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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1911)
TERRITORY NORTH OF COLUMBIA IS WEALTHY Cities and Rural Districts of Southern Washington Are Gaining in Population and Improving Rapidly. N THE way prosrress. tr of Improvement and ist year haa been tha e;ratest In tha hltory of S?uth- weatern ViiI.Id(1oi. Mora mney oaa been espended. mora bul!dln-s can atracted In tha cities, mora Industries located, and mora population haa coma than during any previous lcnth of time. Vancouver la tha renter of tha Con gressional Plstrt.-l. the most southerly city In Washington, and It la now In tha 10.100 population class. Tha popula tion cf Clark County la mora than !.oV. and It haa thla year beeo raleed to tha ninth class. Mora than $2.MMT baa been spent In Improvements In Vancouver and Clark County during the paai ytar. Moat cf thla money waa spent In ard around Vancouver, the county s-ac. and oldest rlly In tha atate. The bulMlne; In tha city haa been unprecedented, and there are rosy priepecta for even great er development durlne; 111. Thli part f tha atata la Juat coram Into Its wn. Included In ame of toe Improve rr.enta made here lat year are: St. Joseph's Hospital, built at a coat of I--eo. aurcae.ltnic old St Joseph's Hoar-Hal. Ue first one establish.! in na Northwest In l'H by tha Slstara of Charity of Provl lence. and tha te.e phona eretera ha been rebu-lt at a coat of l.0no. On stre't Improre menta nearly tZnS waa a;.ent by tha city, and for 1511 th eatlmata of Im provements to ba made by ancouver la more than llli.aoo: tha Spokane. Portland A Seattle llallroad Company haa apenl i:oo.- during the last year la Increasing tha alia of Its round house, mat-nine ahDs. yard nd -ir repair shops; the Vancouver Traction Company baa bulit seven mllea of elec tric Una to S'.fton. toe first Infrurban Una In Southwestern Wahlne;ton. Feveral i:i.00 and $JO.O1 blocka are now under prorese of ronatructlon. Tha Flttork Jt Leadbetter Lumber Company baa made too In Improve ments, rMefiy In Uocka and power plant. The !u liota Lumbar Company haa apant IIO.DOO In bettering Ita equip ment. Tha Vancourer Waterworks Company haa espended. at lowest esti mate. jo.0)) In improving Ita ayatam. llldgetjeld. In tba northwestern part of tha county, baa been flourishing and laat month formally opened a 115.000 chcml building. Several other large buildings have been erected during tha paat year and a number of Industries hav. been Induced to locate there. In Washougal a achool building coat In tls.ooo waa dedicated tha flrat of January: e-veral buslnese blocka wera completed dunn tha year, and tha town aper.t many thouaande of dollars In Improving Ita streets and building concrete sidewalks. la Camaa tha Crown Pulp Paper Company apent from I50.CUO to llOrt. 000 In machinery and betterment, and tha city waa for the flrat fma lighted with electricity. Many municipal Im provementa were made and the popu lation haa Inrr-ased at a rapid rata. Several amaller towns In thla county have grown perceptibly during the year Juat cloaed and all have mad, much Improvement. Yacolt hasamu- Portland Spends $100,000 for Crematory Uarbage laetaeralar. . 1 " gallic Flaal Teat. Ilaa Capacity tor Uaralag iy Ta at Ketaaa Dally. PORTLAND la apartng no effort to re main, aa It la today, tha moat health ful city In tha United States. One ac compllahment of tha laat year In tha Una cf aanltallon waa the erection of a t""" garbage crematory. Thla plnt waa out recently computed, and ; etent capacity to take car. of all tha city's refuse. It la now 'undergoing a Joard began planning lor me new a-, age crematory before construction was egun. Tha varloue types of Inclne atore In ail tha principal cities wer. final teat. . ... It waa aeveral yeara after the Health Board began planning for the new gar- bi b atudled and tha Information gained waa used In designing the Portland P' Th. membera of the Health Ijoard and Supanntandent Napier are confldent that they have a crematory that will meat every need for tha preient and la.t for many yeara. . , . Tha Totera authorized a bond Uaua of f 160 000 for tha erection cf tha crema tory! 