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 *Foreign-born immigrants came mainly from '''Canada, Germany, Scandinavia, England and Russia'''.
-=== Gold Discovery  ===
+  *Later immigrants came from '''China, Japan, the Philippines and Latin America'''.
-*1860, gold discovery at Pierce, in northern Idaho made Portland an important trade depot.
-*1862, gold discovery at what was [[Auburn, Baker County, Oregon Genealogy|Auburn, Oregon]] by Henry Griffin and David Littlefield opened up settlement of the Eastern Oregon.
-*The completion of the Northern Pacific Railway in 1883 going up north from California, brought many new settlers into Oregon. This was Oregon's first transcontinental rail connection.
-*Later immigrants came from China, Japan, the Philippines and Latin America.
-*By 1889, the Oregon Short Line connected Union Pacific Railway with Oregon Railway and Navigation Company at Huntington, Oregon brought in more settlers faster in more direct link from the East Coast.
-*A helpful source on overland migration is William Adrian Bowen, ''The Willamette Valley: Migration and Settlement on the Oregon Frontier'' (Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1978) {{WorldCat|3650932|At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|81588|item|disp=FHL fiche 6101360; book 979.53 X4b.}}
 === Records  ===