The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-08-23
sOUNDINGs BY THE PACIFIC.

sojourn by the seaside at Yaquina Ba
1t Is of course expected that we w
follow the general custom of newp
perdom and tell what we know abo
seaside resorts. What we know abo
the ocean can be told in few words
what We don't know about it won
fill a volume. We were only on OIL
side OF 1t, and from our stand-poil
were wholly unable to see the 9th
aide or even its bottom. From th
statementp'of course the reader wi
readily perceive that the ocean Is a bi
thing-yea, huge! 1t is mostly con
posed of water, which is preserve
from spelling on its proprietor's hand
by Judicious application of salt, we
shaken and stirred in. The brine thu
prepared is doubtless amply sufficien
for home consumption, unless the de
E.and is unusually active. The rock
in the ocean are infested with barna
cies-a class of loafing, cumming mus
sells or shell-fish which sustain abou
the same relation to the industrious
and decent piscatorial tribe of the new
er-tiring sea that the goods-box anc
street-corner loafer sustains to tn,
world at large. They are neither use
ful nor ornamental. The reason fol
their creation and existence is suffi.
ciently inscrutable to furnish a text
for predestination sermon. Barna-
cles must occupy the hottest cauIdron
in Fish Perdition.
While at the seaside our party en-
joyed many pleasant rambles on the
beach, gathering beautiful shells. curl
Gus rocks and rare moses, and writing
Greeiey editorials in the sand. Our
first experiment i'm this editorial busi-
ness satisfied US that the ocean was for
Grant, strong, for it rushed I'D and
wiped our Greeley article out i'm a
twinkling. We had a notion that an
ocean ought to be neutral in politics.
out this one took the first opportunity
TO disabuse our mind of this impress
sion and to- satisfy US that it had al
ready been ''tampered with" Of
course the barnacles control its politics.
just as the "barnacles'' have controlled
the destinies of this nation for the past
twelve years.
One day, while the wind was fair. |
our friend Thos. Reynolds took US out /
over the bar and carried us about sevan
miles to sea in his staunch little sail
boat, "The Frolic." This was our first
experience on salt water. and while
the boat was standing on its head and
Kicking up behind, and anon rolling
on its sides and taking in more water
than we had any immediate use for,
the experience threatened to be our
last. However, unfortunately for the
newspaper itemizers we got in safely {
and saved our obituary for another |
time.
In company with W. w. Martin and 1
wife, of Salem, "ourselfn and wife t
spent one day at the rural and pleasant s
little home of our former Albany resi- f
dent, Mr.. Phillip Miller, situated f
about y miles up the Bay from New C
port. A few hours of sauntering about Y
his place satisfied us that the soil on o
Yaquina Bay was "beyond compare, o
Tor richness and productiveness. He v
has a field of oats, the stalks of which n
viii average at least six. feet in height, a
With the heads correspondingly full Il
vegetables, such as cabbages and no. a
stoes, also here reach the highest state n
.E-As La
u size and perfection. His potatoes II
u this years production would aggre- W
'ate nearly peck to the hill. and
Vohld average at least a pound in al
weight. They were of the "EarIv ed
Goodrich" and ''EarIy Rose, varieties hi
We were told that it was no uncom. to
ION thing to see cabbages produced We
here which would weigh from % to 20 ah
ounds each, and from that size on nm WI
ntll they got so big as to be beyond stt
le capaeityof Fairbanks scales. IF ou
positively asserted that one cabbage tn
rev so large that it actually crowded tn
producers house and improvements ov
Fer on to aneighbor's land, and its ou
leaves furnished shelter wa
iSo'catfle during the following win us
r. This statement may be a slight pre-
'aggeratioh, though the man who Ut
we US the Information sustains fair ges
putatien for reracity and has never lig
en- elected to the Oregon LegisIa- thi
re. This latter virtue ought to COM ties
end him to the confidence of even Gus
e most skeptical reader of his cab Th'
ge story. pro
Cape Foulweather, long and mar pre-
Reck of land projecting into the wol
can about five miles north of the ley
y, Is one of the principal points of scre
crest to the visitor at Yaquina.- ing
ere Is not, perhaps, in the world a the
7ep OF coast more broken or danger suc'
20 navigators than that which whe
etches from Crescent City to the core
lumbia River Bar, and there is cor. Jess
My no more forbidding or perilous boil
mt along the whole line than this mac
llweather Cape. Standing out for agre
riy mile beyond any other nor- ing
4 OF the sea-shore, and having been mue
Jected for countless ages to the Tenn way
tuous action of its most tempestuons sens
tuoe' It's extreme seaward point has deer
n gnaWed into rocky islands, bur- full,
ed into black, forbidding grottoes. easy
ltered into jagged precipices, and and
30 into impenetrable caverns. until to ~
as more the appearance of a toner's our
l-rotted nose than any other object "hea
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