The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1905-08-26
SECOND PORTLAND LETTER
oregon People Spend Little Money and Depend On Visitors
To Made their Fair financial Success.

St. Johns, manufacturing town near
which are located the floating dry docks
of the port of Portland, which have a
capacity of 10000 tons. Oregon City,
with its manufacturing plants and the
beautiful falls of the willamette, are
reached by both boat and trolley, as are
also other points up the willamette and
Clackimas rivers. But the trip OF trips
out from Portland is up the Columbia
Different boats make different points
but the day trip to Cascade Locks and
return seems to be the favorite. Leav-
ing Portland at 500 a. m.. even with
wraps one finds seat on the upper deck
in the bow unpeasantly cool and is glad
tosseek a warmer. if less slightly. place,
further back. For eight miles the boat
passes down the willamette, giving
view of the shipping in the harbor and
the north and east portions of the city,
Sweeping around the point Of the penin
sula between the rivers willamette
light midstream on the left the boat
swings into the broad Columbia. Van
couver, Washington, founded by the
! Hudson Bay company, and one of the
| first settlements on the Pacific coast, is
across the river on the left. 1t is the
site of fine United States military post,
the headquarters of the department Of
the Columbia. Stone quarries, exten-
sively worked, mark the Washington
side for some distance, and beautiful
pastoral scenes, the Oregon. Then the
banks become higher and more broken
and the scenery becomes grand and i'm
posing. A huge gray monolith on
the right called Rooster Rock. marks
the entrance to the Columbia River
Gorge. Falls, threads of silver along
the bluffs breaking into spray or falling
unbroken over the precipice; canyons,
their high walls green with moss and
vine and fern, the mountain stream
making music in their unseen depths,
rapidly succeed each other, delighting
the eye and feeding the soul with their
beauty. Two needle-like hasaltic rocks,
between which run the tracks of the
Y. r. 4 N. Ry., are termed the Pillars
of Hercules. On the left is Cape Horn
with a vertical face 400 feet high. Far
up its slope are grass and trees, and tiny
waterfalls rush over its summit only to
be caught up by the wind. Multnomak,
the grandest of the Columbia cataracts,
falls over prccipice $40 feet high on
the Oregon side. St. Peters Dome is
the name given to huge rock forma-
ton, while Castle Rock ON the left was
an Indian lookout point. Lewis and
Clark called it Pilot Rock. 1t is 1I46
feet high and, until recently, no white
man had reached its summit. Near
Warrendale are numerous fish wheels
where, in the season, the great salmon
are caught. The river narrows rapidly,
and the current becomes stronger, rem
dering navigation upstream extremely
difficult for mile below Cascade Locks.
Boats for The Dalles go through
the locks, constructed by the United
States at a cost of 100000. The
Bailey Gutzert, after half hours stop,
turned again toward Portland, retracing
the path and glorious scenes of the
morning A fine view of Mt Hood was
had ON the return trip, but the air was
too hazy for sight of the seven snow
capped peaks, seen under more favor
able conditions.