The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-12-09
More About Biggs.

N
/ Cradlebaugh does.
Biggs was first built at the mouth
of Spanish Hollow This hollow was
SO named because two spanish COWS
were found ranging in 1t, at g cross
/ ing of the cid emigrant road, since
known rs the Eaton place. These
cows were supposed to have been lost
from drove on it's way from the
Willamette valley to Fort Walla
Walla, tor the use Cf the garrison,
shortly after the close of the Cay use
war.
In lS43 portion of the immigaDt
train, that DR.. Whitman piloted
across the plains, camped at the
mouth ut Spanish Hollow and waited
here a while on account OF sickness.
Before leaving they buried the re-
mains OF one of their women there
aud in 1894 the winds In shifting the
sands lett these remains exposed, and
Mr.. Samuel Price, now OF Hood River
boxed up the bones and gave notice
of their finding
During the hard winter of 1862
Eminent Miller's stage, running Il ON
Walla Wslla to The Dalles, was block
ed in the snow at Well Springs, and
his passengers aud oGher travellers to
the number of sixteen started from
Scott's ferry on the John Day river,
a point since known as Leonard's
Bridge, and undertook to make their
way to The Dslles. One of them
made his way down Spanish hollC "
and thence down the Columbia to
the house of VIM. Graham, where the
Deschutes station now stands, lie
reported the others on the way and
as they did not arrive, John Irwin
and Charles Poole started out to
meet them. At daylight the next
morning they each took a saddle
horse, (the travellers we're all on toot)
and found two men at the place where
Biggs was afterwards sbuilt.
They had reached there some time
in the night found some DRIFT wood
built fire and waited for daylight.
Iheir feet were frozen but they were
able to go on without help, and told
our friends that some of the party
had turned north hoping to reach the
Columbia and come down it. The
roads were all ohlterated and the
men became snowhlind and could
not keep course with any accuracy.
| Irwin and Poole went on up to what
| was then known as the Columbia bot
| tom, a short distance above Grants,
\ and found two men, who reported
/ that they had Eeen compelled to
i leave a man short distance back,
1 who had given his name as Jonathan
1 Mulkey.
i He was found at Murray's Spring,
III | n n that thpJ
Il had to cut him loose to get bim up,
Il Ihey put him on horse and brought
Il him down to the point of rocks above
II Biggs. Fearing to trust to the foot
Il ing of the horse coming around tht
II point, irwin took him on bis batl
II got down on all fouIs and carried
Il him down to Bggs, freezing his owr
II hands in the operation. Mulkey wa
II so badly frozen that he died fey
Il days later. Nine of the sixteen cam
u in. Some of the others were fount
4 after the sntw had Roue the mex
II spring and some we're never found
Y After tie railroad was built, Henri
4 Helms, Ut Columhus, Wash, cam
II over aud buiit hotel at Blggs
a Dixon McDonnld, now OF hoot
Il River, aud lis raItrer, Robert CHM
sSI now ., Nero. built latform an,
- warehouse ter the handling OF wheat
- They later kept store there. %
Farmers Coo perative Warehouse Co.
and also ian "a platform and warenoLs
in the same business. A compan
'e composed OF f. o. Mccoy, e. II
Bone. now of Hood River, Waite
Moore, Henry Moore, and perhap
20 some others bought the McDonal
NJ platform aud continued to handl
SO wheat at Biggs, until the Columbi
re Southern railroad built to Wascc
nj H.. h Clark, now OF Hood Rive
10 built house on the point just eas
in OF the hollow and kept the Biggs pos
as office. He also handled lumber
an wood, shingles, coal and Iath and a
adj times ran erry between Biggs an
8. Columbus. He also kept a liver
t. stable.
IN After running the hotel for SON
"a time, Mr.. Helms sold out to Ssmut
Mt Price who ran the house for sou
ck time aud then sold to Mrs. tloore
GO who after running the house about
nv year let it fall back TO Mr. PTic
n. lie ran it again until the Columb
an Southern railroad drained ssthe bus
To ness of the place down to pret'
nd low point, when he sold out to j,
AZ Henderson, who after running Il
ON house for time sold to Geo. HOl
I'm man. Hoffman moved it up the he
of low onto bis ranch and used it for
en- dwelling.
,ye During the time Mr.. Price ran Il
,o. hotel, the sand formed against &
ire south side of the house in euch hu
as to endanger the south wall
no bulRod inward and had to be brace
aIo Mr.. Mcdonald took his team al
cd sclaper and relieved the pressure
times, and later the writer on sever
md occasions scraped the sand away
prevent the walls from crushing
One evening while we we're at suprt
=. the ceiling in the wash loom, unat
-, longer to support the weight )f So
70 that had sitted through the roof on
it. tell with crash hat startled u
'In rtd Not long after this | was awaken
% nc one night ty cracking noise folio
a. "a ed by dull thud, then the voice
~, Thoe. Van Ansdell, late OF Ho
mo I River, called out, "Jim Jim |"
.oo' ceiving no ansSer from Jim Murp
,n who was occupying the led with hi
lm. - aIIo5 r. ,,o 70 ooua nm "a
- nos, cblIbu W ut w Oonc up a
! o., tring light, that jim was hurt.
',,n =" reaching the bedroom, found Il
~n' the ceiling bad fallen with its well
,o.o az of fand and buried Jim, who was
iO ioto sound sleeper, and had not awaken
'oio until it was too late to get out OF
h Several men set to work viRoIou
@ with their hands and soon dug /
~" .b" out. Fortunately the cloth lin
,StS s on the ceiling came down over
III liz face and kept the sand out OF
"AS nostrls. He was not hurt and say
, ~ that he was all right, vent into
y a' other room and was sonDd asleep
,i about three minutes.
~ Mr.. Price cut a manhole up thro
aau the ceiling of the main part OF
80 80 house the next day and found
zoo" there was no weight of sand over