The San Francisco call., 1896-02-03

featuring city is due. According to tn a
report of Mr.. Motter the output for tn :
past year reaches $32 ,0O0, 900 and employ
ment was given to over a. 900 hands. With
the great forests of Oregon pine so near at
hand, lumbe and kindred industries nat
urally take first place-over 5000 persons
being employed and an output of $4 900, 900
reached. At one of the suburbs, Oswego,
the only iron furnaces on the coast are OPP
Grated. The plant represents an invested
capital of 81 SOC, 900 and produces the high
est grade iron. In the city the various
iron works, foundries, stove works and a
rolling mill furnish steady employment to
panies, cannery, cracker factories and
-four mills give employment to a large
number of hands and afford a ready cash
market for the products of the farmer,
the fruit-grower and the stock-raiser.
All the various branches that go to make
up the business of q manufacturing center
are represented. The great advantage Of
natural position, cheap transportat ton and
abundance of raw material close at hand,
are supplemented by the possession of one
of the greatest and most available water
powers known. The falls of the VILLAIN
cite furnish a power varlously estimated
at from 60, 900 to 100000 horsepower three
to five times that furnished by the falls of
st. Anthony, which built up the city of
Minneapolis. 1t has, too, the added ad-
vantage that ice never interrupts the reg
ular flow of water. At the falls wooden,
paper and -four mills have been erected
that support the city OF 5000 that has
grown up there. 1t is from these falls
Portland is to draw the power that drives
the wheels of her varied industries.
The Portland Electric Company, COR
poration with a capital of 81 $50, 900, has
lust completed at the falls great electric
power station that transmits 1900 horse
power to the city, and is prepared to in
crease the amount as fast as the demand
arises. This power is furnished at frac-
ton of the cost of steam, and. com bined
with her other advantages, gives Portland
certain future as the great manufactur-
ing city of the Northwest.
The educational facilities are inferior to
none in any branches. The High School,
erected over ten years ago at cost of
S125, 900, was for years the finest high
school building on the coast.
The city owns its own water works, and
supplies the purest of mountain water to
its citizens at reasonable rates. The plant,
which has Just been greatly enlarged, has
cost upward of $3.0O0.0O0.
In the wholesale trade, with many
houses dating back to pioneer times, there
has been hardly a failure of first impor-
tance, fact that will speak volumes to
the business man of the stability of the
city and the prosperity OF the country
tributary to her.
The city is built on both banks of the
Willamette and for years communication
between the two portions was by means of
ferry boats, but the last line of boats was
withdrawn when the city purchased the
Stark-street ferry during the past year. In
the place of the old-time boats four hand
some bridges now span the river, the latest
and handsomest being the Burnside-street
bridge, very fine steel structure costing
100000.
The city is adorned with a number of
elegant church structures, mostly of stone.
The public library contains 10000 volumes
housed in a large imposing stone build.
ing, the gift of the late Mrs. Ella NJ
Smith, and only lately completed at cost
of $125, 900.
The city has just had turned over to it
as complete the new City Hall, fine COM