The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-10-23
EDITORIAL
CORRESPONDENCE.
PORTLAND. Oregon, Oct 18th, 1896

PORTLAND. Oregon, Oct. 18th. 1896.
DEAR ENQuIRER:--I am enjoying the
delightful climate and the beautiful
scenery that characterize this city and its
environments Portland well deserves its
reputation. and nowhere will You find
people who are more enthusiastic over
the rich hountieS With which nature may
cndow their homes. OF course many OF
the pen-pctures of this country, as of all
other egions. are somewhat ovcr-colored.
but after making due allowance. there is
truth and much of it, in the following
which | quote from 4 guide-book Not
Italy with its iron clad hills, nor SwitZer
Hard With its rugged peaks and mountain
passes. nor Egypt with its broad valley of
the Nile, can furnish scenery of deeper,
yrandcr or more peaceful beauty than the
average Portlander enjoys at his very
door step All that he or any visitor need
do is to ascend any hill in the vicinity and
cast his Ewes ahout@him Nature will
then enroll a panurama-l feast Of vision.
The peaceful Willamette curl> and winds
its sunny way to join the great Columbia.
Upon the bosom of the stream can be
seen craft of every description. From
the row and sail boat, with its freight of
human pleasure seekers, to tina river
steamer that finds its way where the rail
roads cannot 90: and the ocean craft or
great tonnage, that sails or steamS from
continent to continent and builds up the
foreign traffic of the great Northwest.
Here and there a bridge spans the noble
river and On it are foot and horSemen,
teams and cars. crowded with rushing,
busting humanity. Long trains of freight
and passenger cars pass constantly to and
fro. In the city beneath, block after
block of business houses loom up. and
throngs of people move to and fro intent
on work. But the browning glory Of tie
view is the gi gantlc peaks of Hood.
Adams. St Helcns and Rainier, that stand
| out against the heavens. above the range
of lesser mountains, covered with eternal
snow.
have had fine opportunity of view
| ing in a concentrated form exhibits of the
| best products of this scction-not only
| from the farms but from the factories-by
| attending the exposition which has been
| in progress here for several weeks. Ore
| gon is blessed in the extent and arviety OF
her resources. She has unbounded wealth
| in her vast forests. I saw at the eXposi-
| ton a cut from pine tree measuring l.
| feet in diameter. Lumber here, and that
| of the finest quality, can be purchased
| from about one-third to one-half of what
it costs in the East. In fact so great has
been the output, that many of the saw
| mills have been idle since the beginning
| of the hard times. The Salmon fisheries
of the Columbia have also brought mil
| lions upon millions to the State There
are cotton and wooden mills, factories fol-
making tin and iron ware, cordage mills
| carriage works; in fact almost everything
is produced here that is needed in the
| highest conditions of civilized life. There
| is more truth than eNaggeration in the
| language which describes the great North
west as the finest, grandest and most Clio
| rO1lS region on earth" F. s