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COURIER ESTABLISHED MAY, W83
HERALD ESTABLISHED JULY, 1893
INDEPENDENT ESTABLISHED 1893
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1901
19th YEAR, NO. 16
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PORTLAND,
TIIE UFPER I1ATC1IE11Y.
Artificial Propagation of Salmon
By the Staffs' Exjterts in the
Heart of the Cascades.
About 65 n ili-s from Portland, by wag
on road and itail.in the heart of the Cas
cade mountains, on the Clackamas river,
Superintendent Crumbley, of the Upper
Clackamas Salmon hatcheries, and his
assistants, J hn Straight, V. Smith and
Al Richardson, are doing a work for the
people of Oregon that is but little under
stood by the general public. On a recent
trip to the scene of that isolated but im
portant industry the upper hatchery
on the Clackamas of a party consisting
of a repiesentative of tl.e Oregonian,
Professor H. W. Caldwell, of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, and two others,
some photographic views were lak n
and items noied that wiil undoubtedly
interest the Sunday readers of this papf ,
A wagon nile ot 3d miles brought i
to the end of the toad and the west eud I
of the trail, tl.e lauer of which sttirls
from the home of George Loekaby,
where wagons are run under Bhelter and
the horses are loaded with their packs,
for the long trip up and down the moun
tains and across numerous turbulent
atreams to the hatchery. To the nov
ice, the packing of a horse or mule for a
mountainous journey is a thing of much
moment.' The experts discuse the mer
its of the "diamond hitch," the "Lang
hitch," the "squaw hitch," etc. No
matter which you personally may adopt,
you will take several hitches before you
reach your destination.
Followed by much witty, if not reas
suring advice from bystanders, we started
down the hillside, and, in half an hour
arrived at the crossing of the north fork
of the Clackamas. In July and August
the crossing of the noith fork is easy.
The stream, however, has a rapid cur
rent, and the channel is full of boulders,
so that when in tlood from rain or melt
ing snow, earlier in the spring, or later
in the full, fording is both ditlicult and
dangerous.
On one occasion, in November, the
writer saw a hardy mountaineer try to
cross on liorsebacK. His horse stum
bied over a rock, throwing him into the
. water. iJnl smayed. he seized the horso
by the tail and the faithful beast brought
111m safely ashore
The first upward climb of the divide
starts at this point. The trail winds up
the mountain until the backbone be
tween the north fork and main stream is
reached, when, for a distance of about
nine miles it runs through a tine forest
of tir timber until it readies the bluffs
of Roaring river. Then it pitches down
the mountain hide, at the rate that made
our piairie professor inquire if there were
others like it. The elevation at the
summit is said to be 3000 feet above the
river.
Forty five minutes were required in
making the descent, which brought us
to the junction of Eoaring river and the
Clackamas Crossing the smaller stream
on a six-footbridge, the trail follows the
Clackamas bottom for some distance,
then gradually ascends the side of the
blutlH, until an elevation of 200 or 300
feet is reached; there it clings to the
mountain tide, the ledge so narrow that,
in several places, a single niiettep would
throw horse and rider iuto the riyer.
UP AKD DOWN ll'l.L.
The wayis now up and down, over spurs
of the mountains and across Snappy,
Cripple, Oak Grove and o'.her creeks,
where expert fibbers c hi easily take tine
strings of trout. Every turn in the trail
presents some new and iutereaing fea
tute in the landtcape.
Arriving within sight of t lie hatchery
buildings, a scene presented itstif that
instantly arrested the attention. An
Indian camp, where a score or more copper-colored
citizer s vere busy t-lashing,
salting, drying and smoking salmon that
the ha chery men had killed and thrown
- away in the process of taking the
spawn that is, the sqaws were busy,
for, w ith two or three exceptions, the
Iudifn lords were not bothering about
work were disclosed to our view.
The morning of our arrival the hatch-
erymen made a haul with the seine, tak
ing out) salmon. Frcm these they ee-
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lected such as were ripe for spawning,
putting them into pens for safe keeping,
and returning all immature fish to the
river.
