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Page 4 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, August 5, 1954 Oregonian Motorlog Tour Follows Lewis and Clark Trail in Montana Route Parallels Missouri River To Mountains His fulluwlnf Is condensation of moliirtoi appearlne; July ID In MIHTIIWKST ruU mln of The Kunila? Orronln. One of unniinl series sponsored jointly by the Oreinn State Mo tor association nil The treo nlan. It Is the second of three nr. tides descrlhlnf trip alone; the route followed IM years are by the lewis and ( lark expedition. In this article, the trull of the eiplorers Is traced along the Mis souri river lo the Rocliles. HV i'Al-L I.AAKTZ NUht City Editor, The Own"" Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, as they embarked on their exploration of the North west country in 1805, could hardly have envisioned an oil in dustry in the land of the Mandans In North Dakota. Nearly a half century was to pass before oil was discovered In Pennsylvania. But 150 years later, as this r t.-e VJ 7- i. Mkjs- ' -V . Jf ' V ' : 1 1 Vf-o 'j! -1 I lie Miwturi river kniles Us wa tlirou(;li the rocky gore which C'nrtiiin Lewi ll.v named "the gate of the Kooky Mountains." its junction with U. S. highway 83, then proceeding 13 miles on a gravel road. From there westward we drove to Fort Peck dum, on the Mis- Oregon Stute Motor association- souri In northeastern Montana. Oregoninn motorlog rolled 'it's the world's largest earth-fill thr-rou-h the North Dakota hills 'dam. built for flood control and aid, and -i li,. tha Ipwis navigation ,!,, It created a reservoir 109 ana uiniK rouie, uic rutin the oil Industry on the once afiri cultural economy were evident. Because we preferred to keep to major highways nnd in some areas of the route it's difficult, and at times impossible, to keep on good highways near the Lewis and Clark route we drove northward on highway H-i to Minot, N. D., thence westward on highway 2 to VVillislon, N. I. Lewi KiiKKcated Fort Near WiMiston is Fort- Union, at the junction of the Yellow stone and Missouri rivers. It hud bef recommended by Lewis as a likely spot lot a fort. The fort, later built, became one of the most populai fur-trnd-ing posls in the West. It can lie reached by turning oil U. S. high way 2 about two mile went of 1 i t .Uij!,hok car lialls near I'ltrei1 '. orls. Mont., at Jiiik linn il incri hinniiii; AlUsmrti. irrigation power. 'miles long, flooding many of the expedition'' camp sites. I From here to Big Sandy, Mont., t Here's no chance to be near the Missouri. No roads pnr- 'allel it. ! It was in this urea, as they made their way toward "the great falls" the Indians had de scribed to I hem that the expedi tioners met up with some of their most unusual adventures. The "great tails" are near (Ireat Falls Mont. center of many l.evis and Clark land marks, which we had reached on our westward drive Irom Fort Peck dam on highways 2 and S7. The falls may be reached by driv ing cast some len miles from Great Falls on Montana highway 29, then turning oft on a side rond about two miles For their portage around the lalls, Clark marked out an 18 jmile route, and Irom the only i large Cottonwood tree in the vi cinity the men fashioned 22-inch "heels with an axle made from a mast from one of their pi rogues The Oregonian motorlog from C.rcHt Falls continued on high way 91 to Helena, Montana's capital, and to Three Forks. ' Sonthwatd to Helena, the Mis souri and the highway plunged into rugged, beautiful mountain country. Pome lfi miles r u-th ol Helena are "Ihe gates ol the Kockv mountains," so named by I'wic lieeause of their appear ance. We made a quick trip through Hi lena and lottnd it remindlul i another lamed minim; town Central City, Colo. w h e r e imilnv 'I'e main street follow; a meandering course through the : heart of the city. On southward we found the three forks -one of the expedi tion's goals. Here is the birth place of the Missouri, three streams joining to form a great river. The three forks may be seen by leaving the city of Three 1 Forks, Mont., on highway 10, some 2.2 miles east a route clearly marked. I As we paralleled the Lewis nnd Clark route, we then took a buttonhook route first west, then southward and back north ward dipping inlo Idaho and back into Montana toward Mis soula and the Lolo pass. I Lewis nnd Clark knew by then that lo complete their westward trek they must obtain horses. These they eventually acquired from the Shoshone Indians, of whom Sacnjnwea was a member, though the expedition's inability to contact the tribe for some time gave it considerable con cern. Lemhi Pus Traversed On over the route the motor ing passed over the Lemhi pass over the only graveled and relatively unmarked road on the trip past markers which claimed Sacajawea's birthplace in Idaho. through the lush, green Salmon river valley into Salmon. Idaho. On Lemhi pass, on the great Uitterroot range, on August 12. 