The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1866-01-19
THE NAVlGATION OR ruE UPPER
SECTION OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER
TRIAL Trip % the Mrortr-Eine.n

at ColvilIe, ON the evening of the 18Th of
NoveG,eer, marks an epoch in the history of
the northern section of the Columbia Basin.
Among the spectators, wsst hat distinguished
NJ Perc"s savsge, TIP ym.Iel-len-a.kou-a p, o,
Eagle from the Light y who has traversed the
Rocky Mountain Range in search of a place
where the whites would not inttude upon his
privacy. Two years ago he was in the almost
inaccessible. noun aims OF tie Great Wnllowa
Stack ON then"e he went 10 the Fla,head
country, to inl his once fnmi liar bannts Occur,
ed by the ifrepressibie aud honest miner;
next; he, triel'i. Ii ting the Gro, .sui isbiatk-
feet, out firing Of that, he sous ., the Utopia
of his hopes7in he direction of-C0lville Here
he was again doomed to disappointment
Night had fallen, aud the Fory-Nine was
launched by the light of torches and candles.
The eminent savage nomad, o. whom we have
heen speaking, beAeld the scene from an adj
jarent height, ani when, n few days after
wa,ds, the steamer footed her, whistle, it
sounded in the ears OF Tp-ya-hel-ien-a kow-a-
poo like the funoteal Ding. Which was TO haunt
all of his fatpre lite, while to the Whites it was
the overture of u new era in commerce and
adventure. The reflections Of this disIin.
gui~hel savage, after travelling so far to ct
| away from the white mau-bis arts, and pat
| ticularly his stean-cau0eS, mast have been
| akin to those of The eloquent Missouri orator,
At the time of the breakup OF political part es
in 1923. Said that geLtcuan, 81 can be
o Wing, they woh't let me tie Dimmcral,
and wbar shall | go2" In Ike manner,
Eagle from the Il ght may have lnouAhl, Z"
| have striven long to get AWAY from the whites,
| 3 Nt.N,.f vail
west, north and Soarh, aud where shall soW
| THE sTEAMER-HER DIMENSIONS. sc.
The steamer Forty. Ame is one hpndred and
fourteen feet long, twenty feet four inches
beam, Ave feet depth of hold, two engines of
twelve and a. half inches diameter of cylinder,
four feet stroke, one hundred tons measure
meat and sixty tons capacity. In the still
waters of Lower Arrow Lake she steamed nine
and three -fourths miles an hour with sixty
pounds pressure, which i5dieates power to
run, with one hundred pounds pressure, four.
teen miles an hour. This is very we'll for q
stern heeler.
| TIE TRIAL TRIP.
The steamer started up the river from Col
vile Landing on the 9th OF December. The
season was so far advanced that no time coulC
be spared to procure proper supply OF DIR.
: wood, aud Capt. White determined to taxi
the chances of gathering his fuel along tn
: banks OF tho river. The fist day the boa
. tied up after running eight miles. On the l0tl
the ascent Of the Little Dalles was made.
had been feared that this point in the rive
was impassa BILE, but the boat went up withou
difficulty. This night was spent short dis
!, tance below the 49lh parallel. The next day
the llth, the boat ran up a few miles to Foi
Shepherd, which is Hudson Bay Company
!, Columbia, about o mile above the Interna
J. tioual Boundary Line. Here Captain Whit
made the necessary arrangements with th
ID Colonial custom-bouse officials, and spent th
\, day with the British, who weredeiight,d .
d the success of the enterprise. On the 18th
the boat passed the rapids at Little Rock |.
land, seven miles above Fort Shepherd. bl
- was forced 10 take out a tow-line to help h,
over. FIVE miles above this point she wa
"a helped over another riffs, and, ran up TO Ill
mouth of the Kootenai. The fret thing to
done on the morning of the 18th was to pu
!. up another rifle, which is the last until ii
~ head of Upper Arrow Lake is reached. 1t
,r fprty miles from Colvile Landing to Fo
:. Shepherd, and thirty-fve from thence to ii
!. mouth of the Kootenai. The hills througho
i. the entire distance rise almost from the ma
l. gin Of the river, and the difficulties of nav
'A cation are very similar to those on Sual
or River, above Palouse Rapids, except that Il
g stream is not impeded with the big bouldc
- aud rocky masses which make Snake so da
gerous. w.. .....