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VOL. Vf.
UNION, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 188!).
NO. 4.
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The Oregon Scout,
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ttditor. )'
) It. OUAXCIIY,
( Foreman.
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I'llOFKSSlON'AU
It. Eakin,
J. A. Eakix,
Notary Public.
J EAKIN, it BROTHER,
Attorneys at Law,
Union, Oregon.
-JSTPrompt Attention Paid to Collect.ons.
JOHN Jt. ORITES,
Attorney at Law.
Collecting and probate practice special
tics. Olllcc, two doors south of post-ollice,
Union, Oregon.
I.
N. CROMWELL, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon.
Oflice. one door outh of J. 15. Eaton
store, Union, Oregon.
,Q II. DAY, M. D.,
IIOMEPATIIIC
Physician ami Surgeon
ALL CALLS I'KOMl'TLY ATTLXDHl) TO.
Office adjoining .Iono3 Pro's store. Can
be lounil minus at resilience in ouum
west Union.
J. W. Sheltox. .1. M. Cahkoll
gHELTON & CAHKOLL.
Attorneys at Law.
Oflice : Two doors south of post-office, Un
ion, Oregon.
Snecial attention given all business en
trusted to us.
rj H. CRAWFORD,
Attorney at Law,
Union, Oregon.
Oflice, one door south of Centennial ho
tel.
L. DANKOKTII, M. I).,
Physician ami Surgeon
North Powder, Oregon.
II I H A H K S O r W O I l: N A HI'ECIALT Y
Calls attended to at all hours.
A. U SAYLOR, M. ).,
Physician and Surgeon,
North Powder, Oregon.
Has permanently located and will attend
all professional calls day or niglit
Olllcc: Drug store building: residence,
one ddRr west of Kodger'
iiiiiH,
hotel.
J V. KIMPKELL,
County Surveyor,
And Deputy U. S. Mineral Surveyor,
North Powder, Oregon.
U. P. AVii-son.
Notary Public.
A.
J. IIackktt.
Notary Public.
W
ILSON & 1 1 AC RETT,
Attorneys at Law.
Collections and all other business entrus
ted to us will receive prompt attention.
A complete abstract of the land of Union
countv in our otlice,
Managers of the UNION KEAL ESTATE
ASSOCIATION.
OFFICE: UNION, OR.
JAMES C DOW,
Attorney at Law,
Cornucopia, Oregon.
Land Business Promptly Atten
ded to Before the U.S. Offices.
STMIniuK claims bought and sold on
Aconimirfsioii. Mines examined and repor
ted upon.
J W. STRANGE,
'DENTIST,
Lu Grande, Orogon.
Will visit Union regularly on tho
first Monday of oach month.
ALL WORK WARRANTED
FIRST CLASS
dSGuns, Ammimit
THE COVE.
July 17, 1SS9.
II. .1. Geer took a load of cherries to
Summervillo last Tuesday. They met
with ready s.de.
Born. To the wife of George Ben
ner, July 1-1, u ten ound son. Moth
er and child doing well.
Mrs. F. 1). Pugh has gone to Walla
Walla and will probably visit the Wil
lamette valley before her return.
Misses Mona and Mary Swartz will
start for Montana on Monday. They
will go to Rosebud where their parents
reside.
The county assessor is interviewing
our citizens this week. He intends to
complete his labors in this precinct in
a few days.
Excursions to the Minam are being
indulged in by young and old. An oc
casional deer is seen and a large num
ber of trout captured.
Mr. Lou Child is in town from Spo
kano Falls. He says that city is full
of people and the streets crowded with
vehicles day and night.
Hands to help with the hay har
vest are scarce and in demand. Good
men who are not afraid of work will
do well to come this way.
Wm. Koenig, the builder, went to
Union Thursday to put in bids for con
structing the proposed Wallowa river
and Willow creek bridges.
The large two story addition to the
Excelsior Tanning Company's estab
lishment will be completed this week.
Win. Koenig is the contractor.
Win. Smith has moved his law li
brary to Baker City and opened an
oflice. The professor is attentive to
business and will no doubt soon enjoy
a lucrative practice.
The amount of hay cured in the
Cove this season will exceed, by con
siderable, the crop of last year. Timo
thy and wild hay will bo probably a
third less, but many fields of grain arc
being put up for hay. j
Major Reese, of Walla Walla, broth
or of M. B. Hcese, died last Saturday
He had been Buffering from a stroke of
apoplexy for some time and had lately
been traveling, in hopes that a change
of climate might prove beneficial.
