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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1911)
r Tnr 3IOKXIXG OREGOXIAy. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1011. j North Coast. Limited ; Now Provides Daily Through Drawing-room Compartment Open-Section Sleeping Cars N V "S WIFT AS THE I EAGLE'S I FLIGHT- . I SMOOTH AS HIS I Portland to Spokane, Missoula, Butte, Bozeman, Billings, Miles City, Dickinson, Fargo, Minneapolis and St. Paul Direct, Via Spokane, Portland & Seattle Northern Pacific Railways Along the Columbia River, Over the Scenic Highway 277- - SOARING' SCHEDULE Leave Portland -. 7:00 P.M. Arrive Spokane 6:55 A.M. Arrive Missoula ... 6:18P.M. Arrive Butte 9:18 P.M. Arrive Bozeman 12:45 A.M. Arrive Billings 4:55 A.M. Arrive Miles City 9:15 A.M. Arrive Fargo 12:57 A.M. Arrive Minneapolis 7:30 A.M. Arrive St. Paul 7:55 A.M. EQUIPMENT All Electric LlgHted Pullman Drawing-Room Sleeping Cars Seattle to Minneapolis-St. Paul (14 Sec, D. E.) Seattle to Minneapolis-St. Paul (10 Sec, D. R., 2 Compts.) Portland to Minneapolis-St. Paul (10 Sec, D. K. 2 Compts.) via S. P. & S. Ry. and Pasco. Observation-Library Car, with barber and bath, Tacoma to Minneapolis-St. Paul. Dining Car Seattle to Minneapolis-St. PauL Three Other Fast Transcontinental Flyers to the East Daily, Including Through Drawing-room and Tourist Sleeping Cars to Chicago and St. Louis Without Change. Dining Cars All the Way Tickets: 255 Morrison St., Corner Third, or Depot Ticket Office A- D. CHARLTON, AL Gen. Pass. Agent Portland. Or. A. M. CLELAND, Gen. Pass. Agent St. Paul, Minn. GREAT CAMPAIGN IS ON TO DRAW PEOPLE WEST Scores of Publicity Organizations. Under Leadership of Portland Commercial Club. Are Advertising Pacific Northwest. NO small part of Oregon's sjrowth Is due te organized exploitation work. Nearly every town of any also In the stato haa a commercial clut, and these clubs. In the larger places, employ paid secretaries. All of, these Organizations are werklnc as a unit to build up the state and the I'aciflc Northwest. Erery year their Talus Is demonstrated more clearly by ths lari r results obtained. At ths head of these publicity organi sations stands ths Portland Commercial Club. Its promotion department Is among ths pioneers In community ad vertising In ths I'nlted States. From dozens of cities representatives corns to Portland each year to study ths meth ods followed, and they Invariably leave expressing admiration for ths work that Is being accomplished. Two ex planations for ths success of Oregon's publicity are gtvsn: Everything Is man aged on a systematic basis, liberally financed and with unlimited public spirit, and. of equal Importance, ths publicity literature sent out Is founded on fact, not Imagination, and ths peopls drawn here as citizens become enthu slastle workers for their adopted com monwealth. The Oregon Development Leagus Is ths central organization In which 11 Commercial clubs are affiliated. Kach club Is an enthusiastic worker for Its wo town and ommunl t r. but. In a larger sense, esch Is striving for tha good of ths entire stste. Letters of Inquiry tr answered, booklets ars Is sued and meetings are held, with ths sole Idea of developing Oregon by brlngtng hers mors people to utilize ths great resources. Ths Portland Com mercial Club also co-operates with ths southwestern Wsshtngton Ievelopment League. Ths Tortland Commercial Club has mors than lis members. It owns a fins building, with model clubrooma. and ths promotion work Is only ons department, although the moat Import ant, of Its activities. tioma Idea of th scops of Its promotion work Is gained from the. fart that It Is now spendinr l!.0 a year for this pur pose. Hut this Item does not show all: much valuable service la dons ths city and stats which does not cost a cent. Ths Commercial Club Is a factor In en rouragtag all worthy public enter prises: It keeps ths citizens alert for opportunities to help Portland and to help Oregon. Ilr far the largest Item of ex pen is of ths Commercial Club Is for adver tising. About !. a month Is spent for newspaper and magazine advertise ments railing attention t Oregon. These advertisements rangs from occa sional fall pages In leading periodicals to brief reading notices In ths classi fied columns In scores of newspapers, both In America and abroad. Thee advertisements bring to Port land a hug volume of mall. In Sum mer from i to li letters of Inquiry ars received esch week, while In Winter ths number Is far larger. All of these letters ars answered by ths Commer cial Club. If an answer Is required. Ons secretary and war stenographers ars kept constantly busy sending out Information to ths writers, stl of whom have soma mors or Isss deflnlts Inten tion to make Oregon their home. In case Inquiry Is ma. I concerning soma particular part of ths state, ths nsms of ths writer Is sent to ths nearest commercial club. Deeldes all these personal letters, thousands of Oregon booklets ars seat out monthly. These publications, far the roost part, ars prepared by ths vari ous towns and counties