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Reporter's Notebook
My wife and I lived the first time in the coulee back in 1953-55.
I was a lumber grader down at the mill located above the dam. A fellow by the name of Kirkpatick owned 90% of the operation, and a fellow who ran the logging part of the company the other 10%.
Logs were floated down the Columbia River to the mill site.
With winter coming on, Kirkpatick advised the workers that the mill would shut do...
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