Coquille City herald., November 03, 1885, Image 1

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Coquille
S. N. A. DOW NING*. M. D
Physician ami Surgeon,
C o q u iix a C ity , O bbooh .
Call*—day or n ig h t—Proinplly
attended.
L. F. L ank .
J ohn L ane .
LAN E A LANE,
Attoynns aud Counselors at Law.
Land Cases a Speciality.
Office on Main Street, opposite Cosm opolitan
H otel.
R o se b u rg ,_^_______ Oregon.
J .M .S ioi . i * .
Joim A .G bay
Siglin & Gray.
Attorneys and Counselors At Law,
Marshfield, Ct»o* county. Oreg<>n.
O ffice —Holland building, opposite Blnnoo
Hotel.__________ ___________ ___________
W - SIN C L A IR ,
Attorney at Law,
General Insurance and Real Estate Agent,
C oquille C ity , O rego ^ ___
T. G. O W E N .
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
M a BSKFIBLD. O on .
HAZARD,
ounselor at Law.
K mpirk C m , Oow.________
J. W . B E N N E T T .
Attorney at Law,
MABSUriCLO. Oos.
D. x.. W A T S O N .
Attorney and Counselor at Law
Cooa C i t i , O os.
J. H . N O S L E R ,
Notary fub.ic
Coquu.uB C m . UoN.
C A R L H- V O L K M A R .
Attorney and Cjunselor at Law.
M t it u i Ponrr, Co »» C ounty O uboon .
Will practice in all the oourta o f Oregon.
D L. S T E E L E , M. D*»
Dentist
IMIarslifielcL, Oregrcn,
Ofilce in lioliaud builuiug, opposite
Llanco Hotel.
Lnu^l.iu,; gaa aud other
au»9tbeucs administered fur the painless
extraction o f teeth.
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O. E. SM ITH ,
Sergeon Dentist
Othco
M A R SH FIELD , OREGON.
v in l.
A. H. WfllAI,
WATCH-MAKER
AND
JEW ELER,
O o Q u ill© C it y , O g n .
i r Work o f all descriptions done at short
notice and extremely low prices.
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J. M- V O L K M A R . M. D-
Physician
M is t d i
and
Surgeon.
P oint , C oos C o ., O bbuon .
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J . -A — X 5 E L A J ST ,
C o g u iL L E C i t y , O r e g o n .
GENEU. l E AUENCk lor tho sale o f City
property, houses uml iota, tiiutHjr, turuts,
ranches, eic. Oliioo in ileiuiii nuiiUmg.
J. F. H A L L ,
Surveyor,
F ob C oos C o u n t *, O bkch »*.
Offioe: With T. U. Owen, Eaq., Marshfield.
Uif~Perf«ct maps of all surveyed and en­
tered lands furnished on short notice, vin l
J. P. EASTER, M. D.
P h y s ic ia n , S ubobom and O s a r x T B ic ia h .
Special atto-ution given to diseases o f wom­
an and children, und all chronic forms of
disease. Case* o f obstetrics $10; teeth ex­
tracted for do cent» each. bjHx inl treatment
for Rheumatism and Neuralgia by the meU-
ioated vapor bath.
Uffioo at reaideneo in Coquille City.
I. O. G. T.
M orning Star Lodge
No- *64,
Meets at Coquille City every Thursday
svenm g. Visiting members of this order, in
good standing, are oordially invited.
O. F.
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creek canyon, down which we go grayish white sand, level as a lake, raise anything except radishes, thy of the name. In many places
for 12 miles through one - of the and with a few breaks, as far as turnips and perhaps cabbage; yet the walls were so straight up and
Costly clothes and jewel* rare,
Lily hands and shining hair,
ruggedest and wildest scenes to be the eye caq reach; a few low stunt­ timothy grass that we saw growing down that they leaned a little the
Suiiles so killing, look so shrewd—
found anywhere east of the Cas­ ed juuipers and scattering sage beside the road looked rank and other way, and we could not see the
Lord, have mercy on the "dude!”
