Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-06-22
COL. HAwLEY on SALEM, EiZs
A Short Sketch of Salem in the West
Shore by a Well Known
Writer.

cellent descriptive articles, entitled
"a Picturesque Town." The writer
conceives a summer spent between
the summit of the Siskiyou noun
tains, and the Columbia river.
He gives the following notice of
Salem and her adjacent attractions:
"Salem, the capital city, is only a
little over an hours run from AL
bany. Here are located the state
capitol, an attractive building well
worth a visit, the state penal in
stitution, the asylum for the insane,
the deaf, dumb and blind schools,
and other public institutions, all of
which can be visited and studied
with profit by students of the
public affairs of the country, and it
is to the tourist who desires to COM
bine information with pleasure that
this sketch of travel is particularly
directed. The homes of Salem, with
their well-kept lawns and flower
yards, form good object lessons as to
the unlimited capacity of the Will
limette valley for the building up of
beautiful homes. The Willamette
university, successor to the oldest
educational institute in the state, is
located here and is doing good
The tourist will be repaid if, with
his party, he drive to the top of one
of the adjacent hills, and feast his
vision upon such a far-reaching,
widespread panorama ofsnow peak,
lesser mountain, smiling valley,
woodland copes, cleaning river and
far off hills that rim the horizon, as
is seldom met with in the course of
travel. The next day, if he cares
for natures handiwork, he can
easily persuade the ferryman to
Minto's island to set him and his
party across the slough and show
him the rocky beach, where agates,
comedians, jasper, green, red, yellow
and purple, singular shaped lava
cones and curious petrifactions can
be discerned by sharp eyes, and
carried home to find place in the
cabinet of remembrances from far
off lands. After a morning spent in
such a search, and lunch to follow,
three or four hours will suffice for
drive to, and inspection of, the
Chemawa Indian training school,
where he can see for himself, in
part, what the government is doing
for the fast perishing race who in
habited these lands before the white
man came to dispossess them. Re
turning to the hotel at 500 p. NJ, if
the sky be fair, walk to the west
end of the bridge should follow,
when a glance to the northeast will
reveal Mount Hood, in a sitting
which makes a picture worthy of
the brush of Tintoretto. Whether
at sunrise or sunset, the view Of the
swelling hills of Polk county, clothed
with nodding grain, is a vision of
beauty, the recollection of which
will haunt him for years.
Lebanon soda springs and Silver
City falls, at which latter point two
beautiful cascades lend a poetic
charm to the landscape, are localities
well worth a visit by the leisurely
tourist. Either point can be easily
reached by stage or private con-
veyance from Salem or Albany.
Leaving Salem for Portland,
stops can be made for the purpose of
inspecting the Benedictine monas-
terry and nunnery at Mount Angel.
The members of this venerable
religious organization have planted
their educational institutions in the
heart of an American state, and |
have heard it frequently remarked
that their imposing buildings and
their surroundings seem almost like
a bit of the old world dropped down
in the midst of the new, The friars
and nuns wear the peculiar garb of
their order, and are noted for their
courtesy and hospitality to the
/ visitors. Twelve miles east Of Mount
Angel are located WilhOit springs,
the water of which is a sparkling
soda, i'm high repute, and attracting
| hundreds of visitors annually.
| Located in the foothills of the great
/ Cascade range, the adjacent scenery
/ is of rare beauty and attractiveness." "
Christian camp MeelIng.