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OREGON HISTORY REPLETE WITH CHAPTERS OF EVENTFUL, CHARMING ROMANCE!
State Which Embodies Recapitulation of Old World Stories Has Rich Fund of Legend and Tradition and Is Teacher of Need ful Lessons in Government and Industry Stirring Scenes and Heroic Deeds Recalled 1
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By John C. Almnclc.
OREGON is a great state the
whole 96,000 square miles of It.
There Is a. Camas valley,-a Grass
valley, a Paradise valley, and the Val
ley of Content. To know Oregon one
should know something of the ro
mance of her history, the beauty of
her scenery, the promise of her indus
tries and the enterprise and happiness
of her people.
It Is an eventful history. Oregon
Is the saga of the Pacific the re
capitulation of old world stories, the
storehouse of tradition and legend.
She was the mother of the other west
ern states, and yet teaches them need
ful lessons in Industry and govern
ment. "What stirring scenes, what deeds of
heroism her past calls up! What ex
citing events she has witnessed
Drake in the Golden Hind, Meares
off Cape Disappointment, Gray flying
the stars and stripes inside the line of
breakers marking the mouth of the'
River of the "West, Lewis and Clark!
"Who does not recall the story of
the founding of Astoria, "Whitman's
mission, the "Wolf meeting, Indian
-Wars? Whose heart does not thrill at
the sound of the stirring slogan 01
ne campaign of '44: "All of Oregon
Or None! Fifty-four-forty or Fight!"?
Tea, history has need of Oregon.
It Is a history that has all the ele
ments of romance.
The first Orcgonlans followed the
"lure of little voices" that called them
forth" to adventure and to dare. We
cherish their memories; their courage,
fortitude and faith gave us an em
pire. There is romance In the recollec
tion of the eimple faith of the sav
apres who went forth in eearch of the
"White Man's Book," the coming of
the first white women, the ride of Dr.
Whitman, the quart of seed wheat,
the great emigration, and in the life
of the most noble and heroic figure of
all Dr. John McLoughlin, the "Fath
er of Old Oregon."
There is scarcely" a locality without
its historical associations. In a little
Sieen park in The Dalles stands a
monument marking the end of the
Oregon trail. Just a short distance
above this spot, a spring of cool. clear
water flows from the rocks. Here the
pioneers made their camp, and from
one of the great boulders called "Pul
pit Rock," Jason Lee preached to the
wondering savages. ,
Ancient Village Replace.
The Dalles stands on the site of
the ancient village of Wishram, the
greatest aboriginal mart in the west..
According to Washington Irving,
these natives ' were appropriately
named the robbers of Wishram, after
the title of the hamlet, and a preva
lent practice of fleecing the unwary
traveler.
To their rock-built warehouses
came Indians from the plains and
Indians from the coast, and from them
all the traders of Wishram exacted
tribute. From their dwellings in the
cliffs, they could see the mighty Co
lumbia as it plunged through the
black walls of the long narrows, and
westward the foaming rapids where
salmon fell an easy prey to their
spears. Below The Dalles is Mema
loose, the island of the dead, a grim
reminder of the fate of the robbers of
Wishram.
Many other places are equally
worthy of the notice of those inter
ested In history. In Canyon City, the
most famous mining town in the state
in the old days, stands a house built
hy Joaquin Miller. Here the poet lived
while he was judge of Grant county.
Above the little village can still be
seen the red terrace where lay the
(anions Humbolt mine, from which
over $13,000,000 of placer gold was
taken. In the narrow valley may be
seen a huge gold dredge, an ugly
monster devouring the land.
Then there is Astoria, founded In
LS.iS; Oregon City, the home of Dr.
'John McLoughlin; Silverton, French
Prairie,- Tualatin, Champoeg, all re
plete with early associations. Salem
is the site of the old Oregon institute;
C'orvallis, at. one time the capital, the
seat of the state agricultural college;
Xehalem, with Its legends of the
treasure Bhip, Indians and beeswax;
near Eugene, the seat of the state
university, is the donation land claim
of Joaquin Miller; at Rickreall, the
second oldest flour mill built in Or
egon. Roseburg was long the home of
General Joseph Lane, the first gov
ernor of Oregon. West of Roseburg,
on the Umpqua, stands historic old
Scottsburg, the third oldest town in
the state, marking the head of nav
igation on the river, and the begin
ning of the military road to the Cal
ifornia mines.
Jacksonville Romantic Spot,
Jacksonville, in Jackson county,
too, has historic Interest in its stories
of the days when It was the center of
the placer mining region on the
Rogue river. Most interesting of all
is the collection of relics, books, pa
pers and other material made by the
state historical association, and stored
in the public auditorium in Portland.
The value of this collection cannot be
estimated. Apart from its historical
worth, it furnishes the basis for a
great literature.
