The Wildest Land

Assistant Chief Goode of the United States geological snrvey, who visited Oregon last sunimer, says that thewildest región of the cutiré United Statos is au area of 1,000 square miles lying in the mountains between Rosebnrg and Coquille in Douglas and Coos counties. Ho describes tas a ïuysteriousundiacovered couutry, in which roams nndistnrbed wild game, and whoso brooke and rivera uve fl3H d v.'ith wild fowl. It is uearly all cc.-cred with a dense growth of piue, fir, hemlook and other trees. Many of the trees are of euormous bízo and stand so closcly tl;at it is diffieult i'ur men to make their v.ay be; them. Wherethe trees aro not so tbick the heavy grerwthof bnshes of varipns kinds takss thcir place. It is a coniitry tbat is filled with al! kiricis of wild gamo, íncluding, as reported to hini, tik, different kinds oí be;ir, monntain lions, deer and other animáis, includiug lynx and other3. Theru aro alsotho varied kind.sof fowl. The streams all have au abaüdanco of tront and other kinda of fisli. Ho penetrated into the wilds a dozen miles nud saw things tfaat filled hini with wonde; at the vastuess of tho forest, raid that any one shonld attompt to livo in it. -