The Hood River glacier., November 28, 1912, Image 4

HOOD RIVER GLACIER, THURSDAY, XOVEMBERT28, 1912
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THE COLUMBIA RIVER
AUTOMOBILE ROAD
(Ky Joe 1). Thomison, in Sunset.)
Within the deep shade of an obscure
but charming nook, enclosed by the
foliage of many huzelnut bUHhea, the
loaves heavy with spray fog wafted
from the cataract, my head leaning
UKaiiiHt the bark of a cedar, the roots
of which found moisture among the
crevices of the bascrock, 1 gazed
through half closed eyes upon the
waters of Multnomah Falls. Kight
hundred and forty feet from the top of
the time worn Columbia river gorge
they plunged to the rounded punch
bowl at my feet. A warm summer
time sun played on the world above
me. Apollo's chariot had puasod the
meridian height and the afternoon rays
' made silvery the white foaming bil
lows hurtling lover the precipice and
leaping wildly downward to the turbu
lent whirl pool beneath me. The mois
ture from the spray'tillcd the niche in
the Columbia's canyon with a fra
grance, an earthy perfume, the kind
that tills the soul of a weary man with
gladneua.
Such a picture in such an environ
ment could only stimulate and inspire
day-dreams. The rythmic roar of the
waters, now frightfully near, now
seemingly far away, just as the gusts
of windthat sweep forever around the
base of the cataract chose to bear the
sound, was the same as might have
been heard !by the earliest north coast
pioneer had he sought a similar nook
more than a naii-ceniury ago.
The caverns or the gorge s crags
echoed with the whistle of a locomotive
and a passenger train sped along its
line of Btcel rails not 1200 feet away
Faces of travelers, pressed to the car
windows, gazed at nature a water rib
Imn for th brief moment of the miss
ing man-mane mechanism. How little
they saw ! Since the completion of
the railroad lines along the waters of
the Columbia, the passengers on the
trains have looked upon the wonderful
scenery of the route and breathed rap
turous praises, let me peaKs aim pin
nacles, the colored stones of clitfs and
ragged-edged crags, the silvery foam
of cataiacts and cascading streams
which rush down little canyons leading
off from the big cleft made in the
earth's surface by the Columbia, all
have moved by their gaze like some
too swiftly manipulated film of a mov
ing picture machine. The eye of man,
always hungering for the wonderful,
has craved more, and the schedule of
the swift passenger service has not
permitted it. This might be likened to
the variety show of nature. The va
riety show of the stage may easily
grow tiresome. Not so tne green hills
and the weather stained brown rocks
of nature's theatre - there's not
enough, or rather not time enough to
look at it.
Not Brother natual pass cleaves the
large of the Cascades, at the crest of
which loom some of the world's most
picturesque peaks Hood, Adams,
Kainier, St. Helen's, The Three Sis
ters. And this is why the Columbia
has been such a factor in commerce
it is one of nature's great highways.
The earliest white man, the trapper
lured to the region to secure the pelt
of beavers, found the Indians traveling
its waters. Its steep bunks resounded
with the songs of Dr. Mclaughlin's
French voyageurs in the days when
Vancouver was the norhtwestern seat
of the Hudson's ISay Co., and when the
surrounding regions poured untold
profit into the treasury of the gigantic
British corporation. Hut for the ser
vice of the streum that little handful
of men who established tho provisional
government ot Uregon at Lhunipneg,
those fathers of one of theUnion'a
greatest commonwealths, would have
found almost impossible the passage to
the valley of the Willamette.
That the soil of Oregon was fertile
and that climatic conditions were ideal
were bits of news that spread with
rapidity throughout the country, and
the population of the communities
grew wonderfully fast. Homeseckera
piled their possessions on barges and
bateaux at The IDulles on their iour-
neys down the Columbia to the land of
plenty, portaging at the Cascades,
where Indian legend says that in anci
ent times the river lan beneath the
arches of a great natural bridge, "The
linage or Iheliods. As the lionu a
lion of the territory grow and it wag
taken into the Uaion s family of sis
ters as a still, money was amiromi
ated to construct a highway, in order
mat closer communication might be
esiaunsnt'u wun me east.
