Deckhand Sean Malloy uses a winch to tighten 1.5-inch steel cable in place to secure barges to each other. Despite wind and some rough river conditions, none of the cables or ropes worked loose and the entire tow was very stable during the four-day trip downriver in early August.
September 26, 2022
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A journey down the Snake and Columbia
PORTLAND, Ore. — In 1976, Herschel Slavens, then nearly 80, sat down to write about his life, including the time he found himself nearly penniless and looking for work in the early 1920s. “We didn’t have hardly any money so we stopped in Kennewick, Washington, and I got a job working for my cousin … who had a trucking company hauling wheat from a field to a warehouse on the Columbia River,” Slavens wrote in an unpublished memoir he shared with members of his family.