Lafe Pence’s crazy plan: Wash mountain into lake
He might have accomplished it, too, but he lost friends when he tried to claim water rights to Bull Run...
Offbeat Oregon History podcast · Finn J.D. John
November 10, 202510m 0s
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He might have accomplished it, too, but he lost friends when he tried to claim water rights to Bull Run, and when his primary investors went bankrupt in a bank panic, he was forced to give up the scheme and leave town. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1900s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1502d.lafe-pence-guild-lake-scheme.327.html)