The Orego
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VOL. VI.
UNION, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, ls!)0.
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THE FOREST FIRE.
A tiny spark blown from the engine's door;
A soft south wind, and tlelds of whitened
gravs ;
First one weo Hare, then spreading more
and more.
It tilled the canyons with lt limb and roar,
And leapt in fury to the highest pass.
The llaines climbed high and licked the
limbs and leaves
O'er grown with moss, and dry with weeks
of sun.
The squirrel's nest bnrncd, where, with ills
garnered sheaves.
His term of rest, tho toiler had begun.
The wild deer lied disheartened from the
woods;
The hunter and hunted now are friends;
The fire crept into gloomy solitudes
where sombre shadows and the sunlight
blends.
The heated rocks where clustering grass
had grown,
Stood stark and bare like some grim spirit
form;
The hills were sultry where fresh winds
had blown
And e'en the mountains breath was strange
ly warm !
Night came, and on a far on" peak I stood
and gazed;
Iflack clouds lent darkness to the scene
below.
Each tlame was visible I saw them grow
And whirl and writhe in bluish drifts of
haze,
And lean and shift, as different winds
would blow.
It seemed a battle field the statclv trees
Were stripped of armor by barbaric flames;
The battle smoke in volumes swelled the
breeze,
And wicked victory, fiery legions claim.
The daylight came the smoke was cleared
away
The forest ridges were one stretch of soli
tude;
It's ranks were broken work of one ill day
Left skeletons where once had basked a
wood.
15. W. Huffman.
COVE CULLINQS.
Cove, Feb. 19, 1890,
Messrs. Jesso Tmblcr of Summcrvillc
and E. W. Imbler one of the commis
sioncrs of Wallowa Co. have purchased
tho Frederick Mitchell estate near town
for $9500. It probably is as fine n hay
ranch and stock farm as can be found
in Eastern Oregon and tho Imbler
Bros, are to be congratulated on sc
curing so desirable a piece of property
It is probable that after Mr. E. W. Em
bier has settled up his affairs in Wal
lowa county ho will make his home in
the Cove.
Mr. and Mrs. Foster spent several
days with Cove relatives this week
This jolly pair arc always welcome
and it is regretted when they have to
turn their faces homeward.
St. Valentines day was very well
observed in the Covo and many were
tho tender (and comic) missives sent
and received. It is said that two of
the nicest and sweetest valentines
mailed were addressed to a pair of
happy bachelors whom cupid declared
hard cases and ceased firing his gilded
shafts at a good many summers ago.
A watch was kept for tho braco of
restless convicts who left Union sud
denly Monday, but they evidently chose
some other direction. However
pcrsucr from Union was sighted and
though several hours behind and
with no better means of travel than
' shanks mure" ho seemed hopeful and
doubtlessly is yet making tho gravel
fly.
Mr. J. T. Jewell has been reappointed
road supervisor of this district. Ho is
the right man in the right place and if
ho can be induced to accept tho oflice
a few terms longer wo will havo roads
to bo proud of.
Plowing has commonced on tho
sand ridge and as quick as tho weather
becomes a little more settled the Covo
farmers will begin to tickle the soil.
It promises to bo a very favorablo sea
son for putting in tho crops.
Samuel Whito lias purchased a tract
of land at Gray's harbor the future city
of the north Pacific coast. Ho thinks
tho investment will yield handsome
returns in the next year or two.
Everyone und his girl is going to
attend Mrs. Eaton's ball Friday even
ing. Tho popularity of tho James'
band alono is enough to attract a
crowd.
The Mifcses Stearns will givo a birth
day party to their numerous friends
this evening. Tho young ladies havo
reached their twelfth birthday.
Call and Settle,
All parties indebted to me are requested
to call and settle their accounts without
further delay. C. Vincent.
ON THE ROAD.
Account oC the Early Days
of Denver.
THE OLD HEROIC PIONEERS.
Shoveling tho Snow to Find an Old Friend's
Grave Bear River City.
