Lafe Pence’s crazy plan: Move mountains down, fill up lake

Published: Dec. 14, 2020, 2 p.m.

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; 1905) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1502d.lafe-pence-guild-lake-scheme.327.html)