THE FALLS OF THE WILLAMETTE
OREGON’S CAPITOL IS AT SALEM, A CITY OF FIFTEEN THOUSAND
ON THE WILLAMETTE NEAR OREGON CITY, MANY MILLS AND FACTORIES ARE RUN BY POWER FROM THE FALLS
At Portland, near which the Willamette joins the Columbia, it becomes the city’s harbor from which the average outgoing cargo runs up to seven thousand five hundred tons. Portland, the “rose city,” where roses bloom in profusion on Christmas day, came prominently before the public eye of late with the centennial celebration of the great overland journey of the explorers Lewis and Clark. It is a beautiful city, superbly situated, with surroundings that suggest wealth and culture, and promises everywhere for a glorious future. The streets, outside the business quarter, are shaded by overarching trees and lined with beautiful villas set in green lawns and flower beds of riotous, fragrant bloom. From Portland Heights, reached by the car lines, the panorama is superb, the view including Mount Rainier, a hundred miles away to the north, with the blue barrier of the Cascades stretching to Mount Jefferson, a hundred miles to the south, snow-clad Mount Saint Helens and Mount Hood, the Columbia river and its giant gorge, the tributary Willamette and the green of the nearer low-lands, gleaming here and there with the lakes of the Columbia valley; a prospect declared by Caspar Whitney, to be the grandest and most interesting in natural beauty he had ever seen. Higher yet is Council Crest, once a favored place for Indian conferences, fifteen hundred feet above the city; reached by the street cars; the projected site of a great hotel.
IN PORTLAND ROSES ADORN THE HOMES OF ALL WHO DESIRE THEM