Kxtks Nkiuiaska
Editou Ohkc.on- Scout :
We meet a brother here and a num
ber of our old school mates. Each of
them own a farm and seem to be hap
py, prosperous and contented. Each
has a family, nice homo and several of
the young ladies desiro to be recorded
as real farmer's daughters. They arc
able to make their own clothes with
neatness and dispatch, can cook a
dinner good enough for anyone, can
harness and drive a team and milk
the cows, aro eligible to matrimony,
and the writer would add, they aro us
pretty as a duchess, as neat as a peach,
and as full of business as a seven day
clock. We visit hero three days and
take a reluctant departure. Wo board
the flyer for Denver and arrive there
7 :30 in the morning. Wo scout around
to the chamber of commerce and
board of trade building for information.
The association was organized in 1S8-1
built this building and have since been
very activo workers for the best inter
ests of Denver. Hero we learn what
Denver was of old. The first settle
ment was made on November 1, 185S.
West Denver was laid out three days
later, and on tho Gth less than 200
citizens held a meeting and elected a
delegate to congress, and on the Sth
mounted him on the back of a broncho
and started him for Washington to
get tho Pike's peak gold mines sot
apart from Kansas as a separate terri
tory. Tho struggle for existence com
menced in 18G1. Tho mines wero
reported played out, tho war divided
tho people, fire laid waste half the city
to bo followed by a great flood sweep
ing out much that remained, then
came tho Indian war of 18(U cutting
off supplies from tho cast. Murdered
emigrants, burned ranches and smould
ering ruins covered the route for GOO
miles between Denver and tho Mis
souri river. Everybody was under
arms for defense of the city. Then to
crush out the last spnrk of vitality in
the citizens came the announcement
that tho Union Pacific railroad was
building up Polo creek. This was a
crushing blow, leaving Denver 100
miles Bouth, and as they could not
havo the road como to that place de
cided to go to tho road. They went to
work and raised $-100,000, voted county
bonds for $500,000 more, and soon
dirt began to fly on tho railroad grade
to Cheyenne. That was tho turning
point and wo now have a glance at
Denver of to-day. It has a population
of 125,000. From a beggar on a broncho
in 1858 it now sends its senators by
six different palace car lines. It has j
smelting works, manufactories of all
kinds, puplic buildings, cathedrals,
churches, schools as good as in some
citieB of twice its age, fino opera house,
street car system complete, a city of
brick and stono almost exclusively,
very costly and substantial streets,
broad side walks paved with flag stones
numerous shade trees and pure moun
tain water. Our time is up and wo
board the Denver and Rio Grando for
Salt Lake City. After a ride of 2"0
miles we are told tho road through
tho Wasatch mountains is snow
blockaded, Here at Fruita the
mountains can be seen in tho dis
tance. They arc very high but not so
rough and rugged as tho Rockies. Tho
sides look sloping and regular. The
Spanish fork canyon is gorged by a
snow slido and orders came for our
train to return to Denver and go by
way of tho Union Pacific to Salt Lake.
Wo are soon on tho return and out of
tho snow back to dry, dirty Denver,
and awuy to Cheyenne over tho Rluck
hills and on to Green river. For years
previous to tho building of tho rail
road Rill Hickinan, Rrigham Young's
destroying angel, ran u ferry acrosh the
river just below this stution, und as the
river was seldom fordable, except lute
in tho fall, he reaped a rich harvest of
gold from the overland pilgrims. Tho
price for crossing teams wus from $5
Silverware, Guns
to $20 according ;n ho thought tho
owners were nblo to p.iy. Tlm-o times
seem only yesterday. Note the many
changes. Now wo Imvo tho iron horse
the palace ear, tho substantial iron
bridge and wo aro whirled across tho
; continent nt the rate of forty miles nn
! hour. Do travelers on tho.o llvine
trains while resting at their ease, over
think of tho early pioneers who toiled
across this country with ox teams, on
foot and alono, requiring from five to
seven months to travel the same dis
tance now made in throe or four days?
