The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1899-06-15
HIS OPINION ANENT HIGH WATER
Our Old Friend "Greenhorn Survived
the Winter and Hasn't Forgotten
Us.
The GREENHoRN, June 6, '99

HE OhhENhO1hNJ O0AO W. OO'
EDITOR CHRONICLE =
am constrained to write a few lines
for the old CHRoNIcLE for several reasons.
One because l feeI that way; another
because am egotistical enough to be-
lieve that its many readers would not
be displeased at perusing an article from
my pencil and following the vagaries of
my vagrant mind; but principally be-
cause this is the 5th anniversary of the
high water of '94, on which occasion the
Columbia served as a baptismal font,
and The Dalles did service as the "kid. :"
notice what you say concerning the
possibilities of high water this year, and
indorse your statement. The weather
clerk has done grand service for you
people of the Columbia basin this year,
for had average temperatures prevailed
the water would have gone over the top
of the CHRONICLE building. We have
had few warm days. followed invaria-
bly, by cold nights, and the snow has
gone slowly and steadily. However the
danger of high water has not yet passed,
though it is fail to presume that con-
ditions will not change radically, and
that therefore you will not have un-
usually high water. On the other hand
there is vast area still covered with
snow, from two to sixty feet deep. This
snow is now in the shape of granular
ice, and just in condition to give up Its
waters freely at the touch of the sun.
Ten days of successive warmth and you
will have thirty feet more water at The
Dalles, but do not believe the ten sue
cessive warm days are in the catalogue
Sunday was warm: Sunday night the
ground froze. Monday it showed sc
that two inches of the beautiful nuisance
lay on the ground until noon. / do moi
believe you will have high water-but il
you do. it will be dandy.
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I have another reason for believing
the snow will hang On indefinitely, and
that is that 1 am interested In having il
go as quickly as possible. I do not be-
lieve that Nature changes her plans or
my account, but I do believe that wker
the old jade gets cranky spell on, thai
will run up against it. The snow II
all gone from around our house but
across the creek fifty yards there is from
one to three feet of it in the drifts. Be-
tween them purple iris, buttercups, dog
tooth violets, spring beauties, phenom.
enally large ants, aud variegated
flower garden OF bugs of all sizes, kinds
and degrees are in full bloom. Around
the house the old tin cane, gum boots
discarded socks and undergarments cast
out last fall, have found their way tc
the surface, giving variety to the land.
scape and spice to the belated breezes oil
lazy Spring. The roads are beginning
TO show through the snow, in spots, and
the yellow-legged mining expert is
everywhere visible. Many mining prop
critics are changing hands, and the
Greenhorn (the country, not mel is
having veritable boom. The Banzette
mine, a four-incn vein one mile from ue,
was sold Monday for $50, 900. A pros.
pect hole near Granite for $25, ,00O The
Virginia near us has been sold, but on
private terms. A big pump was hauled
In over the snow and is now fast bring
ing the water out Of the old drifts. The