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Rh United States by the several steamship lines will enable them to estimate the cost; railroad fare from New York and other cities heretofore given.

By the North German Lloyd Steamship line (payable in gold):

By the "Anchor Line" of steamers from Glasgow to New York (Steerage, payable in gold):

From the figures given it is easy to compute the expense of travel and emigration, both from Europe and the Eastern States, to Portland as a central point.

From San Francisco to Puget Sound, semi-monthly steamers run via Victoria, British Columbia: time, four to five days; fare, $36, cabin; $20, steerage. From Portland to Puget Sound there are two routes: one by steamer every ten days, via the mouth of the Columbia River and Victoria; time, three days. Or from Portland to Monticello, in the Cowlitz Valley, by river steamers; fare, $1.50; and thence by stage to Olympia, eighty-five miles; fare, $10; time, two days.

The fare from Portland to Dalles, one hundred and twenty-four miles, by the Oregon Steam Navigation Company's steamers, is $5; to Umatilla, two hundred and twenty-one miles, $8; to Wallula, two hundred and forty-five miles, $10; to Walla Walla, thirty miles farther, by stage, $12; and to Lewiston, four hundred and eight miles, $20.

The distances from the mouth of the Wallamet to Jacksonville, in Southern Oregon, are as follows: