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now available for anchorage for light-draft vessels only, but can be deepened by dredging.
"4. As to giving Mr. Montgomery privileges which others have not asked through a jealous care for the best interests of the port, and even at considerable...
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[Ninth indorsement.]
WAR DEPARTMENT,
September 23, 1898.
In accordance with the views of the Chief of Engineers, the request of Mr. James B. Montgomery will be complied with.
G. D. MEIKLEJOHN,
Acting Secretary of War.
REPORT OF...
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5. Would not only take from the limited harbor area, but would present to Mr. Montgomery about 36,720 square feet of valuable wharf room, while other owners of water front are not similarly favored.
Mr. Montgomery maintains that the proposed...
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PETITION OF MR. JAMES B. MONTGOMERY.
PORTLAND, OREG., May 21, 1898.
I, James B. Montgomery, owner of water-front property at Albina, city of Portland, on the east side of the Willamette River, in Multnomah County, State of Oregon, do...
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78 p. Includes sections of Appendix SS: Report of Capt. William W. Harts, Corps of Engineers; and Appendix TT: Report of Maj. W. L. Fisk, Corps of Engineers. Additional information on these topics can be found by consulting the Indexes to the...
1899-11-23
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[Blank page] --page break-- DOWN THE COLUMBIA CHAPTER I
PREPARING FOR THE BIG BEND The itinerary of our Columbia trip as originally planned in Los Angeles called, first, for an expedition to the source of the river, next, a voyage by boat...
2004-08-03
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[Blank page] --page break-- ILLUSTRATIONS
Mt. Sir Donald, which drains from all sides to the Columbia Frontispiece
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Mt. Assiniboine, near the headwaters of the Columbia 10 Twin Falls, Takakaw Falls, two great cataracts of the
Columbia...
2004-08-03
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Image caption: Courtesy of Byron Harmon, Banff MT. SIR DONALD, WHICH DRAINS FROM ALL SIDES TO THE COLUMBIA --page break-- DOWN THE COLUMBIA BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN AUTHOR OF "IN THE TRACKS OF THE TRADES," "HELL'S HATCHES," ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM...
2004-08-03
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Where we landed above Surprise Rapids 97
Where we tied up at "Eight mile" 97
"Shooting" the first bit of lining at Surprise Rapids 122
The camp where the roar of the rapids deafened us . 122
Where Steinhof was drowned . 122
Where Andy...
2004-08-03
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age that the briefest introduction to a man who has been one of the most picturesque personalities in the pioneering history of British Columbia will suffice here. Short, compactly but cleanly built, with iron-grey hair, square, determined jaw and...
2004-08-03
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found, but with the casks of whisky it was different, doubtless because the latter would float longer and resist buffeting better. Cask after cask has kept turning up through the years, even down to the present, when B. C. is a comparative desert....
2004-08-04
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pling I would have given him another drink before pushing off to steady his nerve. That might have held him all right. As it was, reaction in mind and body set in just as we headed into that first sharp dip below the lake — the beginning of the...
2004-08-04
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with whom I had talked in Kamloops had shown me a photograph of a rude cross that he and his Indian companion had erected over Steinhoff's grave, and in Revelstoke nearly every one who spoke of the Bend made some reference to the tragic affair....
2004-08-04
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thing I had boated previously, and certainly — excepting the Yukon perhaps — colder. A great many men had been drowned in trying to run it ; but so had men been drowned in duck-ponds. But many men had gone round without disaster, and that...
2004-08-04
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were likely to learn from a distance, I decided to start north at once to see what could be arranged on the ground. Victoria yielded little save some large scale maps, and even these, they assured me in the Geographic Department of the B. C....
2004-08-04
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CHAPTER II
UP HORSE THIEF CREEK WHEN I started north from Los Angeles toward the end of August Chester, held up for the moment by business, was hoping to be able to shake free so as to arrive on the upper Columbia by the time I had...
2004-08-04
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glacial ice, there to do a right-about and start upon my long-dreamed-of journey from snow-flake to brine.
It is a dozen years or more since one could travel the hundred miles of the Columbia between Golden and Lake Windermere by steamer. The...
2004-08-04
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was naturally very frank and outspoken and a great believer in saying just what he thought of people and things.
He was right about being outspoken. He had also rather a glittering line of dogma on the finer things of life. Jazz .was the highest...
2004-08-04
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make an easy stage of it to the Starbird Ranch, at the end of the wagon-road, nineteen miles out from Invermere. The following morning Roos and I would come out by motor and be ready to start by the time the horses were up and the packs on. That...
2004-08-04
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to save this situation. On the veranda of the country club there was a fine mounted specimen of Ovis Canadensis, the Canadian mountain sheep. By proper ballasting, I pointed out to Roos, this fine animal could be made to submerge to a natural...
2004-08-04
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a propitiating pat on the back; "besides, it's all a matter of clothes anyhow."
Before we turned in that night it transpired that Chester's hope of being the first to show moving pictures of the Lake of the Hanging Glaciers to the world was...
2004-08-04
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me, to compensate for what he did to the jam and honey.
Roos called us around him and gave instructions for the "business" of the opening shot. Nixon and Jim were to be "picked up" taking the last of the slack out of a "diamond hitch," Gordon...
2004-08-04
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"Onward, Christian Soldiers!" We never had any trouble about "being natural" after that; but I hope no lip reader ever sees the pictures.
After picking up Roos and his camera we made our real start. One pack-horse was reserved for the camera and...
2004-08-04
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