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nature, and the scenery siu-h as to arouse the admiration of artists who 

 have seen all there is to be seen in this country and Europe. 



"While the acquirement of this State park will afford opportunities 

 for healthful, wholesome pleasure, the property, in itself, will become a 

 valuable holding on account of the water power, the use to the State for 

 tish culture, game propagation, the actual value of the land, the timber, 

 valuable deposits of high-grade, cream-colored stone ; lime and sand 

 supply; a rough, cut-stone mansion, built at an outlay of $100,000; a 

 rough, cut-stone garage, at a cost of $25,000; a stone water tower; a 

 nine-room frame hotel, six room cottage, a postoffiee and general mer- 



Looking Down Trout Glen, Almost 500 Feet Below Top of Bluff. 



chandise store, a complete sawmill plant with full planing mill 

 equipment; a drying room containing lumber cut from native trees, a 

 large frame barn, a grist mill and a pump house. Four hundred acres 

 of the property is well fenced and under cultivation, with gr(^('n]iouses, 

 etc. 



"The park has been wonderfully endowed by nature. It has rain- 

 bow trout of from 2 to 10 pounds, scrappy small-mouth bass and giant 

 crappie in waters that oi-iginatc in a spring that comes out of a gorge 

 200 or 800 feet high, and of an inexhaustible supply which Hows through 

 Trout Canyon, forming cataracts like the Columbia river until it empties 



