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EUGENE

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 885 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
EUGENE , a city and the county-seat of Lane county, Oregon, U.S.A., on the Willamette river, at the head of navigation, about 125 M. S. of
Portland
 . Pop. (1900) 3236, of whom 237 were foreign-born; (19ro Federal census) 9009. Eugene is served by the Southern Pacific railroad ' and by interurban electric railway. It is situated on the edge of a broad and fertile prairie, at the foot of a
ridge
  of low hills and within view of the peaks of the
Coast
  Range; the streets are pleasantly shaded with Oregon maples. The city is most widely known as the seat of the University of Oregon. This institution, opened in 1876 and having 95 instructors and 734 students in 1907-1908, occupies eight buildings on a grassy slope along the river bank, and embraces a college of literature, science and the arts, a college of engineering, a graduate school, and (at
Portland
 ) a school of law and a school of
medicine
 . In the city is the Eugene Divinity School of the Disciples of Christ, opened in 1895. Eugene is the commercial centie of an extensive agricultural
district
 ; does a large business
885
in grain, fruit, hops, cattle, wool and lumber; and has various manufactures, including flour, lumber, woollen goods and canned fruit. Eugene was settled in 1854, and was first incorporated in 1864.


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