The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-11-25
BAKER CRY, November Is, ISsC


BAKER CITY, November Is, 1850.
DEAR READERS or THE NEW NORTHWEST:
The more we see of Canyon City the more
amazed at the pioneer thrift and industry that
has hewed out the necessary accomplishments Of
our higher civilization and planted the standard
of domestic life in the very heart of the rugged
gold fields. The town is long and narrow, re-
mindng us of a barn we once read of, which was
claimed to be six hundred feet long and only six
feet wide. The business of the place occupies the
one continuous street, both sides of which are
closely lined with stores, saloons, hotels markets
and residences. A number of short side streets
branch away into the nearby mountain gorges,
leading to comfortable residences and tasty flower
gardens. These streets crooked the
famous cow paths of Boston, and their sidewalks,
though primitive, beat nothing by long odds when
the weather is bad.
At the end of the main street stands the vine
embowered cottage where the now famous joaquin
Miller lived while a resident of Grant county
We carried away apple souvenir of the
first orchard ever planted in the county, gathered
from tree raised by the Oregon poet. 1t is a
'Tolpeharen'-if we spell it rght-and as hard as
the heart of a man who would desert his family
for the bubble of fame.
There are three churches, the Catholic, Epi>co-
pal and Methodist, in Canyon City, and an excel
lent district school, with Mr.. and Mrs. VI. y.
Bonham as teachers. We did not meet the Cath
olic priest or the Episcopal clergyman, both Of
whom reside elsewhere but formed the ac-
duaintance of Rev. G. T. Wilcox, of the Methodist
church. and happy to be able to testify that he
is not only Jealous preacher who i progressive
enough 10 draw large congregations, but is also a
stanch Woman Suffragist, who, like many other
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work, as becometh valiant soldier for the right
The stores Of Canyon City are large and flour
ishing NIessrs Sells, Muldrick, Clark, Gunlach
and Aetschan being the leading merchants. \
prosperous livery stable is well kept by Mr.. l. H.
Wood. DR.. Horsley's drug store does thriving
business Messrs. Herberger and Gray keep ex-
celent meat markets, and Mrs. T. Turk, whose
husband met a melancholy fate last Spring under
peculiar circumstances, keeps the store he left and
heroically supports her large family Miss Mary
Douthit is proprietor Of a very choice line Of mill
linery and keeps handsome little store, our only
complaint being that she sells her first-class goods
too cheap. The two hotels, one kept by Mr. and
Mrs Thompson and one by John Segerdahl, are
comfortable and orderly temperance houses. The
post ofIice-NIr f. Hall, p. M.-does an immense
money order business, and the daily mail is a
great convenience to everybody. Lawyers abound
in the place, Mr.. NJ. Y. Olmsted being the lead
ing disciple OF Blackstone who patronizes the
Peoples Paper Among the ladies whose ac-
quaintance we shall prize while memory lasts, be-
sides those above mentioned, are Mcsdame- Ohm
stead, Rulison, Sells, Kuhl, Southworth, Gray,
Horsey Lockwood, Herberger Metschan, Shep-
ard Trowbridge Switzerland, and many others
all being amiabe, Intelligent and womaniy, ana
all. of course, wanting to vote
We acknowledge ourself under special obliga-
ton to r. Lockwood, Esq the obliging deputy
sheriff who gave the use Of the Court House fol
the lectures: also to Professor Baldwin, the ELI
cent band master, and his obiging pupils, who
favored uS with excellent music thereby contrib
uting largely to the success Of the meetings. This
band after only two and half months Of practice
would DO honor to any company of amateur musi-
clans in any country
Mr.. s. II. Shepard, editor Of the Grop' COnwtJ
Ne'cs, is running paper well up with the spirit
Of the times.
Politics in Grant county are Democratic in ma
jority, many Of the ladies being earnest Demo
Gratis who want to vote, and whom we would like
to introduce to the editors Of the Pendleton Eus
Orcgonioa, the Jacksonville Times and the Port
land M0Dd0rd The acquaintance would do them
good for the ladies could teach them "A badly
needed lesson. There are also earnest Republican
partisans here among the ladies' whom we would
be specially glad to forming the acquaintance
of the editors Of the Jacksonville SotincI and tn,
HllsbOrO IpdepcHdent Some men who can never
learn anything from the sensible women I'm tbei,