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Lewis A. McArthur

is developing certain sections of a road extending north and south along the summit of the Cascade Range in Oregon, but it will doubtless be many years before this project is complete in its entirety.

The modern names for the important peaks at the summit of the Cascade Range from north to south in Oregon and their elevations are as follows:

Mt. Hood
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11,225 feet
Olallie Butte
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7,243 "
Mt. Jefferson
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10,522 "
Three-Fingered Jack
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7,793 "
Mt. Washington
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7,769 "
Belknap Crater (about)
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7,000 "
Black Crater
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7,184 "
North Sister
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10,067 "
Middle Sister
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10,038 "
South Sister
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10,352 "
Broken Top
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9,152 "
Bachelor Butte
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9,044 "
Maiden Peak (about)
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7,750 "
Mt. Yoran
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7,132 "
Diamond Peak
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8,750 "
Cowhorn Mt.
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7,666 "
Howlock Mt.
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8,351 "
Mt. Thielsen
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9,178 "
Glacier Peak
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8,156 "
Mt. Scott
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8,938 "
Union Peak
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7,698 "
Mt. McLoughlin
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9,493 "

Cascades, Hood River County. The Cascades of the Columbia River are caused by natural obstructions. Lewis and Clark, 1805-1806, the first white men to see this geographical feature, used the word "cascades," but not as a name. The Upper Cascades they called "Great Shute." Alexander Ross, in his Oregon Settlers, writing as of 1810-1813, mentions the cascades a number of times,