Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1895-08-19
UNDERWRITERS OUTING.
Continued from first rage.

this Time along came Mr.. &. +. Roys
with his horse and cart. He hastily
unhitched and fed his horse, and en-
quired for matches. / asked him wha
he wanted with matches "Oh," sale
he, | want to fry some fish," "Hov
many fish haye you" said L. "Oh
they are in the creek yet" he replied
VI will soon have them. just met &
m IN back on the road who had caught
over 300. G'll soon have enough for 4
meal" One hour later took him som,
matches, but he did not ueed them
Mr.. Watkins from Oregon City, {,
twin brother of Samuel Watkins, O.
SIIem,) and one Of the Paquet boyi
c'me aleng also last week, but after s
vain effort to get fish they had to dine
on beans aud bacon, the standard
mountain dish, which here tastes as
| NO'OiOuS dS uOSe Oue vi CTOSSt ult
s!rloins in Salem.
How learned to catch Rock creek
trout One day saw boy coming
down the creek with quite string of
handsome trout and as usual ran out
to interrogate his methods. He would
not sell his fish but kindly "put me
onto the racket" and in less than five
minutes had drawn out as handsome
trout as ever graced frying pan.
Since that time 1 have had no trouble
to keep the table well supplied with
trout. Up to the present have caught
exactly 239.
Rev. Hutchinson and John Bozorth
came up last Tuesday from the big
camp at Mehama. They caught few
trout but were dissatisfied with their
days catch and: returned 1.-The same
evening. tried to prevail upon them
to stay over and go with me next day
above the famous falls on the creek
where the fish are much larger but
they went back in spite of my efforts.
| had a small boy engaged as guide
for the occasion, but he also failed me
and went alone.
l found the first falls to be very
beautiful indeed and about twenty
four feet In height, almost a round
pool about thirty feet in diameter and
very deep had formed in solid cemeut
by the continual fall of water and
boulders from the heighth above, and
singular as it may seem, the boulders
have not remained in the pool as the
force of the water had heayed them
out below. The second falls were about
one hundred feet high and about one
mile above the first. The water of the
main stream does not plunge over this
precipice, but the water from a smaller
creek on the right bank of Rock creek
makes the dizzy plunge. This small
stream seems, before reaching Rock
creek, to make run for quarter of a
mile on solid cement at an angle OF
twenty-five degrees, and brings large
timber down with such awful force as
to throw massive trees clear across
Rock creek and stick them into the
bank twenty feet above the water.
The two streams acting In discord have
tremendous gorge Of
timber tossed about In the most fantas-
tic and bewildering style. This is
splendid illustration Of how discord
can stop the wheels OF progress and
accumulate mass Of debris we'll nigh
cannot close without saying some
thing about the timber. Partly because
all the thought here ;is unber aud the
eye cannot look amiss OF timber. Tim.
Der. timber. timber until the thing gets
Timber on the noun
tains, timber on the mountain sIdes,
timber on the benohea. timber on the
bottoms, timber evsTywhere. The
building Of the Oregon Pacific railroad
gave tbls oOuntfy timber craze few
years ago. understand All the timber
Is taken by homestead hers whether
Aoeessabls OF inAoosasabls, 10 a psrson
accustomed 10 the paved streets ofs
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