Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-02-27
THE PORTLAND WAY

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,e iS '%sfd s so i a ra' g & ] Sd p against ia willamette od Sas
lambs bishop until recently has been shipping about 400
that % the & o,ga g5, extra % 5o, sas @ to qs sss Sc
carload more than raq simmer e, r aGTiaIq egs Figures
Here are t9f s p @ % s F does - po % enforce the rmna
hundred willamette valley hogs nor 10 cents hun
ervej carload Seattle than in Portland m nd which
has @ Usually been more
1t is not remarkable discovery which the Portland
Journal has made The biggest city in Oregon discrim
mates against western Oregon in practically every line
of business This territory is treated the legitimate
prey of Portland obbers and the railroads aid and abet
them in their policy probably the theory that its trade
can 90 nowhere ese and therefore, it is good pocy TO
etot every penny of tribute that be Wrung from us
businessmen and its producers The efforts OF Eugene
people to secure railroad to the coast forced the South
ern Pacific company to build the EugeneCoos Bay rail-
road Portland people never interested themselves IN
the movement any other enterprise to develop the
territory and not dollar of Portland capital was IN
vested in it, Yet once the road is in operation Portland
aans almost the entire benefit from it, Trains runs
direct from Portland to Marshfeld without even stop
ming for lunch in Eugene and ton OF Coos bay coal can
be shipped from Marsheld to Portland cheaper than TO
Fgene Salem or any other point the line OF the road
THAT means that any manufacturing industry desiring to
use Coos Bay coal for fuel would Of necessity be compelled
to locate in Portland.
Portland sawmills forcing rates upon tne VaHey
mills that will all but close them. Evidently Pofuand
interests are attempting to force umbermen 10 locae
their mills there and ship the logs to that city to be sawed
into lumber. ~
Portland iobbers make special and higher prices 10
merchants in Western Oregon than in those sections OF
the Northwest where they have to fight with Seattle
Snokane Boise or other obbng cities for the trade me
railroads have fixed their freight rates SO as TO ad
the Portland interests to ensave the Willamette Vaey
and it is because Of these conditions that deveopmen =
50 slow and business refuses to respond to the Doom t
Is prevalent throughout other sections OF the country
Oregon is suffering because it IS one Guy stateah
because that city is large that it attracts all capta au
every industry seeking to find home IN It. Inc cohul
ion Is unhealthy but the Portland people cannot see It,
they only wonder and speculate amessy upon tne cause
of he business depression that obtains there They do
not seem to realize that they cannot continue to grow
and prosper unless the territory from which they draW
sunport Is in a growing prosperous condition.
If western Oregon reaches the state OF deVelop
ment II is entitled to reach because OF It's natufa re-
sources it will be when its smaller eltles are I'VE cetes
of industry providing markets for the products Oh an II
tensey developed country about them IL Foftahu Wls
everything and devotes her energies aded ana aoetteu
hy the transportation companies to that emo tnee y ~
oa that conditions will ever change for the better
Portland people and Portland capital have wonder
m oppotunty to assist in developing the state Dy ADOPT
inc 4 broader policy Of building, OF they may
continue to extort tribute from our people ana tote
our industries and all our efforts to help ourselves
The narrow policy of the past has resulted IN making
Portland the sowest and duest city OF all the pig COM
mercial centers of the Pacific Coast