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About Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1877)
THE POEM. I INTERESTING TO FARMERS ! . PLANING MILL erbeaten as if covered with crystaliz°d I ivy and resembling the ruins of some When Joaqniu Miller was invited old cathedral; grander, more majestic ■ M alheur A gency . Sept. 8, 1877. than the mind of man ever conceived j I FRIDAY SEPT. 21, 1877 1 to furnish a Centennial poem fur the —AND — E ditor T idings :- Just return«d I rem Tower* aud shatten d walls, and broken j Portland celebration be deefiued very an < fli nail rip in We-tern Idaho of over pillars ro*e or were stre«’n in every di-1 ---------- 1 pilE UNDERSIGNED. BELIEVING IT WE MUST HAVE A WAGON ROAD TO gracefully, saying among other good 500 miles, I will now’ fulfill uiy obliga rt etton like the r uins ot B»by Ion or an- j JL to be to the mutual advantage of NAVIGABLE WATER. things that no other State iu the whole tion. After passing through Weisser, cieut Baalbec Once where lhe canyon , sisterhood is better able to furnish her Payette and B rise vallies, and making nariowed, th«* spire* of sandstone rose We call attention to the third letter own poetry than Oiegon. It seemed a short sojourn in B >ise C ty. I left the ibiekly clustered away u;» into the sky. II Millers and Farmers, rt-m.udiug one oi “Siobad’s valley of of Alex. Watts E*q., relative to the that Joaquin while abroad edifying t <e latter place on Aug. 26th, for Silver diamonds; and among the grotesque Rogue River road enterprise. It seems Granite Street, world with the inspiration which be City, to interview Winnemucca the images, j <st ac this point, was a huge that a new route has been discovered, Lad breathed iu from the Oregon head chief of the Piutes, who bad tele mass of rock actually resembling the Have made arrangements Avhereby the nearly a thousand feet lower than the mountains, felt confident that there graphed from thut point enquiring my Roc of that famous navigator, with half Ashland, Oregon* Crescent City route, and presenting *pread wiugs—crys'aliz-d in the mo were bards enough left bdiind to do whereabouts. Leaving Snake river Ht ment of it* ff'giq. But the bird was fewer obstacles than either of tho.e i Ashland and Phoenix Mills, justice to the Centennial. We must Mundery’s Ferry, I struck into the rn' tiouless and the only diamonds I Marsh 8 l Valpey. heretofore mentioned. By this route confess that this display of magnanim I range of hills skirting the valley of the tound were those sparkliug from a it ia said navigable water may be reach ity on the part of Joaquin made us feel Snake. Passing through this rang« I small spring, but better than precious ed at Ellensburg from the settlements stoues among these barrou and thirdly A LL KINDS OF PLANING, MOULD far more kindly toward the author oi noticed a gradual, but perceptible hills. Half wav through the pass, M ill be under tin* management of J a - in Josephine county, by a road not over i-g. Circular and Stiull-Sa" ing dun the “Tail Alcalde.” We felt that like change from bassait and voleauic scoria where it opened into a narrow valley, coh W agner , who will have charge of lu oidvr. 50 miles in length. No oue with an in us, he Lad appreciated th« beauties of and by noon found myself riding au immense dome was studded with belli Mill* for t' e Company during the ensu telligent appreciation of the situation Sam Simpson’s “A4 Willamettam through a trap and granite formation. huge isolated slubs of rock like the ing yeir. ending July 1st, 1878. in Rjgue River valley, can for a mo j tombstones of giants and were one to bad sympathized with us iu the tragic An occasional piue and fir was seen as t Me will pay the biifhest market price f«»r travel through it by iroonlight he ment doubt that the opening of a short fate of “Mississip,” had realiz ’d that I climbed higher up th« mountaiu and might almost expect to see the shadts er and better route than we now pos-, good in rehint.u>|e whe't, and aie prepared half a score of Oregon wr.tera bad they greeted the eje like old friends. of some ancient and unrecorded race DOORS, MOULDINGS, sess to navigable water, would give shown themselves the possessors oi Eveniug found me in S lver City, away I pissing in awful procession among the tJ contract fl >ur sacked and branded at new life to agricultural operations and genuine poetic tire. No doubt be knew, up on the head waters of the Jordan, tub ut aisles. The oppressive silence the Mill*, at $18 00 per thousand pounds. indeed to business generally of our val was unbroken save by the clatter of our like us, the eccentric and generous walled iu by a rim of steep aud rugged horse*’ hoot»; not even the note of a Cash. BEDSTEADS, ley. The coat of opening a road fifty hearted Locy, who wrote so seldom yet granite peaks seeming almost iaaccess soug bird heard, and a pis'ol shot ( Hlice of th- Company at the Ashland or sixty miles long through a country so well, and whose tragic fate furnisii ible, but which I found threaded aud went ech >ing ano reverberating up ami Mills Atlibe«.