FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1934.
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
PAGE TWO
HOW PEOPLE TRAVELLED WHEN OREGON WAS NEW
Communication
Prior to 1859
Is Described
year R. R. Thompson and Lawr­
ence Coe built the “Colonel
Wright” above Celilo and a por­
tage at that point gave Portland
river service to Lewiston, Idaho,
on the Snake river.
Trade Was Expanding
from Linnton to the Tualatin
Plains and there was one from
Linn City to Hillsboro. A road
from Scottsburg connected with
the ‘south emigrant road’ at
Drain. Another emigrant road
came through the Cascade moun­
tains near Diamond peak and
down the middle fork of the Wil­
lamette, connecting with the “east
side foothills road“ at Pleasant
Hill, south of Eugene. Roads of
lesser importance and pack trails
supplemented the main roads.
the hospital recovering from an
operation. Mr. Baldridge says he
will return to the hospital for
another operation as soon as he
Mn. Jah. N»>
regains his strength.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Lindsay and
The Columbia county herd in­ their son Clarence drove down
spector, Dr. F. J. Rankin, is test­ the river Sundoy to visit the Joe
ing dairy herds in this part of Banzer folks.
the county this week for T. B.
Miss Millie i McMullen came
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Milton from Birkenfeld to spend the
from Portland are here spending week end at her home here.
a few days with Mrs. Milton’s
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Lindsay
parents, Mr. and' Mrs. Dave Mc­ i entertained a few neighbors Sat-
Mullen.
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'urday evening at their home at
Mrs. William Bridger* from pittgb
The evening was gpent
Mist was a visitor Monday at . ing eards The hostes3 Berved
Mr and Mrs. Noble Dunlaps.
! refreshments to Mr and Mrs.
Jake Neurer butchered a pork- Nofale Du
Mr. #nd Mr3. Jak<j
er and Bud Baldridge a veal Neurer> Miss Edith Hare, Miss
t is wee •
| Grace Carmichael, Billie Carmi-
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" ™’'chael, Clarence Lindsay and Bob
tertained Mr. and Mrs. J. W. i Lindsay.
Neurer Wednesday evening. Cards I Richard Peterson attended the
were played and) refreshments dance at Vernonia last Saturaay
were served.
evening.
Mrs. Mary Burris and Miss
Mrs. Ella Caywood and Mrs.
Beatrice Perry drove to Vernonia Ann Lord went to Portland Sun­
to do some trading Monday.
day to be with their sister, Mrs.
Mrs. T. F. Keasey and her Amelia Sweeney, who underwent
children from Keasey were at Na­ a serious operation Monday in a
tal on business one day last week. Portland hospital.
Clyde Johnson and Dave Mc­
Lincoln Peterson and Reed
Mullen killed a black bear cub a Holding are now preparing to
few days ago. •
start logging operations as soon
Bud Baldridge is home from as arrangements are completed.
Natal
The Columbia basin east of the
In honor of the 75th an­
mountains was fast filling with
niversary of the admission
settlers, and merchandise and pro­
of Oregon as a state, to be
duce to and from that vast em­
celebrated Feb. 14, a series
pire was moving through Portland
of articles depicting life in
by water. Oregon was the granary
Oregon in pioneer days will
for California, whose settlers were
appear weekly in this news­ I busy digging gold. Direct trade
Jacksonville Wii Hub
paper. They are furnished
All roads in southern Oregon
with China had been established
through the courtesy of Eric
eight years before. Ocean steam- in 1859 led to Jacksonville. The
W. Alien, dean of the school
I ers and “windjammers” were load­ discovery of gold on Jackson
of journalism of the Univer­
ing Oregon lumber and wheat in creek, the agricultural possibili­
sity of Oregon.
Portland harbor, the steamers ties of Rogue river valley and
“Gold Hunter,” “Caroline” and the equable climate, were the
“Columbia,” being a familiar magnates that drew people to
By G. A. SHADDUCK
that southern Oregon metropolis
Student in School of Journalism, 'sight on the water front 75 years 75 years ago. The ‘south emigrant
ago.
