Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-07-07
LANE COUNTY.
Notes and Observations by a Journal
Traveller.


new business houses opening, and
some of adversely In empty dwellings
and stores.
Springfield, j. b. Pengra's town,
looked like a deserted village. He
laid off the whole prarie in town lots,
ran free excursion trains from Port
land, gave barbecues and went crazy.
OFairmount, a suburb of Eugene
looks thrifty. A home on the foot
hills about the University city would
be an almost ideal dwelling. Cottage
Grove and Lemati (the latter name
being mere tradition, the two towns
really being known as Cottage Grove
to the public are the most charm
ingly situated of any town in Ore.
gon. On all sides rise the gently
swelling breasts of hills that are
flanked by the ever-blue mountains.
AS one day the blue mountains will
pour their wealth into Eugene, 50 the
the golden streams from the Bohemia
mines are already flowing into Cot.
tage Grove. One tive.stamp mill in
Bohemia is taking out from 800 to
5000 a day, and the whole region
seems to be as rich as anything in
the west.
At Cottage Grove met several pi-
oneers of the Oregon legislature. j.
r. Baker was clerk during the sixties,
when JAS. d. Fay was president of
the senate and tried to make Hon.
Bob Cochran take his seat. He was
not as successful in the role of Car as
Tom Reed, and when he sent a young
fellow from Portland to make Bob
take his seat, it was the sergeant.at-
arms who sat, and when Fay threat
ened to use force, Cochran pulled out
a weapon that Hon. John Whitaker
or some other good man handed him
ard held the floor until he had votes
enough to reverse the ruling of the
speaker. Hon. Robt. Veatch can tell
great many stories of those days
better than can, But judge that
men counted more as men in those
days and were less counted as puppets
than they aye nowadays.
Landlord Sherwood, who keeps the
hotel of his name at Cottage Grove,
knows a whole lot about trout and
their habits, both in and out of the
water, and this is a fishing region
second to none in Oregon.
AL Churchill, who used to be
printer on the Statesman, is now
successful rancher at Cottage Grove.
Cal. Wallace, one Of the Wallaces
after whom that postoffice is named,
is a successful level-heade d farmer,
and of course an intelligent bimetal-
list. His wife, now turning gray, was
carried across the plains as a baby.
Nearly all the pioneers here, and a
great many of the later comers, are
from Iowa. Cottage Grove is largely
settled up with Iowa people.
L. F. Wooley is editor OF the Cot
tage Grove Leader. His father Rev.
G. A. is a Cumberland Presbyterian
preacher. Judging from his eloquent
prayer at the celebration, he is man
of broad views and his sympathics are
with the people he serves.
Horace Mann, Marion county
Mann, who went from Stayton to es-
tablsh the Cottage Grove Messenger
has built mp good business. He has
won the good will of nearly everyone,
though he is a man of decided
views. Horace was pilot and sailor
by trade before he became a printer
and has conducted many perilOus
voyage betweed the Florida ports and
Cuba. His sympathics are strongly
with the Cubans.
II. j. Day, two terms city marshal
at Eugene, has now fine blacksm it'll
business at Cottage Grove. 1t is graf
flying to see man as prominent in
politics as he has been, 90 to work
and earn an honest living again. Not
many politicians ever do that.
{. The fine rains have produced re-