Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-19
being enlarged by the addition of nail and
rolling mills.
THE GREAT ADVANTAGE.

THE GREAT ADVANTAGE.
But probably the greatest advantage to
the city is the cheapDess and the abundance
of its water power. All its advantages arc
decidedly overshadowed by the one gigantic
power afforded by the Willamette river.
About dozen miles from Portland this
grand river-navigable by the largest sea
vessels known up to Portland, and naviga-
BILE 100 miles further for large river steamers
gives one high perpendicular leap over n
clean-cut rock nearly 80 feet in height.
This is claimed to be the most enormous
water power that is utilized in this country,
and the only power never known to freeze
Here may be seen the Oregon Pottery Works
and the Linseed and Cordage Works.
But it is as an educational and social center
that Portland offers more particular attrac-
tions. The growing youth of the city are
given careful literary nurture. The pub
lie schools can hold their own with those of
New York City. The High School building
is especially fne-built of Western marble
with terra-cotta copings, and adorned by
elegantly kept grounds, and withal posses
sing most capable corps of 20 teachers. IF
one wishes to know its cost, let him count a
dollar tor every inhabitant of the city.
There are IA public school buildings, all
supplied with modern furnishings, one of
the buildings covering an entire block
There is a Ladies' seminary costing not less
than $3.50, 900. Here, as in nearly every
Western city, education keeps pace with
traffic.
THE HUB OF THE NORTHWEST.
The city has no peer in the whole North
west beyond the Rockies in point of cul-
ture. One can get a very fair idea of the
extent and stamina of the trade organiza-
tion of Portland from the number of busi-
ness houses and the capital employed.
More than 125 houses employ each capital
of considerably more than $225,O0O. The
aggregate capital is close up to 500. 900, 900.
The bank capital is of q magnitude corre-
spending in proportion to the trade. The
city has nearly 20 banks, several of which
have capital of S3,0O0,0O0 or over. The
commerce of Portland is fully as active as
might be expected from the employment of
this vast capital.
one whit behind the public buildings as re-
gard outward and interior splendor and
finish. There are numerous residences cost
lug fully $500, 900. might mention those
of Mr.. Flanders aud the Hon. John Dolph,
also those of Messrs. Knapp, White and De
Lashmut. All these gentlemen are several
times millionaires, as are Messrs. Reed,
Ladd, Corbett and Failing, whose homes are
something worth visiting, if not socially
at least with an eye to the beautiful, the
costly and the artistic. East Portland has
also many charming residences and is pic
turesque town. The buildings and public
schools here are decidedly less pretentious
than those in the handsome city just across
the water. East Portland is growing rapidly
as well. A costly steel and iron bridge
spans the river between the two cities, and
renders transportation from one to the other
easy and walking not an impossibility, but
delightful feat.
Portland, as have before said, is unsur-
passed as to location. From the very heart
of the town can be seen the towering peaks
of the Cascade. with Hood, Adams, st.
Helens and Rainier, all in plain sight The
city lies in a sort of valley, undulating hills
rising above it on either side. Far off to
the north the course of the Columbia may
be followed by the eye many miles. The
undulating hills give the city its beautiful
suburban building lots. The climate of
Portland is something indescribable, calm,
lenitive, and I assure you, altogether de-
lighttul. Let one who feels that he has lain
perdue to all agreeable sensations come to
Portland. He will find himself woke up in
double quick time. Perhaps, too, hewill find
himself nearer to the throbbing heart of the
great world in these busy haunts of men
than in the serener haunts of nature.
H M SPALDING.