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VOL. XXVIII.
LAKE VI KW, LAKE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST i. 1907
NO, 33
BY SILVER
CITY TRAIL
Military Road Uniting
, Idaho with Oregon.
LAKEVIEW IN MIDST OF GRANT-
An Historic 1-and flrant In a
Country tf Wondeious
Riches.
Id tha yea I turned Intl y follow lug
lb Civil warr men looked toward the
went. Tho call ot t tie frontier fell oir
uiany listening ear mid willing heart.
Tha prairie couutrjr from the great
lake to the Missouri river, had been
taken liy homesteaders. Leyoud the
Missouri waa th f.rcirl American des
ert. The Union Pacific was binding
it bands of steel to the sandy waste
from Omaha to Choyonue, and there
was talk ufjother transcontinental rail
road tm lid I n to the northward. where
mull with tratiHit and lovd were leav
in(C trail of grade stakes across the
bleak Dakota lnlna. All roads seem
d to lead toward the great, unknown
Oregon country, where n new itnte
had been carvel out, after a quarter
of a century of druggie between the
American settler uud the Hudson Huy
Company 'a factor over pOHsesHiou of
the rich Columjdu river territory and
It natural resources.
Adventuresome men of the Middle
Wont, looking loonglngly toward the
Par I do Slope, pointed their rairie
jcbnouera toward Oregon. Their des
tination waa Western Oregon, or the
Willamette valley, then the only known
Labitabtii poition of the new state.
To and over the Korkics it waa a
hiaxori trail iJtil wjoiiii, mys
tery. Thero werp few with hardihood
onough to uudertaku to cross Central
or Southern Oregon. The way dowu
Snake river to tho Columbia aud
thence to Astoria or l'ortluud waa a
ion if traverne, fraught with heart
breaking toil by laud, and dauber by
boat or raft. The demand went out,
and leached Washington, for a direct
wagon road ucromt Oregon to the head
water of tho Willamette river.
The government and state rsponded
by making a deal with tho Oregon
Military Koad Land Grant Company,
which undertook to construct a trail
from Silver City, Idaho, to Lakevlew,
thence northweHterly to the summit of
the CaHcado mouutaitiH, near Odell
lake, and dowu into the Willamette
valley, with Eugene na the western
terminal. The distance waa upwardu
of four hundred mi Ion. For build inn
thia trail the company received every
alternate section of laud in a strip
twelve milcfl wide following the route
aelected. Thia waa tho first of the
great historic laud giants given us the
price of ad") Union of the early i id hi 1 -grant
into tho Oregon country, and
at nee that time thcHO Kraut a bave held
hundreda of thousands of acred scgre
gated and unused, owing to the dila
tory policy of the holders, and tho
lack of colonization Irrigation aud
transportation . For many years they
were regarded an to many incubuses
upon the state , retarding its develop
ment. Hut today, when good land
are becoming more difficult to score
at low cost, the opoulnug of these
grant lauda to settlement will prove to
be a great boon.
The early argonaut, Oregon bound,
passed unseeing over a country in Ne
baska or perhaps Kaunas, or the Dako
taa, that has since taken rank among
the Idghly productive areas of the
Union. He saw it not. Prodding hla
oxen onward, his gaze toward the
Pacific, he passed mauy times over
lands that held wealth iucalcuable for
the seckor, bad he but know. Then
he crossed the Suake river, and, at
Silver City, Idaho, hit the trail of
the Oregon Military Road Company
and followed It for four hundred
miles westward, across one of the
greatest plateaus known to civilization
u series of high valley, aud nearly
level (lining extending from tho Owy
heo mountains to thrCtiscadoH. The
man who would follow this trail even
today must Lave a tireless stride and
a strong lieurt, and be equipped with
horses or u good team aud well pro
visioned outfit. Much of tho way Is
through a country as virgin tm the
prehistoric ntid denuded hills when
the glacial ice cup has passed. There
are etrttobea of grans grown valleys
miles of silent bench lands, uud other
m dea of well watered biodns where no
human sound ever broke the solitude
of centuries.