«, like that indicated in Mr Watts’ letter, BREAKFAST, DINING, WAGNER, ANDER-ON A ed Belle AV. Cooke with afit. subject for seamed in every direction with the most down the canyon like the dropping, ir when properly distributed out among regular tire ot a skirmish line Alto fai ; MEd’s co., perhaps her finest effort. So we were expensive aud substantial wagon rouds gether it was a strange weird place, one 11' 1 -’if’. Ashland. Oregon. our people,would beaburden they would CENTER, and less disposed to believe C. II. the sel High above them all is “War Eagle” that a persou would sooner traverse by scarcely feel while the benefits would fish, unsympathetic King many would I mountain, the site of some of the rich day than by night even li untainted by ¡ be important aod permanent. This is I represent him. est silver mines yet discovered in Idaho. the slightest superstition. an enterprise in which we have long EXTENSION Turning abruptly up the Owyhee, In the language of a talented coutrib Il-re are located the ’Poor-man,” the following that stream about ti«e miles taken a deep interest, and we hope its FOR---- ut<»r, we believe in “patronizing home “Monarch,” the “Silver Cord,” t he I stiuck through a Country knee deep I i champions will “agitato, agitate” until TABLES, industry” iu literature, and would like “Empire,” the ‘ Goldi n Chariot,” the with alkili, barren, parched, without u steps are taken to at least thoroughly drop ot water, it was sickening in its to give our readers occasional ly, a poem “Ida Elenore,”—the latter two famuli- I examine into its practicability. We fresh from the brain of some gifted Or as being the scene of a desperate battle litter desolation, Ht>d reuched the Mui BUREAUS, henr after » v ry hard day’s ride. Toen are informed that the people on the El egonian, and that we may carry oat fought underground by contending leaving lhe Malheur ai d pas-mg a high ---- AT THE---- lensburg side, among them Mr. Hume this scheme successfully we would in owners, in 1868, ai d in which Marion auge of r>>cky h;il i to the noith lork. the wealthy salmon fisher,are thorough CHAIRS, LOUNGES, voke the assistance of the Oregon poets. Moore was killed. Ail except the “Gol on which the Ag ncy <s s tuated, my ly aroused on the subject, and are eyes were gladdened by a sight of the In default of such aid this week how den Chariot” ami the “Empire” aie ready to assist liberally to carry out the b<-uutitui little Valley, and the clean One li ii it (I ■<■<! Pi^irs Pants I ever, we have been compelled to full idle now. Shrinkage in stocks, mis white quarters, after a somewhat tire enterprise. This is an enterprise of no PICTURE FRAMES, Fif.y Pairs Boots, back on Longfellow the some ride and a 24 hours' dt t of b>e.:d management aud litigation are little consequence to the people of ——----- ► ♦ ■<» ♦ ◄ — Must be Sold inside of Forty Days, averred causes, and although, like and bacon, hoping to hear from bourn Southern Oregon, and we expect to re FARMING IN LAKE. but to fii.d that all tnv letters haJ been WASH BOARDS many other miumg towus, Silver City fer to it again many times in the future. tor Warded to Silver City. A day or two Pants Worth $7 for................................$1 o » -• ♦ Wb- One day last week Mr. W. II. Jo- is dull and noiseless, many of her peo ot rest und th» u I haven 2'>0 mile trip I’oo's Worth $7 50 tor. .......................... $3 50 THE FRUIT MARKET. quette who had just returned from the ple cling firmly to the belief that old cut out, jil*t as t X r<’ise I have ridden And other goods exceedingly low And all kinds of lurnitnre on band, ar.d made to order. 