The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-28
TACOMA THE WORLD
PeRT OF THE PACIFIC
THE TRpTH ABOUT
THE COLU MBIA RIVER
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>ACAPTER XXI

Continued from Chapter Xxx
Chapters NIX, XXX and fol-
lowing containing quotations
from the Portland Chamber of
2Commeree Bulletin should be
preserved and read together
after the extracts from the Bull
letin have all appeared.
The Portland Bulletin tells a
story that will compel the be-
lief that Tacoma is the place
the traffic is coming and must
come i'm increasing volume
a story that will convince be-
yond doubt that this city is the
world port of the Pacific.
Note the following from the
report of Mr.. j. n. Teal, Attor-
ney transportation Committee,
Portland Chamber of Commerce
Bulletin, remembering this is
con tinued from Chapter 20.
For some reason, good, bad
or indifferent. it has been the
policy of Portland in the past
to ignore Astoria as a factor
in the problem and the Colum-
bia river as harbor.'
The inevitable result has
been to turn an enormous vol
ume of business to the Sound
tThe Puget Sound freight ter
minals of the railways are at
Tacoma and are reached via the
Point Defiance line) which
might as well have been han
died on the Columbia river, and
to postpone for years the settle
ment of question absolutely
vital to our commercial and
industrial growth"
II must also ask your in
diligence while / delve little
into ancient histoSt In the
early summer of 1905 a very
important banquet was given
in Portland. 1t was attended
by Mr.. Hartman and other
notables, and on that occasion
one of the speakers connected
with the Hartman system said:
1 have always taxed one thing,
and that is the Columbia river
bar. 1t is going to be referred
to by another speaker, but
feel that IL you furnished 80
foot channel out of the Column
bia river, there will be a water
level grade extending from the
city of Portland to the east
for nearly 1000 miles. Mr..
Hartman has furnished the
brains and the billions for the
Improvement of these lines, but
brains and billions expended on
any other railroad line In the
United States would not gain
the facilities which are fur
nished by the o. II. & N, the o.
S. L., and the u. p. They came
to Portland and here they are
bottled uI."
Another speaker also con-
nected with the Hartman sys-
TEN on that occasion said: If
you will give us a 30-foot chan
mel we will bring the business
of the great Columbia basin to
Portland for distribution and
make this the greatest job
bling and distributing center in
the Northwest. If you don't
do that we will go to Puget
Sound, not because we want to
go, but because the mouth of
the river must be opened. Such
matters as this may as well be
understood first as last"
: AT that time it was not felt
these Delphic utterances were
pregnant with the meaning sub
sequent developments have
shown they were. But Ii is
well to read the history of the
than to forecast the probabili-
ties of the future"
Tomorrow we will quote from
the same bulletin which will
convince you that the Point De-
fiance line is being built. be-
cause the Columbia river has
failed as an ocean port and that
the people living on the CO.
lumbia know 1t.
Traffic must come to Taco
malt costs less" here.