The North Powder boys have chal
longed the Cove-Union club to play
scries of games, but as tho boys are
badly scattered it is not likely that tho
challenge can be accepted at the
present time.
Misses Mollie Ilendershott, Grace
Meacham and Gcorgic Powell went
down the valley Trfhrsday to pay their
schoolmate, Miss Annie McDonald,
visit. Their many friends wish them
a pleasant journey, a happy visit and
a long stay.
The output of the Cove dairy com
pany's factory this year will bo about
sixty tons of cheese, besides a large
quantity of butter. The store room iB
now crowded with cheese ready for tho
market, and the company's salesman,
E. P. McDaniel, is now on the road so
liciting orders. Ho is meeting with
gratifying success.
JIMMIE CREEK.
July 14, 1889.
All in good health on tho creek as
far as I know.
A. T. Hewitt returned from Umatilla
county recently.
Clark Newman commenced Jiuying
on the 8th inst.
For a good sheep dog call on T. B.
Seitz, of Ladd canyon.
Mr. W. F. Thompson was visiting at
Bradford's a few days ago.
John Graham returned from the
Snake river country recently.
Mrs. W. H. Stallbrd and her sister,
Miss Winnie Blakeslee, visited Union
recently.
ThoBradford Bros, commenced hay
ing on the 10th. They expect to havo
fcoine hay to sell this fall.
Davo nnd Joo Bradford returned
from Wallowa recently accompanied
by T. B. Seitz and Orin Price.
Our Jinunio Creek road was sur
veyed tho other day by J. W. Kim
brell, and viewed by Charles Grey,
Thomas Shaw and John Graham.
Tho viewers talked favorablo ol the
road.
PANCAKE
ion, Field Glasses, F
PINE CREEK.
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I PicilIC to be GiVCH 1))' tllC PeO-
pie of Kagle Valley.
A PARADISE FOR THE FARMER.
Mention of the Various Minos in the
Pine Creek District.
July 11, 1889.
Editor Oiikkox Scorr:
Since tho Fourth this region of tho
mountains has been sutl'eriug from tho
most execssivo heat, ninety-two in tho
shade, and in Pine valley it has
reached 101 degrees. The miners as
sert that work on tho surface has been
prosecuted midst execssivo prespira
tion. Tho relief conies at night, when
it is cool and invigorating. Tho bright
rays of the sun, however, do not pre
vent the work of prospecting from be
ing energetically continued. The
Red Jacket mill keeps up its regular
pounding, only resting for three or
four days before and after the national
holiday, when all hands celebrated in
a becoming manner.
HAIIVKSTINO.
The "hay diggers" aro improving
the sun shine and hundreds of tons
Btackcd np here and there is the re
sult. As a rule two crops of alfalfa
arc made during the summer and fall,
but a farmer from Eagle says this year
he will cut three. Under this sub
head I will mention a gathering of tho
farmers of Eagle valley which is to
transpire on the first of August. Po
nioiio, Cores and Flora will turn out
in all their wealth of beauty and utili
ty. A band will discourse music ap
propriate to the occasion, and merry
voices and dying feet will mark tho
hours of niglit. During the fair tho
products of the farm, the field and
dairy will bo fully and largely repre
sented. That valley, shut in by moun
tains on every side, save where tho
river forces its way to form a junction
with Powder river, is protected from
heavy winds and the cold wintry blasts,
modifying the temperature to almost
a tropical clime, which is made evi
dent by tho productions of the soil
which rival tho semi-tropical products
of California in quantity and quality.
Sweet potatoes, large and free from
tendrils and blisters usually found on
that vegetable, aro raided easily and in
abundance. Tho Muscat and Isabella
grapes arc not uncommon. Honey
ciear anu transparent, is tounu on
every table. The orchards, when
was mere some tnreo wccks since
were loaded with pears, apples, peach
es and a great variety of plums. The
trees on one farm, Hon. W. R. Usher's
were all propped up so great was tho
burden they bore, and tho grapes hung
in clusters as large as any I ever saw
in a more southern clinic. Winter
docs not set in until the latter part of
December and little or no snow falls,
and that only to lay for a day or two,
Powder river and Eaglo creek furnish
an ample supply of water for irriga
tion, and tho foot-hills aro covered
with pins and tamarack. Hero is
where tho harvest picnic of Union
county will be held, and all thcto
beauties and bountiful gifts are but
twenty miles from tho hills, moun
tains and mines of Cornucopia.
