White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-21
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The recent occurrence of Tia" ctui-
LoXial tlorrls of 1928, like others uf
the same name. remind the writer
of the ones occurring in 1911, those
Ct this year more especially calling
10 mind wildly the exciting and nrt
L~pinteresting experiences of the
phenomena of tv else years ago.
Some years it takes several days
after line sun ROSES the equatot for
Jupiter Pluvius to get action on his
great faucets, but never until last
year did anybody know or hear OF ii
time when the %equinoXial storms
were omitted entirely. Those of
1911 were thought to have been fore.
gone and we were about to give it
up for Il bad job when they came
with a rush and stayed longer than
they did this year.
Residing at the time al Medford,
Oregon. and intending to return to
Tonopah. myself and dependents
planned what then was an almost
unique style of travel, Ivy purchasing
a horse and buggy and driving over
land. Autos had not come in
to the extent of being fashionable,
and there were lots of whole families
who would not trust themselves out
more than about five or ten miles in
one of them.
We could have started September
| if it had not been hat our truly
had not had his deer hunt and had
10 have that over first. So by the
time it was owe and all was ready
it was the goth. which morning we
hit the trail up Rogue river. There
had been no %equinoXial storm yet.
and I expressed fear many times that
we were taking OF many chances.
But that morning was OF heavenly
perfection and our old webfoot neigh
Dor, Uncle Tom Collins, told is it
wasn't going to storm and to go
ahead. l told him I would not care
if we could get ever the Cascade
Summit before it arrived, and he said
we could do hat easily, so we went.
The second day we camped for
noon at Prospect, and while enjoying
our lunch we noticed that the sky
was growing dull and 4 little cloudy,
but we thought it was only Il mild
threat and that by the e day al
Inside of an hour we were in a veri-
table cloudburst and the road
through the tall pines was a river.
Old Rowdy, orr fine 1200-pohnd
horse, pulled us through this famous
" for about a dozen miles and with
our buggy top we did not get wet,
but we were worried about a place
to camp. We had been up that road
a month before to Huckleberry noun
tain and remembered a dilapidated
log cabin that had been occupied as
n nesting place for hogs pastnring in
!, the woods, a short distance from
5 Union creek where We had camped
in our tent before. But this time
there was too much rain to talk about
. a tent and there was no other cabin
in miles.
Never did the Waldorf-Astoria or
) New Willard look more beautiful to
us than that log cabin when finally
it hove in sight. But parenthetically
5 Id better add that perhaps am COM
!, %mitting<a blunder to mention our
! previous puttings-up at the Waldorf
Astoria and New Willard. else Mr..
Loclshart may want to bury the
Ratchet and make friends, but I'm
not ready yet.
AS W. approached a column OF
smoke arose from the old wooden
chimney. There was another horse
and buggy, and a man and woman in
side. The woman did not want to
take us in. In several ways she in
Dictated to us that she thought they
had it by first right OF possession
but we entered and made ourelves
at home anyway, telling her there
was no other, but of this We did not
convince her. Then she said there
was no dry wood, that they had got
, ten all there was, etc. bat We paid
no attention to that. Presently The
rain slackened and l. went out and
chopped up a green pine boagh that
had fallen during the storm from 4
i00-fOot tree. She said 1t was no
Gse 10 bring that in, az it was green
and would not burn. l said not a
word but threw a lot of it on the
fire in the fireplace and how it blazed
up and lit the cabin. She said she
did not know green wood would burn
that way, but I told her there was
pitch in it and not to worry, that it
was just the stuff for a fireplace
Then she PARTIALLY assented to our
remaining if we could make our bed
down inNthe far corner from the fire,
which we said was fine and dandy.
The floor was Mother Earth and hog
nests of dust and weed stems.
In the night the fun started, iur
for us. 1t only amused us for we
were the audience. The place was
full nj wnnd rats and thew, Warp mes