A land of many and diversified resources, of great mineral and timber wealth, of rich agricultural and horticultural possibilities, with a climate combining the sunshine of California and the moisture of Oregon--a fertile valley set in the midst of a scenic wonderland--all that Nature can offer to make life worthwhile, is found in Jackson County, Oregon.
    Medford and Ashland, her two largest cities, are metropolitan. The country well improved. The population of more than average intelligence. The products are varied and many. Some of her resources need more capital for development, and the land a more diversified and intensive cultivation.
    The county is bordered on the east by the Cascade Mountains, on the west by the Coast Range, the Rogue River Mountains on the north and the Siskiyou Mountains on the south. In the heart of this mountain-protected area is the Rogue River Valley, which has earned world fame for its pears, apples and other fruits.
    From the level floor of the valley, sloping benches and rounded hills lead up to the mountain ranges, heavily wooded with yellow and sugar pine, fir, cedar, oaks and laurels, with now and then a snow-capped peak 7000 to 9000 feet in height. The climate may be described in one word as "moderate"--about half way between the humid Willamette and the sunny Sacramento.
    In the '50s and '60s some of the pioneer settlers set out family orchards. Gradually it became known that the quality and quantity of the fruits were exceptional. The orchards developed, and Rogue River Valley fruit began to win prizes and command fancy prices in New York and in London. This led to a planting of a very large orchard acreage--and today the Rogue River Valley is one of the most successful orchard districts in the United States.
    General farming is receiving much attention, for it is realized that the high specializing in fruit growing should be balanced with diversified and intensified farming, stock raising and dairying.
    Corn is rather extensively grown, a considerable portion between tree rows in young orchards. While the nights are more cool than in the typical corn states of the Middle West, yet good yields are regularly harvested and as high as 108 bushels to the acre has been grown, and it is not uncommon to have it reach a height of 13 feet. The average yield is 27 bushels and average price 70 cents.
    Alfalfa is profitable and when the year is favorable as to rains and on good sandy and gravelly loams, yields of four to six tons per acre have been grown without irrigation year after year. Along the creek bottoms, where water is easily diverted, much acreage is in alfalfa. The combination of corn and alfalfa make a perfectly balanced ration for feeding and fattening stock and is now considered staple.
    The dairying industry has not yet begun to approach its possibilities. Movements have started toward bringing in blooded dairy cows to the valley, the farmers cooperating with the bankers, who assist in financing the scheme.
    Professor James Dryden, of the agricultural college, said, "I know of no section in the United States that is more favorable in a climatic way for the raising of poultry than the Rogue River Valley. You have no extremes of temperature, a moderate rainfall and abundant sunshine." Poultry raising has become a profitable side line with orchard care. As Oregon has 200 carloads of eggs and large quantities of poultry shipped in annually, it is a good idea to go into the poultry and egg industry extensively--especially if you can produce your own grain and feed.
    Fruit growing is the leading industry and Rogue River Valley fruit is known around the world. Sixty-five thousand acres are now planted to orchard. In the year 1913 the total output of apples and pears was 1150 cars, and the net returns reached well above $1,000,000. New orchards are 80 percent pears and the different varieties have been sifted down to seven varieties--Bartlett, Howell, Anjou, Comice, Bose, Winter Nelis, which are here arranged in the order in which they ripen. Of the pears one-fourth are Bartletts, one-half Bosc and Anjou, and the remainder about equally divided between Comice, Nelis and Howells.
    The two commercial varieties of apples are the Newtown and Spitzenberg. The Newtown, the favorite, notwithstanding the fact that several much-coveted prizes have been captured by Rogue River Valley Spitzenbergs, including the sweepstakes prize at the Spokane National Apple Show in 1909, in competition with all apple growing districts of the Northwest. A carload of Newtown apples was awarded first prize at the Canadian Apple Show in 1910.
    A horticultural expert is retained by the county and a perfect orchard protection is maintained. Deputies devote their time to inspecting orchards and products, and all diseases are attended to. They are aided by a large force of volunteers, scattered through the valley, who report to the supervisors. This activity has absolutely controlled the pear blight.
    Another phase of orchard work is frost protection during the blossoming period. On the slopes and foothills, where air circulation is good, killing frosts are unknown, but in some parts of the valley floor orchard "heating" or "smudging" has been found efficient. A system of frost warnings are worked out and orchards are equipped with apparatus for hasty lighting, as the danger temperature approaches between midnight and daylight. Training schools for packers are conducted each year, and pickers and packers are assigned to the different orchards. Large storage warehouses are built, combining pre-cooling and dry storage, with a capacity of 100 cars.
