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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1888)
407 CONFECTIONERY. Three firms are engaged in the manufacture of candies for the trade, employing from ten to thirty, five hands each. Six others manufacture for retail chiefly, but partially for the trade. The output has ccarly doubled in the past two years, being $3W,500 00 for the current year. The capital forested is $8.,. MOO. The business gives employment to seventy, five hands, a great many of whom are girls and boys. The Pioneer Candy Factory, Bernheim it Manner proprietors, was established in 18o2, and is doing a large business throughout the entire northwest, both in candies and foreign and domestic nuts. COOPERAGE. Six firms are engaged in a general coopering bus. ineBS in the city, and one barrel factory is located at St Johns, a few miles down the river. No such de mand for barrel? exists here as the quantity of flour manufactured would suggest, as flour is handled in Backs. However, lime manufacturing calls for a great many barrels, and the breweries use a large number of kegs. This demand, with the usual miscellaneous rail for barrels, tubs, casks and liquid receptacles of all kinds, keeps the shops busy, the work turned out amounting to $59,000.00 per year. COR I) AO E. The destruction by fire, in 1W, of tho Molson cordage works suspended this industry for two years. The product of the burned works tho last year of their existence was $80,00000. Last year the Portland Cordage Company was organized, and invested $100,. 000 00 in a plant, with which it is now turning out goods to the value of $125,000.00 a year. CRACKERS AND RRKADHTl TIH. There are two large factories supplying tho gen ml market with crackers and general baker's goods for the trade, while twenty other bakeries, employing from one to nineteen men each, are engaged in tho production of all baker's goods except crackers. In this business $131,000.00 are invested, and an annual product of $171,000.00 is turned out Fully two-thirds of the product of the wholesale factories is marketed outside the city, and they hold tho northwestern mar. kf-t well in band, so far as San Francisco is concerned. Portland has an enviablo reputation for its soda crackers. In former years the California Cracker Company was master of tho field, but tho production here of a superior article has, to a largo extent, shut it out Two years ago, tho Portland Cracker Compa ct sn engraving of whoso factory, corner of Second ad I) streets, is given on another page, was inajrpo ntod, and it has been placing goods on tho marbt that havo dono much to raisj tho rtpobtion of tho city in this lino and secure tho trade of tho northwest Not only sals crackers, but all kinds of crackers, cookies, maps and koicknacks aro produced. It is the policy of this houso not only to prodaco a surv rior article, but to pack it in a convenient and attrac tive form, and tho wisdom of this policy has shown itself in tho wonderful increase in tho amount of bus. iness secured. Tho plant is now worked to its full capacity, and tho factory will soon bo compelled to enlargo its facilities to supply tho Increasing demand for its products. Wherever ono may go In tho north, west, tho namo of tho Portland Cracker Company may be seen, and its brand on a U)i Is a guarautro that the contents aro equal to tho best made anywhere in the world. I l orn. Of tho great quantity of Hour handled in this city, more than one-half is tho product of mills In tho Willametto valley and in Oregon and Wsshlngtnn east of tho mountains. Only ono largo mill, that at Albina, is located here, and this Is turning out ono thousand barrels a day, being by far tho Urget pro. dacer in the northwest A largo mill at Oregon City is owned and oersted by Portland parties, and two small mills in tho city aid In miking a grand total of $J,0lo,0i)).00 as tho valuo of mill products hern. Thero was rwivod from outsido joints flour t th amount of $l,3o0,0f)0.M. From this port wemshlpH. foreign and doraetic, $1,7 13,717 00 worth of flour, leaving tho remainder for tho local market Tho for. eign trado has bwn almost exclusively with (Ireat Uritain, but daring tho past year largo consignments havo been sent to China, and this is looked upon m a market of great promise. jOt M'UM.H AMi M il HIM'. HImm. Of foundries and macbinn shoj, rngal In th manufacture of boilers, machinery and all class of cast and wrought iron, st-l, copper and brass work, thero aro seven working ou a largo scale, and a doin smaller ones. Theso firms reprint a capital d $104,00000, and produce ao annual output of KU.. 00000. Much mining machinery is manufactured io tbi city, as well as much iron u-d in Ho obstruc tion of largo buildings. Tho futuro of this Industry is brightened by tho rnutaptioo of work at tho Os wego iron work. Tho production hero of Ur ar.d plat iron and steed would U of great adtattag, at,d it is to bo hojd that rre lctg this will U atcow. pliihcd. mil am Mhtxmx itr..mivi. The busine of cacUtg td drjitg fruit ax; I teg. ttables is cr.o that is largely on tto Itxrru. Io to country io tho world do ugtUMeg yMI it'r prolif. ieally, grow t larger t or puei Cter flsior than