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OPPORTUNITY
Do you belong to the army that is daz
zlotl ly those big jmgo ads nnd cata
logues chuck full of bargains?
We have customers for tho past thirty
years those who know goods and
they state that they can do better here
than other houses in Portland
Write for samples and fashion sheets.
FKEE IW MAIL
Fruit, Dairy and
Garden Truck Lands
In Columbia County, Oregon, can be pur
chased from $10 to $25 per Acre
NONE BETTER
Good market, from one to ten miles to water and rail trans
portation. Columbia County ranks the world for Northern
Spy apples. Clover and all legumes grovluxuriantly, mak
ingljidgalfdairy conditions Vegetables of all'kinds do well.
Potaloesjproduce fronAX) to 400 bushels per acre. Call on
or address STATE BANK OF RAINIER, RAINIER. ORE
GON, for further information.
CLATSKANIE.
"The Gateway of the Nehalem"
is1 a beautiful eity of about twelve
hundred people. Its title is de
rived from the fact that all the
produce of the Xehalem its crops
and manufactures seek the out
side world here, for the reason
that the Clatskanie people, with
commendable energy and fore
sight, have done everything in
their power to maintain a good
road, connecting the valley with
river and rail transportation. The
Nehalemites appreciate this fact,
and therefore the great bulk of
their trade is given to the Clats
kanie merchants. Not only have
the Clatskanie people done this,
but they have also given largely
of their means to deepen the chan
nel of the Clatskanie river a la
bor in which the government
should give them substantial aid.
"With deep water (say 13 feet) in
the Clatskanie river, Clatskanie
would at once become a very im
portant manufacturing point.
Kven without this advantage it is
prospering and growing, and
probably its retail merchandise
business is as large as that of any
city in the county. It has a num
lter of sawmills and shingle mills
within a radius of a few miles,
and the largest logging camp in
the county, employing, when run
ning a full crew, over three hun
dred men. As an illustration of
the city's enterprise it may be
stated that during the present
year its citizens have voluntarily
contributed something like $1300
for the deepening of the river
channel, and have placed at the
railroad station an immense sign,
setting forth the advantages of
the city's location, and inviting
inquiries.
The business section of the city
is mainly upon the flat portion of
Nehalem Avenue, though a few
business houses are on the incline
and on the side streets. Formerly
Nehalem Avenue was a crooked,
narrow street, with the business
bouses standing at all sorts of
angles; but all this has been reme
died. The buildings have been
moved back on a line, the avenue
widened, and a beautiful and dur
able street constructed of crushed
rock. Finding this rather dusty
in the summer time, the business
men passed the fa.it. and a few
barrels of oil have given the city
the best and cleanest main street
of any city in the county.
Clatskanie is not behind any
city in the county in the number
of its general merchandise stores,
the quality and quantity of the
stock they carry, and the reason
ableness of their prices,
tie trade goes from the Clatskanie
neighborhood to Portland, for the
reason that the people can pur
chase their goods just as cheap at
home and the money stays in cir
culation in the neighborhood.
The churches and fraternal or
ders are well represented, and
COLUMBIA RIVER DOOR COMPANY'3 FACTORY.
Clatskanie is now the gateway transacted at Clatskanie,
of the Nehalem Vallev, but iu time A popular place of amusement
to come it will have another title, n Clatskanie is the electric thea
thnt of the uar.len snot of Oregon. I ter, conducted by Manager bum,
Its success is assured Hetween the city and tho Colum- where an instructive ihumiik p-
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The Clatskanie Creamery is a
comparatively new institution.
Its product will be on exhibition
in Columbia county's booth at the
state fair
and the demand for the butter is
bia river there is an immense title
practically unlimited. The fact: flat, embracing thousands of acres
that they can have a steady mar
ket for their cream at the highest
price paut lor butter tat, lias stim
ulated the neighboring farmers to
of the most fertile land imagin
able, but, owing to the fact that
it is under water the greater pBrt
of the year, it lias been practically
keep more and a better quality of i unavailable for agricultural pur-
cows. I hey understand that a poses, l lie loiuniica Agricultural
scrub animal is a very poor in- company has undertaken the task
vestment. of dyking these lands and con-
portunity for passing a pleasant
hour.
Clatskanie has a weekly news
paper, the "Chief," conducted by
N'ora and George Conger. Since
they assumed control of its des
tinies it has improved wonder
fully. It is enthusiastic in its ad
vocacy of the city's interests, and
McAllen & McDonnell
Popular Price Dry Goods Store
Cor. 3d and Morrison
Established 1HS4
Paris Patterns 10c
COLUMBIA CITY
Is the perttiest townsite on the
Columbia river, and yet there i.
less business there than there was
twenty years ago. We venture to
predict." however, that this will
not always be so, nnd in a very
few years it may be that the thun
der of a steel mill will wake the
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STREET SCENE IN CLATSKANIE.
there is no more sociable commun
ity in the state. Education is rec
ognized as the foundation of good
citizenship and Clatskanie has a
well equipped high school, with
an efficient corps of teachers.
The Clatskanie State Bank, un
der the management of Mr. C. S.
Stockwcll, transacts the banking
business of the city and tribntary
country. It is housed in a hand
some pressed brick building, and
is receiving the loyal support of
the business men and farming
Very lit- community.
