St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-03


landed, and next day when we picked
them up for the return trip they had,
perhaps, hundred pounds Of splendid
trout. One OF the party caught five
pound trout high up the creek in shall
low place after it had climbed five or
six-foot rapids. The facility with which
trout jump up falling water is wonder
full.
Good Fish Stories.
Judge Navarro, whose home is one of
the attractive places on the lake, told
US couple of fishing stories out of the
usual order. At First creek. few
miles north of his house, some one had
put up a device to catch nsh. Above
where the water made its leap, the fall
being some ten feet high, Stat con-
trivance similar to gate was suspended.
and below a foot or so, but out from the
water, basket was placed. The
salmon, in wriggling up through the
descending current, would strike
Stat at the top. ana pitch
back into the basket. On the occasion
of his experience with this trap he was
out sailing with his wife and some
friends, and they stopped to see The
falls. The trout were running at the
time. and they watched with much in
terest their efforts to scale the falling
waters. The regular basket was not
there, but the stats were, and as the fish
kept falling back it occurred to them to
use the basket in which they had
their lunch packed. No sooner thought
than done, and the result was a
fine string of trout, caught merely
by holding out dinner basket. While
thus engaged, the judge had the Singu-
lar experience of having one jump into
his open shirt front, the cold, Shiny
thing giving him a sensation not as
dangerous as it was diSagreeable. His
other story was that of Watching
couple OF bears fishing. He was in the
Tumwater canyon, on the Wenatchte
river, where there is succession of
rapids extending distance of nine
miles. AS he was about to descend a
trail from the hill overlooking the wa
ter he was confronted by bear stand
ing close to the waters edge, but his
greater surprise was 10 see the shaggy
brute strike into the flood and toss with
the same blow fish to companion
standing higher up the bank. the latter
catching the finny victim with all the
ease of an expert first baSeman taking
slow ball. This was repeated until Eve
or six fine salmon, which were running
in large numbers. were safely deposited
ashore, when the fisher bear joined his
friend, and the two began 4 meal with
out any formalities whatever.
At one point on Lake Chelan, called
Mineral Slide, the rock and land
sloughed Off long ago, and made quite a
little peninsula on which tall trees are
growing, and near the waters edge a
homeSteader'S cabin stands. Back of
this lonesome home the mountain wall
rises sheer hundreds of feet, the rock
stained ana streaked with red and
green, yellow and white, hence the
name. About fifty miles up the lake
stands wooded, c0ne-S!iaped mountain,
locally known as Round Top. at the
base OF which circles Railroad creek, in
which there are two fails, one 1850 feet
and the other 900 feet, both back from
the lake in the midst of glaciers and
midsummer SNOW. The most prominent
landmark OH the upper lake is Castle
Rock, which is said to tower to the
height of 1880 feet, the barren. turret-
like rock pushing itself skyward, stand
ing guard as it were over the treasure
vaults of the surrounding country.
Along the East
shore of the lower lake is a settlement
Of twenty or more Indian families,
known as the Wapato band. They have
taken up farms under the severalty act
and give attention to gardening, fruit
raising and live stock. Their little
church is one of the prominent struct-
ures among the green meadows. They
are all devoted Catholics, white priest
ministering to their wants once a month,
while Oh the other Sundays a native
performs the prleStIy functions.
The Columbia Basin.
The Columbia river parallels the lake
for many miles, being separated by
terraced bluff. on both sides of which
settlement has begun. The superior
adaptabillty of the country for fruit
raising has already been demonstrated
by several parties notably Judge |. A.
Navarro, one of the presidential electors
at-large on the last Republican ticket,
who came here as one of the first settlers
about six years ago. He had been en-
gagged as government surveyor, and
located with a view OF engaging in the
stock business. The abundance and
excellence Of the wild fruits convinced
him that tame varieties would do well,
and he made ventures in small way,
until now his orchards cover twenty
acres, and he has no less than sixteen
different kinds of fruit, including pears,
apples. plums, peaches. ounces, april
cots. etc, besides nutbearing trees and
all of the common berries. OF apples
he has eighteen varieties. And what
lavish growth of flowers. Some one has
said: Wherever man may live, there
grow the flowers" If this is criterion
to judge the Availability of this couli-
try by, then, indeed, this must be a fit
abode for man, for these deligh tful and
perfect works of creation are countless
in their throngs and infinite in their
varieties, often covering acre after acre
with perfect mass of radiant colors.
No less successful as q fruit raiser is
w. Il. Paslay, whose orchards on the
banks of the broad and defiant Column
bla are wonderful TO all visitors. Six
years ago Mr.. Paslay was deck hand
on river steamer, and the site of his
present home was part of the sage
brush waste. He has now $500 peach
trees in bearing, and for ten days pre-
vious to our visit had been picking off
surplus fruit, so that the limbs might be
able to bear up the weight of the ripe
peaches. And when he told US that he
had tons of grapes, we could readily be-
lieve him on being shown green
punches, each large enough to ill
mans hat.
The outlet of the lake to the Columbia
is Chelan river, which in three miles
has fall of about 300 feet, and which,
viewed from a unitarian standpoint,
would furnish power amounting to a
| good many thousand horses, but which,
lOOheu dG 1IOIu u SCSIltC SUdnupOlnt, Is
certainly most rugged and picturesque
AT the head of the river is the govern
ment town site, Chelan, and a mile dis
tant on the lake is Lakeside, the former
containing newspaper called 1.-The
| Leader" while the Eagle" screams
| for the latter. Chelan Falls is located
oil the Columbia, near tue mouth of the
Chelan. An excellent wagon road con-
meets the lake towns with steamboats,
on the Columbia at Chelan Falls,
whence the Great Northern railway,
from st. Paul to Seattle, is reached at
Wenatchee. thirty-five miles below,
! in run of two hours. The
steamers, known as the City OF Ellen
burg and the Thomas II. Nixon, are
managed by Capt. Alexander Griggs,
formerly OF Grand Forks. n. D., well
known in connection with Red river
steamboating. His present run is on a
stream quite in contrast with the me-
andering Red, the Columbia being a