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VOL. XXVII.
LAKE VIEW, LAKE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAR. 8, 1900.
NO. 10,
JOSEPH GASTON
VISITS COUNTY.
Says Lakeview Coming
IJiK City of liastern
Oregon.
RODE IN SLEIGH FOR 310 MILES.
Lakeview Will Have a Kallroad
From the 5outh Inside of
Cne Year.
Tlx following article was published
In l)n Oregon inn of Fob. '3!, written
ly JohIi t iaston, who made m trip
from Portland up the (.;oltnnMu river
to Biggs, where ho took tho Columbia
Ku t lnr ri mid traveled to Shittiiko.
Hero hi' embarked on tlx; stage, pass
ing through Priiiovlllo, Bend, hiicI nil
till) toWll lietWIWII lllTO uii1 KIlHIliko.
J In halted at Nilvcr Lake. Siiititin-r
Iako, Paisley hihI lakeview itul took
nolo. From Ijikoview ho went to
1'oUeguina, visiting all tin? town along
the route, where li again hoarded a
rallroml cur for Thrull, thence to
Portland. Hi' say from Bond to l'o
koguuia, a distance of U-Vl mile (ac
cording to actual count thi' distance
I IIIU Hlllo) ll took Olll' COIll illlloUM
sleigh rlilo In a confortahle cutter
Mr. (inKton picture tlm country an it
appeared to liiui :
The town of Silver I.ukc, near tlm
shore of the lake of that name, in
one of the oldest settlement in East
crn Oregon. Tlm town I well locat
ed on a plain overlook lug tlm lake,
which U VI mile long ami four mile
wide anil linn a great outlook to the
east over the no culled desert ami Is;
yond to tho grout Christmas Inke
Valley. Tliix town in tho natural cen
ter ami supply point for CrUtmii
I jik.i Valley, anil also for Sum. no)-'
Lake Valley, fc. I, inner !., sirou.y
alkaline, In 'i'i mile long, with a var
iahlo width of live to right miles,
Christum ImV Valley 1m a law vul
lev with a rich noil, producing fine
cropH of grain, hay and vegetables,
without irrigation, ami into whlo
there in now pouring a steady stream
of homoseckor, more than a hundred
claim having been taken lip within
the pant nix mouth.
'I'll ih town i mo Hituateil thai any
railroad pausing up tho I cchutc Val
ley must lie intersected hero ly any
railroad surveyed out. from Eugene
or Klamath Full ami running East to
Ontario. Here, too, tho first place
after leaving tho Columbia Kiver, .
found duo orchard producing llrst
clus apple, peaches, pear and other
fruit without any disturbance from
tho codling moth or other posts. It
altitude, NHiO feet above sea level,
urori'H too much for tho mot li or tho
scale.
Theno resources of agriculture u
groat boily of pino thiilier near by and
h probable railroad are sure to create
hero a largo city. ThiH wa tho Mecca
of the timber land locator before re
ferred to.
Paisley, 40 mile outli of Silver
Lake, named for Paisley in Scotland,
was our next stopping place. Hero the
Chowaucan River come down from
the mountain and spread over the
valley creating a wild grass marsh of
a hundred thoUHuml acre. "Chowau
cuu," I tho Indian mime for "potuto
Hold." In tho Willamette Valley tho
Indians culled rnich field "wupato"
Held, tho potutou bollix tho sumo
sort of a bulb lu both cue.
Hero tho Government will take the
waters of the river and irrigate 7.r),(XK)
acres of dry uplund, which, with the
"leclulmod murHhe, will make such a
grout body of very productivo land a
will booh inako tho town of Paisley
quite u flourishing little city. Hero
Luwronco Button Ainsworth, un en
terprising young business man ropro
scutlng In hi name two. of the oldest
fumllloH of Portland, and hi purtner,
Imve a largo hiuI prosperous general
store. The town ha two other store,
u lui'K'o HoiirliiK mill, two hotel ami
other busluos pluco, ami I prospect
ively h very lino business point.
Fifty miles nouth of Puisley wo coma
lo Lukevlew, within 15 luiloa of the
C'Ulifoiniu line, it location, within
throe inlleg of tho Ktout tiooso Luke,
which i iO mile in lcntfe'h and -0
miles wide, and with a fc'ieat, wide,
rich valley ou three Hide, give the
town a very extensive outlook. It I
proMperou place of 10()0 people, two
bank, two excellent ncwupaper, one
of which I printed and edited by
two yooiiK ladle, a dozen very lare
store, a plindlil three story brick
hotel, ably managed ; electric light
city water work and all the shops
and fraternal order of a live, op to
ilulo Western town. It I the county
wat of Lake county, with the United
State Ijiiml Olllce for the land dis
trict. The term lull of the railroad
running north from Iteuo, Nev., I
only ! mile distant, with practically
an open, level country lietwecn, assur
ing the extension of the road to Inka
view within a year. It ha boundless
aKi'ictiltual resource ull around, and
altogether it ha a certainty of becom
Intf the big town of Southeastern Ore
gon.