'hen Mayor Simon began Ma ad mlnlatratlon. however, he decided that tha city could avoid eelllng tha bonda and take tba money from the general fund. Thla couraa waa followed and a contract let for the pl"t at a coat of m00. although the loweet eatlmata cn It had been $li:.000. Work wa atarted May 6 laat. and tha Incinerator eumpleted only recently. The crematory la of tha Engllan hlgh tamperature deatructlon type, in a gen eral way It la modeled after planta In New Tork City and Milwaukee, al though certain modlflcatlona have been ma.!e to meat local requirement. Tha furnace are of two unlta. built of con crete an.l brtck. with IS-tr.ch walla lined with nlc Inchee cf Scotch llrebrlck. There are two botlera In which water la heated for eterllUtng tha plant. Tha alia la at t;utld a Lake, whera tha old crematory waa located. The city owna Ave acrea of low ground and lake there, and ahra from tha crematory ar uaed In making a Ail. When thla fill I completed th city will hava a valuable tract for municipal barn a or other bui:dlngs- A feature of th plant la that no ashea are drawn Into the firing-room but drop from the furnacca directly Into dump cars. Af th aarae time th heat and amok ar drawn back Into the furnace by fana. There ar eight cars, each of which I handled by on man. Th building Is three atorles high, of reinforced concrete, with a steal roof overlaid with tile. Tha chimney of ra dial brtck riaee ISO feet above tha firing room Door and Ita Internal dlamater at tha top la six feet. Hecaua of the high temperature at which garbage la de atroyed. absolutely no odor la given off by th plant. Th new crematory ha a capacity for burning ISO ton a day and can receive that amount within 10 hours. Prac tically thla much refus from th entlr city Is received now. and th Health Board has plans nnder way for a second crematory on tha tast Side. With tbat constructed, tha needs of both parte of tha city will b met for many yeara Th location of thla aecocd plant haa not yet been decided on. Garbage Is now collected In Portland under the licence system, each household contracting with soma private party for its removal. This system has not given genera! satisfaction, and two aub atttutea ar proposed, contract and mu nicipal collection. Th first of these Is said to have been found objectionable In other cltlea. Superintendent Napier la In favor of municipal collection. "Th object or t.1- city la to get all th garbage." said Mr. Napier recently. Th only way this can ba accomplished 1 by municipal collection. Under eith er th contract or license system th work Is never don thoroughly. As a matter of fact, municipal collecting Is also tha moat economical. Tba cost of collection ahould not be mora than 11.60 a ton." ntrlpal water plant coating $10,000. Centralis, styled tha "Hub City," pos sesses the distinction of being th fastest-growing city In th state. Dur ing the paat decad th census shows that Centralla Increased almost 400 per cent. Th nam "Hub City" Is de rived from th fact tliut It Is the hub of aa Imaglnarv wheel, tha spokes of which reach Tacoma. Seattle. North Yakima. Vancouver. Portland. South Bend. Aberdeen and Olynipla. This city Is a railroad center of th Northern Pacific the Urays Harbor and Soutb I(nd branchea of the same, th Oregon-Washington Railway A Navi gation Company, th Great Northern, the Tono branch of tha same l'ne. th Central'a Kaatern and the Tacoma. Olympla A Chehalls Valley Railway. Chehalla and Centralla are bound to gether by the Twin City Electric A Power Company, which runs an elec tric line between th two rival cltlea. which aome day will bo mergod. from preaent ndlcatlona. The railroad pay roll In Centralla Is 160.000 a month. Plans are already prepared for a onion depot to coat ISO. 000; and to be bulit aoon. It Is rumored that th Oregon-Washington Railway A Navi gation Company Intends to build round houses and machine shops there. Nearly a mile of Centralla'a atreet war paved with vltrined brick during tha paat year, making more than two mllea of paved streets now. More than a