Puget Sound and western Washington; cities--towns--scenery . THE VANCOUVER BARRACKS 1 Soldiers Quarters and Infantry Parade Grounds. 2 Mountain Battery during Review in front of CommandingOflBcers Quarters. 3 Infantry during General Inspection on Artillery Grounds, Vancouver was the first continuous whitesettlement m the Northwest, having been established by the Hudson Bay Company in 1824. It is headquarters for theDepartment of the Columbia. Bonneville, Grant, Sheridan, Kearney, Wright and other great military men spent a partor their early careers at Vancouver. There are 634 acres in the Res
Puget Sound and western Washington; cities--towns--scenery . THE VANCOUVER BARRACKS 1 Soldiers Quarters and Infantry Parade Grounds. 2 Mountain Battery during Review in front of CommandingOflBcers Quarters. 3 Infantry during General Inspection on Artillery Grounds, Vancouver was the first continuous whitesettlement m the Northwest, having been established by the Hudson Bay Company in 1824. It is headquarters for theDepartment of the Columbia. Bonneville, Grant, Sheridan, Kearney, Wright and other great military men spent a partor their early careers at Vancouver. There are 634 acres in the Reservation, and while the number of troops varies, therewas one regiment of Infantry, three batteries of Field Artillery, one company of Engineers, with 52 officers, and a totalot 1578 men stationed here during the early part of THE SHIPPING ALONG THE DOCKS OF VANCOUVER. ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER CHAPTER FOURTEEN. ^ CLARKE AND SKAMANIA COUNTIES: VANCOUVER. CAMAS. STEVENSON, &c Clarke County was named in honor of Captain William Clarke of Lewis & Clarke is an Indian word meaning swift waters. Clarke County lies on the north shore ofthe Columbia River, opposite Portland, Ore-gon. It has 600 square miles of was one of the earliest settled parts ofthe states, and its timber, yet uncut, is is extremely well watered. The Columbiaand Lewis Rivers border it on three sideswith navigable waters. It has a mild clim-ate, very fertile soil, and splendid marketsat its doors, abundant rainfall, and agricul-ture is successfully carried on without irri-gation. The Northern Pacific Railway con- nects its various towns with both Portlandand Seattle, and the North Bank and Ore-gon-Washington Railroad & Navigation the Northern Pacific, add greatly tothe facility and cheapnes
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