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and which make the farmer independent of the rainfall, and his crop a certainty. At the Boundary the average annual rainfall is 30 inches, and there is a continual decrease until at the mouth of Snake River there is but 9 inches. This small...
2004-07-20
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eration. It is to be 90 feet high, and will impound sufficient water to develop 350,000 horse-power and irrigate 200,000 acres of land. This last project seems to have advanced to almost the point of construction; and if constructed as planned,...
2004-07-20
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CHAPTER XXIV
FROM PASCO TO THE DALLES CITY I was detained at Pasco by a severe wind and rain storm, the first rain that had fallen since leaving Castlegar, 26 days before. The storm at Hunters was a hurricane of wind only. Leaving Pasco at...
2004-07-20
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River, just above its junction with the Columbia, as a fur trading post by the Hudson Bay Company in 1820. When the Canadians abandoned their posts south of the Border the United States Government took possession, established a military...
2004-07-20
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Road," which crosses the River at Vancouver to reach Portland. On the left is the Oregon, Washington Railway and Navigation Company, which goes directly into Portland. The trains' on these two railways became familiar objects to me as they passed...
2004-07-20
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necessary to solve the problem that looked somewhat serious the night before, and I was again in good going—but not for long, for I was in a second pocket.
This time the reef to be crossed projected about a foot out of the water, was about 12...
2004-07-20
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o'Clock and Rock Creek Rapids were navigated without delay or trouble, and then came Squally Hook, a somewhat different rapid.
About twelve months prior to my arrival at the place, Freeman had run Squally Hook, alone in a rowboat, without first...
2004-07-20
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escaped disaster and his close call impelled him to blame the half-breed girls whom he has likened to the fabled enchantress of the Rhine, Lorelei, who with her siren songs wantonly led men on to destruction. The girls were misjudged, for they...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: HEAD OF JOHN DAY RAPIDS --page break-- above the highway bridge. The farmer's wife and daughter were in the field when I reached it and from them I obtained a couple of fine, ripe melons cut fresh from the vine, and the last I was...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: MOUNT HOOD FROM MOUTH OF HOOD RIVER --page break-- Samuel Bowles in his book, Across the Continent, thus describes Mount Hood:
"But no mountain peak we have yet passed in our journey is seen to so fine advantage as Mount Hood from...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: CAMP AT HEAD OF CEILO CANAL --page break-- Just above the Falls is the head of Celilo Canal at the Oregon shore; and rising abruptly from the water edge is a flat bench fifty or sixty feet high. Deciding to stay overnight to...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: CELILO FALLS --page break-- channels, and in one place a single channel about 175 feet wide carries the whole volume of the River's flow. The walls of the gorges thus formed are about 25 or 30 feet high, and between them the water...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption; UPPER ENTRANCE TO CELILO CANAL --page break-- to fit conditions. The canal has a total drop of 81 feet, is 65 feet wide at the bottom, with a maintained depth of water of nine feet. Along its length there are occasional basins for...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: INDIAN VILLAGE AT CELILO --page break-- This was closed, and tying my boat to the round of an iron ladder I climbed the wall and hunted up the lock-tender who lived in an adjacent cottage.
I will here explain the method of passing...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: FIRST GATE IN CELILO CANAL, STORE ON RIGHT --page break-- than that below it, and to which it must be lowered. This is done by opening the sluice-ways at the lower gates, and as the water subsides the vessel goes down with it to...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: THE GRAND DALLES --page break-- came to The Dalles City early in the afternoon, and rowing down to its lower end found a decent camp-ground on a low bench amongst some willows. Here I planned to halt for a day.
The Dalles City is...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: THE COLUMBIA IN CELILO CANAL --page break-- CHAPTER XXV
FROM THE DALLES CITY TO VANCOUVER The autumnal rains began in earnest the day after my arrival at The Dalles City, and the frequent showers thereafter, and the heavy...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: FIRST VIEW OF TIMBER IN CASCADE RANGE, ALSO SHOWING TERRACES --page break-- had a custom of burying their dead on rocky islands in the River where their bodies could not be reached and devoured by wild beasts. To such a place the...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: VIC. TREVITT'S MONUMENT ON MEMLOOSE ISLAND --page break-- tumultuous Flood River on a great concrete highway bridge 295 feet in length, just above the steel bridge of the Oregon-Washington Railway. This brought me to the main...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: LOWER END OF CASCADE LOCKS --page break-- the snows of Mount Hood, is at all times available for power, irrigation, and domestic purposes.
Leaving Hood River I was rowing leisurely down a gentle current and had come abreast of a...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: THE TOW-WALLED GORGE BELOW CASCADE LOCKS --page break-- a distance of five miles there are three rapids known as the Upper Cascades, a mile long; the Middle Cascades', a third of a mile long; and the Lower Cascades, a half-mile...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: TABLE MOUNTAIN, BACKBONE OF CASCADE RANGE --page break-- that time Mount Adams on the north, and Mount Hood on the south were active volcanoes, and were considered to be the abode of two great gods. These gods became angry and...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: THE BAY BELOW CASCADE LOCKS, CASCADES IN THE DISTANCE --page break-- to the higher level. Explaining to him who I was, and requesting passage through the locks, I was told to hurry back to my boat and the gates would be opened for...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: BEACON ROCK AND FISHWHEEL --page break-- "sized up" the sun had set and it behooved me to make camp—but I could find no suitable place to put up a tent or make a bed. There was a flat bench above the bay on which was the railway...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: ST. PETER'S DOME, MT. ADAMS IN THE DISTANCE --page break-- of October 30, I returned to my boat, found everything intact, and putting diagonally across the bay to the right, to the head of the steamer channel, and easing into it...
2004-07-20
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