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Title: The official Northern Pacific Railroad guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines : 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: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Northern Pacific Railroad Company Riley, W. C. (William C.)
Subjects: Railroad travel
Publisher: St. Paul : W.C. Riley
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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d (145 miles from Tacoma; population, 48,000) is the oldest commercial metropolis and railroad centre of the Pacific Northwest, and is the largest city of the Pacific Coast next to San Francisco. It is a beautiful city, w^ell built in both its business and residence districts, and standing upon a gentle slope stretching from the bank of the Willamette river westward,for a distance of about two miles, to a range of steep, wooded hills. The city extends for about the same distance up and down the river. Its residence streets are shaded with maples and ash,elms, horse-chestnuts and other shade trees, and most of the houses front upon lawns and flower gardens. Indeed, Port-land is a city of flowers and foliage, the mildness of the climate and moisture of the atmosphere causing vegetation to flourish.Hie winter climate is so mild that roses usually bloom until the first of January. The situation of Portland was determined by the fact that the Willamette valley was the first settled portion of Oregon,
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IMAGE: Salmon leaping up the falls at the Dalles of the Columbia River. 360 Pacific Division. 361 and the commercial city of the State naturally sprang up at the point nearest to the wheat fields of the Willamette valley to which sea-going ships could get access. This point w^as not on the Columbia river, but as far up the Willamette as vessels of deep draught could go. Two lines of standard-gauge road terminating here penetrate the Willamette valley, draining the country on both sides of the Willamette. One of these hues extends southward to the California boundary and thence to San Francisco. A system of narrow-gauge railroad devised to furnish transportation facilities to portions of the valley not reached by the other roads, also terminates in Portland. The main line of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company ex-tends eastward to a junction with the Northern^ Pacific at Wallula, and by means of numerous branches reaches nearly all the productive country of eastern Oregon, and a large part of eastern Washington. Westward from Portland the Northern Pacific main

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