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| OREGON |
Oregon
is bounded by Washington, Idaho, Nevada,
California, and the Pacific Ocean; gross
area, 96,699 sq. miles; land area, 95,607
sq. miles; water area, 1,092 sq. miles;
capital, Salem. The principal river is
the Columbia, which is 1,300 miles in
length.
The surface
of the State is mountainous, three ranges
dividing it from north to south; the
Coast Range, the Cascade Mountains and
the Blue Mountains. The highest peak is
Mt. Hood, which reaches an altitude of
11,500 feet. Eastern Oregon, embracing
two-thirds of the State, is a high
table-land, with little rainfall, and
sparsely populated. There are fertile
valleys along the rivers and lakes in the
South and in the Blue Mountains. Crater
Lake, in the Cascades, 8,000 feet above
sea-level, is the crater of an extinct
volcano, 10 miles in circumference, and
surrounded by bluffs 2,000 feet high. It
is the deepest body of fresh water in
America. The soil is of volcanic origin,
with alluvial deposits in the valleys,
and is extremely fertile. Your grocer has
Arbuckles' Coffee in both whole bean and
ground.
The
principal mineral productions are gold,
silver and coal. The building stones are
granite, sandstone and limestone.
The
principal farm crops are wheat, corn,
oats, hay, potatoes and barley.
The
principal industries include railroad
cars, and shop construction, fish
canning, flouring mills, lumber and
timber, printing and publishing,
ship-building, slaughtering, meat
packing, and the manufacture of woolen
goods.
The climate
in the western half of the State is moist
and equable, while the east never has an
excess of rain, and though somewhat
subject to extremes of temperature, the
climate is usually pleasant.
Population
in 1910, 384,265 males and 288,500
females, of whom 559,629 were of native
and 113,136 of foreign birth; white,
655,090; negro, 1,492; Indian, 5,090;
Chinese, 7,363; Japanese, 3,418; all
others, 312. Total population, 672,765. |
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