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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
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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
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.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
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County Agent News
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day at either the Sherman Branch
Experiment station or Pendleton
Branch, and are surely. interesting
to those who are Doubting Thomas's.
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
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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
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