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Title: The official Northern Pacific Railway guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railway and its branches : containing descriptions of states, cities, towns and scenery along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, industries, products and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Northern Pacific Railway Company Riley, W. C. (William C.)
Subjects: Railroad travel
Publisher: St. Paul : W.C. Riley
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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enueof the Willamette. Here is depth, a gentler flow, and, intimes of high water, the river instead of becoming atorrent is transformed into a great lake as far as the fallsat Oregon City above Portland. Thus is Portland locatedon a navigable cul dc sac connected by a magnificent wateryhighway with the Pacific. River Excursions from Portland—A number of veryattractive steamboat excuisions may be made from Port-land . One is up the Willamette to the falls at Oregon City.Here the river makes a perpendicular leap of about fiftyfeet, forming one of the most magnificent cataracts in theworld. The Government has constructed a canal aroundthe falls, with locks cut in the solid rock. A very curioussight may be seen when the salmon are running up theriver. Thousands of these brilliant-scaled fish attempt tojump up the falls at points where there are projections ofrock. A few succeed but many fall back wounded into thewhirlpools below. Another interesting trip is to go down the Willamette and
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Pillars ot hctculos and Rooster RccU, on the Columbia River. 286 The Northern Pacific Railroad. up the Columbia as far as the Cascades^ where the Govern-ment has been engaged for nearly a lifetime in slowly exca-vating a ship canal in the rocky south bank of the river.A stretch of the grandest scenery of the Columbia ispassed. On the south, mountain summits stand like awall, grouped at times like an amphitheatre, at other timesassuming romantic shapes, and frequently affording viewsof falling waters that are very beautiful. Here is OneontaFall, 800 feet of sheet silver, a ribbon of mist waving in thewind. Multnomah Fall is double. The water plunges sev-eral hundred feet, gathers itself together, and plungesagain, about 800 feet in all. There are several other cas-cades of less note that never fail, and in early spring theface of the cliffs is threaded with them. A few miles west-ward are the Pillars of Hercules, two columns of rock sev-eral hundred feet in height, between which the tr

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