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 below Moses Lake, south of the Grand Coulee and 20 or 30 miles from the Columbia River, it finally disappeared in a waste of sand and rock. Thirty years ago in its lower reaches fat half-pound trout went in schools, and as the engineers of the Northern Pacific Railroad passed by they had much argument as to how the trout got there, and as to how the right-sized fish got in the right -sized streams. But the question is still unsolved.

In some such fashion men speculate upon the orginorigin [sic] of the Pacific Coast aborigines. How came this people to be scattered along the coast and in the interior, each one in his proper habitat, and who were the Adam and Eve of the Chinooks and Cathlamets? It is an endless subject, for they were apparently a people to themselves and resembled no others, and perhaps the