![]() ![]() It was the Gazelle’s chief engineer, Moses Toner. He ran like a man being chased by a devil, with desperate speed. Then the captain rang for steam, pulled out into the river and brought the big sidewheeler around to the passenger dock, next to the slightly older sidewheeler Wallamet, to load the freight that hadn’t come upriver from Oregon City.ĪS THE BIG riverboat reached the dock, a man rushed up to the rail, vaulted over, lighted on the dock and sprinted inland. Several dozen passengers climbed its gangplank and settled in for their journey. The riverboat was drawn up at the portage road, where goods that had been trucked by wagons around the falls were loaded aboard. ![]() It was on this morning that the brand-new steamboat Gazelle, just a month old and built right there in Canemah, was to make its first regular voyage upstream to Corvallis. The Portland General Electric power station is today. ![]() This photograph was made from approximately where Willamette Falls as it appeared in 1867, with the town of Canemah in theĭistance behind. ![]()
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