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Salmon Creek Sites 
Salmon Creek, on the Willamette, near Oakridge, Oreg., has 
all the possibilities of a coming recreation center. Forty-six 
miles from Eugene, on what will become a main trans-State 
highway east to west, it is suitably located for the first night’s 
rest on the journey out of Eugene. Various stream changes in 
the delta of Salmon Creek, which is really a small-sized river, 
have formed a labyrinth of beautiful brush and timber covered 
islands, separated by smaller or larger streams or rivulets, with 
here and there at high water a miniature lagoon in the old creek 
channels. It is an ideal place for a camp ground, and plans are 
being made for its development as such. The State has free 
permit on the same ground for fish-hatchery purposes and 
intends many improvements for the comfort and convenience of 
the campers. 
The Salmon Creek home-site area, consisting of 20 roomy 
lots, with good frontage on Salmon Creek, is one of the best 
home-site projects in the mountains. There are groups of three 
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