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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1890)
WEST SHORE. 149 A PORTION OF Till STOCK PARADE. and industries are being everywhere established to work tip our wealth of raw materials of the mine, forest, soil and water. Upon them the bulk of our future growth will depend, and they should hold a place in an exposition of this nature second to no other branch of our resources. Our great timber manufacturing interests are practically unrepresented, save by a few specimens of wood that are but portions of larger exhibits, and yet we manufacture and ship millions of dollars worth of lumber every year. To be sure the furniture industry, which in a measure includes the other is most magnificently represented. This Is a large and grow ing Industry, and one that has reached a high state, so far as artistic work and quality are concerned. Such large establishments as the Oregon Furniture Manufacturing Co., and the G. Bbindler Furniture Co., have dis plays of their own products that are simply elegant. They are the centers of much admiring attention. The great salmon Industry is unrepresented. The Oregon Iron and Steel Co., whose extensive mines, pig-iron and pipe works at Oswego comprise one of the largest and most important industries in the northwest, have a display of manufactured material, such as pig iron and iron pipe. The Fuget Sound pipe Co., of Olympia, has an exhibit of wooden pipe In steel casing. This is quite an important and growing indus try. The Portland Cordage Co. is represented by a most attractive working display, showing machines engaged in the actual manufacture of twine. It attracts much attention to this important manufacturing enterprise. These working exhibits are by far the most in teresting and valuable, both to the visit or and the exhibitor. Another interest ing display is that of the Oregon Pottery Co., where a workman engiged in manu facturing jars, etc., is constantly sur rounded by a crowd, who thus become impressed with the industry and soon learn how important and extensive it is. The carriage and wagon making industry ' is not so well represented locally as by imported goods, though the total of man ufactures in that line in Poitland reaches high figure. Some of these carriage and wag on displays are most at tractive, especially those by Staver 4 Walker, Koapp, Burrell 4 Co., Frank Bros. Implement Co.,The Mitchell 4 Lew is Co., and the Whitney Carriage Co. One of the best indi cations of the agricultu ral supremacy of this region is the variety and completeness of the dis play of fine agricultural machinery. Although much the larger part of this Is not manufactured here Its presence In such quantity and the site of the establishments handling It are proof positive of the great Importance of agriculture. Machines of numerous kinds are shown in operation by the large bouses of Staver A Walker, Knapp, Burrell 4 Co., Chas. H. Dodd 4 Co., Frank Bros., Implement Co., D. M. Osborne & Co., Russell 4 Co. The sales of implements and machinery by these firms ag gregate an enormous sum. The farmers of this region are supplying them selves with the most useful and desirable of modern appliances and ma chinery and are keeping fully abreast of the Improvements in agricultural THE DOI'HI.1 WU1DINO, methods. Sheep husbandry is one of Oregon's greates industries, and should be better represented in the building, aside from the stock depart ment. George rope 4 Co. exhibits some very fine fleeces from various por tions of the state. There are a number of other interesting and valuable exhibits made by various manufacturing establishments. One of the largest Institutions thus represented is the Columbia River Paper Co. , whose Isrge mill at La Camas, Wash., manufactures great quantities of news, straw and manlla paper, Another year the great factories being built at Oregon City will be repre sented. The Oregon City Manufacturing Co. and the Brownsville Woolen Mills are both represented by specimens of their woolen manufactures. This has become a most Important Industry In Oregon, where five large mills are already established. A display of ornamental Iron fences and rail ings by Walker 4 DeVol, made at their works here, attracts much attention as well as the exhibit ol the Northwest Carbonised Stone Co. Zinc cornices and ornaments represent another industry employing many men in this city. Povey Bros, have handsome display of stained and ornamental glass for doors, windows, etc., made by them in this city. They are manu facturing designed windows for some of the largest churches being erected on the Paci6c coast. Another most Interesting display of an Important home industry is tint of the Cleveland Paint Manufacturing Co., whose cottage attracts much admiring attention. The Rohartine palace of the Wisdom' Drug Co., Is classically elegant, and one of the most beautiful features of the exposition. Another home industry which is well represented Is the brush fac tory of A. & B. M. llihreni, where much of Interest can be seen. The manufacture of confectionery has become a very large Industry in Portland, from whose factories the entire northwest Is supplied. Home of the processes are nightly witnessed In the miniature factory maintained In the build ing by Baum 4 Brandes, and attracts much attention. The topographical reproduction of a section of the oil regions, showing the oil wells, tanks, gaa wells, oil trains, etc., by the great Standard Oil Co., is one of the most inter sting features of the fair and demonstrates in the crowd It attracts how much more the people appreciate adleplay that gives them some Infor mation about the details of an Industry than they do the mere exhibition of manufactured goods. The Oregon Trunk Fac tory has a display of the products of Its shops. Mention must be made of the collection of stuffed birds and animals by H. 8. Douglas, a taxidermist who has acquired a great reputation for his skillful and artistic preservation of the fauna ol the northwest. Two large cabinets of minerals from the mines of Union county attract a great deal of attention. They serve to call attention to the many valuable minerals found In that county as well as to the large mines being developed and worked. Mining has always been an important Industry in Oregon, and Is now being carried on in several counties quite extensively. It Is In-