gATUIlDAY, MARCH 1, 1910.
iTHE MAL-HEtfR ENTERPRISE, VALE, OREGON.
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EARLY DAY DESCRIPTION OF THE MALHEUR COUNTRY- FROM OLD CLIPPING
The boys over there who had an
ambition to cross ' the Atlantic still
have the same ambition. Greenville
Piedmont
LAND OWNERS!
Business Men and Laborers, Na- j
ture gave this .country a good
climate, water and fertile land, j
Transportation is here and the j
largest range left in the West )
gives us a high market for all i
feeds raised. Water will be j
ready to" apply on thousands of
acres of raw land in 1920. To
farm thijj new land we need hun- j
derds of'new settlers. They are
coming. It is to your interest
and to your profit to welcome j
them and in your talk to" them
to see this Country not as it
was but as it is, a new country,
the coming greatest stock rais-'
ing, dairying, alfalfa and corn
section of Oregon or the West
Jf you wish to sell list .with
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Vale, Oregon
Special School .Meeting
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the
legal voters of School District No. 15
of Malheur County, State of Oregon,
that n special. School meeting of said
District will be held at School House
on the first day of March, 1919 at
threo o'clock in the afternoon, for tho
following objects:
Election of one director and clerk
of said district
Dated this 17th day of February,
1919.
ATTEST:
J. P. Dunaway, District Clerk. "
Anna Ms Wheeler, Chairman Board
of Directors.
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No copy arriving at the office later
than Thursday morning is assured of
publication in that week's issue.
Interesting as well as valuable in
showing 'past development is the fol
lowing article reprinted from a clip
ping apparently taken from an 'early
issue of. the Portland Orcgonlan and
sent .to the Editor of the Enterprise
by D. K. Worsham of Malheur City.
Ihe exact date of the original jmbljca-
tion is1 not known, but it. is certain
that it will be better appreciated by
the old timers, the real pioneers.
In reading this article we cannot
help but wonder what" the next gener
ation will think of our times, When
the towns heve become real cities and
the valley ranches are turned into
smaller farms, when our ranges arc
all 'fenced and good roads and mail
service exist all o'ver the county, will
the next generation look back on us
with the same pride in their hearts,
nnd with a quiet unspoken envy, as
we do on the pathfinders of the west.
Today when Malheur 'county ranks
as the leading corn producing county
in the-state, raises more alfalfa than
any other county, produces the priit
apples and prunes of the worldt and
is developing into a land of milk and
honey is a long distance from the
time the Bannock and Snake Indians
made their last contest.with the white
man as is shown" in the following article.
hoof mountain a bold, butt? towering abandoned os a military post a few
Jiigh abovo its neighbors and capped
by. a rocky knob resembling a Horse's
hoof; lit this basin, through which
flows .one "fork ot the Malheur river,
A.r..' Parrish erected about 'a dozen
very, substantial frame buildings," us
ing n portable sawmill to make the
lumber frpni .timber close; at hand. He
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THE MALHEUR COUNTRY
Where It Is, What It Is, and What It
" May Be. "
A GOOD PLACE FOR STOCKMEN.
History and Reminiscences The In
dian Reservation "Mcck's Cut
Off'! Gossip and Facts.
On the. eastern side of the Blue
Mountains, partly in Grant and partly
in Baker counties, Oregon extending
from Snake River to Harney lake on
tho south and west, is an extensive
region known as the Malheur country.
Throughout tho upper country you
will meet old pioneer prospectors and
minors who will tell long stories about
"finding" the Malheur country, and
being in turn found and driven .out by
Indians. Just when the country was
found it is difficult to say, but to the,
but to the traveler passing through
it there is every evidence of its hav
ing been there some little time. In
1873 Mr. Samuel Parrish, as United
States Indian Agent, took possession'
of the country for.
An Indian Reservation.
And with a young Indian who he had
picked up at Camp Harney as his only
companion, rode out to hunt up the
different bands of Indians he had been
appointed to take charge of. Consid
ering that these Indians were still
maintaining a more or less hostile at-
J titude, his mission was a rather risky
one. But ho rode right into, their
camps ,and the peculiar tact which has
always made him deservedly popular
with the red man carried him through
successfully. He collected the differ
ent bands, in all numbering about 800
Snakes, and soon had them encamped
around the spot he had selected for an
agency. This was in a deep basin im
mediately under
Malheur Peak
Or, as it is sometimes called, Horse
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.induced his Indians to go to work, nnrj
soon they- had an extensive 'farm
fenced and under .cultivation. Aboui
"our miles of irrigating ditch was duf
by them, Mr. Parrish and the chiefs,
having to do their personal parts of
the digging in order tcr get the fiery,
untamed warriors to follow suit.
