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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



LATOURKLL BRIDGE 



In the left center background is teen 

 Crown Point. Note the artistic over- 

 head footbridge spanning the high- 

 way. The road is well shaded by 

 fine trees along the greater portion 

 of the route. 



surveys, grading, building the 

 large reinforced concrete bridges 

 and paving the road with War- 

 renite pavement for a width of 

 18 feet. 



"Millionaire" Roadmaster 



John B. Yeon, one of the lead- 

 ing citizens of Multnomah 

 County, gave more than two 

 years of his time free to the pub- 

 lic and took active charge of the 

 construction of the roads in hit 

 county. 



The Columbia Highway in 

 Oregon begins at Seaside, on the 

 Pacific Ocean, in Clatsop Coun- 

 ty. It parallels the ocean beach 

 for IS miles and then cuts 

 directly across the marshland-, a 

 distance of 12 miles, to the City 

 of Astoria. From Astoria to 

 the Columbia County line the 

 highway extends 28 miles in this 

 county. On Bugbee Mountain, 



23 miles east of Astoria, and 

 overlooking the mouth of the 

 Columbia, the highway runs out 

 of a forest of firs at an eleva- 

 tion of 700 feet to descend 650 

 feet on a 5 per cent grade along 

 the face of the cliff. The descent 

 is accomplished by four wonder- 

 ful hairpin curves, and yet the 

 road is so located that a long 

 sight line for the autoist is pre- 

 served on each curve. This is 

 unquestionably the grandest fea- 

 ture of the lower section of the 

 highway. From the crest an un- 

 broken view is obtained up and 

 down the river for a distance of 

 nearly 40 miles. 



Following the river towards 

 Portland the highway passes 

 through Columbia County for 56 

 miles, along which course the 

 most attractive scenic section 

 will be the Beaver Valley unit, 



THE CHARACTER OF THE ROAD 



The road is like this along the whole 

 course of the highway, wide with 

 easy grades and graceful curves, a 

 delight for the motorist and with 

 scenic features unsurpassed by any 

 highway in the world. 



