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First Newspaper West of the Missouri. The "Oregon Spectator," a semi-monthly publication issued at Oregon City, February 5, 1846, was the first newspaper published west of the Missouri River. Its first editor was Colonel W. G. T'Vault. The "Spectator," which was non-political, became chiefly useful in disseminating the laws and acts of the Provisional Government.

First Oregon Fruit Nursery. The first fruit nursery of Oregon was known as the Traveling Nursery because it was brought to Oregon on wheels. Henderson Luelling, a prosperous nurseryman of Henry County, Iowa, conceived the idea of conveying trees by wagons to Oregon. Thereupon in the early spring of 1847, with his son Alfred, he started westward driving two four yoke ox team hauling