Oregon, Washington and Alaska; Sights and Scenes for the Tourist

By E. L. Lomax

As can be surmised from the title, the book is a travelog of the following U.S. states: Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. Tourist hotspots in each state are featured alongside a lush black and white illustration.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 11, 2019
• ISBN: 4064066229139

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E. L. Lomax

Oregon, Washington and Alaska; Sights and Scenes for the Tourist

Published by Good Press, 2019

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EAN 4064066229139

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PULLMAN'S PALACE CAR COMPANY

SIGHTS AND SCENES IN OREGON, WASHINGTON AND ALASKA.

PORTLAND

STREAM, SOUND, OR SEA.

THE UPPER COLUMBIA.

THE LEGEND OF THE DALLES.

THE ISLE OF THE DEAD.

THE MIDDLE COLUMBIA.

THE LEGEND OF THE CASCADES.

THE LOWER COLUMBIA.

SOME RANDOM NOTES.

CRATER LAKE.

OREGON NATIONAL PARK.

WASHINGTON

A LEGEND OF TACOMA.

THE NEW EMPIRE OF EASTERN WASHINGTON.

PALOUSE COUNTRY,

SPOKANE FALLS

THE COEUR D'ALENE MINES

WONDERFUL VITALITY.

A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF SPOKANE FALLS.

ALASKA.

STANDARD PUBLICATIONS BY THE PASSENGER DEPARTMENT OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY.

E.L. LOMAX, General Passenger Agent,

JNO. W. SCOTT, Ass't General Passenger Agent,

OMAHA, NEB.

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PULLMAN'S PALACE CAR COMPANY

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Now operates this class of service on the Union Pacific and connecting lines.

For a Section, Twice the Double Berth Rates will be charged.

The Private Hotel, Dining, Hunting and Sleeping Cars of the Pullman Company will accommodate from 12 to 18 persons, allowing a full bed to each, and are fitted with such modern conveniences as private, observation and smoking rooms, folding beds, reclining chairs, buffets and kitchens. They are "just the thing" for tourists, theatrical companies, sportsmen, and private parties. The Hunting Cars have special conveniences, being provided with dog-kennels, gun-racks, fishing-tackle, etc. These cars can be chartered at following rates per diem (the time being reckoned from date of departure until return of same, unless otherwise arranged with the Pullman Company):

Less than Ten Days.

Ten Days or over, $5.00 per day less than above. Hotel, Buffet, or Sleeping Cars can also be chartered for continuous trips without lay-over between points where extra cars are furnished (cars to be given up at destination), as follows:

For each additional berth rate of 50 cents, car rate will be increased $10.00.

Above rates include service of polite and skillful attendants. The commissariat will also be furnished if desired. Such chartered cars must contain not less than 15 persons holding full first-class tickets, and another full fare ticket will be required for each additional passenger over 15. If chartered per diem cars are given up en route, chartering party must arrange for return to original starting point free, or pay amount of freight necessary for return thereto. Diagrams showing interior of these cars can be had of any agent of the Company.

PULLMAN DINING CARS

are attached to the Council Bluffs and Denver Vestibuled Express, daily between Council Bluffs and Denver, and to The Limited Fast Mail, running daily between Council Bluffs and Portland, Ore.

MEALS.

All trains, except those specified above (under head of Pullman Dining Cars), stop at regular eating stations, where first-class meals are furnished, under the direct supervision of this Company, by the Pacific Hotel Company. Neat and tidy lunch counters are also to be found at these stations.

BUFFET SERVICE.

Particular attention is called to the fine Buffet Service offered by the Union Pacific System to its patrons. Pullman Palace Buffet Sleepers now run on trains Nos. 1, 2, 201, and 202.

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SIGHTS AND SCENES IN

OREGON, WASHINGTON AND ALASKA.

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Oregon is a word derived from the Spanish, and means wild thyme, the early explorers finding that herb growing there in great profusion. So far as we have any record Oregon seems to have been first visited by white men in 1775; Captain Cook coasted down its shores in 1778. Captain Gray, commanding the ship Columbia, of Boston, Mass., discovered the noble river in 1791, which he named after his ship. Astoria was founded in 1811; immigration was in full tide in 1839; Territorial organization was effected in 1848, and Oregon became a State on 14th February, 1859. It has an area of 96,000 square miles, and is 350 miles long by 275 miles wide. There are 50,000,000 acres of arable and grazing land, and 10,000,000 acres of forest in the State.

The Union Pacific Railway will sell at greatly reduced rates a series of excursion tickets called Columbia Tours, using Portland as a central point. Stop-over privileges will be given within the limitation of the tickets.

First Columbia Tour—Portland to The Dalles, by rail, and return by river.

Second Columbia Tour—Portland to Astoria, Ilwaco, and Clatsop Beach, and return by river.

Third Columbia Tour—Portland to Port Townsend, Seattle, and Tacoma by boat and return.

Fourth Columbia Tour—Portland to Alaska and return.

Fifth Columbia Tour—Portland to San Francisco by boat.

PORTLAND

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