Rogue River FarnellROGUE Ri VE R
NAVIGABILITY STUDY
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�ames E. Farnell, Ph. A.
ltesearch Analyst
F�IVISION OF STATE LANAS
Salem, Oregon
July, 1979
INTRODUCTION
Under the Fqual Footing c�ause af the Oregan ABmissions Act, the Cnited
States Government txansferred ownership of the beds of a12 navigable
waterways to tihe State of Oregon in 1859. At the time of this report,
the fu�i extent of Oregon's ownership is unknown. The present deveZopment
trends along our waterways made it apparent thaC the locativn of the 5tate/
pzivate bnundaries was of extreme importance. The 1973 Legislature recog-
nized this and passed ORS 274.029-034. 7'his law directs the bivision of
5tate Larids to make a study of all Oreann's wate�ways and to make pablic
their findings. �uring 1974 an initial investigation of navigatian on the
Rogue River was made. That study concentrated on the portion of the river
between Agness and Grave Creek and 1ed to a declaratian hy the State T�and
Board in 1975 that the Rogue was navigab�� from its mouth to Grave Creek at
River Mile 58.5. The purpose of this report is to investigate navigation in
fact of the rernainder of the Rogue River and itg tributaries and ta develop
further. evidence of the use of the Rogue as a highway for commerce below Grave
Creek.
Aithough the first historian of southern Oregon questioned the derivation of
the river's name from the me�dacivus character of its Indians, mqst of the
early settlers readi�y asc�ibed treaChery to the native population and there
seems no reasan tp reject this generally accepted explanatfon for how they and
the river that passed through their �and was named. On the other hand, persoas
at the mouth of the river believed that tha French work rouge meanirig red was the
basis for the river's name, this was based on the hue of the river's d�scharqe
into the ocean during freshets.�
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The territarial Legislature attempted to imprave the image of the river in
1854 by calling it the Gold River followina the discovery of that precious
metaA neax Jacksonville in 1852. whiXe same early maps give the rYVer that
official designation,� it n�ver gained generai acceptance and, strenqthened
perhaps by the wicked charact�r of the river`s currents, general usaqe
persist�d in re£erring to the rivex as the Rogue.
fihe researcher is indebted ta a number of individuals and agencies who
inhabit or have juzis�iction over the streairt in its 215 mile length t�rouqh
three soUtheastern counties of the s�ate. Firs� the individuals: Roy Vaughn,
Ed Houston, Presley Pyle, Deforest Sorbor, Eldon He�riott, Kay Atwood, Betty
Van Leer of the Curry County Reporter Mrs. B�orn (Rilea) Gadeholt.
The agenc3es are:
5outhern Oregon Hfstoricai Society
Oregon Historical Gociety
Orego� State Library
Oregon State Archives
7acksan County Clerk
Josephine County Clerk
Cuzrl Cau�ry Clerk
Oregon De�artment of Water Resources
University of Oregon Library
Siskiyou Nat�onal Forest
Roque River Nat�o�al Fozast
Bureau of Land Managemen�
U. S. Corps of Enqineers
Jacksan County Library
Josephire Caunty Lihrary
Currv Countv Librarv
Curry County Historical Society
Oreqon Dent. of Fzsh & k�ildlife
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RaGU� RIVEF, aasr�u
Th� Rogue is not a typical river It beqins on �he outer slopes of
prehistoric Mount Mazama anc3 tutnb�.es throuqh the remarkably deep Cascade
Canyon below prospect. (Fig. I) Then it enters into a plateau reqion ca�.led
the Rogue River Val�ey, though most of this relatively level agricultura�
land is tihe valley of one of the Roque's secondary tributaries, Bear Creek.
In this plateau region the Rogue itself is frequentZy constr�.cted by racicy
promontories or encroaching hi11s. Below Grants Pass the Rogue then assumes
its atypical riparian form. 3nstead of lazily pass�ng �hro�qh a wide plain,
it cuts a tartured passageway nearly 100 miles �ong through the Klamath
Mountain Range until just five mzles from tihe Pacific it reaches tidewater
and then flows stira�qht through Y�ounding hills fnto the ocean.
�hese unusual physical qualities o£ the Rogue have detert�ined its
unigue h�unan geography and the spec�al charactaristics of its commercial
navigatidn which will be detailed 3.n this report.
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The 5,OOd square mile basin o�' �he Rogue has the appearance ot a side af
beef. {Fig. 2) The eastern trihutaries to the main stem bf the Roque River
{�}�� hindquarters) descend f�om an upper altitude of 5,2flQ feet on the slopes
of the Crater Lake ramparts in the north and from the southern shoulder of
Mt. McI�aughlin in the south, Precipitation aiong the Cascade headwaters averaqes
70 inches per annum. 5tream flows here have an average gradient of 5'7 feet per
mi7,e before the Rpgue Ri.ver Valley and Sams V�l.ley aze reached, and the waters
cut narr�w channel. canyons in their descent.
The thxee major southern tributaries of the Rogue, Bear Cree3c, ApQlegate
and Illinois Rivers, take their rise in the Siskiyou Mountains on the Calz£ornia
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barder, the latter two rivers actually flow from California. The Little
App�eqa�e begins at the highest elevation u� any trihutary of the Rogue,
5,900 feet,� zt is an interest�ng characteristic of these large southern
tributaries that the mountains through which they pass are more heavily
forested on their north than their south slopes; this is prohably accounted
tor by the drying e£fects of the sun, qiv�n the relatively sparse rairifali
(average 20 inChes per annt�m) fn the .Rogue's centraZ basin. In conseauence
most of the feeder streams to the majar snuthern tributaries enter fram the
so�tih, i.e. from the mountains' shaded northern slopes. Bear Creek and
the Applega�� form al�uviai plains before enterinq the Rogue; the Illinois
like the Rqque itself forms a small upriver plain before cutting into the
Klamath Mountains.
The northern tributazzes of the Roque flow from Iesser elevations of
the Klamath Mountain range which separate the Rogue from the Umpqua and
Caquil�e basins. In the west the Rogue and the I1linois both cut thraugh
the backbone of the Klamath Ranqe to where Che Coast anc� Klamatlz Ranges
merge before �*aking *_�:eir comman er.tr�� into the Pacific, mhe Illine;s
has a relative�y steep 23 foot per mile gradient fn this section, hut with
the exception of a few precigit+�us drops �ike Rainie Falls and the Devil's
Staircase, the Rogue's grac�ient is not high and only averages 9 feet p�r
mile in tha,s portion. Sn�all, fast flowing trzhutaries �join bath rivers in
this area which like the Cascades has heavy rainf_aZl, 3�20 inches per annum
in the upper elevations and 9Q inches on the cpast.
T�e Rogue is �ed hoth by snowmelt from the mountain ranges from which
it rises and through which it passes, and from rainfall in the same areas.
In the western Klama�h range and Siskiyous, rain and snowmelt may coincide
at any time during the winter or early sprinq. This accounts for the very
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TABLE I. STREAMFLn@7 DAT.A FOR ROGUE RIVER (UNDERI.INED) AND MAJOR TRIBLTTARIES
Location Period bischarge {C.fi.S.)
Riv�r Gauging Drainage of
Mi1e Statian Area ReCOrd Avexa e Max. Min.
173.4 Above Prospert 3Z2 19dS-77 823 22,400 2a0
2.4 South Fork 246 1968-77 414 9,88� 54
i4 S. F. Siy Butte Creek
(Butte Fa�ls) 138 1910-77 159 12,6Q0 33
O.b B,ig Butte Creek 245 ].945-77 30� 8,950 6.4
154 McLeoc3 938 1965-7'1 ?. ,176 30 , D00 604*
i38.6 Dodge Brid� }.,215 193$-77 2,63b 87,6a0 6�1*
9.9 Beax Creek
{Medford) 289 19}.5-77 115 14,500 0
125.8 �taygold 2,053 19p5-77 2,976 i31,00o F�lb*
101.8 Graats Pass 2,459 1938-77 3,515 152,000 195*
26.7 Applegate River
{Applegate) 483 I938-77 SS2 37,200 6
29.7 Agnes_s 3.939 I96t3--77 fi.326 29(}.0�0 6QB
50.3 Illinois Rzver
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3 Illinois River 988 19b0-77 4,249 225,0�0 125
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high volumes of water which chasacterizes the floods on the Rogue {Table ;,).ln
During iate summer both rainfall an� snowmeit are reduced to nil an many of
the headwater areas leading to dry streambeds. This annual drying has �een
amplified in the Pear Creek and Applegate valleys by the effects of irriqation
diversion. The Rog�e always has some streamflow, but the virtually stagnant
autumn conditiions of past years axe riow count�racted by regulatied release
of water from the Lost Creek and Elk Creek dams.
Not only are Rogue River floods characterized by large volumes of water,
they are remarkable for th� extraordinary eleva�ion of the str�am surface
during these deluges - at Agness one �ay gaze in awe at the 90 foot marker
for the 1964 fZood. phenomenon is accou�ted for by the shape of the
stream channel and banks. Thrnughout most af its Iength the river has a deep
V shaped channel formed by the rock faces of �he steep mountains through which
zt fiows. {Fig. 3) During high water there is �o place for additional watez
to go but up. Altho�gh the I964 flaocl was the hiahest since records have
b�en cnllected, it is known �hat during historical times the greatest flood
occurred in 1861 and the second greatiest in 1���. 1 �
Econom
The ecanomy of the Roque River vaZ].ey consists of a very limited number
of primary occupations. The first in order of time was mining which �egan
at Sailors D3.ggings on the zliinois in i851 and contfnues on a limited scaZe
to the present tima. Second in order of time has been agriculture. �xcept
for the fruit orchards of the Rpgue River Valley, which burgeoned after 1R90
following the completion of the Southern Pacific RailXOad, this occupation
has a].so greatly diminished �n relative importance durina recent years, i3
At one time commercial fishing was the dominant industry at the mouth of the
Rogtie River, but closuxe of the Rogue to thi.s use in 1935 ended th�s liveli-
hood except on the offshore grounds.
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half the work£orce in the Rogue Basin and �nere£ore further supports most
4f the secondary occupations in the basin. Th�s predomiaance only dates,
however, from the second Wor1d War. The late boom of the timber industry
is accounted for in part by the high cost of log transport: the Rague
i�self and its trxbu�aries, as this repart will document, are unsuited £or
1og carriage. Because transport costs in production and marketinq rema�ned
high in the area, exploitation of tfmber resources had to await their
deplEtion in athez �ortions of the state where such costs were originally
�a�wer. Z5
Transportation as a primary industry in the Grants PasS to Ash3�t�nd
valley areas has always been an lmportan� oceupation in �ts own riqht,
because since 1848 this section has formed a land corridor of travel for
the Willamet�e and Puget Sound basins with Cali.fornia. Las�ly, to�ar,ism npra
comprises an imp�rtant occupational category �.n the area, its reZative
standinq being great�st in Curry Coun�y. The Rogue River itseZf is
pri.marily 7respon5ible �or this, but the Oregon Coast, Cascade Mouht�iris,
Crater Lake, the Oregon Caves,-aad in recent years the Ashland Shakespeare
°c��i4'cai=ui�v �.vli�i,i.�'iuic �� 4iiia c�c�7�iv u�Gi►i. {+iitiC.ii i$ `vi iTio jG� @Cf3i�'vaii.i.C,
signi�icance in �he basin.
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NAVTGATION
FERRIES
rach of the counties throuqh which the R.oque £lows �ad ferry crossings
of �he river within thei� boundari�s. Ferries �xiste� at onP time or anntho�
from bel�w the town af Trai� (RM i4�.5) in Jackson County to the river mouth
in Curry County,
Whi1e Curry was still part of �ackson County in 185� T. �. Pierce was
licensed to opErate a ferry at thP mouth of the R �
ogue.�� �eorae �cPherson,
Petex McGuire and Louis Daucette were lzcensed hy Curry County to operate a
Eerry at the mouth of the Rague River o� April 6, 1857. This license was
renewed by AicPhersan and McGuire in �ecemher 18SR. In April 185Q McPhersan
drowned while taking three men across the river mauth. �cGuzre took out
the iicense in �860 and R. Woods in Z8�Z,�� Randolph Tichner later ran this
ferry with "a scow that would carry eiqht hors�s, with a rail." R. D. Htzme
ran the �erry after he mov�d to the Rocrue in �$77 until about 1894. He found
that fee� for i�s �s� did nat me�t aperatinq costs and d�scontinued s�rvice.