Those pioneers hud out tho routo wo
are now traveling to-day and made it
safe for us. They stitl'ored every kind
of hardship, many even to death. Tho
few that remain are fast passing over
i tho range, yet tho fruits of thoir ad
j venterous intrepidity will ever remain,
i At Green river trains aro made up for
the Oregon Short Line for Montana,
Idaho, Oregon. Washington and tho
Puget sound country. Wo take tho
train hero for Salt Lake, and visit on
the way. Our train starts at 8:20 p. m.
Wo stop at llilliard, Wyoming, DO
miles east of Ogdon. Hero is where
we passed three years of the happiest
part of our life, forming the acquain
tance and love of her who has gone to
a better world. Tho utter ruin and
desolation of the once busy and pros
perous place is in harmony with lifes
sad realities.
j There was a V shaped flume built
from hero to Uiutali mountains 155
miles distant, southward, from which
immense quantities of lumber, ties,
telegraph poles, wood, etc., was floated
down from the pineries, giving steady
employment to 500 teams and 12 to 15
j hundred men. Large quantities of
charcoal was burned hero and shipped
to tho smelters in Salt Lake valley.
Rut how changed is everything now.
Tho town is literally deserted and the
question naturally arises why this
desolation or suspended action? The
law against cutting government timber
and the high rates charged on char
coal by tho new management may
havo something to do with it. Mr.
Lapello's is tho only remaining family
of 15 years ago. They kindly gave us
tho checkered history of the place and
its future prospects. Tho snow was
two feet deep on a level. Wo have a
brother-in-law buried here, Win. Davis.
After diligent search with a shovel his
lonely grave was found beneath tho
cold icy covering of this rigid clime.
He had grown to manhood, was
stricken down with a fever, hurried in
a strange land amongst strangers.
I low sad aro tho memories connected
with everything hero. One mile from
llilliard wo pass tho site of tho onco
famous and then infamous Rear River
City. Tho town was laid out in Oct.,
1808 in advance of the railroad where
tho terminal point would probably bo.
During tho following wink'r tho routo
of tho road was lined with graders,
contractors and teamsters who all
earned and hud a largo amount of
nonoy. At this point the roughs and
gamblers who hud been driven from
point to point, westward by tho vigi
lantes, made a stand, congrognfing in
largo numbers. They swore that they
would bo driven no further, I hat hero
they would stay and light it out (o the
bitter end. The town contained about
1,000 law abiding citizens and when
the roughs felt that tioublo was com
ing thoy withdrew to tho hills and
organized for a raid on the town.
Meanwhile some of tho roughs ro
mained in town and among them woro
three noted garroters who had added
to their long list of crimes that of
several murders. Tho citizens iiroso,
seized and hung them. This battened
the conflict and on the l'.HIi of Novem
ber, 1808 tho roughs attackod tho town
in force, burned the jail taking from
thence a number of their kind who
wero confined there, and shouting down
a man by tho nunio of Stokes, who
was sent to them by the citizens us a
mediator. They next burned the plant
of tho Fionticr Index. The mob, some
1100 strong, armed deiqior.idiH'H,
marched over to the north side up j
.Main street and ma le an nttuok on j
tho bunk and store belonging to Cooper,
now of tho firm of Cooper A McNeill,
of San Francisco. Thoro they wero j
met with u volley from Winched en in i
tho hands of brave determined men !
who had congregated there. The fight .
left !12 of tho desperadoes dead on the j
street, Tho number of wounded was j
over 100. Tho bodies of many were I
found in tho gulches und among tho
rocks wheto thoy afterwards died. 1
Tho town declined as soon us the road j
was built past it and now there is
nothing left to mark tho place except i
u few old chimneys, broken bottles. !
tcuttertd oyster cans und th inguvtcd ,
graveyard. J. W. .Minnm k. ;
:and Amunition Just1
A MODERN EDEN.
Marvelous Ilicluioss of One
of Our Valleys.
