The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-08-24
Wallowa Lake Park
Fine Tourist Attraction

Mr.. and Mrs. Vawter Crawford re-
turned home on Sunday from a visit of
ten days in the Walowa hills around
about Joseph. They were accompanied
on the trip over by Mr. and Mrs. J. O..
Turner, and the visit was greatly enjoy
ed. 0. G. Crawford, baby brother of the
editor of this paper is now publisher
of the Herald at Joseph, which he pur-
chased some eight or nine months ago,
and while pretty busy fellow, having
just recently installed linotype ma
chine which was giving him a lot of grief
on account Of some of its eccentricities,
and making it hard to get up enough
stuff to fill the paper, yet he took time
off to show the visitors around and lee
ture them on the great attractiveness Of
the Alps of Oregon He accompanied
Messrs. Crawford and Turner to the
very top most point of the highest noun.
tain, and they were given the thrill Of
their lives when they had gained a
height of about ten thousand feet on old
Aneroid and looked out over the snow.
capped peaks of Eagle Cap and down
into the lake basin, where they could
count numbers of beautiful lakes and
many feathery cascades that came tumb-
ling down over the rocks from the snow
banks near the SUBMITS of the sur
rounding mountains. No one should visit
Wallowa lake park without making this
trip, IL they are able to stand the slight
hardship of few hours of real noun
tain climbing.
Wallowa county, and especially the
Wallowa lake section, is becoming more
and more of an attraction abroad, The
completion of the highway into that por-
tion of the state is making it very easy
to get there, and the scenery along the
route for the greater part of the way
upon reaching the Blue mountains is
such as to satisfy the desires of the
average tourist. A fine grade is now
completed around Wallowa mountain
and the descent down to the river at Mi
nam is very easy and gradual. This
grade will soon be macadamized and
then cars will get over it easily, even q
Ford being able to negotiate the clint
on high, and then a genuine thrill is
thrown in for good change when YOU
peak over the brink into the Minam can.
yon.
A contemplated highway leading
out Of Enterprise and over to Lew
iston, where 1t will connect with Other
highways now completed and under con
struction, will make Wallowa count,
very favorably situated and it will be
come a mecca for tourists, as they car
continue around the cirle and will no
have to back-track
There is a bright future for this ma
ture beauty spot and we are not sure bu
| that we would like to live there the yea
| around-.that is, if the weather condi
tons were always just as fine as the!
were on this trip. However, it snow
some up in that high mountain countr,
and there is a long winter spell and a
| with many other attractive spots on thi
mundane sphere there are some dsad
vantages as to climatic conditions, whicl
of course only add to the beauty of tn
short summer months in the forme
happy hunting grounds of Old Chic
Joseph and his tribe of Nez Perces
We hope to be able to make man,
summer tours into this part Of Oregon
and be able some day to learn the tricl
of capturing those wonderful fish il
Wallowa and Aneroid lakes--somethin,
a tenderfoot can't readily accomplish
except he possess a silver hook.