LTnder other auspices a fe�ry Zater reswned o�erat�on at C.old Seach in Z903
fFig. 4),Z�
A£erry called the Ba�ne3i ferry was in existenc� bef.ore 1R78 at River Mil�
5.2 just abave the heafl of tide. It operated until 1927; duranq its Zast dozen
years �t was a frPe ferry zun by the cour.tiy. t�hile Curry County was still p�rt
of Jack�on County in ?85�, Ril�y and San�ord wez� asven a licens� to have a ferry
a� the mouth of the �llinois River {�� ��,�),`� mh�s ferry was swe�t away Sn
the qreat flood �f ?�ece�er 186I.
:rose�hine County h�d three nrinc�pal ferry crossinqs in the �!ic�-ninet�enth
century. mhe first was estahlishe�? �y `TOel 4�rklns at [+'hite �?ock T?iff�.e at
the si.±e af the nresent Gr��nLs P�ss {RN[ IO2} . Th3�s w�s callec� �he mic�dl� ferry.
Downstre�m near the mou*h pf the App]_�aa*� was thc lower f�rry (R.M 95)
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Short2y therea�tier it was purchased hy James N. �►annoye and �pparent�y
moved to Riv�r ��Ze 96. It bore Vannoye's name, and he and his wffe are
buried near the place where the ferry operated. ilpstream, first at Evans
Creek and �ater moved tp a paint a Quarter mi�e below 5avaqe Rapi�s, was
the npper ferry (RrR Z05.5, I1Q.6). Other ferries were later establis�ed
downstream for the Galice st�ge at the following River Miles: 8�.5 (Massie
Ferry, Fig. 5}; Sb.6 (the present Rbhe�tson Bridqe, Fiq. F); ��d 9h (Llgper
Ferry Park, Fig. 7).��
Benjamin Smith had a ferry on the A�plegate River in 1865.
The ferxies across the Rogue in Jaekson �ounty, workinq upstream,commence�
with the 7ewett Ferry at Rive� Mile 11�. Th�s fer�y was stili in existence
in 1900 when it was called the F.vans Cr�ek Fdxry. Six miles �pstream was
Prown's Ferry near the Frederick Rqs�nstock residence. These weXe 6oth in
existence in �857. Next came thE Fe�ry o� Aavis Evans li.censea o� C]ctober 3,
1853 "where the publ�c hfghway runs, leadinq fram Jacksonvill� to the Umoqua
valley over and across Rogue river.° As Fvans was made 3ustice of the Peace
of ��rda�e�Ias Pre��ncL, h�s s�rry was ��keiy �o have b�en at that piace
opposite the present town flf Gn�d Hili (RM 119). The next fex�y uQriver was
that of Hale_y which was licensed to M. B. Bybee in Seotemher 18�4. ThiG w�a
�resumably Xeplaced by Bybee Bridge belaw �able Rock at River Mile I32.2.�
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HISTORY O� RIVEP NAVTGATxON FROM THE MOUTF? TC7 B�bS50M RP.R, lASO-1952
In this section we propase to trace the use of the �ower Rnque River
�ar surface naviaation until the introduction of jet hoats in 19�2 which
set t�e pattern for river use which exists at the present �ay. This part
o£ the report takes up usaqe of the portia� nf the F.ogue Ri.ver �o Riv�r
Mf�e �5 or BZossom Bar which represented the boundary f4r trips ina�aurated
at Gold Beach or other dowririver paints. Althaugh we sha11 note voyages
which originated downstream which went hfgher than River Mz1P 45, in aeneral
that point was the upriver limit to lawer river traf�ic, whil� locations above
Blossom Bar were generaliy reached by bbats whose point of departure was
Grants Pass.
�ailing vessels put into the Roque in 183h and 1849, but the entry an�
departure of. the �amueZ Roherts in 1850 is commonly heid to mark the heQinninq
of ocean �avigation from the Roque river. �ith the exnlo�tation of heach
mines during I853 and the establishmen� of a comm�xcial fishery shortly there-
after, the arriva� and departure of ocean goinq vassels from the river mauth
became a regular occurrence�tnouqh restricte� by the candition of the river
bar and prevailina weather-because this was th� only means availahle of qettfna
the products of the area to market.� L7. N. �acy �aviqatEd one of these schooners
above the later Saanell Ferry site in 1854. At that time he sai� the ti�e ran
highex and the channel was deeper than after the 19�0 flo�d change� the s�ope
of the river mouth and the upstream placex minzna constricted the rivez channel.��
A word might be said abQUt Ind�an canoe naviqation on the Rocrue Piver.
Indians in the lower �ague �id make canoes. Thes� were usual�y ahout 1� feet
long wfth blunt ends and incurving gunwa�es carv�d. from � sinqle. loq. Some
were �ong enough to accommoc?ate �0 men. Canoes were made �oth at the mouth
of the r�ver and far sev�ral miles upstream. They went i_�to the ocean and
were also useful in transportinq Zndians thrdugh the steep canyon section of
lfl
the river. Constant references were made to In�ians crossinq the r�ver or
passinq down it in cdnaes during the event� leadinq to the famous Battle of
Big Maadows in �856 ;RM 35}, Zong� who ran the ferry upstream, reported
tha� the canoes used by Indians in that area ha� been constiructed in the
lowez Rogus. PresumabLy they had been �addled, poled and portaGed upstxeam.
In the early period of white settl�ment an the �awer Roque, �ersons
livin� upriver were snpplied by hoat from the river mouth settlement ana
their Iimite� prod�ce boated down ta the port. The earliest persan to make
these jaurneys was Tommy East who toak pravisions by ski�f or small hoat
as high as Blosspm Rocks at River Mile 45. The only freiqht taken out �y
him was a few deer hides. nurinq the same years, A. N. Moare took provisians
up to �ig Bend (PM 35) and hrouqht down corn, potatoes an� fruit. Moore
also took some scows from the harbor up to Lobster Creek (RM 1�}.
5evera2 persons described how �iners and settlers along the lawer Rogue
propelled their small baatis upstream �� �heir journeys for provisions. Will-
iam R. Miller testiffed i� 1904 that there were several methods of gettinq the
bv�t� �ver riff�e�: "w�th a pike pole when there is not wind, an� we sai� whsr.
we have wind...and some times we get aut with qum boats and pull the boat over."
w;r_h crnwG "A enrx� �p�i nf �he same, when �hev aot win� the_v sail over and
when they have no wind they drive a stake at the head of the r.iff�e and attach
a line and windlass over." rn low water scows were Zoaded to draw only 12
to 15 inches, at other times they were "usually loaded down to ahout thirty
inches." If they were toa heavily loadefl or qot out of the channei then they
miqht stick on the rif£les; "1 run a scow of lumber down last year fro�n the
sawrnzll up there and never had any trouble,��
19
Don Lucas, born in 1898 and residant of Shasta Costa Creek since
I9Q3, was interviewed by the staff of the 5iskiyou National Forest in
August 1971 and gave the fallowing description of the e�rly poie hoats
(Fig. 9) :
It was an art ta use a pike po�e. And a gpod boatrnan could
take a pSlce . pole and take a thousand paunds anc3 push it rf.qht
up over one of these riffles. He'd have �to wark to do it, hut
they learned how to do it. Rnd you'd never �arget; ft's like
swimming, you never forget. Xou had to have a certa�n type
of boat to do that, ybu cauldn't use a square stern boat. 'I���
men worked in the pike baats. Qne man coming up the river would
use a tow line gaing up the bars. On most o� the riffles and bars
they had a bridle on the boat, ane on t'�e stern ans� one �botat
two-thirds of the way aft, which �he�► used td gu�de it in ar�d
out around the current and tovr it np the river. They couid pul�i
a pretty qaod load �hat way. E�]hen they aot up over that, thEy
could swinq into an eddy and go aczoss the rive� wi.th aars and
ga up the other side. ^'hey took advantage of every ec��y. And
tha�'s the way my father used to go t� town, maybe twice a
year....C�e'd �ake melons and tomatoes and corn, which they couldn't
raise on the coast. ....We would take vegetables and waol, we :
raised some sheep, sell them and buy coffee and staple groceries.
The pike pol.e had to be a certaa.n lenqth. It ha�' to be w�t in
the watez so it would sl.ide t!�raugh your hands. It was made
aut of little f_ir sa�linqs, sYender fir sa�lings that were strong.
You kr�Qw, they were seasoned, so that they weren`t hrittle, anc�
tkaey weren't green either. They had to be dry because you had
�o work them constant�v, and thev had a fes°rvle at the end and a
spike in �he �ottom. mhe spikc was ahout six inches lang and tY�e
€errule was so st wauldn't s�ip ciear in. St was made w�ith a
forge, ynu knosa. Anc� t3�ey wouid r�de an tr� szo�e of the boati.
Xoe� steerer3 your boat with the leverage on the side. 7'he pole
wo�ld run down tne side of the boat. You had a step �n front
that �ou c�uld put one foot against tp brace y�urself to push
�.+i�. 4'di.i i:�i.i�i�i St�c�' E! �Ga� �'iLJ li�a �hr�uq�i �?'iE i:iirPPli� 3flLi�
of cnur�s�e, you'd retrieve it auiekly so it WOUIdr:'t slfp back
on yau.
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year �or supplies. These trips were taken durinq hiqh water when they could
navigate th� ri.ver more easi�.y i.n thei� hea�ty ho�ts and bazq�s.
As la:te as twenty yea�s ag+� 4Tohn F. 1!c3ams of Potato Tlzahp ranch continuec�
�a use f.he river in this manner. Ne rais�c? ho�s on tl�� acorns founc3 on the
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ranch and took his porkers hy scow to market at Go1fl Beacn between 1929
and 1959. 4 �
The first boat trip downriver from Grants Pass �o the mouth was
accamplished in the year 1869 by 8�11 Winsor of Port �rford. Ne was
scouting the feasihility of running sugar pine iogs from Josephine County
to a projected sawmill at Ellensburg, the presant GaZd Reach. t��s
reconnaissance was positive enough to encourage George B. Gammans ar
Gamma�s of San Francisco to buf�d a sawmill in 1870 on the Louis Doucette
and James FTUnt Donation Claims oppbsite Hunt Rock and near a rock which
took its name from the new enterpr�se. Mill �ock. Winsar staye� an to
�ssist in the erectxan af the sawm��l. 4 � The mi1Z came Under the contro� of
�. and J. S. �oe of San Francisco who awned timrier �ands upriver. They so�d
t�eir interes� �o Micha�l Riley and F�ank A. Stewart who cammenced log driv-
inq in 1672 ��
Thomas Smith who had ��ved as a fisherman and farmer on the Rogue sinc�
1871 worked on the Iog drives for RiiPy and Stawart durin� 1872 and 1873.
ut� 1arPr rn_v�t testimony described their �oa drivin� effarts:
�e thrawed [the logs] into th� �ater and work�d them over tihe bars
and worked them dawn the best way we could...b�tween the riffles
where the water was dee�er they would go al1 alr�ght, from one
riffl� tn another and then we wou�d have �o wazk them over the
ri£f1es...of course they wo�ld com� over if the water was up, they
woui� d�if� dc�wn du��n� a fre7het some �imes.
q. Do you know a£ Riley an� Ste=aart sending logs down the river and
they v�ere not use� ar w�nu out to sea?
Smf.th; They were not used at a11; there was nat hardly any 1eft;
what was �ef� was no gaod, Th�y went out to s�a same of the�
They had sand and gravel in them anc3 you cauld not work them.
Riley �ater complain�d that he had been sorry for his attemoted drive of
s�gar pine logs; it ha� been done during a fres�e� and the Iogs were iost out
to sea e44
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This episoae was reported on hy Philip G. Eastwick, Assistant Engineer
from Portland in January 1879:
The owners of the sawmill at El�ensburg {Gold Beach} at the mouth
of the river, have for a numher of years cut �rom the timbered
�ands of this sectian [eastern foothills of the Klamath Movntains]
quantities of �ugar-pine, and endeavored ta 8rive it down to their
m�lk. They have, hnwever, signally failed in aetting many of the
lags lodged in th�ir boom at the mili, as they wouid ei�her land
on �he bars and among the rocks of the ra�ids xn their descent,
remaininq there un�il the �ext freshet would caxry them with
uncontrallabl� velocity down t�e river and past the mi�l into the
oc�an. The last cut, cans�stinq af 750,000 teet, was made in the
spring of last year. None of these loqs have yet reached the mi11,
but are to be found scattered slong the ��ver from where they were
dumped into the river down to Big Hend.
pn2y flotatian af sugar pin� sawlogs from Josephine County failed to
succeed. �ne of the sawmil� awners, Frank A. Stewar�, iater r�ca�led that
the mill received Oreqon pine or yellow fir and Port Orford cedar fsom points
an the lower Rogue and its tributaries 46
Riiey concurred that the cedar floated from 15 miles ugriver had been
saccessfully driven and not 2ast. Stewar� siso noted that the settiers
along the lower Rogue supplemented their farming by mining, fishing and
��getting ouc saw iags."
