The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-05-09

Imports ......... 81 $4,000
Exports ........ 1.S23,77S 3,67S,77S
Balance in Tacoma's favor s 46,3S7
The total foreign business of the two
ports for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1907 and the calendar year ending
December 81, 1912, was as follows:
1907 1912
Seattle. .... .$3S,775,14O $45,591, 1877
Tacoma. ...... 1S,55O,7S3 47,374.8SS
Behind Five Years Ago 4.
100000 behind and now she is nearly
100000 ahead of Seattle. This won
derful increase is certainly significant
of the enormous business that will be
transacted at Tacoma when the great
four track Point Defiance line from
Vancouver, Washington, to Tacoma is
first place where trains from the great
producing centers can meet the great
ocean liners. Nowhere else can the
traffic of the Northwest come so easily
and so cheaply as to Tacoma.
Look at the map of the United States
and see how freight can be carried by
railroads, on water grade, down the
Hood. Des Chutes, John Day, Umatilla.
Snake, Owyhee, Salmon, Palouse, Spo-
kane, Okanogan, Missoula, Kootenai
and Columbia river gap of the Cas-
cade mountains to Tacoma where it
meets the largest ships afloat.
Read page six of the Tacoma book,
was written in New York city by New
York man and his pay came through
the National City Bank, bank backed
by the greatest aggregation of capital
the world has ever known. The post
fge for mailing this book comes from
the same source. Think of what this
New Yorker-this mouthpiece of
capital-says:
Every great producing area has a
l.atural outlet and inlet, market
place. And here great cities are
located.
Puget Sound is the natural outlet
for region almost indefinitely large.
By reason of her harbor Tacoma is
forever appointed one of the great
commercial centers""'of the world"
The government charts (6140-1 Col
umbia river, Csc at any book store)
show that the mouth of the Columbia
river has only 20 to rs feet of water
over the bar to which may be added
81 feet, the mean of the highest high
tides, whereas modern freight vessels
draw from rs to 80 feet in still water.
For long legged vessel to get over
bar of constantly shifting sand when
the breakers are rolling there must be
at least 40 feet of water and even the
trough of wave is liable to drop the
ship on the sand and break her in two.
Portland has no ocean harbor, never
can have one, and never will be a port
except for shallow bottoms. That is
why the government would not let the
Atlantic fleet go to Portland and also
why the o. & w. came to Tacoma. If
the Columbia river We're a port for
ocean vessels the great railroads
would have bought their terminals at
Vancouver, Washington, and that would
have been the port of the Pacific.
Attitudes Tell
Get a Canadian Pacific railway fold
err notice on table 5 that the elevation
of Medicine Hat, where the line to Spo-
kane leaves the main line, is 2,16S it.;
at Fernie it is 1906 feet, a lift of 1877
feet, and then the road runs down the
Kootenai and Columbia rivers, and it
is down hill all the way to Tacoma
Now notice that on the main line there
is an uphill pull from Medicine Hat to
Hector to an elevation of 5,199 feet.
Then there is drop to 243O feet at
Bearmouth and then rise to 4O86
feet at Glacier, These two lifts total
1857 feet going to Vancouver, B. c., as
against 1887 feet going to Tacoma.
1t is S26.5 miles from Medicine Hat
to Vancouver, B. c., on the Canadian
Pacific railway main line, with a lift
Of 1857 feet; it is 1895 miles from Med
icine Hat via the Columbia river gap
to Tacoma, with a lift of 1,137 feet.
Which would be cheaper, to let a
freight train run 70 miles down hill or
lift it $3.50 feet up a mountain side?
One engine can haul train of 60 cars
from Fernie to Tacoma, but one engine
cannot haul 10 cars from Langdon
(the point of same elevation) to Van
couver, B. c.
After the train reaches Tacoma It |
will go no further to meet the ships. |
1t cost over 5000 to take train from
Tacoma to Seattle, and the ocean
freight rates are the same from both
points.
Well, this will give you start on
the subject. Study the map. See what
Observation-Disclosures indefinitely
arge'--territory Tacoma has to draw
rom. You will readily find that the
answer to the question, why Tao
'ma?" is ut costs less" Nowhere
Else can the traffic of the Northwest
'ome so easily and so inexpensively
Is to Tacoma.
Tacoma Suppressed
You may ask, Why hasn't Tacoma
'rown faster in the past? Because the
men behind the hundreds of millions
ne great railroad financiers-have ,
'ressed Tacoma while their plans