PULLMAN DINING CARS

are attached to the Council Bluffs and Denver Vestibuled Express, daily between Council Bluffs and Denver, and to “The Limited Fast Mail,” running daily between Council Bluffs and Portland, Ore.

Meals.

All trains, except those specified above (under head of Pullman Dining Cars), stop at regular eating stations, where first-class meals are furnished, under the direct supervision of this Company, by the Pacific Hotel Company.  Neat and tidy lunch counters are also to be found at these stations.

Buffet service.

Particular attention is called to the fine Buffet Service offered by the Union Pacific System to its patrons.  Pullman Palace Buffet Sleepers now run on trains Nos. 1, 2, 201, and 202.

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Sights and scenes in Oregon, Washington and Alaska.

Oregon is a word derived from the Spanish, and means “wild thyme,” the early explorers finding that herb growing there in great profusion.  So far as we have any record Oregon seems to have been first visited by white men in 1775; Captain Cook coasted down its shores in 1778.  Captain Gray, commanding the ship “Columbia,” of Boston, Mass., discovered the noble river in 1791, which he named after his ship.  Astoria was founded in 1811; immigration was in full tide in 1839; Territorial organization was effected in 1848, and Oregon became a State on 14th February, 1859.  It has an area of 96,000 square miles, and is 350 miles long by 275 miles wide.  There are 50,000,000 acres of arable and grazing land, and 10,000,000 acres of forest in the State.

The Union Pacific Railway will sell at greatly reduced rates a series of excursion tickets called “Columbia Tours,” using Portland as a central point.  Stop-over privileges will be given within the limitation of the tickets.

First Columbia Tour:  Portland to “The Dalles,” by rail, and return by river.

Second Columbia Tour:  Portland to Astoria, Ilwaco, and Clatsop Beach, and return by river.

Third Columbia Tour:  Portland to Port Townsend, Seattle, and Tacoma by boat and return.

Fourth Columbia Tour:  Portland to Alaska and return.

Fifth Columbia Tour:  Portland to San Francisco by boat.

PORTLAND

Is a very beautiful city of 60,000 inhabitants, and situated on the Willamette river twelve miles from its junction with the Columbia.  It is perhaps true of many of the growing cities of the West, that they do not offer the same social advantages as the older cities of the East.  But this is principally the case as to what may be called boom cities, where the larger part of the population is of that floating class which follows in the line of temporary growth for the purposes of speculation, and in no sense applies