Treasury Notes. Treasury notes are intermediate term debt securities sold by the Treasury. Initial terms for notes are 2, 3, 5, 7 and 10 years. A Treasury note pays a fixed rate of interest -- the coupon rate -- which is paid to an investor semi-annually.
Mount Hood (45.4N, 121.7W) is the tallest mountain in Oregon (11,237 feet, 3,426 m) and popular with skiers, hikers, and climbers. It is 45 miles (75 km) east-southeast of Portland, Oregon. Mount Hood is a stratovolcano made of lava flows, domes, and volcaniclastic deposits. Most of the volcano is andesite composition. The main cone of Mount Hood formed about 500,000 years ago. In the last 15,000 years the volcano has had four eruptive periods.
Historically, Mount St. Helens is one of the most active volcanoes in the Cascade range, though still considered dormant by most standards. Native Americans in the region experienced several of the volcanoes early eruptions, thus coining a name which meant smoking or fire mountain.he Puyallup tribes called the mountain Loowitlatkla, meaning literally Lady of Fire, the Klickitats called the mountain Louwala-Cloughï»¿, and the Cowlitz tribes called it Lavelatla, which means smoking mountain..