Shortly after R. D. Hume acquired the Riley and �tewart properties, he
��,;; �±„� �;; rs ���,a � i; n� �„�� i nP�a _ F;?��ly on he di.smantied the mi Z1 at Mill
a
Rock, but apparently went into partnership with A. H. Moore who already had a
sawsni�l u�river, probably at Lobster Creek. Moore later recalled carryinq a
turbine saw upriver to that mi11. He toak a scow "wi.�h four harses tawinq
alonq the bar until I got to the head of the bar ana then taka the horses
off and cross aver onto the other side, there zs bars on one side or the other
all t} way up. � had fou�t tons of hay and s turbine wheel on the scow."
In 1904 there was another sawmill call.ed the i3uston mil� located at River Mile
I5 which had been in �peration far same time.
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William R. Mi�ier drave logs t� one o.f these mi11s from a point uprzver.
"We worked them over the riffles, same riffies we would haul them over with
oxen." E. H. Mesexvie had less luck fn his log �riving. Low wat�r f.rustratea
his driv�, thoug� the ldgs eventually came through.
There was alsq transport downstxeam of material for the other industry
in the harbor owned first by Rzley and Stewart a�d then by R. �. Hume, the
salmon can�ery. The Fry brothers fish�d as high as Painted Rpcks at River
Mile 35 and boated their catch �own to the Hume cannery. In �904 Walter
�inker gicked up fish from belaw River Mile 15 for William �Zi.Iler, John
Woodzuf�, and Frank LQwery which the �attez caught in front o� thefr ranches;
Tinker took thezr catche� by boat to the cannery. �n additzon c��l was
brought by scows for a few years at the end of the nineteenth century frdm
a mine at Sh�sta Casta Creek to the Hume cannery. Don Lucas he�ieved that
Coal Riffle at the lower end of Copper Canyon got it� name fr�m the wrPCk of
a craft carryinq this cargo.
Robert Burns summarize� the early river traf€ic on th� lower Rogu�:
A� t� the volume of business, � don't consider that there is much out-
side af that saw miZl, thexe is a few ranehes up t�ere and people
raise sh�eg, whatever they sell and raise u� there comes down the
river...they s�ip tan bark down the river and boat �ish, outside of
that I d.�n't knaw of any business, except peop�e go up �nd down �he
river that live up there and get �u�ap�i�s, thexe is no grea� volume
of business, it is thinly settled:
The discovery of gold on Mul� Cr�ek (Rt+i 48.5) by Jvhn BiZlings in 1891
inaugurated a series of developments in Rcgu� Rzver navigatzon, these included
�x�ana�a traffic and means of carriage on the lower river and, ultimatieky,
extentiion of navigatfan to the section of the Ragu� between Gzant� Pass and
Blnssom IIar. The new 3�v�Iopments �n �ogu� navigation began wi_�h a crisis
during January 1894 when a miner at �u�e Cree� require� emergenc� medi� a1
treatment during t1�e time of a winter flood. Henry Fry anc3 Amaziah Aubery
�,rerp ak�l� �a G�rry a medi.ca3. doctor upriver by Y�at to att�nd the stricken
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man and afterwazds return the physician ta the part withdut mishdp5� Havinq
success£u�1y passed Blassom Bar at least in this emexgency situation, the
pair accomplished the first ascent of the rfver fram the lor�er Rague to Grants
Pass during the following summer. Their 8b mile trip was a�hieved in a 24
foot boat in 4� hours river time. Six falls over six feet in elevatfon had
to be portaged and 10 miles nf zapids were l�ned. But tha trip was a fact
and they were able to return downriver with 70� pounds of provisions.
The follawinq year, I895, wit�essed the establishment of zhe Agness mail
route hy boat, increased efforts to use high�r reaches of the Rogue for
transpdrt, and the ent�rprise of E. B. Burns to bring stea� and gaso�ine
engine navigation to the lower Rogue. As for extended upriver naviqatio�,
two hoa�s in an evident contest went from Riq Bend to Mule rreek and retttrned
in 1p hours and 37 minutes during early February 1895 5 Hume's ocean going
gasoline schoo�er Berwick taak b1asL�ng pawder upr�ver £or his cdal mines near
the Illinois River at the en� of 1895 a�d a�so blasted aut ohstructions in
the river durinq the course of the voyage �$ In April of that year a company
�f fni,aZ f�� r. pass attempted to travel downriver in two hoats but
abandoned them at Tyee bar (Fig.ZO,RM 64.5).�
�'ar over eight years after 1895, E. �. Burns, the organizer of �he �toque
River Packinq and Navigation Company made the mo�t amb�tious effort to date
to navf.gate the lower Rogue. The coanpany's prosp�ctus of late 1903 or eazly
�904 anr�aur.�ed ane of its purposes; "the runn3.ng of steamers on �togue River
anc3 the Pacific ocean. The company now has two stern wheel hoats on Roque
River, the 'Rogue River' and the 'Success", and has also purchasec? n cTasolfne
schooner which will make reqular trips between �an Fraacisco and Rogue Rfver,
taking in Chetco, Smiths River and Frankport. The schooner has a capacity of
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in Auc�ust 19a4: "I have navigated Rogue River with stern wheel sCeare boats,
with gasoline schooners, with scows, small boats, skff€s. x have been Master
af the Stea�er Raque River and made several successful trips up and down the
river, also the C�a er ueen, I have taken that ta the mouth of the I11Snois
River Zoade� with freight."
Furth�r elabora�ing on these efforts, he stated that he took the Copper
pueen a sea goinq vessel, ta the mou�h of the Illinois River (RM 27•2) at
an ardinary winter stage of water in 3anuaxy 1900. The boat was gasoline
driven, drew gour feet four inches �iqht and six and one-half feet lo�ded,
and was o£ 13.99 gross tonnage. E. B. Burns also claimed to have taken �2
tons of fre�ght ta the mouth af the xllinais in the s�eamer Roc}ue River which
was 65 feet in length (72 feet includin� the stern wheel) and something oveX
k6 feet in beam, arass tonnage 80 �ons. �n September, at low water, Burns
took a 16 ton load as high as Quocatina, River Mile 14 � Witnesses in the
case of Hume v. Ro ue River Packin and �avi atio� Co. (52 or 237} recalled
havinq b��n aboard �n� af tha ather of these boats downs�ream fram �?uocatina.
Proof of the Rogue River's minimu� head pf navigation wss her boiler which long
ia� �r RivPr �i�R 2�.3, S�iler Ri�fle, where the boat struck a rock in No�ember
1902, drifted hel�lessly 3ownstream to rest on the harbor beach, ar►d thus
ended her career on the Rogue. �
E. B. Burns leter to�k two or three tons per boatload above River Mile
30, propelling the boats by hand. On at least one of these trips he took
mfning equipment to the creek which bears his name at River Mzle 45.3,��
Burns came to his end on the Rogue durinQ 1945. Ee dxowne� at Illahee while
taking a load of mining ec�ttipment across the river by a cable guided boat.
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His son Thomas anly barely saved his own lffe in the mishap.�
Other boats which naviqated from the mouth of the Rogue hefore 1904
were the Bismarck which in 1897 ascended as high as Bagnell Ferry or the
head of tide near River Mile 5. The Bismarck was an acean qoinq steamer of
100 or 12� foot length and 24 foot beam.�� The small gasoline p�were�
Wildcat also operate� over aa indeterm�nant Ienqth of the �ower Rogue.
Toward the turn of the cEntury, the Ingezman's boat of a ton and a half
even brough down some gold ore fsom the Blnssom Bar area.��
During 1907, the same year that Hume lost his battle to maintain the
lower Rogue as a private fishery - he had a 40 by 8 foot tw�n screw boat
constructed in PoXtland, It was deck loaded on the Berwick to We�derburn
from whence he proposed to carry passengers and freight to a1Z points Upriver
to the head of naviqation. This was probably the new river boat Sheba which
Hume's n�wspaper, th� Gold Beach G�obe, announced in January 19�� as having
"rnade a trip as far as Elisha �eservey's [�Ilahee] last week and brpught down
300 pounds a£ steel�ead."�� �he Forest Service has rhe phota of a decked
and ca�ined ��wer �aat use� t� a;� :n the ��.^.s*_r+��*{on �f �hE Rog�e River
forest service trail in 1906 (Fig. I1).� G?hile m�ninq equipment would be
taken upriver as far as Mule Czeek Erom Gol� Beach as late as the 1920's bv
Thomas Brown and Ruell Hawkins of Gold Beach {Fig „ 123,�� the ma�or emphasis
in s�pplying the mines of the Rogue Riv�r canyon sh�fted Co Grants P�ss after
1906.
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Whi2e the first carziage of mail from r,old Beach to Illahee in 1895 was
con�ucted by ryob�e Price in a�raditional pole boat, during succeedina years
the ma1l went by packhorse ar mule. R4at transport was resumed during the
spring and sum�ser of �940 when H. P. Moore carried mail ristween We�derburn
and the I�linois River an three alternate days a� the week. This was done on
a 30 foot gasoline �aunch of 2 or 2-1/2 foot draught an� 2-1/2 ton hurden
called the F�r which was built for fiteve Moore hy E. �. Barns. This mail
boat run lasted only on� season, though nan Fry intermittently used the same
baat to carry mail in succeeding years.�� HenXy Moare aqain secured the mail
contract, to be carried fn his motor boat, �n either �906 or i9�7. Shortly
thereaEter it was taken up �y �rank I.aw�ry.��
Frank Lowery ran the maii boat fram We�derburn to Aq�ess post �ffice
(Fiqs L�-�a) until the year 193Q� moulded the route into its mod.ern
elements-except for the �et boats. Glim�ses o£ his activities may he
obtained �zam the Curry County Reporter duririq th� 192�'s. qn Apri1 B, 1920
under Ag�ess n�ws, "Ca�t. Lowery is boatinq up the sup�lies needed for our
stpre's summer trade, takinq advantaqe of favorable stage af water.' The
foilowin,q July he encountered difficulty in navigating the river wi�h freiqht
because of the �ow stage of water. F?e believe� more �lastinq of ri£fles was
needed. In 5eptember the Reporter was agita�ing fo� parcel. maii service
between Gold Beach ana Agness and from Grants Pass to Aaness.�� In June 1922
Frank Lowery had apparently aiready inauqurated the tourist aspect of the mafl
hoat ru� �ecause the Reporter announced that"visitors will enjoy �his3 trip
upriver by small hoat to Agnass this sumaner." (�ig. 25) Tn 1428 the nregonfan
feat�red a story about Lowery's carriage of a Chevrolet from Wedderburn to
Agness where the rustic postmaster Michael �.ilea could ex�erience the moderti
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hoat run by rarter and (Wesley} Mi1ler. in turn wer� f.aZlowe� by Bob
E1liott between 1942 �nd 19�6,
Fo�lawzng a saccessful Zoq drfv� from illahee in November 1916, efforts
were made to ope� the Rogue to boat naviqation between A�ness and that post
of£ice. In �Tanuary 1917, "Captain E1fhu Fry took his motorhoat 'Jaker' to
Illdhee provinq the river could k�e ma�e nav�gak�le." The next month residents
blasted the river between AcFness and Illah�e; T. W. Billinqs and a crew were
still conducting the hlasting durina September 19I7. But the mazl hoat �?id
nat go higher than Agness. The rest of the mail route was negotiated by mule
carra.er, someti�rtes the legendary Roque storyteller Hathaway Jones.
n later s�ail boat operator takes up the story of the operatian af the
mail's water route untfi the introctuction of - }et boats. ne£orest Sorber, who
held the ma�l boat contract between 1�i�6 and 7.959 reca3.Zed his rlays with the
mail run. He had bequn his association with th� service in 1A33 when Carter
and t�tiller he1� the contract. '"he most notable use of �he river in that decac�e
was the transgort of material £or the CCC camp near .Agness. Ne recal�ed taking
barrels of plumbinq ecfu�pment for the 5�s� man camp in 5�0 pound ba�reZs.