in co-operation with the publicity department of the Harrlman lines In Oregon. They ars well written, beautifully illustrated and convey to peopls In the Kaat and elsewhers a dear Idea of conditions In Oregon. Another valuable asset In ths Portland Commercial Club's work has been Ths New Tear's Oregonlan. Each year thousands of numbers of ths An nual ars sent out to spread Information about Orsgon. Ons of ths most valuable; features of ths promotion department la a press bureau, maintained to send news items to newspapers and magazines through out ths entire country. I'nllke most press bureaus, this one never asks for ths publication of any Item. Instead. It Is operated with tba Idea of supplying articles that will be of value and gladly printed on their merit by pub lications served. Some of ths leading magazines havs printed articles and pictures furnished by ths press bureau. Prom cllpptnga received by the club It Is known that fully 200 columns a month ars filled by matter sent out by ths press bureau. On every Item ths Portland date Una appears and ths ar ticles sre such as to convsy valuable Information about this stats. Ths press bureau has been In operation about It months and Is so successful that Its fores may soon be enlarged. Another work dons regularly by the Commerclsl Club Is the collection of Oregon exhibits to be sent East. These ars usually flnancad by ths railroads and set up by the Portland Chamber of Commerce. Th Commercial Club devotes Its attention to securing ma terial through the co-operaUn of other bodies In ths stats. LMep'ays an mads at ths stats fairs !n Mlnnetola. Iowa. Wisconsin. Illinois. Indiana and Ohio, and at ths land shows In Chi cago. Ft. Louis. Cincinnati and Pitts burg. Ths club also helps prepare ster-eoptk-on sKdes for lectures under ths auspices of ths railroads, and It la prob able there Is not a week day from ens vear'a end to another that ons or mors lectures on Oregon ars not being given In aoma part of tha country. A convention bureau Is also msln talned by the commercial Club, for the purpose of bringing to this city gather ings of national Importance. Portland haa already won fame as a convention haul, and with the erection ot a huge auditorium, a now projected, will be In better position than ever before to entertain these gatherings. Among; ths national conventions it Is hoped to entertain next year are the Grand Army. Spanish War Veterans and Elks. The Commercial Club takes an Impor tant part In entertaining theso conven tions and other groups of citizens thst corns to the city. Excursions from neighboring cities are always warm'y greeted. The Commercial Club also organizes frequent excursions to visit cities In Oregon. Washington and Cali fornia. Excursions wers sent out Ihe past year to Southern Oregon. Salem Cherry Fair. Hood River. Albany Apple Show. Clark County Fair and. Hoqulam, Wash, and a trip will soon ba organ ized to Invada Central Oregon. As an exampls of the methods fol lowed by ths Commercial Club In call ing attention to Oregon may ba men tioned literary contest that recently closed. Five thousand dollars in prizes was offered for the best articles on Oregon published outslds ths state. "Ths aim of tha Commercial Club's publicity department la to promote tlis Interests of the entire Pacific Coast." said C C. Chapman, manager of that work. "While our first efforts ars for Oregon, we never miss an opportu nity to help ths neighboring states In any way ws can. "In all our publications and corre spondence we are careful not to over stats the advantages here. We should rather say too little than too much. Oregon can stick to the truth and then not be able to tell half the story. Wo are trying to give Inquirers what they want most definite facts, and for that purpose ws are filing a vast amount of detailed information and statistics about Oregon." O. F. Johnson la chairman, of the promotion committee and C. H. Wll- , Hams Is manager of the press bureau. Ths msmbers of ths promotion commit tee are: Theodore B. Wilcox. W. M. Ladd. A. L Jlllls. J. C. Alnsworth. B. P. Josselyn. Walter F. BurrelU E. L. Thompson. I. N. Flelschnsr. C. 3. Jack son. A. H. Pevers. Frank R. Kerr. W. F. Woodward. TO J. Hofmann. H. Beck wit h and Tom lUchardson. timbered area of Central Oregon to ths town of Crescent, formerly known as Odell. and then takes a more north westerly route through the mountains to the Willamette Valleys The work at the Natron end Is through a mountain ous district and It also has Involved heavy construction. Crescent Is directly south of Red mond and U la at Crescent that the Deschutes Railroad, also a Harrlman line, which Is building up the Des chutes Canyon from the main line of the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co. will Join the allied road. It t understood that recently an ad ditional contract for 15 miles of grad ing was let in the Klamath Indian Reservation and that an additional con tract at the western end of the gap has also been awarded. From San Fran cisco Information Indicates that worlc does not yet cover all the