Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-22

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Having heard great deal about the
splendid trout fishing at Clear Lake up
on the summit Of the Cascades, and also
ing the timber over, Horace and myself
with q couple of young fellows from
this place, made arrangements for Il
camping Out trip up there With q wag-
on
VS. started up the S;antiam River val
ley by way OF the Soda springs, aud
reached the lowe" Soda springs The
first evening.
On the way up the valley during the
first days drive we passed by several
small farms which are indeed not Ii to
be classed as farms. Each one Of these
has plenty OF good land but they only
cultivate q very small portion Of it..
Barely enough to make q living from
and do just as little work as they can
A very shiftless class of people; No
sign of amy thrift CT energy among
them that [ can see The first evening
brought us to the lower Soda springs
which now from q from u cliff OF rocks
on the Santiam River.
1t is by far the finest mineral water
that ever tasted and on account Of It's
medical properties q large number Of
people so there during the summer
season and camp around the springs for
l. ", ~ han nj
drinking its healing waters and fishing
fer the beautiful mountain trout which
are very plenty in the rivers along,
there.
As our party were all in good health
and not in need of mineral water, we
only stopped there one night and pro-
coeded on up toward the summit next
morning. About the middle of the
afternoon we came to the upper Soda
springs which are about the same IS
what we passed the day before only
perhaps u little stronger.
They are also quite Il resort for in
valids, aAd would be more SO only they
are so far away and SO difficult for any
but healthy people to reach.
We rested at the upper Soda during the
heatof the day, and in the evening start
ed to climb the seven mile hill as tits very
steep ana difficult and the night was
much cooler for the horses TO travel. This
seven milemountain as they call Il Is one
of the steepest hills we had to climb III
order to reach the summit blythe way OF
the Santiam pass. Although we made
the ascent at night we could see every
thing quite plain as we had full moon
A person GETS fine view OF the mount
tains all around, and seeing ii rs we die
by the soft light Of the moon, IL Is trul,
/ a fine scenery and a sight not easily for
gotten. We reached the top by mid
night, and stopped to comp and resi-
/ our horses. We found the night, yer,
/ cold and chilly mp there and heavy
fall of dew. 1t made me think Of Bill
Nye's story of sleeping with one OF tn,
! Rocky Mountains for q bed-fellow, anC
| getting up in the morning to wiring tht
dew out Of his socks and undershlrt. W,
did not bring along any tent, as ther'
is never any fear Of rain in the mont
of August here in Oregon, and | did no
sleep much the first night on account
Of a little misunderstanding | had
with one of the ponies OF our team.
rolled mysely up in blanket ane
laid down upon some hay and abou
the time fell asleep, the pony cam
along and rolled me of with his nos
and proceeded to eat the hay s
course I drove h3n3 aW@y ano teIl asteel
again, bas he was determined to hav'
that hay and kept rolling me around al
night until ] finally had to get up ans
give him possession Is it was gettin!