Biggs is s. ferry oint and a little boat takes cars 
across t m river to the road to the Yakima Valley, where on the 
washiggton side perche :i on a ench is t u.- great lace which San. 
Kill, son of J. J- Mill, or brother, I forget which, built to enter¬ 
tain King Albert of Belgium in, when the war robe out and com¬ 
pelled Albert to br< ak his appointment. It is now being turned into 
a Museum. It is called” Maryhill”* ^his is the northern ten inus 
of the Oregon-haliforma Highway on which Phil and I travelled 
south to Redmond and then west over the Lava Beds of CKenzie Pass 
to the wniamfette Valley. There arc . lies of irrigation flui.es 
perch- d. on trestles carrying the water from stall sfcrea. s to patches 
of good land lying beneath the cliffs. Perched on rocks on the bank 
are fish wheels, great wheels with buckets ~hich scoop up the 
sail oU as they run up the stream and drop then, into troughs ' ,r hich 
land thei on the bank- At Umatilla we Gross that river and leave 
the o u. b a and run up the right bank of the Umatilla to Pendleton 
throughHeri. is ton, one of the ,re<-t irrigation districts of the state, 
f amous for its alfalfa and lac v rabbits. Great cement lined canals 
carry th water everywhere* we reached Pendleton a little after 
dark and the next morning ran tThrough the orchards of ilton and 
preewaterand on to Walla w a iia. Here -e get into the wheat country 
green and brown, spring gram and sumer fallow. The plows were 
running, 8, 9 and 1‘ horses in a team, turning over the fallow- 
mere is little moisture in this country and they raise a crop on 
half the land, plowing the other half and allowing it to accumulate 
-ater enough for next year's crop. 
Quite early m the afternoon we struck the Snake and 
ran up its left bank to Charleston and Lewiston, which are practi¬ 
cally one town, but lying in Washington and Idaho- Here is the 
.junction of the oiearwater and the snake, ewiston lying between 
the two streams. L. is 8. fine little town, ’'lift streets and goed 
