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pages 400-401

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025gs http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,444
Title pages 400-401
Relation The Columbia Unveiled
Date 2004-07-22
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Description 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 me to Wilmington, the seaport of Los Angeles, California. At the mouth of the River, where the dangerous bar existed that was a menace to navigation, the National Government now maintains two channels, each a half-mile wide, the entrance to the...

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