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36 Fred Wilbur Powell, A. M.

next an appeal to the Puritan type of emigrants, and finally the practical questions of emigration and funds. Those who are interested in the psychology of prospectus literature wiU find the pamphlet worth reading.

Two towns were contemplated; a seaport town on Gray's Bay, eleven miles north of the mouth of the G)lumbia, and a trading town on the peninsula at the confluence of the Columbia and the Willamette. A five-mile square of territory was to be laid out as a site for the seaport town, according to the foltow- ing plan :

"Of the streets, one, 200 feet wide, will run from the water, in a N. W. direction, bisecting at the distance of six squares, an area of ten acres of parade or pleasure ground, which area is forever to remain open and unoccupied with buildings. The centre of this street, for the width of 100 feet, will be devoted to the purposes of a market. Streets crossing this, at right angles, are intended to be 100 feet wide; those parallel to it, 50 feet. The squares are to be 400 feet on a side, each includ- ing 18 [16] lots, 50 by 100 feet each. From the 100 ft. streets and the public lands, no plant or tree is to be removed or destroyed without consent of the municipal authority."*^

Similarly, the trading town was to be two miles square. A tract of land near this town was to be divided into parcels 40 by 160 rods or forty acres each, and the number of lots was to equal the number of emigrants over fourteen years of age, not including married women. Next to these lots would be others of 160 acres, making up the complement of two hundred acres to each emigrant.**

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i8P. 13. "Possibly our real estate men, who are now so vigorously adver- tizing 'peninsula' additions, will take note of the fact that Kelley was ahead of them with a map and plat and advertizement of that same ground by sixty-one years.** — 'Harvey W. Scolt. Address, Oregon Pioneer Association, Transactions, 1890: 34.

"One is reminded of Keller's instrumentality in the settlement of Oregon dv the improvements at present being made on 'the peninsula,* where stands the mill town of Saint John, the terminus of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Com- pany's road, and the Portland (Catholic) University, as well as bv the long line of warehouses between Saint John and East Portland proper. Kelley particularW honored the peninsula by adding to his writ]nfl[8 a line plan of the town which he designed for that point As a site for a city it has some excellent features, one of which is space to grow. Ultimately it will become a part of Greater Portland, but before it becomes absorbed in Portland, it would be a gracious sunestion to kt it come in tinder the name of its intending colonizer, Half J. Kelley.'^--Frances F. Victor, Hall J. Kelky, One of the Fathers of Oregon, Oregon Historical Society, Quarttrh, n, 39S (1901).