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iniurauy, me route cnosen was
along the Columbia, and until the Ore
gon Kailway and Navigation Com
pany's line of railway was completed
in 18S2 along the edge of the water at
the foot of the gorge, the mails and
passengers from east and west were
transported over this wagon road. Di
rect from Hoiso to I'ortland the way
of the pony express lead across the
prairie, the land of sage brush and
wandering herds of buffaloes, to The
Dalles and down into the gorge of the
Umimliia.
W hen the railroad was completed
the track covered a portion of the
highway, which immediately lost its
usefulness. In the counties of Hood
Kiver and Multnomah, mountains rise
abruptly from the edge of the Colum
bia's waters and there has been no res
ident to reclaim and maintain portions
of the old wagon road . It has become
over grown with bushes a quarter of a
century old, its bridges have rotted
away and slides have obliterated por
tions of the retaining walls on clitT
sides.
To thoughts of this old road the
faces of the passengers on the speed
ing train brought me. And my dreams
were filled with prophetic visions; for
there is to be a resurrection of the
pioneer highway.
In tne oavs wnen tne ponv express
toituously bore the mails from lioiso to
Portland, Oregon was thought to be a
far-away land of wilderness. Hut
progress found the region of an exceed
ingly great fertility and the energies
oi men nave ueen maue to worn won
ders ln the fostering clime. In all
AnmrinQ llu.nn Vi.rttinfi hut n..t f.i,t....Ml
men and their children and the efforts
or coin more Uian in tiregon. liroad
wlllut Hlilll flUUn tlilllviulwwl kllivo l..,!
have grazed on her plains, orchards
have blossomed and borne apples se
cond to none in the world's markets,
and the pine and fir forests have added
inestimable wealth. Citizens of Ore
gon, both urban and rural, have pros
pered. The grandsons of the pioneer,
who felled the trees, grubbed stumps
and cleared the soil, occupy homes of
modern comfort. Hut the country is
new, everything bears evidence of this,
and beside the modern mansion erected
to take its place may be seen the hut
of the homesteader, one roomed and of
logs, icii to commemorate the eaily
toil of the pioneer.
Yet thp iriMwirut win th'lt lit'.ia .....I
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rules todav in the nnrlhu.mt aninvu t
latest modes of business convenience
anu pleasure tnat progress can suggest.
Alld ill the statu of Drmmn tl... I., ..I,,,
car has superceded to a great extent
uiu uuj ami norse, tne nacK and
team. The laraer eitiiiy nf
have their many automobiles, but it is
noi aione uie city man who owns a
motor vehicle: his country cousin has
found it a means of convenience to him
self in his business ai,d a source of
pleasure to his entire family. The
latest model car may be found thread
ing the orchards of Hood River or
journeying across the stock farm dis
trict of Wasco county. The ranchers
of the central Oregon country sp.-i.it
across the open country from citv to
city faster than ever the cowboy
dreamed of spurring.
Thus the wonders of the prophetic
vision that crept through my thoughts
as I dreamed day dreams beside M u i t
nomah Kails! In a year's time that
inspiring spectacle of nature will no
longer he isolated. Already the citi
zens c' Multnomah county are building
. i:i;a uiey may travel on j
holidays and Sunday in a region which ,
the (,od of Nature created with lavish
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I, ts""'j, i tuc resur
rected road of pioneer days, will m.s 1
V i u 1111 1,1 1,11 wonderful,
Tails the spray iddying at the whirl
pool bar.e will be dashed in the very !
faces of the travelers. The spirit of i
, he war chief, Multnomah, leader of
, he W.llametlcs, . which it is said, sits
besule the head of the falls which hears j
, . .in,c, .ins warned tor a century
j the progress of the white man. Fir-:t
I the pony trail ; tiu n the railroad; vet
i even hpfnm t . I.-.- -.
w t xi i '""'luuuve came t ie
Ked Man s ghost had been puzzled bv
the smoke of the steamboats that crept
wil pass before those spectral eve
shall marvel at the moving parade of
automot des that will thread the nar
row base of the Columbia river go ge
.,.,, ' 01 ,rr'lard ""e made to'
realize tr.,- need of the Columbia river 1
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highway as soon as the practicability
of motor vehicles was solved. For ten
years or more the reconstruction the
obliterated portions of the highway
and the building of the a new road,
where the railroad has converted the
right of way, has been agitated. The
expense of boring the new grade
through the few short difficult places
will reach into the hundreds of thou
sands of dollars. However, no one
ever goes over the route but he be
comes an enthusiastic booster, and
ways and means are now being defin
itely devised.
