THE
WEST SHORE.
FiOTEEXTii Year. AUGUST, ISSa Ncnunt H.
INDUSTRIES OF PORTLAND.
i
'tfEVERin the history of Tort-
land have its industries been
in Bach a prosperous condi
tion, or the volume of id
manufacture! so large, as at
the present time. In round
numbers, $10,800,000 repre
sent the annual Tame of
manufactured work in this city
with the industries ss at present
organized; and these figures do
not include the labor of a largo
number of skilled workmen, both
male and female, such as painters, plaa-
specially mentioned in the alphabetical summitry f
leading industries girea in this article. It Is only in
tended to call attention to the advantages of this fit;
as a general manufacturing point
Portland occupies the dual position of a'1 njM.it
and the seat of Urge forciga commerce, aud au lute,
rior commercial city and railroad center. Hituitrd
at the head of deep water navigation on the CVlum.
bia and Willamette rivers, it is the nearest 'ajxift t
the great valleys of those two important stream.
This is what has brought it to its present ittm m
tho metropolis and center of wealth, pupuUtion and
trade of a region of varied resources and rant an a.
This position it acquired when tho rivers wrro tU
terers, plumbers, house carpenters, stone great highwsys of traval and commerce, and in it U
and brick masons, paper hangers, carpet ! been more firmly filed by tho construction of rail
roads, which not only make this city tho western It.
minus of all tho great transcontinental I inn which
penetrate this region at all, but give it communication
with every portion of tho vaat empire of which it is
the commercial head Borne of theae roads g t
other poinU, one hero and another thrre, but they sit
layers, millinery hands, locomotive and
steamboat engineers, and those engaged in numerous
other occupations by which a livelihood is gained by
physical toil, whoso labor can not be chased with le
gitimate manufacturing, but which amounts, in the
aggregate, to upwards of $2,000,000.00 a year for
wags only. In all this it is gratifying to know that, j come to Portland, where they fir at oucn thir grrU
as manufacturing increases, there is more work for j est present traffic and hoj-j for futuro growth. It U
poople employed in other lines of industry. j natural, then, that at this oint should gradually U
In some respects the past year baa been an event
ful one, since it has witnessed tho founding of several
established a largo majority of (Lot great nnoufa?
turing industries which tho northwest will ui; !;u! U
industries, which are destined to develop until they j edly aoon possets, since tho great essentials of an crew
attain great proportions. Among tho most important I port, railroad facilities, and farm-is to tl.n Urgr.t
of these are the redaction of base ores and bullion, I areas of population, are found her worn fully thin
the establishment of the large plant at Oswego for j at any other tit,t, while all otlr admUgra tnd f,
the mnufacture of pig iron and iron pipe, the dry j cilitifi are jmM in ss gn at a degree as by any
dock, the works for the manufacture of Portland ce- j other place which might U l? fal TLe alttot uo.
ment, and a mill for the manufacture of linseed oiL j limited quantities of eol, ww-l, timW,
It can readily bo seen that from the natural increase j g41, f WW M ft I l" '.
in these industries themselves, and from the estab- j Loifiti, pork, M, mutton, UU, snd it.fllaa!ti.
lishmnt of other branches intimately connect with j tade of other raw materials loan 1 or prrducr.1 in the
them, and to which they will necessarily lead, the j northwest, can U coccttraUd at VvtrA clr
volume of manufacturing in the city will increase f than at any otW point, can U made up kU U na.
rapidly during the next few years. All of tUae are mtroui artidns of D;m&erc m duply as rlstwUr,