The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, May 15, 1931 Page: 3 of 8
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Situated in the southeast cor-
ner of the State of Oklahoma
in the counties of Le Fore J
Pushmataha and McCurtain one
may find many of the beauty
spots of the southwest. These
three counties are larger than
some of our states, rough and
rugged, with several tumbling,
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grasped with its hawk-like
beak, and held on while .it was;
lifted above the boat for a pic-
ture, snapped by Karl Kimball. |
Lower right shows a fall on,
Little river, nearly 100 yards j
long, with a mountain in the
background. This fall was pro-
duced, when a lumbering com-
pany built a low-water. rail-
get out the great pine trees.
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of this beautiful stream.
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by The Times editor while on
a fishing trip on Little River,
recently appeared in the maga-
zine section of the Tulsa Daily
World. * The pictures, .which
were taken by him with a small
kodak, present scenes which
will probably be recognized by
some who have fished on Glover
and Little River.
Upper left is a scenb of a
long, deep hole on Little river,
near Cobb Springs, horth )of
Valliant. It was a still morn-
ing, and the mirror-like surface
of the clear water makes it dif-
ficult to determine the top or
bottom of the picture in the
original.
Lower left shows a fall just
above Rainbow hole on Glover,
twenty miles north of - VZrigbt
City, in which water is dashed
to a white foam in the rapid,
so swift that only the sure-
footed fisherman with hobnail-
ed boots can wade it.
Center shows J. M. Grant,
Deport furniture dealer, exhib-
iting a nice string of basis while
standing in water in the river
i knee deep. These were taken
with a fly on Little River, near
the mouth of Caney creek, last
May.
Upper right is a perpendicu-
lar ledge of rock on Little river,
northeast of Antlers, near the
mouth of Caney creek. One
could not touch bottom with a
long fishing |)ole at this spot
in the river, just two feet from
the ledge. A trotline in the
dahoma
Most merchants find that job printing *
work is a wonderful auxilliary to reg-
ular newspaper advertising. The two
go hand in hand. But in any event
the job printing job you have done— *
here is always a quality job.
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game preserve,
great lumber company, excellent cover and vigilance of
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I south, across a range of moun- Broken Bow and DeQueen has' ed season for nine years on
, tains extending from south-j been cutting timber over this'deer and turkey, they are rap-
|west to northeast. Water took area of millions of acres for i idly increasing in numbers, es-
• down this fissure, and there is fifteen years. Much of the pecially in McCurtain county,
. . _„j preserve is located,
to six feet and great cliffs on,while only the timber rights The legislature permitted one
1 on other tracts, open season in 1923, and the
Their old tramways and logging mounted head of a magnificent
roads have marred some of the eleven point buck adorns the
beauty, but these have enabled J writer’s living room, and his
fisherman to get into places on hide was made into a beautiful
the rivers that would otherwise' rug that is more comfortable
have been inaccessable to an to bear feet than the finest wool
automobile. This company’s rug ever woven,
output in normal times is from “
600,000 to 800,000 feet of tim-
[ber every twenty-four hours.
Just recently has the lumber
he must pull his boat, or he [company come to realize the
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1st who is afraid to leave the;
paved highways.
Four mountain streams drain
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tie River, Glover and Mountain
Fork—heading in the moun-
tains east and south of Taihina
and flowing southeast, finally
emptying into Red River. Lit-
tle River is the largest of these
streams and Red River’s larg-
est tributary, its mouth being
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Glover and Mountain country in the southwest, es- rainfall as a pretty woman to A spring whose waters are
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On Little River, a dozen
miles north of Valliant, is lo-
cated Alikchi, seat of the Tribal
government previous to, state-
hood. Here the last execution
took place in 1907, when an
.Indian was tried for murder^
found in the and establishing fire patrols, i convicted and executed by a
Y)ws, or just This is a splendid work, and [firing squad. A. W. Neville,'a
will prevent the land growing news reporter sent there by the
, , up in scrub oak, which makes Paris News to report the event,
give one all he cares to do in it entirely useless for the pro- informed me the executioneers t
the rapids. These boys know duction of pine or good grass drew a picture of a heart on
how to come up and sha^ej,the stockman. Most of the the copper-colored boay with}
in<ra with a chalk, but rot being versed in1
anatomy, placed it over his ]
stomach. Fortunately, poor
marksmanship snuffed out the
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and two feet in diameter. Sev- ‘
eral men have met death in
battles with the officers in
those hills, while others had
held grudges over the disap-
pearance of buried whiskey.
