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Tonight, we'll read excerpts from Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, sites and scenes for the

tourist, written in 1890 by Yale L L L. L. L. L. L. L. Max, officially incorporated in 1851, Portland grew steadily, forming an identity as an industrial trading town.

Up into the 1890s,

Portland hosted the Pacific Northwest's largest port

only to be surpassed later by Seattle.

Let's get cozy.

Close your eyes.

No actual body.

The softness of a bad.

Now. and the softness of bad.

Now, take a few deep breaths. Portland is a very beautiful city of 60,000 inhabitants and situated on the Willamette River 12 miles from its junction with the Columbia. It is perhaps true of many of the growing cities of the West, that they do not offer the same social

advantages as the older cities of the East, but this is principally the case as to what may be called boom cities,

where the larger part of the population is of that floating class which

follows in the line of temporary growth for the purposes of speculation

and in no sense applies to those centers of trade whose prosperity is based on the solid foundation of legitimate business.

As the metropolis of a vast section of country,

having broad agricultural valleys filled with improved farms, surrounded

by mountains rich and mineral wealth and boundless forests of as fine timber as the world produces.

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