sed the
whole of Eastern Oregon. It has been divided and subdivided
until it is now contained between Des Chutes Biver on the east
and the Cascade Mountains on the west, with a length from
north to south of about sixty miles. A great number of streams
rising in Mount Hood make this elevated region one of the
choicest portions of East Oregon for grazing, as it is for fruitraising and agriculture. Water-power is abundant, and timber
and wool also, which should suggest factories in this region.
The Dalles, which is the county-seat, has been spoken of in another place. Hood Biver, also on the Columbia, and the O. B. and N. Bailroad, is one of the popular resorts of the people from the west side. A Portland company has recently purchased a tract overlooking the Columbia, with a grand view of Mount Adams and White Salmon Biver, on the Washington side, with a lake in the immediate neighborhood, and other charms, including pure air and good fishing, and here is to be erected a comfortable hotel for visitors. The name of the new resort is Idlewilde. There are a dozen other towns and post-offices in the county.
The latest division of Wasco County was in 1889, when that part lying between Des Chutes and John Day Bivers was cut off to make Sherman County, which honors General Sherman. It consists of high rolling land, on which excellent crops are raised, including the cereals, sorghum, fruit, and vegetables. It has a number of towns and about two thousand inhabitants.
Crook County, south of Wasco, was named in honor of General Crook, and shares with Wasco the trade of the Warm Springs Indian Beservation, where reside the warriors who aided the general in his campaign against their old enemies, the Snakes, and who took part in the Modoc troubles. Crook County was organize! in 1882. It is divided, like Wasco, by Des Chutes Biver, and watered amply by Crooked Biver and its affluents. It contains a good deal of broken basaltic land, but is nevertheless a good stock country, with many small agricultural valleys. Prineville, the county-seat, enjoys a good trade. A wagon-road to Eugene runs down the McKenzie fork of the Wallamet.
Although not on the main line of the Oregon Pacific, it will have a branch. This road is laid out on the lands of the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Military Wagon-Boad
