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THE WEST SHORE.
The aWe is only a very brief mention of the
principal features of the plant of the Oregon Iron it
Sted Company. There are engine bouses, pattern
bouse, a machine shop, and sundry other adjuncts of
a nt-clas iron manufacturing establishment, every
thing new and on modern plana. There is an admir
able arrangement by which a supply of two and a
half million gallons of water daily is secured, with a
hohA of sixty feet above the hearth. The shipping
facilities are both rail and water. The officers of the
company are: President, 8. 0. Iteed; vice president,
Wm. M. Ladd; secretary, Martin Winch; general su
perintendent, F. C Smith; furnace engineer, E. C.
Darley; engineer pipe foundry, Franklin J. Fuller;
superintendent of the mines, James II. Fomeroy.
The company owns two thousand acres of mineral
land and fourteen thousand acres of timber land in
one liody. It also has ten thouaand six hundred acres
of timber land in Washington Territory, and a mine
of magnetic iron ore in Dritish Columbia. The land
in the vicinity of the works is laid out in town lota,
and Oswego is a very pleasant place of residence.
JEWELRY.
There are no extensive jewelry manufacturing in
terests in the city, but several firms are engaged in
the business in a small way, and produce $79,500.00
worth of work. Efforts are Wing made to start a
clock factory. Everything necessary for that indus
try exinU here as fully as elsewhere, and it is certain
ly to I hojxxl that the proposed enterprise will be
come a reality.
M sir
One large factory is engaged in producing this
article. The works of the Portland Lime & Cement
Cora pan j are in East Portland, and the company is
chiefly engaged in calcining marble, brought from
the extensive quarries in Southern Oregon. Cap
ital to the amount of $ij,(00.00 is invested in this
industry, and the annual product amounts to tUo,
(MUX). It would help to support a good barrel factory.
U XUK.
In the production of lumber there is invested the
large sua of fXrf.tVlO.OO and a gross product of $1,.
TiO.CiK) ft) for the present year is being turned out
The larger mills make lath and shingles and supply
dretwvl and matched lumber, doing much work simi
lar to that of some of the factories included under the
Lea-! of planing mills and aaah factories. By far the
largest enterprise of this character is that of the Wil
lamette Steam Mills, Lumbering & Manufacturing
Company, whoae extensive plant on the river front in
North Portland and lagging camps on the Columbia
are subjects of illustration in this number. The bus-
iness is under the efficient management of George W.
Weidler, and the mills are superintended by J. Ordl
way, a mill man of large experience. The mills have
a total capacity in twenty-four hours of two hundred
and fifty thousand feet of lumber. They have excep
tional shipping facilities, as the track of the Northern
Pacific runs through the yard, and deep water in front
permits the largest vessels to reach the shipping
wharves. Cargoes of lumber are sent to the various
porta of California, Mexico, Central America, Peru,
Chili, Sandwich islands, Australia and China, and
large quantities are sent eastward by rail along the
lines of the Northern Pacific and Oregon Short Line,
as far as Helena, Salt Lake, Denver and Omaha. The
logging facilities are complete and extensive, embrac
ing a railroad from the Columbia river into the tim
ber, by which logs are hauled to the water, where
they are made up into rafts and towed to the mill
These mills were the first to open the markets east of
the Rocky mountains, and pave the way for a large
increase in the demand for Oregon lumber. The
great strength and durability of the Oregon fir ren
ders it of special value for railroad and bridge pur
poses, and for these uses it is in great demand. The
forests of this region are gaining recognition through
out the Union as the most important in the country,
and the future of the lumbering industry is a bright
one, See article on lumbering on another page.
MARBLE WOBKS.
In the manufacture of monuments, mantels, etc,
several firms are engaged, but none on a large scale.
About $16,000.00 are invested in the business and the
yearly product reaches $04,000.00. There is no good
native marble yet in use here. A deposit exists iu
Southern Oregon, but it has not yet been developed.
Marble has bee a discovered in various localities, bat
its use has been confined chiefly to the manufacture
of lime. Sandstone is procured on Puget sound.
One manufacturer has a small granite quarry in
Clackamas county, but nearly all the stone used b
this city is imported. The demand at present is not
sufficiently great to support large quarries, though
an ample supply of the best quality of stone can be
found in the mountains whenever it will pay to get it
MATCHES.
The only match factory on the Pacifia coast which
is not controlled by the "combination " at San Fran
cisco, is the one located in this city. It has recently
been much enlarged in capacity, and is cow doing
work at the rate of $100,000.00 per year, which U
about four timet its previous output The growth of
this industry has been slow and gradual, from the
most humble beginning. It is gratifying to know
that the recent enlargement was possible. One of its