That the whole of Inferior Oregon
waa once tho ted of thePaclflu ocean
baa been proved beyond question by
the I j vent (gallons of Professor Thomas
Condon, Dr. Diller and other noted
geologists. That the region waa later
a tropical country, han been equally
established. Numerous discoveries of
the bones of these animals, and rocks
containing the perfect imprint of the
plants of the tropics, have been made,
and It Is no longer an occasion for
surprlso when well diggers or irriga
tion excavators unearth tho fossil re
mains of a camel or a broad-faced ox.
Within recent years mauy foosil beds
of Maut If ul pulm leaves have been
found in eastern Oregon. The Cas
cade hills, Jtlue mountains and Owy
hee, ouco islands surrounded by
tropical lakes, were covered with lux
lira nt growth, forest and flowering
shrubs, for Kuowlton tells us the
magnolia and clnuumon and fig trees
were there, and ixifore the Eocene ag
had passed there came tho seven
species of oak. Professor Diller, who
has made a careful study of the field,
says the largo basins were lake lnd in
the Miocene and Koceno ages,' and
thus explains why one may find Hoc
cue leaves exposed by a fresh laud slid
in some ravine, and within a few
miles coino upon a rhltioccrous sku'l
protruding from a hillside that was at
one time the sediment of at Miocene
hike. The region now Malheur, liar
ney aud Lake counties was in that
ancient period a country of beautiful
lakes, with moist, warm climate, lux
urant vegetation, vust forests and
many itrange animals.
Today the soil present a finely
ground mixture of bnsult and volcanic
ash, containing the elements of
most fertile soli, and when properly
watered producing enormous crops of
vegetables, fruits and grain common
to tmerate zones. The climate bus
lenn changed, says Professor Condon,
by thl i f Ming of Oar xj rre,
shutting from the interior tho sotten
iug influence of the Jopau current and
the drift of ocean fogs and clouds.
The traveler across this wonderful
country duds but one sveue of great
violence in trio topsgraphy, in llarny
county, where the buck bone of the
Steins mountains extends across the
California boundary to Ilooue lake,
jtnd gives off from its summit the mar
velous drainage system of the Don
ueruud lllit.en rivers flowing to the
northwest iuto Malheur lake. The
historic wagon trail wltb its twelve
mile strip of garut lands crosi-es this
range at Andrews, betweeu two big
lakes limpid crystals iu the foot hills,
supplying water that doubloss vill be
utilized to irrigate the lower plains
anil and increase the value of thous
ands of acres from their preseut nomi
nal (trice to 1200 uud $.100 per acre.
Through the Jordan valley aud out
across the Malheur plains the route
across the Owyhee river and two of
its tributaries, seeking tho water levels
that embrace tho southerly foot hills
of the Steins muuutaius. The eleva
tion of the Malheur county, generally,
Is about 2200 foot higher than tho val
leys of the Snake, Owyhee tend Mal
heur rivers. Iu these valleys the to
mato, water melon aud other cuccul
eut vegetables grow with singular
abuudance and flavor, as they do in
the particularly favored Gatlow,
Warner and (loose Lake valley further
west.
This region traversed by the grant,
while largely lucking auiface water,
has artesian capabilities that constant
ly surprise he investigator. Artesian
wells are struck at a minimum depth
of fifty-four feet. Malheur county
has mauy warm springs. Indications
of oil, natural gaa aud coal have
recently attracted much atteutiou, and
companies are now being formed to
carry on investigations.
Deceudlug the west slope of the
Steins motiutalns the traveler passe
through a beautiful region known
locally as the Cutlow valley, iu Harney
county. On alternate sections of
luud not embraoed in the wagon trail
grant, settlers have for years demon's
strated this region's great produc
tivity. It Is seldom visited by snow
fall that covers tho ground any con
siderable number of days. The alti
tude Is great, the air pure and invig
orating, the summer mouths bright
aud warm and the nights cool. No
throat or lung troubles ure known,
aud there is an entire abuonoe of in las -
uiatlo conditions. All kinds of Ore
gon a ruinous fruits ae grown, una
never fulling crops of vegetables, and
grains, but only for home consump
tion until the rullrouds now projected
through Central Oregon are complet
ed.- The principal industry at pres
ent Is stock raising which Is highly
profitable. While most of the forage
Is wild hay, mauy ranches have seeded
alfalfa field that yield two or three
crops annually. The wild meadow
grasses are blue joint, red top, clover
and sugar grass. The foot hill ranges
are covered with bunch grass, sheep
fescue and wild rye.