Lumber for eonstruction af the cas�p was a.lso carried up from Colc� Beach an the
baats which were 28 �eet iong, the �or►ges� being 33 feet in Ienath. Addi�.ion-
a11y produce, bread, and other fresh fooci supplies were also taken to the camp
by the mail boat. Occassionally dt�rina 3arge �ires the boats a3�so �ransporteci
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Mr. Sorber described the regular volv.me af traffic which he handle�
when he and Lex Fxom�n held the contract for over a decade b�fore 1959.
with the exception of things bro�ght in the road whfch the CCC h�d bu�lt
from Powers during �he 30`s:
mnst everything went up the river by boat. �'e hauled a lot af
freight and everythinq else. The road would get 'slid' in in
the winter, and then we had to haul �verything, hay �nd every-
thing else, as it got tao cald and the cattle had to have it.
we always got by, and we had as a rule then about 10 passettgers
on the river, on the water itse3f, that was steady ones. In the
sumtnertime we'd get 5 ar 6 mare, mayve 8 more, someChing �ike
that; but generaily there were 10 ar Z2 steady on the water.
We used to throw it (the_.mail] out on the ba�k in a sack and
same o� them had dogs that come an� got it, �nd some of them
came and got it themselves. They would take a lonq stick aad
they'd put it on this �ong stick with clothespins or a r�t trap
or samething and they'd angle it out into the water so we cauld
pick it up withont stappi�g �o the bank. We'd keep right on
going. We11, we used to pick np the mail that way quit� a
Zzttle bit.
We used alI the dory-type boat. Well, Carter ana M�ii�r, they
used a roundbottom dory�ty�e similar, semi-raund. But we uged
a�lat-bottamed boar, it was strictly dory-type �oat an8 we used
it up un�il about '56 and then we �uilt a sq�are-sterned tunnel
hoat and it worked qood, too. An� 2 thought we'd eventually go
to them, but then the �ets canEe in and took over.
�t the far end, whea we go� to �gness with the mail, we put
it in a pickup and hauled it up to the post o£fice, they sort�d
�t.
L�x unu I i��l� ��� ��� o�:. �o���. L�x uyu .,_�,� �f th° �eyi�r±rq.
and my dad built the first boat �nd then after that I,ex and I
took care of most of them. we worked c�ay and night on them...
then we wook it on a route for 9 miles up to �h� enc3 of that
route, And for years that was as far as we r,�erit.
We'd leave Gold Beach at 8:30 �.n th� morning, we'd pick up
au� sacks and mail at Wederhurn, and we went tp our boat and
loaded it in and we aei�verea generally abput 1D to 12 a3ong the
river, steady custamers, and at Agness we wEnt to the pest nffice
there...We mac3e our return trip comi.ng bx�ck and we'd get home as
a general r�Ie about 3:30, sometimes quarter to 4; s�oxmy weather
might take you a 3.ittle 3.onger. �f a flood was np, something,
it sometir�es flidn't qo so fast. We didn't have the power they
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�ave nowadays. We had, our principaZ motor when we started
out was a 5-cXlinder Chevroiet. �hat's what we used. And
then we switched to the Buicks, qot a Zittl� more power �ut
ot the Buick motor.
The mail bnats carriEd a great deal besides mer� letters. sTnder the quise
of Qarcel post virtually anything that was neede� from stores alonq the
�duthern Paczfic rail �ine might be boated up �rom Gold Beach. t1p to a
ton and a hal£ of grain miqht be sent up as "excess� mai�". Hay was a
frequent item senti up �n this manner and ane persan is �uppose� tp have
shipped a whole hause upriver as parcel post. Whether they went under tihe
gu�se o£ mail or simple freiqht, cattZe and piqs were also taken upriver
by the mai� boat: $3
In add�tion to carrying the mail, Sorber zafted 14gs on �he �awer �ogue
for two years durinq 1953 and 1954. He carried lags for the Elliotts,
KuykendalZs and Dirk Johnson who Iogged 700 acres and p�t mast o� the loqs
ia the Rpgue off a platform w�ich stili exists close to Rachel's Beliqht
(near RM i9). The Ioqs were rafted frc�m there to the river's mouth. A
special tug was constructed by �irk Johnson far the towinq, an� much care was
required in positioning the raft above riffZes ta qet them safely throngh.
Many years earlier !�ir. Sorber recalZed the Ruel Hawkins had driven cedar
�ocrs £rom 2�iles �elow Agness to �he river mouth.��
In 1962 gasoline driven propeller boats were qeneralZy replacea on the
mail run by jet boats 85 �nd wzth them came the type of combine� mail delivery
and tourist passenger boatinq which is st�ll found from the m�uth of the Rogue
as hiqh as Blassom �a� and beyond.
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H�STORY OF R2VER NAVIGATION �RnM CRANT� PASS TO BF.OS50M BAR, 190�-I947
Fn the same year thaG E. fl. Rurns lost his lif� attemp�inq to brina
mining equipment above Blassom Bar by boat from �o1d Beach, the Commercial
Club of Grants Pass, at the pro�npt�nq of R. �. Gilbert of Marial, becaM�
very cancerned to apen river navigation from that city to thP miries ahav�
Blossom Bar. Thezr concern•was with commercial competftors. �his was less
from downriver carriers than the fact that supplfers who would bxing in
prbvisions and �quipn+ent frqm the raiZ station at West Fork could cut Grants
Pass out of the downrive� market provided by the mines. P.lready in that year,
Z906, 125 tons o£ sup�lies had heen pack�d xn �rom the West Fork rai.�h�ad.
The �rants Pass mercantile body and r�lbert b�Zzeved that if Hell Gate
Canyon and Rainie Fails were blasted out t�at flatboats and scows of 5 to 7
tan hurden could most economically suppiy the Mule Creek mines.��
Their hopes were na doubC based on a trip made the previous winter by
A. Aubery, who had moved to Grants Pass, and Peter Fry. The two men made a:
trip down Roc�ue River to take a boatload of supplies to P.ussian
rhar?ey Bar [R� �3?; �or Mcintyre an� Montgomery, who are operat-
ing a placer min� at th�t place. The boat was an ordinary Roqua
River fishing boat. The load consi5ted of tools £or a�lacksmith
shop, rubber boots, clothfng, dry gooc3s and camp supplies ail
Mreighinq about a tan. There was aXso 2C0 feet af lumber. At
Galic� a raft a£ 1,000 feet o� Zumber was taken in tow. So
s�ccessful was this v�nture and so much cheaper than �ackinq in
from Taeiand �a rail stop 13 River Miles up Grave Creek� the�t
Capt. Mclntyre plans to boat ali the sapplies fbr the m3.r�e next
fa�l. Mr. Au3�ery who was raised on the lower river thi.nks that
at small �xpense the boulders could he b].asted out and the channel�
L`'1CniCU 5�T iVd[��U D�J��SS CV111R [jU �O 2A�IY ��8.t.j�' CJ� ��1C �}�t.`��J�
in very hfgh Floods to all parts bn the lower river.
The followinq spring the Rogue River Courfer upgrac3ec3 its estimate of the
capability of the Roque to sustain naviqation; they envisi.aned laoats af 20 to
25 ton capacity aperating fram Grants Pass to c;old Beach. This was because
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in 1907 J. B, Thurner and Aubrey achieved the minimum hopes of the Commercial
Club. They carried over five tons of freight from GzanLs P�ss tq the Rogue
River Mininq and Development Co�pany's site below the Devil's Gtazrcase (RM a2).
31ao boats 27 feet long wzth � foat deck and 4-1/2 fovt bottom ��am and 2F
inches draught had carried th� foZiowing carqa: 3�Q0 pounds hydraulfc �fpe,
3500 pounds nails, 3200 pund bof�er, 38fl0 po�nd engine and other mkscel�an-
eous equi�ment. Twenty days were re�uired for the trip thouah the run fro�
Grants Pass to GaZice was accnmpZished in rhree days.�$
�. Aubery and Capt. .7ohn Aubery made regular freightinq trips f�om Grants
Pass tn the mines during the folZowinq years, The Gr�nts Pass C ourier
chronicled their achievements:
"'I�ro boats 30 feet lonq an� seven €eet w3de have just been buiZt
for A. Aubery, the fisherman, and he fs now loadfna th�m w�th
mininq machinery which is to he taken ta �ule Creek, about 74
miles do�wn Rogue River." (Apr�l �, 1910)�
"A. Aubery and H. W. Flliott left for Gold Beach where �hey wiZZ
fish for salmpn for the cannery during the fall. They went down
the river by boat, havinq bui�t a new fishing craft fn which to
make the voyage. They took with them 50 boxes of geaches ta sell
to th� peop�e at Gai� Be�ch and Wedd�r�urn, Lhat fruit being a
luxury there." (Auqust 29, i9I3} g�
In 1914 John Aubery brought a 4800 pound mortar and other equipment to
R3assom Bar. �he mortar �ad been manufactured in San Francisco �y the �oshua
Hen�ry Iran Works s�d was s�ipped via Grants Pass (Fig. 17} 9 On another trip
John Aubery caXXied suppZies for fia�mond & C,ree� of Portland who were settinq
up two stamp mi2].s ati slassom Bar. (Fia. 18) .`��
The Grants Pass Cauxfe� qave further details on the two Rubery'S freiqht-
ing activities fzom their city to the lower Rogue:
"Mr. R. Aubery �s canstructing a pair of boat5 �.r� w�sich ta trans-
port ten tons a�' freiah` down the P,o_que to Wfnk�e Rar, six �iles
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and s�pplies f4r a placer mine beinq eper�ted there by Seattle
parties." (February 5, 1915)
Completing a hair-raising trip �own Rvgue River from Gr�nts Pass
in a home-made catam�ran after shooting rushinq water, threadinq
narrow canyons and rapids. dodging rocks and whirlpools where the
current ran white, Capt. John Aubery an� hzs crew of faur arrived
at GoZd Beach delivering a stam� mill weighinq 3-1/2 tons to t��
�lossom Bar mine. three miles below Muie Creek, (�nne 2, 1916)
These river hoats were constructed at the present site of the disposai plant
in Grants Fass.��It is interestinq ta note th�t the Aubreys usualZy took
their boats through to Gald Beach after discharging cargo and sald the vessels
at that fishing cente�.
Todd Jones from Pawers also operated large 10 by 40 foot boats on the
�ogue River for the pu�pose of barginq supplies and e�ipment 9 AZmeda
Mine below Rand, which only alosed as a npn-essentia� industry durf�g
Wor1d War II, like other Rogue canyon mines received equipment down the
Rogue from Grants Pass (Fig. 19),
xt was during this era of freightir►g by the Aubrey's that Lh� rfver
careers of ehe Rague's ewa most famous gtxides beqan. �n taovember 16, 1916
the Grants Pd55 Cour�.er always interested in any downriver navigation from
its city, reported that "Ciaude Bardon le€t early this mor�ting far a Lrip
down Ftogue River to Paradise Bar in a regular �ishing baat. �� Bardon tsecttme
Zan� �rey's guide aad th� model far the hero Keven Bell of Rogue River Feud
G3.en Waoldridge, the pioneer a� �et bo�t navigation on the Rogue made his
fixst trip from �rants Fass to the mouth of the Rocrue heainnina 2� Auaust 191.5 9
Wooldridge did soine frefghting of a large bathtub and plate glass by boat
from Grants Pass to the Anderson Ranch at Mu].e Cxeek:� Wooldri.dge's historic
continuous upriver navigation of the Rogue frpm Gald Beach to Grants Pass
in 1947 would herald the gresent era of tourist navigation of the lo�wer
1[32 miles of the Rogue.���
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LbG DRIVING QN THE T.TPPER RbGUE AND ITS TRIBLITARIES
Navigation of the Rogue began with efforts to drive logs from �Tosephine
County to GoZd Beach and thQ hi.story of log c�riving an the lower Roque has
already k�een pr�sented. The only naviga}�le use of the �?ogue above Grants
Pass that the investigator has been able to discover is the £Zotation of
timber and some fishing.
The dauqhter of the man who namEd Prospect, nregan and wha owned the
sawmil� an Mill Creek, recalled �he �irst men who drove the upper Roque Ftiver.
