Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-08-18
Scandinavian ele-

ment.
A fine new sawmill is being bull
Just outside the town, and the on
now in operation by the Glendale
Lumber Company, which fumes it
output four miles to town has NOR,
than 1t can do.
A system of water works is a
present being constructed. 1t will
consist of a reservoir several hun
dred feet above the town, to bt
supplied from a mountain stream
and run by gravity to the consumers
An electric light plant is also one
of the possibilities of the near
future.
A chamber of commerce was or
ganized last week amid considerable
enthusiasm, and good working
membership is already assured. One
of the objects in view is the building
of wagon road from Glendale
through the rich mining districts
to Curry county, thus giving that
vast country an outlet to the in
terror.
On the 18th of this month the
game laws made the open season for
shooting deer, and within a week
from that date more than so per
cent of the male population will be
on the mountain tops with their
pack horses, tents, guns and dogs.
Hundreds of the antlered beauties
will be carried home and everybody
will eat venison for some time to
come.
Douglas county Is undoubtedly
the best hunting ground in the state,
and aside from local sports hundreds
will pour in from all parts of the
state. Glendale is the favorite point
for the outside hunters to start for
their prey, and this class of business
alone makes considerable for the
town every year.
The truth Is, Glendale is becoming
known as resort, a comfortable
place, boon for the weary, and
panacea for the troubled 1t has
been very properly descibed as the |
valley of Content" A beautiful |
quarto-souvenir has been issued by |
local parties under the
above title, and is credit to the
place, as well as the publishers.
In the Introductory matter to the
same. we find the following:
THE weary traveller alighting
from the train at Glendale in the
cool OF the morning or just at sun
set, involuntarily exclaims "The Val
ley of Content" High on all sides
rise the pine and fir covered hills,
drawing close together on the west
the river In one close embrace, wide
apart here at the confluence of
Windy Creek with the main canyon
and seeming to guard over the beau
tiful valley lying at their feet. A
level stretch of green field and YER
dant meadow, dotted with comfort
able houses and fruitful orchards:
In the foreground the clear waters
OF Cow Creek (prosaIc name for so
poetic stream, ripple over the
many colored pebbles, foam around
the boulders or slip silently into
some deep, quiet pool whose un-
rufied surface would seem to tempt
the anglers fly. Along the banks
the tall cottonwood and gnarled
maple cast their grateful shade while
underneath, the ferns grow waist {
ieep, and dip their leaves caresslngN I
INTO the cool waters. Well grayeled 9
roads lead away up the hinsides nm. {
III they disappear around the shouI- I
Hers OF the mountains. All is pence {
Iul and serene; no din of city street {
lr aught OF discord. You hear the I
OF the river, the distant Y
sound of bells, the song OF bird the d
laughter of some jolly riding party /
20 the accompaniment of their $
lorses' hoots. b
1t is' indeed, the valley OF con. d
eut." wa" \
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