The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-05-23
VANCOUVER INDEPENDENT.
THURSDAY, MAY %, 1873,
UP THE RIVER.

into the upper country in company
with n. II. Bloomfield, Prosecuting
Attorney of the ID district, and w.
H. Small wood, Register of the Van
couver Land Office The trip up the
Columbia on the steamers Vide Vest
and Mountain Queen, was very pleas
ant, rendered more so by the politeness
and gentlemanly attentions of the
''minions" of the grinding monopoly"
which furnished the boats and railroad
on which we made the journey.
THE DALLEs,
Our first stopping place, we found to
be a busy, thriving town, full of
strangers, and many new buildings
going up in the business part of the
town. Here we came across Ben Kor-
ten, Fred Dehm and Hiram Cochran,
former residents of Vancouver. Kor-
ten is doing good business in the
saloon way, keeping very nice place.
Dehm is carrying on the jewelry bust
ness-and Cochran was at work on the
.. 5. n. Co.'S new steamer, which is
rapidly approaching completion While
the legal portion of the excursion was
putting in day with the county of
ticials, their bonds. etc, at Rockland,
the editorial member of the party vol
unteered to instruct nice young man
from San Francisco how to catch trout
in Mill Greek. The young man from
the south was an apt scholar, and took
it all in, all in one day, including his
first fish, three holes in his good coat
where he cut the hooks out; one bad
place in his hand where he took the fly
personally; fell into the creek twice
from the same log; lost the lunch, saw
an Indian, and went home chock full
of ''fsherman's luck Give him time
and Gustave Touchard will make Il
tirSt-class trout sport, and we will
never see anyone who can perform the
knife and fork feat on a plate Of
Drowned trout to excel him.
OFF FOR GoLDENDALE
On Thursday, with Sheriff Schuster
and his prancing team-and how he
did drive. John Gilpin's ride wasn't
a commencement. 1t is 80 miles from
The Dalles to Goldendale, over the
mountain, down into and up the Kick
itat valley, but he made it in exactly
four hours he said as he now had
only seventy horses, and was therefore
little short on teams, he was slow,
h,1+ with he 70 20 la oo,,1g
have made it in three hours and fifty
nine minutes! That's the kind of
horses he keeps. What with the
Chinook wind, flying sands, and hang
ing on to our hats we We're satisfied
that we went fast enough as it was.
The first view of the Klickitat val
ley, the commencement of the bunch
grass region, is grand one Before
and fan beneath us lay the valley, fifty
miles long, fifteen miles wide, dotted
Its entiI. length with new farm houses,
herds of cattle and horses, ard near the
center of the valley not far from the
Simcoe mountains, which with their
pine-covered slopes formed the back
ground Of the beautiful panorama, nes-
tied the growing town of
GOLDENDALE.
The new Mecca of the lower bunch
grass region. Our entrance into Col
dendale was for few hours a matter
of considerable importance and ex-
cltement. 1t was discovered at once
that right there in Goldendale was
the Register of the Land Office, the
Prosecuting Attorney, the Sheriff, and
newspaper reporter, which discov-
cry caused the immediate stampede
for the mountains Of sundry individ-
uals who had cut much timber for
lumber from Uncle Sans public
lands, and sundry wood choppers
quaked with slight conscientious
prickings. Before the militia could
be called out and organized, it was
discovered that the prosecuting gen
tleman onl y wanted to see Johnson.
the Sheriff only wanted drink, and
the other two gents We're in quest of
a fair sample Of bunch grass beef on
the half-shell. And then we were
welcomed.
We stayed over night, long enough
to find out that johnson q Co. and
Mcfarland & French were keeping
two fine stores, that other branches of
business were springing up, the town