Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-17

forDevel-
Oprnent

United States either under construc-
ton or already agreed upon for 1910
will be in the territory commanded
by Portland as the chief trading cen
ter and distributing point.
In addition to this great railroad
development, the dominant figures in
the financial world are pouring their
money into Portland, the chief city OF
the Golden Northwest. Rockefeller's
millions are being invested in and
around Portland. Morgan is inter
ested here. The Swifts are erecting
big livestock packing plants. Weyer-
haeuser holds timber worth untold
millions that will be sawed and mar
keted here.
Meat Packing ceutsrs Here.
Great stockyards just completed are
more modern than any other in the
country. Around them as a center IS
being built a great packing industry.
Portland is now the biggest livestocle
market west OF the Rocky Mountains
What packing houses have done for
Chicago, Omaha and Kansas City is
generally known. History will repeat
itself here in a vaster amphitheatre
Almost the whole Pacific Northwest
is tributary to Portland This city is
the trade center of parts OF three great
states besides all Oregon. a territory
covering more than 25O,00O square
miles. From British Columbia to CAL
ifornia, Portland is supreme. The
products Of the Northwest come the
easiest way, over railroad tracks that
follow closely the great water courses
to tidewater at Portland
This vast producing territory at
Portland's back becomes a greater
source of wealth with every addi-
tional settler and every added acre of
land put under cultivation Thou
sands of homeseekers settle here
every year and the immigration this
spring has never been equalled.
vast Wholesale Business.
Because of Portlands position. it
is the great jobbing city of this part
of the United States. Its future in
this line OF business was recognized
in early days. No other city in the
Pacific Northwest has anything like
the diversity OF stocks kept here. Be
sides the wealth OF natural resources
about Portland, the great agricultural
and horticultural country is depend
ent upon this city for merchandise.
Portland stands supreme on the Coast
and fourth in the United States as a
distributing point for agricultural inn
plements.
One entire portion OF the city, with
acres OF new buildings, many OF them
class a. is given up to the wholesale
trade. This district lies along the
G Loo 4
splendid facilities for handling goods
in any quantity. The constant inter
change Of crops and merchandise be-
tween Portland and the interior is a
source OF great wealth 10 this city.
NO Skyseraper Craze Here.
Portland has not lost its head and
gone crazy on skyscrapers, for while
there are dozens of these, with many
being added constantly, factories.
wholesale houses, big stores, ware
houses and all other lines OF building
are keeping pace evenly. The CITY
remains conservative despite its re
markable growth It's tributary ter
ritory is growing far more RAPIDLY.
making Portland future far more Sc
cure than If the city was setting the
pace
The majority of all the great build-
ings going up here are being erected
by local capital. without mortRaQinq
the future
EAnd for ths Landlsss.
The cry OF the world is for land
II IS being satisfied here. Interior
Oregon and the Coast counties are
being opened up by railroad building
only now making accessible for set
Element territory as large as the
state Of Illinois and possessing far
greater resources
Yesterday this great empire was a
wilderness, with no Transportation
means save the most primitive. To-
day the locomotives whistle Is wak-
ing, the echoes over lonely plains and
widely scattered ranches. Tomorro,T
the interior Oregon prairies will be a
vast held Of waving grain, dotted WITH
orchards and gardens
When Oregon shall have a popula-
non Tor its vacant lands, with am
ers covering the prairies and valleys
now without people. il would be hard