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Ghost Towns of the Pend Oreille

Local Scouts attain Eagle Status

Stop & Rest at Kalispel Interpretive Center

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Index: Start your engines: ATV riders hit the road Page 4

Abandoned towns: From Ione to Laclede Page 6

Take a break: Kalispels build rest stop

Earning their Eagle: Local Boy Scouts attain highest rank Page 15

Equine pastime: Pattern racers offer good family fun Page 20

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Editor’s Note: Spring is here … we hope. With warmer weather we turn our attention outside and take a tour of abandoned towns along the Pend Oreille River. A good idea for a day trip for the history lover, several “ghost towns” of the Pend Oreille dot the landscape from Laclede to Ione.

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And while you’re on that day trip, you can stop by the Kalispel Kafé, the Kalispel Tribe’s rest stop on Highway 20 that features a café with homemade treats, interpretive signs and a little history on the tribe.

Another chance to enjoy the outdoors as the weather warms up, is on the back of an ATV. Roads are opening up, but there’s been some rule changes, so read up before you head out.

The North Idaho Pattern Racers are holding several events in coming months.

This is a good chance to spend some family time watching some good competition, or hop on your own horse and participate yourself.

Thanks to four Scouts who earned their Eagle, some areas of Pend Oreille County have been spruced up. The Scouts focused on beautification projects to help earn the highest honor in the Scouting community.

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Helmets, lights, mirrors and a horn are required under the Washington state law for riders on ATVs. A vehicle inspection will allow owners to ride on county roads with a speed under 35 mph and on roads over 35 mph if connecting to another ATV trail or road in the county. The Selkirk Trailblazers stop and gear up before attacking a mudhole in north Pend Oreille County.

ATV riders start their engines

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BY DESIREÉ HOOD

he outdoor all-terrain vehicle (ATV) riders are gearing up for the upcoming season, getting new

plates and inspections to comply with the current state and county laws.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill that opened up county roads in the state with a speed limit of 35 mph or less to ATV travel July 3, 2013. Pend Oreille County Commissioners followed passage of the bill with an ordinance for the county July 22, 2013, allowing ATVs on all county roads with speed limits 35 and under, as well as speeds more than 35 mph when using them to connect from one ATV road or trail to another. This could open all county roads to ATV traffic, if negotiations continue and the Forest Service opens its roads to ATV riders.

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Part of the new law states that ATVs must be inspected before a permit for on-road use can be issued.

There has always been an $18 off-road registration fee and that will continue. However, a $12 on-road registration fee is being added. Identification tags, similar to license plates, are also required for a $2 charge and must be replaced every seven years. The new metal tags will be available in May 2014. A temporary tag will be issued for those licensing before May, but that is a paper tag that must be waterproofed before going on the vehicle.

Pend Oreille County Auditor Marianne Nichols said two people have been through the licensing process. She said it is a long process and can cause confusion.

“It’s so new for the DOL and our office, we are still unclear on a few things as we go through,” Nichols said. She said they have not received the metal tags but they can issue a temporary tag for interested riders.

North Pend Oreille mechanic shop Snyder Ridge Tire and Lube in Ione has been approved to offer inspections, co-owner Frank Loster said. A few people have inquired about the inspections, but no one has done one at their

shop.

Loster said the items they look for during the inspections are turn signals, brakes, a horn and mirrors. Other items may also be needed depending on the vehicle type.

“It has to have all the on-road safety equipment just as if it was a car,” Loster said.

Inspections at Snyder Ridge start at $30, but Loster said that is only for the inspection fee. If additional parts are needed to complete the ATV to be on-road safe, additional charges may apply.

Newport residents can bring their vehicle to Panhead Hill Cycle for a $35 inspection. Owner Dave Porter Sr. said additional parts and installation may increase the cost.

“A lot of these guys will buy a kit and install it,” Porter said. Porter said he has done three inspections on ATVs, one last fall and two this spring so far.

The new state law has also increased the age requirement from 13 to 16 years of age. This is because ATVs CONTINUED ON PAGE 22

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The Selkirk Trailblazers stop to enjoy the view of the Pend Oreille River from their spot on top of the Selkirk mountain range. The group rides different models of ATVs, but they all are under the same on-road safety restrictions under the new state law.

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Ghost towns spot the landscape along the scenic river

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BY DESIREÉ HOOD

end Oreille and West Bonner counties are rich in history and had many small towns that dotted the horizon, full of dreams of timber, cement, the railroad and shipping

in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Some of those small towns don’t exist anymore, save for a few remnants and mentions in history books.

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The train wreck of 1906 was a huge tragedy for the area, killing 12 people and injuring more when it jumped the tracks and crashed down an embankment into Chain Lake. This view of the train wreck shows three cars along the shoreline with the mainline repaired. The car in the lake appears to be the mail car.

The ghost towns chosen for this story may have recognizable names and some people still call them home.

Of the many towns that qualified for the story, these had a rich past filled with success, tragedy, innovation and a unique history as part of Pend Oreille and West Bonner County history.

