Summer is just around the corner and it is time to start making vacation plans. Will you be traveling to Portland? If not, why not? Portland has many things to entice tourists including proximity to Oregon scenery such as Crater Lake. Robert has compiled for you below some excellent photos of one of his trips to Portland. Worth more than a thousand words, they tell their story better than we ever could.

Never before in the history of our State have Oregonians had so much to be congratulated upon. No State in the Union is receiving more attention. Her agricultural products, her mild climate, her great natural resources, invite the immigrant, the capitalist and the pleasure seeker, while the sound basis upon which rest her finances, and the fact that within two years her taxable property has increased more than ten millions of dollars, clearly indicate that the State, in the face of a general business depression throughout the land, is in no danger of deterioration of decay.

– Z. F. Moody, 1885, Biennial Message

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