W. ID. #3 
The Gushman House 
LAKE GUSHMAN, WASH. 
except in the bottoms of the draws along the railroad. It is all 
wheat v with the houses just in sight of one and other. Each house 
is surroundedby a palisade of cottonwoods, and in the yards lie 
the tools, plows, wagons, binders and the cook—wagon, a long nar— 
low 8 shack on wheels which follows the harvest crew and the thresh¬ 
er over the hills. The hills are very steep and one wonders how 
anything on wheels can stand up on them. Everywhere are the straw- 
stacks, great piles as big as an ordinary barn. 
Pullman is a nice little town of about 3500 people, half of whom 
are the College. The boys like the work and all that but have no 
use tor the climate. I stayed a day and saw the boys settled m 
their room and pulled out for home. I stayed overnight in Spokane 
and left for Seattle by the G. N. at 7 a. m. It is pretty much 
the same as the N. P. and the banks of the Columbia are very wild 
and rough, The Columbia is a great river, I had seen it once before 
on the c. P. Pi. Wenatchee &nd Cashmere and the immediate neighbors 
hood where they have irrigation are one great orchard, and the 
fields of alfalfa as one sees them across the Colombia, for instance, 
are most beautiful. Leaving there we climbed up the Tumwater Canyon 
It ia a wonderful road and near the Summit they have a power plant 
on the river which furnishes current for the locomotives in the 
tunnel. These locomotives are wonderful machines. On this side the 
scenery is wonderful and the engineering difficulties have been 
very great.There are many snowsheds, and it was at Wellington 
where a few years ago a stalled train was swept off the track by 
a slide into the canyon and the passengers killed. This happened in 
Dec. or Jan. and the last body was found when the snow melted in 
July, in some places one can see three different track levels at 
onee, and it requires curved tunnels and all kinds of expedients 