mileage in the newly let contract, but that the total actually under way or practically completed covers SO miles between Klamath Falls and Natron. The construction of the road Is most Important to Portland In the fact that It will open to railway transportation a large area of new territory to the Jobbing- and commercial Interests. In ad- dltion It will place Klamath Falls and the prosperous stock and Irrigated sec tion tributary to that city more than 175 miles nearer to Portland by rail The route to Klamath Falls from Port land now takes the traveler Into North ern California, where he must double back from Weed. The new road will place Klamath Falls on the direct main route to California. Between Portland and San Francisco the running time of passenger trains will probably be materially reduced upon completion of the cutoff, as the result of elimination of the heaviest grades on the Shasta route. The 150 miles of new road necessarj to complete the cutoff, it la estimated, will cost about $4.J240.000. Turkey-Raining Is Profitable. Turkey raisins has assumed con siderable proportions In Western Ore gon. Doufclas County alone produces more turkeys than are produced In each of several Eastern States. During the past two years farmers in Douglas county received for ihelr turkeys 23 and 24 cents a pound dressed. Farmers were paid In cash as much as S7 for one turkey. It has been a profitable. In dustry for many years in Western Oregon. NATRON CUTOFF WILL SHORTEN ROUTE SOUTH Work Progresses Steadily on New Main Line of Southern Pacific, and 70 Miles Is Practically Completed. CONSTKt'CTION work has been In progress during the past year 6n 7i miles of Southern Pacific rail road that ultimately will form part of the main line between Portland and Kan Francisco, shortening the Shasta Routs 10 miles and reducing the maxi mum grades from l.J per cent to l.S per cent. . This road is what is commonly known as th Klamatlr-Natron cutoff. The cutoff, however, really has Ita south ern terminus at Weed, CaU t( mi'.es south of Klamath Falls. Dr., and the road between those two points is com pleted and In operation. - Recently new contracts have been let and tha construction work Is now In progress northerly from Klamath Falls for a distance of about 40 miles and southerly from Natron, a point a short distance west and south of Eu gene, for a distance of about 40 miles. The mileage between Klamath Falls) and Natron will be about 150. At each end of the construction work the road la practically completed for 15 Vs miles, or 70 miles In all. The work Is under the direction of th chief engineer of the Southern Pa cific William Hood, whose office ie in San Francisco. Reports from the gen eral offices In the California metropo lis are Indefinite as to when the road will be completed or contracts let for the construction of the Intervening link. During all of the past year the. Utah Construction Company was at work on the 70 miles of road then under con tract and on portions of It work pro gressed day and night. Some of the construction Is of a very heavy char acter and has proceeded slowly. The road northerly from Klamath Fall skirts the eastern shore of Klamath Lake, a distance of more than 40 miles, and for much of that distance the grade has been blasted from solid rock. The line extends northerly through the Klamath Indian Reservation and the San Francisco & Portland Steamship Go. Portland & Asiatic Steamship Co. if. 3r " . sr iataa , L New Steamers: DEAR, DEAVfR, ROSE CITY SAN FRANCISCO PORTLAND STEAMSHIP CO. COLUMBIA RIVER SCENIC ROUTE NEW THROUGH EXPRESS SERVICE BETWEEN PORTLAND. SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES Keeping pace with the rapid development of the Pacific coast, the service has been extended through to Los Angeles (via San Francisco), and with sailings every five days of the large new steamers, "Bear," "Beaver" and "Hose City," the facilities for caring for the travel ing public are better than ever before. These ships are the newest, most modern and comfortable in the coast service. Equipped with wireless, they are at all times in touch with shore; the use of oil for fuel eliminates coal dust, soot and cinders. Rates are less than by rail, include berth and meals, and the table is not surpassed on any of the large trans-Pacifie liners. Tourists purchasing tickets at interior rail points can have same routed via this line, thereby saving cost of Pullman and dining-car service. For reservations and farther information apply to J W. RANSOM, Agent Ainsworth Dock, Portland H. G. SMITH. City Ticket Agent 142 Third St., Portland A. G. D. KEERELL, Gen. Pass. Agt., Flood Building, San Francisco PORTLAND & ASIATIC STEAM SHIP CO. STEAMERS Rygja, Hercules, Henrik Ibsen and Strathlyon SAILING BETWEEN Portland, Yokohama, Kobe Moji and Hongkong For rates and other information apply to J. W. RANSOM, Agent B. C. HOWARD, Agent W. W. CAMPBELL, Agent WURIU SHOKWAL, Agent HOLME, RINGER & CO., Agents R. C. MORTON, Agent F. J. HALTON, Agent '. . Portland . .Yokohama Kobe Moji . . .Nagasaki . . . Shanghai . .Hongkong
