The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-08-20
OUR NEWPORT LETTER.
Fishing and other Events at 0Issen's Bay
Sunsets. Dynamite --Nussels Seal Rocks.

unSetS,Dynamlte- -muSSelS seal ROCKS.
NEWPORT, Aug. 49,
No trip 10 the seaside is complete with
out taking in Seal Rocks. The ride Of
eight miles down the beach, the row
across the bay, the return at low tide,
are all intensely interesting and develop
an appetite that is destructive to hotel
profits at the terminal points.
Fishing on the bay has not been 30
good the past week. The water has not
been clear, but the river water is sick.
looking as II gets In all streams in mid
summer. f.. j. swafford has capture d
the champion founder, weighing ten
and a.half pounds. The largest taken
before was probably the mate to this,
ten FOUNDER in Ford Bros. seine.
Stafford's fish was 2s inches long and
as wide as the top Of a barrel. lie
thought no had hooked wooden blanket
Down at the Cape Foulweather light
there is fine cod.fshing off the.rocks, but
II takes several days to get onto their
curves.
Improving the Harbor
Exploding dynamite under the rocks
that obstruct the entrance to Yaquina
bay has been part Of the entertainment
afforded summer resorters at Newport.
Thursday the first blasts were fired, one
OF 400 pounds and one Of 200 pounds.
Both sent the salt spray about the same
height into the air-nearly two hundred
feet, a towering column of white foam
resembling the pictures of discharge
of the Old Faithful geyser in Yellow
stone national park. The dull thud,
that shook the bay made the hills
tremble and must have cooked the fish
for several hundred feet around.
$4,000 is to be expended on blowing
up Pinnacle rock. About ten shots
have been fred and samples OF blue rock
are shown that were thrown up by the
dynamite. The fact is, tho jetties need
repairing much more than this rock
needs blowing out. The repairs could
have been made for t25, 900 a few years
ago, but now will cost t75, 900 or $780,
900. As they are there is water enough
for great commerce.
Amateur photographers have been
kept busy taking snapshots Of the ex-
plosions. The steamer General Wright
gives an alarm whistle half minute b..
fore the blast is touched off by electri.
city, and all got ready TO catch tho great
columns OF water that leap up into the
air. Capt, Clark OF the Life Saving
station has some of the finest views that
have been taken.
The Ray NAtlghL
The Salem campers and cottagers at
olsson's had bonfire the other night
and about forty young aud old enjoyed
the occasion immensely, As the full
moon rose over the head OF the bay il
converted that body at high tide into a
shimmering sea Of silver. In the midst
OF our festivities the search light of tho
Manzanita, (the lighthouse tender that
has been In this harbor several days),
was turned full ON our party. All re.
sponded with cheer which was answer
cd from the boat across the water. Then
an excursion party went up the bay, and
launch went down, the occupants sing
ing and Japanese lanterns swinging on
the bow. Old fashioned games we're
played until the high tide put out our
bonfire ON the beach.
Death 10 MBssels.
On an early morning trip TO the light.
house on Yaquina head We learned TO