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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.
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I). C. Latourette
T. W. Sullivan
C. G. Huntley
G. A. Harding
E. E. Charman (Photo Turuey)
OREGON CITY RESIDENCES.
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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.