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
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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,
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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
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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.