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ernment of the United States, reserving the water power at the falls. Linn City contains one tavern, one chair manu factory, one cabinet shop, one gunsmith shop, and one wagon shop. Next on the list of cities comes Multnomah City, laid out by Hugh Burns, Esq., immediately adjoining Linn City, and opposite to Oregon City. Multnomah City is located on a beautiful site, and must, in a short time, be a city in appear ance as well as name. The falls of the Willamette affords ample water privileges for the erection of machinery of every description, to any extent desired; and we believe that, in a few years, there will be constructed a canal on each side of the river, commencing at the head of the falls and locked down for a distance of one mile, which improvement would afford power for the manufacturing of everything necessary for internal purposes as well as transportation, with those advantages, together with the great quantity of timber im mediately in our neighbor-hood —a healthy climate, a pro ductive soil, and minerals yet to be found, we are sanguine that the time is not far distant when we must become great, and we hope, good. 2 The Falls Association From Oregon Spectator, Vol. 1, No. 6, April 16, 1846 H. A. G. Lee, Editor "The Falls Association was instituted in January, 1844, for the mutual advancement of its members, in discussion and composition, since when, many animated debates, on interesting and useful sub jects, have taken place — perhaps, we might say, too animated occa sionally, when the question affected our peculiar political situation; if no very weighty results have been produced, it tended at least to relieve the monotony of our drizzly winters, and something more, if we may infer from the numerous assemblage ofttimes witnessed on the nights of meeting. "The essays and compositions having been preserved, we shall, with the permission of the members, occasionally call from the re pository, such as we may concieve worthy of placing in a spare column of the 'Spectator,' as among the early effusions of Oregon