Harney is one of the most interest
ing regions in Oregon. The products
include wheat, oats, barley, rye, sugar
beets, alfalfa, potatoes, apples, pears,
plums, peaches, grapes, berries and
vegetables. On much of the so called
sage brush lauds wheat Is grown profi
tably. Winding between lakes and gently
sloping bills, and over sage brush
olalus, and steering their course by
most convenient water levels, tbe sur
veyors of the land grant road crrossed
the southern part of Lake county,
skirting within a few miles of the
California liue and embracing within
tho grant a large aiea of tbe great
(loose Lake "valley. Here the town of
Lakevlew later sprang up, and became
the metropolis of that region and
county seat of Lake county. It is lo
cated about the middle of the twelve
mile strip. To the east and north, at
the bondary of tbe stlrp, lie tbe Windy
Hollow hills, where recently prospec
tors uncovered wonderful dykes of ore
that yield from $12 to ?H00 gold, per
ton.
(ioose Luke valley, one of tbe larg
est of tbe strictjy agricultural or rath
er fruit areas in the grant, surrounds
the town of Lakevlew in a radjus of
twenty miles. It produces all tbe
fruit, vegetables and grain that first
made Lake county known through ex
hibitiou by private citizens, of a few
county products at the recent xposi
tion at Portland. The applos, pears,
peaches, potatoes and other vegeta
bles weie pronounced equal to tbe
fruits that are exported to Europe
and tbe Orient. There is over f 1000
on deposit iu the banks iu Lakevlew
f,.r .v,.rv v,r In I h rmintr "
From Lake county tbe grant pene
tratos Klamath county to the east liue
of tb-t Klamath Indian Reservation.
An abundance of water makes this
region readily capable of irrigation.
The government is at present con
structing in Klamath county the larg
est inigation system iu the Northwest,
to cost 91,000,000 aud reclaim three
hundred thouasnd acres. Beyoud the
Indian Reservation, from its west
line to the summit of tbe Cascades,
the graut lauds are heavily timbered,
aud valunble for their fir, hemlock,
sugar pine aud larch. At the summit
the old Military road crosses the
range, through a pass south of Crscent
lake, and drops iuto tho Willamniette
valley, where at Eugene tho travelers
end one of the most interesting journ
eys on the coutineut.
PREPARING THIi CONVICT FOR EXECUTION.
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PHOTO BY
I Winjrfield V'slUOId Home
I George Wlngfletd. the Goldfleld Mil
lionaire, and C. A. Londy, a Reno
automobile dealer, arrived here from
Rend last Friday night in George's
big, white automobile. They came
from Reno to Cedarvllle in ton hours'
run, (hen learlng Cedarvllle at 2:'S0
P. M. Friday they came to Lakevlew
that night. Mr. Wingfleld said had
it not been f of the muddy roads,
caused by the rain the day before,
they could bave driven from Cedarville
In three and one half hours. This
would have covered the distance of 2T5
miles In thirteen and one-balf hours,
or nearly 20 miles on hour. His GO
'horse power machine will carry blrn
CO miles an hour on good roads, but
few people care to ride quite so fast.
George has been treating bis old
friends to automobile rides and hav
ing a general home visit in tbe town
of his boyhood days. He wlil remain
in this county a month, visitl-g bis
mother, Mrs. Wingfleld and bis sister
Mrs. C. E. Campbell of Paisley and
his brother, Morris of Warner. George
looks like he always did, only be is
heavier than he osed to be. He a tbe
same jolly, good fellow.
R. T. Strlplln Back.
R. T. Strlplln and family returned
from San Francisco Sunday evening.
Mrs. Striplin has entirely recovered,
a fact which ber many friends here
are rejoiced to know.
Mr Striplia says that San Francis
co is about as near hobbled on account
of the strife between labor and capital
as a city can well be, and is getting
no better fast. He has grave appre
hensions concerning the future of
that city unless conditions change,
and neither side seem to be giving in.
He says that any man with an old
skate of a horse can make $10 a day
hauling people 'about tbe city in any
kind of an old f hack of a wagon or
cart. He says wages are high, bat it
aooui an a man can scaxpe up vo
Tn7 nt and bay the necessaries ofJorn iu Tyrone connty, Ireland, bat
life.
Aline Explosion.
