The Columbia River . ssquare, and, though yet but partially developed, containmany beautiful homes. The larger part of the Columbia Valley west of theCascade Mountains is, in its natural state, denselytimbered. Here are found the continuous woodswhere rolls the Oregon and hears no sound save hisown dashings. These great fir, spruce, cedar, andpine forests, extending a thousand miles along thePacific Coast from Central California to the Straitsof Fuca (and indeed they continue, though the treesgradually diminish in size, for nearly another thou-sand miles up the Alaska coast), constitute the wo
The Columbia River . ssquare, and, though yet but partially developed, containmany beautiful homes. The larger part of the Columbia Valley west of theCascade Mountains is, in its natural state, denselytimbered. Here are found the continuous woodswhere rolls the Oregon and hears no sound save hisown dashings. These great fir, spruce, cedar, andpine forests, extending a thousand miles along thePacific Coast from Central California to the Straitsof Fuca (and indeed they continue, though the treesgradually diminish in size, for nearly another thou-sand miles up the Alaska coast), constitute the worldslargest timber supply. The demands upon it havebeen tremendous during the past twenty years, andthe stately growths of centuries have vanished largelyfrom all places in the near vicinity of shipping one can still find primeval w^oods where the coro-nals of green are borne three hundred feet above thedamp and perfumed earth, and where the pillars of thewood sustain so continuous a canopy of foliage that. Q
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