a wall under cur feet. The canyon
cades. These rocky walls rise in brush, hut otherwise entirely bare. thrifty. At Little Meadows
Coat too .«mull to button round,
many places hundreds of feet in This it the first installment, of the splendid looking ranch is fenced runs almost to the top of the di­
Pants so tight he can’ t ait down;
This part off,’ and a cabin built, but the vide. Where the foaming, boiling,
perpendicular bight, and in many real America» desert
Always wiahing to be wooed—
Lord, deal gently with the "dude!”
places the summits are worn into of it is about 7 miles wide where claimant had vacated for a warmer seething river comes from is a mys­
fantastic forms, sometimes resem­ we cross it, and settlers here say clime,to wait the till seven-foot snow tery, ns the canyon stops suddenly
Movements all so nioely made,
Every word so swettly said:
bling the battlements and towers it gets wider nnd wider as it goes of next winter should disappear. and the river does’t 6eem to be any
**Awh! those fellahs seem so wude!”
of old ruined castles; sometimes south, till near Camp Harney it is The river at this point has dwind­ smaller where it comes out of ^the
I.ord, oonfonnd the silly dude!”
Here mountain than it does 20 miles be­
looking iu the distance like a 20 or more miles vide and as it is led to a good sized creek.
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street-front of tall, stone buildings, 75 or 80 miles to Harney it makes we leave it for good; keep on al­ low. On the Saddle we look down
D I A b O I A L O R E d O .l.
with chimneys, windows, and quiet a respectable little desert on most directly south through the on the Rogue river and its canyon
lV iilln M n lln V a lle y a a d th e
square fronts. Some one had at­ this (east) side of Crooked river. most enchanting, but totally worth­ down whose rocky course we
R o u te (b is w ay.
tempted to get rich bv putting in Crooked river lays 50 or more feet less country, to Carroll Springs. plunge. Here the timber changes
Continued from last week.
a grist mill about half way down below the level of this sand plain, Here our road crosses the old gov­ again, for while it is nearlyalqpiue
To 6ny that this great valley is
leading
from on th? east side of the range, as
thecauyon, but as the mill had aud has a narrow strip of tillable ernment road
destitute of timber, is not strictly gone to parts unknown, it is fair to laud along its banks; but as it is Eugene City to Goose lake. soon as the summit is crossed, fir
true, for along nearly all the infer that he had made his pile, or a hard job to get the water out The timber had began to grow* and hemlock are found and the
streams a small growth of timber else had overlooked tho important over the land for irrigation, no smaller as we went south, and by common pine begins to disappear.
is found, which although of a fact that grists were necessary, to great amount of laod is put into the time we had reached Beaver A big burn had ruined a large belt
brushy nature, furnishes consider­ insure success iu the mill business. crops. Prineville is I he chief town Marsh, there was naught but of timber through which the road
able wood, but the main supply We ford the John Duy, at this sea­ in this region—a solid little burgh, stunted pines and a scanty supply passes, but for some curious reason
has to be brought from the Blue son of the year, and after a good and located at a good point for at that Here we got out first it had|left breaks of a few miles in
mountains, which bound this val­ grade 7 miles long, we are again distributing freight to different sharp frost Here ah*» is the top width in a number of places.
ley on the south. This region is on a high aud generally level coun­ points. The soil over this whole of the plateau or watershed of Or­ Some 18 or 20 miles down, we
considered healthy, and is gener­ try, but the surface is covered in region is a light sand, but produces egon, as the waters here flow south, reach the belt of sugar pine, and
ally so. particularly along the foot­ many places by the same burnt well when properly irrigated. An to form th e Klamath river and the there is some of the best timber in
hills, but the sallow-vUaged angel, granite formation that is on the immeuse hill, with a grade road Deschuttes rise a little west, as do the United States. We measured
who touches bis viclim with one other side of the fossil region.
