HE LURE OF DIM
I
pnRMER MINING HOME OF
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
LIVED IN LONE MINER'S CABIN
At Abandoned Mine on Mount
Helena in California
Saint
(M. J- Brown, Courier, Oregon City)
Doomed to know not winter,
only 6pring a being trod the
flowery April; blithely for a
while took his fill of music, joy,
of thought and seeing, came and
stayed and went, nor ever ceas
ed to smile.
There are very few people in this
country who know where the tablet
is from which the above is copied,
and it may make some of you scratch
your heads to recall who wrote the
linea.
Ill tell you where to find it and
how to get to it.
Due north from San Francisco
""runs a branch line of the Southern
Pacific. It runs 75 miles and stops,
stops at Calistoga,the beautiful little
palm-shaded village at the head of
the Napa Valley.
A great range of mountains rises
up like a wall and forbids the lines of
steel to go farther . And " thero is
nothing beyond a railroad would
build tor just great wood-covered
mountains. And there is little beyond
a white man would care for just
great nms 01 snence.
Yet up in these mountains Robert
Louis Stevenson found a home for
many months. -here he fought the
dread tuberculosis; there he wrote
two of his many books; there he
wrote the descriptive story of his
mountain home "The Silverado Squat
ters.
Jn Calistoga I found an old friend
from New York, M. W. Hill, and to.
gether we started for the mountains
to the old home of Stevenson,
One horse and a buggy was the
outfit. It was a case of walk up the
uiuuiitdiiiB wim any rig, ano one
horse could come down as easy as a
four-in-hand. And then in case we
should meet a team, it was so much
easier to pass and passing is a mat
ter to De seriously considered on
those mountain roads.
But first I must give you a little
history of this mountain locality
oi mount t. Helena and then, if you
Know itooert .Louis Stevenson from
his books, you will perhaps know why
he went there.
Many years ago hundreds of men,
mostly Chinamen, lived on Mount
saint Helena. There were great mines
were, silver on one side, quicksilver
on the other. Now they are abandoned
and the mountain is deserted. The
ore in the quicksilver mines ran out
and the ledge in the once famous sil
ver mine pinched out.
For miles we climbed Saint Helena
to its summit, 4,500 feet above sea
level, the old mountain horse going
ahead with the reins tied up, we fol
lowing on foot, and there were plac
es where the buggy hub would pro
ject over an abyss a thousand feet
straight down. I
And I thought back to the busy
days, the money-mad days of Cali
fornia, when loaded four-in-hand
freighters went over these winding
dangerous passes at all hours of the
day and night.
At noon we leach the summit, two
miles of practically level road, and
then from a turn in the road we saw
what was once a beehive of indus
try spread out before us was a de
serted mining town.
There stood the big mill, just as
it stood years ago when the engineer
shut off the steam for the night.
There stood the big engine with the
drive belt still on. There were the
mine dumps, the Chinese bunk hous
es, the company store, the officers'
Quarters, the fire-moof vaults ,the
barns, forge shops, water works and
the burner where the quicksilver ore
was baked.
And as we passed the silent shute
where many a load of ore had been
loaded, a deer jumped out of a brake
and ran down the mountain side.
A mountain of itself is lonesome
and depressing. A deserted village is
even more so. Together they present
a picture of lonesomeness one does
not care to look at long. The awful
silence and desolation eet on your
nerves, and a loud spoken word or a
laugh sounds like false notes asout
of harmony with the surroundings.
Once seven hundred men worked In
these hie holes, worked nieht and day
and over these mountain roads a
string of freighters brought in the
food and supplies, and guarded rigs
carried out the quicksilver tubes.
Mow it is the home of great silence,
But the mountain village was not
entirely deserted as we found out an
hour later.
As we drove into the thickest of
the village, we saw smoke arising
from a chimney, and a woman stood
in the door of what was once the
main office of the mininer company,
We stopped. A man came up the
road, a young man, walking lame. We
put the horse in a barn and stayed to
dinner. Here is the story, in short
form.
