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 neering, and absolutely without equal in America for scenic interest." Visitors who traversed the Alps and

have enjoyed the picturesque Hudson declare the grandeur of the panorama displayed from many points on the Columbia Highway to be as inspiring as the earth affords. If Lewis and Clark, or the Oregon Pioneers of the early forties could have caught a glimpse of this modern triamph of engineering and enterprise through a vision, they would haVe doubted their sight and questioned their sanity.

Interstate Bridge. When Lieutenant Broughton, in 1 792, sailed up the Colimibia, he observed Indians in canoes crossing the river near the present site of Vancouver. Again in 1824, when T^^Ti^h^T^o. Hudson's Bay Company

established the Vancoularge numbers from the MULTNOMAH FALLS

ver trading post, Indians m South were encouraged by Doctor McLoughlin to encamp on the south bank of the Columbia, so that they might come in convenient numbers across the river to trade. With the increase of white settlers in the Willamette Valley, the crossing place at Vancouver grew in importance and a modern ferry was established. In the belief that a wagon bridge across the Columbia would increase communication between the two growing states of Oregon and Washington, the counties of