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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1887)
THE WEST SHORE. The Utter, mUWh drain more tlian half (two stone, half a mile apart. They are one hundred tvnin.1 s-jnare miles) the area of the irk, and eight and three hundred and nine feet in enter t thesoutheart corner at an elevation height. East of Alum creek is the region of ,4 !.!! even thousand nine hundred t, and h'our creek, broken by low, heavi!yt::nbeal fcmirur alt northwest through YellowHtone ridges, extending to Mirror lake plateau, on the lake and tl (rnl ranyon, crosses the north- east. North of the Grand canyon is the wen em Umndary at an altitude of five thousand cent-shaied Mt. Washburne range, the open three hundred feet. Yellowstone lake (seven ing toward the Yellowstone river, and drained llwmnand seven hundred and forty feet), the by Tower creek. The interior slopes of this larjret lake at great elevation in North Amer- crater-like area, and the rhyolite plateau along l-m, ha a U-ngih and breadth, respectively, of Tower creek, are densely timbered, except near twenty and fifteen miles, a depth of three hnn- Anteloj creek. Broad and Deep creeks which Ired feet, and an area of one hundred and fifty have cut deep canyons in the plateau, enter the juare mile. The shore line, indented by sev- Yellowstone east of Mt. Washburne, and north eral lare Uy, is over one hundred miles. of these are the slopes of Amethyst mountain TV l?titifi! nines of the sandy beaches and and Specimen ridge. The East Fork, the main rrnulpirityitfit water, make it an object of branch of the Yellowstone, joins it from the nmwHul intem-i. With the exception of the east, about twenty miles above where the Yel Ye!lt..nerinlre, rising from its eastern shore, lowstone crosses the northern boundary of the H.wmsin.le..ya(renerallylow,heavilyti.n- park, at its junction with the Gardiner river Irredommtry. A few mile southwest, on the Tl.is portion of the main river is called the IT Vu lhf r,i.rM,nt!1 livi'le' 8re the ThW ranyn- 14 ha9 m of the well-defined huanmior Ilr.rt. .n.l Shonhone laken. walls of the Grand canyon. On the eastri Z'Z 7- T , 1,n,Cil,i,"S ite 81I-. veral thousand Z U- n. Ury to the Uke-fifteen nules-m . Mug- more of a plateau character, and about Black- i ZX i J dWn ovwd . interspersed with groves .4 ,en tU,, L altitude .1, JT t f V amphi' .1- Yelk,., ran, nuking down toTe 1 v n fr0m ita iu"Ction rd the ivii,n creek Aril? ""s nins through an open, grass-covered val- .i. . , . . " rfw rtlning the ley. from one to on r,A - kw ... i.v mm rm m Mirror lake t lit can en ii . . u num in w mm. iiMr u- x.. . ' . ,w ,aKe 'l" main branches Sli , ,, nunc, VIH HC, mile f'aW.ui an.i n:n.. " fh..rt. form. . Mrrow i ;. :,7 East Fork runs in a well-timbered '-ntbeMUnv,, jwjw. The short streams from the Mirror -M divi,U, hrtn "1 ; ak Plateau head in beautiful grassy parks, of- rJ 10 " tl ir,nd canyoT' , hfUndred in "tenVhe valley. mo, h bM,n bT Utenil he main stream and its principal tributaries ZuZ K J2 1 ndarie8 f the "ngin? altitude k - - H nuin,,, ,,y A, dnd Wpedai and ridges, . Ail-.-lti,, r . tSnden thousand eight hundred feet in it and lITJ '. the m XT' ' S1ongh creek is an area ot " C he YeHoi: yimbewd plateau. On the Gar mer' lonr miles south of the northern