ov
ernment of the United States, reserving the water power at
the falls. Linn City contains one tavern, one chair manu
factory, one cabinet shop, one gunsmith shop, and one wagon
shop.
Next on the list of cities comes Multnomah City, laid out
by Hugh Burns, Esq., immediately adjoining Linn City, and
opposite to Oregon City. Multnomah City is located on a
beautiful site, and must, in a short time, be a city in appear
ance as well as name. The falls of the Willamette affords
ample water privileges for the erection of machinery of every
description, to any extent desired; and we believe that, in a
few years, there will be constructed a canal on each side of
the river, commencing at the head of the falls and locked
down for a distance of one mile, which improvement would
afford power for the manufacturing of everything necessary
for internal purposes as well as transportation, with those
advantages, together with the great quantity of timber im
mediately in our neighbor-hood —a healthy climate, a pro
ductive soil, and minerals yet to be found, we are sanguine
that the time is not far distant when we must become great,
and we hope, good.
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The Falls Association
From Oregon Spectator, Vol. 1 , No. 6, April 16, 1846
H. A. G. Lee, Editor
"The Falls Association was instituted in January, 1844, for the
mutual advancement of its members, in discussion and composition,
since when, many animated debates, on interesting and useful sub
jects, have taken place — perhaps, we might say, too animated occa
sionally, when the question affected our peculiar political situation;
if no very weighty results have been produced, it tended at least to
relieve the monotony of our drizzly winters, and something more, if
we may infer from the numerous assemblage ofttimes witnessed on
the nights of meeting.
"The essays and compositions having been preserved, we shall,
with the permission of the members, occasionally call from the re
pository, such as we may concieve worthy of placing in a spare column
of the 'Spectator,'
as among the early effusions of Oregon
