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the breakers become high and tempestuous. Between the line of great breakers and the right-hand shore the water is agitated, but devoid of obstructing rocks, and the waves but moderate. My inspection convinced me that the way to run Spokane Rapids...
2004-07-19
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bia and Freeman's experiences as related in the Sunset Magazine, which I had brought with me for them to read. I had all the watermelon I could eat, and when I started back to my camp, Earl asked me to come up again in the morning, saying he would...
2004-07-19
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It was on the morning of October 1 when I reached Hell Gate, put ashore on the left, in the usual eddy, climbed the steep sides of a rough bench, and made an examination of its full length of about a half-mile. It had none of the repelling...
2004-07-19
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first but the swirl of the eddy was too strong to make headway backing water through it and I was compelled to turn and row bow forward to make downstream progress. The eddy was harmless and the head of the left-hand channel, which is the only...
2004-07-19
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made an interesting moving picture. But to the man at the oars the only thoughts are of the necessity of a cool head and hand, and the exertion of a little muscle—the making of no misplays, either mental or physical.
Below Hell Gate there are...
2004-07-19
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Long Rapids have an exceedingly swift current and a length of about a mile, terminating at the head of Box Cañon in an eddy. As the channel is free of rocks, there are no dashing breakers to be feared, only the fairly smooth, swiftly gliding...
2004-07-19
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were not dangerous, and only required strong rowing to get through them. Box Canon is short, and it was not long before I was out of its confines.
The combination of Long Rapids and Box Canon is what is called by Lieutenant Symonds in his report,...
2004-07-19
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and sung a paean of thanksgiving. Although Symonds calls Box Canon "Whirlpool Rapids," nothing is said about the whirlpools within the gorge and only the comparatively innocent eddy is mentioned. There are no falls, unless the steep descent of...
2004-07-19
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A short distance below Bridgeport I passed the little square-nosed steamboat Bridgeport plowing her way upstream against the current. She is the only steamboat on the Columbia River between the Arrow Lakes and The Dalles City. Captain Fred...
2004-07-19
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it from Wenatchee and continues northward, up the Okanogan River, and across the Border into British Columbia. Opposite to Brewster the Columbia is over a mile wide but is filled with several large, low sandbars. At this point, the River meets an...
2004-07-19
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Image Caption: CANTILEVER BRIDGE AT WENATCHEE, LOOKING UPSTREAM --page break-- CHAPTER XXI
FROM WENATCHEE TO Pasco As Wenatchee was the largest town so far reached on my trip, although the business section was well back from the beach, I...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: BEGINNING OF BASALT BLUFFS BELOW WENATCHEE --page break-- Three and a half miles farther along I reached the crossing of the main line of the Great Northern Railway. At a very contracted place in the River, natural rock abutments...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: GREAT NORTHERN BRIDGE AT MALAGA --page break-- which merges into another 150 feet high at the head of the rapids. Climbing this higher bench an unobstructed view of the whole situation was before me. Rock Island Rapids are about...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: HEAD OF EAST CHANNEL, ROCK ISLAND PAPIDS --page break-- draws strongly towards the cascade, there is no certainty that an oarsman can overcome its influence and keep to the right of the foaming mass. The branch on the right is the...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: LOOKING DOWN WEST CHANNEL, ROCK ISLAND RAPIDS --page break-- large "souse-hole" below—something like the one I so narrowly missed at Grand Rapids, but smaller. Below this rock, and souse-hole, was an apparently safe eddy skirting...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL BRIDGE AT BEVERLY --page break-- turn three times before I could get her out of the whirlpool and once more in the current, which she reached bow forward, and immediately flashed past the face of the...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: GAUQUIL RAPIDS --page break-- of Beverly is a half-mile east of the River. It is a small, dreary place, with streets and sidewalks covered with wind-driven sand. On the front porch of the most pretentious residence the housewife was...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: BAY AT HEAD OF PRIEST RAPIDS, LOOKING WEST --page break-- head of the fourth rapid, a part of the River is diverted along the right shore for two miles to a small power station.
The first six sections of Priest Rapids are...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: THE LEVEL PLAIN OF OLD LAKE LEWIS --page break-- ciding that it could be run with safety, if done rightly, I slipped through its greatest waves with nothing more serious happening than the picking up of a little spray on the canvas...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: SECTION 6 OF PRIEST RAPIDS --page break-- of farms of ripening grain, fruit orchards with the trees just beginning to turn yellow, and green patches of alfalfa. Back from the River, on the higher spots, are the farmhouses and barns...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: THE POWER STATION AT PRIEST RAPIDS --page break-- CHAPTER XXII
PASCO AND VICINITY The city of Pasco is located on the left, here the northeast side of the Columbia River, about three miles above the mouth of Snake River where...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: LOOKING UP YAKIMA VALLEY --page break-- part of the orchard product. The soil is fertile, but requires irrigation, as the rainfall is small.
The people of Pasco are promoting a very ambitious irrigation project which involves...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: RAILROAD BRIDGE AT PASCO, LOOKING UPSTREAM --page break-- of the most noted farming sections of the State of Washington, with 300,000 acres of land irrigated under Governmental control. A variety of crops are raised, but as is the...
2004-07-20
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CHAPTER XXIII
FROM THE BOUNDARY TO PASCO: Topography, Farms, Fruit, Indian Reservation, Irrigation, Forests and Arid Lands, Railway Bridges, Power Projects, Geology, Placer Mines In describing the Columbia River south from the...
2004-07-20
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Island Rapids, where they become plateaus 500 to 600 feet high. These mountains are lower than those west of the River rising about 1,500 feet above the stream at their northern and southern end, but dwindling, midway, into plateaus about 500 feet...
2004-07-20
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