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is given in farming, fruit- culture, dairying, blacksmithing, tailoring, harness-making, carpentry, ineclianical drafting, music, painting, dress-making and domestic science.

Thh Trahriiui SrJmol Rrrngnized as one of the six great Indian schools m our nation. Surh is its importance that the institution has already l)een seni i-oflicially visited by three presidents of the United States; Benjamin Harrison, in 1691. Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, and WUliam H. Taft in 1909.

A Noted Railway Bridge. The earliest bridges of Oregon were built of wood. Many of these have been replaced by more durable bridges constructed of steel and stone. Among the old wooden bridges now in use is the railway bridge which spans the Willamette River at Albany, Oregon. This bridge is distinguished from other bridges by its draw. ¥^