She was Frances Pearson l�orn in 1885 in a ho�se she says was huiZt by French
Canaflian river drivers who had been brought out by the Southern Pac3fic Rail-
road tv drive taes from the vicinity of Prospect ta their ra�.Iroad line #�n
Rogue River valley. ?�rs. Pearson says they rafted the tie� at high water bvt
the rafts broke up, and she saw the ties scattered downstream on the banks
of the l�ogu� when she was a chi�.d. Sametime between the 1880's and I908
railroad ties were taken out further downstream near RM 1fi3. Roy Vauqhn of
Trail, whase family moved to the area cal2ed Peytdn in the winter a£ 1908-09,
when he was thi.rteen years o€ �ge, says that Tie Creelc there was so named
hecause railroad ties had been taken out {Fig'. 2f}) and £loated dpwn the Rogue i
1902 was a 3.andmark for log c3rivinq on the upper Rogue River. During
that year the Cando� Water and Ppwer Company appl.ied to the ,7ackson County
Cammissioners with a request that they dec�are the Rague a pub�ic hiqhway for
�he purpose of floating and transporting iogs, timber, and lumber and wood.
Condor�
built a boom of more than one m�.11ion fEet, board measure, and
has procured riqhts of way along Rogue from ra.parian owners
qranting Condor rights to remove abstructians for purpose of
floating and transgorting all floatab�e loqs, timber an!� lvmber
and right and privilege from riparian awners tp attach sheer
hooms and other aids to transporting logs, timber and ].umber
to the banks."
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November Ig7g,
The rate for transporting the timber was to he $1.50 per thousand baard
feet and $.54 per thausand for storage at the hoom of aZ� timber affered
to Condor. The Commissioners granted Condor their reques� oh �ctober 1,
1902.�� The lags were not to be used simply for genaral lumber proc3uction
but also in construction of the powerhouse. (Fiq. 21)
tfrs. �e��a Tex of Central Point, naw aqed 92, recalls visit��g her Pankey
cousins at the time the Condor Pdwer Company dam was being built and that
Rueben Pankey was the principal log driver in the fam.ily. She believed the
drives were not very successful because the loqs frequently jamm�a and hunq
up on the river bank. AP�rentZy these pXOblems did nat �eter the Pankey's,
however, because other upriver residents recall that �ohn Pankey directed log
drives on the upper Roque during �he period from autumn 19p6 ta sprinq 1910.
Ed xonston of Shady Cove (RM 146} who was born in 1893 remembers that in
1906-07 the good pane timber in the rfver flat�and from Trail (RM 148.5)
dawnriver had been 8ragged by horses tn the bank. The pine w�s cut and peeZed
durinq the winter when the sap was dawn and then floated dovmstream aad stranded,
so that the sutmner was used by John Pankey and his crew fn roll�nq the beached
logs back into the rxver and dr�v�ng them to the GoLd Ray D�m. Mr. Houston
believed that the logs were then �ost from the boam, beeause �he next year he
met a�an fram Port Orford who had seen Iogs with the Capco log brand, trfple
or dou�le C, washed up on the ocean beach beiow hfs town,
uespite probiems, logs cantinued to �e driven down the Roque from even
higher xeaches of the river to be used in the complation of the Gold Ray Dam.
During Z9�7-46 timber was taken from the HSggenbottom property below Flounce-
rock (near RM 163) and drivan dawn to the Gold Ray boom. During the winter of
I909-10 Roy Vaughn, who had recently moved to Peytan Post Office recalled the
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T�mher was removed £rom Lhe hillside ��bave the farm (Fig. 22a). The
logs were peeled in the woods, then in the sprinq of 19�0 the lociging crew
se� up a donkey engine to pull the logs aff the hi11 and across the Zevei
fieZds to a landinq on the �luff above the river. They made a chute fro�
thr�e logs arranged in the form of a V from the edge of the flat to the river
(Fig. 22b). The logs w2r� rolled into thi� chute from the resw o€ loc�s, s�x
or eight at a�ime, with the aid of the donkey. Once the loqs entered the
river a crew of a dozen men, again directed by Jbhn Panke'y, took the logs
downraver with the aid of a boat after the winter freshets had subsided.
Trie drive met with on� fatality, hawever, five or six mi}.es below the chute
near McLeod. There a jam devela�ed and one man was crushed when the �am wa�s
clislodged. Mx. Vauqhn also believes that many of the logs were last when the
boam brolce after the loqs had arriver� at the damsite. This �as the last of
the ioqs to be r�riven from upriver to the dam, because the ren►aining cut
timber on the Peyton praperty was �rocessed throuqh a small steam sawrnill
b������z� tts Peyton. The �ut t�n�her was taken from there in wagons upstream
to the power plant being installed k�y Capca below Prospect.�
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coinc�ded with th� lease of the C,old Ra�r sawmfZl to Wa�ter, Pracht and Schmidt
of Grants Pass. He cor�firmed the.�e�ails of the laggf.ng ectivSty�he jammed
�he donkey that aragqed the Zoc�s to the chute. 3ie recalled that the Ioggi.ng
boss had greased the chute tp the river causinq the logs to shoot across the
ziver and up the opposite bank; the chute was then sanded. He thaught the
driving crew cpnsisted of about twenty men. The drive cortsisted of ha:lf a
million feet of logs, th� largest af which were four f�et in diameter. The
drive took three ar four weeks, but Mr. Trusty only stayed on it two wesks
af*er the drowninq. He stated there we�e too many bouJ.ders in the river which
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Photographs of the Zocr dxivinq crew s�rvive (Fig. 23}, and Elga Abbott
of Butte Falls recalls that Belmont Pankey o£ Gola HiZ2 told stozies of
these log drives for many years thereaft�r in the area. Abhott also says
h�s hrvther particapated in two drives around 19Z5-16. The testimony of
these watnesses establishes that several log drives occ�rred an the R.ogue
�iver in Jackson County from the 1880's to the second decade of this century.
Each one was beset by problams but in toto they accounted �or �ag drives from
River Mile 163 to R.iver MiZe 125.5 and the flotation of ties Fram River Mfle
171.
L.og drives alsa acc�rxed for shoxt peXiods of time on Iimited stretches
of several tributar�es of the upper Rogue. It should be vnderstc�od that
tnp�� P_.��$�AS �f 1c �riVing in sauthern 4regan �aok pl�ce in an �nvironment
where virtually a11 lag transpvrt was undertaken by horse and ox team or even
rollinq logs to mi1ls with the assistance of qravfty. The earliest noted use
of a�tream for �ag carriage fn the area was Rvans Creek by Samuel J. 5teckel.
Durinq December �88� and March-Apr�l 18B3 he recorded �h�t from "the Pocket"
above his mi�l and other points on �he stre�m he ralled sevezal dozen loqs
into the cre�k an� floated them to his miZl r�ce. In other moriths he obCained
more logs by simply rolling them down the hill behind his mi11.�
'?�ro sect�ons of Biq �utte Creek were �riven for short periods o€ time.
Mr. Elga Abbott of Butte Creek reparted that his father-fn�1�w William Lee
Rdmundson had a sawmill abouti 2 miZes above the mo�th of Bvtte Creek and
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{F�g. 24a} The other sec�fbn of Big Butte Creek which u�de�►ent log �rivinq
was the section fram the B�tte Fa1Zs Lumber Co�pany dam at Butte Fa�ls up ta
the site of the pres�nt fish h�tchery. Photographic records of these drives
w�re deposited with the So�ther� Oreqon Histor�cal 5oc�ety by Ernest W. Smith,
a former logger resfdent in Buttie Creek, {Figs. 24b-25).
T�ra sect�ons of the Applegate River also e:rperienced brief periods of
log driving. The largest of �hese operations was mounted by 0. J. IUnips and
W. R. Nipper in the seasons 1901-1903 for a sawmi�l in which �rs. 5herman,
�ouqhri�ge and Finley of Grants Pass were partners. The sawmill was Xocated
�ust abave the preserit bridge at Murphy. For B or 9 miles above the mzll
logs were cut during the winter, 8ragged by axen and harse teams to the river
bank where they were decked, and in high water t�ken ta the Iog bocmt at the
sawmill. Five drivers from Min�e�ota were specifically hired gor the dr�ve.
"Not long�af�er t�e first �ogs came aown river to the mi11 site in the s�ring,
flood waters broke the holding flume, and washed over the mi�l pdnd and lag
�ar�s; most o£ the lags stackeri there, as wel� �s those on th� river, wer�
swept toward the Pacffic." 'Iwo other men, Wiesman and Wirdebu�ch trfe� to
cantinue the aperation for thtee years after 19�3 $nd then �he sawmil� cea�A�
operation at Murphy. The Timberman recarded the £inal faiZ�re of driv�ng
to the Murphy mill, In the spring of 19fl4 they noted that the Applegate Flume
and Lumber Co. operated s 4Q,�00 foot mi�1 at Murphy. °They drive their
�ogs down the Applegate River."
The recent.freshet occasiq�ed cansiderable loss to the Applegate
Bdom and Lumber Co. at the�r dam and mill at Murphy. � consider-
a�le quantity of logs, whfch were left o� the banks by earlier
freshets, were carried down the river ta such a distance that
they wi1Z be a totai loss to the company. The dam was injured
to some extent, but can be repair�d without difficu�ty.
In April 1906. however, they r�ported that the Applegate Boom Co. had sold
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out their real estate and mill on AppLeaate River. "The scheme to €Zaa�
loys in the ApQlegate had been a€ailUre.�� 114
Upstream William Herrio�t and 'nis three sons estab�ishe8 a small mfli
�ust above the mouth of Humbug C_reek in 1905. They drove �oqs fra�
Keeler Creek to the mill until 1916 when they sald the mill and it was moved
to Thompson Creek. Elden Herriott, grandsone of Will�am, was six yeass of
age wh�n the mill was sold, but remembered the Iast years of ��e m�ll's
ope�ation. (Fig. 27). He took the researcher �o the sfte which was on
a channel o£ the Applegate long since overgrawn with A1der and b�amhle.
Whethex beArmand's mi12 on the east side of the mauth of the Applegate
or the S.P,D. & L. Co.'s mill on the west side of the river's mauth ever
rec�ived logs down the Applegate has not been recorded.
The Dry Diggings dam on the Rogu� abov� Grants Pass was b�ilt from logs.
Unlike the Gold Ray dam they do not seem to have been floated dawn the river,
but brought from the immediate hillsides. It is like�y that M. A. Wertz
who had a sawmill on the Rogue abave Grants Pass a2so gat his loqs direct
fro� the river's slapes, not on the river, because he frequently moved his
mill an the river, onc� for a distance of oniy 2 miles.
fiTSH�NG
After 1870 commercial. fishing became a major industry at the mouth of
the Rogue River. Netting at3d seini.ng close to the ocean entrx►r1c� was the
principal method of making the catch, but fishfng holes ug to Labster Creelc
and beyond were regu�arly exglaited by gi�.1 net and drift net fishermen on
the l.ower Rogue. �'hey generally sold their catches to t�e dominant R. D.
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Hume Fish Cannery.
As readers of 7,ane Grey's Roaue River F�ud are aware, there was another
commercial fishery upstream wfiich centered on Grant� P�ss. St had existed
for a num}�er of years befare 1905. �ts denizens for.med themseZves into
a union, The Rogue River Fishermen's Union £or purposes of marketi.nq the�_r
£ish and defendi.nq thefr common interests. 'I'he t!nfon fouqht the closure of
the Rague ta commercial £ishing in �.91�, its president at that tfine }aeing
H. E. Gethina. They failed in that effort, but the river was reopened
in 1913, The Union, renamed the Ftogue River Salman Fishermen's Union, found
it necessary to petitzpn against fuxtiher closure in �916 at which time the
foi�owinq Grants Psss fishermen siqned their reselution:
�'. E. McFarland F. C. Bramwell
Jas. Wertz Geo. Dickinson
M. J. Anderson
Presley Pyie of Grants PaSS, who began a long career navi.gating the Rogue
in 3�is father's fishinq boat during the 192�'s, remetnY�ers other early upriver
fishermen mentioned by his father; Bill Ash, '�a2madqe and Ferry. In 1913
25 boats faiiowed the trade out of Grants Pass. Mr. Pyle remembered the
names af some of those who were in the trade when he beqan on the river:
Husky xertz, Cal Allen, and the Oldenbergs from up at Oxegon City, the Houks,
Claude Baxdon and his �artner, Hapki.ns �nd his partner. By the tirne the river
was permanently closed to co�'�merciaZ fishinq in 1935 their number had c3eclined
to B or 9 outfits.