An explosion occuired at tDe Bald
Mountain quicksilver mines 20 miles
east of Bid well one day last week
which resulted in tbe death of Earl
Rathbun, aged 21 years, who was
working in the mine with auother
man. Tbe two men were working in
a shaft about 15 feet deep. Ratbburn
went out to prepare a charge of dyna
mite aud shortly tbe explosion was
beard by tbe man in the shaft, who
went out, to find Ruthburn horribly
mangled He died three hour's later
and tbe remains were shipped toColu
sa county for burial. Tbe young
mans' father and brother were at the
mine, but not preeeut when tbe ex
plosion occurred. A dog was killed
at the same time.
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L. L. HOPKINS, SHANGHAI.
Death of Joe Harvey.
Mrs. Win. Harvey, of this city re
ceived a telegram last Saturday giv
ing her tbe sad newa of tbe sudden
death of ber brother-in-law, Joseph
Harvey, of Sao Francisco. Hot a few
days before she had received a letter
from him and be was apparently as
well as usual, although bis health has
not been good since tbe death of his
dearly loved bi other, Win. Harvey.
Since bis death, he has failed great
ly. Mr. Joe Harvey bad accumulated
quite a fortune in tbe race horse busi
ness in San Francisco. He bad been
a trusted advisor for Mrs. Harvey in
Lakeview since tbe death of ber bos
band, Wm. Harvey, a little over a
year ago. Tbe shock waa a terrible
one to Mrs. Harvey, and she waa
quite ill for a conple of days. Joe
waa a geperal favorite with tbe family,
just like an own brother, and he wor
shiped, and was greatly loved, by
bis nephews, Willie and Joseph Har
vey, who feel his death keenly. Be
sides the loss of a kind brohter-inlaw,
bis death has taken from Mrs.
Harvey an advisor in basineas deal
ings that will be difficult to replace.
Mrs. Harvey wired a request for
the body to be held until she could
reach tbe city, bat as the funeial
bad been delayed nntil the latest
possible date, for arrival, and a de
lay in tbe telegraphic service had oc
curred, she received an answer stating
that conditions were each that It was
impossible to wait longer, and on
Monday tbe funeral took place in
San Francisco, the remains being
laid to rest in the cemetery at San
Mateo, by the side of his brother.
Win. Harvey.
Tbe San Francisco Chronicle says
of the death:
Joe Harvey, tbe well known sport
ing man, died last evening of typhoid
pneumonia. He had been ill for ten
days, aud at one time it was thought
I that he would pall through.
Harvey
nad an adventurous career, lie waa
came to Ca'ifornia as a boy. He
started !ife as a dry goods clerk, bat
eventually drifted into gambling. He
was a much shrewder man than gener
ally credited, and soon amassed a for
tune. In the early days he conducted
a wheel of fortune at county fairs.
At one time he owend a few race
horses, but , he was never enamored
with the game. He won some money
during bis connection with the turf,
as he was especially fortunate in own
ing tbe good race mare Wheel of For
tune. In recent years he conducted
the Suusalito pool rooms in connect
ion with Frank Daroux. These rooms
were a veritable mint for their owners.
Joe Harvey enjoyed the reputation
of being a square sport, and his word
was as good as his bond. He was a
great money maker, and leaves a for
tune to his wife, Louise Harvey,
whom he married five or six years ago.
Tbe deceased was 51 years and 8
months old, and bad a wide acquaint-,
auce all over tbe Coast.
Joe Harvey befriended many a man
iu San Francisco. He helped out
Charley Fair on riany an occasion,
especially before be came into his
wealth. Harvey was also a stanch
friend of tbe late Chief Lees.
Dodge-Finley.
Married, at the home of the bride's
parents Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Finley,
about three miles from ly, ou Thurs
day evening at 9:30, Mr. Frank E.
Dodge, of Glendale, Oregon, aud Miss
Cora Finley, Rev. Geo. T. Pratt offici
ating. Miss Finley is quite well
kupwu in Klamath Falls, having spent
some time here. Mr. Dodge, whose
people live in Ashlaud, is a telegraph
operator in the employ of the Southern
Pacific company at Glendale. Mr. and
M ra. Dodge are iu Klamath Falls this
evening ou their way out to Gleudule,
where they will reside. Klamath Falls
Herald.
