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It is announced that the Oregon Pacifio will put an
other large steamer on the route from Yaquina Vny to
San Francisco, Rhe will 1W1 Yaquina Bay early in
May with a cargo of railroad material from the East, and
will then be run on the route aa a oompanion to the Pa
qnina. The material will be used to extend the road to
Albany.
Stiienuocs efforts are being made to induce Congress
to establish a publio park in that portion of Klamath
County which contains the great natural wondor known
as "Crater Lake." The tract SDeoifled enihruwa lint tjm
Townships, making a park twelve miles wide by thirty
lonu, a very small portion of the public domain. Ti i .
region which will never be valuable for anv nurtimina f
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agriculture, and should be protected by Congress from
the clutch of those who will, ere long, Book to obtain pos
session of the few practicable approaches to the Ink a f,r
the purpose of extorting toll from visitors. The United
States has had a sufficiently warning examplo in Niagara
Falls, and should take steps so preserve all such natuml
attractions as Crater Lake for the permanent and unham
pered enjoyment of the people.
At last the oontract for cutting the Cascades Tunnel
has been let, and a definite time, May, 1888, fixed for its
completion. The contract was awarded to Noluon Bon.
nott, who has already done much construction work on
the Northern Pacific, and who is required to givo bonds
in the sura of 1100,000. There Boems no doubt now that
within the specified time the Cascados Branch will be in
running order, and both Tacoma and Seattlo will bo tor
minal points of an ovorland route. The groat benefit
both Eastern and Westorn Washington will enjoy from
boing thus closely linked together are plainly apparout,
and that the completion of this road will have a highly
stimulating effect upon the whole Torritory possibly
State by that time is undeniable. It is a matter of con
graduation for the whole Northwest
Tub fourteenth of February in r.,1l.it.i- ,1u in n.a
lives of thousands of young people who are afflicted with
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e grauu passion in varying degrees of intensity. No
ubt it is SO considered bv the voinm luwmln In 11, a mi.
graving, though what tho butterfly thinks of it is not so
certain. For ono wholo day cocxl old St Valentino ioiim
hands with lliorrv little Puck, and a uliirinim limn tlimi
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have of it together, scattering broadcast their missives of
suuumoni ana burlesque.
Nearly two thousand cattle mon from Texas, Wyom
ing, Utah, California, Nebraska, Arizona, Nevada, Colo
rado, Montana, Idaho, Kansas, New Mexico, Indian Tor
ritory and Mexioo( assembled in Denver on tho 27th of
January, one hundred and seventy-four being accredited
delegates to the first International Rango Cattlo and
Horse Growers' Convention. Though mcmWs of the
National Association, which was founded at St Louis,
the companies and individuals represented by those dele
gntos felt the necessity of organizing an association lim
itod to mombers engaged in the range industry, as distill'
guished from stock-raising in agricultural regions. The
two systems are so distinct, and to a degree antagonistic,
that the range men proposo a separate association as
better means of farthering the interests of the range in
dustry. The probabilities are that the now organization,
representing more definite interests and better organized
enterprises, will soon become more prominent and power
ful than the National Association.
OUR ILLUSTRATIONS.
Thousands have admired the beauty of Multnomah
Mis in tho summer timo, who have little idea of how dif.
foront they appear in winter. During tho few weeks
when ice forms in tho Columbia Gorge, the falls present
a strange, but still beautiful, OHxct The spray is driven
by tho shifting winds in all directions, till every jutting
point or rock for many yards around has a long (mudant
loo. h hen tho storm is over ami the icy crystals ulis-
ten in tho sunlight, tho effect is indescribably beautiful.
The scenery of tho Hooky Mountains, from Mexico to
British Columbia, is peculiar to itself. Its leading char
aetoriHtios aro Ixilduess of outline, prominence of barren
itH'k, scantiness of timber, unique and fantastic rock for
tuations. These features are specially observable in the
accompanying engravings of tho Teton Itange, Prickly
.'ear Canyon, and the large view from tho summit of
Mullau Pass. Tho Tetons aro a spur of tho lUk'kios, ly.
ing near the comers of Idaho, Wyoming and Montana,
and just north of tho route of tho Oregon Short Lino.
Their sharp, spire-like summits served a a landmark for
the early trapiers, explorers and emigrants fur many
weary miles of travel. 1 ho view across the mouutaius, east
ward from tho summit ot Mullau Pane, is unsurpassed
or beauty and grandeur. Iu tho distance lies the Prickly
Poar Valley, in which is the City of Helena, and back of
it riso tho Bolt Mountains, a parallel rango on the onpo.
sitosido of the Missouri. Nearer by can be seen the track
of the Northern Pacific winding its tortuous way down the
mountain to the valley, doubling and turning so often
that it is impossible to toll in which direction the train is
going. Just beneath the point of observation lies the
Mullau Tunnel, through which tho rood crosses the sum
mit The peculiar rock formations are widely scattered
through tho range, but aro probably tho most marked lu
the castellated rocks of the upjior Missouri and the tribu
tary streams. This is olsmrvablo in the sketches of
Prickly Pear Canyon, tho Castle, the Old Yi oinaii and
Turtle, oto. Iu passing through that region the travel,
er's eye is constantly finding profile faces and peculiar
figures among the rocks, whoso sharp and suggestivo out
lines impress themselves upon his memory. To one who
is at all imaginative iu his disposition, there is no end to
the diversity of fantastic forms his eyes will discern.
TliE three compositions on the subject of M Repose,"
are the work of Messrs. Edward Ey, E. W. Moore aud