'Ihe greatest recent incentive given
toward a hasty completion of the road
was a donation of 10,000 by S. Ben
son, a wealthy timber man of Portland,
who declares that nothing will make
him happier than to give of his fortune
to make possible the boulevard that
will lead up the Columbia from Port
land to the orchards and grainfields of
the eastern portion of the state. Mr.
Henson gave the sum last spring with
the proviso that it must be spent with
in a year on the highway.
One of the bugaboos of the recon
struction of the way in Hood River
county has been Shell Rock mountain,
a mass of sliding stone almost a thou
sand feci high that has given unceas
ing trouble to the maintenance of de
partment of the railroad company. At
this difficult point it was decided to
spend the first donation. Governor Os
wald West was made trustee of the
fund. He. detached a crew of his
"honor men," prisoners from the state
penitentiary who are placed on their
honor and given the freedom of the
open air, to aid in the construction of
the state's highways. These men, who
are paying the penalties for crimes,
are using their efforts, the labor of
their punishment, in a way that will
be benectiial to every citizen in the
state. The work of encircling Shell
Rock was entrusted to Murray Kay,
Hood River county's engineer, who has
had experience in making the surveys
(Tf .trancnil'inental lines of railway.
This work has heen found far less ex
pensive than estimated and it will have
completed ty the end ofithe year. The
base ef the hi. gbear mountain will be
conquered.
The oh) road, the surface of which
still tears the marks of the early pony
express, will remain a remnant, or relic,
of tho early clays. Its retaining wall,
a hundred feet above the newly sur
veyed mute, is now the home of chip
munks, pe'eupines and digger squirrels.
It is the very grave of a road, and in
the springtime wnite dogwood blossoms
and red and pink sprigs of thousands of
wild currant bushes droop themselves
above the tomb, while theurple foli
age of the Oregon grape and the gold
and yellow leaves of the vine maple
pay nature's tribute to past usefulness
in autumn.
The first spadeful of loose earth and
stone was turned on the Shell Rock
portion of the highway on Thursday,
May 23rd, when the convicts began
their labors with a number of Hood
I;'-er cou.;tv ollicia's and Governor
WeBt present for the initial construc
tion. As the state's chief executive
watched the "honor men" toiling away
at their great task he said to the Hood
River officials: "1 would rather be
instrumental in hastening the comple
tion of this road than to be United
State senator the rest of my life."
The older residents of bustling met
ropolitan Portland are retiring from
the active toil of life and choosing
among the many neighboring localities
spots for summer homes. Their cot
tages rise by the sea at Seaside and
Tillamook, and now those who are
seeking the most beautiful in nature
are looking longingly at the little can
yons that open into the gorge of the
Columbia, where creeks rising from
glacial sources back in the foothills
come tumbling in cataracts over the
precipice. There are scores of them
along the route of the high way. What
a drive for the motorist in twenty, ten,
aye, even five years from now ! Every
available spot will have become the
site of a villa, where in the early
morning the fortunate possessor of
such a home may view from hia front
varanda the sun, red-orbed, as it
emerges from the mists of the river
which pours down to the sea its vol
umes of water from almost half a con
tinent. Those who have looked at the
Hudson and the homes along that
waterway above New York know their
attraction. But the scenery of the
Columbia is wilder, grander, more gor
geous and of a different nature. At
the top of the big cleft of the canyon,
one may look out in the broad expanse
of surrounding territory at the shim
mering white peaks of four'magnificent
mountains.
