this David Hewes resurrected the little engine, had it repaired and presented the relic to the State of Oregon. On its side a brass plate reading
OREGON'S FIRST LOCOMOTIVE
Presented to the State of Oregon
by David Hewes,
A Pioneer of San Francisco, Cal.
Illustrative of the development of commerce up
the Columbia River by the Oregon Steam
Navigation Company.
The Lewis and Clark fair of 1905 came to an end, but no arrangements were made by the people's representatives, the State Legislature, for a permanent abode for the pioneer locomotive, and the State Historical Society asked the Union Pacific System officers at Portland to house it somewhere until the legislators should take the matter up and make an adequate provision for the Pony. For this, nothing has yet been done by the State. The historic relic is deserving of a better fate, and Samuel C. Lancaster, the engineer of the Columbia River Highway has suggested its being placed at Crown Point, but the writer suggests as in his opinion a more desirable location a position in the parkway facing the Portland Union Station, at the head of Sixth Street. Here it should stand on a section of five foot gauge wooden track, with ties four feet apart and planked over between the 6"x6" fir rails which should be faced with strap iron. At the same time it is urged that the Pony be restored to what must have been its original appearance, similar to the second and third locomotives turned out by the Vulcan Iron Works, of which photographs are preserved.