    There is a wide range between the highest average price per acre by the best orchards and the returns of the poorer. It is difficult to arrive at an average, but, safely speaking, a well-cared-for commercial orchard will net on an average of from $250 to $500 an acre. High records could be quoted, and figures verified, from orchards that have averaged $1000 an acre for several years. This proves possibilities under the best of market and crop conditions and good management.
    All varieties of berries bear prolifically, especially the loganberry and strawberry. Two canning factories have now been established and offer 4 cents a pound for all the loganberries raised. Two crops of strawberries are grown, the second crop ripening in October. The hope of the valley is canneries and evaporators and there is room still for great expansion in that direction.
    The valley has an extended reputation for melons and cantaloupes. Brown Bros. came to the valley three years ago and decided on raising cantaloupes for the market. Their yield and returns the first year was 300 crates to the acre.
    Tomatoes do especially well, and one cannery has signed up 40 acres for 1915. Gardening has been much encouraged by the establishment of public city markets in Medford and Ashland, where the producer sells direct to the consumer, both parties being mutually benefited.
    The soil of the valley floor as a rule retains moisture remarkably, especially if well cultivated, and matures tree fruits and cereals. But wherever irrigation is practiced the results amply justify the expense. For intensified cultivation the greater part of the valley requires water to get best results. On some shallow soils water is absolutely necessary, and remarkable crops of vegetables and small fruits are raised on very shallow soil with the aid of the irrigation ditch.
    Certain districts in the valley are adapted to dry farming. The average rainfall is 28 inches. The season is early and many crops mature before the summer season of light or no rainfall arrives.
    D. M. Lowe, of Ashland, raises over 500 different products each year on one ranch. He dry farms, and his collection of products have won special prizes with entries from four different states of the Northwest and he now has a display at the Panama-Pacific Exposition of over 500 products raised on his farm last year.
A number of aids are at the disposal of the new orchardist or farmer coming to Jackson County. The county pathologist, Professor Henderson, stationed here, offers advice regarding fruit growing. Another agency is the county demonstration farm, under the direction of Professor Reimer, who determines the relative worth of plant varieties for certain types of soils. Some 50 varieties of pears were found growing here and they have now been cut down to seven or eight. Cover crops and fertilizers are tested; best varieties of potatoes and corn are used.
    The greater part of land values is based upon fruit possibilities; cheaper lands are found in the outlying districts. The highest priced raw land is adjacent to some matured orchard, which has proved its commercial worth, and the prices vary from $50 to $200 an acre. The cost of planting and caring for an orchard for six or seven years is about $100 an acre; at this age it brings some returns and increases rapidly until at 12 years large profits are realized and, if well planted and cared for, command $600 to $1000 an acre.
    No allowance has been made for crops between the tree rows up to the bearing age. Corn is largely grown, and the greater part of the corn is so produced. Cantaloupes, melon, potatoes, tomatoes and other vegetables are profitable fillers. The climate may be judged by the location and surroundings; being west of the Cascades, at low altitude, the valley has the same mild climate found along the Coast from Puget Sound to Southern California, due to the influence of the warm Japan ocean currents. The winter months are mild, with little snow, which usually melts rapidly. The 28 inches of rain comes from October to April, with occasional showers during the summer.
    There is an average of 270 days of sunshine and there is always an evening breeze. The humidity is very low. The hottest days in summer the humidity is between 15 and 20. The nights are cool. The average minimum temperature during the winter is just below freezing or 31 degrees. Damaging winds are not experienced.
    Water available for irrigation and power is one of Jackson County's valuable resources. Rogue River and its tributaries drain the entire area, and according to the State Engineer, has 300,000 horsepower, with a total annual runoff of 3,200,000 acre-feet of water, so Jackson County has an abundance of water for all purposes. The large planned irrigation projects started are yet uncompleted. 
    It is estimated that 2000 acres of land is irrigated by means of electric pumping, and alfalfa fields of 100 or more acres are irrigated. The cost of pumping varies, according to the lift and size of plant. The cost to raise one acre-foot 100 feet by electricity is $2.80 per year, and the cost of the plant, $5 to $10 per acre.