THK MINKS.
I must drop my revelling in fruits
and flowers and como back 'once more
to tho rocks and hills, and tho filthy
lucre to the valley asleep at tho foot
of the granites, for so I havo deemed
it appropriate to call this portion of
Pine valley. Tho Davis mill is rapidly
approaching completion and the Blue
Jacket is turning out its steady flow of
free gold and Hiilphurets. Tho various
old prospects aro hcing steadily
worked. Some new mines aro coming
to tho front, among which is tho
MAVKItlUK
worked and owned by Capt. Tyler and
James Stephenson, formerly located
by Dr. Howard and E. P. Rand. Tho
ledgo is three feet widu between walls,
with eighteen inches of rich ore, and
returning a largo proportion of sub
ihurets. Tho ledge is tho south ex
tension of tho Last Chanco, Messrs,
Tyler fc Co aro btill at work on tho
edge. This morning they showed a
fine tpecimeu of tho ledge free gold
all through it.
ishing Tackle, etc., at '
van- win km:.
This is also the property of Tyler it
Co., Jonathan Bourn biing one of
this company. It lies between the
Red Jacket and Whitman. The com
pany has cut through one ledge, near
the main body of ore, about eighteen
inches thick, tho ledgo proper being
three feet. They are working tho
ledgo by tunnel which is now in
eighty-four feet, sti iking the ledgo two
hundred and fifty feet under ground.
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I'AKSO.V I.KIHiK. j
, I A eorroapondent ot the Pacific Ex
b. M. Beers has let a contract for a ... , , , , . . ...
, . , , press describes allowa county, which
tunnel of sixtv feet on the Parson ... , ,.. . , 1T . .
, , was formerly a part of Union countv,
ledge, situated on the lull one-fourth !ls f00wJ. .
of a mile from town. "Jack in the wt.u'.ti , i , ,,
,, ,. , ,. Wallowa County is bounded on the
Hole has the contract and is pushing i v ,, . , ,, . ,
. , , . , ' , b 1 North by aslungton, on tho East by
it rapidlv. Ihov think to strike tho , ., , .
, , 1 . - Snake river, on the South and West
ledge in twenty feet further. , .. ,T . ,, . ,,
" , by Union County. It presents home
xokth sTAis. i pf t lio wildest, grandest, most majestic
Work still going on on the North ! and beautiful scenery to be seen in
Star on tho Red Jacket hill. All tho ! anv county in the state, outside of that
prospects on this hill aro similar in i around Mt. Hood. Its rugged, ragged,
character all strong and well defined.
Everything around camp moving
along smoothly.
BAUDIN.
HIGH ALLEY.
Homo's lteguliir Iluil;ct of InturestliiK
I. (Kill Soff,
John Clino has purchased
a now
hack and parlor organ.
The harvest is in full blast and
the
sickles are singing their song.
Born. July 12, 1SS9, to the wife of
Warden Hathaway, a daughter.
Girls born in July may bo passably
handsome but with a sulky temper.
Professor Conklin made us a pleas
ant call recently while on his way to
his school at Medical Springs.
Supervisor Minniek can be seen
rambling around in search of Canada
thistles. Hunt them out, John.
Some who have held aloof from the
railroad subsidy have subscribed some
thing, much to the joy of all.
We have two new twine binders at
work, of tho Waller A. Woods patent,
bought by the Wilkinson boys.
There is quite a general complaint
made about tho mail coming out of
tho Union postolfice. Some have not
received Tim Scour for three wcoks.
we nave been told wny so many
scnooi icacners aro oiu maids: Jt is
because no woman of sense is willing
to give up a sixty dollar position for
ten dollar man.
We saw an apple tree limb, thirty
inches long, broken down with the
weight of thirty-six apples growing on
it. How is that for High valley, with
Nathan Conklin for witness?
Do not stand around and whino
about your own town, but proceed to
do something for its botterincnt. Do
not think any one mean and dishonest
and uncharitable when you aro only
sufl'ering from a temporary sull'iision
of your own gall. Do not go around
pitying tho Johnstown sud'orers whon
you are able to givo to tho Hunt rail
road subsidy, and yet havo not put in
your contribution with the rest of tho
boys.
