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<DIV><FONT size=2>Heather, neither the Oregon Trail or the Applegate Trail came
anywhere close to Diamond Lake. The closest route emigrants used, and very few
of them, was over the Willamette Pass. There were folk who came up the
North Umpqua in the 1860s trying to see if they could get a wagon road up the
river to the California Trail that is now Highway 97...but to no avail.
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<DIV><FONT size=2> Any blazes in that area that were not on an
old abandoned trail, were probably from a way trail which only sported
blazes. My father was the district guard of the North Umpqua Ranger
District in the 1930s and built the USFS warehouse in the 1950s, so I am fairly
familiar with USFS practice at about the same time those blazes would have been
created. Bob Casebeer</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B>-----Original Message-----</B><BR><B>From:
</B>Heather and Pat <<A
href="mailto:shade@nu-world.com">shade@nu-world.com</A>><BR><B>To: </B><A
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>
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href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>><BR><B>Date:
</B>Saturday, May 29, 2004 7:29 AM<BR><B>Subject: </B>[or-roots] Oregon Trail,
or not...<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2>Hello,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2>I've been lurking, but
enjoy everyone genealogy tales.. You learn a lot about the state history by
listening... Anyway since we're mentioning the trail and ruts, (by the way I
liked that picture from Baker City... Great learning center there...) I am
reminded when I was working on the Diamond Lake Ranger District (it's near
Crater lake) of working on a thinning project and finding trail blazes.
Our anthropologist said she would look into what they may have been but I
never heard if they were from the Oregon Trail or something different.
(To reassure everyone those trees were not taken and were protected with a
buffer zone...)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2> If anyone knows
the area, HWY 138 east runs through that area, do you know if that was a
younger trail then the rush of the 1830 and 40s or about that time
frame? I lived up there for 22 years and I don't ever remember hearing
about that sort of stuff.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2>Heather </FONT></DIV>
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