The
“
Columbia
”
operated
on
University of Oregon
a regular schedule, carrying pas­ road’ from Klamath lake passed
sengers and freight and the mails over the mountains a few miles
When Oregon territory became I which came through San Francis- south of Jacksonville and through
a state on February 14, 1859, the I co from the east. A mint had been there and on to the north. A toll
75th anniversary of which date established at Oregon City and road had been completed over
is celebrated this year, travel and coinage of ‘Beaver gold money’ the Siskiyous to Yreka and a
communication in this vast area began in 1859, newly mined gold road being built that year and
were very different from travel from California flowing into the completed the next, gave Rogue
and communication today. Now state through the channels of river valley an outlet to the
coast, at Crescent City. By ’59,
the state is crisscrossed with rail­ trade.
roads and hard surfaced high­
By 1859, Oregon had 19 mail hundreds of emigrants had reach­
ways; forest trails and market routes and StO postoffices, mail ed Oregon over the ‘south emi­
roads; fast air mail, passenger being carried by stage coach, ri­ grant road,’ leaving the Overland
and express planes, all paralleled ver steamer, horseback and hack. trail to California, at the Hum­ with body mounted in a cradle
with highly efficient telegraph Newspapers and schools had been boldt river, crossing northern and slung from leather supports ‘
and telephone service, reinforced established and played their part California to Klamath lake and running lengthwise on each side, I
over the mountains to Rogue riv­ drawn by four or six horses,,
with free delivery of mails and in building up the state.
er, many of them settling near changed at frequent intervals,,
daily delivery of newspapers and
Mud and Dust
usually 10 to 15 miles, depending!
magazines, supplemented in most
Early Oregon roads followed Jacksonville.
Jacksonville had been connect- on the lay of the country. The j
homes by radio sets. The com­ the ridges and foothills and from
parative isolation of these early all accounts were simply un­ ed with Yreka by a stage line drivers were a product of the;
days is hard for the present day speakable—in the summer, chuck three years before Oregon be­ times — courageous, resourceful j
came a state. The line belonged to men of endurance. Their skill'
Oregonian to visualize.
holes axle deep and clouds of
C. C. Beekman and was later with a handful of lines and a six |
Portland and Jacksonville
blinding dust—in the winter a
sold to Wells Fargo. Prior to the
Portland in 1859 was the domi­ series of bigger and deeper mud­ opening of the Siskiyou road, horse whip and their “sash-ay”
nant town of the North and Jack­ holes, travel in many cases being pack trains operated between before a small town postoffice,
sonville was the hub of southern restricted to foot and horseback. those two towns. In 1859 a week­ was a marved to the tenderfoot
community,
Oregon. There were several well The people, however, were not ly stage service was inaugurated and the talk of the
stage rob-
recognized roads radiating from the sort to be content with idle between Portland and Jackson­ Hostile Indeans and
menace and
Jacksonville, but around Portland, complaint. Lack of adequate roads ville, and the next year it was bers were a frequent
coach, over
travel and communication were by was hampering their activities. stepped up and extended to a a ride in a swaying
water as much as by land. Steam­ There was no use to grub stumps, daily service between Portland rough mountain grades, eluding
boating was well advanced, the till the land and harvest crops if and Sacramento; the first Cali­ robbers or Indians, as they did
occasionally, was an experience
Columbia, Willamette and tribu­ those crops could not be hauled fornia stage arriving in Portland,
tary streams being plied by river to market. Bridges over smaller September 15, 1860. B. C. White­ packed with thrills aplenty to last
steamers. Regular schedules were streams, supplemented by terries house was Portland agent. Two a lifetime.