I'lnc Creek Mines.
The report conies from Alt urn that
the second payment on tho Wudo
Keeil 1'iummer mine at Pine Creek
wa received by K. Luuer A. Son lust
week, ami parties from Pine Creek
Saturday evening stated that tho lys
had received a check from Ijeveson
Sl Huntington who boudml the mine
hint summer.
This i alsxit tho most complicated,
mixed up deal we have ever heard of.
A well a we can rememls.r the re
ports came about thin way:
Some time lust spring, nearly a year
ago, Mr. I-veson, representing Love
sou A Huutiigton, came to look at the
Pine Creek mines and secured a bond
ou whut has Wen known a tho Wudo
Keiil Plummer mine. Various report
were in circulation a to tho amount
tif the llrst payment, but it i general
ly believed that about iVJtJO was paid
to tho three parties. A second pay
ment wa to be made ou Novem'o-r 8,
The report cum that 11 Luuer A
Son had tho money to make tho pay
ment ami the boy went to Altura to
get It. Lverything wus quiet for
u while and it wa said tho payment
wu not made. Trading among the
owner of the mine then commenced,
and it wa reported that Heed hud
bought tho other boy out, then that
Wudo hud bought all the inr"'
.lieu luiuiui-r hml oli to a iiiun at
Alturus, then the man at Altura had
sold to Mr. White of Willow lluuch
Then come a report that a Lo Aug
ele company had bought the miue
outright for .V2,(KN) ami hud made a
payment down. Now the report come
from Altura to tho elfect that the sec
ond payment ou tho mine from
Lcvesou A Huntington wa not duo
in Novebmer, but on the 'Jhth of Feb
ruary, and that K. Luuer A Sou had
received telegram authorizing them
to inako the payment.
Tho second company that bought the
mine are at work ou it with a force
of men.
It might be charged that The Exam
iner has not kept up very well with
tho reports from so important a ques
tion. Possibly so. Way along toward
the llrst of tho negotiation we learned
that lleo. II. AyreH, tho assayer, hud
secured a teuth interest in these min
es, and when those report 11 on ted out
over tho country we would gostruight
way to Mr. Ayrea and hi answer to
question satisfied us that no great
amount of reliance could bo placed un
tho various reports.
Tho truth of tho mutter is, the pros
pect ut Pino Creek are good, the to
pogmphy 1 good, the formal ion
good ; but no one hu yet found tho
ledgo, and no real expert hchivu hus
been mudo for it, and there 1 little
uho to look for it till the snow goes
out of the inouutuius, and some export
miner get in there ou term that he
cuu ullonl to prospect. Tho country
for mile around la staked oil' and no
mining man ia going to hunt for tho j
ledgo until he i assured of n substan
tial Interest in whut ia found or of be
ing well paid for his work.
Wo have followed the report ull tho
way through ami have given thorn
simply a re ports without enlarging
upon them or commenting ou them ;
wo intend to pursue tho same course.
Ah booh a dofluate and substuutltil
information comoa to light, then we
are ready to tell to tho world what i
here. There id no occasion for a
rush to tho Luko county mine until
it ia certainly known that something
good hus boon, actually discovered. A
rush would be fatal to tho country.
Jim Street passed through Lakevew
lust week on . his way to Cedurville,
whore ho was culled by telegram to
hla sick mother's bedside. Mr. Street
was a stockrulsor for years in the
Hum country, having went there
from Surprise Valley over '20 years
ago. He sold his stock und land some
months ago uud hu been living iu
Prineville.
ACTUAL WORK HAS
BEGUN
AH Effort Will be Turned to Getting Govern
ment Surveyors
At tlm meeting of tho Iuke County
Development Ieaguo held Monday
evening ut the court house more en
thusiasm wa shown than at any meet
nig yet hold. The report of tho com
mittee appointed at the previous
meeting were signed up and letter
were prepared to lie sent to each of
our representatives In congress, ahk
riiigres. BhK'
ttingthe de-
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11 lo peculiar,,, capui to undertake it, in fact
need of Lake county with a view toth,ro ftr rurUeg la jkevk,w who
having thi project placed on the gov-; , . . lh .
criiniciii a rocinmniion iirourum. it.
