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Rh for getting out the timbers having been given to the St. Helen Milling Company. Improvements are rapidly increasing in East Portland, and property is held at a pretty high figure. The Railroad Wharf is 1,250 feet long by 70 in breadth; is built in a slope to accommodate it to the different stages of water, and has a substantial warehouse upon it 370 feet long by 42 wide—being just half the size of the corresponding wharf and warehouse on the west side of the river.

East Portland contains some fine residences, several churches, and a bank, and supports a newspaper of its own, as well as several societies and orders.

About two miles above the town are the machine-shops and car-building establishments of the Oregon and California Railroad; and about four miles above town is the Company's saw-mill—one of the largest and most complete in the State. When in full operation it employs sixty men as sawyers, attendants, loggers, and drivers; and is capable of cutting 1,000,000 feet per month.