Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-25
BUILT ON HILLS, IMPOSING IN
APPEARANCE
EoUIplsTANT FROM SAN FRAN
CISCO WITH Los ANGELES
Growth Of City and Production OF Dis.
trict observation-disclosures Ag-
gressive Men Are
Needed
THOMAS b. MERRY.

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Situated about a hundred miles far
ther north of San Francisco than Los
Angeles lies to the southwark OF It,
Portland is really the representative
city of the northwest. 1t will not DO
to say Seattle or Tacoma got the Alas
ka trade away from her, for she never
had 1t to begin with. If some Portland
capitalists could be taken with an en-
largement of the heart to such a de-
gree as to induce them to put on line
of steamships to the Alaskan ports the
Puget Sound cities could not hold the
Alaskan trade for six months. Port
land has many great natural advan-
tages, but there are several matters IN
pursuance of which she stands in need
of a few first class funerals.
At the same time Portland is mag
niflcent city with environments not en-
joyed by any other city. Built on SIX
hills. with a large and navigable river
running right through the very heart
of the city, and with Mount Hood for
background, 1t Is a question II any
other American city as aptly combines
scenic effect with the dry and prosy
details of the everyday business world.
Through wise and timely legislation
the channels of this river and the Col
umbia have been dredged so as TO az
ford thirty-two feet of water, and the
largest vessel that has come up to
Portland so far drew only 1914 feet.
While I was there British steamship
called the Strathcarn cleared for West
Australia Ito Freemantle for orders)
with cargo of 3,285,000 feet of lumber,
t. pair of sashes and $50 panel doors.
Hence l am not amiss in stating that In
Portland the utilitarian and the pic
turesque are about evenly blended.
Already she has an electric line Of
s.,1 o. 10 IA1-
on the headwaterS of the Clackamas
river. in the heart of great dairying
section. This line is supplied by water
power from the Willamette for the
first sixteen miles. by the power of the
small creeks tributary to the Clackamas
for the next twentynliles and by the
Clackamas itself for the remaining por-
tion of the line. which will be extenred
eight miles farther next year.
Portland's facilities as a numbering
center also hinge largely upon her COM
M ID of electricity produced by water
power In former years all the logging
was done over roads made with "skids"
of timber about ten inches in diameter,
the small end of the log being set upon
a lizard" made from the crotch of a
tree and shaped something like the
wishbone of a turkey. This method
still prevails in some localities. but all
electric railroads of from four to seven
miles. These roads are worked by the
sc te. power that runs the sawmills and
connect with steam roads to all parts
of Uncle Sans dominions. We are liv-
ing in an era of progress.
Lumber Foremost
Portlard's magnitude as lumber ex-
porting city cannot well be estimated at
a glance, for the mills are distributed all
along the Columbia and Willamette rovers
for miles. The largest estab ablishment of
the kind is that of Inman, Paulson & Co.,
with the Portland Lumber company next
in size. These firms deal very largely in
foreign shipments, chiefly to China,
Japan and Australia. But some idea of the
local traffic in lumber can be formed
from the fact that the mill of Charles
?. Hogue can cut over 100000 feet daily
and has never yet shipped a foreign
cargo! In 1906 the lumber cut of Port
land showed a gain os over 5000, 0000 in
excess of the previous year! and, from
all present outlooks. the increase OF ,um-
Der cut in 1907 will show al increase of
100000 over last year.
The total output of all Oregon mills in
1906 was 1000, ,000, 900 feet estimated at $780,
900, 900, out of which $11,70000e was paid
for labor in the mills alone, with
about 100000 more disbursed in log
glng camps. In addition to the two BIZ
hon feeet above mentioned, the state also
exported the following:
Poles. hardwood and cord wood. s12 900. 900