�7urinq his period o� active upstream net fishtnq, Mr. Pyle says that about
15 miles of the Rogue between Deadman`s Ts�and be7.ow Cr�veman Bridge in Grants
Pass and Hag Landing was fished. Sometitr.es the fishermen went as far down--
stream as �3eYlgate Canyon. Yn 1903 the Fishe�ies Commissiar� prosecuted
gil�net fishertnen around Grants Pass as far upstream as Tolo (FtM ].25.5)i
was not an isolated excursion. Allen 5tri�kland of Tolo furnished the �entral
59
Point market with its fish whi�� �Tohn Pankey and Ro�ert Kincaid were renort-
ed ny "Centra� Point" to have taken a fine load of f�sh ta �e�fard market.�
The fish�ng season �t ¢hP ti�e extended fra� 25 May to 25 nctober.
Fighing was done at night and even then if there w�s mpon��qht only areas of
whitewates could be ffshed. It was done in the fo�lowi�q �.anner: (Fiqs. 2�,297
You lai� that net ou�; you had a can and a hoog, the hoop was on
th� �ead lfne. Yon had a hoo� that was abaut 2d inches, we n�ual�y
made it out of arapevine. Then there was a can, a S-qaZ�on can oa
the c�rk lin�, an� this neL was about 20 feet deep. If the river
was swif.t, say, over on th�t sfde and over on �his si�e it was slack,
ok the boatma.n wonld,e.start over there and then he'd pull cluart�r-
ing dowrstream and lay the net sa that he'd be qoing faster, because
it was sZack on th�s szde. �a thzs {the net� is qoinq ta trav�l
�as�er over here. �nd that's the way you do �t, an� then if it was
too fast before you got over the �ri�t, the net was laying endways
in the river anyhow, but yau wbuld sort of figure ft nut to g�t the
best of the hole where you fiqured the salmon would be at, sa your
ne* was str�f�ht across the river.
After yov pulled them �n you had a pla�e in the boat in �he hack En�
w�ere the ne� went, and then right by the net was a place about so
big that was called the net box. And as you pu�led i� in, you �ust
�hroowed the ch��k of net and whatever fish there was right over in
there, anu when you came to the n�xt one yau �hrowe� that chunk of
fish and net. Rfien you qot your net pickup up you went to shore an�
the net �an just took those fish out, and he was care�ul when he did
it, and then you could go righw ahead and lay that net right back out.
If he was care�ul wtier, h� went out he'd ao right beck out alriqht and
wauZdn't tangle..,Thep weren't long drifts-usually 6�Q `eet.
After sev�ral draft3 were accomn?ished, the boat with its catch w�s tak�n
to the a�wnstr�am �an�ing whare the f�_sh wQZe cZeaned (Figs. 3�, 31)and the
fi�h w�re t��n re�ur�ed ta *hP �oat which was losded on a horse �rawr� waqon
o� a�asaiine driven txuck. (Fi�s. 32,33} Fish and rig were driven back to
Gran�s �as5 where t�e ca�ch wa� pith�r sdld Lo the un{on or more iikely to
the public market for sale locally ag in Port�and. In 1914 C. A. Mead sued
J. Long and C. ingran of the �?cxxue River Fisherate��' �:►nSon for hauling back
their bc�a*s an� catch fra:� �?�e lo�aer end of the Rague River fish�nq around.
Besides qill net fishinu some seininq was done �n the Grants Pass area
in 19b5 and for a short tt�me thereafter.�
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RECREATION
On no other river in Oregon hes comm��cial recreational use been such
an important part of the area economy as w�th the Rague River. The triumph
of the sport fishermen over the market fishern�en on the rive� was in part
xesponsible fpX this economic development. Thus C�aude �ardon and Pres�ey
Pyle, for twa, were comrnercial fishermen who first as a side7ine and then
from necessiLy changed fznm river fishermen to pxo�essional quides. They
nnd o�hers like Gien Waoldridge, who was fascinate� by the adventurous
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challenge of navigating the stream, have since been swelled �� number by a
host oE jet bqat operatars and commer�ia� guides who ut�lize virtually
every portion af the river fram the Zost River Reservoir to the Pa�ific.
The development of the tourist xndustry on the Rogue centered ardund
the reaches between HeZlgate Canyan an� Agness. Presley Pyle qives one version
of the dev��opment of coa�mercial gui�ing o� th�s portion of the Rogue:
About '25 Ciaqd Bardpn �abk Zane Grey, 'z5, '25 he took 7.an�
Grey through, and thea hF taok a guy by the name of Wriqley...
He was the first man to ever run Rogue River clear through...
He ran 7ane Grey down to Zane Grey's place, oh, I don't know
two or thre� or four times dowr� to �inkle Rar= And they'd Zeave
the boats down there and then walk out...And then there was two
other gvys by the names of CaZ A21en and Merle Mock. �'hey run
it through. They only run it a couple o� three times and they
had a lot of trouble. They �ried to commercialize it. They had
old boats that wexen't qaod and they had a lot of trouble and
sunk a boat or two. In 1�ter years, why Glenn (Wooldri�ge)
started. Then two years after G�enn started, we stazted.
thr. Pyle also described his awn beqinning as a commercial qui8e:
F rt�n �r fnr �n �A��s *�:ro�srh t; �Wl� P.2a�::. G12r.;. i�. it
through a cou�le years (before). Well, I guess he'd run i�
a few times down through, but I think he started it about
two years runninq ft steady befare we did. Running it steady,
I mean commercia�.. I mean reaJ.ly gettin in and bangina it.
And then we started, I started one fall and I run...How I
started, wa5 K. T. Keller, the president of Chrysler Corp-
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oratiqn...Well, ? had guide� thern, �hey had a lodge up the river
and i had quide� trem, and so he asked me, he said, "How'd you
�ike to take me t�ravgh to Gold �each?" Z said, "Fine", never
dreaminq the man m�ant it, he was just talkinq. The next �une
here he comes and says, "we want to go throngh �he fifth day of
October," I like to have fainted! T had never been any farth�r
than Grave Creek, that's as far as I'd been. I didn't know what
the river was like dpwn through there or nothing. Y had no more
fdea than th� *1an in tha_ MQOnt I'd heard that MerZe �ack and
them had got into and I'� heazd so much about this Blossom Fjar.
�n'ell, T said, "OK." So � called �his Claud Rardpn, he'd been
through, you know, and he was the oldest guide there was, so I
c�11ed Claud. H� said, "well., if there's enough money in it."
I said, "They didn't say anything about money, Alz we qot to do
is qo." Ffe said. "WeII, we'lI have to make a coupZe of boats,"
Claud Har�on was i�bout 65 at this time and tihe heavy work of tY�e trip toZd
on his nazmally explosave temQer to the Aoint where he depnsited the presic�ent
of Chrysler Motors on a gravel bar with his compan�.oa and their gear. The
president af Cudahay Packina Company was in another boa�. Thereafter Pres�ey
Py1.e began taking passengers an his own. A partner in one of the Grants Pass
hotels af£ered to hook Py�.� £ram 3une throtigh November i5 for a percentage
af Pyle's fee. fie did this consistently for h years a�ter which he sold
his interest to Py2� who then conc�ucLed his own booking until he c{uit the
river in 1972.�' I� is of interest that at least oz�e of the quic�es, Sob
PritGhett had a Coast �uarr� License to navigate a motor craft carrying passen-
gers fnr h��e.
12ainie Fa.11s was the m�s� d�fficult ooint in t�e river and was reguZar�y
nar�aged. (Fiq. 34) bther bad �laces were dynamited fzee of ohstrueti.ons in
arder td facil�tate r3rif* !�oat g�ssage. Presl�y Pyle c?escri�es th� shoatfng
of Blossnm 1�ar: �Ffgs. 35-37;
Blassom �ar at one time wzs a bad place...I w�nte� to shoot it out.
Gl�nn had quit runniz�g, so I sa;d to G1pnn, T sa9d, '°GZenn, wou3d
you help me shaot Blossom I�ar aut?" "43e�1," he said, °Xeah, but
we'�1 have to keep stii� ahou� it." A4 that time noDody said much
abaut it; that was �n '6�. So I kent to the For�st 5ervice, and I
told them what I wanted to do. Tney sa��, '"Well, �'11 give you the
key� to the powd�r house, you ad a,et th� �c�wder, b�at we e�on't know nothing
�g
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Novembex 197$.
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about it. we'lI tell you where the �uses ar�, where the caps
are, you qo qet what you want; the powdez, the fuses, the caps,
we don't want to knaw anything about it.: So we went and got
the dynami�e and we went down theze sn� we shot the lo�wer end
of it out...we had to came up the upper end and let ourselves
down with ropes.,.if you'd had a prop yau never cou�d have �ane
it. But after you got � jet you could come up over the rocks.
So we r.pde down there and tied the rape around � IbCk and then
he'd put the load �n and then start the �et and qo back up out
of there, let loose of the zoQ�. And then we'd raw �ack dawn
there and he'd qrab the ropE and hold onto �t �nd 2'd Zet hfm
down and ��83 pu� in another �oad. And that's the way we sho�
that out.
Rlossom �ar was anly the most bothersome area of the river which had
to he shot out several times. Glenn �loocldrfdqe catalagued �he otheX portions
of the wild Rogue which were cleared by the comQr+ercial quides.
Upper Alack Bar, that had a bad boulder in it that had to be
removed...Jenny Creek was a bad one, but it's alI cleared
out and in qpad shape now. You'd never know �t was a tough
s�ot. We done a Iot of blasting at Jenny Creek riffles.
Horseshoe Bend. we shot some rocks out of Horseshoe Bend.,.
we did take some rocks out of 8att�e Bar at ane time. That
got so that it was kind of bad. The Long Gulch Ra�ids. We
took several rocks out of that at the lower end. It wa�
kfnd af hazardous. Then the next one was John's Riffle. we
shot John's Riffle several times - b�asted rocks out of there
several times and got a good hole i� zt.naw. Then Shiny Bar,
which was abav� the mouth of Mule Creek, just abave Marial.
We worked on that quite a bit. Then come Blossam Bar. That's
where the bfg shoa�ing was don�. They �one lots of work on
Blossom Bar; first, made the channel dawn the south sfde, right
next to shore. Sut it wouldn't stay open because in high water
it wovld fill up with rocks. We blasted out severaZ tfines an�
cY21 WEi34 vu� iii 4ii2 a<<it3C�.�.c 'czilu . � i':O�@ t:71"JUy t:1e
middle and that was pe�tar�ent. �ha�'s the way it is naw. And
Clay Hi.�l riffle was another one that gave aufte a Litt].e bit
af troubl�. And a numbez of times we done blastina in Clt�y Hili.
Glenn Wooldridge alsa described the aid di tha Farest 5ervice in this Channel
clearance:
I�ried to aet the Forest Service to furnish powder for that work
and �hey did. They were very li.beral, Many times 2 could c�o to
them and get the powaer to shoot the rocks out with...Qnae they
delivered zt by pack horse to Blossom F3ar...TYzey'd c�me down the
trail and put it over in a boat from Blossom Bar and on to the
south side.�
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Mr. Wooidr�dge f��st passed by boat fram Grants Pass to rold Beach in
19�5. When he 2ater began commercial guiding he described the timetab�e:
We first taok 10 days. Commercial trips, when we took passen-
gers. We gave them �0 days �er trip. We carried all the pro-
visions; there was no other way to get it. We hauZed evexything
wfth us, took the passenqers dawn. Then had � car or truck. In
those days, the truck was a pretty �oor excuse o� a thina. It
was a lang drag to qetting home. It was the worst part of the
txip back after th� trip.
Cpmmercfa� tourinq an the Rogue ha5 been revolutionize� by the introduction
of inboard and ou�baard jet motors used to power fiathor�none� aluminum h�lle�
boats with pram �ows. At hiqh speeds these c�aft can operate in three inches
of water and at slower spaeds require only � inches, makfng �ossih�e upriver
navigation of the Roque nver even the most �ifficult rap�ds. Glenn wooldri�ue
pioneered this new savrce af power and tested many of the m.an�f�cturers'
engines.
Wooldrzdge f.irst ascended the Rogue fram Go�d Se�ch ta �rants Pass in
1�47, quite frankly as a prom4t�ona� pvblicity stunt. �ince that date �o
�974 he r�p�atea ±he ascent an addit�onal seven times.
