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1541. Castle Rock (Beacon Rock)
Castle Rock (Beacon Rock)
Description
Here is the other rock, located a little farther up the river and on the opposite side from Rooster Rock. The story runs that two Indian chiefs wooed the same maiden who kept them both in suspense. Finally the two chiefs quarrled, each blaming the maiden's delay on the other. The quarrel grew so bitter that the gods took a hand in the matter, changed each chief into a rock and seperated them by permitting the waters of the Columbia between them. The maiden also was punished by being transformed into the Horsetail Waterfall, 'ever escaping up the hill with her hair trailing behind, but never getting away'.
1542. Cascades on Columbia River
Cascades on Columbia River
Description
The old Indian legend held that the cascades here were formed when a great earthquake destroyed the 'Bridge of the Gods' which at one time, according to tradition, spanned the Columbia at this place. Of course, this is not accepted today, but it is easy to understand how such a legend was evolved. Our picture shows the cascades at a period far below the high water mark. The fall of the river through the cascades is about 40 feet.
1543. Columbia River, Oregon
Columbia River, Oregon
Description
The Columbia River rises east of the Pacific Mountains and is the only one which cuts its way across them to the ocean. The salmon fisheries of the Columbia are the most valuable in the United States and many million dollars' worth of salmon are taken every year. These fish are of an especially fine variety known as the chinook or quammat salmon. The shores of the river above and below Astoria are lined with great establishments for curing and canning salmon, and shipping the product to all parts of the world. The fish wheels are not used near the mouth of the river, but near the cascades, where the river is narrow and the rapids force the fish close to the banks, where the wheels take them in enormous quantities. The meshes of the nets catch the fish at the gills and prevent their escape. The number of salmon that ascend the Columbia seems beyond reckoning. They are found by thousands at the great falls of the Snake River, 600 miles from the sea and in Clark's Fork at a still greater distance.
1544. Marys River dam
Marys River dam
1545. Columbia Gorge waterfall with footbridge
Columbia Gorge waterfall with footbridge
1546. "Looking west from Albany Bridge over the Willamette River, vanishing twilight"
"Looking west from Albany Bridge over the Willamette River, vanishing twilight"
Description
Taken July 8, 1941, 8:20 P.M. Albany, Oregon
1547. Oregon City in the early days
Oregon City in the early days
Description
In 1829 Dr. John McLoughlin laid claim to some land near Willamette Falls by making a number of improvements on it. He said that he believed this locality was 'destined by nature to become the best place for commerce in the country'. As time went on a number of settlers located there. The city was platted and named, by Dr. McLoughlin, 'Oregon City,' and became incorporated under the laws of the Provisional Government in 1844. This picture was probably taken around 1845, when the population did not exceed five hundred and when Portland was just a convenient camping place between Fort Vancouver and Oregon City.
1548. Mill Creek Falls, Oregon
Mill Creek Falls, Oregon
1549. Table Mountain, Oregon
Table Mountain, Oregon
1550. Willamette River, Oregon
Willamette River, Oregon
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