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GUIDEBOOK OF THE WESTEEX UNITED STATES. 



miles soiitli of Turner tlie Cascade Rang: 



(east). Mount 



Turner. 



Elevation 332 feet. 

 Population 191. 

 Seattle 246 miles. 



Here, throug' 

 era meadow lai 

 been 



Here, 



mile 



wi 



weatlier is clear. On the riglit, a fev 



are basalt hills^ some densely forested 



others cultivated. The varicolored crops make a 



beautiful contrast with the forest. 



brought west. 



expresses contentment in his new quarters. 



rippHng music of the Chinese pheasant and will not wonder that 



Marion. 



F 



Elevation 329 feet. 

 Population 5C4.* 

 Seattle 253 miles. 



Rostand's Chantecler^ listening to that melody, forgot 

 to give his clarion call that was to set the world going 



for another day. 

 Marion is sui 



rounded by a great hay country in 

 which, as elsewhere in Oregon, vetch is grown with wheat ^nd oats 

 for hay, with excellent results. 



Jefferson. 



Elevation 268 feet. 



Population 415.* 



Seattle 257 miles. 



:he railroad crosses Santiam I 

 •gest tributaries of the Willamette 



Under 



more 



less carbonaceous shales. The railroad passes be- 



alluvial nlain 



past Millersburg to Albany. 



Albanv, which is on the Willamette at the mouth 



imnortaiit railroad 



Branches from the main 



Albany. 



Elevation 240 feet 

 Population 4,275. 



Seattle 266 mfles. 



Pacific 

 into th 



the 



east,^ A short distance south of Albany the Cascade 

 and Coast ranges are in full view. Both ranges have 



been so eroded as to present 



'gular sky hues. 



Marvs Peak dominates this part of the Coast Ransre, and some 



buttes between 



Cascade Range. 



and McKenzie rivers are outhers of the 



^ Trips over tliese branches give the 

 traveler interested in geology and in the 

 relations of mountains to valleys an oppor- 

 tunity to study a partial cross section of 

 the Pacific System, including the Or<^on 

 Coast Range, the WiUamette Valley, and 

 part of the Cascade Range. 



At Corvallis, on the way to the coast, 

 is the Oregon Agricultural College, a State 

 institution vriili which is connected a 

 Federal agricultural experiment station. 

 Here also are the headquarters of the Ore- 

 gon Bureau of Mines and Geology. There 

 were 28 graduate and 1,250 undergradu- 

 ate students at the collie in 1913. Sand- 



form 



illamette 



belonging to that epoch occur near Cor- 

 vallis. The crest of the Coast Range is 

 composed of Astoria shale (Oligocene), 



west 



Miocene 



Pleistocene fossils are abundant. 



The Corvallis & Eastern Railroad, a 

 branch of the Southern Pacific running 

 east from Albany, follows up Santiam 

 River, passes some sharp basalt buttes in 

 the valley, and apparently crosses a belt 

 of Eocene strata before reaching the lavas 

 of the Cascade Range. 



