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Pine Creek
Pine Creek empties into Camp Creek on the De Soza Ranch. It heads in the high mountains east of Pilot Rock and west of Lone Pine Ridge and around the Spider Camp. In the early days there was a big pine tree on a big long ridge and for this reason the ridge was called Lone Pine Ridge.
The pine stood several hundred yards from any other trees and was called Lone Pine. The creek at the foot of the ridge on the west was called Pine Creek. The creek has been called Pine Creek for
scores of years but they have it named Scotch Creek on the maps in late years and why this has been done I do not know. In any event it has always been Pine Creek to me and I am going to continue to
call it Pine Creek.
Some of these hurry up, live fast, pencil pushing fellows do some times get some funny things down on paper but that is another story.
There are several creeks and gulches that feed Pine Creek and they all go dry during the late summers and before except for a few places.
About two miles of Pine Creek runs through the Horse Shoe Ranch. There is a fall in the Creek below the Horse Shoe Ranch that keep the Steelhead fish from going any farther up stream. A few small trout used to be able to go over the falls.
The lower part of Pine Creek was my play ground when I was a boy and now when I am down in that part of the country I think of my boyhood days and picture a shy little bare foot boy with his bow and arrows trying to be like a full grown Indian before the white man came this way.