ale John H. Mitchell— Oregon 
6 to. 12 inches in diameter and from 12 to 30 feet in height; the 
Oregon crab-apple, which grows in groves, making the forest 
impenetrable for man or beast; and many other varieties. The 
Oregon cedar grows to an immense size. It is no uncommon 
thing in the forests of Tillamook and Coos counties, on the coast, 
to find vast forests of these trees 10 to 12 and very often 15 feet 
in diameter and from 200 to 250 feet in height. The Oregon 
sugar-pine grows to 250 feet in height, bearing cones from 12 to 
18 inches in length. The mills of Oregon manufacture over 
250,000,000 feet of lumber annually. 
Game. 
The forests of the state are filled with all kinds of game, in- 
cluding bear, elk, deer, grouse, prairie-chicken, pheasants, Chi- 
nese or Denny pheasants (a most delicious game bird, introduced 
from China by Honorable O. N. Denny, of Oregon, while United 
States consul-general at Shanghai), quail, and other varieties of 
game birds. The rivers and lakes are, during the summer, filled 
with game fowl, including canvas-back, and teal of excellent 
quality. 
The Precious and other Metals. 
No state in the Union is more highly favored in natural en- 
dowments than Oregon. Her resources, developed and unde- 
veloped, are almost as varied as are the gifts of nature, and their 
value cannot be estimated. Her mines, though only partially 
developed, are rich in the precious metals, as also in iron, coal, 
nickel, copper, cinnabar, asbestos, tin, marble, onyx, limestone, 
sandstone, granite, and dolomite. A recent writer on the geo- 
logic formations of Oregon remarks that “the igneous rocks of 
southern Oregon are said to contain all the zeolitic minerals; 
and some geologists believe precious gems of no small worth.” 
_ Already more than $25,000,000 in gold have been taken from 
the placer mines in two counties in the state—Jackson and 
Josephine, in southern Oregon. Eastern Oregon is rapidly de- 
veloping into a great gold and silver producing region. Capital 
only is required to make it one of the most valuable mineral 
fields on the Pacific coast. 
Oregon has an abundance of the very best quality of iron ore. 
Clackamas county in particular abounds in this mineral. Ex- 
