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About The Beaverton enterprise. (Beaverton, Or.) 1927-1951 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1948)
BEAVERTON ENTERPRISE Friday, August 13, 1948 Trail From ScappooseOne Of Tualatin's Chief Roads TRADER’ S DIARY RECOUNTS CONDITIONS OF TRAVEL, COM MBA T O UMPQUA RIV ERS *.H wet and their baggage, too, ab sorbed quite a soaking. “ Very un (Continued from last week) pleasant” was the necessity to The rich productivity of the Tu make camp in wet grass, fighting alatin valley, in pioneer times, “plenty of mosquitoes" and with added real incentive for road “very little wood to make a fire.” builders. Competing freight con The party remained at this be cerns established three main lines draggled campsite for a day while of entry into the present Wash part of the men were sent off to ington county, vying with each the Tualatin Plains to round up other for the abundance of agri horses which Tom McKay had cultural products and furs in the sent there for grazing. They re beginning of a flourishing traffic. turned from their errand in the The Columbia river, and its near evening, soaking wet. by tributary, the Willamette, were The second day out. the traders avenues of trade for other parts proceeded across the mountain to of the new West as well as the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) and "the beaver ground at Tualatin other markets. Without the riverN Plains.” At the present site of sparsely dotted with other settle North Plains, some four or five ments, much of the need for ar miles north and east of the pres ticles of trade would not have been ent county seat, they camped. Horses not needed as pack ani so demanding. The closest artery to the Colum mals were started back to Mc bia river, nearest the Pacific Kay’s grazing herd. As Work relates in his journal, ocean, brought a traveler out to the present site of Scappoose and “We were three and a half hours by 1848, the road was well marked. crossing the mountains,” a dis Well-marked It was, too, four tance of eight to ten miles in a teen years previous, as related in southwesterly direction. The road the diary of a party headed by in many places was steep and John Work, extensive traveler and rugged, particularly on the north trader for the Hudson ,Bay com side of the hill. The wet gloomy weather and pany. He set out May 22, 1834. on a trading expedition from Fort numerous trees fallen across the Vancouver across the Tualatin road made travel slow. As the trader related, the coun Plains and the Yamhill basin into try was not thickly wooded but the Umpqua river country. Work and parly, leaving the hoavlly overgrown with under upper end of Sauvies Island, by brush. Trees were principally pine passed Tom McKay’s farm at and cedar, many of them of good Scappoose and went directly by size. There were also medium sized scow to the “traverse” or moun oak trees fringing the edge of the tain trail leading toward Scap woods near North Plains, and poose in one direction and into some ash and other trees as well. the Tualatin Plains by the other Describing the looks of present direction. Washington county some century This traverse was on Willamette ago, Work wrote, "It la a continu slough, described by Work as a ation of plains which commence little channel a mile or two north here and continue on to the south west of the present site of Hol ward, separated by narrow strips brook and about five miles south of timber.” The soil was a rich of McKay’s Scappooso farm. mold covered with grass and other Landing in a driving rainstorm, plants; many strawberry plants the travelers were shortly dripping then bearing fruit and scarcely a By lUrvry S. Robinaon HOBBY SHOW route that was to become an im portant avenue of trade became more and more widely known. And Tom McKay’s settlement at the Scappoose end of the trail played an increasingly notable part in the traffic development. (continued next week) shrub or a stone to interfere with the plow. “Though termed a plain,” he continued, “ from being clear of wood, the country is not a dead flat but composed of level land with gently rising ground. Por tions of the flat lands are springy. The vegetation is not rank, yet yields a great deal of pasture." It was the sixth day out that the group continued the journey. McKay creek was easily forded. At Dairy creek, it was necessary to swim the horses and transfer baggage over an improvised bridge, made by falling a tree from bank to bank. Galea creek was the fourth and last fork of the Tuala tin river that they forded. Banks of all these forks were steep and of heavy, slippery clay. From this point on, the traders continued into the trading area. By the time they returned, some two months later, they had a bea ver skin and eight otter pci’ s, p’us detailed intoimation on a new territory. From the act jmplisnmcn’ o. each Journey fi as the Columbia river into the Tualatin Plains, the McKay - Whitford OUT OF TO W N Out of town guests at the home of the Glen W. Sweet were her mother, Mrs. Mary McElrea of Long Beach, Calif., and her sister and family Mr .and Mrs. Lawrence Miller of Seattle and Alfred and Robert McElrea of Iowa, her nephews. Mr. and Mrs. A1 John son of Rockaway Beach also at tended. BEACH WEEKEND Mrs. J. K. Macdonald and two children spent the weekend at Gearhart. AT BAY OCEAN Mrs. John Matchek and two children on Bertha-Beaverton highway are visiting at the Lau- torette home at Bay Ocean. They will stay there for one month. DOUBLE DATE Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Chadwick and family are at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Richly at Longview. The occasion was the Chadwick’s wedding anniversary plus Mr. Chadwick’s birthday. W h o le sa le r's SACRIFICE 695 VISITORS WELCOME Visitors are welcome at the Emanuel hospital to see Russell Chadwick, of Scholls Ferry road, who suffered a broken leg early this week in a tangle of his bike with a car, on Taylor's Ferry road. He had just returned Saturday from a month’s vacation in South ern Nevada. Now he is in south- pltal and expects to be there for about three weeks. All friends who would like to make his long days in bed seem a little shorter are asked to drop in for a visit at the regular call ing hours. m a kes th ese p r ic e s p o s s ib l e 100 C O A T S ! 'sluts to $33 i IK)', Wool. 25 SH O R T Y CO A TS { 111 »', Wool. Valu«’«» 29.93 ' 0 9 5 NOW # 100 Sho rty CO ATS Y 1 0 9 5 All colors & sizes Now 1 *4 9 5 1 .A D IE S S U IT S 2 5 0 Gabardines, co- 1 # twills, crepes, worsted. Y rerts, 00'r wool. Blacks. Blues, Greys, 0 9 9 i D R E S S E S Large S ize tc. Values to $50. 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