He was a mining engineer. They
had been married two years. An ac
cident in a mine' crushed his lee and
it was amputated. Crippled, and unf it-
a ror a superintendent's worK, he
with his wife, went uu onto Saint He
lena, where he purchased the long
abandoned mine dumps on a small
royalty contract, and beeran to experi.
Went with and work out a process he
had long studied on. a nrocess to work
over these mountains of refuse and
ke out the Quicksilver.
Details are tedious, I will not bore
you. After weeks of solicitation he
found enough men who would take a
chance that his process would make
good, and he raised ?2,500, with
which he bought two concentrators
Wd started his experiments.
That he was making good, there
was ample proof. He showed us filled
tubes in the vaults and we took off
OUr rillCS arA fnrnaj tio-Ha n
the bottom of pails filled with quick-
uver And you have to force them.
tli f qul( 's 80 resisting and heavy
Jnat you can scarcely push your hand
'o the bottom.
The young engineer said he could
Ke out at least $300 a day with one
n to help him and that he had
wough ore on the dumps to last one
111
hundred years.
To those unfamiliar with mininir I
would state that the "dumps" are ore
that is considered too low grade to
pay, and it s cartnri t
nnH ,),J i4 ir- -m: mines
un.uycu ulLO llle ravines.
llltlttJ of Robert
wwiouua uiu nome.
Sn,wnW,ent Up i1!6 PPsite de of
Leaving the young miner after din
ner we started down the other side
of the mountain, and just before dark
lulJ' Jong, one-
j i ." ,"""s a saioon at one
end, kitchen and d
.tL jre vwno a i. uie
vcuvci aim Kieemno- mwnr. .
Here was where Rfmmr,
l i '--7-- uKwcuaun tit III e
first, bringing his bride and Hill and
1 Slept in the ranm tU,T .,:.,j
there is the oM toll n-ata i, j
wis W ins story, a long fir tree
DWllllflllK on a Tllvnt. anrl o l..
balanced a boy could open or shut it,
and there it stands today, a tribute
r1"1' " tlses we one mountain road
to one and all who refnso
much per mile for the privilege of
.(5 uvu me uignway.
-It seemed to ma that fba onfi,
neea not nave looked further, if he
1 ----- vnv uuvuui
nauieu uuiei ann nrv mountain -
for Saint Helena Inn. shut in hv fnr'
eats on every side and overtopped by
high mountain Deaks. is a nio -
dinarily so restful that sleep haunts
one and so quiet yuo can hear your
null IUW.
T).,i Al ' I ,
uuk, mere are intervals ot no sv
rowdyism at St. Helena Inn, and
tnese intervals doubtless drove Stev.
enson on. There are times when sov.
eral four-in-hand freighters and their
crews, taking goods over the only
wagon road into a railroadless county
ij-.nK.ei comrreiraie mere, and thnn
there are nights when sleep does not
come.
As soon as the grey showed over
mt. saint Helena's crest the next
morning, we were up, and not wait
ing for breakfast, we started up the
mountain path to the former home of
Mevenson abandoned Silverado.
And far up on the mountain side
we found it or- rather found the
place that was once his home for
buverado has been torn down and
carted away, and all that remains of
a once mountain of industry is the
yawning moutn oi tne old shatt and
the tablet where stood the miners
shack where Stevenson made his
home for many months.
There today are the abandoned
shaft, the shoot, the dumn, the foree.
Jhe rails with a miners cart rotting
away on tnem; tnere are broken im
plements, old rusted tin utensils.
All is decay and silence. How Stev
enson could have stood it so long and
remained sane, I do not understand.
There is something uncanny about the
whole place and a lonesomeness steals
over you. You want to get away, want
to run, want to get out where you can
yell and not feel as if you were in a
cemetery.
Near the forge house was a cluster
of thick madronas, where was Stev
enson's favorite seat, the place where
he passed many hours at his writings.
It is a beautiful view, overlooking the
Napa valley for many, many miles
as far as the eye can reach.