JTakina the spawn was a revela'ion to
the tenderfoot raeuih is of our party.
An Indian helper, with a small rope, at
the end of which te li ;d mide a noose,
reached into the pen where the female
thereafter jerking
it tight, and lifting
the surprised fish from the water.
Another red man, stand ng ready wiih
aclubatiout the size and shape of a
baseball bat, or rather ol a policeman's
club, Btruck Mrs. Salmon on the head,
killing her. Immediately the fish was
placed in a narrow box, on its back,
whereupon an assistant proceeded to
"strip" the eggs (spawn) from it. A
sinale fish, by the way, yields train 5000
to 8000 eggs. The spawn v. is caiialu in
a can which ho ds about two gallons.
FEBTIU.lXa T11K SPAWN .
Two male fish were then taken, and,
by a in- vemenl similar to that of strip
ping the eggs, milt enough was run
from them into the can to fertilize the
spawn, a workman meanwhile stirring
the eggs by turning the can from side to
side. J. he male fish were then returned
to the river alive. In answer to our in
quiry, we were informed that the female
salmon are killed for two reasons, it be
ing mucn easier to take the spawn from
a dead than from a live fish, and as they
would die anyway, after stripping them
of spawn, it is but humane to kill them
at once.
Superintendent Crumbley and his as
sistants are meeting wiih much success,
and confidently say that tiiev will break
the record with this season's hatch of
salmon, both chinook and steelheads.
While it may be true that some state
employes have downy places, these
hatchery men have nothing especially
to boast of in a way of a "soft snap." If
their critics could see them in the icy
water, building racks to stop the nroH-
resB of the amending salmon ; wading to
the waist, drawing seines anil struggling
with a 40 and 50-pound fish that it takes
ttie grip ot a vice to hold, shut out from
the reEt of the world, by the everlasting
hills; seeing nothing of their fellow men
from early spring till late in the fall, ex
cept w hen an occasional small party, on
a raid' summer outing, strays along;
compelled to pack every pound of sup-
a uiiui;uiii lung mountain
trail a task of no mean proportions,
when it is considered that from live to ID
tons weight of necessaries are required
to be carried in each year they would
nurely concede that these men are earn
ing llicir salt.
The Indians are a picturesque feature
abont the upper Clackamas butchery.
They come mostly from the Warm
Springs reservation, in Eastern Oregon,
over the mountains, for the purpose of
drying and curing the salmon that are
thrown out by the hatchery men, after
being stripped of spawn. Following a
tributary of the Deschutes up to the
summit of the Cascades, some ten miles
south of Mt. Hood, a trail leads down
the headwaters of the Clackamas river
to the hatchery. This is a route followed
by the Indians of other days, and which
is familiar to hunters and "mountaineers
of the present time.
The hardships of the difficult trail
daunt not the old braves, nor are the
women and children less valiant, for it
is a strenuous life, that of the reserva
tion Indian, and he must meds rusti
cate in tbe-woods, whither the spirits of
his fathers lead him. So they come, in
parties and families, squaws, pappooses,
dogs, ponies and camp equippage, pack
ing over the mountains down into the
canon of the Clackamas, there to estab
lish themselves on the river bank near
the batcheryi
Hobbling his pony, or ponies, just
over the ridge, where wild pea vines
furnish .abundant sustenance for the
hardy mustangs, the noble red man nrn-
ceeds to take tife easy while the women
loins attend to camp unties.
A crude
rack is erected, wiih crosspiecei some i
six or seven leet above ground, from
which to suspend the salmon thrown
hout by the hatchery men, over fmoul -
J dering fires that arc kept going all day
and night, for the purpose of curing the
fish, and strict attention is paid thereto
until the salmon run is over, when the
redskins disperse to their homes. The
operation of . artificial propagation is
watched with some interest by the bucks
who ornament the shady places of the
landscapes, and keep tab on ,.the fish
discarded by the hatchery men, a wise
old chief seeing to the impartial distri
bution of the spoils.
