The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1886-07-02
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Prnneville.

Of the Necs, aud some other disciples
Of Issac Walton, we went short time
ago for weeks sport with ROD and line
To Deschuttes, and thinking il might
interest some Of your readers we send
you our impressions Of trout hshiug II
general.
We lett Prinsyille at ten o'clock, and
taking the much talked Of w. V. 81 Q.
NJ. wagon read, droye west through the
smiling Crooked River valley, past neat
looking farms, good many OF them
With comfortable houses, and almost
every one with the three or four long
hay ricks that one sses erywherc in |
this country, aud that shows that the
farmer believes in taking caro- of his
stock. A large percentage OF the grain
through here IS rye,and we noticed that
crops did not look SO we'll as above
Prinsville. A new conner would prob
ably have been enthusiastic over the
pold outline Of rimruck, clearly detued
against the summer sky on eithsF hand;
out we were like ths "wee lassir,h whe
had apple pie at home, we see rimrock
every day, and were glad when We luft
il behind. Smith Rock, seventeen miles
from PrineviIle, is a huge irregular pile
of redish colored rock on the north side
Of the road, with Crooked river wind
ing like silver ribbon about It's bass.
Frsm here TO Dsschnttea the road rune
over w,Iocky hills,coysrej with scruh
juniper and serubhier sage. will. here
and there ledge OF black reck crop
ping up through tho heavy sand, and
running across the road, over which
the wagon wheels slipped with jerk
and rattle that made a seat Immediate
ly over them anything bat desirable.
The fact that struck us most forcibly 10
connection with this rocky eountry was
bat thsre is an awfal lot Of il going
to waste, as there is no grSss grows
here but We suppose every place was
. made f1E something There Is about
} aine miles st this sort of road aud then
: one comes suddenly @ the brow Of the
last hill and just beneath ialls the love
ly Deschuttes. The banks on either
: side are precipitous hills Of black and
: red sand stooe, with here aud there q
i low pass or CANYON like the ona shrough
which the Rad is built, and occasions
piles Of black basalt bonldsrs lyins
close to the waters edge. A quarter d
n q mile above the bridge, Esgle Rocb
70 rears It's stately head midway the chan
y ael, huge irregular obelisk with al
- eagles nest at the top. ffty or sixt,
feet above the water. Two miles belo'
'e tha bridge, following tho Ourvoa Of 10
river, but not more than mile acsos
the hill, are the falls. Their hsigh
has been variously estimated at frOr
thirty to City feot. They ars probAbl
thirty-fiys feet, and the view fully r.
"a pays one Tor tho rough walk along th
ts river. A geological student wo1id fn
a much in a trip through this part {
= Eastern Oregon to interest him, and ei
pecially through the country watere
By Deschuttes. We foam Fran
'l Wheeler quite sick st the briIge wit
DO chicken pox, but Mas. Wheeler wei
4. coined US with a supper Of fcied trol
bs that banished all unpleasant menoril
Of The rough road, the aIkali dust on
even the irritating memory Of how lil
n- the mischief the mosqlitss bit back a
ep the pond where We lunehed. Tiu
Of and space wopid both fail as If we trie
49, to tell in detail how your correspondei
had the honor Of booking the Grst trou
% Of how Charlie caught "mennows, ,"an
tr May caught "whales," Of how III
tb "Governor" threw the spcckled beautir
ir- out on the grass at the rate Of Que
- minute, Of how Nell made tho biggei
haul in day, and sam, (tbe youn
On man frOm Mississippi,) wors his glove
d. for fear Of gathering the wrong Kind
rs flies of the bushes, I'VE suspect he ha
10 been monkeyiDg around wasp nei
some time and lost faith ia bnes,) an
:: the little mother forgas her glasses an
u fsbed for an hour without any tai
nd Suffice it TO say that old Isasc Waito
er would have turned green with eny
.ol could be have heard the tales we tol
90 as we loupged in Frank Wheeler
pleasant parlor in the evenings, an
- caught fish and trout flies over again
or tales of enormous bites aud monste
O. fish that we almost caught. Surely th
he great disciple Of the rod and line neye
NJ Brought home with him any moro vora
cicus appetite than ne ones we brouch
j. to our hostess well cooked dinner
% Unlike Bros. Barles aud AIdridge W
D. are too modest t. tell bow many "
n caught. Why does We editor Away
: catch more than anybody else BIZ
we never counted how many we a.e
y We verified Franks suggestion that
n wherever there was plenty Of flies ther
l. was plenty Of fish, we learned how /,
is fasten those fat, hatteriDg things o.
our hooks and whip them over the We
ter like an expert, VIC stood like yer.
, liable statue of patience on monn,
y ment, watching for hours At time, ,the
r. bait riding on a ripple, fully rewarded
for the long delay when we saw them
come up out Of the water looking, to
orr excited imagination, two feet long
8 at least. We got dirty and snuburned
: and disordsrly generally. We slipped
8 upon many an unsuspecting trout fly,
expecting TO gather him in out Of the
dew, and found him to be nothing but
an empty shsIl,a a cheat,a vain deIusion,
we dreamsd at night Of catching trout
four feet long, and VIC came home final
ly, having had fun enough to last US a
year and tired enough to enjoy home
for long time.
AMETHYST.
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