This information was compiled with the help of the Pend Oreille Historical Society and Museum and from the books, “History of Pend Oreille County” by Tony Bamonte and Suzanne Schaeffer Bamonte and “The History of Bonner County, Idaho” by Marylyn Cork and the Bonner County History Book Committee.

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Camden, Wash.

amden began in the late 1880s on the first old wagon road between

Newport and Spokane. The Little Spokane River is located just northeast of Camden.

It started thriving when John Hoisington chose a 160-acre homestead and the Lyon brothers built and operated a water-powered sawmill a half-mile below Camden in the 1890s using the Little Spokane River for power.

Judge Alex Owen opened the first store in Camden in 1901. In addition, the small town had a Grange, blacksmith shop, post office, train depot and several saloons. The Owen family eventually moved the business to Newport and it still strives today.

On Monday, July 23, 1906, tragedy

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struck the small sawmill community. The westbound Great Northern train No. 3 jumped the track about two miles east of Camden. When the train appeared from a tunnel and attempted a sharp curve, it jumped the track and went down a 40foot embankment into Chain Lake. The engine, coal car, mail car and baggage car were completely submerged and it partially submerged the smoker and day coach.

“There was a lot of controversy if all parts of the train were pulled out or not,” local historian Faith McClenny said. “We still get people asking about that. It’s still in people’s minds.”

McClenny said the controversy is over the locomotive or coal car not being recovered after the accident.

Reportedly, 11 people died in the accident, the conductor’s body being found later to make it 12. Several passengers were seriously hurt. Today, all that remains of the small community is the Grange hall and a few residences.

Below: The town of Camden used to boast a Grange, blacksmith shop, post office, train depot and several saloons. Today, this Grange still stands showing signs of the once thriving town.

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he Scotia Valley lies along a natural route toward Spokane, below

Albeni Falls Dam at the northern entry of Spokane County.

In the early 1890s, Scotia became part of a route for one of the first transcontinental railroads in the U.S. The area was rich in timber and when the railroad was being constructed through the area, sawmills popped up as well.

Emmanuel Graham and his four sons established the sawmill industry in Scotia. The Graham family had helped furnish the timber for the original Monroe Street Bridge in Spokane, which was made entirely of wood at the time. They heard of the railroad moving into the Scotia Valley and made plans to move.

Emmanuel died of pneumonia before making the trip so the sons carried out Horizon photo|Desireé Hood their father’s dream and moved to the The only pieces of Scotia that remain after the town faded in the 1930s is several homes, small old buildings, as seen above, and a few original area opening sawmills. building foundations.

Scotia had a store, post office, school, two saloons, a hotel, boarding house, train depot her his body was buried near Scotia and the pair 60 cords of firewood that had been set on fire durand several homesteads during the peak years. went looking but found nothing. A week later, the ing the hottest part of the summer. McNutt’s two Three murders happened in Scotia during those sheriff received a call from an anonymous caller out sisters and their two brothers were arrested for the years, one of the cases has never been solved. of Los Angeles about where the body was located. crime, robbery the apparent motive. The sisters had William McNutt, a Spokane businessman, was McNutt was found on the property of John been leasing the McNutt Hotel. killed on his way to Spokane. His wife reportedly Wright, under Another tragedy, still unsolved told the sheriff that a psychic told today, happened in Scotia in October 1968. Joe and Marjorie Shaner owned the home of the old store, the Wigle house, and were found dead in their home following a fire.

It was later found by x-ray that Joe had been shot twice in the head.

Marjorie’s body was too badly burned to identify the cause of death. Robbery was the apparent motive at the time, however, no arrests were ever made. It goes down in Pend Oreille County history as one of the few unsolved crimes.

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The location known as Scotia, Wash., north of Diamond Lake, now consists of a county road intersection but this circa 1910 winter scene shows it had several store fronts and a railroad depot. Note the depot outhouse. There also was the Charlie Graham sawmill, which burned in 1917, and the Scotia School. Shown are Stangland Barbershop, left, Wigle Store, Pulford Hotel and the Great Northern Railway station.

Seneacquoteen, Idaho The town of Seneacquoteen was once one of the best known locations in Idaho. The name means “crossing of the river,” a fitting title because of the ferry that operOne man’s dream ated there for almost a century. The ferry was of cement the first one in operation in Bonner County. production started Cement The lush meadows at the mouth of Hoodoo Ione I a small town Creek were a welcoming sight for the Native Americans who began to establish the region in 1810. The ferry service began in 1860 and the Mary Moody steamboat was built on the downstream side of Hoodoo Creek for the Oregon The town Steam Navigation Company in 1865. The ferry stopped survived only service in 1957.

The Seneacquoteen school was one of the first eight short schools in Kootenai County. It was school district 3, years however, speculation around whether this was the Diamond City D y first school is still occurring.

During the peak years, the town had two trading posts, two saloons, a school, a hotel and a post office.

The former Washington Governor Miles Moore operated one of the trading posts in Seneacquoteen before Blueslide Bl B lue Resort t becoming governor.

The tunnel Located near current day Leclede, the town was had murder named the Kootenai County seat by Idaho’s and lives lost Second Territorial Legislature, however, The first school the designation failed because 50 qualified while building teacher in the electors could not be found to certify the county hailed spot.

