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 The area covered was 16 by 12 miles. The scale of the map is one inch for 200 feet and the contour interval is 100. The features on the map include a portion of the McKenzie highway, trails, mountain lakes, glaciers and points of scenic and geologic interest.

Newspapers and magazines of general circulation are published in 134 communities of Oregon, according to the annual survey of the state press made by Professor George S. Turnbull of the University of Oregon School of Journalism. The total number of periodical publications listed in Professor Turnbull's Directory of the Oregon Press, is 251.

Monuments or markers have been erected even to a few of the most noted varieties of apples. In 1895, a monument was built to the Baldwin at Wilmington, near Lowell, Massachusetts. In 1903 in New York state, a marker was erected on the original site of the Primate apple trees. In 1912, in the middle west there followed two similar monuments—to the Northern Spy and the Mcintosh Red.

The new Lewis and Clark Bridge on the Seaside Highway at Astoria was finished during the month of February. This adds yet another improvement to the lower Columbia River highway. Seaside, by a resolution adopted by the legislature of the State of Oregon on February 13, 1925, is designated as the official terminus of the Lewis and Clark Trail and a suitable monument is to be erected there.

The resting place of Homer Calvin Davenport, native of Silverton, Oregon, and one of the most distinguished cartoonists of the United States, was marked during the first week in February, by placing an appropriate monument in the Silverton cemetery.