It should �e emphasize� that much nf the water carriage of fr�iqht on
the Roque River durfng the past 50 years has been �a connection with the
tourist industry on the river. Thus lumber, evuipment and supplies are taken
u� fr�m �,a�d Beach and occasionally dawn from �aZice or Grants Pass to
construct and su�ply commerc�al and private Z�ges along the �anks af the
Rague. Presley Pyle �escrihed how Randy Marr cut lumber on Mule Creek and
threw zt znto the Roque. �ome ao� cau�ht on Rlossom H�r �ut most of it
reached the cab�e which Marr stretched across the river at Half-Moon Bar
where he was buil�ina cah�ns an� a Zodge.��� The mail boat fram GaZd Reach
contfnues to carr� much freiqht upstream far. the various tourist accor.imod-
ations on the rzver.
�,
rv
Since 1973 the Rogue R�ver Na�fongl Foxes� staff at Grants Pass have
�ept counts of the use af thefr maintenar.ce section of the Wild and Scenic
portion of the Roque River below RM 59. In 1973 they counted 1,Op2 non-
co�nmercial users and 3,340 coaQnercialiy carried passangers on the Roque,
excluding the guid�s. By 1978 the totals ha� risen to 3,889 noncomtnerctal
and 4,414 connnercially car�ied persons using that section of the Rogue,
the greatest increase in surface use obviously comina from self-guided
recreationists.�
As far recr�ational use of other use of other portians a� the river, jet
�oats carried 4d,000 persons fram Goid Beach to Agness in 1971. Another
10,000 passengers traveZZed by je�boat fram Grants Pass to Rel�gate durinq
the same year; and river guides also aperated from Gold Hf11 �
There is considerahle drif� �oat fishing and recrea�xona� ra£t use af
the Rdgue �rom River Mile 15i to Gra�ts Pass. �ifty to seventy drift hoats
per weekend day use the section fram Che Cove River Hatchery to Cold Ray
Dam during the spring, early sutruner, fa11 and wfnter fishing seasons. Srnall-
e� numbers are found on weekdays. About 20-30 drift boats operate from point�
below Gold Ray Da� to Grants Pass principally during the winter steelhead
season; more will probably u5e it when scheduled addit�onaZ boat ramps are
installed. in each river section above and below Go1d Ray Dam in Jacksan
Cvunty, equivalent numbers of rubber raft users are found during the su�mer
months. The latter usage has developed to these high numbers during the
�ast two years. Roth uses are experiencinq steady increase at the present,
Rctqa� counts were mada during I977-7R of hoat use on the upper Pogue
during the Spring Chinook s�ason. Caunts toak place on five days per week,
randomly selected from May I5-July �5. From Cole Riv�rs Hatchery to Shady
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Cove (R.M 157-146) the fioures were, 1977, 929 boats, 1978, 872 boats
durinq that two month perzod. From Shady Cpve to To� Velle State Park
(RM 146-I32 the figure duzinq the same two montha, �978, was 74� hoats
(trailers counted).
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REC(3MMENDAT70N
The minisnum claim which the �tate may make to +ownership nf the bed of
the Rogue, based on II. S. Supreme Court precedents and previous decisions
of the Oreqon State Land Board, would be from ?tiver Mile 102, Caveman Brir3qe
in Grants Pass, to th� ri.ver's mouth. All of the river traffic on whfch the
Land Board made its claim to navigation and oumership af the river bed hetween
Grave Creek and Aldssam Bar in 1973 began in Grants Pass. '�hus ff the State
has a lcgi�imate claim to the pbrtion he�ow Grave Creek, by the same evidence
it has � claim as high as Grants Pass. It woulr� seem reasonable that the o�d
"middle ferry" �ite at Grants Pass, which has been establishec3 to have been
at Caveman Bridqe, he used as the upper Zimit of river navigation if this
minimum claim to ownershi� is made.
It may be argued that any of the river traffic upriver from the head of
tid� cannot seriQUSly be regarded as navigation, cons��ering the sma��ness o�
many of the craft i.nvo�ved and the difficu�ties of naviqatian includinA
regular portag� �f Rainie Falls. In fact the character of navfe�ation of the
Fox River in Wisconsin upon which the t�ontello case is b�sed was a].mas�
identical to that of the Rogue Ri.ver : sma].1 baats whfch often h�►d to k�e �raqged
and partaged over a difficu�t streambed. A�at because that was the necessary
and ordinary method af transport on �hat river, it was held to be a naviqahle
river. Simflarly the crafts used on the Roc{ue were the necessary means of
carrying good� and bringing capita� ec�uipment and supp:ties ta points between
t�old Beach and Grants Pass from the end of the nineteenth century even to the
present.
Reyond this hasic claim the ground f.s less sure. The £act that there
was a common fishery from befoze 190� to 1935 between To�.o and Robertson
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Bridge (River Mi1es 125.5-66.5) may be evidence of a beZ�ef that the river
was nav�qable in this secti.on�the necessity of se�eral ferrfes in th�s
section of the river �erhaps contributing to that belie£. Aut the fact of
the commerczal fishery in the river above Gr�nts Pass may not �e sufffcient
of itself to estahlish the State's ciaim to the bed o� the river.
There were several loq 8rives from points as far upstream as Prosp�ct
to Gald Ray Dam. It is ��e researcher's view that rather than Qstabl�sh
the navigabi�ity af *_he Rogue fpr log drives these effox�s in f�ct prove�
the reverse. Difficulties w�th �og drivinq on the lower Rogue were over-
catne and comr.ierciaZ drivi�q was reg�larly undertaken during the latter nine-
teenth century riqhr up to the I950's. That was not the case on the upper
Rogue. Therefore this ac�ivity would not extend the rarige of the State's
claim to the bed of the �ogue above Piver �ile 125.5.
Given the �act that a number of commercial fishermen Zike Clauae B�rdon
and Presley Pyl� went from that occupation with �he closure of th� river to
their Iivelihood tp coinmercial quidina on the river, a�d also given the rela-
tive i.�porCance of that nccupation w?thin the Rog�e River Rasin, it woul�
seem that this cominercial navigabie u5e a£ the river might alsa be brought
to bear in the 5tate af nreaon's determination af ownership of the Rogue
riverbed. If �� were, the State wou3d have a c�aim an the basis of commercial
n$vigabflity ro River Mile i57.
7r
FOOTNO`TFS
1. A. G. Walli.nq, History af 5eut�ern Orcc;�n (Portland, Z884), p. 3�3.
2. P�aintiffs Direct Testimony, p. 370, Nume v. Rogue River Packfnq Co.,
1907; Supreme Court 68A-3, File No. 272, Oregar� State Archives, Sa1�ern.
3. 5pecial. Laws, Le�Sslative Assemb3.y, Terri�o�ry of Qreqon, �853-54,
pp. 29-3a; Plat Books #404► Township 35 South, Range 1. West, Township
36 South, Itange 1, 2 and S West; Abe1 Hellman referred to it in the
Lat�nfzed form, Ora R�ver when he heard of the legis�at�.on. Transcript
of Abe� �ellman Diary, T��en� Public Library.
4. The best description of the Roque's course is Zane Grey, Rogve River
Feud (New York: Gross�t & Dunlap, 1929, 1970}, pp. 1-3.
S. (br�qon) �State] W[ater� R(esources� B(aard], Rogue River Basin (1959),
p. 34 and "Ftogue River f�rainage Basin Map", No.� ].5.6, 1970.
6. WRB, Roque River Basin P. 2, 4; �lk Creek rises at 5,450 feet.
7. Ibid p. 5.
8. WilZiam G. Loy, et al., Atias of Oregon (Eugene, University of Dregon
1976), p. 108; Lewis A. McArthur, Oregon Geoqra�hfc Names, 4th ec�.
{portland: Oregan Historical Society, 1974), pp. 626-27.
9. WRB, Roc�ue River Basin, p. 6.
10. U. S. Army, Corps af Engineers, Rogue River Basfn, Oreqon; Water Resaurce
,.._..__ - _ _ _
Development (Portland, 196�), pp. Z8-19; U. 5. Geological Survey, 'Water
Resources Data £or Oreqon, 1977 (PortZand, �.978}. Pp. 4'72, 482, 495, 508,
517, 518, 520. 526, 531, 541. 542.
11. WRB, Rogue River Basfn p..64.
12. Plaintiffs Direct Testimony, pp. 221, 232, 333-334 Hume v. Rogue River
Packing Co. �
�3. WRB, �togue River Basin, i�P. �
14. Corps of Engineers, Rogue River Bas3n, p. 15; Qregon Laws, 1935, Ch. 325
{pp. 509-511); Curry Coun�y Reporter -"Rogt�� Coast" Supp. (Ju1.y 31,
ta�s► .,*, ti_'rn
�..... r rr. ., �,,.
� �B �C�tl@ �1V@t Hd3�.]Y� �1�7• �Q-12.
16. Ibid p. 392; Corps of Engineers, Rogue River Basin pp. 14-15.
17. Jackson Connty Commissioners Journa� I. 27, cited in WPA Historical Records
Survey, Box 66, No. 75, University of nregon Library, Eugene.
18. Curry County Camsn�ssioners Journal I, 23, 1Z7.
i9. C�escent �ity Herald, 27 �brii 185a, cited in U. S. Burean of Lana
!�anagement, "Roque �iver ��istorical �tudy," III, f�l, 5�0 1�1byd R1dq. ,
Dortland.
20. Curry County Commissioners ,Touxnal 2, 177, 247.
21. Plaintiffs Direct Testimony, pp. 336, 357, Hume v. Rogue River Pac Co .;
Myrtle Point Enter�arise, I ��anuary Z904.
22. Emil R. Peterson and Alfrec� Powers, A Centnry of �'oos and Curry {Portland:
Binfnrd and Mort, 1952), p. Z9�; and se� Curry Co�nty Historical �ociety,
Fxcer �s from the Curry County Fchaes {1977?, p. 50.
23. Jack_son C�unty Commissinners Journ�� I, 29.
24. Crescent City Hera? 7�ec. 186i.
25. Grants Pass :�a Courier 3 31pr 1935, fiec. 6, p. 3; �Tackson Count_y
Commissioners Jouznal I, 9.
26. 7osephine �ounty Commissianers ,7ournal I, 55, II S 2, 428; Grants Pass
DaiJ.y Co�rier 3 7�pr 1935, Sec. 6, p- 3.
27. Jack Su�.ton, 1 Years w5.th ��spehine (Grants Pass, Josephine County
�ristoriCal Society� 1967), pp. 72.-73; �:dna May Hill, �7osephine County
Histarical Hicth3.iqhts (Grants Pass, �osephine County Nistoxical Society,
1975), p. 120; but see Rague River Courier, 17 Apr 19�2 which states
thay �. Fr�nklin saA� the ferry he ran fo� $ y�ars to w. A. *�assie.
2B. Josephine County Cozrn,issioners Journal II, S i, p. 32.
29. WPA �Iistorieal Records Survey, Jac�cson County, Genezal �ii�tory, �'older vIL,
B 5, University of ��egon Lik�rary, Fugene; Medford Ma��., 7 5ept �9n0.
3�. Ibici., Z4 .3une, 30 Rua zafl�.; as in Roaue �i'onderland's Fifth Annual Festival
(Medford: CaS�a�e Gra�hics. 197'71 , [F. 3c�, .
31. ,3oY�n P.c�ams zn � 'xce.r. pts �'r. nm !'U1"L'y Cpt2flt� EC�1�]es r PP •��� 44 ; rIa than Schol-
fie�.d, , �:�aurr�al o� `;::�.e {I�math Fx'�lorinq �'�cPeditf.an", !�SS-N�--�, o 43�
�]reaon �tate ;�z�rary, G�i�em.
32. Plairtiffs Direcr '"estim.or_y, op. 228-32, 3�2, 313 Hu�re v. poque 'River
Packincr Cn. : Cu� Ccunty �:choes , Oc���aer 1975.
