What to see in America . ^ weary miles of travel. At the eastern end of theColumbia gorge is the Dalles, a name of French origin whichmeans a trough. The river reaches this point after a journeyof 1200 miles, carrying an immense amount of water, andis suddenly compelled to make its way through a volcanicgorge only a hundredyards wide and abouta dozen miles 1915 a govern-ment canal has en-abled vessels to goaround this torren-tial gully. From theDalles a railroadruns south one hun-dred and sixty milesup the DeschutesValley. Deschutesmeans River of Falls,and the stream isvery tumultuo
What to see in America . ^ weary miles of travel. At the eastern end of theColumbia gorge is the Dalles, a name of French origin whichmeans a trough. The river reaches this point after a journeyof 1200 miles, carrying an immense amount of water, andis suddenly compelled to make its way through a volcanicgorge only a hundredyards wide and abouta dozen miles 1915 a govern-ment canal has en-abled vessels to goaround this torren-tial gully. From theDalles a railroadruns south one hun-dred and sixty milesup the DeschutesValley. Deschutesmeans River of Falls,and the stream isvery of the distanceit flows through whatis called the GrandCanyon, whose bor-dering cliffs areribbed and bright-colored and almostperpendicular. Fruitlands in the Hood River Valley. 512 What to See in America In the region drained by the Columbia River is the greatestlava field in North America. It covers the eastern two thirdsof Oregon, a large part of Washington and Idaho, and good-sized portions of California and Nevada. The molten lavawas forced up through great fissures in the crust of the earthin many individual flows, which in places are not less than4000 feet in thickness. For the most part the lava plainsare mantled with a yellowish dustlike soil which possessesexceptional fertility and only needs irrigation to make itvery productive. One town in eastern Oregon of special interest to thetraveler is Pendleton, where there is an annual Septemberexhibition of cowboy feats and races. As the round-update approaches you may see on the town streets an in-creasing number of men in the costume of the range, stringsof dappled ranch horses, free-riding Indians, and theirmuffled squaws. The stadium where the spectacle is stagedoccupies several acres and has grandsta
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