Daly and Daniel liooue were appoint-
eil a a committee to communicate
with the parties owning land on the
West Side in order to be able to mako
tho government a dcfluato proposition
to irrigate the lauds, so that, in case
the project was undertaken there
would Ite no delay in arranging detail
with tho land owners. Also to confer
with the Kooth Kelly Co. uud the Cox
ll- Clurk Co. and find out exactly upon
whut condition they would divide up
or sell or trade their land.
It will lie tho effort of the Develop
ment League to have the Government
engineer, tho Governor and the presi
dent of the N .C. (). Kail oad here to
look over the situation in June, and
by the time these men arrive here the
League will have every detail of the
scheme ' mapped out ami paper ready
From Che Rubber Fields.
Before arriving at the Iowa Rubber
lautatiou we hud obtained a glimpse
of the Lumuhu and Philadelphia plan
tations, while passsiug up the river iu
Ti oat
Our first ride upon horseback took
u alongside of the lute planting of
rublier, of tho Philadelphia planta
tion then from end to end of the Iowa
plantation with trees ranging in all
from one to six years old. After pass
ing through some virgin forest we
came to the liio Michul plantation,
with trees from ono to six years old,
riding the full length of tho planta
tion. After remaining over night, we
saw them tap a wild rubber tree and
suw tho process of making rubler,
ulso obtained somo milk of rubber
uud cured rubber to take with us to
our homes. From here we went by
cunoea up the liio Michul river, to
San Loandro, headquarters of tho
Chiapas Rublicr plantation. Iu going
from tho river and to San Leaudro, a
distance of one and a half miles, we
rodo umidst rubber treoa tho whole
distance. During tho afteuoon, and
for two duys following, we rodo
among tho rubber trees, ranging in
uk from one to six years old.
We examined tho soil carefully, ex
amined, and tapped many of tho trees
exporiuioutly, to see if all tho trees
would produce rubber. Also examin
ed tho recently acquired tract culled
Honita, where some fifteen or sixteen
years ago some two hundred trees had
been promiscuously planted, ranging
lu sio from saplings to trees lift y
feet high, and eighteen Inches iu di-
ametei, which all looked well, al
though having frequently imeu tupped.
The best growth of rubber trees we
saw on our trip was ou tne uniupu
plantation, Tho lauds adapted to tho
grow th of rubber is well underdraiu
ed, and visa versa About one-third,
possibly one half of these lauds are
adapted to tho growth of rublier, and
tho buluuco la rich soil that cau be
utilized iu the future for llonanas,
Fiber plants, etc.
The rubber trees ou this plantation,
from one to throe years old show a
splendid growth. Trees planted from
three to six years ago, show splendid
growth, where planted upon lauds well
uuderdraiued, and not too densely
shaded. Hut muuy of the earlier
plantings were planted iu too dense
shade and much of these plantings
show slow growth., however most of
the dense shade have been cut out,
and the trees given a chance to grow.
It la however, a common remark iu
the tropics, that all the pioneer plan
ters, mude the same or similar mis
takes. No one cau realize the stupen
dous undertaking, of begluuiug a new
iudustry like rubberuuless, they would
IN LEAGUE.
Here in June.
io sign up. lin n, after survey nre
completed and estimat of tho cost of
construction made, if the Govern
ment delays on account of a scarcity
of funds, private capital will be
sought to take up the work.
, The West Hide project is peculiarly
located and it is tho belief that its
cost will tie so small that no difficulty
Wiu encountered in inducing pri
will lj encountered in indncim? pri
from, if the government will
the survey and estimate the
ttt. ,
cost.
The
League ha actually gone to
work now, and wo may expect to see
results lefore many months.
There was a gentleman iu Lakeview
not long ago w ho stated to Dr. Daly
that if tho McCloud Railroad could
get a foot hold here in the way of a
patch of timber letween here and
Warner, the road would build to Lake
view at once. The McCloud people
are not talking much, but building
railroad a rapidly a possible, and
their compass point toward Lakeview.
Several hint have been dropped with
in the pust few weeks that indicate
that the McCloud ieople have their
eye ou Lakeview. Merrill will be di
rectly ou the route.
visit, the tropics, and as a matter of
course mistakes were sure to be made
iu the beginning of a new industry
Imagine if you can, going iuto a dense
forest, with large trees about one hun
drpl feet high and a dense under
growth from the ground up, costing
in Mexico money, from twenty five to
fifty dollars per acre. Next the cost
of planting the trees without any ex
perience to guide you, then the ex
pense of keeping down for a few years,
lue dense undergrowth that springs
up iu the Tropics after the timber has
been cut down and you may practical
ly realize the immense undertaking of
the Pioneers. The Chiapas plantation
has adapted what is called the high
shade system, which means that from
ten to thirty large trees to an acre are
left when clearing tho laud and
might add, is giving good results.
