I3th January, A. D. 1898. 



ESSAY 



BY 



ROBERT FARQUHAR, Boston. 



Theme: — 77^6 Yellowstone Park, Oregon. 



Illustrated with Stereopticon Views. 



Last season I devoted my vacation to a trip to Oregon and 

 Yellowstone Park with a camera and notebook, the result of 

 which I will try and give to you this afternoon. 



The natural endowments of Oregon are apt to strike the east- 

 erner with amazement. He finds himself in a land of great 

 forests, of lofty mountains, noble rivers and an atmosphere so 

 clear that the Pacific ocean is visible at a distance of seventy 

 miles. The soil of the valleys is remarkable in fertility, and 

 although there are great extremes of temperature, fruits and 

 vegetables attain an enormous size. The legislature has been 

 particularly careful of the horticultural interests, and laws for 

 the inspection of seed and imported plants have had the result 

 that insects, troublesome in the east, are unknown there. 



The raising of prunes is a recent industry, and promises well, 

 ordinary soil yielding a uniform profit of $100 per acre. Fruits 

 in great variety are raised in Oregon, and the display represent- 

 ins: the State at the world's fair in Chicago was among the best 

 exhibits of fruit seen at the big fair. 



Seattle and Portland are the New York and Boston of the far 

 west, and are destined before many years to become great centres 

 of industry and population. In the great falls of the Willamette 

 River, which washes the suburbs of Portland and falls into the 

 Columbia, that city has the second largest single water power of 



