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BAKER CITY

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 229 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAKER
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CITY  , a
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city and the
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county-seat of
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Baker county,
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Oregon, U.S.A., about 337 M . E. by S. of
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Portland . Pop . (1890, 2604; (1000) 6663 (1017
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foreign-
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born); (1910) 6742 . The city is served by the Oregon Railroad &
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Navigation
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Company, and by the
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Sumpter Valley railway, a
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short
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line (6z m.) extending from Baker City to
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Austin, Oregon . Baker City. lies in the valley of
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Powder
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river, at the
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base of the
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Blue Mountains, and has an
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elevation.of about 3440 ft. above the
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sea . It is the largest city in eastern Oregon, and is the centre of important
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mining,
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lumber, farming and live-stock interests . It was laid out as a
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town in 1865, became the county-seat in 1868, and was chartered as a city in 1874 .

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