What to see in America . Log House near Canadian Line of rough There the plunges ledges two dred feet and seventy high. These are workaday falls that crush wheat, turn lathes, run railroads, and operate mines. The cataract is spanned by a bridge with a central arch two hundred and eighty-one feet long. Only one concrete span in the world is longer. In seasons ofdrought there isscarcely a tricklewhere ordinarilythe river leapsand boils in itsmad rush overthe jagged is themetropolis ofthat tremen-dously rich ter-ritory describedas the Inland Empire, which embraces eastern Washingto
What to see in America . Log House near Canadian Line of rough There the plunges ledges two dred feet and seventy high. These are workaday falls that crush wheat, turn lathes, run railroads, and operate mines. The cataract is spanned by a bridge with a central arch two hundred and eighty-one feet long. Only one concrete span in the world is longer. In seasons ofdrought there isscarcely a tricklewhere ordinarilythe river leapsand boils in itsmad rush overthe jagged is themetropolis ofthat tremen-dously rich ter-ritory describedas the Inland Empire, which embraces eastern Washington, northern Idaho, and a part of U4 ^j**-*;../ Harvesting Wheat, Inland Empire 526 What to See in America Eastward from Spokane runs the Apple Way, a pavedstraight road through a park of orchards whose trees arecomputed by the hundred thousand. Westward is the BigBend Wheat Region, where you may see in harvest time amachine called a header, drawn by twenty, thirty, or evenmore horses, and which cuts, threshes, and cleans thewheat, and packs it in sacks. Dry farming has madeproductive much formerly almost worthless land, and irri-gation has reclaimed enormous tracts. The Yakima Valleyin the southern central part of the state is one of the largestirrigated areas in the West. Probably no part of Washington appeals to the travelerquite so forcibly as the Puget Sound country. The Sounditself is a magnificent waterway with a shore line of 1800miles. The rapidity with which some of the places borderingon it have developed into affluent modern cities is amazing. In 1845 the first perma-nent American settlementwas established
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