Salem, a city of Oregon, the capital of the state and of Marion co., is situated on the E. or right bank of the navigable Willamette River, and on the Southern Pacific Railroad, 53 miles S. by W. of Portland, 28 miles N. of Albany, and about 700 miles N. of San Francisco. Lat, 44° 56' N.; lon. 123° 1' W. The streets are all straight, and are 99 feet wide. Next to Portland, Salem is the most populous town of Oregon. It is the seat of Willamette University (Methodist Episcopal), which was organized in 1851, and contains the state capitol, which is 264 feet in length by 75 feet in width, a state prison, a state reform school, a state asylum for the insane, a state orphan's home, 22 churches, 3 academies, 4 banking-houses, a fine brick court-house, an institution for the deaf and dumb, founded by the state in 1870, the Oregon School for the Blind, founded in 1873, a state library of about 7000 volumes, 2 large flouring-mills, a foundry, a machine-shop, and manufactures of lumber, oil, woollen goods, stoves, sash and doors, leather, and farming-implements. Two daily and 3 weekly newspapers are published here. Pop. about 10,500.
Salem, a city of Oregon, the capital of the state and of Marion co., is situated on the E. or right bank of the navigable Willamette River, and on the Southern Pacific Railroad, 53 miles S. by W. of Portland, 28 miles N. of Albany, and about 700 miles N. of San Francisco. Lat, 44° 56' N.; lon. 123° 1' W. The streets are all straight, and are 99 feet wide. Next to Portland, Salem is the most populous town of Oregon. It is the seat of Willamette University (Methodist Episcopal), which was organized in 1851, and contains the state capitol, which is 264 feet in length by 75 feet in width, a state prison, a state reform school, a state asylum for the insane, a state orphan's home, 22 churches, 3 academies, 4 banking-houses, a fine brick court-house, an institution for the deaf and dumb, founded by the state in 1870, the Oregon School for the Blind, founded in 1873, a state library of about 7000 volumes, 2 large flouring-mills, a foundry, a machine-shop, and manufactures of lumber, oil, woollen goods, stoves, sash and doors, leather, and farming-implements. Two daily and 3 weekly newspapers are published here. Pop. about 10,500.
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