Married. In Union, Oregon, July
1, 1889, Mr. Frank Ross and Miss
Emma Mayotto, Frank Wilson, J. P.,
officiating. Thero goos our young
friend. Wo noticed that ho had boon
ailing for some time, as if thero was
something wrong with his mind. Ho
often talked of tho great happiness a
man must experience when seated
'neath his own vino and fig tree, sur
rounded by tho wifo of his bosom, et
cetera. Ah ! it is very sad. But such
things must bo or what would become
of our census? If all of thcfo young
fellows were proof against tho shafts of
tho frisky archer, what would bo tho
fate of this great and glorious country?
Frank is u first-class young man, and
wo know that Emma will tako tho best
of care of him and see that ho docs
not stay out too lato at night. Bo a
good woman as you havo been a girl,
got his dinners in time, for that is what
lio likes, and you will bo enabled to
got along with tho tyrant man, till
tho time comes when trouble ceases to
bother us all. Tho couplo havo hot
tied on his ranch where he has been
hutching for some time. That they
may live long una nappy in tno rela
tion of husband and wife, and tho
cobwebs that heretofore adorned bach
elor's hall bo Hwopt down to jippoar no
more, and that Cupid's chain may
grow stronger as tho years go by, is
tho wish of their many friends.
HOMO.
Greatly Reduced Pri
TUB WALLOWA.
A Correspondent Reviews its
Wonderful Resources.
ENTERPRISE, THE COUNTY SEAT.
Description of its Climate, Harm Lands,
Mines, Forests, lite.
craggy mountains, with their snow
i;uuv, wp, ikj i.iwvuus,
wiin iiu'ir rusning, rumuuiig, roaring
waters boiling and foaming in their
seeming madness and fury to find
some place of quietude and rest; its
grand and magnificent cascades and
water falls as laughingly they plunge
down hundreds of feet into tho abyss
below; its palisades of rocks standing
forth in imiuitation of ruined castles;
its beautiful valley streams as they
wind and wend their way, murmuring
requiems for glory lost, until at last
they blend themselves in tho vortex of
watcis of tho mighty Columbia, and
are swallowed up forever; its silvery
lakes beautiful to behold with their
clear and almost transparent waters,
down into which the cyo can discern
objects to the depth of from GO to 70
feet ; its grand and extensive forest of
pine and fir; its vast area of treeless
rolling, rich uplands; its beautiful, fer
tile valleys; its splendid farms and
pleasant homes. All these presenting
a scenery at once beautiful grand and
magnificent.
ITS (M.TMATU.
Tho clinmto in this county is almost
as variable as tho dillbrent localities in
which you may be located. Tho ele
vation of tho Wallowa valley at its up
per termination is 1000 feet above tho
level of the sea, yet tho climate is con
siderable milder than in tho same lati
tude oust of tho Koeky Mountains.
In tho Wallowa valley tho winter of
1885 and '8(5 was very mild and snow
onlv fell to the depth of ten inches
and the thermometer only registered
below zero three or four days. Tho
winter of 1887 and '88 was more severe
and tho thermometer for eight days
was from fourteen to thirty-live dgrces
below zeto which was tho coldest over
known in tho. valley before. L'ist win-
tor, as is known, tho weather was very
mild, tho thermometer only reaching
zero twice and only four inches of
snow fell in this valley. Yet tho cold
weather is not felt so severely as in
other sections whero tho thermometer
does not register so low on account of
the dry atinosphero and still tho
spings are as pleasant as could bo ex
pected in their latitude and altitude
The summers aro delightful, oxtremo
heat is unknown and tho summer ex
lends into the fall months,
its m:8omioi:.s.
Thero aro in tho Wallowa county a
number of lino valloy. Tho Wallowa
valley watered by tho Wallowa river
and divided into three valleys, tho low
er valloy, tho middlo valloy, and tho
upper valloy. Swamp Creek valloy,
Lost and Paradise valleys aro prairies
in the northern part of tho county and
contiguous to the Grande Hondo river;
Imuaha valley, tho Shcop creek coun
tries and tho Snako river country.
