The New International Encyclopædia/Oregon City

OREGON CITY. The county-seat of Clackamas County, Ore., 15 miles south-southeast of Portland; on the Willamette River, and on the Southern Pacific Railroad (Map: Oregon, C 4). It is developing as an industrial centre, its manufactures, which include paper and pulp, woolen goods, flour, lumber, soap, etc., being promoted by the immense water power derived from the falls of the Willamette, 40 feet in height, which are utilized also as a source of electrical power. The city is at the head of deep-water navigation on the river, but vessels pass above the falls by means of a system of locks. There are municipal water-works. Population, in 1890, 3062; in 1900, 3494.