    One of the large prospective uses for electric power is for electric roads. The largest developed power plant is at Prospect, where 7000 horsepower is generated. This is capable of expansion to 40,000. One hundred and twenty-five families in the valley cook with electricity; 80 per cent of the total county population use electricity for lighting, as the service is extended into all rural districts.
    Two-thirds of the acreage of Jackson County is classified as timber land. 850,000 acres is privately owned, 427,000 acres in natural forests. The estimate of merchantable timber has a total of 23,000,000,000 feet and contains some of the largest standing bodies of sugar pine found in the United States. Comparatively little use has been made of the timber resources up to this time, as only a few small mills have operated.
    The mineral resources of Jackson County are first among all the counties of the state, according to special investigators of the Oregon Bureau of Mines and geology. The placer gold fields of Southern Oregon have yielded $150,000,000 since their discovery.
    Large coal deposits are now being thoroughly tested. These veins range from 8 to 12 feet in thickness.
    Building stones offer an inviting field to the developer, which include granite, sandstone and marble from pure white to black, with grain rivaling Vermont quarries.
    The great need toward the development is a road to the coast, only 100 miles, where it could be loaded upon transports with wide market possibilities.
    Special opportunities might be summarized and emphasized as:  Lumber mills and box factories, alfalfa meal mills, additional fruit and byproduct plants, creameries and beet sugar factories.
    September, 1913 Jackson County voted $500,000 for the construction of a modern, first-class, hard-surfaced highway more than 50 miles in length, through the Rogue River Valley. A unit of the Pacific Highway from British Columbia into Mexico--Jackson County was the first county in the state to improve this unit of the highway--a leader in the agitation of good roads in Oregon. We have 17 miles of the highway completed and 13 miles over the Siskiyou Mountains graded and will be hard-surfaced early this summer.
    Jackson County offers many varieties of mineral springs, mountain steams with unrivaled fishing, wildernesses with deer, bear and cougar, historic Table Rock, Mill Creek Falls and Crater Lake, one of the scenic wonders of the world, with Medford the gateway, and just across the line in Josephine County are the Marble Caves, promising when fully explored to equal the caves of Kentucky.
    Rogue River offers royal sport in fly fishing for steelhead (rainbow) trout, weighing from 3 to 10 pounds.
    Medford, with an estimated population of 11,000, is located in the center of the valley and the most important financial, trade and shipping point, and is now a jobbing [wholesale and distribution] city. No city the size of Medford has a greater length of first-class paved streets, having a total of 22 miles, 29 miles of sewers, 28 miles of water mains, 28 miles of cement walks, and a 30-mile gravity water system costing $275,000. The city is supplied with gas, electricity and power, and has several four-story office buildings, a public park, a $20,000 library, a $140,000 hospital, a $75,000 natatorium, several fine hotels--one five stories, erected at a cost of $125,000--four banks, a $50,000 opera house, the key station of the United States Weather Bureau, splendid stores, a federal building now being erected at a cost of $110,000, five large schools, an academy, 11 churches, 20 lodges, a College Woman's Club, a University Club representing 43 colleges, a golf and country club with 100 acres of ground, an active Woman's Civic Improvement Club and Commercial Club. Two modern daily newspapers and an electric streetcar system.
    If one were ever justified in lauding the possibilities of any land, he is certainly justified in giving this beautiful valley and its throbbing wide-awake heart, the progressive city of Medford, a full measure of praise. The object of this article is to tell the people from outside, that they may know and enjoy, if they will, this garden spot of the West. Those who live there know of no other place so attractive--none with such possibilities. The writer has endeavored rather to underestimate than to exaggerate, knowing that so much can be said in favor of this favored valley, that even the plain, unvarnished truth would seem to some as the limit of exaggeration.
Heppner Gazette-Times "Home and Farm Magazine" section, May 6, 1915, pages 2-3.  This preprinted section was distributed with other Oregon newspapers as well.


    On arising the next morning, the "big trees" were with us and we saw many gigantic monsters on the mountainside, but there were also many fine-looking valleys between the ranges.
    By 8 or 9 o'clock we reached the famous Rogue River Valley. This beautiful valley with lofty and snow-covered mountain ranges on either side is nearly 40 miles long and 14 miles wide. It is considered the garden spot not only of the state, but perhaps of the world. The principal city is Medford, with about 10,000 population, and splendid public buildings and modern, up-to-date residences.
    Medford is situated in the central part of the Rogue River Valley and with its volcanic ash soil raises all kinds of grain and fruit, but its orchards are the greatest industry.