Not that we have no literature. A
good beginning has been made. The
Willamette is the Wabash of the
west; it includes within its confines
more openly avowed writers than any
section on the sunny side of the Rock
ies, not counting those who have
used Oregon materials and settings
for their literary masterpieces.
Among our real literary celebrities
are numbered Markham, Balch, Dye,
I.IIllCr, Victor and Higginson; among
those who have drawn upon our state
for material are Bancroft, Irving,
Kipling, Sharp, Putnam and Bryant.
There is no more delightful read
ing than "Summer" and "Where Rolls
the Oregon," by Dallas Lore Sharp;
"Letters From an Oregon Ranch," by
Louise G. Stephens, and "In the Ore
eon Country," by George Palmer Put
nam. Nor are these all. Hood River
boasts a genuine poet in Anthony
Euer, and no list of books would be
complete without Mrs. Dye's "Mc
Loughlin and Old Oregon," and Balch's
"Bridge of the Gods." There is the
proper literary backgrounds in our
legends, history and beautiful scen
ery. "
Scenery la Taxied.
In her scenery there is Infinite va
riety, as well as great beauty. There
are mountains and mountains! The
rough, Irregular chains, the precip
itous cliffs of the Blue mountains; the
soft-rounded, green-forested slopes ol
the Coast range; the tumultuous Sis
kiyous; the solemn grandeur of the
Cascades! In the last are the great
peaks, towering Mount Hood, around
which so many legends cluster of the
days when it was a pillar of fire and
cloud until that lurid night when
.the. Bridge of the Gods fell crashing
into -the wild waters.
South are Mount Jefferson and
Mount McLaughlin, familiarly called
Pitt, from whose summits one can see
the whole course of the Deschutes and
the Valley of Content. Easily reached
from the broad road over the McKen
zie pass are the Three Sisters, "three
silent pinnacles of aged snow," the
rainbow peaks of the Cascades. Ore
gon !s the land of shining mountains.
XSere is a . reaepiblaaca lu these
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jt ;gon t is assured. One reference
.lone is sufficient to illustrate. Eco
nomic history tells us that the lum
ber' Industry began in America along
the coast of Maine; the timber there
being adjacent to rivers and near the
coast. The tall fir trees were used
to make the masts of ships. Many
vessels were constructed In America.
ford cedar and Coos, the beautiful
myrtle.
It is out of the question to enum
erate, the various kinds of trees of
commercial value, but the oak, maple,
fir, yellow pine, sugar pine, spruce,
and many others are found in quan
tity. The conditions of the industry
in Oregon accessibility of large
loaded with lumber, taken to Europe tracts, markets, transportation, qual-
and sold with their cargoes. A brisk ity. etc. guarantee that the business
trade with the Indies also arose, .will continue an exceedingly profit
Other Industries sprang up, and there able one.
was an era of remarkable prosperity. People Drtvrmlnlnic Force.
Finally the forest resources were But after all it is the people that
.practically exhausted in that region, determine whether a state is to be
and the timber section bordering on really great. There is no lack of
the Great Lakes became the center enterprise, as witness any communitv,
of the lumber business. Allied in- any city. There are differences, it is
dustries kept pace with the growth of true, but only in degree, never In
lumDering; an otner lines ot enoeavor spirit.
were stimulated1.
Many of our larger cities owe their
prosperity to their proximity to the
forests. " A feature of war industry
was the powerful stimulus given to
lumbering in the south. It was nat
ural that timber adjacent to the
great centers of population should be
first utilized. But the forest re
sources of the north and the south are
rapidly diminishing. The more re
mote and least valuable tracts In
these sections are now being drawn
upon.-- But one great body of stand
ing timber is to be found in the United
States, and that is located in the great
northwest.
Oregonians are distinguished for
hospitality, good nature, versatility,
patriotism and faith in their insti
tutions and the future. Oregon had
a larger percentage of her men in the
volunteer military service than any
other state.
Port Orford sent every man of mili
tary age to the army the'week after
war was declared, and the exercise o(
the draft was scarcely necessary.
Every community exceeded its Red
Cross quota: the liberty bond appor
tionment was largely oversubscribed.
The problem of the alien is practically
negligible; only one state in the union
has a smaller percentage of Illiteracy.
Oregon leads all the states in the
number of colleges and college stu-
streams, yet each has individuality.
They drop like flashes of silver out of
the blue glaciers and flow in a pleas
ing succession of cascades, riffles
falls and stretches of smooth, quiet
water to the level where the tide hur
ries in to meet them.
The Deschutes is wild as any moun
tain torrent in Scotland; the Willam
ette is as placid as its broad valley
except in the rushing upper reaches.
The Wallowa twists and turns among
the pine-scented hills of the north
east, sweeping from bank to bank In
its tortuous course. Along it in the
days before the white men came
dwelt the Nez Perces who called the
place "the land of winding water."
