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GUIDEBOOK OF THE WESTEKN UNITED STATES 



Beyond Chehalis the railway gradually ascends tliroiigh shallow 



sands ton 



Napavine. 



Elevation 444 feet. 



Population 1,304.* 

 Seattle 103 miles. 



situated near the crest of a low east-west divide (450 



foet 



Columb 



The 



broad surface of the divide is the level top of an exten- 

 sive deposit of gravel that is well exposed in the cuts 

 along the railway. In this locahty the gravel consists largely of 



inun 



many gravels being absent. About 3 miles bcj^ond Napavine, near 

 Evalino, may be seen the brownish Eocene sandstone which under- 

 lies the gravel. 



The railway crosses Olequa Creek, along which is a well-developed 



same 



near Napavine. A similar terrace, at a corresponding height above 

 the stream, is a prominent feature of the Cowhtz, Willapa, and other 

 valleys in southwestern Washington, A bluff of the same gravels, 

 here 150 feet in thickness and overlying Oligocene beds, appears on 



Winlock 



inlock 



Winlock. 



Elevation 309 feet. 

 Populatiou 1,140. 

 Seattle 109 miles. 



tion has been built in that style. About 3 



mi 



W 



spur 



of the Coast Range, 



opens and ^on the right 



Abemathy Mountain, a 



On the left are some 



firs 



Near Vader station are tile ovens, wlxich are supplied by clay 

 obtained near by. A "■ ^ 



mile beyond the town 



Vader. 



Elevation 143 feet. 

 Seattle 110 miles. 



gas plant. 



'om 



stove. 



pplied to the town 

 ghts and a kitchen 



allic 



plant 



onro 



Hel 



may 



above deep-green fort^ts of fir. Nearer at hand, on the left, a bluff 

 exposes a sheet of lava overlying Eocene shdes,^ and on the right are 

 Pleistocene sands . 



Tliia 



Olequa formation, described 

 and Hannibal as extending f 



the E-R-ing ranch, 2 miles above Little 

 Falls [Vader], southward down Olequa 

 Creek to Olequa, a distance of 5J miles. 