ITS HOMES AND INHABITANTS.
Fruits, Vegetables and Grasses nerd3 of
Cattle, Sheep nud Horses.
The following excellent description
of Eagle valley, in Union county, wo
take from a recent number of the
; Democrat. It was wiitton by a well
J known correspondent.
"Surrounded on tho south by tho
j Connor creek range of mountains, on
j tho oust the Snake liver chain, with
tho Sawtooth range in Idaho towering
j high above their fellows, with Fugle
j crock mountains forming an almost
j insurmountable barrier on the north
: and west are tho rocky curtains that
' partially surround Fugle valley, tho
subject of this communication.
With an altitude of only 1500 feet
above tho Ma tho climate is almost,
tropical, and the snowcapped moutains
towering thousands of foot above, like
lofty sentinels, furnish a fresh and
balmy breeze by day and cool and brac-
ing air by night, which fans to sleep
the tiied husbandman. Only a few of
your many readers have any idea of
the extent and productiveness of F.aglo
valley, and after careful research the
following facts regarding productions
is a little below, rather than above tho
real figures. Itoforo going into the
statistics of information your corres
pondent takes this opportunity of ex
pressing thanks to the citizens of tho
valley for tho many courtesies during
our sojourn, especially tho family of
Mr. John Frasor where we made our
headquarters during our visit. Every
body knows the big hearted John and
the many ehuiitable acts of Mrs. F.
has endeared her to nil tho neighbors.
Fred, aged I I, is at homo in the saddle
and on the range, and Duncan, aged i),
takes as much interest in feeding tho
flocks as the sire. And Mary Jane, tho
queen of all tho valley, only ! years of
age, is not only tho favorite at home
and on tho ranch, but in the neigh
borhood, for indeed sho is a child of
extraordinary ability. Our bachelor
friend Mr. Hen Longloy, of the firm
of Eraser it Longloy, makes his homo
with the Frusers, which oilers another
induemont for our sojourning hoio.
There aro fifty ranches of 1(10 acres
each in tho valley proper, making 8000
acres of tho most productive land in
Oregon or any other state ; 2500 acres
aro now in alfalfa, which yields (i tons to
tho acre, making last year's crop foot
up in round numbers 15,000 tons,
which at $0 a ton, the ruling price,
wo havo $!)0,000. Divide this equally
among the fifty ranchers and each
would havo $1S0(), but as not more than
fifteen farmers aro tho principal pro
ducers, your readers can readily sco
why these fow aro annually accumula
ting so much wealth. Thoro aro 2000
acres in grain, orchards, vegetables
and grasses, leaving about U500 acres
unplowed, which in a few years will
bo under a high state of prodection, as
thoro is an abundance of water in
Euglo creek to irrigate all lands sus
ceptible of cultivation, Wheat, oats,
ryo and bailey grow to great perfec
tion, command good prices, and tho
yield par ncro is sevoral times greater
than in Ohio or the .Middle states.
Navy beans and other varieties, equal
to tho best grown in tho Now England
states, aro an important crop, com
mand tho highest prices in our Wes
tern markets, and tho past season over
fifty tons were harvested, much atten
tion will bo given to their production
in the future.
Reims yield to the farmer from $75
to .$100 an aero, and on a fow occasions
nearly double that amount has been
produced. PotutooB, onions, beets,
turnips und all other food rarities of
vegetables aro produced to perfection,
and tho bizo, yield and flavor would
mem fabulous to our neighbors oast of
tho Mississippi liver.
Gold and silver in paying quanitios is
found in the mountains surrounding
the valley, and tho mining oumps all'ord
a cash market for all tho food vegeta
bles produced,
Potatoes grown hero mo equal to tho
Utah potato and tho yield por aero
Received at A. N.
amounting to from COO to 1000 bushels,
lind a ready market at not less than
75 cents a bushel. See tho money to
bo made on vegetables alone, and wc
can at once understand why lands in
the valley so rapidly advance in price.
