FOUR - Cycle Oregon III
Relive Oregon Trail
The ORgon Trail enters Morrow
County from the cast in the Butter
only trail known, and from 1842 on,
the Wells Springs area became a
Creek area and leaves in the west
near Cecil. There are 12 miles of un-
disturbed ruts known as the Board-
man biking segment in Morrow
County. wagon trains stopped at
WeU Springs and al Willow Creek
(Cecil). Access to the hiking seg-
ment, can be pined from Bombing
Range Road on Hwy 2<17 from Ella
Road II lone and from Hwy 74 at
Cecil.
The mileage from Bombing Range
Road tmmff on Hwy '1JJ7 is 11 miles
(3.2 are gravel). The mileage from
Heppner Junction on 1-84 to Wells
Sprinp by way of Cecil is 28 miles
(14 milca gravel).
The Cecil to Ella Rt . .ia Emigrant
Road route is not recommended for
larF or~ wheel RVs. I.lllfad, use
the Ione to Ella Road route which is
13 miles to Wells Springs.
A pioneer candc:ry is located rar
the Wells Springs site.
In 1843, J .W . Nesmith described
Morrow County • barren and, with
no timber along the river. Emigram
wilh their laden waeom fol1oMd the
welcome camp for weary emigrants,
soldiers, and Indians on the Oregon
Trail .
In the upper right hand corner of
the large granite rock at the Lower
Wells Springs is the inscription:
"Oregon Trail". Another inscri~
lion, "1847" has been all but
weathered away.
Of all the western trails used by
fur traders, gold seekers, mis-
sionaries, and emigrants, the Oregon
Trail was most imponant . Beginn-
ing in 1841 and lasting for over 20
years, it was the route over which
many thousands of emigrants travel-
ed the 2,000 miles from western
Missouri to Oregon's W i11amette
River Valley and other locations in
the Pacific Northwest. This tide of
emigration and settlement caused
F.ngland to relinquish her hold on
Old Oregon Territory in I 846, when
it became part of the United States,
comprising the present states of
Oregon, Washington and ldaho, as
well as pans of Wyoming and Mon-
tana west of the Continental divide.
Think you've seen food? You
haven't seen "nothin" yd, accor-
ding to Cycle m Heppner Food
Coordinalor, Marlene Currin.
''Boy, did I begin to learn new
things while participting as the local
food coordinaor,' · says Marlene. '' I
have always been around harvest
crews, but this group is giving new
meaning to grocery lists, and recipe
amounts. I'd like to share our
Garden Marinated Salad with all of
you readers and please note the
IIIIOUllll that we are ordering. Then
foDowing will be a recipe for you
and your family which will make a
2 cups plus 8 tbs. black pepper
10 gallons vinegar
3 cups plus ¾ cup onion juice
I pound plus 4 oz. dill weed
8 cups plus 8 tbs. basil leaves
13 tbs. plus I tsp. oregano leave
Mix the above ingredients weU,
Then marinate for about 4 hours.
Add the salad oil just before servina.
Thal' s 20 gallons of salad oil.
Now for the average family. This
will make about 25 ponions-
8 oz. carrots, sliced (steam until
tender and drain)
I pound cauliflower flowerets
I pound broccoli, slice the stems too
Lake Popular R ecr eation Area
Willow Creek Lake fonned after
the construction of Willow Creek
Dam in 1983, is a popular recrea-
tion area located only two miles from
Heppner. Visitors to the lak.e can en-
joy boating, watersk.iing, fishing and
swimming.
Trout fishing is excellent, and the
lak.e also has bass and crappie.
The lak.e has a new day park, boat
launch and docking facilities, as weU
as restrooms and handicapped
parking.
An RV park and campsite are
planned for the near future.
By Anne Morter
The Ione Founh of July Celebra-
tion was deemed another success by
organizers. The weather cooperated
nicely bringing in large crowds from
out of town as well as many local
people. Approximately 250 hungry
folks were fed at the chicken
barbecue and a large crowd turned
out for the fireworks display held at
the football field.
serves 2 ,000
225 pounds carrots
240 pounds cauliflower
240 pounds broccoli
LIGHT FRENCH DRESSING
10 cups salt
5 cups dry mustard
5 cups paprika
Optional: 8 oz. mushrooms. Com-
bine with Light French Dressing.
I ½ Tbs. diH weed
½ Tbs. buil leaves
½ tsp. oregano leaves
I½ Tbs. salt
2 tsp. onion juice
I Tbs. dry mustard
I Tbs. paprika
11z Tbs. black pepper
Central Red Apple Market
Welcomes
CYCLE OREGON III
Help us celebrate our Grand
Opening!
Try our new Deli and Soft Frozen
Yogurt
And much, much more!
C:c•#T" AL) Special Bikers Hours
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Sunday 10 - 8
2 cups vinegar
I qt. salad oil
Mix and beat well all ingredients,
except salad oil. Marinate for 4
hours. Add salad oil just prior to ser-
ving. Can be served chilled.
Welcome to the HISTORIC
MORROW COUNTY COURTHOUSE
OPEN for your convenience
SUNDAY, SEPTEMB~R 9th
Tour Hours
7 p.m. till 9 p.m.
