2 OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD NEW YEAR NUMBER.
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state, with the thought that there will be a
greater Oregon, not as now, an empire in
size, but an empire in population.
It is this faith in the great future of the
state that has inspired the zeal of those who
have labored so devotedly and given their
money so freely for the proposed Lewis and
Clark Exposition, to be held in Portland in
1905. When we reflect on the amazing re
sults of the exploring tour of these two he
roic men, the imagination becomes bewil
dered. We cannot honor their memory too
greatly. A century after their memorable
trip, people will gather to that Exposition
by hundreds of thousands from everywhere.
Then Oregon's incomparable advantages
will become known by actual experience to
the most energetic citizens of all nations.
They will see, then, those that come from
afar, that not the half has been told them.
With, the New Year we can assuredly
take new hope and new courage, for, if each
one does his modest part, we shall in 1905
place Oregon, our own Oregon, before the
eyes of the world in colors more cheering
and dazzling than she ever was before.
In her apostrophe "to the Native Daugh
ters of Oregon," Eva Emery Dye sings:
"Along the fair Pacific slope,
A chain of sea-kissed, sun-kissed lands,
Green orchards bend with endless bloom,
Bright rivers roll over golden sands.
Like sentinels the' white peaks rise
That guard this New World paradise.
Deep in her valleys genius waits
To nurse awhile her tropic bloom,
That yet shall burst and bear abroad
Immortal cycles of perfume."
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SHEEP ON FARM OF R. SCOTT, MIIAVAUKIE