970 miles since I left your valley and It is said that a formidable rival to Lake country left in our office some “War Eagle” and its spurs are still » xpect by the time 1 return, to be used Call and secure bargains. MRS. m . w. llARJADINE. American beef in Europe has been tine specimens of gram and vegetable*, pregnant with bodies of the richest to the saddle. \V M T. Ashland S>pt I, 1S77. |l;lif guid an<l silver ores. I hope so, for grown on the farm of Mr. J T Fulker found in American fruit. Iudeed, in a It seems thut a lr< m-ndous gold and comparatively short time this new in son in Lmgell valley, Luke county, certainly the enterprise that will build i f superior quality, and latest style? I ill >de io o* d-r. •W’JST dustry has grown into gigautic propor consisting of well matured wheat, a a little city where the granite and the silver bonanza has just been struck in House, .-igu and Oinaine* tai Painting aud ^lUST tions. Since last October it is said ruta-bega almost a foot iu diameter, clouds meet, is Jestrviug of more than the Virginia mining district in C dora Graining do ¡e to order in the Mill, or in parsing success. Tire town itseif is nut do. It is stated that some of the ore England bas taken 296,000 barrels of onions four inches in diameter, pota die (oiiutry. Canvassing ceiling, Pa I er- litngiiig, Calsuiniiiing, \\ hi.ewa.-biu , Ac. fruit from this country, aud it is esti toes eight or ten inches long and of ap-1 pleasing. The extremely ruggtd na taken out assays over $15 000 per ton on si ovest pos-ible i.u ice. mated that she will take 15,000 per propriate thickness atid a beet that I ture of the ground precludes the possi An Mssiy of about one thousand pounds The undersigned lakes this op, orhtnity week hereafter. This new industry beats all. Tue idea that the hardier bility of taste or order aud the place shows $1 154 in silver and SI 841 in I <11 'endcriug our thanks oour many friends I aud pa r-'Ds tor lit eral favor* dining it« will jo doubt eventually have an etfect vegetables cannot be grown in great 1 has a jamb ed and irregular 1 x>k. Time gold. There is immense excitement I last iwo ea:s. and ale happy <os.y lliai Me even on our side of the contineut where perfection in Lake is long since ex | was when its btreels were a noisy Babel over the discovery. have, during lhe Iasi win.er and spring, pftded. Indeed, iu many localities the I filled with busy meu: wbeu loads umt fruit can be raised in such abundance, I etec ed addil on.il machinery, am impto' ed [ oar facilities tor inaniif.ic lit ing iu llu-ul o'e that we think it not out of place to feed teuderer ones, as corn, beans ami cu loads oi bullion were sent from it to j ¡.Ile uf business. cumbers can be produced iu abun the mints, and now among the ten or The dreadful cattle plagiv* is again I it to the hogs aud cattle, and in such MAit<n a valpey . perfection that our country has grown dance. The evidences are every year twelve mills tliut havo been erected, disturbing the English public, and uu Ashland, June Itili, lsTii. unlit. I deservedly famous as the “land of red accumulating to prove that in spite of but two are running. 1 j-idge thut ‘ Sil portatiou (-f cattle from the continent apples.” The Fall Mall Budget says all adverse circumstances, Lake will ver” contains 1 200 or 1 500 inhabitant.* is to bo prohibited. All agricultural that “the foreign demand for American yet become quite u farming country probably one fourth oi this number be fairs are to la; suspended fur this sea I». CHAPMAN. L. A. Nfc IL. There are of course, vast upland dis ing the ubiquitous ' C >iu< e. Ou my - OF- son. It ls said that th is tliseu-e is so fruit is now so great that Europe and ASHLAND Australia, will take nearly all the fruit, tricts, which are too dry for culti urrival 1 found that Winnemucca had infectious that it is even carried in tin vation, but which will always be valua tired of waiting ami bad gone do.vu on clotl iug of men who slaughter the cat fresh and dried, (dried peaches except ble for pastoral purposes, but there ate Boulder C»eek about fifteen miles dis tle intected Tins plugue fnq’ient'y ed,) which the United Slates cun land many thousands of acre* to-be reclaim taut. Leaving the city after a pleasaut sweeps over the old countries with fear 1 ) IV Good, Groceries, Clothing, iu their markets .in good condition. The working classes of Germauy aud ed buth through draiuage aud irriga night's rest 1 found the old chief un<i fnl results and it would seem that no MAIS’ STREET. the working men and miners of Aus tion upon which, grain, domestic grass received a quite formal introduction effectual remedy has ever b; °n discov