The great goal of the road for Port
land wi1! be the luring scenery around
the north base of Mount Hood. Indeed,
as now planned, the Columbia river
highway will form a link in a grand
boulevard loup, for it is proposed to
cut a way from the south end of Hood
River valley through to the highway
that leads up the Sandy river from
Multnomah county. The federal gov
srnment has already cut a trail through
the forest reserve here, a trail with a
grade that in no place exceeds five per
cent. The citizens have asked congress
for an appropriation to complete the
road through the reserve, and Oregon
federal legislators are urging that the
fund be granted.
Thus a road will be constructed of
about 175 miles in length that for the
scenic region it will open to the trav
eler cannot be surpassed in any quarter
ot the globe, the Portland motorist
will be able to leave the streets of his
city in the early morning, speed up the
Blight grade leading to the foothills
and in a few hours be among the grand
eua.uf the "Witch Mountain," as Hood
is'termed in the Indian legend. The
highway will skirt the base of the
white peak for about fifty miles and
the traveler will be able to look into
the very crevasses of the wonderful
glaciers. Then the road will wind
around down through the Hood River
valley, where within a decade every
highway will be a broad avenue be
tween the trees of thousands of acres
of orchards. Through the Valley of
Appies the way threads the country
homes of the orchardists and finds the
volcanic formations and basaltic crags
of the Columbia. The improvement of
roads forms the chief topic of discus
sion among the ranchers, forty per cent
of whom are owners of automobiles
for they have realized their usefulness
as vehicles of business and pleasure.
Also, the agitation for the Columbia
boulevard has imbued the central Ore
gon rancher with enthusiasm. Hitherto
his opportunities to travel in his auto
mobile have been limited to the north.
With the completion of the roadway
they will be able to tour directly to
Portland.
Hut the Columbia river road will not
be a mere way of convenience to the
people of Portland and vicinity. It
will form the most beautiful part ot a
transcontinental route. From the Hood
River valley the route will lead to The
Lalles and on to the east over the old
Oregon trail. And those who have
traveled through and explored tne
country of central Oregon declare it
will form link in the favorite route
of the motorist who desires to leave the
north coast for a tour of California;
for but few, and no really difficult, I
barriers will obstruct the machine 1
bound from the tableland region around ,
Bend, whither the route will lead up
the Deschutes river from The Dalles
into the Klamath basin.
The most beautiful creations of na
ture along the route are between The
Dalles and Portland. Further east the
region bears the wild awesome bleak
ness of the desert land, while in the
Cascade range the expanse of neither
bank of the Columbia is covered with
evergreen pines and firs having se
cured a foothold in every crevice.
The country through which the high
way will pass abounds in legend and
story, ever reminding the traveler of
the disappearing tribes of red men.
Near The Dalles are the Memaloose
islands, where the waters of the river
eddy around the burying grounds of
ancient warriors. Below Hood River
are scores of crags and peaks, every
one having a significance in Indian my
thology But none is more awe-inspiring
than the abutments of the "Bridge
of the Gods". They stand near the
Cacsades, where the government has
constructed a system of locks to make
possible a waterway around the treach
erous rapids of the river, which run
"on edge," to use the phrase of those
who have attempted to eound the
stream at this point. So narrow is the
river here that a strong man might
hurl a stone from one bank to the
other, and the walls of the abutments
rise almost perpendicularly from the
water's edge. The bridge is supposed
to have fallen at some early time
before the white man had dreamed of
the land of Oregon, when the volcanic
mountains of the region were in vio
lent eruption.
Who could not dream day dreams in
a region so.full of the inspiring won
ders of nature? The residents of the
region are just beginning to reailze
the value of the mountains, hills and
cascading streams as an asset. The
intervening valleys are returning prof
its from the fertile soil and the hills
are yielding up their fruit of lumber,
but there are other tales to be told of
what harvest may be reaped from the
scenery, when roads, the best that road
builders' art can contrive, have pene
trated the mountain districts.
The people who live among them, as
they find the haunts of the mountain
becoming more accessible, have learned
their charm and are thankful to the
god, or goddess, of fortune for having
turned ttiier'passage through life to an
envoironment where prosperity abounds
amid a region so marvelous. All the
countryjis becoming more and more at
tracted to the northwest. Completed
highways are making the hitherto iso
lated alluring sports accessible, but
none of them will reveal these hidden
charms to the sight of the traveler as
delightfully as the finished Columbia
river road.
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