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joyedthe mere handling of goods in It cost $100,000.00, and is, probably, the
transit It means the sale of the pro- most solid, and, for its size, most costly,
dace here and the expenditure of a large warehouse in the United States. The
portion of the money in the city, in the manufacturing interests are important
purchase of supplies of all kinds. It af- The car shops, machine shops and foun
fords the basis of a trade which sup- dry of the O. E. & N. Co. are very ex.
porta two national banks and one sub- tensive, and give employment to one
stantial private bank. The levee does hundred and fifty men. The Dalles
not present as bustling a scene as it did Lumber Company has, a planing mill
in the old steamboat days, nor are the and box factory. The City Mill and
streets as full of freight wagons as theD; Water Company has a large flour and
but the actual business of the city has feed mill, and Snipes & Smith also have
increased. Transient population, which a flour and feed mill. A. Buchler owns
livened up the streets and gave business and operates a large brewery, and there
to the saloons, cigar stands and restau- are a foundry, three carriage and wagon
rants, has given place to permanent pop- shops and five blacksmith shops. The
ulation, which gives business to the deal- mercantile lines are represented by two
er in groceries, furniture, dry goods and large general stores, one of which car
hardware. The "good old times" of ries a stock of $75,000.00, and does a
effervescence are gone, and those whose yearly business of $200,000.00, six gro
Hncs of trade depended largely on the eery stores, three hardware, stove and
conditions then existing, lament the fact tinware stores, four dry goods and cloth
and think thf city has retrograded; but ing stores, one clothing and gent's fur
more substantial merchants know bet- nishing store, two furniture stores, one
ter, and recognize the fact that the city's paint, oil and sash store, one boot and
trade is founded now on a more solid shoe store, four jewelry stores, three
and permanent foundation-one that is drug stores, one of them a wholesale
widening and deepening every year, as drug and liquor store, one wholesale
he county becomes more settled, and liquor store, two book and stationery
the productions increase in variety and stores, two harness and saddlery stores,
1 ' . , two variety stores, three cigar and to-
As an evidence of this improved con- bacco stores, two large farm implement
dition of affairs, it is only necessary to warehouses, two undertaking establish
enumerate the various industries and ments, three markets, four general com
business enterprises. In the first place, mission stores, two candy factories, three
hero are three forwarding and commis. banks, four large hotels, four restau
Km merchants Lx-Gov. Z. F. Mocxly, rants, one bakery, five livery stables,
vLT i Tu Tehouse8 J' a r barber shops, two photograph gal
oShiT w Iaug brid 6trUC- lerie8' ten 8al0 twdw attorneys, six
and J II T Pians, tnree dentists, andtwonews
JbrT ' " PaPer This is the shipping point for
tcfuatitv0110 ,Tn if Wrld the fisheries, located across
troi rrxt thf river' f
baildin nvl L , . , g the Baon being Bent east every season.
for a fa w- 3 ,6 6Teniment disWct i H Dalles, aid
lopped beCieWr(Ta Mm 0D pablio laad9 b Central0re'
m "ciore tte roof , put on. gon make their filings here. Here, also,