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The grandeur of its mountain scenery, rugged canyons, glacial streams, river gorges and hemmed-in lakes' cannot but impress every visitor. The scenic beauties of the Pacific Northwest are without equal in this country and some portions of the region are unsurpassed in all the world. . During the past few years the people of the Pacific Northwest have begun to realize what the natural scenery of the region is worth in dollars and cents. Local communities have built modern roadways so that the great scenic attractions can be made easily acces sible. They have set about to capitalize the wonders of mountain and forest. The most pretentious enterprise in this connection was the construction of the Columbia River Highway by Multnomah County.,- This project was completed early last year at a cost of .$1 ,700,000. Sixty miles of hard-surface highway leads from Portland through the Columbia River Gorge to the Hood River County line, which, for its engineering fea tures and scenic interest has no equal in America. Ultimately the highway will be extended on east and will provide a direct river highway with the Inland Empire. The highway also will be similarly improved between Portland and the sea, in course of time. Modern, paved highways also reach the principal points of scenic interest in the Puget SouAd district. Beautiful drives out of Tacoma, Seattle, Vancouver, B. C, Victoria,' B. C, Spokane and other cities in the Northwest are numerous. With such driveways and with its incomparable scenic beauties the Pacific Northwest has something worth while to offer to the tourist. In order to advertise the scenic assets of the district and to attract tourist travel an organization, known as the North Pacific Coast Tourist Association, has been formed. The association will exploit the scenic attrac tions of the Northwest and will make a bid for a part of the tourist crop which, in normal times, amounts to about $700,000,000 a year. Among other things, the association will feature Crater Lake, the Josephine caves, McKenzie River, Klamath Lakes. Wallowa Lake and the Coast lakes and resorts with the Columbia River Highway in Oregon; Rainier National Park, the Georgian circuit around Puget Sound and which carries the traveler across Vancouver Island, Mount Baker, the splendid scenic points of Spokane and Eastern Oregon, and will show the traveler how he can see all these things and what it will cost him. They will devotetheir advertisements to the general plan as the greatest scenic "route" in the world. The plan of the organization calls for the election of eight directors from each state and territory, whose business it will be to see that each state gets a square deal. An execu tive committee of two from each state and territory will have charge of this work, the hiring of assistants and the payment of bills. For Oregon the directors are Emery Olmstead. vice-president, Portland; H. A. Latta. Medford; R. E. Scott, Hood River; J. H. Koke, Eugene; Tilford Taylor, Pendleton; W. J. Hofmann. of The Oregonian; Phil Metschan, Jr., of the Oregon Association of Hotelmen; C. C. Overmire, representing the automobil men of the slate, and Mark Woodruff, of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. W. J Hofmann and C C. , Overmire are members of the executive committee for Oregoi The Oregon Legislature will be asked for ,$25,000 to carry on the publicity workV ft