One cattleman whom I kn6w,
but who has passed on, incur-
red the enmity of whiskey
makers, and carried his rifle
with him constantly, even to
the hog pen to care for his ani-
mals.
At Fort Towson, between
Hugo and Valliant, one may see
the remains of art old Federal
fort, open pied by United States
! troops along in the fifties.
.These soldiers built a military
[highway from that point to Ft.
I Scott, Kansas, and portions of
[it may still be seen along
; divide east of Antlers.
I ThF big-saw mills at Wright
[City and Broken BoW are also
interesting places for those
who have never seen *such a
mill. Great band saws and
steam driven carriages handle
giant pine logs, cutting themi
phur is located at Alikchi, and; up with the ease one exercises
at one time it was a great in cutting up a ma.tch with a
health resort for people of [ sharp pocket knife.
-ortheast Texas and southeast; All of which may not lie of
Oklahoma, but the buildings special interest to fisherman,
are falling into decay, scrub hut there may be those who do
oak is taking the land where »°t care to fish, but would like
great pines formerly thrived to see the country and to pitch
and highwavs lead’ in other,their camp along one of these
directions, until it has few vis- streams and listen to the roar
itors now, save from-the fish-iof rapids nearby and the whis-
erman and cattleman. - J tie of the soft, wind thru tall
Illicit whiskey stills have also iP‘nes' ?v tinge of t?e-ir
,,, . ,. , aroma filling the pure mountain
operated >n some sections, along ai,. On(, who is 'a lover of na.
streams where water was pleh- ture and_ the great outdoors
tiful, but the revenuers* keep should defer any other trips un-
fish suspended in air, four feet,^em Pretty well thinned out.! til he sees in this vicinity what
from the water.
Numerous creeks, some
them very large, feed these [1923, 1
streams, and at various seasons; old still sets,
of the year with the water that the drouth that year drove;
“right” excellent fishing may[moonshiners to Big Cedar fori
be found upon many of them, water, and a raid by officers! The Home Demonstration
~ 7 [ ' 1 up the country. At Chib met Tuesday in the home
southwest of Valliant about other times while hunting my of Mrs. Troy Grant, with Mrs.
pressed his opinion of my act- Gorge and thi* wonderful Lake1five miles; Glover and Mountain nose had advised me of cooking Walter Grant, the president, in
ion in no uncertain terms, but Tahoe region and whilp thP Fork are both tributaries of mash, and I changed my course, charge. Fourteen members
’i- -- - •----’ ■ ■ ’ uue retiun, ano wniie me | not desiring to walk upon a still answered roll call, and after, a
creeks in operation with a gun upon short business session,’ Mrs.
' ' * . At one old still Helen Grant told the club mem-
Hke|an(l timbers found along their set located on -Shell Rock creek, bers how to have salads from
-- j banks, such as Big and Little [a tributary of Glover, in 1923, gardens the year around, and
emptying into Red River.
birch and hickory leaves ersheds produces quick rises,
due to their great fall, which
is many feet per mile. I have
seen ' a twelve-hour rain pro-
duce a rise of sixteen feet on
Little River, and a six-foot rise
within two and a half hours,
when no rain had fallen where
I was fishing. It is then a rag-
ing Torrent, but subsides almost
as quickly as it rises. A bank
hook baited ’with a minnow and
put out late one evening with
water rising, resulted in a two-
pound bass at the end of the
line the mixt morning, bttt the:
river had fallen, leaving the;
In one day’s hunt along Little the- Great Architect and Mas-
of Cedar creek, east of Glover in ter ,uPaln‘g,,h’8 !n
I counted . twenty-seven So”thea’t Oklahoma.
The story goes 1
Paris News to report the event,
These boys know Auction of pine or good grass drew a picture of a heart on
the stockman. F'
land is still open range, with a!
very small acreage under fence.
Like all mountain streams,
Little River, Glover and Moun-
, ea- rainfall aa a pretty woman to
[ reflections and clearness,
j- i Eagle, Big Cedar. Holly, Caney, I came upon enough barrels Mrs. Bird gave several ways of
a real battle should hook a four1 the beauties that may be seen Turkey, Pine, Cypress, and then and water-tight boxes Io esti- making salad dressing.
