Crossword-Solution: UMATILLA 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

From the south and east it receives the Walla-Walla and Umatilla, rather short and dreary-looking streams, though the plains they pass through have proved fertile, and their upper tributaries in the Blue Mountains, shaded with tall pines, firs, spruces, and the beautiful Oregon larch (_Larix brevifolia_), lead into a delightful region.

The John Day River also heads in the Blue Mountains, and flows into the Columbia sixty miles below the mouth of the Umatilla.

Next he engaged passage on the steamship _Umatilla_, sailing for Seattle and Puget Sound ports at daylight.

Estimated Irrigation Requirements: During Entire Growing Season (in inches)* Location Duration Amount Umatilla/Yakama Valley April-October 30 Willamette Valley May-September 16 Puget Sound May-September 14 Upper Rogue/Upper Umpqua Valley March-September 18 Lower Rogue/Lower Coquille Valley May-September 11 NW California April-October 17 *Source: _The Water Encyclopedia_ In our region, gardens lose far more water than they get from rainfall during the summer growing season.

THE DEATH OF UMATILLA Umatilla, chief of the Indians at the Cascades of the Columbia, was one of the few red men of his time who favored peace with the white settlers and lent no countenance to the fierce revels of the "potlatch." In these "feasts of gifts" the savages, believing themselves to be "possessed by the spirit," lashed themselves into a frenzy that on several occasions was only quieted by the shedding of blood.