Emptying into the. Willamette
near Oregon City is the Clackamas,
and only a few miles above their
junction Rudyard Kipling caught his
famous salmon. Flowing into the sea
are the Siuslaw, the Umpqua (mean
ing crooked water), the Coquille, and
the Rogue. All of these are famous
fishing streams none better. More
than once I have but this is not a
fishing story.
The lakes are as famous as the
rivers. In the southeast are the great
inland seas, Malheur and. Klamath,
lined with tall tules, and frequented
by a myriad of water-fowl. In the
Blue mountains is Wallowa, "the gem
of the mountains." For genuine
beauty, this lake is not excelled by
Lucerne or Geneva.
Along the summits, and on the
benches of the Cascades are many
deep, cold lakes with so heavy a
growth of willows and vines about
their rims that the , fisherman can
scarcely cast his fly.
Most wonderful of . all; Oregon wa
ters is Crater lake "the sea of: si
lence and mystery." I saw it .first
from near the point of discovery, a
steep eastern promontory. It was
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level glories of the lake, the colors
emerald, as the water rippled and
the long shadows of the walls grew
deeper. It was as if one floated in
space over a great, magnificent spar,
kling jewel in a golden cup.
The color sensations were over
powering; the blue sky, where float
ed a few crimson clouds, the straight
shafts of the sun, the fringe of dull
green forest, the flashing brazen
walls, and the depths of the strange
ly luminous lake it was as if one- to the outdoors.
giimpsea anotner worm. truly this nounced Oregon
ia mo iaKe oi magic, ana one can
easily understand the superstitious
awe in which it is held by the Indian.
From the red lava debris of Wizard
island there springs a peculiar flower;
a fringed bell of deepest red, with
exserted stamens, the anthers like
furry silver balls. The plant is al
most leafless, and one wonders how
it can blossom in such riotous color
ing from the sterile soil.
In spots almost -as barren-looking
throughout eastern Oregon grows the
Mariposa lily, a flower with- five
pink petals, spotted with black and
spurred with clusters of white hairs.
are all the common flowers. In the
heavy shade by mossy springs bloom
the fragrant waxen bells of the Shas
ta lily, while along the sandy coast
the rhododendron flames on every
hillslope. -
Many hundred varieties of flowers,
trees and shrubs -have already been
classified; every year new ones are
discovered. Oregon is a paradise for
the lover of nature.
The roads and trails call always
Joaquin Miller pro
girls more beautiful
than any others because of the de
lightful climate with its equable tem
perature. Certainly we should aid
that only the open air can give that
freshness and charm -characteristic of
Oregon 'women.
There are pleasant walks every
where; walks that would have drawn
from Stevenson the slncerest ex
pression of appreciation. I have had
few experiences I would not willing
ly part with
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body of timber to be found, anywhere
The period of its development has al
ready begun. Undoubtedly the next
50 years will see a growth in the
lumber industry of . which we can
hardly conceive. It will in turn mean
progress and . prosperity in every
other field.
Our forest resources are abundant;
the totals for the state are so stu-
public school system ranks with the
best.
What is the best part of the state?
Well, this all depends upon what one
wants. Opportunity is everywhere. 1
have my own opinions about thete
matters. For example, I think I know
the names of the three most beauti
ful towns, the three best in which to
bring up a family, and the three with
Another is of the long trip from
Bend to Burns when the white rib
bon of a road unrolled before us and
on either side was presented a wide
expanse of gray-green sage, stretch
ing to the juniper-clad hills and bare,
black buttea looking like mountains
of iron.
Then there are some fair lanes In
western Oregon where one feels good
Just to be living when the wind is
on the hills and there is a flash of
red along the brook. And last there
forward to to ride over the highway
which is to be built from Astoria to
Gold Beach along the Pacific But
it Is not for pleasure alone that good
roads are important they are inti
mately related to the development of
industries.
Certainly the industrial futurp of
ll,
pendous as to be. almost incompre- -the best economic future. But opin
ions are only opinions, and I know
some thousands that would not agice
with mine. This is as it should be,
for community pride is a virtue worth
fostering, and worth recognizing.
I love the whole state. It is a
land of homes, churches, schools, in
dustry and good government a land
of happy, contented people in fact,
typically American.
hensible. Lane county alone has
60.000.000,000 feet enough to make
a fence 100 miles high: In Coos, Cur
ry, Douglas. Lincoln. Clatsop and
Klamath are magnificent bodies ot
timber, the value of which must ba
expressed in billions.
Harney county has a fine quality of
mountain mahogany; Lake. -the se
quoia; Curry, the celebrated Port Or
is the Columbia highway. I know of
but among those worth but two men who could do it justice.
cnensning are memories or some and unhappily they have never seen
hours spent on a trail up the San- this marvel of the west. And even
tiam. with the June sun overhead, in these days of high costs of every
and a good, hard path under my feet, thing there is one pleasure to look
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