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The Discovery of the Columbia River.
Captain Gray was obliged to fire upon the natives, who disregarded his orders to keep off.
their destiny. They have each done their part in the evolution of civilization.
The building, as a completed whole, for whose construction centuries have la- bored, typifies the point where Nature stops and Art begins, where the primitive gives way to the modern. It marks an o]-)och in which all that has gone before
belongs to a period of its o\\ti, and all that is to come will be but the develop- ment of that beginning. It stands for the transition stage in Western history, and is an epitome of all that man has done and may do with the forces of na- ture. It tells a silent but eloquent story of the blazed trail.
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The Idaho Building, the only one of the State buildings not built of staff. It is a substantial frame
structure of pleasing color.