    Last year more than 1,000 carloads of fruit were shipped from this place, and from present indications more than twice that amount will be shipped in 1915.
    Fruit trees seem to live an indeterminate period here. There are pear, apple and other bearing trees here that are 40 years old, still bearing, and seem to show no signs of dying. The wonderful production of the trees here is astonishing. On the ranch of Dr. Stokes, near Medford, I was shown a Royal Ann cherry tree which has produced from 1000 to 1100 pounds of cherries in a single year. This year's crop was ready to [harvest] and was estimated at 1,500 pounds. We gathered some of the fruit, and the flavor surpassed any cherries we ever tasted.
    We have met several Clinton County residents here. Judge J. E. Kelley of DeWitt, a son of auctioneer Thos. Kelley, and a former Clinton street car employee, whose name I think is Morgan.
    Medford gets its water supply from snow melting from Mount Pitt 35 miles to the east [sic]. The pressure is direct and is over 50 pounds to the inch.
    The climate here is ideal. During the day, at present the mercury rises to from 85 to 92 degrees on hot days, but it always goes down to from 55 to 70 at night, and one requires blankets or several "covers" to sleep comfortably.
    The soil is immensely productive here, but requires plenty of water. The water rate, unmetered, is $18.00 per year for [an] ordinary six-room residence, and sprinkling is permitted every other day.
    Most farms, or as they call them here "ranches," irrigate during the summer, 3 to 5 times being sufficient for the season. While this is not imperative, it is said to more than double the production besides improving the quality. A charge of $50.00 per acre is made by the irrigation company for furnishing the water to the ranch, and $2.50 per acre after that. 10 to 30 acres is all one man can till, depending on what he raises.
    The price of ranch land varies according to location and water facilities. Poor land is worth $100.00 and upward, while well-improved orchards in some locations sell from $1,500 to $2,500 per acre if offered for sale--a rare thing here.
    Personally I am infatuated with Medford. The people are hustlers, the buildings modern and up to date, and it is ideal in the fullest sense of the term. I do not think a poor or a laboring man can live better than in [the] East--perhaps not well, but he would have the climatic advantages, of course.
    Skating and sleigh-riding are unknown here, in winter the mercury never going below 15 degrees above zero. But on the mountaintops, where snow can now be seen, it probably gets pretty cold.
    We will leave this place, the earthly paradise of the coast, soon, and, after visiting the expositions at San Francisco and San Diego, will return to Clinton, visiting friends and relatives at several points en route.
J. D. Hullinger, "Councilman in Western Jaunt Writes of Trip," Clinton Daily Advertiser, Clinton, Iowa, June 29, 1915, page 10



    Leaving Grants Pass, which is 71 miles south of Roseburg, you wind along the picturesque Rogue River and through a region of well-kept orchards. Passing through Gold Hill and Central Point, you reach Medford, 313 miles south of Portland.
    You have your choice of two routes to Crater Lake, either by Medford or going 12 miles south to Ashland you can take the Green Spring Mountain road to Klamath Falls and thence to Crater Lake. I came by way of Medford--Medford has high-class hotels, the Hotel Medford being equipped with every modern luxury and convenience. Medford is an auto town. Splendidly paved streets give evidence that one is in Jackson County, the home of good roads.
    Medford has excellent garages as well as good hotels. A line of auto stages is operated from Medford to Crater Lake. I was a passenger on one of these autos, Charley True being the chauffeur.
    We left Medford at 8:30 a.m. and rolled over splendid roads a little east of north, passing Table Mountain and the Modoc Orchards. We kept up a uniform speed of 25 miles an hour till we struck across the "desert." Here the famous moss agates are found in considerable abundance.
    The air was like wine. The sky full of lazily floating cumulus clouds. For miles the road winds along beside the Rogue River. We stopped to look at the power plant that furnishes the principal towns of the Rogue River Valley with electric light and power. The scenery here and hereabout is very picturesque and striking.
    Just before the auto meter checks off the forty-seventh mile you catch a glimpse of Mill Creek Falls. We stopped and, going down a winding trail through the timber, we stood on the rocky cliff across from the fall.
    The water tumbles over the cliff and spreads like a filmy lace-like veil across the face of the cliff.
