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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: August 14, 2020
Caption: To Market, to Market Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (bottom left) Peas, beans and lentils, or "pulses" in the shipping business, head for export through the Gorge. Woodships from the Snake River, processed at Columbia River pulp mills arrive a the port as paper products. (center right) "Containers," uniform shipping boxes loaded on barges, trains, and trucks, measure 40 feet x 8 feet x 8.5 feet and hold up to 25 tons. At potato processing plants in Hermiston, each container headed for Japan is loaded with about 6, 831,000 frozen French fries.; (bottom right) Barges have replaced steamboats as workhorses on the river. The load from over 50 grain terminals along the upper Columbia and carry millions of tons of grain annually through the Gorge.
Submitted: October 25, 2020, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p545800
File Size: 3.403 Megabytes

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