page 8 )
