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General Information

(State map, showing highways, and maps giving railroad, air, bus, and water transportation routes in pocket, inside back cover.)

Railroads: Great Northern Ry. (GN), Northern Pacific Ry. (NP), Southern Pacific Lines (SP), Union Pacific R. R. (UP), Spokane, Portland & Seattle Ry. (SP&S), Oregon Electric Ry. (OE) (see TRANSPORTATION MAP.)

Bus Lines: Pacific Greyhound Lines, Union Pacific Stages, North Coast Transportation Co., Spokane, Portland & Seattle Transportation Co., Oregon Motor Stages, Mount Hood Stages, North Bank Highway Stages, Boyd's Dollar Lines, Independent Stages, and Benjamin Franklin Line serve all but most remote sections. Pacific Greyhound and North Coast are principal carriers N. and S., operating over US 99 the former S. of Portland into California, the latter to Seattle and points N. Union Pacific Stages and Spokane, Portland & Seattle line (US 30), are chief lines E. and W., the former operating E. and the latter W. from Portland: all lines listed above enter Portland; averag< fare, ac per mi. (see TRANSPORTATION MAP).

Air Lines: United Airlines (Vancouver, B. C, to San Diego) stops at Portland and Medford; United Airlines (Portland, Pendleton, Salt Lake City, Omaha, Chicago, New York) connection at Pendleton fo? Spokane (see TRANSPORTATION MAP).

Waterways: Principal waterways are Columbia and Willamette Rivers. Portland, on the Willamette, is a regular port of call for coastwise vessels between Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle and for combination freight and passenger vessels to the Orient, and to South American, Atlantic Coast and European ports. Freight and passenger river boats operate between Portland and Astoria, and Portland and The Dalles.