Show I Tho Columbia is i a most superb river All in all It Is the most superb river In America No other river has such pictures on her banks no other great river is so pure and there Is not one other that offers a hand so helping to commcrce The Oregonian notes tho 1 clearing from Portland of the ship J Wilhelmlna drawing twentyfive feet and carrying a cargo of 211898 bushels of wheat or more than C500 tons The Willamette deserves notice too for Portland is by river seventeen miles up the Willamette They are both magnificent rivers and the country coun-try through which they flow Is as rich as it is l beautiful Those arc great States those of the Northwest Oregon Ore-gon and Washington together would be sufficient for an empire and l they are equipped with every needed thing agricultural ag-ricultural land mines of gold and silver sil-ver coal and iron unparalleled forests for-ests fish and all varieties of climate ItlR the best of fruit countries and east of the cascades where the climate cli-mate and soil are like all this Inler mountain region It Is an Ideal region for stockralslng Sugarmaking and fruitraising That Js a great Northwest North-west |