Crops Were Raised
Consisting of wheat and oats and the
hardier varieties of vegetabjes. The
agent also succeeded in raising some
melons and small garden "truck" but
found it necessary .to get the plants
under his kitchen stovo during the
frequent frosty nights. As a general
thing the Indians prospered, although
they .would insist on burning up their
fences for fuel in winter and replac
ing them in spring. In 1806 Mr. Par
rish was removed to make a place for
ahother agent. This was. a red-tape
move the Indians did not understand,
and they wept long and loud, and tried
by force to prevent the departure of
the 'agent they had learned to trust.
But he begged them to resign them
selves "fo circumstances, which for
awhilo they doggedly did. But they
could not' get along with their new
agent, saying "hp was not Sam Par
ish," For two. years they, nursed the
hope that the later would come back
to them. Then the Bannock brave,
Buffalo Horn, with his band of hoslcs,
swept down the Snake river and uj) the
Malheur to the fishing camp of Otis'
and Egan's people. There was
A Yell For War
The Bannocks cried, "Why 'do you
sit here and starve on fish bones
when there are cattle and horses
on the white man's range just be
yond ? The smouldering spark was fan
ned into a flame, and instantly every
man, woman and child of the Malheur
reservation was out on the warpath.
Egan, the war-chief, a brave man,
with many a scar from the white
man's builet upon his body talked
against war and warned his pcopk'
against the final result, but was over
ruled. When he had to fight he
fought to the death. His skull adorns
a shelf in tfie Army" and Navy museum
at' Washington. His bones have been
scattered- by the coyotes among the
tall timber near Meacham's station, in
tho Blue Mountains, where he died
fighting like the brave men' he was.
The loss of Buffalo Horn and Egan,
their two bravest men, took the back
bone out of the hostiles in '78, and
rapidly they retreated. The 'Idaho
Bannocks made their escape back to
ward the Ross Fork agency, while tho
Malheur Snakes cached themselves in
the timber near their old agency, and
finally surrendered to .the soldiers.
They were taken to Camp Harney, and
in January, 1879, sent to Yakima re
servation, where they still remain.
Since then there have been,
No Indians On The Malheur
Although tho agency and reservation
were continued as such until a few
months ago. Excepting a small re
served poriion,i the reservation is now
open to settlers. Perhaps because the
Umatilla and some other reservations
contain considerable choice land, the
idea prevails that the Malheur reser
vation is an excellent agricultural reg
ion. This is a mistake. Very fair
crops of grain have 'been raised in
the agency basin, which is several
hundred feet lower than the surround
ing country, but even here the wheat
has been frozen while in the milk.
In 1878 the crops were very good, and
when 6en. Howard's command reach,
ed there in August of that year they
found plenty of grain for their thous.
and head of hungry horses and mules.
This, basin is well watered, and is a
pretty spot to look down upon from
the surrounding heights. But its area
is limited, and there is not enough of
it to make a dozen decent sized
ranches. Further down the stream
which flows through it there is some
good bottom land, but hardly room
to get in a plow. Between the agency
and
Camp Harney.
You'pass over something like sixty
miles of country, which will strike you
as not particularly good to raise any
thing, although the Snake Indians con
sidered it a very good country in
which to raise crickets, which they
roasted and smashed into bread re
sembling bilcake meal. These crickets
are about ns largo as humming birds,
and if you travel through there in
the spring it will for miles be Impos
sible ior your horse to set his' foot
down without mashing one". When
PUBLIC SALE
I Will Sell at Public Auction,
Without Reserve, at the A. B.
Cox Ranch One-Fourth Mile
Monday, March 10,
1919, at 11:00 a. m.
The following described articles and
others too numerous to mention
MILCH COWS 11 HEAD
2 Cows 4 years old
4 Cows 6 years old
2 Cows 8 years old
-1 Cow ..3 years old
All giving milk or will be fresh by
day of sale.
STEERS and CALVES
' 6 head of 2 year old Steers
7 hcaduf Steer Calves
4 head of young Calves
HORSES
Several good Horses will be offered.y-
FARM IMPLEMENTS . ' v
1 Deering Binder
1 grain drill ;,
1 three disc plow
1 light farm wagon
1 mower - '
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE , t
1 sewing machine . M
1 gasoline stove 4 burner and oven
Free Lunch Served at Noon
TERMS OF SALE:
J All Bums of $10 and under, Cash. On
) sums over $10, six months time will
J be given on bankable notes drawing
10 per cent interest per annum.