And sitting on this ledee, fighting
against dread consumption, no doubt
yearning lor his beloved Scotland he
wrote these lines:
"A ffne place, after all, for a
wasted life to doze away in the
cuckoo clock hooting of the far
home country."
For years he fought the white
plague, but it finally conquered, and
today his body lies buried in far off
Samoa, on a mountain top wheh trav
elers say has a striking resemblance
to Mount Saint Helena.
Several of the characters in Sev-
enson's sketches are living in Cali
stoga today.
And just a few lines about Silver
ado mine once a hole, in the ground
wnose everyday me was Keenly
watched by hundreds of investors and
speculators.
Either Silverado was the biggest
hard luck mine in California, or it
was the biggest swindling game ever
made a success of. And there are
plenty of men in the Napa valley
who will take either side of the prop
osition. Some say over a half million dol
lars were taken out of this mine in a
short time, while others will em
phatically declare there was never an
ounce of silver taken out that was
not first taken in.
Some sav that the wonderfully rich
vein suddenly pinched out and no end
of drifting could locate it again.
And others state it was the raw
est bunco game San Francisco ever
devised and every ounce of silver
was salted, borrowed from another
mine as a basis for selling two mil
lion dollars in shares.
If it was a fake it was a beautiful
one. A city sprng up like a mush
room, and all California watched the
mine. Then the vein was lost and the
town went to decay.
There is many a man who believes
that the lost seam will again be
found. Many a squatter has jumped
the claim, believing the mine was
plugged, and some day, when stock
could be bought for a qent a share,
it would be opened again.
I looked into the black hole and
thought of the many hopes that were
buried there hopes of wealth.
Then T went down to the madrona
thicket, where Stevenson used to sit,
looked off across the valley and thot
nf the one great hope that was lost
thoro the hone of health.
Silverado is a mine of buried hopes.
Teachers' Examination
Notice is hereby given that the
County Superintendent of Clackamas
County, Oregon, will hold the regular
.,;.tinn nf Htinlicants for State
certificates at Court House, as fol
lows:
Wednesday. Decern,
ber 17, 1913, at 9 o'clock A. M., and
continuing until Saturday, December
20, 1913, at 4 o'clock r. w.
WoflnooHnv fnrenoon writing, U,
o ii;0t Phvsinlngv. Wednesday
afternoon physical geography, read
ing, composition, methods, in reading,
methods in arithmetic; Thursday
forenoon arithmetic, history of edu
cation, physiology, mewoas m
graphy; Thursday afternoon gram
mar, geography, American literature,
physics, methods in language, thesis
for primary certificate; Friday fore
noontheory and practice, ortho
graphy, English literature, chemistry;
Friday afternoon-school law, geolo
gy, algebra, civil government; Satur
day forenoon geometry, botany;
Saturday afternoon general history,
bookkeeping. E. Calavan
Co. Supt
LITTLE EQUITY SERMONS
a J inWi!'0."??. be fed, to
to oo tne reeding.
If all the produce was controlled by
a business oriranwatinn f t '
wmII h. i.." , ers
,UIcau ne would come our
way wouldn't it?
It takes thirtv-six train inoo
produce every day to feed New York
City, and they have to have it and
tney would have tn nau n-nf;t t u
larmer it the farmer were organized
and one organization claims over one
million farmers now, and only five
more million, and they are getting
pretty well organized. Say! Brother
farmer, there is something doing,
bay! Brother Farmer, if you were
yam wen ior your work, couldn't you
raise two or three times as much pro
duce as you do? Sure! Now if you
knew you were to get no profit for
your next year's crop, you wouldn't
raise it would you? No! Well, is that
not the reason there is not mom atnff
raised ?
Is the Kansas farmer to blame for
not raising more eggs when 20 cents
per dozen is all the market Davs him ?
is the consumer in Philadelphia to
blame for not eating moie eggs when
he has to pay 75 cents per dozen?
