Morning Oregonian., February 04, 1911, Section Four, Page 7, Image 63

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GO.
T. HOOD RAIL
Map Showiug Location of
Power Development of
Mt. Hood Railway & Power Co. and
Location' of Electric Railway
From Portland to Bull Run and Sandy, Oregon.
Drainage Area, 400 Square Miles.
WAY
M
W A - 7y A " xv $ it'1'! itfaTA
Directors
E. P.CLARK
R.CCI1XIS
W. D. FENTON
C. B. SMITH
C W. MILLER
F. C FINKLE
A. H. TREGO
OFFICE: Commercial
Block, Portland, Or.
TAKE CONTRACTS
Company Is Now in a Positibn to Take Contracts for
Power in Any Quantity for Delivery Next Summer
WORKS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
4000 HORSEPOWER Steam Plant. This first unit of the auxiliary steam'plant is being built on a tract of
land purchased from the Peninsula Lumber Company and will be in operation not later than April Ull. ne
machinery is beinS installed by Chas. C. Moore & Co., Engineers, and this plant; when completed, will be
one of the most modern and up-to-date steam plants on the Pacific Coast.
60 000 HORSEPOWER Hydro-electric Power Plant on the Sandy and Bull Run Rivers. This power will be
developed as rapidly a the market demands and transmitted by a number of transmission lines to Portland
and vicinity. The first development of 16,000 horsepower at power-house No. 1 will be ready for delivery
to our prospective customers not later than September, 1911.
ELECTRIC RAILWAY SYSTEM The first section is now well under construction and will connect Port
land with the company's power plants and with the scenic beauties of Mount Hood, tapping an immense
lumber, farming and tourist district. Future extensions of this line and the building of other proposed lines
will make tributary to Portland rich and, as yet, undeveloped sections of the country.
Staff
C B. SMITH,
General Manager
E. W. BOWNESS,
Mgr. Light and
Power Departm't
SMITH, KERRY &
CHACE, Engineer.
WORKS: Bull Run, Or.,
and Portland, Or.
PORTLAND PACKING HOUSES MAKE
EXTENSIVE MARKET FOR LIVESTOCK
Farmers of Pacific Northwest Are Unable to Supply Demand for Cattle, Hogs and Sheep, and More
Stockmen Would Profit in Oregon and Neighboring States.
nnntha Allf nt th. VeT hSCaUSe fttten-
tlon Is largely turned to production of
wool and not to the feeding of the
sheep. While the demand for dressed
mutton Is more readily supplied from
Oregon and the adjoining states than
are the demands for either cattle or
hogs. It is not unusual for local slaugh
terers to reach out as far as Montana,
Idaho and even Denver during the Win
ter to secure their supply. It Is worthy
of note here for those who have over-
looked the fact in the local newspapers
that an Oregon Cotswold ram at the
recent midwinter sneep snow, nem .
the Armory in this city, defeated the
grand champion ram which had taken
first premiums at the Royal Sheep
Show In London, at the International
Livestock Show in Chicago, and in fact
everywhere he had been exhibited.
This home-grown ram Is considered by
judges, the finest in its class which has
been seen for years, and this alone
should speak volumes for Oregon, and
the possibilities in the sheep ana mut
ton industry in thi community.
Passing over statistics which would
not be of interest to the average lay
man, I wish to say that we realize
changes are taking place In this great
and growing state of Oregon, and that
while we have been passing through
a pioneering stage In the livestock and
packing industry, we feel that the
dawn Is beginning to break through
the darkness of the night and that we
may confidently look forward to the
time when the districts which are now
uninhabited and Isolated may be thriv
ing communities and great producing
factors, which will cause Portland and
Oregon to be held up to the eyes of the
entire Nation .as at least one state In
the Union which has reaped the bene
fit of her wonderful natural resources,
and as the most desirable place in all
the wide world to live and die In.