By the time Oregon was ad­
maintained to The Dalles, Astoria, over the larger ones, drainage and years previous, Portland and Sal­
mitted-
to the Union on February
constant
toil
of
the
farmers
had
Corvallis and on the Yamhill
em were connected by daily stage
river.
resulted in great improvement by service and the year following a 14, 1859, the development of its
travel and communication facili­
A merger of steamboat com­ 1859. Only the year before, a run was put on between Jackson­ ties had been phenomenal, when
“
plank
road
company
”
had
organ
­
panies was in process, embracing
ville and Crescent City. All stage one considers that only 16 years
all interests operating between ized at Silverton and the road lines handled passenger, mail and before it was a wilderness, the
The Dalles and Astoria. It was was planked from there to East express, the drivers being Wells first wagon train of newcomers
finally completed the next year Portland and used as a toll road Fargo agents.
reaching the boundaries of the
and was known as the "Oregon until the early 70’s. The same
Old Time Stages
territory in the fall of 1845. (The
Steam Navigation Company.” The year (1859) a macadam road was
The up-to-date vehicle of early story will be told1 in a following |
consolidation included the “Co­ started at Portland and finished stage lines was a covered coach, article.)
I
lumbia Navigation Company,” to Milwaukie four years later,
the
first
of
its
kind
in
the
North
­
managed by Benjamin Stark and
operating the steamers “Señorita” west.
Through Road«
and “Belle;” the "Bradford Com­
The Oregon trail came into
pany,” which owned' the north
side portage at the Cascades and the state from the east. Roads
the steamers “Hassalo” and ran south from Portland over sev­
“Mary” running between there eral routes, two of them converg­
and The Dalles; the “Oregon ing at Anlauf, south of Cottage
Forest Grove, Oregon
Transportation Company” of the Grove, and on to the California
“The Roll of Honor Bank”
“Ruckles and Olmstead” interests, line through Jacksonville. The
which owned the south side por­ “Natchez” road ran north from
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STATEMENT OF CONDITION
tage and the steamer "Mountain Portland to Admiral Inlet on Pu­
Buck” below and the “Wasco” get Sound. Another led from
AT CALL OF THE COMPTROLLER OF
above the Cascades; J. C. Ains­ Portland to Marysville (Corval­
CURRENCY DECEMBER JO, 1933
worth, with the “Carrie Ladd,” lis) through the center of the
Resources
and a few independent interests valley, passing through Champoeg,
Loans ............................................ $268,190.88
on the lower Columbia. This same Salem and Albany. Another was
18,400.00
Banking House ...........................
5,006.16
Real Estate .................................
U. S., Municipal
Other Bonds ...... $156,329.66)
299,280.39
Cash and due
Laundry Work That Is Reliable . . .
from Banks__ $142,950-73|
Our work is guaranteed as reliable and absolutely safe
$590,877.43
for your clothes. They’ll come back snowy and clean
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Liabilities
— and nicely finished. Our prices are low—in perfect
$25,000.00)
Capital
..................
accordance with these times.
$3,577.171 $ 78,577.17
Undivided Profits
Surplus ................. . 50,000.00
i
25,000.00
Circulation
Deposits ...... —........— 487,300.26
$590,877.43
The Forest Grove
National Bank
VERNONIA LAUNDRY
And Dry Cleaning
Phone 711
J. A. Thornburgh, President
R. G. Thornburgh, Carhier
Think This Over
There is this to be
said for newspaper ad­
vertising : It doesn’t
shout at you, when you
are trying to concentrate
on something else, ft
doesn’t obscure the view
and mar the landscape,
it doesn’t interrupt your
enjoyment of a good'
grand opera program, it
doesn’t clutter up your
mail and waste basket,
it doesn’t make you turn
to page 37 and
shuffle through 18 more
pages to finish your
story, it doesn’t clutter
up your front yard or
obtrude itself onto the
seat of your motor car
on Saturday afternoons.
It is like a well-trained
servant — never ' intrud­
ing or making itself ob­
noxious, but always
quietly at hand ready to
give service when called
upon.—Bangor, (Mich.)
Advance.
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