Re: [Paddlewise] Whitewater River & Railroad Wars

Ah hell!!! This is a draft, and I sure didn't mean to post it! Sorry!!!


At 08:52 PM 3/20/98 -0800, you wrote:
>        The Deschutes River Canyon is so popular for whitewater rafting and
>kayaking in the summer that the State of Oregon finds it necessary to issue
>permits and limit access. The Deschutes offers mostly class I rapids with a
>couple serious Class IV runs in a high desert environment with sage brush,
>geological splendor, and blazing 100 degree plus sunshine. To top it all,
>Teddy Roosevelt thought that the Deschutes may be the finest trout fishing
>river in the world. The history is really colorful too. . .
>
>        In 1855, U.S. Army Topographic Engineers declared that building a
>railroad along the narrow, basaltic cliffs of the Deschutes River gorge
>would be impossible. The economic incentive for such a railroad would be the
>billions of board-feet of Ponderosa pine in Bend. 
>
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