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pages 234-235

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026et http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,754
Title pages 234-235
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-11
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Description of this daring project I was to see much of at firsthand during that part of my voyage on which I was about to embark. Captain Armstrong left by train for Nelson the evening of the 27th, and the following morning Major Laird drove Roos and me back to Gerome. For a considerable part of the distance we followed the highly picturesque route along the Spokane River, stopping for lunch at the hydro-electric plant of the Washington Power Company at Long Lake. This enterprising corporation has...

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