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Rh during the summer season, crowded with fruit buyers, owners and pickers.

From here I pass on to The Dalles, where boats ply on the Columbia river to Portland and Astoria. This is an important shipping point for wool, sheep, horses and cattle from Central Oregon and Washington.

I pass Celilo Falls to Biggs, which is the junction for the railroad that extends to Central Oregon at Shaniko, with the Towns of Wasco and Moro on the line, and the town of Prineville further inland, in the stock country.

North of the Columbia river, on the Washington side, is the town of Goldendale, in the center of an agricultural and stock country.

I made a short stop at Arlington. Near here is Heppner Junction, where a branch extends to Ione and Heppner, and with Condon and Fossil have Rh