    Forty-seven miles from Medford you come to Prospect park. Here in an open parklike glade is a hotel, a store and post office. James Grieve is the owner of Prospect park, and to one's pleasure and surprise everything about the hotel is strictly modern, "homey" and comfortable, and the meals can certainly be described as "good eats."
    For miles the road, which is excellent, goes by easy grades through a picturesque country. The natural bridge and the gorge are well worth a visit. Near the 69 milepost you enter the Crater Lake Park. Numerous attractive camping spots make one long to be out with a camping outfit, fishing and roughing it.
    Some miles farther on you come to the park headquarters, where you will meet W. G. Steel, the man who did more than everyone else put together to have Crater Lake made a national park. He is the superintendent of the park, and has been interested in it ever since the early seventies. He made the first soundings of the lake for the government in 1886. Prior to that time it was thought the lake did not exceed 500 feet in depth, but he established the fact that it was 1996 feet deep. Since then corrections on the expansion and stretch of the measuring apparatus have shown that it is 2008 feet in the deepest place recorded. The park headquarters are 75.7 miles from Medford and [the] rim of the crater is 80.6 miles from Medford.
    Your first sight of the lake takes your breath. The beauty and majesty of the sight are indescribable. There is nothing else like it anywhere. It is so far beyond your expectations that you are left without words to express your feelings.
    At the very edge of the crater's rim, overlooking the lake, is Crater Lake Lodge. The lodge is built of stone and wood. It has huge fireplaces, large rooms, and at one end of the building is an outside fireplace--a mammoth affair for outdoor campfires.
    W. G. Steel and Alfred L. Parkhurst are the pioneers of the Crater Lake Lodge. Great difficulties were overcome in its construction. A working season of only two months was one of the greatest handicaps. The lumber had to be hauled from a great distance and over steep grades and bad roads. But success at last crowned their efforts, and each season sees an increasingly large number of tourists who come to be awed with the majesty and charmed with the wondrous beauty of Crater Lake.
"Crater Lake Oregon's One Matchless Jewel," Oregonian, Portland, July 25, 1915, page 22


    MEDFORD, Ore., the City Beautiful, is located in the Rogue River Valley, approximately an equal distance between Portland and San Francisco. It is a city of 12,000 people, growing each and every day, and surrounded by the most resourceful country of any city in the world. It is one of the most God-favored valleys on earth, as evidenced by the thousands of acres of non-irrigated orchards. Both apple and pear trees bear in abundance equaled by no other section, and the climate is perfect. The bowels of the earth in Jackson County are freighted with gold nuggets which jump to the coffers when man, with hydraulic assistance, slightly tickles the likely spots.
    Another commodity, unequaled in almost any other section, which to an effete Easterner is most attractive, is the game. There it is found in abundance, due in a great measure to the observance to the letter of the Oregon game laws, which are concise and ample. This year the law provided an open season on the ring-necked, or Mongolian, pheasant, Phasianus torquatus (don't attempt to pronounce, as it is played on a flute). The male of this beautiful pheasant varies greatly in length, according to the development of the tail, sometimes being thirty-six inches in length. The female averages about twenty-two inches and is plain colored, but a handsome bird. The males vary in the richness of their colors and in the width of the white collar on the neck. These pheasants have been introduced in Oregon and Washington and are especially abundant there now, as they have been protected until this year.
Open Season Is Permitted.
    An open season was for the first time permitted from October 1 to October 10, and a bag limit of four male and one female per diem was wisely provided for, based upon the fact that continuous protection had allayed fear in the pheasant family and they had become very tame, associating with and making life a burden for barnyard fowls. As a matter of fact, the most inferior cock pheasant can whip the best game rooster, and usually proceeds to take the aforesaid rooster to his trimmings or needings. The pheasant is a great eliminator of conceit from the chicken family.
    Attempts at propagation of the pheasant have not been as successful in the East, but in some preserves they are doing well. They are rather sluggish in their habits compared to our ruffed grouse, and usually try to escape by running or hiding rather than by taking wing. When they do fly they go in a straight line and comparatively slow. It was a pheasant and valley quail hunt that I am going to tell you about:
    Mr. and Mrs. Willard Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hafer of Medford, with the writer for ballast, composed the party. Ensconced in a powerful car, our first dash was out through the little city of Central Point to the Modoc ranch and orchard of 1,500 acres owned by Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago. This orchard has 13,000 pear trees that are now bearing. The ranch is a small village, with beautiful homes on the hillsides overlooking the balance of their little city in the valley. Mr. Sommers, the superintendent, was home and explained all conditions and advantages. The "Modoc" is certainly one of the show places of the Rogue River Valley.