- - - 1 ■ ... .. 4i----- m-------major mate that more than 1000 gal-| The club adjourned to meet
from—Glover Ions of mash was made up at with Mrs. Jlelen Grant May 26.
This outfit had a i The hostess served a nice re-
or five pound trout or bass in [ at every
one of the rapids of Little Riv- streams,
er, Glover or Mountain Fork., In the '
and there are many of them, one L „ . -
Glover is the roughest of these Elm, Cedar, Sweet Gum, Iron Inear h ulton,
are a parao se for the man who [rapids when the water is not Maple and Black Walnut. The ^or near^ 200 mdes.
"y tkw low. From appearances, country, is heavily timbered,! Due to the
fipherman who sits on the bank, some great upheavel produced 1 and
»v under the shade of a tree and a fissure running north andjwitl
tempts the finny denizens with -----------!t>“
t* minnows, grasshoppers and,
.worms. |
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rapidly disappearing game, and a fall in the river of from one land they purchased outright, where the
,,the State maintains a preserve/- feit and gieat cliffo on [while vi.ly
; in Northern McCurtain county j either side, where the water were leased
that is increasing the deer crosses each ridge, or what re-
crop. The country is heavily mained of the ridge, following
timbered and beautiful. With-'the great upheavel.
in recent years highways have. Little stiver is the ideal
been built right into the heart stream for the fly fisherman
an<^ Mountain Fork a second
icenery accessable to the a«to-ichoice but he needg a boat>
heavy hobnailed shoes and not
[afraid of stepping into waterj
ali tz. n.. , - .over his head. There are many i
this wide area Kiamittia, Lit- j rapids and narrows over which
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[can fish it wading in all except necessity of seeding and trans-
the deepest holes.
bass, fishing is f
rapids and narrows, or just
above and below them. Even
a two-pound bass or trout will
road bridge across the river to the'next morning when 1 took-, hill a bf Southeast Oklahoma |'Little River, the largest oi
four Apalusis from the trot may not be as~hTgh nor as rug- tour streams. These
line, weighing forty-two pounds, ged, only Lake Tahoe exceeds ^ear ^he names of both game rny shoulder,
he admitted the joke was on its waters in their mirror-like I anA timbers found along their set located or
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The fly fisherman who wants every lover of nature revels in Kagle, Big Cedar. Holly, Caney, I
hand along these there is Terrapin, the major mate that more than 1000 gal-[
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finds CWHte\nddRe(r-Oa^ stack ^wenty tail ( freshment plate.
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rolling mointain streams that'streams,’with more falls and Wood, Holly, Dogwood, Redbud, a” °Ut" . ■ -■
ideal game fish streams. .Large oak, U4v.. <*.,« ..*vRzl<y
and Small mouth bass, Rock are a pale green, with leaves
bass or Goggle-eyes as some; about half-grown. Standing
call them, trout, crappie, Pike upon a mountain side with an
and Sunperch give the disciple incline of forty to fifty degrees,
of Isaac Walton some real sport., the contrast of pale green,
For the trotline or throwline sprinkled here and there with
fisherman, there are four var-, '
ieties of the catfish family— duced by pine and cedar, pre-
Forked tail channel cat, Blue sent a picture that for beauty
River cat,'Yellow cat, and the °f shading is unsurpassed.- Up-
Apalusis or Spotted cat. Live .on a still day that picture is
bait is necessary, and during reflected in the' mirror-like
river at this point, in addition the twenty years I have fished waters cf the deep, long holes
to several nice catfish, snared1 these streams, Apalusis weigh- in the river, and ...every lover of
ing uputa -25 pounds have been nature stops, and marvels at the
caught, but their usual size is beauty and grandeur.
from eight to fifteen pounds. [ I have looked upon the Davis
Several years ago Jj M. Read, mountains of West Texas, the
myself and others went to Lit- crystal-like waters of. the San
tie rivei^on a fishing trip. With Marcos, Colorado and Llano
two dozen minnows he caught rivers near Austin, the rugged
fifteen >Rock bass hs large as. mountains and plains of New
your hand, and was whetting; Mexico, Arizona and Colorado,
an appetite for a fish supper, the -verdant-covered mountains
and baited, a trotline. He ex-' y3n of ‘the Colorado, the Royal
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