1805, I,ewis and Clark became the first white men to stand on the continental divide. On northward from Salmon, fdaho, the motorlog corkscrewed its way up and over the Bitter roots again, over Lost Trail nnss some 7000 feet high, and an to ward Missoula and "Traveler'? Rest" camp. There the corps of discovery prepared for a push westward over I.oh' nass, and again over the ragged Bitierrools. in the'' searWi for Ihe ("VMmhia river .Neil nei'k: niutorior: eoii- i'ImiIc. iy rclr.tclnir the wcMein ,,lf ol liir ' U aiiii I l:irk tr:t' ' They re here ! space -saver freezers Both upright and chest-typ models by Inter national Harvester, with all the newest time-and-work-saving features you want most, including . .. 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With cash crops out on divert ed acres for 1955, farmers who will be seeding grain hay will want to seed that grain which will produce the most forage per acre. Maloy Barley has been found at the Sherman Branch Ex periment station to be a high pro ducer of forage. It is a beardless variety with a lot of leafiness. For those who might be looking for seed, Oscar Peterson, lone, has a good supply. There may be other growers that I do not know of. 4-H Boys Leave For Conservation Camp Two Morrow county 4-H club members left Monday to spend a week at 4-H conservation camp at Pringle Falls, Oregon. The boys Larry Campbell, Buttercreek Junction livestock club, and Ivan Akers, lone livestock club, were chosen for their interest in j range management and conser j vation. The camp is sponsored by the I Northwest section of the Ameri- can Society of Range Manage I ment. This is the 5th annual camp. Scholarships were made available for these boys to at- tend camp by the Heppner Soil , delegation to Pringle Falls Conservation District and Butter- Twelve older 4-H boys left with creek Junction farmers. , the Morrow county delegation , , . from Pendleton on Monday. Ine While at camp, the boys will , " ' . t camp t0 Recently ninety-five acres of Rex M l seed was field inspected and passed at the Kenneth Smouse farm near lone. With the tighter field inspection and cer tification specifications this year, seed must really be pure to pass certification. This field contained only half of the allowed amounts of other varieties of wheat, and olher grains which cannot exceed one-tenth of one percent. Each of us consumes about tons of grass a year enough, if baled form, to fill about two rooms in the averaged-size home. Not grass as such, of course. This figure refers to grass and le gumes used to feed the livestock that produces so many items for us. We eat hay, silage, and pas ture in the form of milk, cheese, ice cream, and steaks. We wear it as shoes, sweaters, socks, and suits. If our billion-acre grasslands were suddenly taken away, we'd have only one-third the milk, one-fourth the beef, one-tenth the lamb and mutton we now have. There'd be much less leather and wool. Grass does other things. It softens floods; reduces the clean ing of ditches, rivers and harbors; help lessen the effect of drought. Each of us, as citizen and tax payer, has a stake in grass. Fully used, properly handled, it can do even more for us. spend their time in plant ident1-1 transport the boys to range man fication and plant identification; agement areas within Deschutes collection contest, field trips on county where the camp is being fish and game management, held range management, toresi man-; agement and learning now Dlants erow. Fishing, games, swimming and contests will be, the forms of recreaion. The boys will return August 7. ' 1 O. W. Cutsforth, Lexington rancher, a member of the state committee planning and sponsor-; ing the camp, provided the trans-' port truck for Eastern Oregon Need Letterheads? Phone 6-9228 KEEP OREGON GREEN Announcement- The Case Furniture Co. IS HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THAT IT WILL ACT AS LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR JACK MULLIGAN PIANO AND ORGAN CO. WHO HAS PIANOS- -BALDWIN -BALDWIN ACROSON I C -CHICKERING & SONS OF PENDLETON, ORE. THE FRANCHISE FOR THE FOLLOWING ORGANS- -BALDWIN -BALDWIN SPINET -HAMMOND CHORD ORGAN ' Case Furniture Co. U Photo of Ed Gonty Just As He Thought Up This Idea to Give Away Shoes Ed s Flipped Mis Lid -low, for his Final CLEARANCE H e s Practicaslv sving away IT'S A FACT- The cbove photo shews Ed Gonty's reaction when he realized how much money he was going to lose when he decided to put out his big stock of shoes at prices from SOc up . . . then when he thought about how many customers he would make happy, he calmed down and got to work getting his store ready icr the rush. Here'i how he's doing it instead of grouping by price, you'll be able to look through big piles of shoes grouped by size. Find your size, each pair will be individually marked with its give-away price. Some are 50c, some $1.00 some up to 4.95 Air Steps, but all have been reduced from 50 to 75 and 80 percent and there are styles and sizes for every woman and girl in Morrow county. Hurry in this weekend and SAVE REAL MONET ON SHOES. The Give-Away prices will make you happy even if Ed does groan with every pair you get ALL SALES FINAL IF YOU BUY 'EM. YOU GOTTA' KEEP EM1 FOR AS LITTLE AS PER PAIR Gontys IN HEPPNER : -r a - wi,
