River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-17

men. In addition to that there art
a great many other small concerns
A ship building establishment, sash
and door factory, two breweries
sixteen creameries in the county
etc., etc.. making pay roll OF three
hundred thousand dollars pei
month, which is pretty good
showing for little city that has
just started to grow.
have established myself here in
the real estate business, buying and
selling for myself, and on commits
sion for others, and making invest
ments for non-residents. The real
estate market seems to be good. 1t
is rising, and the promises for
growth are very fine, indeed.
The steam boats and stages bring
large numbers of people here, many
of whom can find no accommodate
tons. Four hotels here are full all
the time, and turning away people
| No houses can be rented at all,
though a large number are build
ing.
There are ten steam boats plying
| between here and San Francisco and
Portland. Z. A. Smith owns fleet
of three vessels to carry his pro-
ducts to the markets Ct the world.
Now my friends will all inquire
what is there TO build a city at
Marshfield? And | answer them to
get their map and locate it. See
how it is situated, aud notice, first,
that il is on aAlatitudinal line with a
good many of the big cities of the
United States; and second, that
Oregon with a coast line of three
hundred miles has no other city on
the coast. Third, note what VIM,
Hosea Ballou, Sc. D an eminent
engineer has TO say in the Scientific
American of August "a, 1912, about
the harbor of Coos Bay, viz" Coos
Bay is the second Oregon harbor in
the state in size, and it presents no
special natural difficulties to over
come. Vessels drawing % feet of
water may now cross the bar at
high tide, enabling the port of
Marshfeld to handle, last year,
800 600 tons of freight and $4,000
passengers, between it, San Fran
cisco and Portland. The harbor is
$50 miles south of the mouth of the
Columbia river, and it is the princi-
pal ocean port of Oregon, being To-
Gated in the center Of or adjacent to
the vastest forest region and the
most fertile Valleys"
Fourth, then note this almost in
comprehensive statement. There
are one hundred billion feet of
standing timber in this county,
more than three fifths of which are
on the waters of this bay and its
tributaries. The cost of manufac-
turing that timber, which must be
done upon the ground, is sufficient
in itself to build good sized city,
and the freight from it if it were
shipped from here to Chicago, will
build a double track railroad from
here to Chicago l stated that l
was going to make an almost in
comprehensive statement, but this
statement is absolutely verified by
the Government records. The cost
of manufacturing the lumber and
the freight on it can be figured by
anyone who will take little time.
Fifth - Beside that, the entire
county is underlaid with a fine
quality of mi-bituminous coal, the
only coal of any consequence in the
state of Oregon, and the only coal
in California, Oregon or Washing
ton THAT IS ON TIDE WATER. 1t has
been demonstrated that it is more
economical to ship the raw material
to be manufactured to point
where the fuel or power is found,
and the natural tendency in the in
dustrial world is to adopt that plan.
There should be no exception to
such a plan here. With an mex.
haustible supply of coal at tide
water, factories would reap the adj
vantage of terminal rates on the
raw material they want shipped to
them, and would have the benefit of
the ocean rates in shipping their
products to the markets of the
world.
Sixth - This is the only deem
water point on the entire coast that