Poem on Early Road
Building on the Santiam
The following is a clipping taken
from The Statesman back in 1030,
which tells of early road building on
the Santiam.
A subscriber thought
it good reading so sent it in for pub
lication:
“List to me good people, all, with
patience if you can.
I'll* sing you of a jovial crew that
lived by Santiam,
Who started out to clear a route to
eastern Oregon,
And make, to join our people, one
more enduring band.
Across the Cascade range to go, amid
great mountains white with snow,
Where tallest firs and cedars grow
and coolest, brightest waters
flow.
A jolly band of mountain men
As ever threated gorge or glen;
1 say this truly—well I can;
I knew these boys of Santiam.
In early June the camp was set,
and then the work began.
Tho’ woods were damp, the weather
wet, and every gully ran,
This did not stay their ardent zeal;
they use the lever, t>ly the steel
Of saw. of ax, of sledge or wedge,
as cut or break their way
they can.
Up through rough canyons broad and
deep, past frowning
precipice steep.
With Wasco plains their goal their
calm determined way they keep.
A plucky band of mountain men
As ever threaded gorge or glen;
I say this truly—well I can
I knew those boys of Santiam.
Thus, like a band of brothers
joined, they worked their
eastward way,
No servile Asiatic men, driven by
grim want for pay,
But self respecting citizens, who
"ell their public interests ken,
And know what makes good
highways is work becoming
kings of men.
And when a day of rest they take,
some cull the rare plants
from the brake,
Some plumb the depths of mountain
laeks, some scale the heights
of Jefferson.
A band of keen, observing men
As ever threaded gorge or glen;
I say this truly—well I can;
I knew these boys of Santiam.
And when, in camp, for food or
rest this party did convene.
The song, the story, and the jest
were not their only theme;
From game and range and public
lands to the world’s wants
their talk expands.
How Europe on our plows depends
7—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21. 1954
and to what shores our trade
extends;
Fair woman’s beauty, man’s good
name, the statesman’s wisdom,
soldier’s fame.
The school, the pulpit, and the pen,
passed in review
before them then.
Such were the boys of Santiam,
On mountain top or shady glen.
Include our cooks—our party, then,
W’ere pretty girls and honest men.
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