'2'] !_r.1r� Rcaarlr r_a�anttn . ?[S IS+7tT ? R�]� _
34. Stephen I�c�+a �3eckham, Recruiem �or a People, (iv'orznan, bK, t'niversity af
c?k�ahoma Press, 19'? ), n�. 1�?-1.�?. -
35. Ibi�., pp. ZR3-88; I?odney G'..i.s�n, A Tournal �f ��my Life (San Francisco:
A. L. Ranero�t, �874), p�. 27n, 295.
36. Dai1y oreapnian, 3 Jiz�.y �852, t?. 2.
3Z. ��fendan�s Direcr m��'timory, pn. B4, �?5, 9(?. °1� 96, 12i, f?ume v. Roaue
l7i�rnr TJar�rinn !-'A
38. Ibid., �p. 127, 131, �34, 137.
39. u. s. Porest Service, Siskiyou Nationa� F�rest, ° Watson Creek P�anniag
Unit Study" Appendix C, p. 13b. Photograph co�rtesy of Myrtle Ri1ea
Gadeholt, Woodburn, OR. daughter of former Agness postmnster.
40. Curr Gount Historica� SbC�Bt Bulletin, January 1977 [p. 4J.
41. Go1d Beach Gazette, 24 Aug Z894; PlaintiEfs Dixect Testimo�y, p. 268,
Hume �. Ro ue R�ver Packin Co.
42. R. D. Hume, A P Mono list, ed. G. V. Dobbs (Madison, wisc., Wisconsi�
Historaca� Society, �9�1), p. 47; Appeliant's Opening Hrief, p. 373,
Hume v. R ue River Packin Co.
43. Plaintiffs Direct Testimony, p. 408-409, Hume v, R ne River Packin Ca.
44. Ibid., p. 559, and se� p. 365.
45. U. S. Army, Chief of Engineers, Re�d�t, Z879, p. 1861.
46. Port Orford Post 23 Mar 1882.
47. Plaintiffs Direct Testimo�y, pp. 559, 560, Hume v. Roqve River P�ckinq Co.
48. Port brfard Past 30 Mar i882.
49. Defendants Direct Testimony, Hume v. Ro ue River Packinq Co., pQ. 90, 91,
1I4, I21.
50. Ibid., p. 226.
S1. Plaintiffs D�rect Testimony, pp. 429-34, 423.
52. Defendants Direct Testimony, pp. 4�, 104. 115, 1�8.
53. Siskiyou Plational Forest Study, Appendix C, p. 138.
54.� Defendants Direct Testimony, pp. 226-27.
55. Gd�d Beach Gazette 29 Jan 1894.
56. Ibid., 3 Aug 1894; Grants Pass Courier, 3 Aug 1894 trom Bx,M ° Rogue River
Historical St�aY," v, 18.
57. Gold Beach Gazette, 15 Feh 1895.
58. Ibid 6 Dec 1895.
59. Ibid., 26 Apz. 1895.
60. Curry County Circu�t Court Judgement Ro11, No. 32.
�1. �e`endants 17i-�ct Tes�imony, p. 242, Hume v. Rague River Packing Co .
62. Ibzd p. 243, 246,2�2
F,3. I p. 52, 6I, 131��32, 21R-219; Roqne River Courier 27 Nov 1902.
64. Defendants �irec� Tes�imony, p. 24h, Hume v. RoQUS River Packinq Co .;
Giskiyo� *latinnal Forest Study, Apppen8ix D, p. 149, E. J. Schneider
in�erview, Illahee Loc7ge, I971.
65. Pnrt �rford � ribune , 13 �une 1906; Wedaer.burn �azette 14 June i906.
�h. t?P£erEdan�s Ilirect fi�sta.mony, pp. 4, 129.
ti7. I bid., PP. �9, 114.
6�. Port Orford '�ribune, 20 Nov 1907 quat�..ng (�reaonian same ciate; Gold �each
Glohe , 7 7an 190F3. �
6�, i��,�, �.ogue River F�istoricai �tudy, V, 31F3.
70. C..urry Coun�y Reg�orter, "Roque Coast" Supp�.ement 29 Avg 1.974, p. 7;
�, c`ounty Historica�. Society Bulle�.in, March �.974, (p. 4) ; neforest
SorbPr interview, 17 November 1978.
7I. Henry Te31er PrXce, Up the Rogue River and the First Mail Route (Portland,
19�7), pp. 11-13; a picture of the r�ext mail carri�r, 3itn Tharntdn,
mounted t�n his muie is in the Oregon Historical S�ciety ghotoqraph
col�ec�ion, Portland.
72. �efendar.ts L�irect Testimony, pp. 247, 2h2-63, Hume v. Roque River P�ckinq Co.
73. Peterson and Powers, Cops arsd Curry, p. 2�2.
7�. Ibid.
75. Curry Couiz�v R��orter, 8 Apr 1920.
i6. Ibid., 38 J�11y 1920.
77. ihid., 30 �ept Ir320.
78. Tbid., 15 �un� I922.
7�. Int�rview with �?rs. Myrtle Ri1�a Gadeholt, f�iopr]k�t�rn, bR, Dec ].978; picture
courtesy of ?4rs. Gadeholt.
B�� Teiepi�pne interview with Mrs. OrZena Lowe�y 8ackman of PortZand. ,7an 197�.
i3I. Curry Cauntv Repor�er, 30 Nov 191b, 11 ,7an, 18 Feb, 2b Sept 1917 cited in
_ . .. .....,._ _
BLM "Roqu� River Historica�. Stuc�y", VT, 43.
82. Interview with *!eforest Sorber, Wedderburn, c�R, Nov 1978.
83. Ibid
84. Ibid.; and see Recdrd Group #77 C�fiACE, Portland, Sox 31, File WP-8
Rogue River �853), Herbert De�kyne to cxecutive Secretary, FPderal
Power Commission, 2� Jan 1928, �'ederal Archives Center, Seattle.
85. Sorber �.nterview.
8b. R ue River Courier, 10 Aug 3.906; Oregon ObServer, $ Auq 190b.
87. Roclue River Cot�r�,er, 7.2 Jan Z90f,.
88 r�ia , 17 May 3.9(37.
89. Ihid.. Z Apr 19I0.
90. C,rants Pass naily Courier 20 At,q �913.
91. Curr Count Re ister, "Rogue Coas�" Sttpplement 29 Aug 1974, p. E� based
on information pravided by Iv�.n 831linqs.
92, Ibid p. 3.
93. Grants Pass 1�ai3. Courier, 5 Fe� I9.15; 2 Jur�e 1916.
94. 8ob Peirce, "Early DaXs an the Roque," Mazama &ulletin (�3ec 19fi2).
9S. Grants Pass Daily Couri. 16 Nov 1916.
96. InfornEation fxom Josephine County Historical Society.
97. Grants Pass � aily Courier 16 Nov I916.
98. Portland Ore�onia 19 Aug 1��5; i*! a 19?4 inLerview with DSL he c�,aimed
�he txip was made in �.914; Jack Camp, "white Water Cowboy of the Rc>que,"
Pacifzc Motor Boa� (�an 1.952}, p. 9.
99. interview of �SL with Gl�r► Woa2.dr�dqe, Grants Pass, 24 June 1974.
100. Fortl�and Oregnnian, 19 Aug 1965.
101. �ahn Aliison, U. S. Rogue River Farest staff, interview with Frances
Peax�son, "Six Interviews", 1978, Medfnrd.
�117, 7nto�:�l�e�� ��ra `li Dvj' y�aua�+ii�.
�Q3. Jackson County Commissioners �ourr�al, 12, pp. 412-13. Though the�contract
was drawn t�p in 1902, it was not entered inta the Crnnmissionezs Journal
and reported in the Calumbia R�.ver and Oregon Timberman until November
1904. This was apparently b�cause the decision in the Independence and
Fall Cit Lumber Co. v. S�aulding case cast doubt on the Ieqal3.ty af the
arrangement. The Umpqua�Bootn and Tiit�ber Co. was therefore discauraged
from operatinc} on the upper Rogue in 1902; Medforc� Fnquirer, 8 Mar 1902, p. �„
104. Teiephone interview with �el?a Tex, Central Point, Nov 19��. The
researcher was Zed to �rs. Tex from th� intervie� published with her
by Kay Atwooc?, Jackson Co�nLy Conversat�ons{Medford, 1975).
2�5. Interview with Ed Houston, 5hady Cove, Nov 2978.
ZQ6. Tnterview with F.oy Vaughn, Txai1, Nov 1978.
107. Telephone interview wifih P,ufus Tr_usty, F.aq�e Ppint, �1 May 1979; Co�wnbia
River and Oreqon Timbezman �1:6 (Apr 19Z0}, p. 32P.
IdB. Rogue Wonderlan�s �ifth �estival (p. 30).
YD9. Telephone inter�iew with Fla��z Abbott, Butte Fa11s, Nav 1978.
1�0. Typescript of Samuel ,7. Sterk�l �iary, pg. 21Q, 221, 224, Medford Public
Lzbrary, Medfard.
131. Abbntt interview; �ra Wakefiel� had a saws�!iIl on ClarkS �ork o£ Biq Butte
Creek in 1899, CoZum�ia River and Oreqori Tzmberman 1:2 (Dec 1399), p. 12.
112. Southern �re�on Historical �ociety photoaxaph f�le.
113. �lga W. J�hnsan, fihey cettled in Applegate_Countr� (�978}� p, 177; confirmed
in a t�Z�phone interview with Mrs. Johnson's source, Elmer Gilmore, aqed
9� ef �urphy, Nov �978; and see Josephine County Mechanics T,i.ens II2, 24-27.
��4. �alumbia River and �re�on Timberman 5:5, 5(Mar, Apr i904?, pp. 20.25;
7:6 {Apf i90b}; MEdford Mail ,(Rpr 1904).
115. �7Qhnson, A_ p�legate, p. 177.
�16. Znterview with F,��on �erria*_t. A�p�eaate, Nov �978.
i1!
118
Y�1C7Lfl l�CJLTk �C:UL4 I:VJ�L.�LCLI'LUS�s �;F�+G vc"�i�i�[i �4.vic� r�ij:.f.iC.�.,u.
Paci�ic C*�ast �Jocxi and *r_on, 3�� p. 216.
] lq. Crslumhia P.iv�.r and �re
g. ',.3.
120. Ibid.
T�rr�berman. 3_5 tMar 19�21, p. 7; 3_1.I (Sept 19D2),
�21. Transcript nF P�ai.n"i�'�s Testimony, pp. 268, 529 etc., Hu�ne v. Roque River
Packina Co.
1.22. Su�.tion, 11 Years 4 �n P. 204-
123.
Gzants Pass Courier, 29 t'?�r 1Qi0.
�24. "The Rogue River Fishinq ��esti.on" (Grants Pass, 19Z�i).
125. Interview wi.th Presley Pyle, C,rants Pass, Nov I97A.
I26. Sutton, Z10_Years with Josephine, p. '�R.
127. Interview with PresZey Pyle.
�.28. Ibid .
129. Interview with Glen Wooldridae, Grants Pass, 7une 24, 1974, o. 9.
130. nregon Fisheries Commission Re azt, Y9�13, pp. 3C, 37.
�31. Medfara r�ail 2�lay, 2I Nov 19i32.
132. Presley Pyle interview.
�33. ihid.; JosQpnine County Mechanics Liens, 7V, 4g�, Josephine c'ounty
F�istoricai Society, Grants Pass.
i34. Sutton, I10 Y�az's with Josephine, p. 2b4.
135. Peterson and Powers, Coos and Curry, p. 2�7 for names of other early
river quides. �
136. Presley Pyle interview.
J.37. ?7SL Roque River file, lic�nse c�ate 10 Apr 1950.
Z38. Ibid; photoqraphs from f�LM, "Rague River Hi.storieal Study, " VI, 12.
3.39. DSL int�rview with 't+Toaldr�dge, p�. 3-4.
14fl. Zbid., pp. 4-5 and see Kay Atwood fnterview in BLM, "Rogue River
Histqrica� Study", VI, 10-12.
141. nSL Wooldridge interview, pp. Z0, lZ.
l d7 TIC . T ... . �: +..oiL•i C. A�...L T � .7 s n � nr
• 2W f�.. � r cvL i.baTfu 1 i �7 niiy t�v�3.
��3. Presley Py].e in�erview, Nov I978.
144. LT. S. Rocrue Ra.ver Natianal Forest data sheet; and see P. F. �onheffner
and K. W. Muckleston "Motorbqat Use on the Wild I?oque Riv�r," Wa�e�
'Resource Research Institute Study 52, Dec 1976.
145, Fec�eral Register, 3 7:131., part rI (7 .7e�ly 1972? , p. 13411.
19�i. Znformation From AiZl Haiqht, bepartment of Fish and WiZdlife,
27 ,7une 1979.
147. Letter from A1 Smith, Department of Fi.sh and Wildlife, Grants Pass,
9 J'uly ].979.
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