Show MONUMENT TO PROF CLAYTON to mr air L U colbath ii we a are arc indebted for or IL a beautiful beautiful picture of the bonu went over the ilia gra grac e of prof joshua E r clayton it Is EL a striking shaft the ped pedestal estal la Is of wasatch make granite the ilia shaft ot of barke bane granite cran lle it I 1 Is all about thirteen feet lit in height arid and la is situated seven miles from portland or on in the 1 ive cemetery on tho the banks of tile the WIlIn mette just such a place as the old scientist would have selected ile he mod from a stage accident in ft tho 10 coeur dAl darcile cile country icho iho aint 1 Is duo 0 o tile exertions of mr jill cull leill ll lah Ill ho he raised thoo 1100 here ital I 1 sent up the lio blok of granite fur the the hie dA alone ln rill ners raised 42 PO tind I 1 the ho monument ell ansi 1 1100 tit inscription ascription on tho the ancin U nent n ent is 19 as roueas fol lowB I 1 I 1 I 1 to tile the memory or of 1 joshua elliott clayton mining ning engineer born feb 32 12 1830 ak died july 3 isai an acute observer ob sener and wise adver A loyal friend an honest man I 1 it N will 11 be it EL lauie to the of friend of 0 mr clayton to lo kno know that such euch an evi yelden denee of appreciation of what lid he was W s in life lii 1 1 3 been given elven and a an a 8 said ld above tile hie credit la IS chiefly due to mr arr colbath surely I 1 such lueb a recognition of nhat heat in life lir was luc due to tile the dead man ht 11 ignado lit ahli walk through life not much known line n excel except it to a feri fell jample tul but t ul those alio knew 1 new him well will recall its his to lovei v cable ible traits and the sterling manhood ot of the man ile he had no early advantages but he ha was lorn born FL genuine child ot of nature ha be seemed to know instinctively the al phaben of the earth this he formed into words and from them wrote the worlds history of its own creation and all the incidents incident anti and mysteries of 0 its long lone voyage through space pac then in his life while shy and unpretentious has was wa as a brave as julius caesar and us as faithful falth tul as n are the fixed stars star in all his acts there was w a mant manliness iness which never faltered altered and an integrity which it r h was as Interi oien into the very rl er fiber b of his bring but hla his delight wits was to wander away from men and to study new leaves leaved that nature turned for him and in ili this way the great hills became merely elder brothers tho the trees were hla close friends and he be knew the volcha 0 ices of the streams as they babbled on their way it Is good then to think that his final couch Is spread on tha banks of 0 the broad willamette on oil t tho the heights watched over by mount hood hand and that he where flowers 3 M III bloom all the year above him anti and I 1 that his sleep N w III be as peaceful an aa his life was i nna true |