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Spanish and English sailors are believed to have
sighted the Oregon coast in the 1500s and 1600s. Capt. James
Cook, seeking the Northwest Passage, charted some of the
coastline in 1778. In 1792, Capt. Robert Gray, in the
Columbia, discovered the river named after his ship and
claimed the area for the U.S. In 1805
the Lewis and Clark expedition explored the area. John Jacob
Astor's fur depot, Astoria, was founded in 1811. Disputes for
control of Oregon between American settlers and the Hudson Bay
Company were finally resolved in the 1846 Oregon Treaty, in
which Great Britain gave up claims to the region.
Oregon has a $3.3 billion lumber and wood
products industry, and an $859 million paper and allied
manufacturing industry. Its salmon-fishing industry is one of
the world's largest.
In agriculture, the state leads in growing
peppermint, cover seed crops, blackberries, boysenberries,
loganberries, black raspberries, and hazelnuts. It is second in
raising hops, red raspberries, prunes, snap beans, and onions.
With the low-cost electric power provided by
dams, Oregon has developed steadily as a manufacturing state.
Leading manufactured items are lumber and plywood, metalwork,
machinery, aluminum, chemicals, paper, food packing, and
electronic equipment.
Crater Lake National Park, Mount Hood, and
Bonneville Dam on the Columbia are major tourist attractions.
Other points of interest include the Oregon Dunes National
Recreation Area, Oregon Caves National Monument, Cape Perpetua
in Siuslaw National Forest, Columbia River Gorge between The
Dalles and Troutdale, Hells Canyon, Newberry Volcanic National
Monument, and John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. |
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