The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-12
OREOON.S QUEER RELICS.

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oREooN.s QUEER RELICS.
STORY as ssse sse,. srksl.,- Discoveries of shs
Princeton College Surveying Party.
The following report has been made by
the Princeton College Surveying party.
recently returned home from Oregon:
The seventh expedition which Princeton
has sent Ia the far west for scientific OH
jects wins sent this summer tai make ~ geo
logical survey of the John Day region i'm
Oregon The. party left Princeton al June
21st, and travelling 10y different routes, AS
scmblsd ut Baker City, Ore. the nearest
point on the railroad tn the scene of the
summers work. Herr the important bus
mess of procuring the ''outfit' Of wagon.
team and saddle horses. and engaging
guide, teamsts,r and cook. WAS at once
taken in hand and afforded an
both of amusement and vexation.
Eastern people are popularity supposed
I'm ths' west To tn. all capitalists. and the
mot out i'm that country for their health"
80 the sudden demand for IL horses had
prices, and we wcrs. ovcrrun with aprlica-
tions from gcntlclnen who wers. willing tn
accept 800 for IL I'D horse. BY the aid of
together u ''llcrsl'' suited To- our purposes,
and only paying moderately for the privi-
OF the inhaSiGants OF that city do Obey the
scriptsirai injunction as tai the taking i'm of
strangers.
. vi efbur>f ttFN WAS ttt' USUAL hummer
of adventures with bucking horses and
displays of amateur VERY amateur, horse
manship, Ia the intense delight of the by
standcrs: hut ut last We got fairly started
on the Canyon City road. and PASSED Au-
burn on the afternoon of August LIST.
Auburn was a ho,,risl.ing mining camp in
huge cuts which everywhere seam the.
hills arr, evidence of the scale On which
placer mining WAS Formerly carried ON.
Now the deposits are nearly exhausted
and the town IL almost deserted. though
the Cinnamon seem to find il to their ac-
count ia scratching over the gravel waste.
For tir. next few days we were in the
forest belt which covers the Blue noun
tains, If which we shall have something
to say later. a. the head of the middI..
fork of the. John Day river we left the
stage road and struck down the stream
road that can hc conceived. where prog
rcss WAS necessarily very slow. The side
hills were, so steep that il was often ncces-
sary to station 10 line Of men with ropes tn
hold the wagon mp and keep il from top
pling over, while every few hundred yards
all hands would have tai push bchind and
help tine team up some particularly hard
place. Under such circumstances 10
miles WAS "a very good days work. hut the
of our driver brought us through without
accident. OF course he had am abundant
stock Of profanity ready for use i'm cmer-
9cnciss. balt IL was of "A very mild tyls. as
compared with the long-lrawn and fam
tastic "aths that arr to hc heard i'm the
cattle camps Of Wyoming and Montana.
Perhaps this il la IN. accounted for by the
fact that our team was Of horses. not
mules.
and Consequently "a camp pitched. Our
first hatfis i'm the shape OF rhiuoccrons
and thrrs-tncd horses were chiselcd out of
n steep cItu TAI the !tiIlazcIns.nt and inter
est of a very hospitable rssnchInau who
owned thc place, and who had no idea
that thcr~. were such wonders before. his
door. From the Middle Fork we passed
over Ia Cottonwood creek. Rutlio creek
ana the North Fork, adding to our collcc-
....- .lA.TI . la. .E. Hn-lI. --l. al-
.tovc." or Big Basin. wlIcr,. the two main
branches of the John Day river unite.
This basin ~ "a long, narrow and deep val
weeks very b,isily occupied.
The roads 10y which we reached il arc
i'm their badness. To the average eastern
eye these roads seemed hardly passlble
for "a man on foot. and the way ia which
over them gave Ia most Of the party some
very ne ideas ON the art of driving ard
there had been just before our arrival "a
pleasing little phenomenon known as ~
w~aterspout, which had carried huge
gravel ALI over the place, or i'm some
places had cut out the ROAD to the depth
Of several feet. Such trifies, however, do
not disturb sAn Oregon teaInster.
Our camp in the cove was an ideal one
high up ON the hillside i'm "a grove oi
coldest water and good grass Tor horses
with the further charm of grouse, elk AND
deer In the nei0hboriloDu. which proved Il
very welcome addition to the Harder
Here we had AN opportunity tn get the ba
romet-rs. transits, etc.. into adjustmen
and begin the nors, systematic work
From the camp small parties WERE sen
out i'm all dirsStiotls, returning for SUN
day, so that Monday morning was alway,
q time of bistling activity. The wcathca
was often extremely loot. and especial!
trying when the dry. scorrhing south wins
blew, but the dfyness prevented the hca
from bssisaR 80 oppressive as the same tenn
perature would h. In the East, while sun
stroke il unknown. The cool nights am.
freedom from mosquitoes and other pest
made existence very comfortable. TIN
To the contrary notwitl
standing.
BY the end of August we turned oli
faces eastward once more. rcachinl
Baker City ON the :0th, where the packin
and shipping of the collections and equip
ments were soon Disposed of, and tn
party disbanded after "a very satisfactor
and successful summers work.
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