The San Francisco call., 1896-01-02


crop larger ships Will be Immediately en-
gagged. The company has ample funds to
build ts.own steamships, ana Mr. Dayidge
said tlrat in all robability it would. be
operating its own craft within the next
year. -
=. To giye:the details OF Portland's tradeis
impracticable., In. the wholesale and Job
bing trade almost ali branches are repre-
sented..#+There are twenty-eight mercantile
houses employing. oyer S1,000,000 capital
each, and her iobbing trade: during 1894
amounted to upward of S10O 600, ,00o. Her
clearines for 1895 were $56,582, ,339. .: s:
The year 1895 will show an increase over
the aboXe figures. =.
:. Portland. has. been: supplied by nature
with advantages that will make il a:great
manufaftu turing CITY,. .:-. ~. -
She has cheap fuel and an abundance of
raw material, such: as iron, wood; lime,
cementand many Others, in addition to
the advantages: offered: to-: the manufac-
turer in: the facilities which her complete
system of transportation affords for col
lectlng the raw material and distributing
the manufactured product; not alone to, all
parts of the United: States, but the world, !,
and sbe.is the center of the wool trade Of
the Pacific Northwest; but one OF her
greatest:adyantages is the abundance and
cheapness OF the water-poWer afforded. By
the falls :of the Willamette River. This
|: PONC@s iOOjOOo hO4SO, never lF0GZ6S, Is
ready for use day: and night, winter and
summer, on each Of the every .365 days of
the:year;iis easily used and surrounded by
solid rock offering the most permanent
foundation possible for the many mills, the
machinery of which its waters are one day
to turn, It is now. becoming generally
known that Portland has. the greatest
water power in: the United States, with,
the exception of. the Niagara Falls. The
immense electrical. plant recently con-
stracted at the Falls of the Willamet te. bv
which an energy of 20, 900: horsepower IS
| transmitted by wire to Portland for the
purpose. of furnishing electric power for
manutacturlng enterprises, leaving about
lbs, goo :yet TO be- utilized from the same
source, and the Cascades of the Colum bfa
but.thirty miles away, which can be made:
to furnish double the amount of that Of
| the Willamette, give some conception of
Portland' possibilities in the line of mani
ufacture.
A committee OF fifteen of Portland's citi:.
Zens raised by popular subscription StO;-
OO0. with which to hold an industrial
exposition this fall, and filled the spacious
Industrial Fair building with larger dis
plays of:products of the soil and manufac-
ture than eyer before, making the fair a
complete, success, financially and other.
wise, the attendance during the season
being 10000 -: " :.
LII MiliVlIlB up 'llS. Affairs the committee
was enabled to return to the subscribers
who had placed such confidence In it
the $4,000 subscribed, end also to dis
tribute upward OF. $25OO among charitable
institutions. e.:
Commander Farenholt, u. S. N, inspec-
tor of the thirteenth lighthouse district,
on Saturday last signed, ON behalf of the
government a contract with John f..
Steffen of this city for the construction Of
steam composite: light vessel at cost of;
$69, ,750 -:
This vessel is intended to be stationed:
on the coast of Washington and will be
known as UmatiIla lightship 81, and will
be built OF the best soft steel of domestic
manufaeture, panked with seasoned Ore.
gon pine. Her length is 112 feet breadth,
45O. o.
She Will be OF the most modern construc-
tlon made. up to this date in light vessels
She will be the first on the Pacific Coast,
and the third in the country lighted by cleo
triclty. Instead of the old is oil lamps in
closed In octagon frames, hoisted and low
cred on each OF. the two masts of a light
snip, she will be supplied with four incan-
descent lamps at each masthead of 10
volts and 100 candle-power each. Attached
to the dynamo is an alternate opening and
closing of the circuit at the masthead,
thus making flash of from five to twenty
seconds at will. To supply this as well as
other parts of the vessel with electric
lights, and to guard against breaking
down, there will be two independent
electric 5x4-lnch double-cylinder Sturte-
yant engines.
For fog signal. she will be fitted with q