It seems there is 55 cents tariff on
eggs between Topeka and Philadel
phia that Congress has failed to re
move. Organizer Wallace reDorts annt.hr
local in Clackamas County and the
writer expects to shake the bushes
up in Linn County during December.
VVe are slowly but surely buildinir
our market machine and someone he-
sides gamblers and speculators will
set the price, hvery member boost.
They have not passed a nure food
and drug act yet that prevents the
farmer and his family from eating
apples with worm holes in them, but
it seems the poor children in Portland
are pretty well protected by these
laws witn the tantr added bv the or
ganized dealers. That's a protective
tann.
The American Navy has boycotted
the American farmer and is buying
its supply or Dee: trom loreign coun
tries, ife shades of Paul Jones and
Commodore Perry! What sort of pat
riotism is this ? What will the Amer
ican farmer think about this kind of
patriotism that uses his money to pa
tronize the foreign farmer ?
The recent decision of the Supreme
Court of Oregon annulling our last
egistration law is proof that our
courts have too much power. Courts
should not have power to make or un
make laws or issue injunctions
against the enforcement of law. Or
ganized dollars always fare pretty
well on court decisions.
When the tobacco trust refused to
pay a price for tobacco sufficient to
maintain the Kentucky farmer (which
was about 1907.) The fanners unit
ed pooled their crops and tried to
force prices up to a living standard.
The courts issued decisions, injunc
tions and even the soldiers were call
ed to shoot down the farmers. But
now the farmers set the price and
the day is not far away when the
people will makethe law and make
and unmake our courts, and Ve will
not have thon a government of the
people made by lawyers vfbr the
trusts. ' ,
The National Union will meet at
Indianapolis December 16th. This is
going to be the most important meet
ing ever held. Our next state meet
ing will be held in Oregon City in
January. The next County Union will
be in Oregon City, and election of of
ficers and other business of import
ance will be transacted. All local un
ions elect officers in January.
Editor Brown seems to think the
legislature is to blame for the regis
tration law being annulled by our Su
preme court. Most of the foreign na
tions leave the question of constitut
ionality of laws to the law-making
body and do not permit their courts to
have the power to declare any law
unconstitutional. If the common peo
ple controlled the courts they also
would control their decisions, but or
ganized dollars always find a court
to appeal to to get a decision to suit
them. Courts of this country are not
satisfied with all judicial power but
it has been decided by the courts
themselves that a Circuit or Federal
Judge can call out a militia.
There is no use in having Congress
and Legislatures or even Governors if
the courts are going to usurp their
power. Our national constitution
never gave our supreme court power
to declare any law unconstitutional.
They have usurped that power like
other courts are now doing.
We have a new tariff law to lower
the cost of living and the cost of liv-
The Tortures 7
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based on logical principles
and scientific facts. This
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bodybuilding properties
regulate the functions to
expel poisonous acids.
Scott's EmuUion, with careful
diet for on month, will relieve
the lame muscles and stittenea
joints and subdue the unoeara
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remedies fail.
Bewar, of alcohoUc vmtaUofU m
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OREGON CITY COURIER. TBllpgn.v
ing goes higher. Butter has gone to
one dollar a roll with foreign butter
coming in. There never was a tariff
on money and it seems to be scarcer
ami nigner than ever. Mortgages are
taking the farms and our land is get
ting poorer and the farmers who are
not organized are just waiting like
the city poor for some savior to
come and deliver them from poverty
and slavery.. As long as they have the
power within themselves to organize
and set the price they need not to look
for deliverance in any other direction.
Our road laws in Oregon are very
queer. Our legislature makes the reg
ular road tax levy and the farmer
has nothing to sav and tho rvnmtv
Court appoints a supervisor and says
nun it simu ue spent and tne larm
ers who pay the tax. have nothi no tn
say and get no benefit from the tax.
il the roads should all become im
passable the farmer would live about
as long as the people in the city and
good roads never have been known to
raise the price of what the farmer
has to sell.
The City of Cleveland was snow
bound three days and ran out of food.
