and manufactures
common pottery. Monmouth is the seat of a denominational
college, and also the State normal school. Warehouses and shipping points are frequent along this portion of the river, for the
Wallamet here borders some of the most famous grain-raising
counties.
The Calapooia Biver enters the Wallamet at Albany, on the east side. This stream furnishes fine water-power up in the foot-hills, where two towns—North and South Brownsville—are located. The former is a manufacturing place, having a woollen- mill, a flouring-mill, a planing-mill, and a tannery, besides machine-shops and other similar establishments.
Albany was laid out as a town site in 1848, by two brothers, Thomas and Walter Monteith. All that has been said of Salem as a well located and well-built town applies equally to Albany, which is the third in importance in the Wallamet Yalley, if not the second, this being a mooted question between the two cities. As a manufacturing place it surpasses its rival. Its waterpower is obtained by a canal from the Santiam, costing sixty thousand dollars, several mills and the electric-light plant being worked by this power. Like Salem, it is on the line of the Southern Pacific, with a railroad assured to Astoria, and is on the line of the Oregon Pacific.
There are many pleasant drives and resorts about Albany, and a fine view of that beautiful group of snow-peaks, the Three Sisters. Although there is much level prairie, there are also buttes and ridges so disposed about the valley as to give a charming variety to an otherwise monotonous landscape. Sweet Home Yalley is an oval shaped paradise surrounded by an amphitheatre of hills, and facing the Santiam.
Lebanon, on the south fork of the Santiam, is a delightful spot, in the midst of a fine farming country. A few miles above Lebanon, at the falls of the Santiam, is Silverton, another small town, with flouring- and lumber-mills. Both of these places are the centres of a healthy business, dependent on agriculture and manufactures.
Gatesville, on the line of the Oregon Pacific, is the base of supplies for the Santiam mining district. King’s Prairie, opposite Gatesville, is a thrifty farming settlement, and surrounded by fine timber, which several mills are doing their b