L Locke from Locke Seneacquoteen was the stopping point on the Wild Horse Trail, which was used to carry supplies to the mines in British Columbia and Montana. The area saw many campers, the common lifestyle of the Native Americans who lived in the town.

Cusick The Northern Pacific Railway used Seneacquoteen for camping while laying the line in 1881. The railroad put down the tracks one valley to the east, however, which eventually led to the demise of the small town.

During the early 1880s, Francis and Elmina Markham moved to the area from Astoria, Ore., with their seven children, Elmina being the first white woman in the area. She held that title for several years and their son was the first white baby born to the town. The family soon learned to “talk Indian” and befriended the Native Americans. However, in the One of Pend Oreille Newport spring of 1889, the family had a dispute with the County’s unsolved Indians from the Metaline area. They had used the murders happened family’s meadow for their horses but Francis had bought 10 cows a few years before and was using in Scotia Scotia the meadow for hay. He asked them to move the horses and when they wouldn’t, he grabbed the horses’ tethers and started them across the creek.

The Native Americans were not pleased and as Francis was halfway across the creek, an Indian man pointed a gun and said to leave the horses alone. Since Camd Camden den n Francis was unarmed at the time, he began yelling for his family. One of the sons, Captain M.C. Markham, A train wreck came out and pointed a gun at the Native American, leaves the town which eventually ended the fight without anyone bedevastated ing shot.

With the railroad a valley away, the town eventually faded into the meadows that highlight the landscape.

All that is left of Seneacquoteen is a cemetery filled with headstones and the memories of a town that once existed.

Valencia, Idaho The town of Valencia, Idaho, grew on the west end of Keyser’s Slough, about a mile east of present day Priest River. According to the July 1982 edition of the Pend Oreille Review, the name originally may have been Priest River until the Great Northern Railroad changed it to Valencia in 1892, later changing it back to Priest River.

McClenny said the original post office was built in 1891 by James Judge and carried the name Valencia. Judge may have also been operating a store in the town.

In 1894, a flood of the Pend Oreille River drowned the town. It was not rebuilt in the same location, but on higher ground to the west, where Priest River stands today.

“That was probably one of the worst floods in the area,” McClenny said.

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The Kalispel Rest Area is located on Highway 20, just south of the fairgrounds. The bathrooms are open 24 hours a day.

Kalispel Rest Area open for business Coffee shop, interpretive area welcome addition to mid county

BY DON GRONNING

This summer thousands of cars traveling Highway 20 will pass by the Kalispel rest area, located just south of the Pend Oreille County Fairgrounds, about 18 miles north of Newport.

The rest area provides a welcome break for people traveling through. Sonya Scauflaire and her mother, Ursula Petzing, travel from Metaline to Spokane regularly for medical appointments. They were enroute to Spokane when they took their usual break at the rest stop on a recent Friday.

“Mom has to get out to stretch her legs,” Scauflaire said.

The rest stop is at a good location for the drive. Scauflaire said she really likes it.

“It’s wonderful,” she said. “I really like the displays.”

The rest area opened last July. In November, the Kalispel Kafé opened for business, offering breakfast, lunch, coffee and various goodies.

It’s operated by Shantel Reavis. The cafe is open 6:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Friday.

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Reavis said the cafe has been popular. college, but the tribe sent her to the Western Culinary “A lot of Canadians stop,” she said.

Institute, a premier cooking school “There’s really nothing between Nelson in Portland.

B.C. and here.”

“School was an amazing experiThe cafe also attracts school, county ence,” she said. When she finished and tribal workers, which fits into the school, she went to work at the tribe’s and Reavis’ plans.

Northern Quest Casino, working in “We want it to be a daily habit instead the various restaurants and buffets. of a weekly treat,” she said.

She then went to work at the deli Reavis is a tribal member. She is also at the Camas Center for Commuan accomplished cook, with her own nity Wellness, where she taught a business, Rose LaRose catering. culinary class, as well as prepared “Cooking has been my whole life, food. since I was 3,” she said. “My grandpa She worked there for four and a used to tell about pushing a chair up to half years before being called back the stove so I could cook him an egg.” to work at the casino.

Reavis grew up in Spokane. Although Now she’s running the Kalispel she is Native American, she didn’t enroll Kafé. Reavis is grateful for the in the tribe until she was 16. She wanted Horizon photo|Don Gronning tribe’s help with schooling and is to go to cooking school and thought she The Kalispel Kafé features coffee proud to be a Kalispel. She works on could apply for more scholarships as a from Guatemala that is certified the Powwow committee and says tribal member. organic and fair trade coffee.

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running the coffee shop gives her an opportunity to tell people about the tribe.

“As a tribal member, it’s nice to give people information about the tribe,” she said. She also enjoys hearing from other Kalispel tribal members about what they like at the cafe.

“Everything’s a favorite,” she laughs.

Stew and fry bread are popular, but so is chili and corn bread. In the morning visitors can have a hot breakfast sandwich, burritos or an omelet, as well as cinnamon rolls.

“I make it all in house, from scratch,” she said. People can and do pick up take out orders.