I to its summit, like a flight of the Willamette, Umpqua and specimens that girt 21 to 24 feet
chilly wing, and with the other had forgotten to state that we left winding stairs, is soon passed, aud Rogue rivers, nnd east, rises the around; solid, smooth and round,
fans the blood to fever heut, a few the pine timber a few miles east of you are now on the main desert, Ocheco, and still further east, the straight as a candle, and sound as
hours later, is a frequent visitor of the town of Fossil, aud the regular which at this point is 35 miles John Day. The road from here to a nut This belt is some 15 miles
the settler along the low bottom bunch-grass is the rule fer the wide—between
Prineville and Klamath basin is simply a desert through and is interspersed with
lands of the creeks, and the drug­ present What is known as the Farewell Bend on Deschuttes river. of scattering, stunted pine, inter­ the common pine, firs and a few
gist drives a brisk trade in quinine. John Day country, extends from This desert, so far as we could spersed with thickets of pine poles, hemlocks. Fifty miles from the
Lone Hock is locuted at the foot of Lost valley to the top of the divide, learn, comes to a point some miles through which a fire had passed a fort we reach the saw-mill, and
a sharp wooded spur of the Blue between the John Day and Ocheco below here, aud then gets continu­ year or so ago, making the country
Aiken’s postofflee. The Rogue is
mountains. After a hard pull of or Crooked i iver, a distance of ally wider for more than 100 miles. a dreary looking place indeed. At
quite a river by this time, and is
4 or 5 miles through a beautiful some 70 or 80 miles, and is com­ Its longest direction being north­ last Klamath marsh is reached and
spanned by a good'covered bridge
forest of pine, we are on the first paratively unsettled. Vast herds east and southwest This is cer­ a beautiful natural meadow some
across a rocky chasm, through
ridge, and are looking down on one of sheep and horses, are here fed, tainly a strange part of Oregon, six or eight miles w ide by more
which the river rashes with a
of the loveliest scenes to be found and as the winters are not extreme­ and its formation is difficult to ac­ than thirty in length meets the eye,
plunging volocity that is almost
any where on earth. Lost valley, ly severe, but little care is required count for, as it is level as a floor, and we camp to rest
startling, and the foaming, boiling,
a perfect gem among the hills and in raising. Good crops of grain with but slight exceptions and the
The great Klamath basin is from dashing and roaring ¿water is a
mountains which surround it on all can he grown almost anywhere bed rock shows in nearly a f parts. 8 to 10 miles in bredth, and from
grand sight, which once seen is
sides; the evergreen hills forming that the rock will permit plowing, As the soil is nothing but sand, it 40 to 50 long, and lies at the foot
not apt to be forgotten during a
a most lovely contrast to the bright but as water is a little scare«, the is quite a querry where the sand of the Cascade range. The valley
lifetime. Here the timber changes
yellow of the golden wheat-fields farmers content themselves with came from. The whole region is \ is almost perfect level, and the wa­
from sugar pine and fir to a scrub­
ami sober grey of the timothy raising a little for home use, giv­ covered with a scant growth of ters flow sluggishly down to aud
by oak, soft max>le and mountain
meadows, which cover this little ing their time and attention to sage bru.dj. Bunch grass, and a through the main lake. This lake
laurel, interspersed with pine,‘ ’ fir
natural park. Look, adufiie, aud j stock niidug. Our road dul not tolerable good growth of juniper is ; is of the sam? name, river ditto, al­
and a poor grade of cedar.
The
go across it, and climb another J run near enough to Canyon City found ail over it A sheepherder ! so the fort and marsh just below
\ alley or canyon is here narrow,
steep hill, and stand on the bonier to permit of a visit; so of course, told us that there were two small , it. As it is an Indian reseevation,
rough aud rocky.
We pass on
of upper Lost valley a duplicate of we cannot say anything of it from lakes about 50 miles from Farewell ^ of course no settler except natives
dowu through sparce timber and
the one 3 miles below, with the personal observation.
