The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-09-15
Capt. TedI'S Portrayal
OF Sights to be Seen Along the
Pacific Slope and in the
Western States.
Salt Lake City. Aug. 80, 1906.

from San Francisco to Portland.
The journey had nothing of inter-
est, save heat in the San Joquin
valley, which is very fertile and de-
voted largely to wheat. Crossing
the divide we kept up the Sacra-
mento, paralleling it, on the south
to Reding, the head of navigation,
at which point it went into the
mountains, and the river became a
surging canyon, with water falls,
and the most picturesque scenery
/ ever beheld. / will not attempt
a description, as did SO, in very
inadequate way, in letter to the
Grant Parish Democrat few days
ago. We entered Portland down
the valley of the Willamette river,
passing the city of Oregon, when
there was a fall of 25 or 80 feet in
the river. The ingenuity of man
at this point, put in break-water
at the falls, turning about one half
of the river into a fume, and with
it runs two big paper pulp mills,
makes electricity for their own
town, besides furnishing all the
electricity for Portland with no.
600 inhabitants twelve miles away.
The other half they turned through
an artificial channel and locked it,
and now the river boats ascend with
perfect ease, and do quite bust
ness above the falls-a thing un-
known before. 1t is only remind
er OF what brains and money can
do.
We cross it and go into Port
land at the upper end of the har-
Dor. / saw the shipping that is
great. One sees flag from al
most every part of the world. l
took in the town, like it very much.
Its people remind me SO much OF
the people of the east in form, stat
ne and manners. Their complex
ion is better. Every woman is
fair, with rosy cheeks, and lips SC
red that they attract attention. The
men all look we'll, too. This is due
largely to the fact that they gel
their drinking water from big
stone reservoir at the foot of Mount
Hool, more than forty miles away
and it is melted snow. The noun.
tain is always snow capped and is
plainly visible from Portland
heights. So on four other grea
peaks of the Cascade range. 1t il
very peculiar about these noun
tains. Between them and thu
ocean there is virtually no winter
and all is green during that sea
son, while on crossing the rang
all is wrapped in the clutch
es of zero weather very often
Portland is a mining town, will
pretty houses and prosperous peo
pie. It has Is banks, with $40,
100000 capital and did cfearanc
business last year of 1892, 900, 00t
The city has Al public and 81 pr
vate schools, and 80 churches
with property valued at more tina
S2,OO0,0OO. There is timber galore
fir trees eight feet through an
one hundred and sixty feet to tn
first limb, and grass and violets e,
erywhere, In winter it rains all th
time. But / missed the prett
flowers of the south Pacific.
Enjoyed my visit to the sight
of the Lewis & Clarke Expositio
grounds. There is one buildin
the city by contract keeps intac
the Forestry Building. Th
grounds for building were donate
BY the city and cost $4,000. Ha
riman, or .. L. lame, donated III
concrete foundation, 75x225 fe'
and the exposition authorities col
structed the building at a cost {
1926, 900 and were to give it to Il
city when they were through.
is made of fir logs about four fe
through and one hundred fe
long hewn on two sides and OF
edge, leaying one side expose
round and with the bark on. ]
support the ponderous roof a
two rows of fir logs fully four fe
thick and probably thirty-fve fe
high, standing out like two rows
columns. They are simply save
perfectly square and set uprigt
with n great beam measuring Il
length of the building passil
over their center on top. This
filled with all the specimens
commercial woods In the State
Oregon, and they are numero
indeed. Among them are; FOUR &C
j A Ill H.