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 Rival lines offer almost daily service from Portl and to the Cascades, Hood River and The Dalles, 88 miles west on the Columbia River. Attractive water trips may also be taken down the Willamette to Vancouver, Wash., and up the same river from Portland to historic Oregon City and the Falls of the Willamette.

The main lines of the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern, the Spokane, Portland and Seattle, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, and the Oregon - Washington Railroad and Navigation Companies, with their various extensive branches, furnish transportation to all sections of Washington that concern the tourist. The Northern Pacific enters the State from Montana just east of Spokane, and from there radiates in several directions. The tourist is interested in the lines due south over the Idaho — Washington branches into the Clearwater country of Idaho, and to Lewiston, Idaho; and southwest from Spokane to Pasco, where the through road to the Coast via North Yakima joins the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Road to Portland. The Northern Pacific also operates trains from Pasco to Walla Walla, Wash., and Pendleton, Ore. Across the Cascade Mountains, Northern Pacific rails go north from Seattle to the British Colum- bia boundary (227 m.), branching to Snoqualmie Falls, Everett and Bellingham ; and run south from Seattle to Tacoma (40 m.) and Olympia (73 m.). By way of Olympia, there is connection for stations on Gray's Harbor; from Centralia a branch goes to South Bend on Willapa Harbor. On week-days a steamer serves the route