The coffee shop offers certified organic, fair trade coffee. The coffee comes from Mayan farmers in Guatemala.

“It’s indigenous to indigenous,” Reavis says. The coffee is imported from Central America and roasted in Spokane.

In the cafe, a Powwow video shot by David Bluff plays. The hall has a stream with salmon drawn on the floor, with windowed displays lining the walls.

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Shantel Reavis runs the Kalispel Kafe at the rest stop. The cafe is open at 6:30 a.m., so she gets a fair amount of breakfast orders.

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The displays include pictures and items from the Kalispel Tribe. They were curated by Francis Cullooyah, cultural director for the tribe.

They include old photos and various items, both from modern Kalispel life, as well as from traditional life. Stick game bones, baskets, a cougar hide and native plants are among the items displayed, along with displays highlighting Kalispel leaders.

According to the displays, Chief Massaslaw was key in helping the tribe preserve some of their land at a time when the Kalispels were few in number and pressures to take their land great. He is considered a major reason the reservation was established in 1914.

Chief John Bigsmoke served 15 years following Chief Massaslaw. He successfully resisted an attempt by timber companies to log tribal land. His son, Chief Baptiste Bigsmoke, was the last of the Kalispel hereditary chiefs. He died in 1955. He guided the tribe through incorporation under the Indian Reorganization Act, resulting in a newly elected and governing tribal council.

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Old time pictures like these adorn the walls of the rest stop. This is a 1920s era picture showing the Kalispel baseball team. Players identified include Willie Tom, Mose Nick, Willie Sam, Alec Revais, Alec Manwolf and Joe Blackbear.

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This gives a brief history of the Kalispel Tribe. Before European contact the Kalispel people lived a subsistence life, based on hunting, fishing and gathering. European contact changed their lives dramatically and by 1920, the Kalispels in the Usk area numbered 150 people living in family groups.

Another display honors democratically elected leaders, including the late Raymond Pierre, Alice Ignace and Louis Andrews.

“We honor the former, late Tribal Council Chairs because they led the Kalispel Tribe through the federal policy quagmire of Indian Reorganization, Termination, Relocation and the Indian Claims Commission hearings, ” the text on the display reads. “They led with their hearts. The asked for direction and listened.”

As a result, the Kalispel people engaged with their leaders in the process of government. “These leaders fearlessly navigated two decades of political change – the early 1950s to 1970s – while keeping the (Kalispel) language and culture alive.”

The rest area building was built using a $714,000 Federal Highways grant, said tribal planning director Sev Jones.

He said it was a competitive grant that was received partially because the location is on the International Selkirk Loop.

The tribe donated the land and provided the infrastructure for utilities.

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The building is modeled after a tule building, a traditional housing structure.

Interpretive trails are planned to go in behind the building this summer.

The original plan is to feature the four seasons and what the Kalispel people traditionally did during each of the seasons.

Also this summer, the tribe will discuss what else they might want to have outside. A farmers market and arts and crafts sales are being contemplated, Jones said.

There are six picnic tables outside, with poles that will hold a cover for shade. The cafe features a roll up door, so people will be able to have an outdoor cafe experience.

For Reavis, working in the cafe is rewarding.

“I love to cook,” she says. “It’s what makes me happy, so I like that people come and ask for items.”

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Right: The main display inside the rest area features a variety of items, including baskets, a cougar hide and other things that figure in the life of Kalispel people.

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Tucker Stott, left, Kai Thomas, Allen Walden and Isaiah Campbell received their Eagle Scout during a Court of Honor Saturday, March 1. Each of the boys completed a community project, as well as earned tens of merit badges.

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nly 5 percent of all Boy Scouts reach the rank of Eagle. That’s about 2 million since the Boy

Scouts began in 1912. Four Pend Oreille County boys did just that at their Eagle Scout Court of Honor March 1.

Isaiah Campbell, Tucker Stott, Kai Thomas and Allen Walden achieved the award, a performancebased achievement whose standards have been well-maintained over the years, according to the

National Eagle Scout Association. nized the painting of the Usk Community Center.

The boys hale from Troop No. 630, afThomas renovated and moved filiated with the the front signage at the Pend Church of Jesus Oreille County Fairgrounds.

Christ of LatterAnd Walden painted the rodeo day Saints. bleachers at the fairgrounds.

The boys each completed an Merit Badges Eagle Scout projIn addition to completing ect, sprucing up their projects, the boys needed areas around Pend to earn at least 21 merit Oreille County. badges, which show mastery Campbell planned of certain outdoor skills. The and help impletime it takes to earn a badge ment the construcvaries, from a few hours to tion of the Fred several months.

Courtesy photo|Sarah Thomas CONTINUED ON PAGE 18 Anderson Memorial Kai Thomas renovated and moved the sign at the Pend Park behind Newport Oreille County Fairgrounds in Cusick.

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The number of badges each boy has varies. Thomas has 49, the most of any current member of Troop 630.

“I wanted to get 50,” he said. The Boy Scout sash holds 54 badges.

Walden has 32, Campbell said he has between 30 and 35 and Stott has 25.

Stott said the most difficult for him were the three Citizenship badges: one for community, one for nation and one for world.

