Restored remains of the 1866 Oregon Iron Company furnace, George Rogers Park.

In 1865, prompted by the earlier discovery of iron ore in the Tualatin Valley, the Oregon Iron Company was incorporated.

In 1878, the company was sold off to out-of-state owners and renamed the Oswego Iron Company, and in 1882, Portland financiers Simeon Gannett Reed and Henry Villard purchased the business and renamed it the Oregon Iron and Steel Company.

After the basic Shay patents had expired, Willamette Iron and Steel Works of Portland, Oregon, manufactured Shay-type locomotives, and in 1927, Willamette obtained a patent on an improved geared truck for such locomotives.

The Willamette locomotive was a geared locomotive of the Shay locomotive type, built by the Willamette Iron and Steel Works of Portland, Oregon.

But Reed's Oregon Iron and Steel Company at Oswego suffered a lack of investment and never started production of the steel rails Reed expected ; Reed lost half a million dollars in the venture.

* Iron Mountain ( Oregon )

At that time the land was owned by the Oregon Iron and Steel Company.

The move was discovered, and after a lawsuit, the Oregon Supreme Court held that Oregon Iron and Steel Company was the legal owner.

Oregon Iron Co. v. Hughes, 47 Or 313, 82 P 572 ( 1905 ).

Oregon Hill was populated by the workers from the Tredegar Iron Works and Albemarle Paper Company.

The Beavers scored first, but the rest was all Oregon, with fullback ( and future Chicago Cardinal ) " Iron Mike " Mikulak rushing for 89 yards on the way to a 13 – 3 victory.

He moved from Vermont to Duluth, Minnesota, then to Portland, Oregon, where he began to work as an apprentice ironmonger at the East Portland Iron Works.

The Steel Bridge is a through truss, double lift bridge across the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States.

Steel Bridge in Portland, Oregon

* Steel Bridge-A double-lift bridge in Portland, Oregon over the Willamette River.

Designed by graphic artist Elizabeth Anderson and sculpted by Bill Bane, the other images are the Robertson Tunnel that runs through the West Hills, Mount Hood, the Oregon Convention Center, and the Steel Bridge.

For two and a half years, Hoover attended Friends Pacific Academy ( now George Fox University ), and then worked as an office assistant in his uncle's real estate office, the Oregon Land Company, in Salem, Oregon.

The Supreme Court faced a challenge to the use of statewide initiatives in Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company v. Oregon,.

In 1824 the Hudson's Bay Company appointed McLoughlin as Chief Factor of the Columbia District ( roughly parallel to what Americans know as the Oregon Country ), with Peter Skene Ogden appointed to assist him.

After resigning from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1846, McLoughlin moved his family back south to Oregon City in the Willamette Valley.

The Hudson's Bay Company had nearly a complete monopoly on trading ( and most governing issues ) in the Columbia District, or Oregon Country as it was referred to by the Americans, and also in Rupert's Land ( western Canada ).

From 1812 to 1840 the British through the Hudson's Bay Company had nearly complete control of the Pacific Northwest and the western half of the Oregon Trail.

The York Factory Express, establishing another route to the Oregon territory, evolved from an earlier express brigade used by the North West Company between Fort Astoria and Fort William, Ontario on Lake Superior.

By 1840 the Hudson's Bay Company had three forts: Fort Hall ( purchased from Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth in 1837 ), Fort Boise and Fort Nez Perce on the western end of the Oregon Trail route as well as Fort Vancouver near its terminus in the Willamette Valley.

While there were almost no United States settlers in the future state of Washington in 1846, the United States had already demonstrated it could induce thousands of settlers to go to the Oregon Territory, and it would be only a short time before they would vastly outnumber the few hundred Hudson's Bay Company employees and retirees living in Washington.

On May 1, 1839, a group of eighteen men from Peoria, Illinois set out with the intention of colonizing the Oregon country on behalf of the United States of America and drive out the Hudson's Bay Company operating there.

When the pioneers were told at Fort Hall by agents from the Hudson's Bay Company that they should abandon their wagons there and use pack animals the rest of the way, Whitman disagreed and volunteered to lead the wagons to Oregon.

* Lockport Marine Company, Portland, Oregon.

Great Britain also colonized the west coast of North America, indirectly via the Hudson's Bay Company licenses west of the Rocky Mountains, the Columbia and New Caledonia fur districts, most of which were jointly claimed as the Oregon Country by the United States from 1818 until the 49th parallel was established as the international boundary west of the Rockies by the Oregon Treaty of 1846.

* Columbia District, the trading district of the Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1821 to the Oregon Treaty of 1846, by which most of the Columbia District was formally annexed to the United States.

According to Hugh Nibley, much of the rain forest west of Portland, Oregon was acquired by the Oregon Lumber Company by illegal claims under the Act.

Exploration and settlement of the Cascades region by Europeans and Americans was accelerated by the establishment of a major trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company ( HBC ) at Fort Vancouver near today's Portland, Oregon.

Control of shipping and railroads was held under the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, later to become the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company.

In 1960, NBC Red aired a sixty minute version adapted by Carl Ritchie from Robert Loper's stage production for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, starring Gerard Larson and Ann Hackney.

Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey's 1964 novel adapted for a 1971 movie, is about a family of lumberjacks in Oregon.

* For the 2012 Oregon Shakespeare Festival season, Alison Carey adapted the play into a political satire called The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa.

A further version called Oregon Trail 2 was adapted in June, 1978 by J. P. O ' Malley.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival staged Seagull in the New Theater from February 22 until June 22, 2012, adapted and directed by Libby Appel.

The Oregon eradication effort, which began near the town of Brookings in southwest Oregon in 2001, has adapted its management efforts over the years in response to new information about P. ramorum.

Libby Appel adapted and directed the play in 2007 for her farewell season as artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival ( Ashland, Oregon ).

The marionberry's growing conditions are perfectly adapted to the mild, maritime Oregon climate, with its mild rains and warm summers.

Interior southwest Oregon has pronounced seasons and the ancient Takelma adapted to these seasons by spending spring, summer and early fall months collecting and storing food for the winter season.

The story of Tracy's Tiger was adapted into an original musical in two acts for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2007 season.