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OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1802.
ESTABLISHED 18C0.
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GOODS.
HOLIDAYi GOODS
It is an admitted fact that this season ban witnessed the fin
est display of Holiday Goods over hrought to Oregon
City, ami the Leaders in thin kind of goods aro
THOS. CHARM & SON.
At tho Pioneer Store.
Our ! 1 1 on r.iiibrtn nn Ucgiint oriin-iit I"
Fancy Toilet Cases, Albums, Mani
cure Sets, Cups, Vases and
Fine China Ware.
A special lot fur (ho Holiday
Gentlemen's
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, . If you are of a practical turn of mind and propose to
fj make presents that will he appreciated for their worth,
CHARMAN & SON
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; irry J1181 tno articles that you will want, whether it he in
- aney Dress Goods of the latest patterns, or a stylish Cloak
If or 'raP' "''kerchief,
i We lead in our stoek of
Dry Goods, Fancy Dress Goods,
Notions, Clothing,
Hats & Caps, Boots & Shoes,
Rubber Goods,
Groceries, Hardware, Sash, Doors,
Paints and Oils,
(Including tho Celebrated Cleveland Mixed Paints).
Also Agricultural Implements,
Seeds, Crockery and
Glassware
ALL OF THE BEST QUALITY.
Our Pry Goodn Consist in part of Cashmeres, Henrietta
, ' Cloth, Plaids and Ladies Cloth.
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Our Fancy Goods Kibhons, Laces and Trimmings of all
Ik'Hcriptions.
Clothing Cassimero, Heaver, and Oregon City Manufactur
ing Company's Omnia.
I ' Ladies' Furnishing Goods
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and other u nucrwear.
Gents Furnishing Goods Hats, Caps, Gloves, and Under
weai of every quality.
Ladies' Shoes of every description from the best known fac
tories. Boots and Shoes Men's, a choice lot, from the best factories
. , in the world.
Fino Groceries a Specialty.
'i ' Votions of every description.
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Trade of the latest styles of
Ties and Scarf. ,''
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or a Serviceable Silk Umbrella.
Fancy Skirts, Vests, Drawers,
None hut tho best kept.
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OUR WATER POWER.
The (Jieiifest In tlie World nt
Tide Water.
COMFAKM) WITH OTHER POWEKS.
More Than Any Half IlMten Eastern
Power wiililiied.
NEVER FAItlNO SUFFLTOr BOFT WATEB
Bonn of tin CTiiJrtl(mi That Mnkd Ori-goo
Oity th Moit Idftotucoii Loot
tlon in the Weit for Hnufo
tu ring lu.Utotloni,
Oregon City has the greatest water
power In the world at tide water. The
Willamette river In a large stream and
its vortical full of forty feet here afford
FALLS
one of the greatest available water Dow
ers to lie found anywheie. A careful
survey of the Oregon City water power
shows that it lias a capacity of 100,000
horse power at low water and probably
three times as much at high water. But
at the lowest stage of the water this pow
er would turn backward every spindle in
the four gicttt manufacturing cities of
New England, llolyoke, Lawrence and
Lowell, MaspiM-liiiRctls, and Manchester,
Now Hampshire, in the face of the mighty
force propelling them, to which might lie
added the justly famous power at Minne -
apolis, all of them reckoned at their avur
age for twelve months, A comparison of
figures showing the capacity of the larg
est water lowers in the East and West
will be useful in this connection, the
figures being the computation of the
aruge ixiwer for the year, not at the low-
est stage of wuter.
Horse power.
llolyoke. Massachusetts
Lawrence, "
Lowell, "
Manchester, New Hampshire,
MiniicHlis, Minnesota
Average for twelve months
Oregon City at low watea
12,J
10, !!kt
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12,000
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At Great Fulls, Montana, there is a d.
veloped horse power of ;il',S(ir. The pry
posed developnumt of Niagara Falls water
power by means of a tunnel to cost moit
than $.'1,000,000 will realize only VJO.Ooi
horse power, considerably less than tht
average for the year at Oregon City, and
no fabulous expenditure is required to
develop this power.
Another important fact not to be over
looked in considering the relative advan
tages of the great water powers of the
country is the nearness of Oregon City to
the ocean and the means of cheap trans
portation thus brought to the door of the
manufacturer. Tide water ascends the
Willamette river to the falls. Ocean ves
sels from nil parts of the world now ply
to Portland, which is only twelve miles
distant from Oregon City, and at a com
paratively small cost a channel could be
provided that would enable ships to as
cend the river to this point. Of course
the facilities for shipping to foreign coun
tries would not amount to anything if
Oregon City be considered merely as a
local manufacturing town; but its situa
tion gives it more than local importa-nce.