It took him six months to attain all three.

“They work together,” he said, meaning completion of one is the groundwork for the next.

Thomas’ favorite badge was Archery.

“It’s really difficult to shoot a bow and arrow,” he said. Thomas got the badge at the age of 13, just before

the Scouts changed the rules and required a minimum age of 16 for the Archery badge.

It took him a week to complete.

He spent four months completing his Personal Management badge, which requires three months of financial planning.

“I didn’t want to manage my money,” he said.

Walden said his most difficult badge was Environmental Science, which took a week to complete.

“It’s all paperwork and very boring,” he said.

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“That one was very fun,” Campbell said.

Projects

The crowning accomplishment of an Eagle Scout is their project. All four boys chose beautification projects that improved areas of Pend Oreille County.

Walden, who is 16, chose to paint the rodeo bleachers at the Pend Oreille County Fairgrounds at Cusick. He asked around the community for ideas and a member of his church suggested the bleachers. They then approached the fair board.

“They told me it hadn’t been done in 20 years,” he said.

It took about a month to plan, gather paperwork, talk with the fair board and raise funding for the project. It then took about three or four days to paint the bleachers, which are now gray, with blue handicapped areas and yellow senior citizens areas.

The feedback was positive. “(They) told me it was holding up really well and we did a great job,” Walden said.

Stott, 17, completed the repainting of the Usk Community Center when he was 14. He was told about the project by Kay Driver, who approached Stott’s scoutmaster with the idea.

It took about a month and a half to plan and gather donations from local hardware stores, and about 20 hours to actually paint. He worked with Barb and Larry McGill of the community center.

The project correlated with Stott’s church’s 9/11 service project, so he got a lot of help from volunteers.

“If I didn’t get as much help it would have taken another day,” he said.

The building hadn’t been painted in more than seven years.

“It definitely needed it. It was pretty rough,” he said.

He got a lot of positive feedback from the community.

“Boys Scouts is definitely a good thing,” he said.

Thomas, 14, the youngest of the four Eagle Scouts, moved and landscaped the county fairgrounds sign, completed last summer. This project was

also suggested by Driver, a member of the fair board.

A tree was encroaching on the sign, so it had been moved about 10 feet and the tree was trimmed back. The wood poles were rotting, so Thomas replaced them with 4-inch metal poles, paid for with donations.

“They were heavy to put up, though.

A tractor could hardly do it,” he said.

The sign itself was still in good shape, so it was spared. Thomas planted flowers, cleared off the old cinder blocks, trimmed shrubbery and beautified the area.

He found an old glass Pepsi bottle he wanted to save, but the tractor broke it.

Campbell’s project was the design of the Fred Anderson Memorial Park, located behind Newport City Hall on Union Avenue. The park was designed to surround the cell phone tower installed a few years ago and to beautiful an empty lot in town.

The park is in memory of veterans, namely Anderson, the former mayor of Newport who passed away a few years ago and served in the Vietnam War. Campbell, 16, said the project took just about an entire summer. It included bathrooms, flagpoles, and tumble-stone monuments and benches. The city of Newport applied for and received grant funding for the park.

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The Eagle Scout Court of Honor was held Saturday, March 1 at the LDS Church on Highway 2 between Newport and Priest River. The boys received letters of congratulations from various leaders, including President Obama, President George W. Bush and George and Barbara Bush, and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers. SFC Nicholas Cochrane of the U.S. Army was at the ceremony.

One of Campbell’s favorite letters came from television personality Mike Rowe. Rowe is an Eagle Scout himself.

He wrote in his letter that when he became an Eagle Scout and received form letters from leaders, he vowed to make his more personal if he ever was in a position to write letters to Eagle Scouts. Campbell’s letter had his first name hand written by Rowe throughout the letter.

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Competition day at the North Idaho Patter Racers events attract riders from Newport, Oldtown, Coeur d’Alene and sometimes Spokane to this arena, located at 32 Taynea Lane, near Scotia Road, about seven miles south of Newport.

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ago and competed at the Newport Rodeo arena that first year.

They’ve since moved to an arena at 32 Taynea Lane, just off Scotia Road, about seven mile south of Newport. The arena is located at Dawn and Cecil Pumnea’s place.

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The competition takes the form of races. Men, women and youngsters ride horses, mules or ponies in a variety of races, where contestants compete to see who can run the various patterns the fastest. The winners get nice prizes, but winning prizes isn’t what it really is about.

“It’s a place where everybody can go have a fun day and BS with their friends,” says Ben Dahlstrom of Oldtown. He and his wife, Kelly Jo, and their children, Hunter, 6, and Taylor, 5, all compete in the events.

“The kids have a ball,” he said.

“My nieces ride, too,” says Kelly Jo. “It’s just a fun family show.”

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volunteer labor and donated materials, says Cody Francis, who serves as announcer. She’s a long time rider who used to run an arena at Coyote Trail.

“We plan to do this for years,” says Francis. Three generations of her family participate in the North Idaho Pattern Racers. Along with herself, her daughter, Jamie Bradley and her granddaughter, Lexi Nelson, compete.

Francis says being around livestock is good for kids.

Caring for animals teaches responsibility, she says.

