Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-25
NO PRETTIER SIGHT AMY
WHERE WITH GOOD ROADS
ALL WAY SAYS ALBANY DEM.

There can be nothing prettier any
where in the world than Silver Creek
Falls, forty miles from Albany, up in
the Cascades in Marion county, as
one views them from shelf in path
back under huge rocks directly under
the falls. 1t is sight to make one
feel ones smallness compared with
natures offerings. Yosemite has its
bigger shows, but nothing neater than
this. The writer, who saw the falls
for the first time yesterday was filled
to overflowing with the splendid sight.
The trip there was made by three
sisters and their bubbles. of which
the writer is one, going in by way of
Marion, Stayton and Sublimity and
coming back by way of Subiimity and
Aumsville, much the better route, The
roads are in splendid condition; in
the vicinity of Sublimity and Aums-
vile and further up IN the mountains,
some of them macadam made, and
practically all of them are in fine run.
ming shape.
In the Silver Creek Falls district
the tax payers themselves have ap.
propriated ten mills year for ten
years for road improvement, and they
are getting it under skillful builders.
We passed a high class road roller,
another machine and a scraper. 1t is
a slam on valley people to have it
said that they are making better roads
up in the hills than down here, but
they are doing it, One thing is that
they have the rock for the purpose.
Clear up on the hill just before
reaching Silver Creek Falls we stop
ped at house, neat place, for water,
and had the pleasure of meeting Percy
IL. Brown, bachelor, which we men
ton for the benefit of young ladies
who would like to get up j,--"e world,
besides Mr.. Brown is fI q =.
On the way in we all assdi four
young ladies, two from 81 erwood and
two from Salem, on hike to the
falls, for a several days visit. They
were well logged for the trip, one of
the girls in short dresses, one in
bloomers, two, one of them Miss Nc
Lagan, whose folks live near Tangent,
but who resides in Salem, in short,
comfortable neat looking pants, that
made the girls look like movie ar
fists. They walked fifteen miles yes
terday and were certainly some hun
cry when they reached the falls.
Above the falls Mr.. Volz has a
neat park for visitors, charging % cents
for autos and five cents for single per
sons, with tables for lunches, and 9th
er conveniences. He has been there
fourteen years.
But the falls are the real things, own
ed by T. C. Smith, Tom Kay and 9th
ers of Salem. They are immense as a
spectacle, but it is doubtful if they will
ever have great commercial value be-
cause of the low water in summer,
when the power is bound to be low;
but for scenery the place is superb, and
many visit the falls and leave enthused
They are twelve miles from Silverton
and all the way from six to sixteen
miles from Sublimity. Distances are un-
, certain. One of the girl hikers said
that for ten miles, people told them the
falls were three miles away.
In the vicinity there is a hamlet with
population Of about hundred, with
school of fifty or sixty, and a church
Along the way, all kinds OF crops
look fine and farms prosperous.
Among the visitors at the park yes
terday were DR.. Webb, prominent
physician and family, of Mt. Angel
There were number of others, but
Sunday is the big day, crowd being
there last Sunday, among them five
auto loads from Albany.