Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1886-06-18
NO. IL.
FALL CREEK.

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a peculiar interest to this valley.
Among the specimens that prompt
this writing is the fishery at Mr. Ny
erss where the East Umpqua falls
about nine feet at jump-otf. The
/ silver tailed salmon find an obsticle
! that they surmount only by exposure
to the grab hook that pulls many Of
them ashore. There was an idea
among the Indians that to spit in the
river above the fall not fish would
show himself for a period, and the
primitive people made rules that the
water should not be tampered with in
the fishing season. This idea obtains
at present, as experiments Of the whites
to prove its falsity, have never been
repayed in fish. The fact looks like
moonshine, but there is truth in moon
shine and seeming error in reason and
every wise man is loony when he
plants potatoes. .
Near the falls is petri6ed log about
two feet in diameter; some say it was
sawed off; it is Of oak. You can see
the seams and count the rings of
growth plainly as in newly cut stick
There is a mark near one end as of an
ak chopped into split, but who did it
l wont say. This speciman was dug
out by Mr. Horton, some feet beneath
a deposit. They knock pieces off the
log and found in them fine grained
whetstones
Some less than mile north of WIN.
Sweeden's house stands column of
stone thirty feet in diameter and three
hundred feet high. About eighty feet of
its lower part is OF hard dark colored 1g-
neous rock, then about fifty feet of
conglomerate, which presents white
appearance at distance, but nearer
speckled with powders; on top of this
is strata of more durable deposit as
it has stood the action of tho wind
better and bulges somewhat to the
next layer which is also light colored
and of less resistable composition
than the gray cap rock it supports; for
the wind has worn 1t smoother and to
less diameter, or else the lower part
of the cap rock was high water mark
when other blllows surged around it
than those of air. Retiring from its
immediate presence I noted its marked
divisions and viricle position like the
time caudle that told the hours to
q romantic king, it would tell the ages
to curious world; and what's its
name, calls it comical rock.
There is natural bridge few rods
distant from the tower with an arch |
about sixty feet high. You can cross
over by holding on to mansoneta that
grows upon its span, from this position |
you can look over an extensive forest |
principally fir, but millions of sugar
pine, cedar and maple besides long
list of rare varieties that workers in
wood beyond the plains are only wish
ing for material for new export en-
terprise, or profitable naturalization by
more thrifty local industry.
On Mr.. Engles place there are piles
of iron; and Mr.. Stephens can show a
vein of as good coal as can be produced
anywhere. We use lime that comes
across the continent op from islands in
the Pacific, aud who cares where else
and leave unnoticed and unknown,
millions Of just as good lime within
our. limits that could be made soul CT
of profit to many in need of employ
ment, if board of trade or some other
fixing would attend to the market of
home production. There is capital
enough in this country but moth and
rust is upon it, and these cascades sing
on and on to no purpose, power wasting
and only wanting direction Of human
will to tighten the burden of men, Too
much of the country is under the
blight of speculation the spiri. of live
and let live is too retiring, the flame
Of mutual interest Of the country peo-
pie but makes a shadow in the blaze
Of political ambition that RACES in the
cities, and we read Too much in the
light of pretended benefactors. The
country homes of prosperous commu
lty is something more than camping
grounds of necessity but the fault is
not all on one side. 1 have in my
mind many illustrations that will base
the kingdom Of labor upon industry,
skill, economy and foresight.
WILL TT. WALKER.
A Spotted Deer.