Mountain Has a History.
    The "Modoc" nestles at the foot of Table Rock, a mountain named on account of the flat surface on top. It was on Table Rock Mountain that old Chief Sam, with his tribe of Rogue River Indians, made their last stand against the whites in 1855. [Not true.]
    Colonel J. S. Howard, "the father of Medford," the man Hafer built the first house where now stands the thriving city of Medford, and who is conversant with the early history of Jackson County, told me of the fight as follows:
    "It was in 1855, the fall of the year, when old Chief Sam, with his band of Rogue River Indians, grew restless, based upon the encroachment of the whites into their territory. They started down through the valley, massacring the settlers. At Grants Pass they murdered indiscriminately. At Bloody Run they found a number of teamsters freighting flour. They were killed and the flour confiscated. While the Indians were not well equipped with firearms, they had bows and poisoned arrows, which were equally dangerous.
    "Riders were hurriedly dispatched to Fort Lane, twelve miles distant. Phil Sheridan, then a captain, was in command, and responded at once with 1,200 United States troops. He also made a call for volunteers, which brought forth all male settlers, armed with shotguns, pistols, Kentucky hammered-barrel rifles and a few pitchforks and knives. It was a motley but determined aggregation. Any implement that would cut or kill was used, as they were desperate.
Indians Chased to Rock.
    "The Indians were located and chased to Table Rock, where the last stand was made. Forced to the edge of the precipice, rather than submit to capture they jumped over the cliff and were crushed on the rocks below. A small remnant of the tribe escaped, to be captured a little later in a ravine, where is now located Mrs. Palmer's summer cottage. The balance of the tribe was removed to the Siletz reservation west of Eugene, there to remain. This was Phil Sheridan's first
Indian fight." [Again, none of this is true. And Howard wasn't in the Rogue Valley when it didn't happen.]\
    Our route then landed us in Jacksonville, county seat of Jackson County. This was one of the first settlements on the Pacific Coast. [Not true.] Here in 1850 gold was discovered in large quantities, and the mines are still producing. [Gold was discovered in February 1852.] In the early days the Wells-Fargo Company established an office and placed in charge of the same C. C. Beekman, who was in charge of the stage coaches and the Pony Express until the Southern Pacific Railway came to supplant. [Beekman's Express was not the famous Pony Express of 1860-61.] He always acted banker and had the universal confidence of the miners, who deposited with him their dust and nuggets in the little buckskin bags, with their names tagged on same, to be held as an original deposit until called for.
    When Beekman died in the spring of 1915, there were found many of the original packages of gold reposing in his safe and custody just as left by many of the old-timers, who had deposited them back in the '50s, and who had fallen by the wayside and crossed the Great Divide. [There was very little gold remaining in the Beekman Bank upon Beekman's death.] Yet, had they called with the original receipt at any time they would have been handed their original buckskin bag with the original contents.
    Next we passed the home of train bandit [Wells] Lounsberry, who robbed an express car near Topeka, Kan., single-handed. He then joined the crowd of searchers and finally retired in the sleeper, having secured a berth out of Kansas City. He was located by the porter as a strange face in the Pullman, arrested, and later sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment.
Pheasant Ground Is Reached.
    Under the guidance of Mrs. Hafer, who was the first woman to drive an auto to Crater Lake, we were burning up the road. A stop! "Here is the pheasant ground," said Campbell. There was a small stream, skirted on both banks with low willows. A little fox terrier, which had been up to that moment declared in the nuisance class, at once became the most useful adjunct of the party. Barking about, he was crazy to get into the willows, as he needed exercise and the pheasants needed stirring up.
    The party soon divided, and Mrs. Campbell and I took the west bank; Campbell and Hafer the east. Barking and jumping, the terrier dashed into the willows. Hardly had the first yelp ceased to echo, and whirr! a streak of yellow sunshine dashed out on our side of the willows. Bang! rang out the little 12-gauge in the hands of Mrs. C., and down in a bunch came one of the most beautiful "Chinamen" I have ever seen. When the last willows were passed and the count made, it was unnecessary to retrace our steps to secure our limit. We had the prospective game dinner in the game sack. It was a most enjoyable experience.
Tom Marshall, "Trap, Gun and Rod," Chicago Examiner, November 7, 1915, page C20






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