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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1888)
TUE WEST SHORE. 411 greatest Deeds is a disposition on the part of dealeri to handle its product in preference to that of the trust. There is no reason why matches made here fhould not be able to compete advantageously with those from California or elsewhere. MEAT PACK I SO. The packing of pork and beef has not yet reached the proportions that it should in a country so end cently adapted to that industry as Oregon. Great quantities of lard, hams, bacon and canned meats are imported from the east annually, when, as a matter of fact, this country ought to export such products. More or less of this work is done in a small way by tutchers, while four firms are quite extensively en gaged in the business in connection with wholesale butchering. Capital of $105,000.00 is invested, and the yearly product is $!00,000.00. At present our farmers do not raise enough hogs to support a largo packing industry, and that they do not is owing to tho fact that there has been no certain market for them. The increase of this industry and of the supply of hogs to support it must go hand in hand. Were tho farmers assured of a market, there is little doubt about their willingness to supply it. On the other hand, were packers certain of a constant and suffi cient supply of bogs, they would no doubt embark in the packing business on a larger scale. No sudden increase of this industry can be looked for, but a steady growth may confidently be predicted. Mt'KlCAL INHTItt'MKNTH. Six firms carry large stocks of musical instru ments, music, etc, and this city is tho center of the music trade for the entire northwest No instruments are manufactured here, though the sales approximate $2 )0,00000 annually. One firm imports pianos and organs from a Chicago factory and finishes the exte riors here, adding about $3,50000 worth of work to them, which amount is credited in the general sum mary. J'AINTH A XI) OIU. Two firms are engaged in the production of paints and refining oils on a large scale, one of them confin. ing its efforts exclusively to oil reficing. Another, tho Portland Linseed Oil Co., is preparing to begin the manufacture of oil. A brick building, fifty by one hundred and fifty feet in siza, is being erected near the O. II k N. Co'a. boneyard, which will be completed and fitted with machinery ready for nw by the fint of October. Flax seed is produced in this region in considerable quantity and of excellent qual ity, and iU production will be greatly stimulate by the market this will furnish. Such a mill has long betn needed by our paint manufactsrers. The next thicg required iu this lino of industry is a -ibito lead factory. With this new enterprise included, the cap ital invested in making paints and oils is 1 155,(1100, and tho total product for the year coming can not fall short of flOO.OOOlOO. l Al l It MAMTVC1 1 HINd. One of the largest enterprises in tho city is that of the Columbia IUver Paper Comjxiny, whoso works are located at llamas, W. T. The destruction of tho mill by firo a year ago was a great ha to tho community, as orations were necessarily suspend ed until new machinery could bo procured. Tho final result, however, was tieneficial, as machinery of an improved pattern and greater capacity has Wen put in, and tho mill is now in much totter condition than before. News, Manila and straw pajera aro turned out, largo quantities of wood pulp toing uad. Tho product is valued at frJM.OOO.liO xr year, and finds a market throughout the entire northwest A movr. ment is on foot to establish a largo patr mill at Ore gon City, whero water power and all feasible conven iences exist It would twin that tho manufacture of finer grades of paper could lo inado profitable Many tons of book paper aro brought out hero annually from eastern mills, which might I mado hero as well as threo thousand miles further east This is an es pecially good field for procuring wood pulp, and tho question of building pulp mills in favored localities hero for tho supply of their mills in California has been given much thought by manufacturers there. iwonxiiui n A dozen photograph galleries divid tho work lu that line, half of them Wing largo, ompMo and at tractive establishment. It may fairly to sail that photography in this citj is rqial in qutlity to that of tho great metropolitan cities of tho out, fully as much skill and taste Wing disptaynl by tho artUts an I tho galleries being thoroughly rqaippL As would nat urally bo cxjx'ctM iu a city increailng so rapidly iu wealth and imputation as PurtlanJ, this business his moro than duubb-d within a fw years. Tho product is liilMOO for tho current jear. nam. rum, hiwm, i:w Picture frames, mirror frames, caorai stretchers, etc, aro quito extensively manufactured by our art stores, tho total proda:t aumuting to t'v),l").W). For this parr,' mouldings an lmpvrtl lAk fin. Uhed arid plain, and all tho work cwnry t sv!;t them to tho uv) desired Is d m If tin. Tho dmaU is not sufTic'wttJy great U support a factory whero the ooalJicgs caa W tavk This it an tahiiry which has increwl with Portland's grotb in )'X lat'-oo, wealth at! culture.
