The Butler weekly times., 1893-05-04
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% the east hne OS hIickltat county.
md there is no postofiee east Of
Bickletoa III the county and not a
Iailroad touching the Co, and the
people in that section mus. either so
10 the n. P. r. r, which gees up
The Yokima or cross ever TO Oregon
TO the Union Pacific, which goes
down the north side of the Colum-
bia.
An easterner would suppose the
Columbia Supported a body OF tim
Der, but not so. 1t runs through
the most desolate looking country l
ever saw. nothing but sand aud sage
brush, with now and then a scrubby |
willow or perhaps far up on some
crag will be seen few little juniper
which seems to grow right out of
the rock. Along here is the only
place ] have ever been where it is
necessary to build sand fences 10
prevent the sand drifting over the
track. These are built on the same
principle as the stone fences of Kan
sas and Nebraska. A person that
never saw sand storm cannot ap-
preciate it, and after being in one
they do not care about another, but
they are frequent occurrences on the
river. Ia temperature this is some
thing like Missouri. Our coldest
day last winter was about twenty
below zero, but we have more snow
and the wind blows so much that
it all drifts up and is very bad going
in winter. The last of our snow.
drifts have not been gone a week
and within five miles of US there will
be snow until June That fell on
the 21st of December.
Work generally begins here about
the time as there and most farmers
are done seeding now. Wages are
some higher here, ranch hands get
S25 and sheep herders S35 per
month. but the fellow that leaves
Missouri and comes here for "bo
nanza" will miss it. S35 sounds big
to a man that only gets SIS or SlS a
month, but he earns it. The sheep
are taken to the cascades in the
summer as the grass all dries up
here in July. A great many go to
Mt. Adams and I think I can safely
say that at least 100000 sheep find
summer range around the base OF
Mt. Adams and its the same way at
Mt. Hood on the other side. Two
men are always sent with two thou
sand sheep, one herds and the other
takes the pack horses and camp out
tit and as the snow goes off they
move higher up until it begins te
fall in autumn and they come dowr
as the snow drives them It's a com
mon occurrence for sheep herdel
to get up and find his bed covered
with snow. Last year there was
more wool shipped from Arlington
Ore, than any other place in thu
United States.
Go with me a few miles north tt
the summit of the Simcoe and vii
give you a description of what w
can see We look far to the south
west and see the snow.cappet
mountains of Fregon, Hood, Jeffer
son and the Three Sisters and lool
along the Cascades for nearly 1OI
miles and then the Blue mountain
stretching away to the east about 81
miles from the Columbia to the sum
NIT and running almost parable
with it and then to the west an,
northwest we see the snowy Adams
st. Helen and Rainier, to the nortl
the Rattlesnake Mts, on the uppe
Columbia. Hood is the most pic
turesque of all, as it is almost a pei
feet cone standing right On tn
summit. We can look down tn
Yokima to its mouth and over it
mouth and over its extensive sag
brush valley and over all of Orego
: that lies between the Columbia an
Blue mountains. It is grand sigh
. but in time it grows monotonous a
l | the beautiful cornfield to the Mis-
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