Description: ÒOregon Ð Organized as a Territory in 1848; became a state in 1859. Area, 96,030 square miles; population, 424,000. Oregon stands thirty-eighth in population, and thirtieth in manufacturing. The manufacture of lumber and timer is the leading industry, while the Columbia River furnishes nearly all the canned salmon used in the United States. The industry of fish canning is carried on almost entirely by the Chinese. The Governor receives a salary of $1,500. &mdash Wark 1904
Source: Henry Wark, ed. , Wark's Modern Educator (New York, NY: Henry Wark, 1904) 878
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