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the mining counties, at least those counties not occupied by 

 miners. The mining, tlie agriculture, the commerce, the 

 population, and the wealth must continue to increase, and her 

 name shall be glorious in the records of industr}^ and on the 

 pages of universal history. 



APPENDIX. 



OREGOK 

 Oregon, a State of the American Union, the twentieth ad- 

 mitted under the federal constitution, bordering on the Pacific 

 Ocean, between latitude 42° and 46° north, and longitude 116° 

 40' and 124° 25' west. Its northern boundary is the CoiumiDia 

 River, separating it from Washington Territory, for a distance 

 of about three hutidred miles from its mouth to its intersection 

 with latitude 46° north, which it follows eastward about 

 i^eventy miles to the Snake River or Lewis fork of the Colum- 

 bia, and that stream is the boundary to the mouth of the 

 Owyhee River; the line continues thence due south to lat- 

 itude 42°, and thence due west to the ocean. Oregon is about 

 three hundred and twenty miles long from east to west, and 

 two hundred and eighty miles wide from north to south. Its 

 area is about eighty thousand square miles. It contains nine- 



