Olin Dunbar Wheeler

“ Mountains have been uplifted and cafions have been gashed through them; streams of lava from mighty volcanic vents that now stand as white, glacial peaks, have burned their way across the mightier stream of water; landslides, leaving behind almost bewildering effects, have taken place; magnificent palisades 2,000 and 3,000 feet in height are found, and rivers plunge over them to lose themselves in the greater river below. And in all this there is no sameness nor conventionalism. Nature is found here in original and concrete forms.
Festival Hall—Lewis and Clark Exposition. ”

“ The Dalles, where the warfare between water and molten lava has been won by the former, is a place of wonderful interest, as are the Cascades, where the Columbia has been dammed by nature. Above the Cascades the currentless stream with its submerged trees is like a long mountain lake. Castle Rock, a stupendous pointed rock of lava, named by Lewis and Clark “Beacon Rock”; Lone and Pillar rocks, rising from midstream; Rooster Rock, a peculiar lava pillar, and Cape Horn, a grand lava cliff of monumental proportions, are all most attractive to the traveler and nature lover. ”

“ Those resident in the East have little idea of what is to be found in the Puget sound region. How many, for example, know that Tacoma has close on to 75,000 population, that Seattle has 150,000 or thereabouts, that Everett claims nearly 25,000, and that Bellingham, well up toward the boundary line, has about 25,000 people who call it home? Yet all this is true, so rapidly has the coast country grown. Prosperity has not confined itself to one or two places, but has dealt its favors with an impartial hand, and the entire Puget sound country shows this. ”

“ With the stop-over privileges allowed on coast tickets every tourist and traveler to the Northwest and the Exposition during the season of 1905 may be enabled to visit every point of importance and interest in the Pacific Northwest.
And what of the Lewis and Clark Exposition itself? Those who have become exposition wearied will not find their patience tried here by an over-elaborate display. And while there will be enough of world products to properly balance and cosmopolitanize the exposition, the West and Northwest will be particularly strong in their representation. ”

“ That such a complete, harmonious, successful exploration and one so lacking in fatalities was possible 100 years ago, only twenty odd years after the surrender of Yorktown, is a matter for amazement, and it challenges our greatest respect and admiration for the noble corps of explorers who accomplished such magnificent results. ”

“ Tourist resorts are found at Lake Cushman in the Olympics, Paradise park on the southern slope of Mount Rainier, Green River Hot Springs in the Cascades—on the Northern Pacific, just east from Tacoma and Seattle— Port Townsend, Victoria, Port Angeles from which Lake Crescent in the upper Olympics is reached, and at the other cities heretofore named. There is no lack of appropriate places for those seeking new and healthful recreation spots anywhere in this beautiful country, and rates are invariably reasonable. ”

“ Portland has a population of 130,000 and is a most beautiful city. It has a jobbing trade amounting to between $150,000,000 and $175,000,000 a year and also a heavy export trade. Its exports of wheat and lumber are very large. The buildings, churches, residences, and parks of Portland are thoroughly modern, and electricity, generated at Willamette Falls, plays an important part in all manufacturing, street car locomotion, building and street illumination, etc. ”

“ Several of the main exhibition palaces, including the building designed for foreign countries, are ready and shipment of exhibits to them has begun. A fifth building will be under roof by the first of the month. Altogether six exposition buildings are practically finished and are awaiting final touches. The Mines and Metallurgy, the Festival Hall and Auditorium, the Machinery, Electricity, and Transportation, and the Oregon building are rising from their foundations. The Agricultural building was ready for the storage of exhibits the first of November. ”

“ The Russians, who came to the Northwest by way of Siberia, have a worthy representative in Bering. The rivalry between Spain and Great Britain reached an acute stage in 1789-90 at Nootka sound and culminated in the Nootka treaty. The explorers of these various nations gave names to a great many points—capes, mountains bays, islands, etc.—in the Northwest, which remain in use to-day. After the close of the War of the Revolution the United States took a part in Northwestern exploration and trade
Codex J, Lewis, page 131. ”

“ Seattle has 120 churches, a United States assay office, the Washington State University, and a public library that contains 50,000 volumes. It does an enormous export and import business and its storage capacity on its water front exceeds 800,000 tons. ”

“ Constant demonstration will edify and instruct visitors, as the exhibit will show how money is manufactured—with this difference: That medals and souvenirs, similar to ever-popular coins of the realm, will be stamped. ”

“ Briefly, some of the objects of the exploration were to explore the Missouri and Columbia rivers and their principal branches; take the latitude and longitude of important points; make a study of the Indian tribes; observe closely the country explored and note its possibilities relative to the fur trade, etc., and study its fauna, flora, geology, and meteorology. Lewis was particularly enjoined to
Mission Range of the Rockies, Montana, on Northern Pacific Railway. ”

“ Lewis’s pen-and-ink drawing of the white-fronted Goose, from original Journals of Lewis and Clark.
and with immediate results—results that became of the greatest importance eventually. In 1788 some Boston merchants sent out two vessels—the Columbia, Captain Kendrick, and the Washington, Captain Gray—to engage in the fur trade. In 1789, exchanging ships, Gray took the Columbia to China and thence to the United States, returning to the Coast in 1791, Kendrick, with the Washington, remaining on the Northwest coast during Gray’s absence. ”