Show 1 EGON o e Ionee t By V ED EDWARD ARD EMERINE El What can we do with the western coast asked Daniel Webster and concluded I 1 will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific ocean one inch nearer Boston than it is now Senator McDuffie of South Carolina said he wouldn't give a pinch of snuff for the whole territory Sen Thomas H. H Benton considered the Rocky mountains mountains moun moun- I tarns had been placed by Providence Providence Provi Provi- I dence to mark the western limits of the United States and thus set a aI I boundary to mans man's ambition I But other men thought different different- ly They knew of the fur trade that had drawn men to the Oregon country Lewis and Clark had brought back tales of a rich land By 1830 some of the French Canadian Canadian Cana Cana- dian employees of the Hudsons Hudson's Bay company had located farms In Willamette Willamette Wil Wil- lamette valley Soon Americans drifted in to take up farms Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunt Hunt- ers trappers missionaries and adventurers adventurers adventurers ad ad- drifted in and out of Ore Ore- gon In 1836 Whitman and Spalding Spalding Spalding ing with their wives established a mission near the present site of Walla Walla a second at Lewiston and a third near the present site of Spokane Even the massacre of the by the Indians in 1847 did not deter the pioneers America Moves West Oregon or Bust BusU America was moving west The British had to tobe tobe tobe be headed off and the Great Northwest Northwest Northwest North North- west settled by Americans First there were a few wagons headed toward Oregon then there were thousands The Oregon Trail a Trail a torturous dust dusty dangerous road cut cot through the prairies of Kansas and Nebraska climbed over the mountains of Wyoming crossed the deserts of or Idaho and traversed traversed traversed tra tra- versed more mountains and streams to reach the Columbia river and the Pacific coast Even today the deep ruts still may be found and nd ox bows wagon wheels and lonely graves are scattered scattered scattered scat scat- from the Missouri river to Astoria bleached and silent reminders reminders re re- reminders minders of Oregon the Land of the Pioneers As the As-the the fur trapping declined agriculture agriculture agriculture agri agri- culture took its place Industries were set up First cannery on the Columbia was established in 1866 Gold was discovered in Jackson and Josephine cO counties in 1852 and mining flourished The boundary dispute with Great Britain was settled settled settled set set- without war and Gregon became became be be- came American to the core The pioneers pioneers pioneers pio pio- had won their fight Establish Government With a territorial government established established es es- es the capital was set up at Oregon City but later moved to Sa Sa- tern tem Discovery of gold in California California Califor Califor- nia opened a market for lumber flour and other Oregon products Ocean-going Ocean vessels connected Portland Portland Port Port- land with San Francisco and stage routes joined the principal cities and WASH H I IN N GT O N NC 4 d u w o r rn n n t Q I C J A L I F 0 R N J IA A. A i JN r r y y i r ru k u ti y e. e J l NATIVE GOVERNOR Gov Earl Snell elected Oregon's chief chier executive in 1942 1912 was born In Olex towns A part of Oregon Territory was cut away to make the state o of f Washington in 1853 but in 1859 Oregon Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon became a state The Oregon Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon Short Line opened in 1882 gave Portland railroad transportation across the continent Thus Oregon emerged from a wilderness into a modern won won- with agriculture forestry forestry for tor- estr estry fishing manufacturing mining and recreational facilities tics ties that are arc world famous Farm owners operate 85 per cen cent t of all Oregon farms and the industry industry industry indus indus- try brought in million dollars in 1942 Oregon's rangeland supports more than three million head o of f livestock Rich Timberlands Oregon has nearly 30 million acres of ot timber Including Douglas fir the th e state tree pine hemlock cedar and spruce Wood products paper wood alcohol and other rich industries are based on Oregon's forests The Columbia is a famous salmon stream netting more than seven million million million mil mil- lion dollars a year and there are I large catches of tuna sardines pilchards pilchards pil pU and other commercial fish Oregon's shipbuilding started from scratch during the war and developed into a giant industry almost almost al ale most over night In 1942 more than 11 milli million n. n dollars dol lars worth of gold silver copper quicksilver and chromate was mined in Oregon Oregon Is still the land of the pioneer pioneer pioneer pio pio- neer and thousands of people from all over the United States each year follow the broad paved Oregon Trail to the Great Northwest The trail is no longer the hazardous route of yesteryear but it leads to the same glamorous country the pioneers found a century ago Many of Oregon's Ore Ore- Oregon's gons gon's great resources are as yet undeveloped undeveloped undeveloped un un- developed but completion of the Bonneville power project and others assures ample electric energy A fantastic desert of sagebrush is changed to the richest of farm farmlands farmlands farmlands lands by an irrigation ditch The wonders of Oregon make for good living and prosperity but nature also made it beautiful ful and scenic World renowned Crater lake Mt lUt Hood d and her sister peaks in the Cascade range the Oregon Caves Wallowa Wal Wai- Iowa lowa lake and hundreds of other scenic attractions are a lure that tourists cannot escape More than miles of shoreline are spread along the great Pacific Hundreds of lakes winter sports areas lodges health and play resorts re reo resorts sorts and more than miles of paved highways are offered by Ore Ore- gon In 1943 Oregon's population was 1197 and the number Increased somewhat in the next two years Oregon still is growing still receiving receiving receiving ing new pioneers over the Oregon Trail The trek to Oregon started a century century cen cen- tury ago It was Americas America's first great migration and it ha has never ceased The modern modem pioneer the pioneer the chemist the e serviceman ex serviceman the la laborer la- la laborer borer the farmer the industrialist is is discovering a rich frontier in inthe inthe inthe the Oregon country g. g e r U Uk r sa c M s t s sy y 1 b s t r r 7 i y at ct fn x t e k K c hl ir ti a T Ta a i r df y f I a b y La f A y r S S 'S 6 r 2 A. A y 9 N r L i xv yf r 5 r rr r h i et x I g t r r 7 a w. w f I LAND OF SCENIC GRANDEUR Gems of beauty stud the Oregon landscape 1 Two level mah Falls is world famous 2 Renowned I Mt Hood rises majestically over peaceful farmlands of lamette valley 3 Deep natural gorges of eastern Oregon beckon to hunters and Wil campers 4 Head Dead lighthouse stands guard over the rugged coastline along the Pacific |