Now suppose all the farmers would
agree to not market anything for two
weeks. The result would be a bread
line from New York to San Francisco
and the price of everything would
soar very high. It would not incon
venience the farmer to rest two
weeks.
All the wealth of this nation is
produced by a profit system and when
the crop has been sold and distribut
ed and the farmer invoices he finds
no profit but the banks, railroads and
middlemen are singing prosperity and
are very proud of the system.
The farmer finds these other
people well organized and setting the
price on what they sell. Now that is
all right that far, but they set the
price on what the farmer sells. That
is all wrong. The farmer should or
ganize and set the price on his pro
duce because he alone knows what it
costs to produce it and what risks
he has to run and at what price he
has to have to pay all expenses and
live like an American family should
live. The American farmer should get
busy and stay busy.
P. W. Meredith.
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DEC n 1M,
TO UNITE ALL Oi'.GAMZA HONS
Proposal that Ori;n:zations Affiliut
under the America Farmers' Fed
eration 11 J, 11 ' ...
ine iouowing resolutions were
passed at the conference of repre
sentatives of Farmers' Associations
held at Indianapolis last month, and
it shows the end to which tha farm
ers of the country are working:
Whereas, There being indisputable
evidence of the need of a federation
of the many societies and associations
of producers of products of the farm,
garden and orchard, in order that a
more complete and efficient system of
marketing may be quickly establish
ed; therefore be it
Resolved. That it. is the conn nf
I this conference that each and every
iucai ana general society; association
and organization of farmers be cor
dially invited and urged to co-operate
in a movement to federate all agricul
tural organizations for the purpose
of the establishment of . a practical,
efficient national system of market
ing; and be it further
Resolved, That as the Farmers' So
ciety of Equity has superior facili
ties for promoting such a federation,
with a marketing system already in
operation and an organization that
covers a large portion of the, United
States, and a proposed plan for a
complete national system, be it em
powered to conduct a campaign to
bring these important and vital mat
ters to the attention of other argan
izations and associations; and be it
further
Resolved, That in order to
strengthen the movement, and build
up a working foundation for such fed
eration, other associations be invited
to unite with this movement at once
as body units, they being granted
in return the services of the present
system of the Farmers' , Society of
Equity; and be it further
Resolved, That as soon as possible
to secure a satisfactory representa
tion of delegates from other societies
and organizations, a convention be
held to organize the federation, elect
officers, adopt a constitution and by
laws, and firmly establish a founda
tion fr a permanoent national sys
tem of marketing. To this end the
officers and members of all agricul
tural organizations and every indi
vidual farmer who feels the need of
reform in marketing are hereby in
vited to investigate the movement and
lend their hearty support to the ac
complishment of such a federation.
Resolved further, That we reco
mmend that the new organization be
called the American Farmers' Feder
ation. Doan's Regulets are recommended
by many who say they operate easily
enects. uoc at an stores.
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Equity Warehouse at Mt. Pleasant
The regular meeting of the Mt,
Pleasant Local was held on Friday
evening uecemDer otn. several mem
bers of the Maple Lane Local were
present and the two societies decided
upon a plan for opening a warehouse
at Mt. Pleasant. A part of the Com
mercial Club building will be rented
at once and a manager put in charge
nuu umer preparations made lor the
handling of farm produce. It is ex
pected that-the business will be con
ducted in conjunction with the Equity
Warehouse in Portland. The details
of the plan will be worked out by a
board of three directors, who shall be
chosen from the two locals.
The meetings of this local in the
future will probably be held in the
new Commercial Club hall and secret
work introduced into the society.
It will be well for persons interest
ed in Equity work to have an eye on
Maple Lane and Mt. Pleasant for
these two locals .working together,
will make a live organization.
F. G. Buchanan, Sec.
New Local at George
A new Local was organized by
John Wallace recently at the town of
George in Clackamas County with the
following charter members:
Julius Paulsen, Pres; A. H. Miller,
Vice-president; Win, Held, Sec; Otto
Paulsen, Treas; Ed Harders.'A. M.