mile mor will be paved thla year. During tha year several enterprises were located In Centralla. including a brick and til factory; canning fac tory, veneering plant. two novelty stores, two grocery atores. dry goods store, two new roal mines and several smaller establishments. Th population of Centralla Is 8500. Aberdeen Is another thriving city In Washington, and has a population of If.OoO. Ten years ago sh had but S767. During 110 street Improvements to th extent of &0.000 were made, and building permit aggregating mor than 1500.000. Th annual pay roll is Il.i00.000. Timber tributary to Aber deen Is estimated to be 100.000.000.600 feet. Th railroad paastng through Aber deen are th Northern Pacific, tha Union Paclflo. Chicago. Milwaukee A ft. Paul. Southern Pa. -inc. North Pank, Uravs Harbor Railway A Light Com pany, l'aaaenger and freight steamers ply between Aberdeen and all Pacific Coast points. During a year mor than 1000 rese!a enter and clear thla port. The Government haa appropri ated nearly U.Ooo.000 for liuprove menta of Grays Harbor. Th total cut of lumber In 110 waa 19S.42S.143 feet. The atreet Improvements In 110 In 'Abordeen cost li0.J04. A contract haa been let to dredge Chehall- River to a depth of 10 feet for on mil, 100 feet wide, for I200.O00. Chehalla closed the most prosperoua year In Ita history, but th business men and citixena look forward to bet ter things In .311. Th city spent In 110 and will spend In 111 fur pub lic Improvements nearly a quarter of a million dollars. Including a Jjo.000 aewar and mor than a nilie of bltu llthlc pavement. Twelv blocks of hard-surface pavement are already contracted for and municipal Improve ments already atarted thla year amount to 1S6.000. The population of Chehalls Is 6S00, but t banks hava on deposit mor than 11.323.00. Th poatofrico re ceipts during 110 showed a steady In crease, being 117.003. or fZOGS mor than 10. Hundreds of small resi dences snd cottages have bean built during th year by workmen, who own their own homes In many cases. Many beautiful residences hav also been built, ranging In price from J 2000 to t0u0. Chehalla Is situated In the center of a rich, dairy, farming and frult-ralslng district, and hundreda of new settlers are coming In and buying small tracts of lsnd and settling up th adjacent country to tha city. Thlinket Packing Co. Cannery at Fnnter Bay. Alaska. Salmon Brands Sea Rose" Hish-Grada Red Alaska. "Tepee." Ftandard Medium Red. "Buster." "Peasant." "Thlinket." Best Orada Pink. "Sawanee." Best Grade Chum. We Guarantee t Our Brands J as. T. Barron. Pre, and Managsr. M. G. Munley, Secretary. C T. Whitney. Mgr. Biles Dept. Main Office: Wells, Fargo & Co. Building, Portland, Oregon. KING OF THE WOODS POWER DRAG SAW Price a.ir.0 With 4-11. P. Engine. s''. 49 Card dasrsel la One Day. Get Our New 1011 Caialogu. Reierson Machinery Co. POKTLANI. OKKGOK. Bissinger & Co. HIDES i . . and t iv WOOL Front and Salmon Streets Portland, Oregon ftaa rraaetsco. Cel. Victoria, B. c. Reno. Nevada. Spokane. Waah. bait Lake, rtah. Heattle. Wash. Ilolsa, Idaho. The Pride f Portland American Automatic (or Nelson) Air-Controlled Safety Fender No better evidence of the fact that the City of Portland leads the world in civic progress could possibly be fur nished than is shown in the official adoption of the best safety streetcar fender in the world. After three years' faithful and pains 'taking investigation of the subject, during which time more than thirty different devices were tested, includ ing all the so-called standard fenders, the Nelson Automatic Air-Controlled streetcar fender was adopted as the best safety device of the kind ever produced. The Nelson Air Fender stands in a class by itself as p. result of the most rigid competitive tests the world has ever seen. The only Air-Controlled Streetcar Fen der in the World. The Air Fender is a more important life saving device than tho airbrake. Approved and indorsed by every me chanic and safety appliance expert . who has examined it, the Nelson Air Fender stands today without a real competitor in the fender field. The Nelson Air-Controlled Fender is declared by experts to be as far ahead of all other fenders manufactured as the airbrake is ahead of the old hand brake. Portland Leads Others Must Follow. Daily Demonstrations of tho Nelson Air Fender are being given on the main floorNo. 