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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Notes from the Ox-team Express 
Oregon Roads. —Eastern Oregon has 
some tine scenery. The old Oregon Trail 
is rebuilt, grades changed not to exceed 
seven per cent, and graveled or finished 
with crushed stone from State line at 
Idaho to the Dalles. This is the Western 
end of the Oregon Trail. Here the Co¬ 
lumbia Highway in reality begins, al¬ 
though it is advertised from Pendleton. 
I have bought the Portland papers at 
several points along the line, and in every 
issue had a boost for this highway. One 
thing I notice about the Westerners, they 
are good advertisers. They can toot 
their horns wonderfully, especially the 
Portlanders and those who live along this 
highway. I don’t mind their toot, if 
they have something worth while to toot 
for. Along the Oregon Trail the highway 
is mostly new, having been built within 
tbe last few years, and for a gravel road, 
it is very fine, good enough for any tourist 
to travel on, but I am not so much en¬ 
thused about the Columbia paved road. 
Automobile Roads. —I really have no 
objections to a paved (asphalt) road if 
they did not “hog” the whole right-of- 
way. Generally the width of the right 
of way is 24 ft. and they have planted 
the pavement, as they call it, in the 
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fields, little or lesser mountains, then 
across the valleys and see Mount Hood 
from its base, off in the distance see 
hills covered with stately pines, fir and 
spruce, and the little and big mounds 
where the farmers grow wheat, even the 
side hills are used for growing wheat, 
one must wonder how they can work 
their machines without toppling over. It 
is what I call scenery. Most of this will 
he obscured by the new route as it will 
go through a canyon where nothing is to 
be seen except a creek at bottom of the 
canyon and a big mountain on either 
side. 
The New Road. —We met the engineers 
who are laying out this new route. They 
were curious to know why we took this 
route and not the Columbia Highway. 
After listening to my vehement disap¬ 
proval of the Columbia Highway, tbe 
chief of the gang said this was the first 
ox-team he had seen hitched up in 25 
years, I remarked that it may be 25 years 
before he sees another. This seemed to 
please him, as his face lit up and he saiu, 
“Well, what's the use of building roads 
for oxen,” so I helped him along by 
saying, no use, no use whatever, and 
cajoled him a bit to let it soak in, then 
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center 16 ft., leaving about 4 ft. on each 
side that is an absolute waste. If they 
bad planted the tar on either side and 
left one-third of the right-of-way free 
from tar then animal traffic could use it. 
They would still have a paved road. As 
it is, no animal team can work on it, 
especially in Winter, and if one complains 
they invariably say, “Ob. the road was 
not built for horses, it’s an automobile 
road.” In this I beg to differ; it is 
simply designed to make business for 
when he believed himself and that be 
made his point I said. “Now see here. I 
don’t want anyone to build special roads 
for these oxen They can if need be 
travel over sagebrush, but what I object 
to is that those ‘tar babies’ hog the whole 
right-of-way by taking two-thirds on 16 
out of 24 ft. If they had put the tar on 
one side then I could allow them that 
with good grace, but leave the other S ft., 
either natural earth, gravel, crushed stone 
or even mud, we could travel their high- 
Going Down Laketown Canyon 
doctors, hospitals and undertakers. It is 
a crowned road, the average pitch from 
center to sides is one inch to the foot, 
sometimes more and sometimes less, and 
no animal team can walk on it. Even 
the cars, when the road is wet. must 
watch their step or they go along until 
they find a place to skid off and go over 
the bank into a ravine. 
Impressive Scenery. —We tried about 
half a mile of it, and one ox went down, 
and as I don’t care to lose another ox 
we turned south at the Dalles, on what 
is known as the Dalles-California High¬ 
way. This is now being rebuilt and in 
some places will be changed. By the 
change they take away from the original 
highway the most magnificent view of the 
Cascade Range. The old road on which 
we now are we saw more real scenery in 
30 miles of travel than we saw on 100 
miles of travel on the Columbia. If one 
believes big rustic mountains of lava rock 
are scenery, it is here from Umatilla to 
the Dalles, but on the east side of the 
Cascades one can see the Three Sisters, 
Adam’s Peak, Mount Hood. Saint Helen 
and the Jefferson Mountains, and in the 
50 miles we ascended approximately 
2.500 ft. When we look back down over 
the plateaus and see the vari-colored 
way and ask no favors. Do you know 
of any horses that can travel this high¬ 
way? Have there not been many cars 
that tried to travel the highway where 
people are not alive to tell what hap¬ 
pened? Are tlipre not many accidents, 
so many that the press suppress or sub¬ 
dues the reports for fear of scaring off 
the tourists? Not only do they hog the 
whole right-of-way, but pick the people’s 
pockets in the process.” Then silence was 
supreme ; he turned on his heels and told 
the car driver to pick him up down the 
road when he was ready to go. I will 
give them credit for their gravel roads in 
Oregon ; they are fine and if they gravel 
this new road to Klamath Falls in as 
good a fashion as the old Oregon Trail 
in Eastern Oregon and tourists know of 
it, there will be two cars take this route 
to one by way of Portland. 
Not Impressed by the Columbia.— 
What is there anyway on the Columbia 
River? Nothing but a sleepy irregular 
stream of water with here and there a 
mound of lava roc-k sticking out of the 
water, and a narrow-gauge railroad along 
side. No beauty in that that I can see. 
Of course we saw the fishing wheels, how 
they catch salmon by machinery, but all 
tourists can see that either coming from 