By C. r. CeJI. rrestdewl XnUm Meat Ce.
FOR the past two or three years, or
since the advent of the packing
house and stockyards was first a
theme of conversation in Fortland.
there has been a good deal of comment,
many Interviews and much speculation
as to what the future of the livestock
industry w!U be In the Taclflc North
west. There are men who doubted the
optimistic beliefs of those who had
seen the proposition worked out in oth
er places, and. strange to say, some
people most vitally Interested had
much to say against the prospects of
the livestock Industry ever amounting
to what was predicted.
For the past year, or since the Union
Stockyards In North Portland were
opened for business In September, ltot,
Portland has ruled as the highest live
stock market in the United States.
There has been a large and growing
demand from many sources, which had
never patronised Portland In previous
years, with the result that the market
has broadened into proportions which
are little short or marvelous, consider
ing the few months that -this Industry
has been in exigence.
The establishment of a modern pack
ing house In Portland with its facilities
for finding additional outlets for manu
factured product has been partly re
sponsible for this, but not altogether, as
the Impetus which the Pacific North
west, particularly Portland and Ore
gon, has gained In the last few years,
together with the rapidly-Increasing
population, has tended to create a local
demand far in excess of the supply.
The result Is that those In the livestock
Industry who have listened to the
voices of the prophets, are reaping
handsome returns for their far-sighted
policy and are obtaining prices which
were never before paid In this com
munity for cattle, hogs and sheep.
Cattle have not been produced In
quantities In keeping with the rapidly
Incrs-ed demand and for the last three
years there lias been a tendency toward
higher prices. Kacb year the slaught
erers find It more difficult to obtain
their supplies even at the handsome
prices which are being offered at this
time. This is partially due to the fact
that hay has been selling at extreme
values for some time and many of the
stockmen who formerly fed their hay
to cattle during the Winter have con
sidered It mora profitable to sell their
bar and dispose of their stock cattle.
The result of this policy Is evident,
and many of the ranges In Eastern
Oregon have been depleted and entire
herds of stock cattle sold off to buy
ers who came from Montana. Wyoming
and Nebraska, to obta- the class of
cattle which the Oregon stockmen were
a&xvons to dispose of. At the present
time light Is beginning to dawn, and
those mho have been unfortunate
enough to dispose of their stock cattle,
are realising their mistake and are
snaking efforts to get back Into the
business. It takes from two to three
and one-half years to raise a crop of
rattle, and. therefore, we cannot look
f.r much relief for some time to come
even If all the stock raisers who have
quit the buslne.a were to resume op
erations Immediately. In consequence,
the slaughterers of the Pacific North
west, not only of Portland. but. Tacoma,
Seattle and Pugct Bound territory are
forced to reach out Into adjoining
states, as distant as Southern Califor
nia. Nevada. Wyoming. Montana and
even Nebraska, to secure supplies and
care for their demand.
It seems a pity that this fact should
he true, for money that la taken from
the consumers for their meat supplies
should be turned over to the grower in
the Immediate locality for his raw
product. Thus, an endless chain of pros
perity wonld continue and the wealth
of the state would be kept at borne. Aa
It Is at present, the money which Is
STREETCAR HYSTEM 19 El
LAKCCU, The growth of Portland Is In
dicated by the spreading out of
the streetcar system operated by
the Portland Railway. Light at
Power Company. Some of the
big Items connected with the
system during the past year are
as follows:
Construction work IJ.ono.onn
New equipment $ S90.000
N u m b er of passengers ...
carried S7.000.000
Maximum number of
employes 4.5tA
Yearly payroll. :.730.000
Miles of track recon
structed Miles of new track 11
paid for the manufactured product,
fresh meat and mutton. Is largely sent
out of the community to distant states,
where the far-sighted livestock men
are reaping the benefit.
