The record-union., 1893-08-04
IN A CANVAS BOAT
Two Young Sacramentans Have a
Rather Rough Trip.
They Start From Goose Lake, In Ore
gon, by Water-Down the Pitt
River and the Sacramento.

Charles E. Bauer and A. V. Shepple-
man, both well-known young men of
this city, returned yesterday from their
voyage down the Pitt and Sacramento
Rivers.
They have been gone nearly a month.
and report having had great trip-full
of exciting experiences and delightful
hardships." They went by rail and stage
from this city to Lakeview, Oregon, and
there launched their canoe in Goose LAX
for the downward trip.
1t was case of ''roughing it' from this
time on. They had to shoot and fish
in order to eat, and their bed was the cold
ground. Numerous people tried to dis
suade the bold navigators from their
perllouS trip, en- route, but they stub
pornly refused to diverge from their
original plans.
The Pitt River is full of treacherous
! rapids, and the young men had to keep
| their weather eyes open in order to avoid
being wrecked. Their canoe was a can
vas one, and could not stand any too
much knocking about on the rocks.
Speaking of the Warm Spring Valley,
just below Goose Lake, MIR. Bauer said /:
| This valley is a breeding ground for
mallard ducks. We could have loaded
our boat with them in few minutes, but
contented ourselves with killing enough
OF the tloppers for our own use" After
reaching Candy the young men became
bold and ''jumped' Dam No. Is. Their
boat rode over nicely, and they made
quite an artistic leap, astonishing an
elderly farmer who watched the perform
ance.
Becoming still bolder, they shot the
rapids through Cold Stone Canyon. and
after that shot rapid after rapid safely.
| Ih..t NIGHT fhnU lan6oI Of I Ezi~
Stone bridge, at spot that is celebrated
IN that section as meeting place for rat
| tlesnakes. 1t is needless to add that they
| did not camp there long. They say the
scenery through this part of the trip was
simply grand. Lookout and Bieber were
pass without incident, and then they
reached Fall River. The scenery was
SO grand that they stayed here couple
of days-staved too long, in fact.
The result was that in order to make
up for lost time, they folded up their boat
and traps and staged it eighty miles to
Redding where they took to water again
| in the Sacramento. The rest of the trim
was easy and without incident to sneak
of.
Mr.. Bauer's log has the following
entry regarding their experience at the
falls, below Fall City: 1.-The falls are in a
deep canyon, the widest we have seen on
the trip. 1t is a glorious sight; on the
| TI0ub Dduh IL IlldhGS Two Jumps oil about
ten and fifteen feet, and then is lost in the
rapids; on the left bank there is one leap
OF twenty-five or thirty feet.
while standing on the road, which is
on the right side, the spray or mist dashes
into ones face. 1t is grand picture. and
| wished then that we had brought A
| kodac along. We crossed the bridge
about 200 yards below, and assembled the
! left bank to the falls. while Gus went up
the right side. / laid down on a flat
bowlder to admire this grand work of
nature, and must have become oblivious
to everything else until Gus shook me bv
the shoulder.
He had been halloeing and shooting his
pistol without effect, and finally had TO
come over and arouse me. He swore |
was asleep, but that was false, for who
could sleep at the foot of this roaring
cataract? No, | was not asleep, but nv
mind was lost in thought / was think
| ing of Sacramento and dear Mr.. Lubin-
of what he would do with such cataract
How he would expound on it's value as a
motive power. How he would harness it
/ to the wheels of industry and vet preserve
its original beauty for the benefit of
/ the tourist.
''No doubt there would have been pict-
/ ured in my mind great factories teeminp
with thousands of people-but Gus wok q
me too soon. Still, it may be better so.
/ for l may have become excited and en-
{ thUsed and fallen into the torrent There
was no railing around that bowlder'