Misa Fiuley is well aud favotably
known iu Lakoview, having conducted
a photograph gallery here for a year
or so. While here she gaiued tbe
friendship of all she met aud everyoue
who bad the pleasure of getting ac
quainted with her have raasuns for
congratulating the happy groom.
The fuut that Mr. Stradley, head en
gineer of the railroad surveying crew
located here, is investing in real
estate near Lakeview looks somewhat
encouraging for railroad building. We
understand that Mr. Strudley is a
part purchaser iu the section recently
purchusod by Mr. 11. A. Hunter from
l' M. Mller and F. P. Lane west of
I town on the slash road.
STOCK AND LAUD
SALESJTHIS WEEK.
Activity in Land Trans
action Active.
SHEEP ANDCATTLE MOVING.
Fields Property Sold. Sherlock
Residence and Many
Other Properties.
C. II. McKendree bought the Man-
ring residence, In tbe month of Bal
lard canyon, one of the most beautiful
residences in Lakeview, for $'2500.
A. L.-Thornton purchased tbe Boyd
residence, just south of tbe Opera
House, on Water street, for $1000.
G. L. Holbrook bought tbe Mrs.
Blair residence on Water street, for
(2350, tbe property consists of three
lots and one house.
The Fields property was sold last
Saturday. L. F. Conn bought the
residence for 12000 we understand,
taming it over to Geo. Chandler and
wife.
II. W. Drenkel bought tbe north
went corner of tbe block, on which is
barn, for S350.
W. II. Shirk and 1L A. Hunter
bought tbe southwest corner and ware
house for $1025.
The Public Reading Room and Li-
biary Association bought the J. M.
Handley property adjoining tbe Asso
ciations property on Bear street, next
to tbe City Hall, paying 1250 for it.
Albert Dent and O. T. McKendree
bought the Walter Sberlcok residence
property on Water street ,one of tbe
finest residence properties in Lake
view. The price paid waa $3000.
JJw , llanter, Phil Lynch snj C..
E. SUcrlc ;k bought tbe two Fisher
ranches on the west side, consisting'
of about 500 acres; Tuesday.
O. T. McKendree bought tbe Con
ley and MeCall sheep at Silver Lake,
2000 in number. Ewes and lambs, .
at $1.25 for ewes and $2,75 for lambs,
to be delivered at Horsefly, in Kla
math county.
Edson L. Foulke, tbe Gazzelle cattle
buyer bought tbe XL beef form F. M.
Green. The bunch will number in the
neighborhood of 800 head.
A. II. Mclnnis bought 4000 lambs
from O. T. McKendiee, paying $3.05
a head, the highest price yet paid for
lambs. The lambs are to be'delivered
in Modoe county the 8th of October. .
Mclnnis went to tbe lava beds Tues
day to buy one or two other bunches,
and will then pull out for Red Bluff.
He tvill bave then bought about 20,000
head of sheep in this section of
country. The lambs will be kept over
till next spring when tbey will be
muttoned.
Pine Creek to Celebrate.
Arrangments have been completed,
dates set and the program arranged
for the grand celebration to be held
at Pine Creek in September. The pro
gram, published in Tbe Examiner
this week, is a neatly arranged one,
affording tbe greatest amount of
pleasure and an opportunity for the
visitors to see what the State Line
City can do in tbe way of entertain
ing the public, alo the best exhibit
of tbe resources of the surrounding
country. The event will be little
short of a county fair, conducted in
like manner and the benefits to be de
rived similar. This is an undertaking
difficult to carry out, but our neigh
bor city is equal to the occasion.
Tbey should, and doubtless will, re
ceive the patronage of the entire
country adjacent to that community,
and some will come from a consider
able distance.
This affair is coming off at a time
when farmers can make a good exhibit,
and the matter of the coaouty'a re
sources being at this time most inter
ebting, when thousands of' people
are inquiring about the couutry with
a view to coming here to locate will
make the eveut one of ebpeniul inter
est. With other features of the cele
bration, attractive us tbey are, Pine
Creek is assured now of an excellent
meeting and the people who attend a
first class time. Head the piogram.
The committee announces that in ad
dition to the various features adver
tised iu the program, if a sufficient
number of competitors are available,
a rock drilling contest will be held
for which liberal purses will be pio-vlded.