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pages 358-359

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026hi http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,824
Title pages 358-359
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-24
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Description forcing a very considerable reduction of railway freight rates. That alone is said to have saved the shippers of eastern Oregon and Washington many times the cost of this highly expensive undertaking. I pulled at a leisurely gait down the Canal, stopping, as I have said, at Tumwater and Five-Mile, and at the latter giving the lock-master a hand in dropping Imshallah down a step to the next level. Rowing past a weird "fleet" of laid-up salmon-wheels in the Big Eddy Basin, I sheered over to...

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