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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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ranges; Mount Tacoma (14,444 feet), onehundred miles distant, on Paget Sound, or near it, is too re-mote to convey the correct impression of its grandeur, butcan be plainly seen. There is one place, three miles up theWillamette, where five snow mountains can be seen at onceon a clear day,—St. Helens, Tacoma, Adams, Hood and Jef-ferson, the last looking over the ranges for a long distance tothe south. The panorama is magnificent, changing and open-ing at intervals as the steamer follows her course. Lookingback, down the Willamette, a perfect picture is revealed where St.Helens pyramid of white is framed in by the Willamette shores. Approaching Portland by river, the traveler soon becomesaware that he is nearing a commercial city. River craft of allsorts and sizes, as well as ocean vessels, are found at thewharves of the city itself, one hundred and twenty-five milesfrom the ocean, representing the commerce of the world. EastIndiamen, that have abandoned their former trade to steamers
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By River to Portland, 401 and the Suez Canal ; ocean steamers, from the magnificent3,000-ton passenger and freight steamships of the OregonRailway & Navigation Company, to the business-looking col-liers from Puget Sound, and the steam schooner that tradesalong the coast,—these, and all sorts of river and coastingcraft, are at Portland wharves. At the sight of them, the factis at once recognized that the journey across the continent isended, and that the metropolis of the Pacific Northwest hasbeen reached.

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