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0 MEDFORD MAIL THIBUNt. MEDFORD. OREGON SUNDAY. JULY 22, 1962 ranite Slab Marks Grave of Father, Sons By DOROTHY STrwioT Mail Tribune Correspondent Yreka - Moris a lonesome read south of Yreka. Calif., Hands a slab of dirty gray Kranite inscribed with the names of a father and three sons. Hiram Page, the father, and his two oldest sons, Salathiel and Balphor, died Sept. 6, 1863. The third son, Julian, died nearly a year later, July 14, 1864. There is no other evidence of life near the tombstone site. The headstone is not tend led. What the four died from, and why they died so close in time to each other, remains a 1 mystery. The two older sons I were 14 and 13 years old, and (Julian was either six or nine years old. Rich In History rorthern California is rich in the history of the gold seekers. Gold was discovered in 1851 on the site of the pres ent city of Yreka. In 1852, the California state legislature passed a bill making a county by the name of Siskiyou. They named Yrcka as the county seat. There is a main road near the trail where the grave is. called Greenhorn rd. This the thoroughfare was named be cause one day many years ago a young well-dressed English man came along the creek bed where all the old miners were panning and working the streams for gold. He asked if he might try his hand at it, and immediately struck it rich. This traditional "green horn luck" gave the road its claims of Lorenzo Ladd and came from some other part of his brother. Records of this!1"'' country, and settled in Unusual Camping Trip Planned name. The buttes of this area are an east and west spur of the Greenhorn mountains, and on the side of one of these is the area that evidently belonged to Hiram Page. On Aug. 28, 18H2, a deed was made over to Page by George P. Furber and his wife for a parcel of land bounded on the east by Main rd. (High way 99) and on the south by Greenhorn rd. On the west, the land was bounded by the range of Greenhorn hills, and on the north by the land deed have been found in the Siskiyou County Recorder's office. Further back in the records can be found evidence of deeds held by Page. In 1853, Page s old land to Charles Jacquith and Oliver Randall, as well as to John Cook. The land was located on Miner st., j It is not known who buried the main east-west street in ; them or even if they died all Yreka where all the gaming j together. houses and trading places ; A possibility is that the were located. I family were victims of an lu ll would appear from this i dian attack. There is evidence evidence that Hiram Page I of an uprising of I lie Klamath Yreka with a wife and two sons. Records Not Available Past this point no records are available to tell what hap pened to the Page family. There is no death certificate to be found since county rec ords go back only to 1873. Indians about this time, but it was down the Klamath riv er and probably did not reach as far east as Yreka. ; Another possibility is that they were the victims of a i grudge fight for the property, .which perhaps was rich in gold. If Hiram Page and his j two older sons were inur- dered, it is possible that the i murderers kept after Julian until they found and murder ed him also. However, this does not explain the lack of mention of Mrs. Page. Another Reason Noted Still another reason might have been an epidemic. There is knowledge of a diphtheria epidemic in Scott Valley dur ing the fall of 1863. There must have been B 3 someone In the community j will be discovered. It is in who cared about the Page deed strange that a family family, since they were bur- could be born, live, and die ried on their own land, and with no other tangible evi a headstone was erected. ! dence of their lives than 1 It is probable that what few paper deeds and a gran killed the Page family never i ite tombstone. VALLEY LOCKERS & MEATS Talent, Oregon Phone S3S-1382 BUDDY CARR GRANVIL BRITTSAN Custom Cutting and Wrapping Alio Pickup and Butchering Service WE DELIVER Grain-Fed Beef, Pork and Lamb By BOB VROMAN Mail Tribune Staff Writer An unusual camping trip is In store for a group of some 20 outdoor-minded Oregon lans this August. ' There will be no hot dogs, no flapjacks or bacon and eggs cooked over the camp fire. In fact, there will be no food at all in the hikers' ruck f acks. The party intends to "live off the land" in the remote Three Sisters wilderness area in central Oregon for a period of 10 days, eating only what they can scrounge off moth er nature. Headed by experienced na turalist Odd Bjerke, the group will partake of such wild foods as boiled skunk cabbage, various roots and M 'fl fe 't -ft 11 TO LEAD GROUP Naturalist Odd Bjerke, above, will lead a group of 20 campers into the Three Sisters wilderness area in August on an unusual "outing." The party will live off the land for a period of 10 days. Wild plants, fish, frogs and berries will be on the menu for members of the wilderness survival course. GET A $ HANDY HUNDRED $ on signature only ilSr---- Loans to $1500 ,' 2., JLJJ ffvJi Home Owned I Operated i IMtf "MONEY FROM ffS CRATER FINANCE MONEY FROM HOME" Vf 'JWNSSK ' 'B CRATER FINANCE 135 PINE CE?L 664-1273 g herbs, berries, trout or per haps an occasional water snake or frog legs. A Training Course "This excursion is not an experiment. Rather it is a training course in wilderness survival," Bjerke explained. "It will involve the physio logical and psychological as pects of survival training and members of the party will learn first hand how to pro cure and prepare wilderness foods," Bjerke added. Bjerke himself has lived under such conditions, eating porcupine, roasted grasshop pers, squirrel and wild grass es. Cat tail and water lily roots and fir needle tea have served as fare around his eve ning campfire. He claims that it is no problem at all to get one's 1,500 calorics daily from nature's stpre. The trek will begin with a two-day indoctrination ses sion at Diamond lake YMCA camp, where Bjerke is camp director this year, and the group will proceed to Scott lake on the fringe of the wil derness area by bus. Here they will see the last of civil ization for the 10-day period . . . with one exception. Load of 'Goodies' On the fifth day out, an airplane will drop a load of ''goodies'' by parachute. There will be fresh meat, bread, vegetables and perhaps even ice cream . . . enough for a good meal for every one. Then the group will be back on its own resources for the rest of the period. The party will consist of boys 14 years of age and over, as well as adults. A south ern Oregon physician and a minister will be among those making the trip. Bjerke said there are still a few openings to round out the roster and that he would welcome young men with camping experience (and an unfussy appetite) to join them on the venture. Inquiries may be sent directly to the Dia mond lake YMCA camp, he said. One of Best Qualified Bjerke, who is well known for his ouidocr adventure films, and who was one of the ' leaders of the Geophysical Year expedition to the Green land ice cap, is probably one of the best qualified men in i the field of wilderness s'lr vival in the world today. 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