J. M. SWANSON, Auctioneer
A. B. COX, Owner
Jnmicson, Oregon
years ago. This is
A .Fine Summer Country
But too elevated for agriculture, Be
tween. Inr'ney nnd .Canyon City, a dis
tance by wagon roadjpf perhaps. G5
miles, you pass through Sylva and
Bear valleys, both of them well water
ed, well timbered and pretty places,
jut too high for forming. About
1 :i r i r n
wt'ivu imiea irum mmnuur agency is . -m t W
North of Janueson, Oregon on
i a rank growth of rye-grass, but it
looks too. coarse for the digestion of
tiny thing but n sawmill. Some twenty
miles east of tho agency is the Clover
creek "country where there 'arc a few
ranches, and about twenty miles furth
er you find Malheur City and Eldora
do, small towns, around which placer
mining is still carried on. On the low
er Malheur, and on Bully .and Willow
creeks there is considerable' good agri- ,
culturel land, and much of it seems to J
be held by a military road company.
In 1878 two of ' . .
General Howard's Scouts
Left the Mainour agency and striking
the main Malheur river, followed it
down to within a few miles of where
it empties into the Snake. They found j
a very rough country, with no valley
or bottom land for many miles. Thero
is an old Indian trail down the jiver, )
in places worn deep into the rocky
sides .of tho canyon, nnd where the!
M..ff. l . 1 1 1
uiuiis ciuse in your nursu nua to swim
and wade along the channel of tho
stream. Along here 'considerable nl
kali exists in the water, and if you
.take a drink of it. you will need an
other one very .soon. You don't like
it, but if you get started you have to
keep on drinking or suffer a tortur
ing thirst. When tho trail leads up n
bluff you will be actually foolish
enough, if you have no canteen, to
leave your horse and climb down to
get another drink of what you know
will in ft short time make you still
more thirsty. But if you wi!l let the
water alone nt first and keep a bullet
or pebble in your mouth, you will have
no trouble wllh thirst. In. traveling
toward the
Main Malheur
From tho agency you pass over many
miles of high, arid, country, much of
which is literally sown with shale tock,
tho sharp corners of which you will
find anything but beneficial to your
horse's feet. Approaching the stream
you find the bluffs cut up by inu'mer-
down which you can
pass to the water s edge. West oi
tho agency is the main range of the
Blue Mountains, with plenty of tall
timber, grass, game and water: in
short, the finest summer country in
the world. Some twenty miles from
he agency are Crane and Summit
prairies. About all they are good for
is to start a largo ostrich farm. Cranes
about as largo as small ostriphes
abound. They make a noise like the
hoisting of a ship's snils, and if pro
perly mixed with tho sage-hens of the
plains below, nn article of ostrich
which would stand tho climate might
bo produced. Most of tho Malheur
country is
An Excellent Stock Region,
Abounding in bunch-grass, and with
plenty of summer range in tho timber.
The Indians' horses nlways wintered
well on the range, and the agency cat
tle kopt in good condition. The snow
fall in the agency basin rarely exceed
ed 18 inches. On the lower Malheur
and its tributaries cattle fosep rolling
fat entirely independent of grass,
their main dependence being the white
sage which grows' so plentifully in
that section. The Harney valley and
Steen mountain regions are famous
stock ranges, and have furnished
thousands of cattle to eastern and Cal
ifornia markets. Steen mountain was
lamed after Major E. Steen, of tho
aid First Dragoons, who, with tho
roopers gave the Snakes many a hot
:hase in that section auout 15 years
ago. Harney valley is an cxtensivo
stretch of country, containing nn nl
kali lake about 17 miles long by 12
wide Tho elevation here is over 4000
feet above tho sea.
As a Mineral Region
Tho Malheur country is rich in re
sources, What little prospecting has
been dpne has been very superficial.
In 1843 an emigrant train of some 90
wagons, guided by Stephen Meek, Y
passed through this region, nnd the ,
deep ruts cut out by their wagons may i X
still be seen. By bearing to the south-1 x
west they avoided crossing the Blue
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you camp at night you had bettor .- n-, of the stuff were thrown in a wagon-
chor your saddle or they will pack it
off bodily. Another crop raised here
by the Indians was flint fortheir arrow-heads.
It abounds everywhere.
There are also extensive patches of !
clay where brick yards might do bus- i
incss if there was any one to buy the
bricks. There are some very good log
buildings at Harney, but the place was
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mniintnlno trnimr nrfilinfl llintTI Vimilfll I X
the Ochoco country. Many of this par
ty took up donation claims near Salem
and are still living in that vicinity.
The story goes that While they were
encamped in n region, tho description
of which tallies with'thut around the
agency, they found in a creek a large
amount of yellow metal. A few chunks
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