Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-01

all right. The distance from Craw-
louisville up to the timber which we
! wanted to look over, is about twenty
miles, and is reached by following an
old miners trail which was cut through
to the top of the Cascades by gold hunt
ers shortly after the time gold was
/ first discovered in California. Most of
the distance is up hill (some very steep
hills and all the way through a thick
unbrol1en forest of giant fir timber A
few miles up the Calapooya river we
/ passed by q couple of saw mills and a
planning mill. They call them saw
mills here, but the most crude and pri-
NATIVE affairs that were ever built for
saving lumber in Wisconin in the early
days. were far superior to these. The
building in each ease is just u frame
with roof on but not enclosed and
contains an old rickety looking circular
saw, run by water wheel. The plan
ing mill was also an old tumble down
building, covered with moss, and with
but one machine standing in the mid
die and also run by a water wheel. The
work in the planning mill was all done
by one man and boy. All they had to do
was to push on a lever when they want
ed the thing to start, and pull the hand
There were three or four men and boys
working around the saw mill, and I
shou-d judge it took them about two
days TO saw 8 dozen of those big fir
logs. No trimmer, no edger,or any
thing else but one saw. We proceeded
on up to Horacas claim which is stu
ated on the upper bonch on top of the
4idgo or divide. A stream runs by his
cabin door of the most beautiful spring
water that can Be found anywhere, and
we enjoyed the trip very much while
we We're up there only that our appetite
towards the last, developed into some
thing outrageous. There is something
about She air and water up in the
mountains that gives a fellew such an
appetite that he can eat almost any
thing and everything that comes in his
way. We made the cabin our head
quarters at night, and looked over the
timber during the day 1t is q very
difficult place to travel through with
out getting lost, although I have had
quite u little experience before in
travelling through the woods and keep
ing myself located, found it altogether
different here. I believe [ would have
been lost most CT the time only for my
friend Horace. He is the most obser-
wing and practical woodsman that l
ever saw for his age, and has the ad-
van tage Of being used to this fir timber,
Thora are no openings, no land marks.
AMI nochange whatever i'll the timber
and the government survey marks are
very indefinite. and far apart. It is %
vast unbroken forest of heavy timber all
around, and q person can very easy get
confused in going through it. We
turned the ponies loose on reaching the
camp and did not see them again until
after we returned to Charlottesville.
They knew their business, and went
right back over the same trail on
which VS. came up. 1t is about three
miles from the top of the ridge Or div
i32 down to the river and is very steep.
/ thinE those Cascades mountains are
equal % anything in the world for
deep canyons, raging torrents, high
natural caves. and all kinds
d scenery Of mountain grandeur. We
saw several beautiful waterfalls up there
that are much finer than Minehaha falls
at st. Paul which they make such fuss
about. Some Of them about fifty feet.
and some over hundred feet high
uInbling down over perpendicular
lodges OF rock. There plenty of elk,
deer, cougars, and panthors, and once
in while d grizzly, they say up there,
but we did not happen to meet with
anv Of them. Person ally had no des-
ire whatever to make their acquaint-
ance. Especially Mr.. Grizzly.
continuelnext week.