The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-11-28
THE WIDEST NEST OF ALL.
Western Part of Oregon Il Paradise
for Sport and Adventure.

| Many queries have arisen lately to
what region of the United States is the
| least known. Not long since it was be-
! lieved to be No Mans Land, and after
wards the Cherokee Strip but boom over
took these, and they We're filled with
struggling settlers, while the horse thieves
and other outlaws there scattered.
| Then it began to be bruited about that the
widest region was in the Northwest. Some
made the almost undiscovered region in
/ the SaWtooth mountains, in the middle of
! Idaho, the widest but Assistant Chief
Goode. of the United States geological sur
/ oregon, says he has found wilder region
| than that. says exchange. He told
about it and says it is filled with all kinds
of wild game.
This region, which composes roughly an
area LOCO miles square, said Assistant
/ Chief Goode Lies in the mountains between
Roseburg and Coquille. 1t is nearly all
/ covered with a dense growth of pine, fur
| hemlock and other trees. Many of the
trees of enormous size, and they stand
| so closely that it is difficult for men to
| make their way between them. Where
the trees not SO thick the heavy growth
of bushes Of various kinds takes their
| place
1T is a country that is filled with all
kinds of wild game, including, as reported
to me. elk different kinds of bear, noun
! tain lions, deer and other animals, including
| lynx and others. There are also the
| varied kinds of fowl. The streams all
| have an abundance of trout and other kinds
of fish,
Il penetrated into the wilds dozen
| miles and things that filled me with
| wonder at the vastness of the forest and
| that any one should attempt to live in those
| solltudes. Few men, in fact, do attempt
| 1t. but once in While along in the prim-
| tive trails that have gradually been made
| by persons interested in crossing from one
part OF the mountains to another, there is
| a lonely little cabin. I think the most
pathetic sight I ever beheld was in this
lonesome region, at little cabin / looked
! in the window as I passed and saw a man
Stupetied from the effects of intoxicants
! There was no one with him, and his dog
| was the only other living thing about
Near at hand was his gum by which
and his fishing tackle he gained a liveli-
| hood He awoke but we moved away, for
| he seemed as wild as the forest, and as we
| proceeded he started after U.S. his peculiar
| voice sounding strangely in the woods
But we did not know wild as he was,
| but he would shoot, and so moved on
"Everywhere was the forest We could
get nowhere but on the few trails to which
| have alluded. To get off of them would
mean to get lost absolutely for a stranger
| He could not hope to find his way I found
| too, that even the old trailers did not like
| to plunge too far into the Wilderness To
| make our trianguations used to cut
| off the trees and brush in the form Of the
| spokes of wheel, that is, radiatng from
| US, we being in the center, in order that
we might g5t our bearings
But We soon got where the growth of
| trees was so dense that we could not with
| our force do even this. We found that
| the woodsmen whom we had hired did not
| like to proceed Immediately to this kind of
| work where it could be done. They wanted
! about three or four weeks to do it in They
| have a way of partially clearing a given
point by boring at the base of a given tree
and another at the top, and then setting
| fire to it, letting the fire do the work This
takes time, and as it was getting late and
the rains were setting in we concluded to
! abandon all present efforts and come out.
| lat present we do not know what is in
the country, geologicaly, speaking whether
it is coal or gold or both, with other things.
We have never been, able, to get far enough
to get basis for our work. 1t is there
in which roams undisturb$d this wild game,
and whose brooks aud rivers are filled with
wild fowl.
| "The lonely settlers on the trails make
| their way to the nearest trading points
| for a little flour, sugar and coffee at inter-
walls, and seem to isu}sst otherwise en-
tirely on what they kill. Oftentimes they
do not even get OUT to any one of the lit
| tie hamlets for months" There are no In
l heard of till you'd geumell down on the
| coast.
| This Sion is an asylum for game great
| and small, and must remain so, l think, to
! a far remote time in the future. Trappers
| and hunters pervade it for a good portion
| of each year, as l am told. each living for
| time at a cabin or in tent, and bring
| ing away his pelts at the appropriate sea-
| SON."