Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-04-08

At the gateway into the Klam
ath basin from the south stands tbs
beautiful little Dream City of Dor
ris. named after a family of Oregon
pioneers from Lane county, anC
springing into municipal life and a5
tivity over night almost. 1t is the
principal town between klamath
Falls and Weed on the new South
ern Pacific extension known as the
Natron cutoff, which will be the
main line between Portland and San
Francisco within eighteen months.
Three Beautiful Townsites.
Coming south from klamath Falls
one passes through Worden, a sight
ly place for city on a gentle slope
from the tule lands toward the foot
hills, then through Doris, at the
entrance to the klamath basin, and
most highly developed of all, and
thence to the south end of the Butte
valley, where sits Mt. Hebron, named
after a beautiful mountain and des
| tined to be manufacturing city. In
all three townsites hundreds of Ore
gon people have bought town lots
and many are preparing to make i'm
provements and take up their homes.
Wonderful Mountain Scenery.
The railroad ride to Doris from
the south is more eloquently de-
scribed than can picture it in the
words of Marcus Purcell, an attor-
ney-at-law at Doris:
North, north, and still farther
northwards and westwards, via Sac
ramentO, on to Dunsmuir, Shasta
Springs and sunny, snowy Sisson to
Weed, through the great Butte val
ley, past the Grasslake and Butte
creek, through the great pine woods
past Mount Hebron and Macdoel and
on to Doris, the Queen of Butte
valley From here the railroad
passes through the old home of the
red man, the klamath country. The
name of the ancient owners, the
klamath Indians, attaches to and is
retained in klamath Pass, klamath
Hot Springs and Klamathon, in Cal
ifornia klamath river, Klamath
Falls and klamath county, in Ore
gon, and here at klamath Falls, the
picturesque city on beautiful Lake
Ewauna, the railway for the present
terminates. Whether the traveller
takes this journey in winter, fall OF
summer or in the early spring, ma
ture spreads before his gaze a scene
of sylvan beauty, at once delightful,
picturesque and grand Once in Sis
kiyou county (so-called by the nor
thern French trappers, who passed
over the Sis-Kiyou, or 'SiX-Boulders'
in the klamath river without ford
ing), the great pine and fir woods,
the snowy Siskiyou's, majestic
Shasta, snow-crowned, 14,444 feet
in height, the ten thousand noun
tain rills, that leap and sparkle as
they fall into the rivers below"
Energetic Little City.
At Doris, an incorporated town
at the northern end of Butte valley.
the energy of the tOwnspeople. in
one year, has transformed a waste
of sage brush into a prosperous little
business town of 700 or more in
habitants; good hotels and restau-
rants offer the weary traveller re-
treshment, repose and rest from his
Journey, and first-rate business
houses sharpen the commercial in.
sinct of the man who has the
goods to SELL the builder and the
lumberman see the site of box fac
tory, soon 10 be established there,
where the grand old pines" will
furnish box and building lumber
and make Doris the center of
humming hive Of happy industry
for the next quarter OF a century.
A Modern Home City.
with contracts let for city water
and electric lights. with live bust
ness men, good real estate hustlers.
two hotels, all mercantile lines well
represented, with the foundations OF
a fruit industry, with churches and
lodges, with social center and
well-organized publicity department
with the p. c. Lavey company more.
than making good on It's representa-.
tions as to the merits of the real es-
tate offered at Doris, is Il any won
der this little city grows steadily
and all values are advancing?
WIN Re County Seat.
At a banquet given the ten repre-
sentatiyes OF purchasers OF lots at
Doris, Pat Layey announced that
Doris would be the next county seat
OF Siskiyou county, or there would
be new county created, with Doris
as the cOpnty seat-they could take
their choice. But here the air Is
charged with electricity OF progress
and the people down here look for
ward TO there being a state OF Sis
kiyou, with the capital In this part
OF the country. The time will come
when new western states will be
needed TO save the nation from be-
ms deYoured by the muiti-milliOn-