Grapes are equal to the best grown
in California, and the apples, peaches,
cherries, plums and berries are of a
superior quality and tho acreage in
fruit trees is annually increasing.
Poultry of all kinds do well, aro
hardy, healthy and prolific, command
good prices, and we find many a good
housewife in the valley that realizo
from the hennery money enough to
more than supply tho family with table
groceries.
Much attention tho past two years
hns been given to hog raising and ono
man, formerly from Missouri, informs
mo that he can produce a good quality
of pork hero cheaper than there, and
as yet no hog cholera is experienced.
Alfalfa raising and stock fee.ding is
the main industry, and but few if any
j places in America can show an equal
j number of stock as is boing fed on ten
ranches here. 1 have been eaerful not
j to over estimate tho number and find
j :t0,000 sheep, 12,000 cattle and 2500
horses are now being fed, and unless
j the winter should prove the severest
known a few thousand tons of hay
j will be left over. Stock of all kinds
! look well, but tho blue ribbon flock of
! 3000 sheep aro owned bv Frasor it
j Longloy, and tho banner herd of 2500
lambs, owned as above, is without
doubt the best, in Eastern Oregon.
These gentlemen have somo 250 head
of horses and cattle, and in their herds
aro seen soino of tho finest thorough
bred Shorthorns in tho country. Tho
fact is now boing demonstrated by
these enterprising gentlemen that
alfalfa properly fed is the best fat pro
ducer of all known for.igo plants, and
they are now feeding thirty head for
Fcburury delivery that will rival tho
stall fed of Western New York. Tho
first crop of alfalfa properly cured,
plenty of salt and water and warm
quarters, makes a healthy tallow,
tender, juicy and well flavored beef,
anil in tho future wo expect to seo
soveral thousand head fed by February
and March delivery.
This letter would bo incomploto with
out mention of the thoroughbred
Shorthorn hord of Frank Leo, and that
in his stables tho best bred stallion in
Eastern Oregon is found. Mr. Leo's
herd was awarded many premiums at
the first Eastern Oregon fair association
at Raker City and bleeders should
examine his herds before buying else
where. Eaglo valley has no poor people
and it does one's soul good to seo tho
signs of general prosperity on every
hand as wo wend our way from homo
to homo and sco tho happy smiling
faces. Among tho most enterprising
farmers wo visited wo mention Eraser
and Longloy, Capt. Craig, G. W. Moody,
Newt, and K. Young, Lester Holcomb,
Cal. Kirby, Unclo Rill Usher, Joseph
Reck, Frank Lee, Tom Pierce, John
Fuel, Jim Holcomb, Rill Wiso, H.
Reed, Capt. Givona, Nush and Son, tho
Swishors, Chandlers, Tartars,
Ronnohofl', Lukifor, Hartley, and
Squire Gibson, tho village blacksmith,
who also looks aftor tho agricultural
interests of county clerk Neill, who
lately bought tho lower Tartar ranch.
J. G. L.
EAQLE VALLEY.
Health of this community is good
at present.
Tho snow is all gono and tho ranchers
aro turning out largo herds of cattle,
horses, and sheep on the ranges.
Thoro will bo soino littlo hay loft ovor.
Tho ranchers aro preparing for early
gardening
Tho bcof cattlo that havo been fed
hero Hub winter for tho March delivory
aro very fat and largo, about as good us
tho writer has ovor seen fed on corh
i r
in Missouri. Alfalfa will pay better
than all other grasses. Rauchoris9twU
hereafter turn inuoh of their attontidn
to stall-feeding cuttlo.uiid frhecp.
Mr. Wash. Moody nil' Mss Polly
Kotchum, both of tbU jvalIoy we;ro
married in RakerOity a, fewdays .atfo,
A wedding supper and danco wHIUjo
given at his residence on llio 11 thrust.
Joy ho with them, V
Thero will, doubtless, ho plenty of
fruit in tho valley this year.
Several man front Rakor valloy areN
hero turning out thoir stock on tho
range.
'Gardner & Co's.
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