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Clatskanie is lighted by clec-j verting them into fields and gar
tricity and has a municipal water
system, which it is now enlarging
and improving. When this is
done they will have an abundance
of pure mountain water, sufficient
for a city of ten thousand inhabit
ants. The love of the beautiful in
Clatskanie has found manifesta
tion in their annual rose show,
conducted by the Ladies' Aid so
ileus, it nas in lis control some
thing like twelve thousand acres.
Work upon this great project is
being pushed rapidly by Mr. Ma
gruder, the manager, arid im
mense dredgers are being employ
ed to throw up embankments such
as havj, enabled Holland to sup
port the greatest opnlation per
mile of any country in Europe.
Only one who has seen the hitch-
is filled every week with tho do
ings of its neighborhood and in
teresting correspondence from
many points in the county.
cioty. It is held in a large hall, silled garden farming of the Xeth
and, from small beginnings, has
grown, until it is now recognized
as a county affair, and beautiful
flowers from all parts of the coun
ty are annually exhibited. It
; would be a revelation to anyone
j who has conceived the idea that
j there is little in Columbia county
i but tall trees and big salmon, to
visit the Clatskanie Rose fehow.
erlands, where every foot of soil
is made to yield tribute, can ap
preciate the importance of the
work now being done in the Clats-
DEER ISLAND.
Is a station on the Astoria and
Columbia Hiver railroad, which
has manifested considerable
growth and enterprise during the
past year. It has two general
merchandise stores, its own water
system, a grange hall, etc. He
cent ly Portland people have be
come interested in this neighbor
hood, and farms hnvo been laid
kanie neighborhood by the Colum-! out in small tracts and lots, and
bia Agricultural company. In
the future it means the erection of
canneries to handle the produce,
and the addition of c large volume
of business to that now being
f mt upon the market at reason
able prices. Deer Island has also,
during the past year, built a very
neat and comfortable school
house.
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and
iron
cars
will
echoes of Hunker Hill
loaded with coal nnd
rumble down the incline to be do
posited in the hull of the giant
freighter waiting to convey them
to the Orient and through the
Panama canal to the nations of
Western Europe. This is no dream,
but an imminent posoibility, ns
any one may see by reading a se
ries of letters published in an
other part of this paper. The
coal is there, the iron is there,
anil the townsite is there. All
that is needed is the ninri nnd the
money, and the Ilig Exposition
will probably bring them to this
coast. Negotiation nre now in
progress looking to the advance
ment of these grcnt. projects, and
we look for their fulfillment.
Columbia county hai dcpoalti
of iron, coal, and marl,
HOULTON
(CoiiUmumI frut Fat-1)
the company. No outsi.b cnnlul
has been taken in from the lo 0f
stock or bonds. Thouumli of
ere of the best timber in th
northwest are. owned by the com.
pnny, which eut iu own nw
material, llr nnd upruco are th
principal timber used, hemlork,
cedar and cottonwool being con
sinned in limited quantities for
certain grade. The factory it
lloulton employ over two hua.
tired men, in eluding the Mt cut
ter in the wimmU, nnd, a it kept
neither store nor boarding hou,
their patronage is a great factor
in the community.
There are numerous other In.
dustrial institution tributary to
lloilltotl. including MWIIlilt ll(
shiugleiiiilU, and the logging
enmp nnd railroad of the 0, C.
('listen company, on of th Urj,
est nnd best railroad logging
camp in the county,
These vnrioo industries r
lb. nit. in' soune of rcveuiio nd
their wnnts are supplied ,y JJitnl.
ton's enterprising merchant. Th
town ha three general nirrehin
ile stores, n ment innrket, bUck.
smith and barber shop, livery
stable, nnd real estate agent, mil
several hotel, two rliurehe, nl
tt good school. Il'iring the ptst
year the district has built l'i.
1 1 Fitl modern four room htiiMinK,
nt n cost of between ."mViO inl
ttilSHl.
Columbia county ha river and
rail tramportation, thut prvnt
Ing monogoly,
Columbia county bai the best
dairy herd In the itate.
If you want to start a mill or
factory, there are plenty of jood
site in Columbia county. ,
Columbia county raises
flncit applet in thj world.
tbi
Many men hav made fortntui
In Columbia county. You can do
the lame.
It is only 20 mile from Port
land to the county leat of Colum
bia county. Fare on boat M cU.
By rail to Houlton, one mil to
the court houie, 80 cent.
Polk County Frm Sold.
Fall City Jam Mr.- h pue
chM of Frwl No for 17.000 hi 20
er frm, four roll from thi pis'
Th new ownr will Uke pmmI
ScpUmber t ami begin t ooc to If
pit)v mi msk this on of th as
completely wjulpjml farm In I'0
county.
Trult Mn l Hood Rivr.
Hood Itlr-E. P. IaiowI. of tbj
com ml Ion Arm of Looroi A Co.
Nw York City, i n.nllng fewlyi
In Hood River, whr h I hvlly
trroslw In orchard land. Mr. lml
UtMl that fruit would bring nswrt
prima thl yaar.
THE QUALITY STORE
Success, to be permanent, must be
based upon merit. You cannot
keep your old friends and make new
ones by shifty methods. Good goods
at a fair margain of profit has been
my motto, and has built up a busi
ness acquaintantship of whicti I am
justly proud. Call on me when in
Rainier and inspect my goods and
prices.
FRED TROW
RAINIER
OREGON