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About Oregon City courier=herald. (Oregon City, Or.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1902)
IO OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD NEW YEAR NUMBER. Business men agree that the volume of business of the year has never been exceed ed in history, and the new year opens with renewed confidence in all commercial and in dustrial enterprises, and every assurance of continued progress and steady growth. Oregon City, in fact the entire Willa mette Valley, are all growing; large farms ire being divided and sold to newcomers, who are steadily increasing in population, Courthouse is a fine structure that cost $60, 000. The free suspension bridge over the Wi'lametle River at this point was built by the county at a cost of nearly $30,000. Oregon City is destined to become the nucleus around which commerce and trade will radiate like spokes from a hub. With an eye keen to penetrate its future as a mar keting place for miles around, business men are preparing to handle commodities of this during the past year extended its line to Canemah, and is considering the construc tion of ,1 network of lines throughout the county to supplant the wagon roads and haul the country produce to Oregon City, the Niagara of the Pacific. These and the thousands of other unmentioned facts, make the future substantial growth of Oregon City as certain as holy writ. l5 V - ' t.i v 1; v - w$ .an-vfn- .!P''sr a i'irT.-i V'.. . i iM II' 7 V . ., , ,r. " J"-, III ttt"l'i,"-:lKi i, , , "'t) , 'f .,.i;,;!lili!l,;fi,): t 1 K 4 IZI it or m t A - i 1i I W! M I' jlini-- f--fi' i.tef . .'7 ? A-.;f.;, Ni' . , Chambers Howell I). C. Latourette T. W. Sullivan C. G. Huntley G. A. Harding E. E. Charman (Photo Turuey) OREGON CITY RESIDENCES. C. Babcoclc L. I Porter (Photo Turney) C. H. Dye finding here the best country on earth. New men and new business enterprises are being added to the city, the railroads are extend ing their lines for more business and a large scope of trade, while the "Beautiful Wil lamette" flows majestically on. bearing the commerce of the great and fertile Willamette Valley to the sea. would not otherwise have. The County and adjoining counties. Fairclough Bros, have opened a commission house on Main street. Farmers and producers are thus af forded a splendid cash market in this city. The electric railway has likewise had its eagle eye upon this hub center with renewed scrutiny, and has recently secured an ex tended franchise to operate freight and pas senger cars within the city limits, and has The year iyoi has been a prosperous one for the American people. The State of Ore gon and Oregon City in particular have en joyed a fair share of that prosperity. In this city many new buildings have been erected, and the fact that there is not a va cant house in Oregon City speaks unmis takably of the progress and growth of the city.