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Rh prosperity and advancement of the yet young country.

After a two weeks' pleasant sojourn in the city, I went east over the Oregon Railroad and Navigation, 231 miles, to Pendleton, a city busy with the shipments of wheat, cattle and sheep, products of the great stock and agricultural country surrounding. Here a branch of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation runs north to Walla Walla, the Palouse country and Spokane, Washington.

La Grande has a beet sugar factory, with immense stock raising.

A branch road runs to Elgin, in the Grand Ronde valley, and the Wallowa country.

East of La Grande is the celebrated Hot Lake, a natural flow of hot water coming from the mountain side, spreading itself out into a large lake, whose medicinal properties are very beneficial.