Morning Oregonian., January 01, 1907, Page 8, Image 8

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PANORAMIC VIEWS SHOWING CITY OF PORTLAND AS IT NOW
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A STRIKING contrast is
shown, in the panoramic
views of Portland past and
Portland present on these
pages. Nothing could more em
phatically tell of the cityja de-'
velopmen't and progress than
these pictures of the old and the
new. Portland in 1838 and Port- ,
land in 1907 the transformation
from a village to a great citj'; the
change of an outpost of pioneer
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life into a 20th century metropo
lis; the passing of a community
living -within itself and the advent
of the financial, industrial and
commercial center of the great
Pacific Northwest.
The two views of Portland tell
the story of 48 years of growth.
In part it has been a rapid growth
as the illustrations indicate, but at
first it was slow and in spite o'
adverse conditions. The site se-
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- DLVO OF TODAY.
lected for Portland was the nat
ural location for a great city, but
at first the town's progress was
beset by all the handicaps of the
frontier. Its complete isolation
from the civilization of the East
and lack of transportation facili
ties were adverse conditions that
had to be overcome. Yet Portland
advanced, as was its destiny at
first it was at the pace of the snail,
but later with strong strides and
with the confidence bom of un
limited resources. Oregon sent her
many products from all parts of
the world, drawing' people with
the magnetism of superior ad
vantages, and Portland's fame,
both as a business and residence
city, grew steadily.
While the two panoramas here
with presented, are. taken from-entirely
different viewpoints they
BANK CLEARINGS SHOW PORTLAND'S PROGRESS
DURING PAST DECADE.
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Mar
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Autrot -September
October . .
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28,060,277.94
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22,804,686.91
22,581.008.03
25,098.601). 80
29,642,671.28
85,589. 801.0O
28,508,000.00
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19, '54,154.47
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24,135.178.41 .
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21.136,004.83
Total. (286,662,595.4 228,102,712.9
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THE OREGOXTAV Bt"ITJDI"Q OF 1S5J.
, show the same 'district. ' The pic
ture of Portland todajr was taken
from a point southwest' of the
principal business section. The
old panorama was made from the
east bank of tiro "Willamette, al-.
most exactly at the present foot
o.2 East Morrison street, where
now rests the approach of the
city's finest bridge. It shows' all
there was of Poitland in 1858, as
there was then no settlement on
the east side of the river opposite
the city. The cut is reproduced
from a lithograph made by Kuchel
& Eresel, of San Francisco, for S.
J. McCormick, proprietor of the
first bookstore in Portland. A
copy of the original is in posses
sion of the Oregon Historical So
ciety. ,
As is seen in the lower picture,
pioneer Portland- was built at
1900.
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12,042,343.27
10.498.704.40
10,623,622.96
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4.87 1.687.74
8.798,111.70
4.657,618.45
4.491,343.54
6.281.883.45
4.9K4.0B0.02
5.079.753.01
4.748,71 1.99
4.527.024.54
5.656.7SS.45
5,502.057.69
5,260.572.18
$106,918,027.48 58,842,254.61
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the water's edge, extending
back only a short distance
from the river. The site of
the city originally was' a ' dense
forest, which disappeared slowly
' before the encroachments of the
city. In 1858, when this picture
was taken,' Front street was still
the principal business thorough
fare of Portland, but for the
greater part of its length was built
up only on the West Side. The
' buildings which stand out most
plainly in the picture, facing Vho
river, are the stores along Front
street. .-
The edge of the forest just be
hind the town followed in a gen
eral way. the line of what is now
Park street. All the large area
between Park street and Portland
Heights, now covered with sub
stantial business blocks and fine
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residences, was then thickly tim-
bered. Only a few years earlier
the forest came much nearer the
river.
The first sawmill was established
in Portland in 1850, and for sev
eral years secured its logs in the
immediate vicinity of Fourth and
Jefferson streets, where 'the pres
ent City Hall stands. This mill is
shown in the picture on Jefferson
street, near the river. With an
other small mill, also constructed
during the '50s, it was the nucleus
of Portland's lumber industrv,
which has grown to be the largest
of any seaport in the world.
Pioneers who are still living can
point out on the Jithograph scenes
with which they were once famil
iar, and can draw comparisons
with the improvements which have
been made on each individual site.
, T.rFTRftOX MADISON MA1X - RAUtOW
APPEARS
Ad
To those who know Portland only
as it is today, it is hard to grasp
the situation portrayed in the old
cut, or even 1r realize that tho
present city of skyscrapers was
once a village of lit1lj wooden
buildings. In 1858 there were
very few brick building in Port
land, and those small. The first
one was built in 185.' by William
S. Ladd, on the west sidr of Front
street, between Stark and Wash
ington. The largest building shown in
the lithograph is the old Canton
House, for many years the leading
hotel of Portland. It stood at
Front and Washington streets, and
is to be found almost in the eentr'f
of the picture. Washington street,
which, then extended only a few
blocks back into the forest, is now
the ci(3r's leading business thor-