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298 News and Comment

party that opened the Naches trail to Puget Sound, across Cascade Mountains, and president of the Yakima Pioneers' Association. The site of the monimient is a camping place ef that pioneer party near Yakima. The inscription reads :

Chief OW-Hi's Gardens

First Emigrant Train

From East

Longmire's Train

Encamped Here

Sept. 20, 1853

McClellan's Headquarters

Flag First Unfurled

In Yakima Country

August, 1853

Erected by Yakima Pioneer Ass'n ^

Sept 20, 1917 ^

H. J. Snively acted as chairman of the ceremonies. The Reverend Mr. Lingenfelter, of Selah, delivered the opening prayer. David Longmire made an address reminiscent of pio- neer times. Governor Ernest Lister accepted the monument in behalf of the State of Washington. Other speakers were Professor Edmond S. Meany, of Seattle, and Thomas B. Hill, of Yakima. A committee was named by President Longfmire, to organize a Yakima memorial association, as follows : A. D. Sloan, Fred Parker, Ernest D. Fear, T. B. Hill, F. C. Hall, A. E. Larson, Wallace Wiley, H. Stanley Coffin, Phil Ditter and Fred Chandler.

VALUABLE ARTICLES BY MR. T. C ELUOTT.

The articles appearing in this volume of the Quarterly en- titled, "Where Is Point Vancouver?" and "Log of H. M. S. Chatham," serve to bring to the notice of the present genera- tion the dates and circumstances of the naming of two of our prominent snow peaks : Mount Hood and Mount Saint Helens. It is not commonly known that Saint Helens was named from