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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.