, 1866-04-20
Zen d,OreIIle Route ANA stsansr.

itThe Oregon papers have boeu cohVindaHf as
spring the public of the fact that A. gteaInbokt
whSbeing built Haynes ferry on Pen a Oreille
and that she would be ready to fuu9 ' the 3 ~
Of april the machinery being already on the
ground etc, all of which is false ia faci apd
ehimerieal in theory. Itis true that Mr. M6Sd,l
(who by the way, is q clever geutlemap,l has
caused several trees to be cut down AT tbe farr,
and had men engAg ed there in whiplss wins i'm.
Der for boat and for what we know to the can
trary, may have carpenters at work on the mil
OF boat. But the machinery which len Pofa
is1q WIN sueh h9ursh of trumpets, and which
ithas been published again and again was ~
| the grounds at the lake never rreA Asbed tBilr3
1t LEFT Snake filter or OK teams In November;
aud reached the Spokane when the winter ser in
upon them and they were Obliged to retntn. ~
that the machinery has never been within, 6fy
miles of The Lake, and is now either on the Sno.
kane or has returned with the teams to Sb6keg
river or Walla Walla. -t..--. =, -
The building of a boat however, will b. a
small item in the endeavor 10 divert trade and
travel to the Pen Oreille TRAIL if trail il can he
called. True, the navigation of the Lake would.
relieve PACKERS from having to drive their mules
through sbout nifty miles of mud ouiek sand
and water along the shore where for miles to.
gether even in the dryest season Of tile 'vesr II
would mire a saddle blanket and no living
creature can Venture with any degree of
,
and the larger water foul have to approach the
land with caution or select a point of rocks for
landing. But after this difficulty is passed.
unless steamers can ascend the river as far as
the Falls, will be futile. To stop at the head of
the Lake with goods at any season of the wear
when the C~ur d 'Alene mountains are sufi-
ciently free from snow to allow mules 20 pass, is
really not so great an accontmodatton to freight
ers as, it would be to take them back to the
CUuF ha llnr
as 1t is at all seasons, is far preferable TO the
zen Oreille, whenever tits passabie and when
IL ls cIosed the other is also for profitable pack-
ing. The distance from Palouse landing ON
Snake river, via Pen d'Orelle to Deer Lodge
according to estimates made by those who nav
eled 1t this season, and took notes of each dav's
travel is $40 miles, while that via Mullan's snr
vey via POun Lake, is Qnly 3S9 miles, making a
difference of l2l miles 10 favor of CGur d'AIene.
Say then, that navigation extends across the,
Lake and &c miles up to the first rapids, which
is the highest point they claim, and we have
seventy-hve miles of navigation which taken
from III leaves 46 miles still in favor of Occur
d'Alene, and much better road to travel.
The Pen dOreile route is the greatest hum.
bug Of all the bilks of which the country is so
prolific, aud which its father, the Oregon Steam
Navigato on Co. has begotten orJpurposes vile
as the prostitution of its own offspring: Should,
no better route exist for the transPA~tatinAs4f-
merchandIse to Montana than that by way Of
Pen d'Greiile, the country had as Well be aban-
doned at once and given back to the Indians,
| equaw men and their half breeds who know how
to subsist on the natural productions of the
country. But thcre are other and better routes
The Occur Alene is Que, Lolo Fork is another,
and we believe the coming summer will develOpe
others still south and west of these to the Col
umbia, to say nothing of the great Missouri river
and other routes east of US, aud the still better
and easier routes to northern California and
southern Oregon, via Fort Hall, Humbolt, etc,
as well as via Boise, owrhee, etc.--Nontaaa RG-
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