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Image Caption: MULTNOMAH FALLS --page break-- were the only ones I could see as I passed. They are at the mouth of Multnomah Creek and reach the River in two sheer descents, the first 720 feet, the second 130 feet.
I had been traveling along the...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: LONE ROCK --page break-- sometimes called "Cigar Rocks." Across on the Oregon shore are the Pillars of Hercules, two towering, cone-shaped rocks, one behind the other, with the railway track passing between them. They are bare,...
2004-07-20
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Image Caption: CAPE HORN --page break-- a delta at its mouth extending northward from the base of the mountains about two miles towards the Washington shore, and upstream, in the Columbia, about three miles to near Taylor Siding, on the railway;...
2004-07-22
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Image Caption: PILLARS OF HERCULES --page break-- against any rise in the tide, whose fluctuations at this section of the River I was not familiar with.
A heavy fog shrouded the River on the morning of November 1, and it was not until 10 o'clock...
2004-07-22
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Image Caption: ROSTER ROCK --page break-- ment Military Reservation, and across the railway embankment, directly back of my tent, was the soldiers' shooting range.
The City of Vancouver, Washington, embraces the site of Old Fort Vancouver which...
2004-07-22
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Image Caption: STEAMBOAT ON WAY TO CASCADE LOCKS --page break-- Since the installation of the Fort by the United States such national characters as Generals Harney, Wood, Grant, Sheridan, McClellan, Pleasanton, Ord, Miles, Howard, Canby, Gibbon,...
2004-07-22
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Image Caption: TOWER ON ISLET IN MIDDLE OF RIVER --page break-- the Columbia it is a steel structure, but has the distinction of being the longest—it is a mile and three-quarters long. Its draw span is of the old-fashioned "swing" type.
Having...
2004-07-22
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degrees, and average precipitation 45 inches; has the same latitude as Halifax, and yet, 1,100 varieties of roses bloom out-of-doors ten months in the year, and the annual 'Rose Festival,' held in June, is a sight never to be forgotten." --page...
2004-07-22
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and that she be secured with long enough line to float safely at high tide. I was anxious to get information about tidal conditions and therefore rowed alongside the Mondell and hailing a man aboard asked about the tides. The man was not posted...
2004-07-22
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Image Caption: STEAMSHIP SENATOR ON WAY TO PORTLAND --page break-- who lived in a houseboat just within the mouth of Lake River. The Geological Survey maps terminate a short distance above the mouth of Lake River and I had no certain guide to the...
2004-07-22
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Image Caption: A WILDERNESS OF LOGS ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA --page break-- From St. Helens to the ocean the Columbia River passes through the Coast Range, a low range of mountains having comparatively gentle slopes heavily forested with great...
2004-07-22
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Image Caption: MOUNT COFFIN --page break-- mill and three shingle mills. A part of its history is the fact that in 1870 the Northern Pacific Railway began its first work of construction in its immediate vicinity. The Northern Pacific now...
2004-07-22
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Image Caption: THE COLUMBIA RIVER IN THE COAST RANGE --page break-- wind and rain drove me ashore just at the noon hour. I was close to land at the time and soon found friendly shelter among some trees, where with convenient wood a fire was made...
2004-07-22
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and is filled with many large, low islands above Tongue Point, some of them mere tide-flats. There was nothing of particular interest in this section of the River, and following the sloughs along the Oregon shore I reached Wanna on November 7, and...
2004-07-22
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his book entitled, The Columbia River, that, "It would be possible to descend almost the entire length of the River in a small boat."
The COLUMBIA, now at the goal visioned from Canal Flat was, with the aid of some railroad section men, withdrawn...
2004-07-22
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Image Caption: THE MOUTH OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER, AND COLUMBIA HARBOR --page break-- Columbia River and has a population of 15,000. It claims to have the largest fresh water harbor in the world, and ships of all nations land at its docks. Besides...
2004-07-22
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at Clatsop Beach located at Gearhart and Seaside, about twelve and eighteen miles away and reached by rail or highway.
As had been planned, I made the ten mile trip to the mouth of the Columbia River on the ocean-going steamer Senator, which took...
2004-07-22
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imity to the ocean in Columbia Harbor the level of the River is not affected by freshets from upstream, and the only variation that has to be recognized is the bi-diurnal rise and fall of the tides.
NOTE : The business section of Astoria, which I...
2004-07-22
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Walla Walla River; and the third was the Cascade Range.
At the Saddle Mountains the hills adjacent to the River rise practically 1,000 feet above it, and through them a gap a mile wide, with sloping sides, has been made, of which the Columbia...
2004-07-22
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that the Columbia is but a quarter-mile wide from the Upper to the Lower Cascades, but this width is between low walls, of but a few feet in height, scoured in the basalt of the River's bed, and the true walls are the mountain sides exterior to...
2004-07-22
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there to the Upper Cascades the width is very variable—often a mile or more, where there are islands. Above the White Bluffs islands are of infrequent occurrence, but from there they are numerous all the way to Tongue Point, varying in character...
2004-07-22
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variably three. Many of the spurs of the hills reach the River in a succession of narrow, rocky points, necessitating short tunnels' on the railways paralleling the stream. At one place on the North Bank Road I counted five tunnels in a half mile....
2004-07-22
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Image Caption: MITCHELL POINT TUNNEL --page break-- sists of 200 miles of asphaltic concrete paving from Astoria to The Dalles, and 140 miles of gravel and crushed rock surfacing from The Dalles to Pendleton. The construction of some of the...
2004-07-22
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CHAPTER XXVIII
THE COLUMBIA RIVER SALMON A description of the Columbia River would not be complete without something more than a reference to that most highly-prized of all fish, the Salmon; and which, more than any other of its products,...
2004-07-22
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certainly due the credit of making the first continuous journey, and this by himself, over the whole surface of the Columbia river. To give some idea of what this means, it is only necessary to say that in it he shot 107 rapids, 35 in Canada and...
2004-07-26
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