The Columbia River . o briefly here. Every old Ore-gonian, in thinking of the Willamette, at once asso-ciates it with the apostrophe to it by S. L. Simpson,the gifted and unfortunate poet of Oregon, whosegenius deserved a wider recognition than it ever re-ceived. The first stanza of his poem is this: From the Cascades frozen gorges,Leaping like a child at play,Winding, widening through the valley,Bright Willamette glides away. Onward ever, lovely River, Softly calling to the sea,Time that scars us, maims and mars us,Leaves no track or trench on thee. And now that we have fairly entered the Wil
The Columbia River . o briefly here. Every old Ore-gonian, in thinking of the Willamette, at once asso-ciates it with the apostrophe to it by S. L. Simpson,the gifted and unfortunate poet of Oregon, whosegenius deserved a wider recognition than it ever re-ceived. The first stanza of his poem is this: From the Cascades frozen gorges,Leaping like a child at play,Winding, widening through the valley,Bright Willamette glides away. Onward ever, lovely River, Softly calling to the sea,Time that scars us, maims and mars us,Leaves no track or trench on thee. And now that we have fairly entered the Willa-mette, it becomes speedily evident that we are in thenear vicinity of a large and prosperous city. Steam-boats, an occasional steamship, sailing ships, sometimeshuge four-masted steel ships towed by coughingtugs, long booms of logs in tow of some splutteringstern-wheeler, scows of every description, gasolinelaunches, rowboats,—a motley fleet, they seem to bemaking they way with all possible haste upon CO > W CO CO o 13 o The Lower River and the Ocean Tides 391 We are indeed approaching Portland, the metro-pohs of the Columbia, the Rose City, in manyrespects the most interesting and attractive of Westerncities. The approach to Portland is one hard tomatch for stately beauty. The city occupies bothsides of the Willamette, the main business part onthe west side, but the larger residence part on the east. The first settler on the original site of Portlandwas William Overton. Messrs. Lownsdale, Chapman,and Love joy bought him out. Then Captain JohnH. Couch in 1845 located a donation land claim onwhat is now the northern part of the west side that time the site was somewhat cut up withgulches and clothed in the densest of dense forests,with perfect jungles of every species of duller eyes than those of the gallant , Flanders, Ainsworth, Pettygrove, and Love-joy, could have seen beneath the tangled thickets themaking of a city,
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