All these different things were being done at once, and there was a tremendous racket with all the coal going down through iron chutes, and all the men had been very busy.
"The Doers"
William John Hopkins
Passing still eastward after leaving Prineville along this Crooked River Valley, and then to its junction with the Des chutes River, the country retains its fertile and promising character.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash
They'll shoot the chutes or fall the Falls or-" "When your breath gives out we'll tell you what has happened," remarked Ethel Brown loftily.
"Ethel Morton at Chautauqua"
Mabell S. C. Smith