“It teaches responsibility and compassion for other living beings.” For little kids, being around big horses also does more.

“It builds confidence,” she says.

North Idaho Pattern Racer events There will be five NIPR competitive events held at the Scotia arena this season, as well as a two day gaming clinic taught by Lori Riley May 24-25.

One day of the clinic will be for adults and one for youngsters. The class is limited to 10 people each day and there is a $75 charge.

Competitive events will take place June 7 and 21, July 12 and 26 and the final event will be held Aug. 9.

There is a $25 daily entry fee to participate in as many events as you want. For novices, the charge is $15.

There is no charge for spectators.

Contact Meranda Ackley at 208-448-0716 for more information.

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Pend Oreille County Commissioner Mike Manus has been an advocate for opening county and Forest Service roads to ATV travel. He has been working with the Forest Service in recent months to implement the South End ATV project, which would open about 170 miles of Forest Service roads to ATV travel.

The Forest Service has more than 4,300 miles of roads and about 650 of those are open to all vehicles to travel on, including ATVs. About 160 miles of trails are also on Forest Service land and are currently open to ATV travel.

Two objections were filed in early March on the South End plan, delaying the process even longer.

“They decided they needed to go through with the objection for legal purposes,” Manus said in early March. “I am hoping we can work through this.”

The Kettle Range Conservation Group involves the organizations Lands Council and Conservation Northwest. The three organizations meet and discuss the proposals that may affect the environment.

One of the three filed the objections.

The main issue involves money, said David Heflick, a representative of the Kettle Range Conservation Group. The Forest Service did not put into the proposal funding for mitigation work. Heflick said it cost more than $700,000 to do mitigation work for damage already done on the Colville National Forest. There are also no funds for signage, educational programs, enforcement policies and for other miscellaneous charges.

“There is zero indication of where that money will come from,” Heflick said.

Manus said the Forest Service has been

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‘I feel good about the project moving forward.’

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The plan states that educational programs and classes would be implemented, however, Heflick said they would like the educational opportunities to be spelled out in detail.

Another part of the group’s issue is with the timeframe the Forest Service has put on implementation. Manus said the current plan is over a 15-year window, however, Heflick said no time period is specified in the plan.

The Forest Service could implement all of the roads or just a portion of the roads at one time, Heflick said. He said they would like to see the project laid out before implementation.

Manus said the project will be phased in and each section will come up at different times throughout the timeline.

“But it is not spelled out which roads will open when,” Manus said.

Heflick said they are open to working with the involved parties for a solution. He said if the Forest Service agrees to work on the three main areas of concern, then the Range would support the project.

Manus said the county commissioners are working hard to move this project forward.

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“The little kids look like bobble heads,” she laughs. “You see these tiny little kids on big horses trotting down the arena, their heads bobbing because of the helmets.”

Mark Earls and his wife, Chelsea and daughter, Olivia, can be found at the pattern racing events. They make the trip over from the Edgemere area, near Vay. Mark got involved in the horse world when he married Chelsea, whose family has had a horse ranch. He participates aboard the back of a horse from time to time but what he really likes is photography. He took all the photos shown here.

Horsemanship isn’t as easy for people who didn’t grow up around horses.

“Especially if they are riding horses that aren’t husband proof,” he jokes. He was on such a mount when it reared up and fell over backwards, landing on his leg. He got out of it with bruises.

He candidly admits that shook his confidence, but he ended up getting back on and competing.

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While the NIPR has been fortunate in that there have been no serious injuries at the events, there are a number of medical professionals who participate.

Earls is an EMT and Kelly Dahlstrom works as a triage nurse at the Newport Hospital.

Like most of the participants at NIPR events, the Earls make it a family day.

“We have a ball,” he said.

Olivia, 8, competes in events aboard Cheyenne, a 22-year-old dappled mustang cross. Cheyenne is a well broke horse that used to pull a cart.

Older animals make good mounts for youngsters. Hunter Dahlstrom, 8, rides a 31-year-old mule named Liza Jayne in the lead line class.

Mules are a big part of the NIPR. “I love watching the mule class,” says Kelly Jo Dahlstrom. She has four mules and a horse.

Mules are a hybrid, a cross between a horse and a donkey. They have a little different disposition than horses, she says.

“They’re extremely intelligent,” she says. They get a lot of self-preservation and caution from their donkey side, so they’re not keen to rush into things

they don’t know about. “They’re not as submissive as horses,” she says.

Meranda Ackley has been involved with NIPR since the start. An experienced horse trainer, she started training a mule last year. “They take a little more patience,” she said.

Horses have a tendency to get excited from all the running involved in the pattern racing events, so it is important that they get out of the arena, Ackley says.

She does a variety of things outside the arena with her horses, including trail riding and elk hunting.

“It’s good for their minds,” she said.

The NIPR has changed a little from its first year, when the events took place at the Newport Rodeo arena.

It moved to the Scotia arena, which required a conditional use permit from the county to hold the events there. The first year of the NIPR, year-end awards, including saddles, were given to the riders who did the best at the shows.

But the group changed to awarding prizes at each event, instead of yearend awards. Useful things like breast collars, spur straps and folding chairs were given, along with ribbons for each class.