HEPPNER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
WELCOMES "HEPPNER SURVIVORS" OF THE FIRST LEG
OF
CYCLE OREGON ill - 9-9-90
•Washington - 126
• Alaska - I 0
•Colorado - 11
•Aorida - 19
•Idaho - 9
•Iowa - 6
•Louisiana - 4
•Massachusetts - I 0
•Mississippi - 3
•Nebraska - 2
•New J ersey - 8
•North Carolina - I
•Oklahoma - 1
*South Carolina - 0
*Texas - 18
*Virginia - 4
*Wyoming - 0
•Oregon - 1123
•Alabama - 1
• Arkansas - 0
•Delaware - 0
• Hawaii - 7
•Indiana - I
•Kentucky - 0
•Maryland - 5
• Minnesota - 5
•Montana - 3
•New Hampshire - 2
•New York - 5
•Ohio - 2
•Rhode Island - 3
•Tennessee - 0
•Vermont - 0
•Wisconsin - 4
CYCLE OREGON Cll
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by Jo McIntyre
(Editor' s Note: Reprinted from the
Aug. 1990 edition of Oregon
Business. Jo McIntyre is a free lance
writer.)
Fun on the 4th
Cycle m Gives New Meaning to Food
great swnner dish .'·
GARDEN MARINA TED SALAD
MORROW'S LUCK OF THE IRIS
Cycle Orepn Ill - l'li1
ns SUMMER STREET, N.E.
*California - 395
•Arizona - 4
*Connecticut - 3
•Georgia - 3
*ll1inois - 6
•Kansas - 2
•Maine - 0
• Michigan - 4
• Missouri - 0
•Nevada - 6
•New Mexico - 3
•Nonh Dakota - 2
•Pennsylvania - 5
• South Dakota - 0
•Utah - 5
•West Virginia - I
SALEM, OREGON 97310
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you're here and plan to return for our annual St. ,..._
Patrick's Celebration, Morrow County Fair & '--.. \
Rodeo, the Scenic Byway and visit parts of Morrow
County you missed.
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We're glad you came!
"PSW:HO~ ORE60fl
* Be s~re to get
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your Heppner Survivor Tee before you
pedal away over the rolling hills.
Heppner Chamber of Commerce, P.O. Box 1232, Heppner, Oregon 97836
" Nostalgically proud of their fami-
ly name and of their ance tors, the
wandering Celts have supplied to
each of their adopted countries an
exciting ancestral background, une-
qualed by any other national group.
Is there another nation on the face
of the earth whose history has not
recorded the valor, the courage, the
music, the social grace, the humor,
the intellectual brilliance and the
drinking ability and inability, of this
race of happy warriors whose wars
were merry and whose songs were
sad?" -John F . Kilkenny, Shamrocks
and Shepherds.
The power of family and ethnic
support to individuals searching for
new economic opportunities have
been responsible for major popula-
tion moves throughout history. Such
support to Irish settlers in eastern
Oregon, in particular Morrow Coun-
ty, was an important influence in the
early development of the state.
Although the first wave of im-
migrants came west in response to
religious zeal or the search of beaver
pelts, later waves were attracted by
an entirely different set of lures.
Among those lures was the freedom
of wide-open spaces. It was a power-
ful attraction to Irish immigrants,
many of whom established huge em-
pires based on sheep.
When the Irish began moving in-
to eastern Oregon, we can see both
family and ethnic ties at work.
Eastern Oregon was so sparsely
populated that other economic forces
did not affect the Morrow County
Irish immigrants until several
decades after their arrival.
For a few decades in Oregon, bd-
ween the early pioneer era and
modem times, the Irish were a po-
tent force in eastern Oregon.
A most eloquent description of life
in the high mountain desert is found
in Shamrocks and Shepherds: The
Irish of Morrow County, published
in 1969 by John F . Kilkenny, who
was born in Morrow County and
later became associate justice of the
U.S. Court of Appeals in San
Francisco.
Kilkenny claims, tongue in cheek,
that the ''the origin of the name
"Oregon" is that the area was
discovered, long before the advent
of the Indian , by a wandering group
of Celts under the command of one
Michael O ' Regon. Doubters have
failed to disprove this most plausi-
ble suggestion, and theirs, I feel , is
the burden of proof. "
Actually , the first recorded lrish
settler in the Heppner area was
William Hughes, who arrived in
1870. Hughes, born in County Tip-
perary in 1849, lived in California
a number of years before he moved
to Heppner. He went back to Ireland
for a visit, then returned to Heppner
"financing fanners and livestock
men, including many of the Irish,
until 1900 when he moved to
Portland.' '
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Sheep shearing on the Arthur Minor ranch near Heppner took a crew of
18 men two months. This photograph probably was taken about 1910.
unnecessary to arrange for winter
feed," Kilkenny noted.
Kilkenny wrote of his father:
' ' He was one of the first to use
power-driven
sheep-shea ring
machinery. One of the first to use
small tractors in fann operation .
The first to install electricity in the
ranch house and barn. One of the
first to install a telephone. One of the
continued, p.10
Hope you enjoy your
bicycle trip!
Rich & Shirley Swecker
Northwestern Motel & RV P ark
389 N . Main
He ppner, Oregon 97838
878 - 9187
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