I saw considerable of the open cul
ture system which means to cut down
all the forest and depend upon shade
I for the trees, made by the new uuder-
i growth, lioth systems have their ad
j vantages and disadvantages, the pros
, and cons are many, which I w ill not
j now discuss.
Conclusions Summary.
I 1st. The Chiapas Rubber Plantation
Company claims to have five thousand
acres planted to rubber, containing
one million trees, which I can neither
confirm nor deny, but can say truth
fully, that they have sevend thousand
acres planted to rubber.
2nd. Tho plantation is in the rub
ber belt.
3rd. It has very rich soil, much
moisture, and shows wonderful possi
bilities of growth.
4th. The rubber trees will all pro
duce rublier.
0th. The rubber tree is hardy, heal
thy, aud of good longevity.
(Hh. The transportation to market
is by water (river to the pluntatiou, )
aud is very cheap.
7th. The rubber tree shows good
growth whereever it has beeu planted
in soil well uuderdraiued aud with the
proper amount of shade.
8th. lOper cout. of the product will
pay tho expense of tapping, curing
aud freight to market for tho reason
there is uo expensive machinery or
skilled labor required to produce
rubber, aud the Company has the ad
vantage of water transportation from
the pluntatiou to tidewater.
0th. The plantation of rubber trees
is past the experimental stage.
10th. Treea pluuted from one to
three yeara old show a good growth.
11th. Tho treos from three to six
years old show good groth wherever
they were planted lu proper soil, aud
not shaded too much. However, mauy
of the first plau tings were planted iu
too douse a shade w hich has materially
retarded their growth.
jiu. iue company can declare a
dividend next year, but it is not ad
visable, owing to condition of trees
mentioned In paragraph 11.
J.'lth. The' officers and Directors of
the Company are among the successful
and reputable business men of San
Francisco. (See Hradstreets Report.)
Hth. The present management at
the plantation is good, with minor ex
ception, and I believe the stock will
never lie cheaper than it is at this
time.
loth. For a long period investment,
I regard rubber culture one of the
very ijost.
10th. I have purchased twenty febur
es of the Chiapas stock, upon certain
conditions, and after a pretty thor
ough examination, at the plantation,
have retained the stock.
17tb. My estimate is that in the
course or three, possibly five years,
the stock will begin to pay interest
uou the investment, from which time
the dividends will gradually increase
from year to year, slowly at first, for
twenty-five to iifty years, beyond and
practical computation.
Yours respectfully,
8. V. Rehart.
Library Meeting.
The annual meeting of the Lakeview
Reading Room and Library Associa
tion was held at the Court House Sat
urday evening. While the attendance
was not large, it certainly was a rep
resentative gathering and all seem
ed thoroughly interested in the organ
ization. After the business part was
disposed of tho election of officers
took place.
During the past year those in charge
have attended so well to the duties
imposed on them and the future or
ultimate success of any organization
is generally dependant on its past
achievements the sentiments expressed
were in favor of re-electing the offi
cers. 1ms was met with beartv aD-
provaL The officers elected are :
Mrs. E. E. Rinehart, President,
Mrs. W. IL Shirk Vico-President,
Mrs. J. N. Watson. Treasurer, the
office of secretary being vacant, Mrs.
A. Bieber was elected secretary. The
trusteed are Mii. V. L. Sueliiug, Mrs.
W. P. Ilei-yford, Mrs. S. B. Chandler,
Mrs. J. Norin, Miss Pearl HalL Mrs.
A. Bieber, Mr. E. E. Rinehart.
Dr. Daly in a few well chosen re
marks expressed his confidence in the
future of tho organization and what a j
good thing it is for a town, interior
as Lakeview, to have the benefits of a
Reading Room and Library. The en
vironment means bo much for the
children of the town and to strangers
it present the appearance of culture
and progressiveness. Dr. Daly has
donated tho building used for the
Reading Room free of rent for anoth
er year.
Juvenile Needle Club.
