Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-10-23

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added TO the too small aeprorriatioos
for ths Improvement Of shs Columbia
river and its bar.
Upon arriving at The Dsllss, the hrss
! phase deserving even the name of a
town, one naturally casis back glance
a. the eOuntry traversed, and refe-ts
upon the character Of the road. With it,
torioous vindin9s ir and ous, over tres
ties, bridges, and over and through the
mountain elbows. The former trans
/ psrtation system vas by boat from
Portland TO the Lower Cascade, thea a
rail portage six miles 10 the Upper Caa-
cades, then by boat to The DAiles. This
sss expensive, troublesome and inoon-
venieus. Il 10 the era Of through rail
lines, and one canaot heip admiring the
courage Of Henry Willard, th st Vas based
on the uov realized expectations Of fu-
tore business from that vast inland
Rransry, Who, conceiving the scheme Of
q railroad between Tue Dslles and
Portland, and confronted as be must
have been With the estimates of euorm.
| ous cost, was spurred 10 finance 1t
throagh all the engineering difficulties
1 to sucoessful consammation.
Beyond The Dailes one passes that
interesting locality where the river
1 s1CtsthA tdah kOfkt III tue
mountains, has cut deep cnasms in the
During periods OF low water. as now,
the stream seeks the lower levels by
| pourina thrsaah the many openings, bot
when the SHOWS melt on the vast water
shed Of the Columbia and increases the
volume during the frcshets 10 June, the
rashinR aud whirlinR of the torrent over
these brown 9 rratsd rocks 10 grand and
ave-inspirinR.
In this locality the railroad company
10 met With the problem Of taking care
| Of the sand. A vest wind In summer
blows with great velocity, constructing
dunes along the line Of the road and
| blowing the sand at points upon the
roadbed. A similar question was suc-
cessfully treated On the drifting sand-
hills of San Francisco, where selected
vegetation took root and enabled the
city 10 reclaim what is nov the beautiful
Golden Gate Park. Bot efforts in this
| direction above The Dalles seem not 10
hsve met With any marked success, al
though the trouble has been abated.
The train pashed on to Dayton, then
back TO Walla Wslla, that prosperous
metropolis of the district that bears its
name; then to Umatilla; then over that
treeless waste on the Northern Pacific
TO Palouss function, the western end of
the Columbia and Paiouse X ,iiroad. III
miles long. belonsina to the d. n IN.
Co., aud unfortun stsly isolated from
the rest Of that system.
We retraeed our course from Moscow
via Palouse aud Umatills functions, en-
tering the Baker City branch. running
through the Blue Mountains 2lS miles
to Huntington. there connectina with
she Oregon Short Lins, and from this
point a direct run was made to Port
land, accomplishing q distance Of l4o0
miles in three days.
Having completed the round and OF
amined the map of the country. l was
compelled TO indulge in little quiet
hero worship of Henry Willard because
of the foresight and consummste skill
with which be conceived. executed and
protected that Oregon corporation, the
nucleus OF bis enterprises, which is nov
| we'll extended and profitable concern.
When the Northern Pacific threatened
1t, he bought and assumed control of
the threatening element. When the
Union Pacific reached out for his terri.
tory, be met them on the outskirts
When the Central Pacific desired q
northern connection, he started for the
State line 20 join them there; and. In
evident anticipation of the completion
OF the Canadian Pacific, he built to Sc
attle and controlled the steamboat bust
ness OF Puget Sound, 50 that in the
future, IL 10 were found necessary, be
could ptoteot the extreme northwest
business Of his corporations. Nearly
all OF his large and beneficial schemes
we're completed, and 10 is singular
instance Of the consummation of 80
many vast plans conceived very early in
his life In Oregon.
| know 1t Ia scarcely the fashion to
extol Henry Willard now. II was other.
wise once, and that not long since.
There may be those who suffered
through investing in the stocks of his
corporations, and who feel that be vas
In some way responsible for their loss.
Whether or nos they are justified IN
thei. belief, II remains for the north
western country te be eternslly grateful
70 hun fos having quickly accomplished
the grand tack OF making and coRsoli-
dating q transportation system, part Of
which was new and part crippled and
haltina; and this work will and should
Le Q lasting mousmeut TO his ability.
courage and enterprise. IL was a sad
aana a h,m. and he mas a. nnch "a.
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