733
(GOLD, WHALES, & BUSINESS IN EARLY OREGON)
Currency:USD
Category:Collectibles
Start Price:100.00 USD
Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
NOT SOLD (BIDDING OVER)
0.00USD+ applicable fees & taxes.
This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2003 Nov 11 @ 12:00UTC-5 : EST/CDT
<b>733. GOLD, WHALES, & BUSINESS IN EARLY OREGON </b>A great A.L.S., 24pp. 8vo., ink inscribed letter written by "<i>Frank C. Lewis</i>", Salem, Oregon, May 11, 1891 giving a highly descriptive look at ranch life in the rural countryside of Oregon, including a great description of whales and their enemies plus a stunning sketch depicting the mammal, in very small part: <i>"...Speaking of whales. I will tell you about the one that came on shore dead about 10 miles north of where I was mining. It was killed at sea and thrown on the beach by the heavy surf...I went to survey the carcass...the length was...63 ft, height 12 ft. & width 10 feet, 12 ft. from one point to the other of his tail...this friend of mine knows as much about a whale as a whale does about him. At his last writing he said he had secured 150 gals of oil and considerable more to take out...besides the bone which there are plent...The bones in the forward part of the mouth is not very long nor wide...I took my knife and cut out one of the small sheets...this bone is the kind...used as stiffening in ladies corsets...many of the whale are killed by tow sea animals, which are their most dreaded foes...Mr. Whale generally gives up the ghost when they get after him. They are...sword fish and the thrasher...these two...travel in company together and when get sight of Mr. Whale. They chase...him until they overhaul him...I have stood on the high bluffs near my place and watched the battle...the sword fish will come up underneath the whale with a grand rush and give him a awful stab...that makes the whale scoot high up out of the...water. Then the thrasher...comes down on his back...that sounds like a crack of thunder...they will keep at him first one then the other. I am not aware that either...eat any part of him...you...ought to see how the whale makes the water fly and foam in his desperate efforts to ward off the enemy...there is no better people...than the Cape Cod people to stock any place. They are a long way ahead of any of the stock we have got on this coast...the state of Oregon has no natural harbors...they are all closed by sand bars with an average depth of water...14 feet...all of the small coasters run on them...there is a harbor 60 miles south of my place called Coss Bay. There is a big done there in the way of coal mining and lumbering which keeps 2 or 3 lines of steamers carrying the products to San Francisco...there are 7 harbors on our coast and the government is expending...sums of money on 4 of them in building jetties so as to deepen them...it will only be a short time when all the harbors will be improved so as to admit larger steamers...we have one RR running through the entire state connecting San Francisco with Portland...no I am not married...but have one in tow...she is...a jewell...bright features...all else in proportion......you may expect the samples of gold...there will be a small vial containing the gold...the small nugget...I have gathered...with quick silver and roasted it out. It is discolored from the fumes of silver...after it has passed through the crucible at the mint it will be bright & solid...we have opened a shop and are getting quite a run in business, buggies, signs, decorating, & kalsomining...</i>". With original transmittal envelope and much more interesting content. Minor soiling, else very good.<b>$200-400</b>
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