The National tribune., 1908-05-07
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prise in locating Astoria nor his good
The city has an area of about 40
square miles, with fine paved streets
are many fine buildings. libraries,
school houses, Chamber of Commerce,
hotels and charitable institutions. Its
harbor is one of the finest inothe world,
and is readily accessible to the largest
ships. Behind it lies t,l1e great valleys
of the Columbia and Willamette, which
furnish freight for several 6tean and
coastwise steamship lines antpiit is the
terminus for four great railroad sys-
| tens, the Great Northern, the Northern
Pacific, the Union Pacific and the
Southern Pacific. Its foreign COM
merce amounts to more than 10000
600 month, principally grain. -four
and lumber. Manufactures are de-
yeIoping, since, ine Willamette Falls,
IL miles from the city, furnish an
abundance of power, A large dry
dock is in the course. of construction.
Portland has had rapid growth, tho
not equal to that of Seattle, In 1850
its population was S21. Thirty years
| later it had risen to 1857, and the
census of 1900 gave 90,426. Portland
is opposite the great Northern gateway
I in the Rocky Mountains near Helena,
Mont, where the headwaters of the
Missouri come close to those of the
Columbia.
San Francisco.
From our first acquisition of Cali
forI.ia, San Francisco has been gen.
orally regarded as our principal gate
way on the Pacific. The Golden Gate
opens into perfectly secure and land
| locked harbor in San Francisco Bay
and makes a haven unsurpassed in the
world, if ii is equaled. So much has
been written of late about San Fran
cisco as to make description of the
| place superfiuous. The main danger
has been that the people of San Fran
cisco were so sure of their preeminence
as to not take the necessary steps to
secure it and have thus jeoparded its
being taken away by their more active
| rivals. This cause has resulted In the
decay of many promising metropolises
in the worlds history. 1t is what
ruined New Orleans for many years.
The people of New Orleans were so
sure that everything in the West had
to come to them that they would make
no effort whatever to get 1t and pres
emily saw their trade being taken away
by their more enterprising rivals. This
drove New Orleans into supporting Sc
cession.
San Francisco people have been too
prone to assume that the great trade
of the Orient would have to come to
them and they need make no effort to
get Ii. In the meanwhile Seattle and
active, enterprising men who reached
| out boldly and industi iously for trade
and have succeeded n getting away
much that San Francisco felt was hers
by right. She will have to wake up
to the necessity of doing something,
and Is probably doing so. The citizens
OF Seattle and Los Angeles felt that
the earthquake gave her a bad black
eye and they did their. utmost to take
advantage of this. The terrible ca
tastrophe of the earthquakesfw fur
ther magnified by the corruption in
San Francisco's government and by the
tyranny of the Trades Unions. All
this made for the benefit of her rivals.
The, San Francisco people, apparently,
understand the necessity of b energetic
action to offset the black eye that they.
have received y In the ifutura we shall
irave a more even race. between great
bodies. of intensely energetic, 6ar-reacil-
ing men in the three eities.l q 49,, e.
San Francisco is opposite the great
est of the gateways thru the Rocky
South Pass and Salt Take City. San
Francisco is the terminus of 5he Union
Pacific, Southern Pacific and Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe RailrQad systems
| and from the port ply steamship lines
to China, Japan, Australia, Mexico.
Central and South Arneriea and the
Hawaiian and Philippine Islands, with
| coastwise lines extending to oil ports
between Alaska and Patagonia. In
addition to these there is a large fleet
of sailing vessels carrying grain and
other coast products to Exrepe. Her
exports amount to $1,000 a week
with shipments of grain alone amount
| ing TO 20.0o0;000 bushels year. She
| also. does a large coffee business with
| Central America, Ecuador. Mexico and
the East Indies, while her, imports, of
/ tea from China, and Japan approxi-
mate, 9,D08, 900 pounds a. year Her
manufactures have grown enormously
and now there are about sBes0Q1. .00D
eLpital invested in them with an an
tnital production of about $133, SOC, ,006.
In 1860 the population OF san Fran
| cisco was 56,S02, which had grown in
1900 TO 342,7S2, of whom cne-thi-d
were of foreign birth. the Germans
leading.
/ Los Angeles.
| South of San Francisco there is no
entrance of account thru the high and
rock-bound coast The best harbor
for ships Is that formed by the collec-
| ton of Islands while lie off the south
| coast These, generally spoken Of as
| the Santa Barbara Islands, are situat-
| ed some distance from the coast, bu,
make a refuge behind which ships can
take shelter and indentations on the
| coast make toierable havens. The
principal ones of these are at Santa
Barbara, Ventura, San Pedro and San
| Diego. Before the war Jefferson Da-
| ris and the men with whom he was
| intriguing hoped to make San Diego
the greatest city on the Pacific coast
and the Pacific outlet for the Southern
| Confederacy they were planning. San
Diego is opposite the great Southern
gateway thru the Rock Mountains a,
| Ell Paso. Tex, and Davis, when he
/ was Secretary of War, and his sue
cessors threw the whole power of the
Government into building up San Di-
] ego. They planned a railroad to reach
San Diego from Fulton, Ark, which
| Jefferson Daviss famous bill for an ap-
/ preparation in aid of this railroad is
mentioned by those familiar with ouI
history as an example of cunning Iegis.
lation to get the most money out oi
the Treasury for the shortest line ol
road All the mails and army supplies
were sent by the Ell Paso-San Diego
route and the engineers of the army
were kept at work surveying and plan.
ming for the Southern railroad and fol
the hilrbor of San Diego.
At that time the Douglas men were
supporting most strongly the Centra
route from ST. Joseph, or Council
il Bluffs; to San Francisco. while the
i Nortiierners gave their support to the
i Northern route from Prairie CHEN
these have now become great transcon.
i tinental routes. o. {@
4 Quite unexpectedly, Los Angeles has
i developed instead of San Diego as the
principal city in Southern California
Los Angeles Is 4S0 miles southeast OF
San Francisco, on the, Los Angelo.
i River, 20 miles from its mouth and 2s