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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1905)
THE MORNING- OREGONIAN KQNDAT, JA2TCTA3iT 2, 1916. 2?.:. PORTLAND, THE METROPOLIS CIVIC AND COMMERCIAL PROGRESS OF THE WORLD'S FAIR CITY OF THE OREGON COUNTRY PORTLAND'S guests In the great year of the Fair -will find her In good condition to entertain them. Always progressive, as becomes a city In the vanguard of the westward march of the American people, the city has been making an extra effort to put her bouse in order for this great oc casion. The principal business streets have been permanently paved in the last few years; cement sidewalks have been substituted for those of wood as fast as the latter have worn out or new streets have been graded; water and sewer systems have been extend ed into the new suburbs; street rail ways have been extended up the Heights and to the surrounding coun try for a distance of over 30 miles; a new steel bridge has been built across the Willamette River at Morrison street at -a. cost of nearly $400,000; steel bridges have been stretched across the deep gulches which intersect the southern part of the city where It was not practicable to fill. them with earth, and Jn the latter case fills have been made; the Fire Department has been put on a fully paid basis and provided with an up-to-date fireboat and other new apparatus; the Police Department has been materially improved. While the municipality has thus been doing its part, individual citizens have not been idle. In the business district large stone and brick buildings have taken the place of many old frame structures which remain as relics 5f pioneer days. In the residence dis tricts the streets have been converted Into solid roadways of macadam or gravel at the expense of property-owners. Thousands of new houses have sprung up, each surrounded by a vel vety lawn, dotted or lined with abund ant, ever-blooming rose beds. Rose bushes in many places line the parking on the edge of the sidewalks, and everywhere trees of bright foliage cast their shade on warm Summer days. Portland is fortunate In the fact that PORTLAND CAPITAL IN BUSINESS, RATED BY BRADSTREET'S. 1907 firms rated at $ 50.000 or less $ 13,134.250 71 firms rated at 50,000 to $ 100.000 5,262,500 45 firms rated at 100.000 to 250.000 G.975.000 36 firms fated at 250,000 to 500,000 14,606,000 9 firms rated at 500.000 to 1,000,000 6,750.000 33 firms rated at 1,000,000 and over 61,500,000 Total .$107,627,750 the Fair falls in a year following -a long period of prosperity, when her people do not need to . count their nickels. With over $100,000,000 as act- CLEARINGS OF PORTLAND BANKS FOR FIVE YEARS. Increase Tear. Amount. Amount. P.C. 1904. 1903... 1902... 1S01... 1900... $ 1SS.939.347.7S$13.342.725 7.59 13.47 26.70 14.22 -i r rrv. ioo Ml1 OA cr? Tin ia 154.74S.110.Z3 32,615,761.14 122.127,349.09 I 15.203.321.C1 106.918.027.48 1 Partly estimated. lve capital engaged. In. .business, with Vuslnesa- -transactions as shown by bank clearings which aggregate near ly $189,000,000, with a growing volume MAIN rAVTUOX OF AGIUCCLTUBE BUILDING. j FACTS ABOUT PORTLAND. Population, estimated 125,000 Area, square miles .'. - 40 Assessed valuation $50,837,931 Actual value, estimated at 2 times assessed value 1... .$127,244,827 Paved streets, total length, miles . 1L9 Paved streets, paved in 1334, miles .". '.. 3.71 Sewers, total length, miles..... 1 :'. 122.8 Sewers built in 1904. miles 13J1 Cement sidewalks laid, total length, miles 114.7 Board sidewalks laid, total length, miles 223 Cement sidewalk laid In 1904, miles I ; 13.7 Board sidewalk laid in 1904, miles 12 Total cost of street, sewer and sidewalk Improvements in 1904, partly estimated $340,252 Water mains, miles 207 Dally supply of water, gallons 24.000.000 Steel bridges built In 1904. cost $479,000 Total cost of all permanent Improvements made in 1904. partly estimated $L543;S07 Ordinary municipal expenses for 1904, Including interest, partly es timated $1,303,719 Interest on municipal bonds at par. per cent. -. 