There ia one organization iu Lake-
view that, so far as we know, has
never been honored with notoriety,
not becuuse of its insignificance, nor
because sweetness and all that. is love
ly on earth did not attend its meet
ings, but just simply because the
overgrownuess of the world, this, the
very budding of future worldliness
was overlooked in the rush for a place
in the ranks of notoriety for he could
make the biggest uoise. For want of
a more appropriate name for this club,
wo will refer to it as the Juvenile
Needle Club. These little buds of
spring, from which blossom flowers
sweeter than the honey-suckle, more
beautiful than the rose and more love
ly than the morning-glory meet at
convenient times and places, under
the guidance of mothers, and are en
tertained iu regular juvenile fashion.
At these meetings the dollies' clothes
are cut out aud made just to lit.
Ribbons and bows aud flub dubs are
neatly-stitching precise sewed on
pink and blue doll dresses, and dollie
is all togged out to suit the tastes of
these little women of the world to
morrow.
Tho last plaeo of meeting was at
Mrs. P. E. Harris', whore the follow dug
members were most tenderly enter
tained aud cured for :
Mary Heryford.'Mario Rehart, Lu-
cilo Bailey, Floy Bernard, Laura
Wright, Belle i Chandler, Ruth Pat
terson, Elsie Post, Gladys Chandler,
Mildred Heryford, Virginia Harris.
Miners have gone to work again ou
the Paisley mines. We have stated
before that a tunnel wus driven into
the hill diroctly under the shaft sunk
by the Gaylord s. This tunnel is 150
feet long and strikes the ledge 75 feet
from the surface of the ground. They
are going down on the ledge now at
the end of tho tunnel, aud the pros
pects are good.
HIGH SCHOOL FOR
"COW" COUNT,,
Nothing too Advanced for
What Was One Time
The Frontler-
SMAIL TAX LEVI WILL SUFFICE.
rialheur County Will Build High
School and educate its Chil
dren at Home.
The accompanying article clipped
from the Malheur Gazette, published
at Vale in Malheur county, shows
what is being done in that cow county
for the sons and daughters of the men
engaged in the chief industry of Mal
heur county. The people of that coun
ty have realized the necessity of bet
ter schools and are taking steps to
meet the requirements. A long time
ago a high school was considered too
much of a luxury for the counties of
Eastern Oregon, termed cow counties,
bat in later years when people of all
countries and of all walks of life are
striving to the highest level of civiliz
ation, no luxury is beyond the grasp
of the enterprising occupants of what
was one time the frontier of frontiers.
There was a period in the isolated
sections of Oregon when the people
had no intention of making a perma
nent home in "this out of the way
place." They did not intend to reaj:
their families here, and had no need
for only the ordinary things and com
forts of life ; they were here to make
money and only a few years was re
quired to make a start in ilfe, and
hardships and deprivation could be
tolerated for the period necessary to
make a small fortune when they could
return toJI.$ ud of rujcury, where
their children could be educated.
Little by little civilization creeped
upon the country, and as the children
grew up the heads of families grew
more reluctant to leave the land of easy
money, and the rising generation
grew to look upon the quaint and
meekly-constructed abodes as home,
and the expanse of free and unoccu
pied territory and the miles of Undo
Sam's domain as fields of freedom and
the memory of crowded cities and
compact settlements seemed a coop
to them, until they too, became heads
of families, with the love of freedom
and a fondness for the country that
had fed them health and strength.
Today, what was once the "cow
country," is the center of attraction
of the entire Northwest, and Eastern
people are looking longingly for the
opportunity to gain a home here.
Why not then prepare to make these
much sought homes complete with all
the comforts and necessities of life?
A petition for the establishment of
a county high school is out and re
ceiving universal endorsement, as far
as has been learned, luid is a pro
gressive step by the citizens of Mal
heur county.
The need for such an institution has
long been felt. Too mauy pupils have
beeu forced to go outside of the coun
ty to complete their education, and
others, unable to be at tho great ex
pense incident upon attending college,
have beeu forced to stop school with
(he limited knowledge gained ia the
lower branches. A county central
High School should meet with the ap
proval of all. Malheur Gazette.
Explosion at Hayden Hill.
As a result of digging into an un
exploded dynamite charge iu a miue
at Hayden Hill a week ago last Mon
day, R. A. Palmer is dead and E. P.
Highett has one arm and one leg brok
en. Mr. Highett is a brother of Wal
ter Highett, and lived here with
Walter about a year. Mr. Palmer was
a young man 22 years old, and sup
ported a mother aud sister at Adin,'
Calif.
Looking For Homes.
We are iu receipt of a letter from
tho Canadian Pacific Development
Co., asking for information about
Lake county and soliciting the name,.')
of dealers iu farm lauds. This com
pany has located several colonies in
the West and are now seeking a field
for another colony.