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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1887)
511 THE WEST SHORE. and myself were two murderers we heard " We were looking for a duck's nest, of as we passed through Drayton." when you observed our mysterious move- " Oh, I did! " cried Clara, pathetically, ments," said Bert "I surely thought you were the men; Well, the long deferred lunch was made two of you, and dressed as they were a most hospitable "spread," and the said to be, and and you came so cau- travelers remained over night, and left tiously through the bushes over there." neit day, with a cordial invitation to "No wonder we looked suspicious," "come again.' The young lawyer did laughed the man. " Let me introduce come again, and finally took his jailer myself as Professor Woodard wait, back to Buffalo with him, to keep him here is my card. My companion is my straight He often calls his energetic nephew, Mr. Norris, a lawyer in Buffa- little wife his detective, and jokes her la This is a scientific trip, on my part, about her first case; and when he goes and Bert came along for fun. Eh, Bert?" too far, she sings he added, as that young man and Tom came up the stops, with faces full of fun. !'? J00 you up ? df Bmoke"houe cellar, v i i i i t made key trown in le well." Mr. orris was introduced, and explan ations followed. F. A. Reynolds. THE CASCADE LOCKS. 'PHE Columbia river is unique among ber, coal and the precious metals, reach 1 J 10 tT.CAm of the United Statc- annually many millions of dollars in Draining an area of nearly two value. One item alone-that of fifteen hundred and fifty thousand square miles, million bushels of wheat, with but a greater than that drained by the Penob- small percentage of the land under ac scott, Kennebec Connecticut, Hudson, tual cultivation-shows of what it is Susquehanna, Delaware and Potomac capable when rates of transportation eumbiD fed by therainsof avast re- shall be offered which will not eat up the gion in winter, and the melting snows of profits of the producer. even great mountain ranges in summer, Between the Cascade' mountains, on and crrying at all times an enormous the west, and the Blue, Bitter S and volume owaer its channel is soseri. (W d'Alene mounta ns on thTeast ously obstruct!, in many places, as to lies an agricultural are of vast x' impossible without the expenditure of beeacwTerteb.K much money upon iU improvement a pastoral to ftn Vf u i This stream is the natural commercial Cittl- ? fteural region, highway for a large and fertile SS p of cereal, cattle, & of
