. Book of the Royal blue . ims a population of nearly250,000, which is steadily increasing at theaverage rate of 18,000 a year. Lying atthe junction of the Columbia and Willa-mette rivers, it is connected with every partof the great Northwestern region, compris-ing the three States of Oregon, Washing-ton and Idaho, by water-level lines ofcommunication. It is the only fresh-waterport of the Pacific. It has a rare climate, notwithstanding itis in the same latitude as South Dakota,Wisconsin and New York. It is protectedby the great mountains to the east and hasthe balmy Pacific Ocean breezes,whic
. Book of the Royal blue . ims a population of nearly250,000, which is steadily increasing at theaverage rate of 18,000 a year. Lying atthe junction of the Columbia and Willa-mette rivers, it is connected with every partof the great Northwestern region, compris-ing the three States of Oregon, Washing-ton and Idaho, by water-level lines ofcommunication. It is the only fresh-waterport of the Pacific. It has a rare climate, notwithstanding itis in the same latitude as South Dakota,Wisconsin and New York. It is protectedby the great mountains to the east and hasthe balmy Pacific Ocean breezes,which arewarmed by the Japan Current. It is claimedthe thermometer ne\er gets as low as zero andrarely goes over 85 degrees in the summer-time. The average temperature in July is67 degrees; in January 42 degrees, and theannual rainfall averages forty inches. It isbecause of these fine climatic conditions theroses grow in such profuse quantities. The Northern Baptist Convention will beheld at Portland from June 25th to July Spokane, Wash. :^OKANE lies in theheart of a great basin be-tween the Cascade andRocky A/Iountain ranges,known as the Inland Em-pire. It was originally aNorthwest Fur Companypost, being established in 1811, in oppositionto Astoria, which was founded by JohnJacob Astor in the same year. As a city ofproportions, it was started in 1873 andincorporated in 1883, and now has a popu-
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