We drove Bend, in a southeasterly direction. , are found. We turn up the river, over very rocky, rough roads, some
only difference that upper Lost a little out of our way to see the Th leeor four buttes some eight or rather marsh, and seeing a new
40 miles or more, passing an oc­
valley lies directly on the top of little town of Antelope, and 1 miles out from Prineville riso a ! guide-board we reaJ aud found
casional house^or cabin,' a few of
the mountain, and i3 a little larger, don’t think 1 was ever in a quieter few hundred feet above the surface | that the fort was only 8 miles dis­
which had living occupants, the
being C or 7 miles long by one-lmlf place, except a country grave yard. of this desert, and a small spring | tant by the new trail. We try to
others deserted, and finally* get to
as many broad. We dive down a A drink of poor water, and we bid comes out ut their base.
We get | frame an excuse for the man who Trail Creek.
Here two or three
canyon some 15 miles, and we are the to-, n adieu without regrets or water here, aud at 4 P. M. start put it up. When we had driven
settlers are making a desperate
at the town cf Fossil, on Fossil tears, aud after a very rocky drive across. The road is as good as nearly half a day, we couldn’t think
effort to get rich.
I had forgot io
creek; so named from the fact of a dozen miles, we go down a could be wished, and the moon of any, and so kept on till finally
state in its proper place .that tho
that it is nearly in the center of j narrow canyon through which high up in the heaven; the driver» reaching the top of a very steep
mill spoken of 50 miles this ride
that wonderful region, which ex­ Trout creek flows. It is a tiny eyes keen as those of a fox, and by hill, we looked down on Fort Klam­
of Fort Klau.a*h w? s at Isoa the east
tends from I.one Rock creek to brook and wends its devious way 2 o’clock at night we were within ath. As this hill is rather a cu­
end of a mail route that come3 up
the John Day, a distance of some among the tall sage brush, rocks eight miles of tho Deschuttes. We rious one, we will just give a word
trom Jacksonville. The only post-
40 or 50 miles in width, and some­ and rattlesnakes, till we leave it to camp till morning aud before eight or two to it. The formation is a
what more in length; this is the cross the divide to Hay creek, s* »me a . M. our horses were drinking out species of soft rock, probably tufa; office between Prineville and this
mill, a distance of 225 miles, is at
noted Fossil regions of Eastern 12 or 15 miles further on.
From of the river, at Farewell Bend. and as it is not hard euough to Fort Klamath, and this fact alone
Oregon. This particular spot is here we go over steep hills of rock, The place consists of a store, kept prevent crumbling under heavy
of an entirely different formation and curious plains of pure naked by a hardy pioneer. We had be­ wheels, it gets mealy to a degree proves that the country is not very
from the surrounding country, al­ rock, till we reach the fertile little gun to pass pine trees some four that astonishes strangers who at­ thickly settled, there not being over
five or six families on the whole
though of a rocky formation.
It ▼alley of Willow creek.
Here or five miles before reaching the tempt to pull through it.
The route except at the fort; but wo
does not show the action of fire, on grain fields make their appearance, river, and from here on to the end grade is a series of loops,with sharp
its rocks, os does the surrounding and a heavy crop shows good soil. of our trip we were not out of turns at the angles and the w hole must hasten on, or the reader’s pa­
tience will give out before we get
country; and this is the only rea­ The contrast between barren rock sight of timber again.
The De­ grade steep and almost impassable to the clam “diggins.”
son assigned by geologists, for the anil magnificent grnin fields are schuttes, at this point is some one way; but as the slope was the
Continued next week.
fossiL remains that have been from here seen. As the country this thirty yards wide, but it decreases right way, we plunged down to the
time to time unearthed here. The side of the John Day is very hilly in size rapidly as you ascend. The bottom and were at Fort Klamath.
