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Title: A description of the western resorts for health and pleasure reached via Union Pacific system, "the overland route."
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Union Pacific railroad company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, Rand, McNally & co., printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Mount-ains for a background; and away to the extreme north (nearly to H. B. M.sdominions), veiled in earth mists and scarcely discernible from the toweringcumuli that inswathe it, lies Mt. Baker. Looking south over Oregon the viewembraces the Three Sisters (all at one time), Jefferson, Diamond Peak, Scott,Pitt, and if it be a favorable day, and you have a good glass, you may seeShasta, 250 miles away. The westward view is down over the lower coast range,the Umpqua, Calapooya, and Rogue River Mountains, with their sunny, uplandvalleys, and away out over the restless ocean. In the opposite direction, acrossthe illimitable plains of Eastern Oregon, to the Azure Blue Mountains; down,almost to the foot of this mountain, rolls the Columbia,* through the narrow,rugged gorge of The Dalles, 250 miles of its winding course being visible.The entire length of the great Willamette Valley, with its pleasant, prosperoustowns and gently flowing river, its broad, fertile farms, like rich mosaics, with
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0) (84) FOR HEALTH AND PLEASURE. 85 borders of dark-green woodlands, is spread out in great beauty under thewestern slope of Mt. Hood. And next, Fort Vancouver, eighteen miles fromPortland, is passed, a post well known in history, where Grant and Sheridanwere once stationed. Six miles below the fort the Willamette swells the Colum-bia, and twelve miles up this lovely river brings us just at nightfall to the lightand warmth and comfort of cheery Portland. PORTLAND. It was as far back as 1843 that the first settlers came to make a home hereon the banks of the Willamette River, and the city of Portland was incorpo-rated in 1851; the year 1889 witnesses its growth to metropolitan dimensions,and a population of over 50,000 souls. It is twelve miles from Portland to the junc-tion of the Willamette with the Columbia, and ninety-eight miles from the PacificOcean. The length of the city parallel with the river is about seven and one-half miles; two-thirds of this frontage is occupied with whar

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