Gannsan, Henry Klinker, Henry Re
imer, Theo. Harders, Henry Schmidt,
It. Miller, N. A. Rath. All of these are
from George, and John Marshall is
from Eagle Creek.
LOGAN
The recent basket social was very
successful in every way and reflects
great credit for the committee that
had it in charge. It was composed of
Mrs. Hagemann, Henry Babler and
Effie C. Kirchem. Mrs. Hagemann, as
chairman, took an active part in the
work. There was a short opening pro
gramme consisting of music by Frank
Schwartz, Mrs. Goss and W. Kerr,
vocal music by Mrs. L. Kirchem and
Mrs. A. Gill and a recitation by Lil
lian Anderson. "The Dress Rehearsal"
a play in one act, was given by Earl
Gerber, Louis Kohl, Emma Benson,
Effie Kirchem, Mahala Gill and Ivah
Gerber. Karl Fallert was auctioneer
and the baskets went lively for a good
price. There was a dance to wind up
with. The total proceeds was over $69.
The new list of officers of Har
ding Grange, elected on the 6th, is
as follows: Master, A. M. Kirchem;
Overseer, A. F. Sloper; Sec. Mrs.
Gladys Sloper; Treasurer, F. P. Wil
son; Steward, Goo. A. Kohl; L. A. S.
Helen Tracy; Lecturer, Effie C. Kir
chem; Chaplain, Mrs. A. Newkirk:
Ceres, Mrs. S. Hagemann; Pomona,
Sylvia Brown; Flora, M. A. Gill.
There was a discussion over Jon
athan Bourne's National Aid road
bill, Louis Funk and Fred Gerber be
ing the leading speakers. All the
speakers were opposed to bonding
bills of any kind and when it came
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OREGON CITY
to a vote there was one vote in favor
of the bill and 35 against it.
It was voted to extend an invita-'
tion to Pomona Grange to meet here
either in January or April.
Fred Gerber has put up a railing
for the front porch of the grange
hall to prevent possible accidents and
also-an alighting platform in the
rear of the hall.
Jacob Durig recently had two run
aways in one day while on a trip to
Oregon City.
Mrs. L. E. Robbins returned from
a two weeks' business and pleasure
trip to Oregon City and Portland,
and was accompanied by Mrs. Lydia
E. McConneM and two little daughters
who spent several days visiting rel
atives and friends before returning to
their home at Milwaukie.
The announcement has been made
that the Dramatic Club of Stone and
Logan young people will give a play
ati!?8 Gra"Ke Hal1 on December 13th.
There was a quilting bee last week
at the home of Mrs. Anna Gill. The
quilts were the result of a collection
taken up for the benefit of Mrs.
Bartsche and family.
F. P. Wilson took a load of pork to
Portland last Friday. B'armers are
losing money by not having a load of
pork to sell every week. However,
hogs can eat up money fast enough to
keep the farmers from getting into
the income tax class.
L. E. Anderson has a man grubbing
on the Ole Thompson place.
It reminds the writer of old cheese
making times to get a letter from
Samuel Olmstead. He and his father,
sister and brother-in-laws are at Fre
mont, Lake County, and have between
them 800 acres of homestead land.
They ran a cheese factory there last
year and are doing well for the lim
ited number of cows. They wish to
buy young cows, which are high up
theie, but we shall have to tell them
ditto here. The letter is headed "The
Last Chance Ranch."
TAKEN UP Dark brown pony with
star in forehead. Owner may have
same by paying for advertisement
and keep. Wm Bruice, 9th and Div
ision Street, Oregon City.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORI A
Sell or Trade
Do you want to sell your farm or
trade it in for Oregon City or Port
land property.
We have a number of desirable city
homes to exchange for farm property.
See
DILLMAN & HOWLAND
THE REALTY MEN
Over the Courier Office
Oregon City, Oregon
Emulsion
BliOS. CO.
CANBY
PORTLAND