The Klickitat County Agriculturist, Goldendale, WA., September 6, 1929, page 1
CURIOUS ROCK CARVINGS NEAR ROOSEVELT
Ray Conway, of the Oregon state motor association, told
the Arlington Lions a few days ago:
"A short distance up the Columbia river from Roosevelt,
in Klickitat county, you will find carved upon the rocks countless numbers
of figures and designs. Since their discovery it has been proved by great
scientists that the carvings were made by a pre-historic race, the people
who lived perhaps hundreds of years before Columbus discovered America. The
Indians know nothing of the carvings and claim they have been informed by
their ancestors they were in existence as long as they can remember. It is
evidently the history of a race who lived when the world was thousands of
years younger than it is today."
After the Arlington luncheon was over curiosity got the
best of some of the business men of Arlington and they made the trip over
to the place. They found things as he stated.
When Conway made the above statements, says the Arlington
Bulletin, you can imagine the look of surprise upon the faces of his listeners.
Some of them were born and lived most of their lives in this section, and
if they had been passing up anything of value that had been here as long
as Mr. Conway had stated, they were anxious to be enlightened.
It is quite possible, too, that most Klickitat people
need to be enlightened also!
Mr. Conway concluded:
From a historical standpoint they cannot be equaled;
and for the past thirty years groups of men from various parts of the United
States have made pilgrimages to the place of which I speak, yet there is
nothing to apprise the tourist of the Roosevelt attraction, and I venture
to say there is not one out of ten men in all this section of country knows
of its existence.
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