View of water powered flour mill at Chapman Lake in southern Spokane County, Washington. Gristmill was established by Ole Dybdall in the late nineteenth century.
A conical mound near the center of a beautiful prairie called the "Deer Lodge". The mound stands "about thirty feet high, around the base of which are innumerable springs of hot water. On top of the mound a spring three feet in...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Lake Jessie
"The water of Lake Jessie is considerably saline in its character," "and the theory for the saline qualities is found in the fact that it is never washed out, and retains the salt deposits and incrustations." Plate XI.
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Lightning Lake (Mont.)
"Lightning Lake is a very beautiful sheet of water, so called from the fact that during Captain Pope's expedition, while encamped here, one of those storms so fearfully violent in this country occurred, during which one of his party was...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Marias River (Mont.)
Marias River "flows in a channel two or three hundred feet below the prairie level, and is tolerable well wooded. The water was at that time one hundred and fifty feet wide and two to four feet deep, slightly milky, with a swift current and...
"Minnehaha, or the Laughing Water, called also Brown's Falls. It is situated west of the Mississippi, and distant about three miles from Fort Snelling. Ten miles above the falls the stream flows from Lake Calhoun, and it passes through a level...
"The Peluse (Palouse) River flows over three steppes, each of which is estimated to have an ascent of a thousand feet. The falls descend from the middle of the lower of these steppes." "The fall of the water, which is about thirty...
Photograph of a placer gold mining operation. Placer is an open pit form of mining using water pressure to extract minerals from the earth without tunneling.
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Puget Sound; Mount Rainier; Whidbey Island (Wash.)
"Puget Sound forms a most variegated compound of narrow inlets and sounds, interlinked among each other by passages and channels, and connected with Admiralty Inlet" only by the Narrows, a contracted passage near Point Defiance which...
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
Preparation for constructing the pumping station to bring water from Lake Roosevelt into the Grand Coulee itself. Boring the tunnels for the pumping plant.
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Sauk River (Minn.)
Sauk River at the point of the expeditions "ford is about 120 feet wide, though, owing to the obliquity of the banks and rapidity of current, the ford is near 300 feet wide and the water five feet deep." Plate III.
Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (Spokane, Wash.); Church architecture -- Washington (State)
Photograph of the construction of St. John's Cathedral in Spokane Washington. Photograph shows a distant view from the north of the cathedral partially completed. Construction was halted at this stage in 1929 as a result of the stock market...
Cheney (Wash.) -- History; Washington (State) -- Cheney -- History; Railroads; Railroad cars; Railroad stations; Washington Water Power Company -- History
Photograph of the Washington Water Power interurban electric terminal in Cheney, Washington. Photograph also shows railroad car and passengers.