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Identifier ORU_WTXT_004e http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,32
Title page 386
Relation Through the Columbia River Gorge by Auto
Date 2004-03-02
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Description Columbia were more of a dream than a reality. Miles and miles before Julius Mier reached Gearhart his experience had afforded facts for good-roads arguments with every prominent person whom he could button hole. He, and others, talked good-roads so insistently and so convincingly that rousing meetings were held. And the idea took root so firmly that two of the three counties which he had crossed voted good-roads bonds Columbia county voting $360,000, of which $260,000 goes into the Columbia...

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