Rock features of the Columbia River. The storm God of the mountains fashioned these pillars; about them dwelt the guardian angels of the God Coyote. The image appears in the following publication, "Snap Shots on the Columbia."
The Pillars of Hercules stand close to the railroad and always incite the admiration and wonder of those who pass by. On the top of one of these basaltic needles grows an ancient fir tree about 40 feet high and which is said to be over one hundred years old.
