POMEROY is the county seat and chief distributing center of the
county. It is situated in the north central part of the county,
on the Pataha river and the Oregon Railroad & Navigation railway.
It has a population of nearly 2,000.
It is lighted with electricity, has a gravity water system, and all
the machinery for doing all the business naturally coming to a town
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of its size. It has a fine high school and graded schools, churches,
newspapers, banks, warehouses, big stocks of goods, fire department,
cet.