264 Stark street, in the Rail way Exchange Building. Those dem onstrations are interesting and in structive, and every visitor becomes a Booster, both for the fender and the progressive city that has adopted it. If you want to know more about this wonderful safety device, address, American Automatic Fender Company 810 Chamber of Commerce Building Portland, Oregon orchards .s;;0 TIES. Parties wishing reliable In formation about orchard tracts and cheap farm and dairy land In Benton and Linn Counties, writ or call on It. W. llolemaa. Cash ier, Monroe Sttate Bank, Monroe, or. The Dreyman Leather Co. WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS HARNESS AND SADDLES Jobbers of Saddlery, Hardware, Horse Goods, Leather, Findings and Shoe Store Supplies N. E. Cor. Fifth and Oak Streets, Portland, Oregon THE LEADING CEREAL FOODS OP THE PACIFIC COAST aTiZr mr - ALBERS BROS. MILLING GO. CEREAL MILLERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN GRAIN. IIAY, FLOUR AND FEED 7" y HJasEiaMiiusficd i ? oirruM. oci MILLS AND WAREHOUSES Portland, Or. Seattle, Wash. Tacoma, Wash. San Francisco. fell THEO. BERGMANN SHOE MFG. CO. (Incorporated.) Manufacturers of THE CELEBRATED BERGMANN SHOE ?"- 9BS THE STRONGEST AND NEAREST WATER-PROOF SHOES MADE FOR LOGGERS, CRUISERS, PROS PECTORS AND MILL, MEN 621 Thurman Street Portland, Oregon Phoaesi Mala 721 A 1715 Vitrified, Salt-Glazed SEWER PIPE Is the only perfect sewer material, with which all others are com pared, but which no other can equal. Vitrified Salt Glazed Sewer Pipe is never offered or sold as a substi tute. It is the standard material for sewers the only sewer mate rial that is alwa3;s sanitary. WESTERN CLAY MANUFACTURING CO. 507-8 Beck Building, Portland, Oregon iff :'jS'wm'! ft1" V'l'iBiihiiri iiimiiwh " ' Jp01 The J. J. Ross Mill Furnishing Co. Headquarters for FLOUR MILL, FEED MILL AND GRAIN CLEANING MACHINERY, ETC. Carry in stork and mannfacture a complete line of Mill Supplies. Agents for Xordyke and Marmon Company. 65 FRONT STREET. PORTLAND, OREGON. LOOK HERE! IF YOU DON'T BUY FROM US WE BOTH LOSE SOMETHING You may be thinking: of putting- In new machinery or -changing your present machinery around. If you are, take it up with our engineers; let ua give you tha benefit of their experience without cost to you. We are tha manufacturers of Scales, Gasoline Engines. Steam Pumps. Electrical Machinery. Railroad Supplies. Please ask for our catalogue or call and sea us. Fairbanks, Morse & Co. 95 First Street, Portland, Oregon JOHN CLARK SADDLERY CO. CLAKK'S BICKJNG KOIX. ratented Mar tU 1901. WHOLESALE SADDLERY PORTLAND, OREGON EMPORIUM OF FASHION IN THE WEST FOR HIGH GRADE SADDLES AND ALL NOVELTIES USED BY COWBOYS ON THE RANGE. "The Saddle Roll." aa Illustrated, im the only one that haa ever been Invented and patented or placed on tha market that Is th. correct article to be uaed on any Mexican style or "Roush Rider" aaddie, and is the only Bucking Roll mad. that comes np to the requirements for which it was Intended. Zimmerman-Wells-Brown Co. MACHINERY ENGINEERS' SUPPLIES Second and Ash Streets, Portland, Oregon FARMERS, TEAMSTERS, HORSEMEN LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST WHEN IN NEED OF HORSE COLLARS. THE SHARK EY FISH-BRAND COLLAR is recognised the standard of perfection on the Pacific Coast, and is to dar without a rival for shape, material and wearing qualities, thus ad mitting; the superiority of the Fish Brand Collar. If your denier will not supply you. write us. We will see why. Always look for the label on each collar. P. SHARKEY & SON NOTHING BUT HORSE COLLARS. Vnioa Avenue. Portland, Orefton. J. A. STROWBRIDGE LEATHER CO LEATHER and FINDINGS 1S FROST STREET. ESTABLISHED 1S58. MARION VERSTEEG Phone East 2510 G. N. VERSTEEG Phone East 2651 Versteeg Brothers MANUFACTURERS OF BRICK Portland, Oregon 33D AND THOMPSON STS. Phone East 4474
