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5-19-2021
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Notes

Alva Day traveled all around Central Oregon in his job with Pacific Power. This view labeled “30mile Creek” is dated January 1928. Thirtymile Creek is south of Condon in Gilliam County. It looks like the field is full of very woolly sheep. I’ll bet the spot hasn’t changed much.

[Ed. note: Added a modern view, as requested]

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  1. L.E.

    19th May 2021 @ 07:29 AM

    When I was a kid, we spent a week at the ranch which was later owned by the Rajneesh. There weren’t many trees in the area. The owner, whose family had originally homesteaded the ranch said the lumber for the house had been brought in by wagon from The Dalles.
    I wonder where the lumber for these buildings came from?

  2. Leti

    19th May 2021 @ 08:29 AM

    I keep hoping you might have a photo and a story about Charlott.

  3. OrMtnMaid

    19th May 2021 @ 08:36 AM

    You are in my neighbor today. Highway 19 between Condon and Fossil goes right over this view to the left. Here is a link for current view. Arthur maybe you can embed it for others. https://earth.google.com/web/@45.16509745,-120.20930059,616.42034912a,0d,60y,95.5331h,81.4227t,-0.0342r/data=IhoKFmpteF9aX2FMWWVoa3lpdnJyakRUd2cQAg?utm_source=earth7&utm_campaign=vine&hl=en

    Those are sheep. My family had property down the creek and as kids we would come up the stream(Thirty Mile Creek, left) and I would meet a friend that would come down stream (right) at this farm. Those were the good days of kids at large and parents were concerned because every adult was your parent and you respected them as such.

  4. ArthurB

    19th May 2021 @ 09:55 AM

    I'm working on it, Leti. We've made a request to her family.

  5. L.E.

    19th May 2021 @ 10:08 AM

    Nothing like firsthand information OrMtnMaid. Thanks.
    Being from the west side, staying in the John Day country was my first experience of waking up in the morning smelling Juniper and hearing quail. Something you would have grown up with.

  6. ArthurB

    19th May 2021 @ 01:01 PM

    Thanks, OrMtnMaid. I added the modern view. Looks like at least one of these buildings survives.

  7. nels

    19th May 2021 @ 05:12 PM

    Which of the lumps are bushes vs. sheep?

  8. Stever

    19th May 2021 @ 06:38 PM

    That’s a whale of a rock face …. still in place today .. so it seems.
    I spy the early period power line perhaps …
    Me with my am cup of jo already miss Charlotte’s deep contribution each morn oftentimes at 7:01 am …way before the rest of us !

  9. ArthurB

    19th May 2021 @ 06:49 PM

    nels, all the bumps on the low flat land are sheep. I suspect they have eaten everything else.

  10. nels

    19th May 2021 @ 09:29 PM

    Thanks Arthur. Poor sheep. Not much to eat in all that snow.

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