apu)2iing tl^e ^etenteenti^ 



Snoqualmie Falls 



MY friend, Dr. Ramsay, arranged an excur- 

 sion for me to the Falls of Snoqualmie. 

 I was fortunate in finding that the presi- 

 dent of the Power Company is a son of the Mr. 

 Baker who was one of the men who made the 

 World's Fair a success — president of the Board of 

 Trade, and of the Civic Federation. Mr. Baker, 

 Jr., did everything that generous hospitality could 

 do to make my visit pleasant. 



I never heard of Snoqualmie Falls till Dr. Ram- 

 say invited me to visit them. I undertake to say 

 that not one intelligent person in a thousand east 

 of the Rockies ever heard of them. What we hear 

 is rather of the petty Lanterbrunnen in the Alps. 

 The falls are twenty-two miles distant from Seattle. 

 To get there one has to make a detour by rail of 

 fifty-two miles. Approaching the cailon one can 

 locate the cataract by the cloud of mist rising above 

 the trees. It is not easy to give an idea of the size 

 of a river, excepting by comparing it to some other 

 river mutually known. The Snoqualmie is from 

 one hundred and fifty to three hundred feet wide 

 and flows in a deep channel. Where it takes its 

 bend to plunge two hundred and sixty-eight feet 



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