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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1887)
oun summer KEsonm am archs, Hood anil Rainier, whoso sum- of tho citizens of Oregon ami Wanning, mits the more strong and venturesome ton court health, comfort and plensuro essay to reach. Taken all together, on tho during tho summer mouths. STOMA stands at tho gateway of Columbia, at Fort Clatsop, so named in tho great natural channel of com honor of tho Indian tribe then living merco of Oregon and tho entiro along tho coast south of tho river. Tho region of the Columbia river. Every narao is jorctuatcd iu tho namo of tho vessel which erodes tho bar, either in- county of which Astoria is tho county ward or outward, passes tho docks of seat, and tho nunc of tho daring i s that city, at which the great majority of plorers havo Wen tastowed on object them stop. Many never proceed up tho and localities in Oregon, Washington, river, receiving their cargoes from tho Idaho and Montana. In 1810, tho l'a hugo warehouses of that busy city. Near, cific Fur Corapauy, chiefly ownM and ly a hundred years havo pawed since controlled by John Jacob Astor, tho tho first ship cast anchor in tho broad Now York merchant prince, founded the estuaiy of tho Columbia, opposito tho town of Astoria, a a hemhjuartora for an site of Astoria, and three-quarters of a extensive trading and trapping business, century havo rolled away since the city and this was tho find American settle itself had its beginning. About it cling ment on tho Pacific coast During tho the earliest traditions of American his- war between England and Hi" United tory on the Pacific const Hero first States, which began in 1S12, Astoria waved tho American ling, and hero was and tho interior Hts which had 1tu planted tho first American settlement, by established, were sold to the Northwest means of which tho whole Columbia re- Company, n Canadian fui company, and gion was saved to tho UnitM States, fell into tho hands of tho great Hu b In 17W, Capt Robert Gray, in com- sou's I'ay Company, in 1HJI, when it mandof the ship Columbia, one of the absorUd its rival. After Mm trentyof few American vessels then engaged in confirming tho title of tho Unitol the trade of tho Pacific, discovered tho States to Oregon Mid Washington, and mouth of ft great river, which ho entered especially aftor tho etabliihmnt of tho and named in honor of his craft In custom Lou, in VJ, Astoria rapi.lly ISOo, Mcriweather Lewis and William became a place of much commercial ico Clarke, two captains in tho United portance, and has increaw-d in this rc. States army, crossed tho continent at gard with tho gradual n ttlement of th the head of a government exploring par- region tribuUry to tho Columbia and ty, and wintered at tho mouth of the expansion of its commerce The first coast and in the mountains, thousandj II. L. Wn.u GATEWAY OF THE COLUMBIA. A