For the year 110. the average price
of live hogs at the Portland Union
Stock Yards, was 1 10.11 a 100 pounds,
or nearly 1 cents a pound higher than
the Chicago market for the same pe
riod. This should be evidence enough
to the people who are Interested that
there la a broad and rapidly expanding
market for live hogs in this section,
which Is being very poorly supplied
from local territory, and the same
things which I have said in regard to
money being sent out of the state for
cattle, applies even more strongly to
hogs, as It Is a positive fact that the
slaughterers of Portland, Tacoma, Seat
tle and Puget Sound country, import
from 80 to (5 per cent of their re
quirements of live hogs In order to take
care of their trade. Kven this does not
anywhere near supply the local de
mand for packing-house products, and
it Is necessary to import hundreds of
carloads of meats and lard, which have
been cured and manufactured In the
Kastern packing-house centers.
We feel after careful study -that the
hog Industry shows signs of Improve
ment In Oregon and Idaho and the signs
seem to point to the fact that within
the next two or three years the local
supply will be greatly increased and the
community be greatly enriched thereby.
It was not so very many years ago that
the Immensely wealthy stock-producing
states of Illinois. Iowa and Nebraska
were considered poor on account of
farmers turning their attention largely
to agriculture. Instead of livestock, but
today there Is scarcely a community n
the great Middle West which la not
prosperous, and the towns are rated
lttrgely by the amount of livestock
shipped. In direct ratio the towns that
handle the most livestock are the most
prosperous. It tends to increase ban
clearings, and as livestock is always paid
for In cash the merchants of the town
from which the livestock Is shipped feel
the benefit, as the farmers who bring
their products Into the city patronise
their home stores.
A trip through the stockralslng dis
tricts of Iowa, for instance, should con
vince the "doubting Thomas" beyond
question that the livestock Industry has
made that state whit it Is and has pro
duced great wealth, which Is evidenced
on every hand by the beautiful homes
upon the farms, automobiles owned by
the farmers, telephones, electric light
plants, manufacturing Institutions, etc.,
which have largely been the outcome of
this Industry.
Oregon is famed as one of the great
est sheep-producing slates In the Union.
While this Is true to a large extent, wo
are short of fat mutton about six-
REMARKABLE RECORD MADE BY PORTLAND BANKS.
Few If anr other cities In the United States made such a good
record in banking business during 110 as did Portlard. -At the end
of 1909 the total clearings for the .year were 1391.0S8.s90.61. an In
crease of more than 25 per cent over 1908. Last year, however, the
.r.g.7.f.ring. Jumd to S517.171.S47.97. a gain of Ili6.143 77.3.
A comparative table of clearings by
or JS.I per cent In a single year. There was not a montn in iiu our
Ing which the banking business did not exceed the corresponding month
of 1909 Even more significant Is the fact that 1911 haa opened In a
way that Indicates the mark established last year will be surpassed.
. ., r.t i.rinn hv months for the last two years
follow:
January . . .
February..
March
April......
May
Juse
July
August
September.
October.. . .
November
December..
Total. . .
1909.
.1 25.709.2s.7S
. 24. 4. 225.22
. 34.998 oi. 09
. S3. 566. 305.83
. 3.334.01.1
. 30.043.843.26
. 30. 105. 112. S3
. 30,743.876 72
. JO. 37. 07. E5
. 40.908. 548.21
. JS.403.5S4 .25
. 37.442.165.72
, 391.028.590.61
two years
1910.
; J5.055.R8a.78
36.o9a.724.7S
- 45.343,912.91
4S.275.0S3.93
41. 393. 32.13
4i.HS.018.59
43.446.020.91
41.549.703.94
44.089.573.79
48. 344. 009.35
45.076.551.83
44.854.2S5.94
1517,171.867.97
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RAILROAD
CONTRACTORS
General Offices:
213-14-15-16 Wells-Fargo Bid..
Portland, Oregon
Offices:
Spokane, Tacoma, San Fran
cisco and Portland