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timents in after years. Each child in Baker, or Huntington, or Boise, or elsewhere, where these contributions have been made, feels that he has part ownership in the shaft he helped to erect. This feeling will develop into tender care for the memorial, and it will grow stronger as the child grows older."

Result of Meeker's Jour ney. After marking the trail with monuments as far as Omaha, Mr. Meeker visited a .number of eastern cities where he awakened interest in the old emigrant route. Partly as the result of the prominence which he gave to the Oregon Trail, during his visit in the Eastern States, Congress at three successive sessions took up for consideration the appropriation of $100,000 to complete the work of marking the trail, with the belief that this aid would involve a preliminary survey for a national highway as a suitable memorial to the pioneers of Old Oregon. But the bill failed to become a law. In co-operation with Mr. Meeker in the patriotic effort to preserve the Oregon Trail, the Oregon Geographic Board, The Oregon Historical Society, The Daughters of the American Revolution, and other organizations in this State have begun the commendable movement of establishing landmarks along other historic highways of Oregon.

Oregon Bank Holidays. Financial Panic m Eastern States. Early in October, 1907, a financial panic occurred in the United States which was very disastrous in many ways, and peculiar in that it happened during a period of prosper- I'fidto. ParkLT OREGON TRAIL MONUMENT AT BAKER