The group doesn’t have much of a

hierarchy.

“We don’t really have anyone who is in charge,” Ackley says. People just step

‘I love watching the mule class.’

Kelly Jo Dahltrom up and do what needs to be done.

Owning horses costs some money.

“Saddles and trailers aren’t cheap,” Francis said.

But competing in NIPR events is affordable. The daily entry fee is $25, with a $15 fee for novices. If you want to work on training a young animal, you can participate for free, although you won’t be eligible for any awards.

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says Francis.

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Francis says the NIPR handles parking for the North Idaho Draft Horse And Mule Show in Sandpoint each year. They also wash trucks for the PUD to earn some money.

The NIPR events usually attract 3040 riders who compete in leadline and buckaroo classes for those 8 and under, junior classes for rides 7-12 years old, an intermediate class for people 13-18, a senior class for those 18-35 and a super senior class for people 36 and older.

“I think our biggest event had about 65 riders,” Ackley said.

Most participants are female.

“It’s a good place for a single guy,” jokes Ben Dahlstrom.

Dahlstrom said the real attraction, though, is the family nature of the events. There is no alcohol and everyone works to see that it is safe.

“The kids have a ball,” he says. “It’s really set up for them.”

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Blueslide, Wash.

lueslide settled in the early 1900s about 13 miles

south of Ione. Timber was the main reason for settling of Blueslide, named for the 150foot blue-clay embankment just north of the Blueslide flat.

The Hollister sawmill started in the early 1900s, cutting match plank for Diamond Match plants in California.

The White Pine Cedar Company built a mill in 1907 near the town where rough lumber was sent by Courtesy photo|Pend Oreille County flume on Ruby Historical Museum Creek to the Right: This is a “bird’sEdwards and eye view” of the town of Brothers Planer Blueslide when its biggest Mill. A shingle industry was Leach White mill, a pole Pine Lumber Co. The company and company had a logging another large railroad and sawmill up sawmill also had the hill on Ruby Creek. operations near The rough cut lumber was Blueslide. sent by flume to Blueslide The 1,100-foot where it was planed, dried the tunnel was Blueslide tunnel and shipped out on the Milwaukee Railroad. This took complete. The shift boss, Eli Anderson, was constructed place in the 1920s. The view is looking north. disappeared following the celebrain 1909, allowing train passage to Ione.

McClenny said the tunnel was carved through the mountain where the name comes from. The tunnel was built manually with men drilling and dynamiting from both sides.

It took six months to complete and a night foreman was killed by a large mass of rock that gave way and fell on him.

Another death was reported during the workers’ celebration when tion and workers speculated he was involved in an altercation at the party, was shot and dumped into 28 Horizon| 2014 Spring

the river. Three months later his body was found floating about a mile and a half downstream. The workers had already dispersed by this time and the death was not investigated. Anderson is buried at Blueslide.

Another tragedy hit the small community when 8,960 acres were burned.

Large amounts of white pine and cedar logs that were cut and ready for transport were also burned. Fortunately, not much standing timber was damaged. About $35,000 was the estimated loss.

Another fire hit the town in 1924, destroying much of the town Horizon photo|Desireé Hood and sawmills.

Left: The 1,100-foot tunnel was Many residents constructed by hand with two moved in the wake crews blasting from each side of of the fire and as the mountain. It took six months the timber began to complete. The railroad tunnel to dwindle, the still sits in the mountain as a population did reminder of the flourish of activity also. the area once saw.

Today, Blueslide is a small recreational community with a small resort. The tunnel still remains and dots the landscape with the memories of a bustling town years ago.

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Cement, Wash.

he town of Cement sits just north of and

part of present day Ione and was founded in 1901

by Frank Jordan when he was on the search for gold in the north end of the county.

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Cement was an early town located just north of what is now the town of Ione. The highway and railroad tracks are about a mile from Ione’s Main Street. Cement, which once had several businesses, appears to be all residential in this picture that dates to the 1920s or 1930s.

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Right: This furnace of a kiln was used for cement production by Frank Jordan and his company in the town of Cement, Wash. It is one of the few remains for the town that was created for the purpose of making cement.

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Jordan did not find gold, but he found limestone and quartzite and quickly had dreams of a cement plant. The towns of Ione and Cement quickly became integral parts of each other.

Jordan filed for a homestead claim on 132 acres just north of present day Ione. The claim included a part of Cement Mountain. Financial troubles hit Jordan and after numerous attempts to get backing from investors, he finally landed a $200,000 deal with a resident of Nelson, B.C. and his cement dreams became a reality.

Jordan’s cement plant, the Pacific Portland Cement Company, began in 1902 with seven employees.

He dammed Cedar Creek for power and by years end, a small amount of cement was being manufactured. McClenny said the cement plant never really made a profit.

By 1906, the community of Cement had a school, post office, store and steamboat landing. The post office was established in William Weltzine’s

store in 1904 and McClenny said it was closed by March 1915.

Longtime area residents Lila and John Middleton said the cement plant bored a small “hole in the wall” in Cement Mountain for the plant. The hole is still carved into the mountain today.