After the day's work the chief comes
upon the scene and proceeds to divide
the salmon among the representatives of
the various families of the Indian vil
lage. The children of the foreBt squat
themselves down in a semicircle and re
ceive their allotment without a murmur ;
there is no guying the umpire whatever.
The womer and children look on from a
respectful distance in the rear
When the dignified old chief has made
the hnal distribution, from which there
is no appeal, the squaws bestir them
selves and make way with the fish. Our
Earty observed one buxom damsel who
auled six 50-pound salmon at the end
ot a rope, some 200 yards to the Indian
camp. By passing ropes through the
gills of the salmon alloted to them and
making them fast to the liiHt ones of the
lot, the women continue to drag their re
spective piles to the river, where they
wade in the shallow water by the bank,
snaking the fish along behind them to
their destination. I. M'GOWAN,
In Sunday Oregonian.
OUR LIBERTY.
How strangely strange are things today,
Liberty's thrieks are on every hand,
And slaves their masters must obey ;
'Tie wealth now that rules the laud.
Before the days of vile pollution
Were allowed to run their wicked race
We felt secure in the constitution,
And gladly sought its sure embrace.
Bute rmorants have spread their wingB,
They scent the cairion's Btench afar,
And while Rome burns, gladly sing,
"Men of wealth you need not fear."
Though Arnold made a sad retreat,
When he crossed the Atlantic wave,
We will now amend his one mistake,
His bones with us will find a grave.
Why cou'd not tho.?e Boston boys
Have stayed at home ami sipped their tea,
Nor stim d the ire of English lords
To cruth the buds of Liberty.
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by a daring
Briton's blood enriched the field
But then the rustics had to go.
But George must lay his laurels down,
The pen of Paine be lost forever
And patriots shall lose their crown
Won through seas of blood and treasure.
The hopeful youth shall shine in vain,
Freedoms i-t ir ia lost from view,
Nor shall h ever appear again,
Its peaceful paths once more pursue.
See on band in the Philippines,
We there were bent on subjugation,
We knew th it might could surely win,
Nor need we stoop t legislation.
Heathen lands arj ours by right,
Provided always we're the master mind;
Europe laid this pathway out
And to us it seems divine.
Yet we'll hold thU land of our?,
Land of the free, home of the brave,
But it matters not for freedom's laurels,
Cur fathers won for us to save. '
Let motheis beg within the street,
Let orphans pine aw ay for bread,
Let labor kneel beside our feet .
And beg for place to lay its head.
We'll pass them by in proud disdain,
We need not now Btoop so low,
We live today by other gain,
We made the laws to have it so.
We have the courts, ve have the chink,
We have labor bj the ears,
it is the safest e think,
Not to yield to threats or tears.
Doms may shout till they are hoarse,
Yet they did one noble thing,
They laid Bryan in the lurch,
His sad requiem now let us sing.
And Pops may chirp in every bush,
As crickets chirr- among Autumn leaves
But they have given their hardest push,
Are now receding like the waves.
But Socialists, we fear that name,
A great Hercules may prove to be,
We know not from whence they come,
Monsteis perchance from out the sea.
But Socialists, Pops or Doini,
It matters not what name they bear,
Are opposed to us all the same
Their combined forces we mostly fear.
Yet wealth is strong, has always won,
A shrine of worship for high and low,
Its tested strength in plainly seen,
In its wake are streams of woe.
What care we if all the gold,
Earned by toil of others hand,
Shall fall "to us a thousand fold
Some must work while others plan.
So the world is strangely strango
The eagle shrieks from sea to sea
Once we luld an honest name,
But now are ruled by perfidy.
Slumber not ye sons of toil,
Freedom's lamp is still all ime,
Remember now thoie noble sires,
Who fought for you in Heaven's name.
Remember now these tender youths
That look to you for daily bread,
Anil in the days that are to come,
Will wish a place to .lay their head.
Wm. I Phillips,
Clackamas, Or. '
Death Stood Off.
E. B. Munday, a lawyer of Henrietta,
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