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THE UNITED AMERICAN
advertised woolen garments, blankets and bathing-suits
are manufactured in Portland and Oregon. Large
paper mills are operated in Portland out of the wood
pulp manufactured from Oregon timber. Among the
other manufacturing concerns of the city we might in
clude auto equipment and camp material, building
materials, cartons, cans, boxes, hardware, dresses, hats,
caps, gloves, cigars, canning equipment, window
shades, tents, awnings, office equipment supplies, gold
and silver plating, pottery and shoes.
Perhaps there is no city in America that has made
the rapid strides in commerce, in so few years, as the
city and port of Portland. It is only a very few years
ago that there were more than seven steamship lines
serving Portland. Through the efforts of the Portland
Chamber of Commerce and other agencies there was
established the Port of Portland Commission and the
Dock Commission. From that time on can be marked
the growth of Portland as a port. Millions of dollars
have been spent in deepening the waterways and chan
nels on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, in the
building of municipal terminal docks and also of private
docks, with the result that Portland has one of the best
and safest fresh water harbors in the world, it being
the same distance from the sea as Philadelphia, and
Portland has become the fastest growing port on the
Pacific Coast.
Portland has four municipal terminals, thirteen
private lumber docks, ten private grain and flour docks,
seven private general cargo docks, as well as a number
of special facility docks, and the many river steamer
docks. The Port of Portland also owns and operates
a modernly equipped fleet of suction dredges for the
improvement and development of the harbor. There
JUNE 1925
are fifty-four steamship lines now serving Portland
which has become the largest export port in the Pacific
Northwest. During 1923 the total exports in the
foreign trade through Portland were 1,261,558 tons,
Seattle, 700,628 tons, Tacoma 624,784 tons.
Portland is the leading wheat shipping port for
American wheat in the United States, the leading flour
exporting port on the Pacific Coast, the leading apple
exporting port on the Pacific Coast, and handled last
year a total of nearly four million tons of cargo in ocean
going vessels and seven million, four hundred and
thirteen thousand tons in all, including freight moved
by river steamers.
In addition to the industrial and manufacturing
activities in the city and the foreign and domestic
commerce which flows through the Port, Portland is
the gateway of an Empire containing two hundred and
sixty-four thousand square miles, with 10 railway lines,
including 5 transcontinental lines, which serve the city.
During the past two years the excellent citizenship
of Portland has once more been exemplified in the rais
ing of a fund of $300,000 for the purpose of developing
and advertising the state of Oregon—which is one por
tion of this great hinterland—and it should be pointed
out here that it is not only Oregon that is tributary to
the port and city of Portland but from a large portion
of the states of Washington, Idaho, Montana and
Utah, commerce finds its way by water grade routes
through Portland. This $300,000 fund, contributed en
tirely by the business men of Portland and expended
through the Portland Chamber of Commerce, is being
utilized for three separate and distinct purposes.
Land Settlement Committees have been organized
through the Portland Chamber of Commerce for the
One of the many scenic views along the Columbia River Highway in Oregon.
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