Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-16

lWritten for the Posr INrxr1Ierscrs

iwrtteh ZOE the PosT INTKf4II6ENCEa.
CLEAR CRKEE, Neb., Seps. "a, 1883.
Thirty years ago j helped cut q trail
up around the .outh end Of Lake Wash
lnRton over the Black Hills TO SQuak
Lake, along the Snoqualmie River. up
by the falls, over to Ced1r River, around
It's falls, along the north shore of its
lake, through the boalders, over the
Cascade Mountains and down to y
stream, the outlet Of large lake, with
waterfall that We could hear. Our In
dian guide said tha: a Tomanawas lived
in the lake, and that il had taken two
indians down in its waters. Judge
Lander, Walker and the Indian guide
went on ten or fifteen miles and c.sne
back by tue Snoquslinie Pass. We re-
crossed the mountain 10 our camp ON
Cedar River.
Before We commenced the ascent on
our outward course from here, we cut
down tbe Cedar, crossed to the south
side, and around some ste@p butt.s where
it WAS very difiicalt getting our pack
animals arouad; then on down the
Cedar, and across To and down a
branch Of the Green river TO that
stream. then hired indians aud their
canoes and descended the Green to the
White river, and then down White
river 10 0nr homes at the forks OF tue
White and Duwamish, letting back
after an absence of three weeks.
The people Of Seattle fennd previs-
ions; We took our axes and cross cut
Saw, blankets, and it was tedious getting
along back of Lake Washington, saw
ing of big logs, rolling them out of the
fait
etc. One day we got somewhat bewil-
dered; the enide could not tell how u
get ont. Some of the boys climbed a
tall tree on high hill and saw the pass
in the Black Hills we were striking for,
aud IN few days We got to the pass.
While in the hills We found chunks of
coal along the little streams that We wpre
following. DIR. Bigelov, our ge0iogist.
said that they were ontcroppings Of coal
banks. The Indians at Squak Lake
said that there we're big banks of s'pia
stone" mp IN the stream they lived ON.
We campcd on little prairie between
tine Snoqualmie and Cedar Rivers;
killed a rattIesnake and named the prai-
rie Rattlesnake Prairie. We saw
sheep, Oh the mountain to the south of
WIG PA"itaot Is hfuS VA ~ iCdSo VA tooht
high up. We found some nuggets OF
gold IN the Cedar below the falls and
some h0at gold in the Cedar above the
lake. A mountain lion ran up a pine
tres in the woods to see what kind of
game We were; then 1t lcA.ed to another
tree and ran down.
Above orr camp on the Cedar tw'n of
our nei2hbors, Eaton aud Fanjoy, were
going on our trail for the new-found
gold fields IN the unknown country on
the Columbia to the northeast. They
never returned, but were Inassacred
over east Vt the mountains by the In
dams. On our way between Cedar and
Green Rivers we ran out of provisions;
our hunter. Nail. not being very lucky
in killing game. We came across a
camp of Indians that had lot of bear
meat, of whom We procured supply
and put us in good spirits until we
reached the Green River and Indian
muck k-a-muck.
Thirty wears ago in June, we got
somewhat tired of cutting logs up at
the mouth of the Duwamish, rolling
them in, notorious on the bay them
rafting them to Yesles's Mill, the first
mill on the bay. Ws then took the
luatber over to Aiki Point in canoes to
pay for provisions, tools, etc., bought Ut
. man named Very, VII was going to
build a frame iloase for n store and tav-
ern. We jumped into our canoes, Doc
Wright. Fielding Travis, Hill Tyler,
Joe and STEVE Foster, and the scribbler
IT this. one morning. took provisions,
etc.. and some potatoes to
plant, to hold our claims, Chat being
the way they did in those days. and
padded up to the junctioa of the Du