4.140 Interest on local Improvement call bonds, per cent '. - 5.625 Number of firemen : 1S3 Number of policemen ; 5 Street railway, miles , 169 Marriages in 1904 - L4S1 Births in 1904 1633 Deaths In 1904 - 1.345 Public Schools. . School population, between ages of -i and 20 -. 24.427 School accommodation. 15.SS3 School pupils .' .- 15,000 School teachers 374 New buildings and additions In 1904 6 New accommodation in same 1.2S0 Volume of Business. Number of business "forms, according to Bradstreet's 2,101 Rating of business Arms, according to Bradstreet's $107,627,750 Bank clearings in 1904 $188,929,847 Lumber shipped by rail In 1904. feet. 179,150,000 Lumber shipped by sea to foreign ports, feet 41,491.757 Lumber shipped by sea to domestic-ports, feet. 8S.4S3.637 Wheat exported, July 1 to December 3L 1904, bushels... 4,297;290 Imports, fiscal 3ear ending June 30, 1904 $2,461,392 Exports, fiscal year ending June 30, 1904 J7.S78.772 Customs receipts, fiscal year ending June 30, 1904 $652,316 Postoffice receipts from stamp sales.. .x $378,400 Number of telephones In city 14,233 Number of telephones on long distance circuits connecting with city 189,124 Cost of new buildings erected In 1904 $3,660,2S7 ' of imports, exports and sales of its manufactures and raw - materials at home, with goo crops and good prices In all the tributary country, Portland will welcome her guests this year with a smiling face and a full pocketbook. POSTAL BUSINESS GROWS. Healthy Increase in Money-Order Dealings and Stamp Sales. F THE money order business of the Portland Postofllce continues to in crease at the same ratio as during the last months of October and November, the aggregate amount of business done In the yar 1904 will exceed $5,000,000. The business of both this department and sales of stamps expanded rapidly during the last three months, the increase being much greater In October than any pre ceding month, still greater in November than October, and continuing In the same ratio in December. At the present rate IOP OSD BASTES SSSXSTOIS. KALSEUS VALLEY. LOOKING SCK7THWX8T. of progress the stamp sales alone may approach $500,000 in the year 1905. The payment of money orders is one of the best tests of business activity, for In that form large numbers of small remit tances are made in payment for pur chases In the city by residents in the tributary country. The volume of this business in the first three quarters of 1904 was 163,220 money orders, amounting to $1,890,539.90. as compared with 154,502 orders for $1,836,900.96 in the same period of 1902. This was an increase of 9718 or ders for $43,638.94, or 2.37 per cent. But In October and November, 1904, the number of orders grew to 41,743. amount ing to $503,6280. as compared with 31.596 orders, -amounting to $407,783.07 In the cor- STAMP SALES FOR THE, MONTH. January February March April May June July August September .... October November December ...... Totals responding months of 1903. an increase of 32.11 per cent In the number and 23.5 per cent in the amount. The Increase con tinued at the same rate In December, and adding the same percentages of increase for December. 1901, over the same month in 1903. as have prevailed In October and November, the total for the last quarter will be $355,2S2.57, as compared with $632. 523.21 In the last quarter of 1903. This will hbrlng the total for 1904 to 23S.S0S In num ber and $2,739,822.47 in amount, as com pared with 211,717 orders, amounting to $2,523,424.17 In 1903. The volume of stamp sales has been $378,400.51, the -amount for December be ing estimated, an increase of $45,104.33. or 15.53 per cent over the total for 1903. The Increase has been most rapid In the last three months, being 16 per cent in October and 29.3 per cent in November. More Mall Matter Handled. This Increase was naturally accompan ied by an increase in the quantity of mall matter handled, which caused the addi tion of four clerks and two carriers to the staff during the year. But with an Increase in the volume of business has come also greater accuracy In handling it, as the following figures show: 1904. 