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Title: The great Northwest : a guide-book and itinerary for the use of tourists and travellers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and the Oregon and California Railroad : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns, and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products, and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Winser, Henry Jacob, 1823-1896
Subjects: Northern Pacific Railroad Company Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Oregon and California Railroad
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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omthe centre of the town. The Government has endowed this institution witha land grant, and the State affords it some aid. Private liberality hasadded to its resources, and it has every prospect of becoming the bestregulated and best supported educational institution in the State. Eugenelias many beautiful houses, and its share of business energy and activeindustries. Steam-boats used to come here at highest stage of water, but itwas an irregular means of transportation, and since the railroad has beenin operation, the traffic by river has been almost discontinued. Beyond Eugene the road winds for twenty-five miles among the beauti-ful hills of Lane County, revealing charming landscapes at every turn. Atlast the Calipooia Mountains, a short range separating the Willamette andUmpqua valleys, are crossed by a low divide, from the summit of which,looking back, a magnificent view is presented of the broad, lowland coun-try lying between the Cascades and the Coast Mountains. The Three Sis-
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S Oregon and California Railroad. 251 ters, of the Cascade Range, appear as snowy points on the horizon, and themajestic peaks of Adams, Jefferson and Hood have almost vanished in thedistance among the clouds. There are pleasant villages on the road beyond Eugene—Springfield,Goshen, Cresswell and Latham, each of which is a good point for trade.Descending from the Calipooia Mountains towards the Umpqua Valley,Comstocks, a station on the mountain side, is passed; and afterwardsDrain, a centre of business situated at the edge of the beautiful YoncallaValley, is reached. Oakland—(181 miles from Portland)—is a town of importance. TheUmpqua Valley is a hill country, and the heights are crested with groves ofwhite oak trees. Narrow valleys wind among these hills and offer romanticsituations for homes. Sheep husbandry supersedes farming here, andfleeces of tine* quality are exported. Oakland is among these hills, and hasan academy that adds to its attractions. Koseburg—(197 miles from

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