CHAPTER XV.
ALBANY, AND OTHER RIVER TOWNS.
Albany, on the east side, is twenty-five miles south of Salem, in a tolerably straight line; by the windings of the river it is farther. It is about the head of river navigation in the low water of late summer. Between Salem and Albany are several small places, of no particular importance, chiefly on the west side of the river. At one of these—Buena Vista—considerable coarse earthenware is manufactured. Monmouth, near the river, is the seat of Monmouth College, under the control of the Christian denomination. Warehouses and shipping points are frequent along this portion of the river; for some of the most famous grain-raising counties border it. The Oregon and California Railroad connects this town with those already mentioned, and has already added a considerable interest to business, and value to real estate.
The Calapooia River enters the Wallamet at Albany. This stream furnishes fine water-power up in the foot-hills, where two towns—North and South Brownsville—are located. The former is a manufacturing place, having a woolen-mill, a flouring-mill, a planing-mill, and a tannery, besides machine-shops, and other similar establishments.
Albany was laid out as a town-site in 1848 by two brothers, Thomas and Walter Monteith. All that has been said of Salem, as a well-located town, applies