“The kids would go in there and have their lunch,” Lila Middleton said.

Jordan soon became entangled in lawsuits about the claim on Cement Mountain and became suspicious of anyone venturing onto his property. He shot at three men from Spokane who came on his property without permission in 1907. The men were not hurt in the incident.

By 1909, the Pacific Portland Cement Company was sold and plans were made by Jordan and the new investors to employ 300 workers and produce 2,000 barrels of cement, a dream that never happened.

“Because of financial difficulties, it did not get off the ground,” McClenny said.

“They didn’t make anything.”

The Inland Portland Cement Company was in operation in nearby Metaline Falls by this time and they were producing cement cheaper than Jordan could. He lost his financial backing and with that, his cement dreams were gone.

Today, the hole is still in Cement Mountain, and a large furnace for the kiln of the cement plant sits off of Highway 31 just off the railroad tracks. The Middletons said the remains of Jordan’s house are still in the area as well. These are the only remains of Cement, Wash., a town built because of one man’s cement dreams.

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Diamond City, Wash.

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n a period of eight years, Diamond City was settled and thriving as a saw-

mill community and then disappeared completely off the map in the 1920s in Pend Oreille County.

The Diamond Match Company entered the county, quietly buying match block stock from existing mills. The company took advantage of the post-war recession affecting the lumber industry and bought up large stands of timber and distressed sawmills at low prices.

Once they acquired the water rights to LeClerc Creek from the Panhandle Lumber Company through a court case in 1920, the area saw a flourish of activity.

A high volume sawmill was constructed that used power from the newly dammed creek. The mill was capable of producing 50,000 board feet of lumber per eight-hour shift.

The railroad was on the west side of the Pend Oreille River, however, and there was much confusion on how to transport the logs to the far side of the water. In March 1921, a tram was built spanning three and a half miles from the loading dock at the end of the sawmill, crossing the river at the narrowest point in the area and ending at an unloading device next to the railroad on the old Honsinger homestead, about a mile north of Lost Creek. This was the second longest tram in the U.S. at the time, the longest being in California.

Diamond City was placed next to the mill. It was a small community of about 20 homes, a one-room school, a store, a few bunkhouses, a commissary, recreation hall, dining room, kitchen, barn, offices, work shops and horse and feed sheds. Baseball became the favorite pastime and the Diamond City team, complete with uniforms, played opponents from Cusick to Metaline Falls.

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The Diamond Match Co. had a sawmill and company town known as Diamond City east of the Pend Oreille River in the West Branch of LeClerc Creek area from 1920-28. Production from this mill was carried overland and across the river on a large aerial tram that connected with the Milwaukee railroad near Lost Creek. The only remnants today are a few concrete pillars surrounded by natural forested land.

duper” and many good players frequented the area.

“If a man was a good pitcher, he was almost guaranteed a job at Diamond Match,” McClenny said.

The peak years were 1922 through 1925, but then the White Pine timber was slowly being exhausted. In 1927, Diamond Match ceased operations and with it, the town slowly faded.

The mill was moved and the remaining buildings were torn down or burned restoring the site to Mother Nature as required by the Forest Service use permit in 1920.

The area is now covered with national forest and a few cement pillars are the only markings that the town ever existed.

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This photo from the Ralph R. Isaacs album is one of several showing this pipe-smoking dog. We believe this shows Isaacs and his son-in-law on the porch of the Isaacs cabin at Locke.

Locke, Wash.

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he town of Locke, located about 24 miles north of Newport on Highway

20, was settled in the mid-1880s with the dream of farming on the rolling fertile grounds and fresh virgin timber being plucked from the landscape.

The Forest Homestead Act of 1906 was the main reason for the settlement of the Calispell Valley area. The act gave settlers 160 acres within the forests if the land had the potential for agriculture. Settlers could earn a living in timber but still farm their land.

The first post office in Locke, located in settler William Fountain’s living room, saw people come from areas as

far as Lost Creek. The Fountains often brother Robert also served as Stevens county is used to. fed the visitors lunch before they made County Commissioners and William Tragedy struck the small farming the long trek back to their was elected to Pend Oreille County town in June 1930. The L.M. Sibbitts homes. family, which lived The name just north of Locke, Locke came lost three children to a from the first drowning accident at postmaster Cusick Creek. The chilDavid Locke dren, ages 6, 8 and 10, Smith, were wading the creek who later when the youngest fell changed into a deep pool. In an his name to attempt to save him, the David Locke two other children were to differensucked under and also tiate from drowned. the rest of The Newport Miner the world’s reported in July of that Smiths. year that nine lives had “Every been lost to drownings fool in the in the area. country Horizon photo|Desireé Hood Today, driving north was named The remnants of Locke include this sign, placed at the site of the once bustling town. Locke is on Highway 20, one Smith,” about 24 miles north of Newport on Highway 20. of the only indications McClenny the town ever existed is laughs. commissioner in 1913, after it split from a sign that says “Former Site of Locke, Fountain was the first school teacher Stevens. McClenny said the schoolhouse WA.” in the county in 1889. He and his collapsed during a hard winter the Spring 2014 |Horizon 31

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