Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-02-18
GREAT NATURAL cun1osrT4.
The SunI1en Lake Of 7OtegOn.
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/. The sunISen Lake Of Oregon .
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Editors Gazette ..--Ilisaa the
IaChTonicLe Of recent date, b slfort ae.-
Aeeuht ofa0sRBken lake m the aOa4fscade
4 flsfouRtaiHs Of Oregon, an as the sae=
count lHsome particulars vas incbr-
rect, and thinking description 81 SO
great a curiosity would be interesting
to your numerous readers, I have un-
/ dertakeh the task, Knowing however
/ that no human pen can do Justice to
| the subject. -c I -lotl7Eho1C y
Take map of Oregon and find.
( where the parallel Of 43e SO n'orth,
lieresses the summit of thesi Ca scade
+ Mountains aud abO0tZz thirty miles
north Of the north end Of K lama h
Lake and the line Will pass Through
( Lake Majesty eI. Suhken ESkgi Dn--l
tTiBg the sumner of. 1865. [ vas sta.
Idene6 with my c0mbaby of OREGON
| IEfan try at Fort Klamath. Ofeeop-
! which Is abUato twenty three miles.
south of Lake Majesty and wss ar
dered by Mai. Rinehart, nv Immedf-
ate superior officer, to find some mac.
ticable way over the Cascade Mountaiin5sS. 4
for wagon road by which stores. for.
the fort might be got over the Mo1iun-5
tains in wagons: "a After considerahIe
time spentin searching I found 4 praes
tica bic route and was sent with part Of,
my e6mpaBy 10 make the road The
provisions furnished as By the Gov
ernment Not being sufficient for ilboen.
doing hard .woFkt!I kept two men nA m
pIoyed il hurting for Bear, Deer. &C.
which were plenty in The vicinftv
One evening while We were all sfIttii1g
around our camp fires, and work is;rls7
pended for. the! day, one Of the hunt
efs named Oorbell ca me in and report
ed that he had seen a. lake up III the
.Mountafns which he ecohsidered QUITE a
curiosity asked hinF some uues-
tions in regard to it. Ia feply toeWtieh 4
be said 1t was. mile er two I'M
diameter and he thought it was as
much as one hundred feet down tosthe |
water. This did not strike me ast
anything VERY feHiarka bic. "a and al
thought no more about it untfp afteTll
dark his acotdpanion natned Smith,
came ia and reported hat i . s1so fbs5iE
seen the IA ke and his descriptiobq was L
sinniIaf1t 10 aOofbetl's, 6 except fhat9 fIat
ifh0uehtit must besiX or seye6q huusH
HOHu " HdlEI+ IL was q
now convinced that this was the .hkesi
which had been seen some years before {
by Mr. Constant and others Of R0ptIe 1
River Valley while prospecting ffori
gold, the location. Of which hadafbeAn 4
lost, aud I determined to visftit. A6.di
cordingly in company with two gen i
tlemen from jacksonville, 'Ofegont d! Il
A. Stearns, 1st Sergeant of my CONT
pany and one Of the hunters we as
eended the Mpuptaip which I may say !
IN passing, slopes up toward the lake
from oil directions and is higher THANH
the other mountalns ID the vieinikT.F +
and from its preseht shape and abrupt
Termination IN the lake it is evident
that at one time was of great height
Itis about three miles from the sum
NIT Of the gap where the wagon road
crosses the mOuntaib to the edge Of !
the crater, and all this distance is up
Q sharp incline, in many places at an
abgle of forty five degrees though. I H
have no doubt that. a practicable way
may be found Eywhich earriaees can
ascend, When we bad gained the
summit of the Mountain, and erossed
3 small depression Oh fiat, alt at onee
there was spread out before us the
grandest sight it had been our for
tunes ever to behold. InYoluntafilgl I
and with thankful emotions we Fe-d
moved our hats and felt that Re we're