The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-10-25
LOOKED AT BENTON TIMBER

LOOKED AT BENTON TIMBER
And Thought They Wsrs aFtins it
Got TimbeHfs LHd in9ancoM
There i$aseIef ina EorSallissthat
the party 5Post1anaers sfkho Wade
filings in the Benton county clerk S
! .eMee=4his=week- orr tim Der 1landsnin
! Ftnco5ifr county, have'a a:matteTf of
4faet located -en-fands thatarepract=
inally barren of commercial timber.
.It 5s.ealso 4 fact that The partN.-was
never on the lands on which they
Amade filings, ibut 3a instead i were
shown timber ia the South aendT Of
Beutbtf aceunty, something IKE 80
miles Ffreff the 1afids sfior7 Which
they filed. As there were SO per-
sons 1nttheaparty;i and as each paid
! $f4o 70 thes1ocateriA who fsstessered
Them 4 'if III tie trahsactfoh, # IS AZ
Parent tfatt the Claimants have tie
worst Of Very bad Bargain. =ss
'nIt 18Th the Vicinity % Of Frank
Sets place 81 FIVE Rivers HAT II fhzs fz
party BY their f61ings Are actually
located. It Is on the headWaters
of the A1sea river, III III . the vicinity
of the Inman MILL mill miles south
west Of Dusty, that the party, be
Iieve they. have filed. LIFT was was at
the latter latte place that they examined
tim Der: = - Standing On top Of = a
PEAK. I there lone 'of the party, said
to TINES man yesterday we
couid ssg the A1sea store to tie
west and north Of u.s., appafenfty
eight Or ten niles away. It was was
there that we got OUR timber, As
Alsea store should have been Z Il
almost directly. east. instead Of west
Of them When On their timber lands
aid BY road from rs to-. 50 miles
away, it is readily seen how tho :
5gg{h5}sd 5gghlx ths s. members EHl S. Of II tie party
ss1sis 4se1aeHsoGaaaii J .1S1T
rsn Got T1MBElR2.4LlEss, ,4eAflND. HAM a. 1.
-.,Theslandsson which sa filings are
made lie in atstrip six miles long;
and three miles wide.,a. The south
side of,the strip Isl halffasmi1e north
of the Frank Sets place.. Four
miles :of1the stripIis Eastward ,offai
line, drawn north and south through
the, Seits, p1aceoz -andGrtwo miles of.
it us WestWardlx People ir,s4Eorr
wallis familiar with the rglands emri
bTaeed II inthe,is strip say thatqit is
bHrned district, and thatfit is coN1r
cred, not with commercial timber
but stndergrowtl. ofnybrush, logs
and fernas1Mith: seareeaylapy timber,
on it.,Ea sYo1e.i nj .iu..s!
Sam Warfeld, out from sr AIsea
yesterdays says.eo:he 5aknoWslof:no
timber in the section referred to-.
Police JudgeiGnefoz and cDf. M B.
Avery and others who have hunted !
frequentlNin the territory mentionn
edsl slesaYs there is esdesirab1e timber /
in the section. on aass'.tt :a1.i 2ssa inf
AS shown. by the records at the +
clerk s, Office, the filings made by;
the ipartgsare. in township "a, south
ranges nite4and5 I 11nfrange mine
there are. hlingsin 4sthes following
sections one quarterin section H.
three. quarters finfde.,aqtWotui uin nine, |:
one ia eight stwolin t6g twosin 2os
three ina2I,. .two5inla2, one lin eo7s +
andi one. in 80. ;.In.. range 10 the
filings are,in parts5of the following /
sections:ssOne quarter in section O.
one in I.I, ouesin1r2, a1luof section
4,uoneiauarterain 3gstwof in35a24.iE
lbof,seetion; 23Yland ote quarter III |
22.sal 5ninHinpa 3aa - :nTeGjs .!z4 I'll
NEVER 'sAw:gANb THEFi GoT1 "a
It IS dg6nHglyt ytlt Known that the
party never proceeded nearer to theI
Sets plaee than tto the forks Of the y
,oad ID A1sea Valley, distant By,
,oad, at sfeeaagt ayG n1ifes n from tie I,
andsu 81 which they fled. TheyE55
lrrived ffom Portland i Wednesday
If last Week, and the same evening r
vent 7 70 Phftoniat III g There 7 they /,
Until Thursday noon, l1
md that night Went to oAlseal sttoftee. 81 e r 7:
7riday morning they resumed |:
heir journey, but according to the
statement of john Hyde and a son z
# Jerry Henk1e, Who were teal i I
ers for the outfit, the party passed
N to where the south DAD leaves i
Alsea for MonPog. Tffis road they ]
ook, going inli.exactfy the opposite
Iirectiohn ffTo,mi :ff,mi What sfb,otatd ...alt.e p
zen their real destination Fli[1,a f
light, after travelling easterfv@,8 tt1fle1'Ef
in the vicinity IF the ga 'oIa Il +
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