remember those big cones all over the place? I think they were for burning sawdust. Kelso is the smelt capital of the world too...I always liked Kelso. Longview is a strange city...I grew up there..never could find my way around because it is built in this spoke pattern..it is a planned city with almost no history...it was planned and then the depression and war delayed populating it..so after WWII men came to work in the mills, including my father..but he ended up a postman. Excellent housing stock there, nice trees...you would never know you were on the Columbia River though..the mills owned all the waterfront...Longview was a bunch of drained swamps...

mg