It may receive from foreign lands' those
products which can be manufactured to
advantage here and ship its iiiiuifaoliTW
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uiicvi .u iviuigii iiiniiwin nivuuub ktio lit
toivention of expensive and annoying
intermediate shipping agencies. It will
naturally draw the raw product)! from a
wide aierof country to be manufactured
whore the' most available facilities tor
working and shipping are.
The Willamette Falls Electric com
pany, which owns the water power at
Oregon City, is greatly interested in the
prosperity of the town and it offers to
industries that will tend to build up the
city liberal inducements to locate here.
It is not necessary longer to bold out
the tempting oflur of free power and
building sites in ordor to got manufac
turing establishments to come to the
Falls City. They seek the location be
cause of tho ninny manifest advantages
it possesses. If an institution employ
ing a large number of hands wishes
to establish a plant and build up a busi
ness here mucb better terms would
he offered than to a concern requiring
8urA78u'u"oIYuIt6ifI)OK CflEOCK
but few liandii and a large amount of
(lower.
There are rruiriy manufactories to
which It in a great advantage to have
oft water to in The woolen mills and
paper mill row in oi-eration here are
among these Industrie. The Willam
ette river water It free of lime no that it
may be used in wishing and for various
chemical processes without the neces
ity of "softening." Thin is also an ad
vantage where boiler are need for gen
erating steam for cooking processes
which some branches of manufacturing
fecjuirn.
The navigability of the river both
above and la-low in a matter of great
Importance to all industries that would
locate at thia water power. Boat ply
on the river for a distance of 100 miles
love heie through a country that is
unsurpassed in agri-ultural richness.
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OF THE WILLAMETTE AT OKEGON
This fact insures a cheap and ready
means of transportation of raw materials
from the producer up the valley down
to the manufactory. Wheat, wool and
straw that are now largely manufactured
here are product that are favorably af
fected by this river transportation.
The branches of the Willamette flow
from tiie mountains on eitlicr side of the
: valley through country that is heavily
timbered with fir, cedar, ash, Cottonwood
Jelc, and the logs are readily floated
'down the stream to the Oregon City fac-
j toiiea. "Then the open river below
give water carriage to the markets of
the world for the manufactured output.
But the transportation is not by any
means limited to the river; the Southern
: Pacific railway, that passes through the
I heart of Oregon City, makes connections
! with lines that carry the products from
j every part of the valley and with the
I greatest railway center west of the
Rockies, Portland. So the question of
transportation is already solved for the
factories of Oregon City.
FI RNITI RE AND UNDERTAKING.
K, L. Ilolman is the genial proprietor
of the oldest furniture store in the city
and carries a full assortment of goods
in his line so that parties desiring
anything from a window shade to a
full housekeeping out tit may be certain
of being well supplied at his store. In
addition to his stock of new furniture
which is not shoddy goods, thrown
together for a cheap trade but. the very
best and most substantial of its kind, he
has a repairing and manufacturing shop
where he can do all kinds of repairimi
and upholstering. In the way of cheap
and tine wool mattresses he has a very
flattering trade, these goods being of his
own manufacture, well and substan
tially made. Mr. Ilolman not only a
large furniture trade, but he acts as
funeral
director and does a general
undertaking business. His stoek of
cotl'ins, caskets and trimmings is very
large and parties finding it necessary to
purchase funeral outfits will do well
to see him before buying. He is also
prepared to do embalming and keeps a
tiiat-clasa hearse.
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Some of the Institution of the j
CoUHty and City.
BIKIP8 EVE VIEW OK THE FIELD.
A Cauuty of Unsurpassed Agricultural
Itesouree.
VALUABLE TIMBER IS THE FOOTHILLS :
8cho9li and Clarebei of theTOIty It Trunipor
Ution FaciiStiea Social ind BeieT
olent ImtitntioM Mittort
Froipectife.
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The year just past has been marked
by a gathering together of industrial t
forces rather than by the inauguration
of new business enterprises in Oregon
CITY.
City and Clackamas county. The un
exampled and somewhat feverish ad
vancement of the nortwest country 'n
1889 was checked early in the following
year, though 1890 was the most prosper
oua year in the life of Oregon City if we
judge merely from the building record and
the number of manufacturing institu
tions started here But. a rapid growth
is seldom a safe one. Sooner or later
there must be a readjustment and it is
one of the strongest features of the bus
iness situation in Oregon City that it has
I read juAed itself while still advancing.
There ha been no set back here no
waiting for the tributary country to
catch np with an overbuilt city. It is
safe to say that the growth of Oregon
Cily during the past year has been pro
portionately greater than that of any
other northwestern city of its size. But
the fact that it has its forces well in hand
and under intelligent direction is of Bt ill
greater importance.
