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tion was reached, fifty miles above the mouth of the Unuk.
In 1919 I went to the Unuk River for the last time. I engaged the services of a man at Ketchikan and we went, by motor boat, to Bell Island a hot-spring resort twenty-four miles below the...
2004-06-30
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CHAPTER II
INVESTIGATIONS, PREPARATIONS, AND ARRIVAL AT THE COLUMBIA RIVER'S SOURCE Having definitely determined to undertake the navigation of the Columbia River from its extreme headwaters to its union with the Pacific Ocean, and...
2004-06-30
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about 1,000 feet and is taken up by a number of rapids and low falls and complicated by large rocks; free navigation for small boats, except for the experienced man who knows the waters, does not commence in B. C. at all. I only know one old river...
2004-06-30
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small crossing-saw, hammer, wood chisel, screwdriver, small, adjustable square, and a spokeshave. On account of weight a plane was omitted, as I trusted to be able to borrow, or rent one when needed--and, anyway, in a pinch a spokeshave is a good...
2004-06-30
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PLAT OF CANAL FLAT OR MC GILLIVRAY'S PORTAGE
SELKIRK MTS. CANALFLAT STATION KOOTENAY CENTRAL RAILWAY
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north, and smaller end, is a rude board bunk without a mattress. Other furnishings, there are none. I decided to make the...
2004-06-30
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CHAPTER III
BOAT BUILDING AND HAPPENINGS AT CANAL FLAT On the following day, May 31, I began the construction of a boat to carry me on my river journey. The lumber bought at Wardner had a length of but 18 feet, and as 20 feet was the...
2004-07-06
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parts for the boat it was then necessary to assemble them. The little stream at Canal Flat is popularly known as the actual head of the Columbia River. The nearest place where there was water deep enough to float a boat was just above highway...
2004-07-06
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dle 3' 0"; depth in middle 17", and at ends 21". The bottom was curved both longitudinally and transversely; was straight 2', each way, from the middle, from there curving up 4" to the bow and 2 1/2" to the stern. The transverse curve of the...
2004-07-06
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with vice, etc., and all needful tools I had cut out and assembled a boat, including painting, and everything except making oars, in three days' time. However, the drawings and photographs here given of the COLUMBIA show that I made a good job;...
2004-07-06
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CHAPTER IV
THE ORIGIN AND MEANDERINGS OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER Our boat-building activities being at an end, and now having some leisure, it behooves us (I assume that the reader will now, if he has not already, join me in spirit if he...
2004-07-06
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waters of the Upper Kootenay River with Upper Columbia Lake. In consideration of this the Syndicate was to receive free grants of 320 acres of land for each $2,500 expended for the actual construction of the canal. The total land subsidy was to...
2004-07-06
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head of Priest Rapids, where the Yakima Range deflects it northeast for about 20 miles to near Wahluke; thence southerly 96 miles to the mouth of the Walla Walla River, where the Great Bend ends. Here the Umatilla Highlands turn the River in a...
2004-07-06
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to sell furs to the traders near Astoria, Oregon, he found the banks of the streams and the forests much the same as they were in 1868.
"On his recent trip Wood made a point to record carefully every stream emptying into the Columbia River. He...
2004-07-07
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generally reliable and void of conscious effort to be dramatic.
Besides this, no one who has written about the Columbia, except David Thompson, ever traveled its full length. Other early voyagers such as Cox, Franchere, Ross, and others, made...
2004-07-07
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CHAPTER X
FROM MOBERLY TO WAITABIT CREEK I made another trip to Golden, and bidding goodbye to the Colwells, intelligent and kindly people originally from the New England States, on the morning of June 29 I was again on my journey down...
2004-07-07
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the water. The current would catch the rope, drag it down stream, then release it, and it would fly back upstream to repeat the process. It was the flip-flop, flip-flop of this rope that I had heard and thought was someone chopping. The rope was...
2004-07-07
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Image Caption: CAMP AT WAITABIT CREEK --page break-- from the fact that those who christened it had waited there the same as I proposed to do.
The following day it rained all day, but on July 1, for the purpose of reconnoitering what was before...
2004-07-07
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Image Caption: THE COLUMBIA RIVER FROM DONALD TO SURPRISE RAPIDS --page break-- tain between the trough of the Columbia and Blackwater and Bluewater Creeks is an isolated one, and evidently once united the Selkirks to the Rockies and is now a...
2004-07-07
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road curve to the left and was soon within the confines of the canon, an eroded gorge through the neck that once united the two mountain ranges. The canon is about three-fourths of a mile long, narrows up, at water level to not more than 200 feet...
2004-07-07
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the place. Going there seemed a good way to pass the time, and besides it meant some sport.
Making up a small pack of provisions and cooking utensils, and with a small axe in one hand and my carbine in the other, but with no bedding, I struck out...
2004-07-07
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toes similar to mine. Below I give an extract from Stutfield and Collie's Climbs and Explorations in the Canadian Rockies:
"The weather was very hot and sultry, and that evening a swarm of the most voracious mosquitoes we ever encountered drove us...
2004-07-07
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from the stern six feet forward toward the bow, covering everything in that part of the boat. As I always placed the tent and sleeping hag in the stern, and as the latter was made up in a round bundle it arched the canvas upward sloping it like a...
2004-07-07
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CHAPTER XI
FROM WAITAMBIT CREEK TO BEAVERMOUTH On the morning of July 6 my tent was pulled down, the boat loaded, and I am ready to leave Waitabit Creek and "tackle" Redgrave Canon. Has the reader the nerve to accompany me? If so, we'll be...
2004-07-07
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fitting into a metal socket set in a block nailed fast to the gunwale. I had had the neck of the "U" closed just enough so that the oar could not be raised directly out of the rowlock but had first to be drawn inward about a foot before it could...
2004-07-07
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mountain sides have a fashion of sending rocks down on the track. It is necessary for the watchman to visit, and inspect, Calamity Curve just before the arrival of each train; and if any obstruction is on the track too large for him to remove he...
2004-07-12
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