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slope am. finally slip over- the top into the smoother " r ater beyond. 
* little after noon ~e came to the mouth of the Gi-a. d 
Bond®, a little river which has out its •**»•»■ ^o-’ r n f^ov' the Oregon 
cite- T'here is a port office iere, a few acres of comparatively 
level land, ■ house and tarn and two appletrees- The 'Irani. Ponde 
must be grand trout stream am I itched to try it. It is stock 
country tack, though here nd there there must be some cheat land 
above, fir, at one place re sar a warehouse with a galvanised iron 
F^pe on trestles which ran to the rim, lf.00 or 5.000 feet above 
'O n ".nc i t -ev poured tee grain tr t le bins- here the formation 
changes abruptly to a li. estone which continues for some miles 
alii at tne —outi of the salmon River w^ come to a j etamorphic reck 
the boulders along the river being almost as black as ink and as 
. lin * as if polls it i. laily. "t tfm Salmon there a . in© run by a 
Pull; an company. It carries copper and platinum, but the latter in 
s uch composition that it cannot be extracted by any smelter n 
t ii-- country. 1 a. told it s i isted. I.ater we got into more basalt. 
Every mile or so there _s a house and a few acres of alfalfa- 
Sheep and cattle range the hills and these are no r-ads, only a 
trail along t,xe n v er ■ -.nk nd a telephone line, Forest Service. 
rn hey have no timber am the poles are 4 ft. long, They cannot be 
set in the ground, for there is none, so they build a tnagle of' 
theee poles lying flat on the rock m one angle of which another 
post is set vertically and rocks piled to ±ts top and t e tik 
seton that, "here are any fences built the same w dy to keep the 
stock off patches reserved for winter range. c 'hexe has been r uch 
placer imining along the steam and hundreds of prospect holes- ft 
urande Ronde imny years ago there ys a colony of shinamen washing 
the bars who were massacreed tv the cowboys for their dust 