The milliner is well nigh as po­
hones of many extiuct species of aud rocky, the change was quite forest along the shore is all pine, The first postoffice on our road tent iu breaking up polygamy in
animals have been found, and care­ agreeable. The John Day region and of fair quality. Sixteen miles since leaving Prineville, 175 miles Utah as the Edmunds law inter­
fully preserved, some of them of is about the same bight above the up, Big Meadows come in view, away, and not more than five or six preted by Judge Zane and his
most enormous 6ize, and others sea level as the Walla Walla, but and I don’t believe the man is liv­ actual settlers the whole distance, colleagues. Old Brigham Young
which lived in a tropical climate. as it is much more rocky and hilly ing, or dead, that e^er looked on a and not one for the last 90 miles. groaned iu spirit and foretold the
I have seen in the collection ot a as well as drier and colder, it will more beautiful scene from the hand Some one hundred and fifty sol­ ruin in store for the Saints when
geologist, (whose name I do not at never be the country th ^ cau com­ of nature. Tiie only thing that art diers were at the fort, but usually the tin plates were discarded in his
this moment recall,) the head of a pete with, in nny respjf c except has done to enhance the beauty of a small number only are kept here. harem and calico dresses and sun-
large lion, bones of a gigantic rhi­ its fossils, and wc are not sure but this maguificent scene has been to Sun creek runs through the garri­ bonnets ceased to he the only wear
noceros, the foot and leg hones of some of the living biped specimens, build a rail fence around some son grounds Hnd village. We leave of womnukind. Every year since
a tlnee-toed horse, bones of an ex­ living iu tho Walla Walla country hundreds of acres, erect the body mail and the town in fifteen min­ has witnessed a larger incursion of
tiuct saurian of immese size, to­ at the present time, would compare of a log cabin and shingle it with utes after reaching it, and a drive gentiles, and a more general desire
gether with innny others, curious quiet favorably with the best that shakes. A vast natural meadow*, across the fine rich grassy meadow among Mormon women to be cloth­
and wonderful. The remains are the John Day could furnish. nearly surrounded by pine clad for six or seven miles, and we are ed in costly raiment like unto their
someiim^s fouud io the great sand Leaving Willow creek, another hills, with small groves of dwarf across Wood river, going up toward sisters who are not in polygamy.
hills which abound over this re­ spur of the Blue mountains is pine near its edges, and the river its source. The road lays along Tho direct result has been to make
gion, and sometime taken from the crossed before reaching Prineville. like a ribbon of silver lying in a the brink of a very deep canyon polygamy very costly to the Mor­
mon who resides iu this city or
rocky cliffs, which are a peculiar This spur is covered with a mod­ wavy line across its whole length with perpendicular wall» for many town, and there is good ground for
feature of this region. But we erate growth of pine, and from its finishes the picture. But this is miles. The road approaches 60 the assertion that the saints would
must let these curious relicts re­ summit a glimpse of the desert getting too long aud I must hasten close at times that a single step to welcome the revelation agAinst
pose in peace in tlieii rocky beds, is had, which is reached on de­ on. The road runs up the stream the side of the track would let one plural marriage if it were not for
the fact that it would be attributed
or sandy graves, till disturbed by scending the mountains.
The through groves of small pine and dowu without a check for several to fear of the new law.—Statesman.
the hand or shovel of the inquiring road goes down a precipitous bill level prairie for 75 miles, w*ith less hundred feet.
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This canyon was
A dandy, wishing to l»e witty,
geologist, or the relict hunter, and for a few miles and then a deep than half dozen settlers, and these the grandest and wildest that I
accosted
an old rag man, as fol­
hurry on to the John Day.
We canyon with perpendicular walls on all sheepherders. We made some had ever yet seen. At its bottom
lows: “ You take all sorts of trum­
pull up a long canyon and over a one side,slowly opening as we go for inquiry about the climate and j flowed Wood river, no mean little pery in your cart, don’t you?”
low divide to the head of Fine word till it opens out o q a plain of learned that it was too frosty to ' creek, but a respectable river, wor­ “ Yee, jump in, jump in!”
T ilt: D i m ;
D I 'S I * O tti C .4 U D S .
Attorney and
NO. 12.
COQUILLE CITY, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1885.
VOL. 4.
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C oquille L odgeN o.53
Meets at lloquille City every Saturday even
ing. Visiting brethren, in good standing,
cordially invited.
A F. and A. M.
Chadwick Lodge, No-68-
Meets at Coquille City on Saturday even
ing on or before the the full moon in each
month.
John Goodman,
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G. A R.
Gen- Lytle Post, No- 27,
Meat* at Coquille City, on every first
Wednesday.
Vsiting comrads, in good
standing, oordially invited.
Walter Htnolair, Commander.
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