The official Northern Pacific Railroad guide - for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines - containing descriptions of states, (14572946959)

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Title: The official Northern Pacific Railroad guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation : and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Northern Pacific Railroad Company Riley, W. C. (William C.)
Subjects: Railroad travel
Publisher: St. Paul : W.C. Riley
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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main line reaches down the Columbia forty miles, andthence northward to Puget Sound. Ocean steamships ply regu-larly between Portland and San Francisco, and river steam-boats run on the Columbia and Willamette. Portland is thus afocus of the transportation system of the Pacific Northwest.It is also an important port for ocean commerce, and a largepart of the wheat surplus of Oregon and AVashington goesfrom the wharves of Portland by sailing vessels to Liverpooland other European ports. Portland has many handsome business blocks which w^ouldbe creditable to any city in the east. It exports about eightmillion bushels of wheat and over 500,000 barrels of flourannually. Portland has a good street-car system, water, gasand electric light w^orks, a public library, two daily newspapers,great wharves and warehouses, numerous handsome churches,and many spacious public school edifices, the largest of which,the high school building, is the handsomest public schoolstructure on the Pacific Coast.
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Pacific Division. 36.? Immediately opposite the city, on the eastern bank of theAVillamette, is the populous suburb of East J^ortland^ with3,000 inhabitants, and All)ina, with 1,000 inhabitants. Thelatter place has the largest wheat warehouse on the PacificCoast, and i- also the location of extensive railway shops.