STUDENT LIFE must have a history but he confided in no one We have neglected to mention that Crank River connected Perry with all the upper camps For many years the logs from above had been driven down Crank River but the fall was so rapid below Camp I that more than one costly jam had occurred Besides the river between the mill and the firs camp made a jagged half circle For these purposes to do away with the danger of jams and cut off the unnecessary distance a chute had been built about seven miles long connecting the two places It ma le a e through cuts and chasms and had a uniform drop of five feet to the hundred It was estimated that a log could travel the seven miles in four minutes The river at Camp I had been dammed and an immense pond constructed just above the dam This pond served as a hold for the winter logs which were fiumed down as soon as the first thaw s‘t in The loggers all the way up the canyon hrd had especial good luck this fall and as a result the hold at Christmas time was decked high and wide with several million feet of logs the most phenomenal “cut” for years We have said that the life and blood of Perry was Eunice Stooks It is not strange then that the town fairly buzzed when word was given out that she would spend Christmas in her father’s lumber camp No wonder that William Stooks thought day and night how he could bee-lin- o-- r 69 best entertain his daughter No wonder that all the young girls of Perry started laying in a supply of finery No wonder that every promising young man with an ambition born of meagre gratification invested fabulous sums in anticipation of the coming occasion Small wonder that none were surprised when Stooks announced that he was going to build a Christmas Castle on Bald Point a massive shelf of lava which projected out into Crank River on the other side and about twenty yards above where the chute emptied It was a prominent point and could be seen for miles around But the distinguishing feature about it was the fact that it was supported out in the middle of the stream by a single lofty massive pillar almost uniform enough to be considered of human make Once this pillar had been the cause of an immense log jam and when the key was found and the jam loosed it was noticed that the cliff had sunk several feet But that was ten years past so Stooks thought it perfectly safe to erect his castle on Bald Point Putting his scheme into immediate execution he hired the greatest architects in the country and the carpenters were soon at work The architect advised putting the castle back on the mainland but Stooks shook his head He thought it should stand on the very tip and he wanted it only during Christmas after that he did not care what happened to it And he wanted it where he could stand on the bal- -