Whiln the magmfieient water power of j
the Willamette falls is the basis of the
growth of the city there are other
elements of strength that focus here.
The county has an area exceeding a
million acres. An important source of
wealth is found in the vast mineral de
posits which are known to abound in
this county. These are as yet but parti
ally developed, but enough is known to
give assurance of the fact that the day is
net far distant when the iron, coal, paint
and others ot the common as well as
precious minerals will yield large re
turns from well developed mines and
give employment directly and indirectly
to nianv thousands of hands.
Another source of wealth is the vast
area of land admirably adapted to
agriculture in all its numerous branches.
As an agricultural country Clacka
mas county cannot be surpassed.
Situated as it is at the lower end of the
broad valley of the Willamette and con
stituting a large and valuable part of that
very rich valley it has no superior any
where. An empire in itself it is destined
to be one of the richest agricultural
counties in the entire state because of its
nearness to reliable markets. Its soil is
adapted to almost every variety of pro
duct, which on account of its closeness
to market will be in demand at prices
which will always be remunerative.
The agriculturist who considers the
quality of the soil, convenience to mar
ket and future sppreciation in value of
farm lands must certainly decide in
favoi ol Clackamas county for a location
to develop ft far and 'build a borne.
Take for instance what has been a staple
commodity, wheat yielding from 20 to
60 bushel per acrs. A comparison of
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SUSPENSION BRIDGE AT OREGON
I 1n"tati"n un any selected date
U,, t,e year wjJ R,ow a difference In
favor of Oregon Cily of abont six cents
per bushel compared with other towns u;i
the valley.
An examination 01 toe records 01 ilia
state board ot agriculture would show
that whenever Clackamas county has
entered the list she has been a worthy
and frequently a successful competitor
for premiums, having taken much more
! than a proportionate share of those con
tested for. The soil of this county is
not only adapted to the production of
; fruits and vegetables of ail kinds, but it
I is extremely prolific. To ttll one un
i acquainted with these products as grown
n jjie valley of the vast quantities and
size of the specimens observed here
would tax his credulity to the utmost.
Apples, plums, pears, prunes, quincea,
peaches and cherries abound and can be
raihed in the greatest profusion aa can
all small Irults.
There is large amount of valuable
timber in Clackamas county. Most of
the river bottoms have been cleared of
forests but in the upland i and foothills
of the mountains there is a supply that
will last many years. The yellow fir is
the monarch of tho forest. However,
white fir, cedar, ash, alder, maple, oak,
cottonwood, laurel and other woods use
ful in manuiacturing exist in Urge quan
tities and in accessible locilitirjg. Mot
of the lumbering business of the county
is done by small mills that go into tlit
timber and saw the lumber on the
ground.it being easier to transp irt the
manufactured product than the saw log.
Of course the mills get as near t iwn as
tney conveniently can ana be still in
reach of timber.
OBBGON CITY.
Oregon City, the seat of justice of
Clackamas -ounty, has a population of
a tout 5,000 souls. Theie is a cluster
of communities that have names of their
own but which are practically parts of
this city. Canemah, Elyville, Park
Place, Gladstone and Paper Mill on the
east side and the village on the neit
side of the river connected with Oiegin
City by a sugension bridge are arnot-g
these, all of them within a radius of t -
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CLACKAMAS COUNTV COURT HOUS6.
miles from the Oregon City post otllee.
As the interests of all are idential they
may properly be considered as one town
which has eight public schools in which
are employed twenty teachers and
eleven churches representing nearly as
many denominations. Tne Catholics
maintain a parochial school here. The
city has two theaters and several public
halls. There are a score of social, benev
olent and fraternal societies. The
United States land office for the district
embracing eleven counties in north
western Oregon is located here. Both
the Pacific Postal and Western Union
telegraph companies have offices in Ore
gon City and there is also telephone
communication up and down the valley.
The main line of the Southern Pacific
railroad, on which three express trains
pass daily each way, runs throu.-h the
lieart of the city. Passenger steamers
ply regularly on the river between here
and Portland at intervals of about two
hours. All travel between the capital
and metropolis of the state is via Oregon
City.
The pk-toresqneness of the city i an
attraction to home seekers. The water
fall is one of rare beauty. Three blocks
from the river bank rises a rock blulT to
a height of about a hundred feet. A
number of stairways are built np the
face of the bluff so that communication
with the upper or residence part of the
town is convenient. The ground rises
still farther back from the water and on
what is called Mountain View there is a
magnificent view of the perpetually
snow clad peaks of the Cascades. The
town is regularly laid out and the streets
improved.
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