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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1881)
THE WEST SHORE. January, ife&t I'OKTI.AMt, (iKKtiON. This in the third city in actual nnl representative wealth in projwrtion to ilh population thut there in in the world. A startling a thin assertion !h, never theless, it is fl fact, and wc question if even our licsl informed citizens arc aware that hiich in the cane. Frankfort on the-. Main in the old world, which contain the mother hank of the Roth cliilds, and i otherwise the money cen ter of Knropc, and Hartford, Connect icut, the m tual center of the great In. Durance Companies' wealth of America, are the only two cit ies Unit had the " Little (iiinit " city of t lie Occident in "wealth according to population." One of the mot striking feature of our city to vihitor from I lie cities of Hnll'.ilo, Albany, Rochester, Klmira, N. V.; ludianapo I in, Indiana; Cleve land, CohmihiiM, ()., and other cilie of a like grade in the older states, in the extent and compact lies of our business ttxii oulifnicH and of the structure that line them. These ihitoiH upon their rye in undisguised astonishment when informed th.it a city with the "business look" of Portland contain scarcely jo,ooo people. The above named cities, with four to MX time the jwipu lation, have no such thoroughfare as Front or First Sis., ami many of the commercial citie of the slates, with ten time the popula tion of Portland, have leu th in one quarter of the num. her of spacious wm-housct and hut a tithe of the wharf facilities. Portland, to-day, i an anomaly, hut one that can he readily accounted for. It hat, in short, the "country to hack it." (tenial O;egon, with it agricultural wealth scarcely one hundredth part de veloped, the mountain range filled with undeveloped wcaunoi minerals uucov fine buildings within our state and the adjacent territory of Washington, which shows that if Oregon lacks population, its people have the "grit'; to have as Portland what it is ami what it will he before the close of another decade. When we take all these facts into . i.i.r..i wt h ilw nmnn- .wiinmii.ii'u, i-'K"'"- . . ...... sed system of internal improvements goou or ucuc. r- v., alreaily inaugurated hy the Oregon than some of their older sister states, Railway and Navigation Company.Or- Among the illustrations may be found li ,;imri,l f (ii ii 11:111 v. ' the Portland 1 ostolnce, costing ?325" 1 I lv.i ..f TTauca iiivirwi looo; Salem Court House, ii.i.l I nt I Iri.iritiHMtl t :li I VV:l (!olll1iallV limited, linished, we may expect in 1890 Portland Court House, $50,000; Al- to sec Portland a rival in wealth, en- oany uouri nuu, fa"p f ellows' and Masonic 1 e.npics, i so, n . 1 -11. 1 :n... ...,.r terprise, popul.ilion, commerce, ami manufactures of many of the older cit ie of the world. During the past year, 205 buildings have hem erected in Portland, many . ::V'. ".. ;: ' ' . ' ' ' jli i-.v-- 4: ill : li II f ill I f I. jL -W I I ! Mil"- MARION COLNTV COI RT HOUSE, SAI.EM, OREGON. of them palatial in their structures ami adornment. The amount of money expended for their building and the im provement of street within the city limits during the year 1880, foot up the Ming sum of $1,1)1,740, exclusive of $85,000 ixended in Fast Portland. When we take into consideration the population ol Oicgon, Multnomah Co. and Portland, wc can begin to realize the wealth and resource of our voumr ercd and to Iw discovered and workct? ;' state, when such an amount can be Other buildings and illustrations have appeared in previous numbers of The Wkst SnoitK.among which may he mentioned the Union Block, costing $160,000, and the hue building occu- pied by the offices 1 of the O. R. & N. Company, owned by Capt. Geo. y. Ainsworth, built at an exjH'n.se of $65,000; uko, oth er buildings rang ing in cost from $10,000 to $50,- 000. In fact, The West Shore files for the past several years indicate the rapid advance ment of Oregon and Portland in their material growth and pros perity, and its fu ture numbers will chronicle their continued ad vancement until Oregon will be one of the bright est stars in the gal axy of states and Portland the " queen city " of the Pacific slope. lie sure to send 25 cents for our December num ber, 1880. It con tains a vast amount of valuable infor mation about the Pacific North west, with rates of fare, modes of also a large number of ar- engravings ot Co- travel, etc.: tisticaily executed lutnhia river's far-famed scenery. CUl'ID'S FREAKS. The total number of marriage licen se issued in Multnomah county during the year 1880, were 133. The two oldest grooms were 64 and 60 years respectively. The youngest groom n. r.;.iu ti-itlinir domain of EaMrrn 1 tivnt hv in tmtnle In our short VMr I '9 ycar old- Fourteen brides were Oregon, with its vast ranges for stock L, In thi num!cr of Tit Wkst isiioaE, under 18 years and four of these only ami rich cereal lands, all help to make 'we give illustrations of a few of the 15 years old.