Oregon has one of the highest literacy rates in the Nation. and the intelligence it suggests is one of the States perennial attractions to outsiders looking for a home. For Oregon has never ceased to attract people. They are still coming: the population leaped from 1.089.000 in 1940 to 1.525.000 in 1948. an increase of 40 percent in less than a decade. The immigrant tide is estimated at 600 families a month. It is said that since 1940 more people have entered Oregon than in the whole century after Lewis and Clark reached the Columbia. Even with this enormous migration. there is almost no unemployment. because the State has so much to offer the newcomers.
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