Show WORLDS WONDER IN OREGON hottest springs on earth said to have been located seventy miles from portland springs hot enough to cook beans and boll boil eggs in three minutes have been found within a short distance of portland ore they are on the clack amas river 30 miles south of esta cada and 70 miles from portland these springs are 60 in number and one throws out a stream seven inches in diameter the springs have been known to the indians indiana tor for many years A french halfbreed balf breed named michel alq ardetto Aru etto a trapper hearing an old indian of the 51 olalla tribe speak ot of hot springs this side of the range roada made an investigation and found them the springs are supposed to be tho the hottest in tho the world degrees beans have been cooked in the larger spring with the same dispatch all aa on a stove eggs en ceased in a mesh ot of any kind have been cooked in three minutes even osh fish have been caught in tho the clackamas Clack amas river and without being taken off tho the lino have been dropped into the spring and in a very brief time cooked to a turn tho the waters bolno from solid rock and are arc strongly impregnated with salts but not of sufficient strength to malie make the taste objectionable many stories are told by the indians indiana with regard to the tha wonderful properties of these L and they have been known to cross the mountains from the reservation on the other side aldo to bathe in the waters of the ilig dig hole as they call it |