The Mountains of Oregon Part 7

"DAVID P. THOMPSON, one of the most widely known men in our State, was born in Harrison county, Ohio, in 1834. In his nineteenth year he came to Oregon, driving sheep across the plains and walking every rod of the way. Upon his arrival at Oregon City in 1853 he took a job of cutting cordwood, which lasted through the winter. Soon after he entered upon the profession of a surveyor, which he followed during several years. In pursuance of this business he acquired an unequaled knowledge of the northwestern country, and laid the foundation of his present ample fortune. He lived at Oregon City till 1876, when he removed to Portland.

In 1879, and again in 1881, he was elected mayor, and gave the city a vigorous and efficient administration. Mr. Thompson, throughout his whole life, has been noted for activity and energy. He is a man of firm and positive character, tenacious of his purposes, active in business and successful in his undertakings. By appointment of President Grant he became governor of Idaho Territory in 1875, but resigned the office in 1876. He is now engaged in the banking business in Portland."--(History of Portland,--Scott.) Mr. Thompson served as president of the Alpine Club in 1889.

MR. GEORGE B. MARKLE is at the present time serving as president of the Alpine Club. He was born in Hazleton, Lucerne county, Pennsylvania, October 7th, 1857, and came to Oregon in 1886. His desire to locate in the west led him to make a tour of inspection, which embraced Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, California, Oregon and Was.h.i.+ngton. A careful examination of all this region convinced him that Portland offered the best inducements as a business point, combined with all the advantages of an old settled community, and in the fall of 1886 he permanently located in this city. He immediately became a factor in the busy life around him, and displayed a business generals.h.i.+p which marked him as a man of unusual power, and gave him a place among the foremost business men of the city seldom accorded in any community to one of his years.

With others he organized the Oregon National Bank, of which he is vice president; also the Ellensburgh National Bank, the Northwest Loan and Trust Company and the Commercial Bank of Vancouver, being president of the last three corporations named. He was one of the purchasers of the Multnomah Street Railway; reorganized the company and ever since has been its president. He is also president of the Portland Mining Company, owning the Sunset group of mines in the famous Coeur d'Alene district.

He was one of the leading spirits in organizing the great enterprise of the North Pacific Industrial a.s.sociation; purchased the land upon which to erect the necessary buildings and secured a large number of subscriptions to its capital stock. He was one of the leading spirits in the organization of the Portland Hotel Company and is prominently identified with many other enterprises.--(History of Portland,--Scott.)

OREGON BIBLIOGRAPHY.

1853.--ADAMS, MT.--Called by Winthrop, "Tacoma the Second,"--(Canoe and Saddle, page 48).

1889.--Called by the Indians "Pat-to," which signifies standing up high.

With the Indians this was a general term for snow capped mountains.

Located in lat.i.tude 46 12' 14.1", longitude 121 31' 08.3".

1775.--ADAMS POINT.--Discovered by Heceta and called Cape Frondoso (Leafy Cape).

1792.--Capt. Gray subsequently entered the river and named it Point Adams.--(Life on Puget Sound,--Leighton, page 48. Pacific States, vol.

22, page 163).

1792.--ADMIRALTY INLET.--Named by Vancouver for the Board of Admiralty.--(Life on Puget Sound, p. 155).

1766-9.--ALASKA.--Named by Russians.--(Willamette Valley, page 62). The name is derived from a Russian corruption of an Aleutian word, "Alakshak," which signifies Continent, or a large country. The Russian version of the term was "Aliaska," and it applied only to the prominent peninsula jutting out from the continent. Made a general term by the United States.--(Supplement to Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 1, page 157).

1507.--AMERICA.--First applied to the new world in a work ent.i.tled "Cosmographiae Instructio, etc., in super quatuor Americi Vespucii Navigationes," written by Marti Waldseemuller, under the a.s.sumed name of Hylacomylus and printed at Saint Die, in Lorraine.--(History of Oregon and California,--Greenhow, page 48).

1808.--AMERICAN FUR COMPANY organized.--(Burrows' Oregon, page 58).

1846.--APPLEGATE, OR SOUTHERN ROUTE.--Constructed by Jesse Applegate.--(Pacific States, vol 22, page 642).