1903. First-class mall distrib uted, pieces 16.26L86S 15.S03.la6 All other classes dlstrib uted, pieces 12,333,988 11,234.279 Special delivery dlstrib- uted. pieces 9,355 6,0 Total distributed, pieces.. 2S.607.410 27,046,203 Errors in distribution and dispatch, first class 810 755 Errors in distribution and dispatch, other classes 140 127 Pieces correct to each er ror, first class 22,604 . 20,907 Pieces correct to each er ror, other classes 89,901. ES.561 Made-up mails received, pouches 31,140 33,724 Made-up mails received, sacks 96,333 S4.603 Made-up malls dlsp'tchcd, pouches 33,833 32,723 Made-up mails disp'tched, sacks 84.229 7S.910 Better Carrier Service. The administration of Postmaster John W. Miato has feeea Barked by an ex tension of the free deliver area. untH K j now cavers the whole .city aad a. large territory beyond the city Units. He has extended Jt over the North Album dis trict. 12 or 14 blocks ln Northwest Port land and a strip of 14 or 15 "blocks east of "Union avenue and north- of Russell street. Free delivery service also extends to a territory about 2& miles square, includ ing Mount Tabor and Monta villa. He has given an additional delivery at the hotels and newspaper offices up to midnight by putting a carrier on night duty, and has increased the number of day deliveries in the business section Trots six to seven. He has Improved the service at Wood- lawn. Sellwood and Station D by arrang ing that malls collected there shall be dispatched by trains leaving the same night instead of being held over for 12 hours. He has also added two deliveries a day for the mills on the river front at University Park. He proposes next to establish a carrier system along the White House road as far as Fulton Park, which will be served from the Sellwood Station until another station Is created at Fulton. -The principal changes among the sub stations are the re-establlshment of Sta tion A, at 131 Grand avenue, as a carrier station, and the creation of station n, at 594 Washington street. These Improvements have beeri accom panied by a general reorganization of the main office and a decided Improvement In its discipline under Mr. Minto's direc tion. Finances of Ex position How Corporation and State Com mission Co-Operate In Enterprise. Tr'HEl fair is the result of the Joint ef 1 forts of the Lewis and Clark Corpora tion, which was organized by citizens of Portland and the stock of which was sub scribed by citizens of all parts of Oregon and of the State of Oregon, acting by an appointive commission, which serves witn out salary. At th inceDtion of the scheme the cor po ration secured the site and had a plan for laying It out prepared. It then car-y-tA nut Vit nlnn. irradlnir thn Grounds. laying out Centennial Park and the Ex- PORTLAND STREET RAIL WAYS. Miles of track 169 Passenger cars in use 196 Employes 1.2S4 Pa-roll for 1904 $1,019,138 Passengers carried In 1904... 28,4 ia.772 Passengers carried in 1903... 23,000,000 nerimentai Ground and Dlantlng them: laying water mains, sewers, electric wires, erecting a pumping plant and water tower, erecting a centrifugal pump to YEARS 1904 AND 1903. 1904. 1903. OS $ 31.329.251 3.10S.75 $-28,220.5M$ 3,6747 4.323.41 3.560,07 4.60S.19 4,645.93 5.409.59 4.167.16 4.676.51 3.22L71 3.120.91 3.779.83 4.118.08 28.004.11 4.930.39 23.073.12 32.236.30 3.223.03 29.0117 27.323.26 26.355.05 2S.S53.73 30.717.17 28.156.74 3.393.91 1.801.69 3.6S3.86 903.87 3.5S3.S5 29.539.39 28.735.34 Z7.S31.47 25.597.54 29.187.39! 32.475.92 S3.64S.00 34.783.29 2.936.82 4.641.78! 7.886.38' 5.000.00! 