Wenatchee

In the only day game played in the National League this afternoon, Cal Kuntz, the rookie right-hander of the Chicago Cubs, pitched a one-hit shutout.

This youngster was signed only last summer by the Chicago Cubs, was dispatched to Class B baseball to Wenatchee, and shortly after joining the Wenatchee club, pitched a one-hitter.

Now in this, only his second year of professional baseball, 21-year-old right-hander from Fayetteville, North Carolina, has hurled a one-hit shutout, and he knocked off One of the classiest pitchers in baseball this year in the knuckleballing right-hander of the Cincinnati Reds, Bob Perkey.

Quite a feat for young Cal Koontz, a 21-year-old right-hander.

He

starred in collegiate play at Campbell College in Buies Creek, North Carolina.

Went out to Wenatchee in Class B last year.

He won six and he lost ten in a B-League last year, and now he's eight and two in the National League in his second year.

Like I want people to walk in the door, as we said, normalize all career paths.

I want to do sinus surgery in Wenatchee.

Great.

Let's find a way that that community is served that we can get you trained up.

Because, like we were saying, we lived back in that area for a good long time.

So yeah, we were in Wenatchee for a while and, and away from all of that, but then we moved back, and we were there for almost 10 years on that side of the mountains, granted not in Seattle, but still had-

Yeah

... relatively easy access to the market, to Madison Park, to Leschi, like the places that we liked and enjoyed.

He's down at the theater constructing sets for nearly everybody.

He is one of the set construction kings of the Wenatchee Valley.

That's right.

And so, uh, he got the, uh, Golden Gaffe for Christmas Carol.

I, I know that there's a group around here that's talking about it pretty seriously.

Mm-hmm.

And, uh, we saw it at Wenatchee High School-

Yeah

from the summit of the lower rim of the amphitheatre there is a steep descent of several hundred feet down which the stahican plunges in a series of cascades the valley at first narrow broadens as it becomes deeper and the u-shaped form of a glacial valley becomes more pronounced on either side at short intervals small branches join the stream these head among the high mountains and flow with gentle course through ancient glacial valleys to the edge of the glacial gorge of stahican river over whose walls they leap in great falls one such stream heads in horseshoe basin and the left-hand side of stahican river where its waters are derived from small glacier the waterfall known as gorman falls is the leap of the stream over the edge of the glacial wall which here is practically vertical the walls of the gorge along stahican river range from four thousand to five thousand feet in altitude above the bottom of the valley and the angle ranges from near verticality at the top to forty degrees or forty five near the mouth of company creek some fifteen miles above the head of the lake the wall is fully five thousand feet in height descending in one great sweep from the summit to the mountains down to the bottom company creek coming in on the right through a large stream flows on a level several hundred feet above the bed of stahican bridge creek which joins the stahican three or four miles farther down coming in from the right also a large branch flows in a valley several hundred feet above that of the stahican descending to it by a series of cascades and waterfalls in a water-worn gorge two hundred or three hundred feet deep which it has cut since the retreat of the glacier bridge creek has numerous branches and at the junction of each of these branches similar phenomena are observed although in case the branches are nearly equal in size the bench or rise in the glacial valley is not as marked as in the case of smaller branches from all indications it appears that the ice must have been at least three thousand feet deep in this gorge of the stahican since several of the smaller branches join the main glacier at that height above its bed lake chelan is between fifty and sixty miles in length and from half a mile to a mile or more in breadth except near its lower end it is enclosed throughout its course between high steep walls rising at angles of forty degrees to forty five degrees directly from the water's edge to an altitude of five thousand or six thousand feet above the sea The elevation of the lake above the sea is 1,100 feet, and its canyon walls rise 4,000 to 5,000 feet above its surface.

nearly all the streams which flow into it are small and tumble over its walls in a series of cascades there is but one stream of magnitude railroad creek which is tributary to it this which is upon the west side heads in the divide of the cascade range among the high peaks where its sources are fed from living glaciers and its valley is a glacial gorge near its upper end the lake is narrow and its depth increases gradually but about midway of its length it reaches a depth of fully one thousand four hundred feet its bottom being therefore three hundred feet below sea-level thence its depth diminishes gradually to its lower end but not as regularly as it increases the rock walls which enclose the lake are strikingly parallel to one another the high mountains which border it at its head extend down nearly to its foot and then suddenly break away through the lower country first upon the east side and then upon the west the dam by which the lake is formed is the terminal moraine of the glacier the lake is now drained by a stream which has cut through this terminal moraine and after a short course of three miles and a descent of four hundred feet joins the columbia above the present outlet are indications of former outlets of the lake in the shape of coolies cut through from the west or rather south side of the lake to columbia river the lower of these napskoolie which leaves the lake at about three miles above its present outlet has an elevation at its summit of about three hundred feet above the present level of the lake with a sharp descent to columbia river at its lower end the other leaves the lake at a point about ten miles above its present outlet and is much lower its summit being only about one hundred feet above the present lake level lake chelan is not difficult of access the traveler leaves the great northern railway at wenatchee on columbia river thence twice a week a little steamer stems the swift current of the columbia for forty miles to the mouth of chelan river and a stage covers the remaining three or four miles to the outlet of the lake where is situated the little town of lakeside on the days when the steamer does not run on the columbia the journey from wenatchee to lakeside may be made by stage The lake is traversed by a small steamer, which, leaving lakeside in the morning, reaches Stahican at the end of the lake, where there is a hotel late in the afternoon returning the next day.

On the shores of the lower part of the lake there are numerous ranches, but within the mountain portion the only signs of habitation are a few landings, and above Stahican there are no settlements, and travel in this region must be upon horseback with pack-train.

End of section one.

The man from Bend talks of rushing rivers and copper-hued pines, his enthusiasm for the homeland unalloyed by reference to summer dusts.

The orchard owner of Hood River or Wenatchee has his heaven lined with ruddy apples, and discourses amazing figures concerning ever-increasing world market for the product of his acres.

He who hails from the coast cities, whose all-pervading passion is optimism, weaves convincing prophecies of the golden future.

And so it goes.