CIGARS AND T03ACC0, es and most of the hardier vegetables trom E-gau, a Piute chief who had ac ered to check its ravages. We of the tralia are the chief customers for Amer may be bucces*fully cultivated, besides companied me from Malheur. Winue- grand past urea of America have much ican dried fruit abroad, but the poor a vast acreage tit for cultivation with mueca was gorgeuudy arrayed iu u reason to rejoice in the freedom of our Fancy Goods, Ladies and Gents people of England and Russia buy to a rpiiE UND« RSIGNED WOULD out either irrigation or drainage. A military suit with huge epuiettes — a cattle from the ravages of this fearful ; limited extent. As long as dried ap -L i t-speelfuliy in orin ibey ii it-hd- ¿aft F r /.’ -V / N’ // I N 6’ (Ì OOL X, ;ui(f the public get emlly ill ,i they M' M* ples can be exported from New York at few years ago we considered the sage | present from Gen. Scln.fi.ld, and eye disease. iiave pinch ised tl.e af <»ve i.-nu em, five or even seven cents a pound, the country little more than a desert but mg my dusty, travel-stai ed garments «■BDBHHBMMMCnaaBHBBBBlSBmnBKBanBnMBBnra and having thoroughly cleared tl e lul’rli««. working men of Europe and Australia we have learned through actual exper I from head to foot, he turned to E-gun I lav float tl.e pt < nitm-t», they can A lull line <d Boots and Shoes of tl eir pat r<<ns that stock entrusted to u^ute their will buy all that cau be spared The ience that vast portious of it will ad making a remark in Piute which I am all sorts and sizes. care "ill be «ell and salely cared for. mit oi quite a dense population, and we I confiJent meant ihat I was the dirtiest, business of exporting fruit is oue that confidently b.dieve that the time will i worst dre.-st-d plenipotentiary he had Would «ake pleasure in announcing to has chiefly been built up since 1865. GOOD TURNOUTS come, wbeu the people of Like will be 1 ever met. I made up iu assumed dig their old cu> o ners oid the public generally I In the eleven months ending July 1, that tlvy have oa band at OI carriages and buggies supplied at lhe fruit exported amounted ia value ready to knock at the d' ors of com mty ..however, all that was lacking in CROCKERY any lime. merce, not with their beef, bill ter, appearance, gained every point and AND to $2,831,000. GLASS WARE aud cheese alone, but with their wheat parted with the old chief <»n • he best of ------ —•- ♦♦♦ ------------ - (.RAN HE THE FAMINE IN INDIA. IRON aud other agricultural products as well terms He will return with bis people WARE In (pianti.ies to suit purchasers. They will als.., in connection with Heir stable, run a to Malheur and thus relieve Western The country is scarcely informed of TIIE BIG DITCH. Idaho of an iutolerabla nui-auje, as TKUCK-WAGON the fact that a terrible famine is raging i AND— his wandering bauds have annoy e 1 set At reasonable rates. D. C hapman ' A N eil . Oen. E L. Applegate who returned in India. In the southern portions of A Full Stock of «lai tiers by pilfering and .-cat ’ eriug herds the country where the straggle is great on Tuesday last from G >v. Thompson’* of cattle very seriously Returning to 4 est, it is thought there is a probability big ditch on Apple gate, reports the Silver C ty I pa-sed dow n Jordan gulch of a sixth of the population or 6,009 000 Gov. driving ahead with that indomita over hu excellent wagon road us far as of people actually dying of starvation. i Lie energy which always characterizes old Camp Lyoli ami then strack as Hardware, Cutlery Etc. The distance to be traveled between the his labors. Being a very successful nearly bt.aiglit as po-sible through the productive portains of India and the organiz-r, he has bis little army of 400 mountains for Malheur. From C»uip country now actually darkened by the1 men, representing neatly all tlie nation Lyon to the Agency ihe country is tear Ä "Well Sale ç t Q(1 S t o c k — r shadow of death is so great that relief alities, so dispo-ed along the line of the Always on hand and made to or- I fully rough, and absolutely worthless, ditch, as to make them most effective — OF— I is considered utterly impossible. Al-1 der, the best of as ’he bills are “iron clad" and when All the camps are supplied with black rpHE UNDER'IGNEI) HAVING C('M- ready some fearful instances of suffer- ever famishing grass, too rocky for DRY GOODS, FANCY GOODS, Tiii Mir I i. on and Coppcrware JL pl-'ely ov« huuled his 8<<w Mill one smith shops and all the necessary ap ng are recorded as having occurred in mile u Rove A-bland, is new prepared to pasturage Befoie reaching the Owy a Cheap For Cash ie streets of Madras, where infants, pliances, and there is a saw mill in iurin.