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Identifier	ORU_WTXT_021p http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,143

Title	page 14

Relation	The Columbia River Highway

Date	2004-06-17

Rights	This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.

Type	page

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Description	experimenting with convict honor camps in building roads in Southern Oregon. S. Benson, a wealthy timberman, of Portland, donated $10,000 to be used at one of these camps in the construction of a road around the foot of Shell Rock Mountain in Hood River County which had been regarded as an impassable barrier to a wagon road. The work done by the convicts on this section called attention anew to the need of a Columbia river road. In 1913 the building of the Columbia Highway on its present...