The towns--Approach to Oregon--The steamers--The Columbia entrance--
Astoria--Its situation, industries, development--Salmon--Shipping--
Loading and discharging cargo--Up the Columbia and Willamette to
Portland--Portland, West and East--Population--Public buildings--
United States District Court--The judge--Public Library--The Bishop
schools--Hospital--Churches--Stores--Chinese quarter--Banks--Industries
--The city's prosperity--Its causes--Its probable future--The Oregon
Railway and Navigation Company--Shipping abuses and exactions--
Railroad termini--Up the Columbia--The Dalles--Up the Willamette--
Oregon City, its history--The falls--Salem--Its position and
development--Capitol buildings--Flour-mills--Oil-mills--Buena Vista
potteries--Albany--Its water-power--Flour-mills--Values of land--
Corvallis--The line of the Oregon Pacific Railroad--Eugene, its
university and professors--Roseburg--The West-side Railroad to
Portland--Development of the country--Prosperity--Counties of Oregon
--Their population--Taxable property--Average possessions--In the
Willamette Valley--In Eastern Oregon--In Eastern Oregon tributary
to Columbia and Snake Rivers. 252