-h , CLOTHING, GROCERIES, hee I passed through the most beaut.-1 tc audoned by their mothers were left tear proximity to the ditch, capable nt ful and remarkable canyon that I have •t nerish by the way-side. For the un- cutting 13,000 feet of lumber in a day. I BOOTS AND SHOES I ever seen during many years of moon 1 Or Exchange for ikable pain of starvation ofceu i Already many mile* of the ditch have tain travel. From the summit of a «pe, w 'gles all the finer sensibilities—the ' been completed and Gov. Thompson II A R D W A R E high spur between the Owyhee ami on ■trai WHEAT.----- ' Ise of self-preservation, even tak- confidently expects to finish the entire of its tributaries, a gorge has been clo- j work early in October. The ditch is *®pti T O B A C C O OATS----- , s place of filial love. A report i — or THE— ven through the mountain fully eight' II seven feet wide at the top, three feet ' lr]g th [ysore gives another horrible BACON i miles away down to the banks of the froto i D R U G S I f the visitation—cannibalism deep, about 4 feet wide at the bottom, | river. At first sight the view is mag I Pbaee < . and for a considerable part of the way i i cases had already occurred nificent, and I doul-t if there is any Two suc And all kinds of Merchantable 1 a member of the relief corn is actually cut into the solid rock, thus thing among th<* “bad lauds” of th- tber®. an< forming a work that «ill la-t for age*. Produce. hat section thinks this prac j Yellowstone more wildly jictureeque. Thompson ’ s brad quarters is described io ! become, under the circurn- I Descvu ling a half mile or more by an TO SEIT PURCHASERS e spread. We who live in as a very exeiting place. The rattle Indian tiail so strep that it «as uus>fe 'jp^Please give me a call and ■tanceg, *uty, can scarcely realize aod bang of machinery, the ringing of to ride, I found myself in the bottom , At the Lowest Cash Prices ! convince yourself before purchas I • '«kJ of ple . -DURING THE- day, beyond the sea, mil- steel on the solid rock and the almost of the Canyon, surronnded by a seen i ing elsewhere. They will si I', at the very (hi. n,tJ lly dying for the want of constant roar of blasting powder won'd of almost indescribable b-untv and B. F. REESER. COMING SEASON’, AT 1IIE- almost convince an old soldier that he 'b°oa «"> A»hki <1 September 12Ui 1877. (v2-13tf licb we produce in such graudeur. Fretted and torn and reft thio«. w, . Even the busks with was onco more upon tue field of bett'e. by the wear of ages, into every iuiagin l LOWEST KATES. ^:rbanj*“o II our swine would save Millions of treasure yet lie untouched able shape, the friable sandstone rose fbo We '“««0 low beings from the in the soil of Southern Oregon, ami skyward hundreds of feet in delicate e trust the pubic will givens an op-! 'ho08aod, such men as Gov. Thompson who have «tarration. pofiir.i:y io verily < ur statements be'uie qiHEUNDERSIGNED WILL BE FOUND pinnacles, or hnng iu constellated bat- Will exchange for any kind of. the means, who labor for the vrrv l «ve I * ------------------ L ai hi* shop on Mini s'ree», two doo s of exertion and enterprise, and who tl -ments over the narrow pa-s. Hero puri li isitig elsewhere. THE FAMINE. f o'.n the iiv-ry stabler, wheie he is prepared take a pride in the development of the a group of spires rose in the sunlight R-<V4G¿ q 7 io do all kinds of work in bis line l the I not less than 500,- na’ive wealth of their chosen land, are like the gilded minarets of a lurkish Io-' e*t price. the men we long have needed iu South of starvation in ern mosque, and oue conld almost fancy WAGONS, BUGGIES AND ALL KINDS Oregon. . i making a abort the Muzzieii calling the faithful to Be sure to give us a call •es lying in the Of Vehicles Made to Order. Crazy Horse was captured and in try prayer, l'uere where cut by a trans im everywhere ing to escape ran onto a bayonet, and verse gorge the rock was pierced and JOHN CHANDLER. Rep .¡ring of till kinds .Ione with dispatch, *ied wherever now be is a "good Indiau”—over on the chiseled by the h.iud of Tune into ar IIANDY d- ROBERTS. call and tee tue. other shore. ches and columns, scarred and weath (Vlclitf.) uvl’f, JOHN RALPH. 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