1811.--ASTORIA founded by John Jacob Astor, April 12.--(Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 2, page 737. History of the Willamette Valley, page 153).

1813.--Captured by the English and name changed to St.

George.--(Burrows' Oregon, page 63).

1818.--Repossessed by the United States.--(Burrows' Oregon, page 65).

1865.--ATMOSPHERIC RIVER OF HEAT.--General course, effects, etc.--(Miners and Travelers' Guide,--Muller, page 61).

1792.--BAKER'S BAY.--Named by Broughton for Capt. Baker, of the brig Jenny.--(Three Years' Residence in W. T.,--Swan, page 129).

1792.--BAKER, MT.--Named for Lieut. Baker, by Vancouver, April 30.--(Vancouver, vol. 2, page 56).

1853.--Called by Winthrop, "Kulshan," presumably because of being the Indian name.--(Canoe and Saddle, page 47).

1846-8.--Same as Mt. Polk.--(Oregon and California,--Thornton, vol. 1, page 256).

1868.--The summit is described and ill.u.s.trated in Harper's Monthly for November, page 806, by E. T. Coleman.

1869.--Called by the Spanish, "Montana del Carmelo."--(Life on Puget Sound,--Leighton, page 160).

1842-6.--BARLOW ROAD.--See Indian Trail.

1851.--BATTLE ROCK AT PORT ORFORD.--First trip from here to the Willamette Valley (with notes by a partic.i.p.ant).--(Oregon and Was.h.i.+ngton,--Armstrong, page 60).

1792.--BELLINGHAM'S BAY.--Named by Vancouver.--(Vancouver, vol. 2, page 214).

1728.--BEHRING sent out by Russia on a voyage of discovery.--(Barrows'

Oregon, page 22).

1865.--BITTER ROOT RANGE.--Same as the Coeur d'Alene Mountains.--(Miners and Travelers' Guide,--Mullan, page 63).

1841.--BLANCHET, FATHER.--Visited by Wilkes.--(Wilkes' Narrative, vol.

4, page 349).

1775.--BODEGA, DON JUAN DE LA.--Sailed north to 58 and returning discovered Bodega Bay in 38 18'.--(History of Oregon,--Twiss, page 57).

BONNEVILLE.--Named for B. L. E. Bonneville, who explored the Rocky Mountains in 1832 and visited the Columbia in 1834.--(Pacific States, vol. 23, page 568).

1792.--BROUGHTON, LIEUT.--Entered the Columbia River, October 20th, and was surprised to find the brig Jenny, of Bristol, Capt. Baker, lying there at anchor.--(Three Years' Residence in W. T.,--Swan, page 129).

1792.--BULFINCH'S HARBOR.--Discovered by Captain Gray.--(Oregon and Its Inst.i.tutions,--Hines, page 15) See also, Gray's Harbor.

1543.--CABRILLO.--See Viscaino.

1775.--CAPE DISAPPOINTMENT.--Discovered by Heceta, August 15, and called Cape San Roque. Named Disappointment by Mears, because of his not being able to make the entrance of the river.--(Life on Puget Sound,--Leighton, page 48).

1792.--Called Cape Hanc.o.c.k by Gray, but afterwards changed upon hearing that Mears had already named it.--(Three Years' Residence in W.

T.,--Swan, page 129).

1778.--CAPE FLATTERY.--Named by Captain Cook.--(Three Years' Residence in W. T.,--Swan, page 120).

1792.--CAPE HANc.o.c.k.--See Cape Disappointment.

1812.--CAPE HORN.--So named because of the difficulty experienced in doubling it.--(The Columbia River,--c.o.x, vol. 1, page 118).

1766.--CARVER, CAPT. JONATHAN.--A resident of Connecticut and a soldier of the Canadian war. Left Boston, by way of Detroit, for the waters of the Upper Mississippi, and to cross the continent.--(The Oregon Territory,--Nicolay, page 93).

CASCADE MOUNTAINS.--Named for the Cascades of the Columbia River.--(American Cyclopedia, vol. 4, page 511. Fremont, page 189).

1846-8.--Same as President's Range.--(Oregon and California,--Thornton, vol. 1, page 255).