29.529.10j 29.004.ZZ 26,896.91 34.589.41 29.583.41 $J?8,4O0.5lf$ 45,104.93(($333.2S5.6S.:$ 49.306.77 raise the level of Guild's Lake and a dam to regulate that level. It has also laid out the Sunken Gardens, built the ornamen tal stairway down the terrace to the lake shore, dredged the lake where necessary. BUILDING PERMITS FOR FIVE YEARS. Tear Number. Value. 1904 2.015 $3,660,237 1903 1,611 3.552.793 1902 1.260 2.750.1S5 1901 443 1.529443 1900 3S7 936.6S5 built a bulkhead along the shore and con structed ac Esplanade along It. filled In the low lands adjoining, built the Bridge of Nations- to the pealnsula and built the music shell and boathouse on the shore. The corporation will furnish light, water, NEW BUILDINGS ERECTED IN PORTLAND. 190L 1903. Se- g ge DESCRIPTION. g3 3 . . o . o ;0 I B, ;0 ; C Brick, stone and steel... 41 $305,315 60 $L294.500 Frame business S3 ' 490.830 87 '213,509 Frame dwellings..." 1,542) 2.022.920. 1,1261 1,813,545 Repairs, alterations and additions 343 24L222N 330j 378.607 Totals 1 2.015) $3,660.28711 1.611 1 $3,552,735 power., police.-and fire protection and will pay the running expenses. The commission has erected all 'the gen. eral exhibit buildings, also the administra tion, fire and police and public comfort buildings. t will pay the entire cost of YJ. WfE MANUFACTURE all kinds 4 AlrC f hard-fiber cordage, such as iiii ana anc Sisal Rope and ffr f 8pm Harvesting Twine. Also every v . J jvl variety of American hemp goocjs. g 0 WR1TB US FOR OUR 1903 C ATA LQ QUE J& j$ Y Portland Cordage Company V tf PORTLAND SEATTLE g the Oregon exhibit and half the cost of the separate exhibits made by the coun ties of Oregon. The space needed for the state and OAtinf., aThlMt. In -. 1 I1.ll , having been set aside, the remainder was allotted free among individual exhibitors by the corporation, which will have charge of the administration of the Ex position. 'As a permanent memorial to Lewis and Clark, a building to cost about $100,000 will be built after the Fair by the State Commission and corporation jointly. The law which appropriated money for this and the St. Louis expositions provides that not to exceed $50,000 of the amount shall be on this building, provided that the corporation shall appropriate at least an equal sum and that a site shall first be donated. The question as to the site re mains undecided, the corporation having offered one In the Fair Ground, while the commission wishes to have the building erected on some site In the center of the city. Of the total sum of $500,000 appropriated by the state $50,000 was allotted to the Oregon exhibit at St. Louis and $50,000 to the Memorial Building, leaving $400,000 for the Lewis and Clark Fair. THE MINES BUILDING THE building foe exhibits of minerals and metallurgy Is of the same gen eral character as the Machinery, Electric ity and Transportation building. Its main front is towards the Plaza of States, and the three doors are approached through a colonnade of four Corinthian columns. Above each door is a circular window, tastefully ornamented. A long, high lat ticed window is. In the main wall on each side of the entrance, and there is a plain doorway in the center of each other wall. with a similar latticed window above. Flags wave from the apex of the roof. GROWTH OF PORTLAND'S POPULATION. U. S. Census 1850 821 U. S. Census I860 2,874 TT. S. Census 1870 8,263 U. S. Census 18S0 17.577 U. S. Census 1890 46,385 TJ. S. Census 1890 (including East Portland and Albina, which were annexed in 1892).. 64,739 U. S. Census 1900 90.426 Directory Census 1901 115,491 Directory Census 1902 121,265 Directory Census 1903 131,162 Directory Census 1904 145,250 The directory census Includes the suburbs of Mount Tabor, Monta villa. Russellville, St. Johns, WIlls burg, Milwaukle, Lents and Mount Scott, which have a population of at least 10,'COO. These places are not within the corporate limits of Port land, but in every other respect are part of the city. To the directory census are added 7500 each year as the number of Chinese, Japanese and others whose names are not in the directory- There are fully 5000 Chinese alone in Portland.