Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-08-19
TOUR THROUGH WESTERN
STATES

Mrs. Geo. Ward and her two daugh-
tiers and granddaughter, Hulda Ward
Mrs. Nina Birmingham and Margar-
ct Birmingham started on June Gath
for a visit to her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. J. Bogardus of Portland,
Oregon. and are also going to visit
the Panama Exposition before they
return home.
On their way, they passed through
many points of interest One of the
first being Valley City, North Dakota.
They passed by that place just at
sunset and it made a very beautiful
picture as they looked down on the
green fields stretching beneath them,
and the city over in the distance.
The first stop that they made was
at Sand Point, Idaho, where they Wis
tied Mr.. Wards mother, and also
walked across what they were told
was the longest wagon bridge in the
world. Sand Point is situated on the
lake and entirely surrounded by
mountains.
From there they went directly to
Portland and during their stay there
visited various points of interest in
and around that city. July oath they
made a trip over to Bridal Veil, a
small numbering town, on the Column
bia and visited Mrs. Wards brother,
who is working there. While there
they enjoyed an automobile ride on
the Columbia River Highway, and al
so party of people took trip up to
the top of Larch mountain, which is
400 feet high. They went up by au-
tomobile 1000 feet to Palmer and then
by logging train nine miles, and had
dinner at logging camp. After din
ner the party proceeded to the top of
the mountain on foot. While at the
summit of the mountain they went
hundred feet high. In this tower was
field glass used for locating the for
est fires, and while up there they no
ticed that five snow capped mountains
could be seen Mt. Hood, Mt. st.
Helens, Mt. Tacoma, Mt jefferson
and Mt. Adams. They could see for
miles down the Columbia, as they
coasted down the mountain from the
logging camp to Palmer
August Sth they took trip up the
Columbia River to the Cascade Locks
and Cascade Falls, and enjoyed the
beautiful scenery along the banks.
Some of the most interesting ones
were Rooster Rock, huge gray
monolith $50 feet high; Thoris
Heights, a bold promontory $50 feet
above the river; Pillars of Hercules,
large basaltic columns about twenty
five miles from Portland and Bridal
Veil Falls. The Multnomah Falls are
a masterpiece of the Columbia river
gorge scenery, and consists of two
distinct falls, the upper one go feet
and the lower one so feet, with short
cascade between. The Horse Tail
Falls also were very beautiful, cat
aract having a total fall of nearly
1000 feet. st. Peters Dome was the
middle and highest of three prominent
points rising several hundred feet
above the main brow of high cliffs and
having an elevation of 1000 feet. Cas-
tie Rock, on the Washington side,
covers an area of seventeen acres and
is 900 feet high. They went as far
as the Cascade of the Columbia and
Cascade Locks. These Locks were
built by the government at a cost
Of three and half million, and COM
pleted in 1895. The water level diff
ference between the upper and lower
cascades is forty five feet. On the
Washington side of the river is the
site of the old block house built by
Lieutenant Phil Sheridan in 1856.
The convict ship Success, which
was launched at Moulmain, India, in
1870. is at this time in Portland. 1t
is the Oldest ship afoat today and
was used by England, to transport
convicts to Australia. The many de-
vices of punishment used at that time
were shown and it hardly seemed pos
sible that they could infiict such cruel
punishment upon a human being for
such petty reasons, as many of them
were.
The party will retun, home before
school starts.