Tho products of theso valleys are var
ied. Tho wallowa valleys aro pro
ductive in wheat, oats, ryoand barley,
and tho various grasses, producing in
favorablo seasons as much us 30 to 40
bushels of wheat to tho acre; oats from
30 to (50 bushels; barley from -i0 to 80
bushels ; ryo is raised mostly for feed.
Tho grastos do well, largo crops being
cut. Fruits do well in various sections
of tho county, particularly in tho Lout
and Paradise valleys, and in the Imua
ha. Tho latter valley is called the It
aly of Oregon, as most all kinds of
fruit aro raised there. In the Wallowa
valley are homo fine orchards, and in
tho Prairie Creek region fruits aro do
ing finely. Of tho small fruits most
ees at A. N. Gardner
all kinds do well. Strawberries, goose
berries, blackbeirics and raspberries
yield abundantly, the flavors of which
are delicious.
Stock raising is one of the chief and
main industrie of tho county. Largo
hands of horses and herds of cattle arc
seen in various parts of the county,
but immense docks of sheep arc a
common sight, wool being tho princi
pal product of tho county although ag
ricultural industry is now being prose
cuted to a large extent; land which
has hitherto been considered of no ac
count for farming is now being brought
under cultivation and producing large
crops.
ITS MINKS.
Tho mines of Wallowa county aro
now attracting considerable attention.
The ledges discovered and prospects
obtained therefrom justifying a further
outlay of nionoy and time in their de
velopment. Marble is also found, of
superior quality and in largo veins.
It is also claimed that placer dig-
g.Hg8 hilV0 ,)cen di8Covored hl thoca8t.
ern portion of tho county on tho Minam
which prospect, according to old placer
miners, suflit'iently well to pay for
working.
its i-oiikst?.
There aro in tho county fine tracts
of timber, pine and fir; these forests
of timber are immense and only await
means of transportation for thorn to bo
utilized; and already in anticipation
of it at no distant day, a railroad being
built, are many sections of these lands
being taken up.
WATKIt rowKtt.
Like most of tho eastern counties of
Oregon, Wallowa county is blessed
with an abundant supply of water
power and it is estimated that tho fall
to each mile is from f)0 to 100 feet,
and that to secure a fall from 25 to 50
fect only a few hundred yards has to
be tlumcd or ditched; but little of this
power is now utilized and that only
for homo purposes in running a few
saw mills and grist mills for homo
consumption.
Although only accessible by wagon
road, yot there aro many immigrants
finding their way into the county, and
laud is being taken up for homesteads
and pre-emption very rapidly, and tho
cluss of settlers coming into this sec
tion of Oregon are intelligent and
thrifty.
KDUCATION
is also receiving its fair sharo of notice
from its citizens. Good schools are
maintained and efficient teachers em
ployed. Good and comfortable school
houses aro being erected throughout
tho county.
That tho county is improving rapid
ly is shown by tho following taken
from tho assessors book of 1888.
Article. Number. Value.
Improved deeded lund ti2,(i3S acres f-12,7(12
Town lots S8,r90
Improvements on un-
deeded land . . 19,870
Horses and mules fi.Oi'i ' 1-1 1,(192
Cattle 0,:i9!) 128,110
.Sheep . . -KMl'M 81.078
Kwiiio l,J!tr . .. Il.OOt
Other property ... .. :MW,1(W
Total valuo of taxublo property. .$1,073,148
Tho incrcaso for 1889 will bo, at
least, one-third more than tho above in
tho aggregate.
Tho present out-look for crops is
good. Tho drought which has visited
almost all parts of the state was also
felt in Wallowa, but tho lato rains,
which commenced on Wednesday
June 20th and continued until Sunday
the .'10th, has not only rovived the
drooping spirits of the people, but lias
also rovived tho growing crops so that
thero will bo a fair average yiold.
The farmers are awaking to tho fact
that they will in tho futuro uso tho
means which naturo lias given thorn,
and ure now making preparations for
irrigating by forming companies to
utilize tho abundanco of water which
lies at thoir command, and thus, when
nature does not supply tho demand,
they can make uso of its substitute,
irrigation'.
Tho population of the county is
about fiOOO and increasing quito rapid-
School and church privileges aro ex
cellent for a now country.
KNTKItl'itlHK.
Well and befittingly named, situated
in the west end of the Upper valley
and on tho north side of tho Wallowa
river about in theceutcr of the county.
(XiHtinSed on tail page.
& Co's Jewelry Store.