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Title: The great Northwest : a guide-book and itinerary for the use of tourists and travellers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and the Oregon and California Railroad : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns, and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products, and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Winser, Henry Jacob, 1823-1896
Subjects: Northern Pacific Railroad Company Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Oregon and California Railroad
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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and~214 miles fromPortland, situated on the south bank of the Columbia, is the western ter-minus of the Pend dOreille Division of the Northern Pacific Railroad, andalso the point at which the Oregon Railway and Navigation Companys roadbranches to Walla Walla. The Northern Pacific Railroad Company haserected a handsome building here for station and hotel purposes. Other-wise the place is as unattractive as Ainsworth. It is only important as ajunction of roads, and as an eating station. The Walla Walla River comesin close by, but leaves all its fertile lands behind. Pend d? Oreille Division. 221 At Wallula the journey to Portland, Oregon, proceeds over the line ofthe Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. This railroad connectsPortland with the country south of Snake River, going eastward fromWallula to Walla Walla, and thence, still further eastward, to develop thecountry, touching Snake River at Riparia, where steam-boat navigation ismaintained with Lewiston, in Idaho, the year round.
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SKIRTING THE CLARKS FORK. 222 Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. Oregon Railway and Naviga-tion Company. WALLULA JUNCTION TO RIPARIA.—DISTANCE, 87 MILES. Leaving the river at Wallula, the main line of the Oregon Railway andNavigation Companys railroad follows up the valley of the Walla WallaRiver, thirty-one miles to W^alla Walla. The aspect of the country improvesgradually as the distance from the river increases, and before reaching WallaWalla the country has become very fertile. The river is a small streamthat pours into the Columbia without much demonstration—merely achannel cut through sand and sage brush, although further up there is anoccasional fringe of willows. There is no appearance of even a village dur-ing this stretch of thirty miles, only side track stations, a few miles apart,for the transaction of the railroad business. Whitman—(26 miles from Wallula and 5 miles from Walla Walla)—ismerely a side track. It, however, marks the scene of a deplorable tragedy.I

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