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MAJOR JOBBING TERRITORY SERVED FROM PORTLAND. (SPECIAL LINES OF GOODS DISTRIBUTED FROM PORTLAND ARE
SOLD ALSO IN WYOMING, COLORADO, UTAH, CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA, TEXAS, ALASKA AND THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.)
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WHERE there is permanent, substantial wealth, there you will find a center of distribution, for the jobbing busi
ness cannot be built upon the shifting sands of instability. Rather it must lean to the conservative than to
the speculative in its development, for the jobber's profits are short and his road long.
Portland began many years ago to be the assembling depot for supplies necessary to the home and economic welfare
of a vast territory, now stretching to the north, south and far eastward 254,000 square miles, and the source of stocks
for dealers whose number has become legion.
Portland's central location, yet with water competition, has brought advantageous transportation costs.
Portland's well-established houses, many over half a century in the trade, have built good will and confidence into
their accounts.
Credit, always a vital factor in merchandising, finds its satisfactory solution in the financial strength of the local jobbing
houses, and yet a step beyond, in the banking institutions, which have grown wise as well as large in the science of
judiciously handling this highly-specialized business.
And yet but few realize the magnitude of transactions which travel the domestic trade lines to Portland.
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Perhaps You Know-
that Portland has the largest dry goods distributing house on the Pacific Coast.
-that its wholesale grocery business has no superior in scope west of the Mis
souri River.
that the hardware trade also equals the largest in the Sunset half of the con
tinent. that its flour and cereal business reaches astounding proportions.
that in Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, Utah,
California, Nevada, the Hawaiian Islands and Alaska a great many of Portland's
jobbing lines are as well-known as in Oregon. In a few instances even more so.
: -that Portland is the farm implement sales center of the West.
that its furniture distribution is unequaled any place in the West and in but
few places in the country.
r that it excels in amount of automobile distribution.
that it ranks among the foremost western distributing points for shoes, men's
furnishings, ladies' ready-to-wear, home furnishings, knit goods, silk, toys and sta
tionery; and in paper, woodenware, crockery, harness, saddlery and plumbing sup
plies it also stands to the fore.
that its sales and shipments of candy cover an ever-widening area in increasing
quantities.
that it is the Northwestern distributing center for many great nationally adver
tised products, such as aluminum cooking utensils, rubber, paints, varnishes, steel
products, stoves, electric appliances, branded hardware, and many other lines too
numerous to mention.
One hundred and sixty jobbing houses handle approximately half a hundred dis
tinct lines of merchandise out of Portland.
Buyers' week, an event which brings the dealers' representatives from all parts
of the West to a centralized mart of trade, was inaugurated in Portland in 1913, the
first occasion of its kind on the Pacific Coast. Nor has it lost that position, due to
it by right of discovery, for its supremacy has been maintained as the mecca toward
which the pilgrimage of buyers wends its way each year in ever-increasing numbers.
Among the many products shipped from Portland are the following, together
with the approximate number of houses engaged in their distribution:
Autos 13
Auto Supplies 4
Bags, Burlap, Twine, etc.. . 2
Books 1
Brooms 1
Cereals, Flour, Feed 25
Cigars 4
Coffee, Teas, etc......... 2
Confections 4
Crockery 2
Cooking Utensils 2
Drugs 5
Dry Goods 1
Electric Supplies ... 1 ... . 4
Farm Implements 2
Fire Apparatus 1
Fixtures 1
Furnishing Goods 3
Furniture, Mattresses, etc.,
(including manufactur
ers who job their own
lines) 21
Groceries 8
Hardware 9
Jewelry 5
Knitted Wear 1
Ladies' Wear 5
Leather 3
Meats 2
Men's Wear 3
Notions 2
Novelties
Office Supplies 2
Paints 4
Paper 4
Plumbing 2
Rubber Clothing and Me-
chanical Supplies 5
Saws 3
Shoes 4
Soda Fountain Supplies,
etc 2
Stoves, Furnaces, etc 4
Trunks, Bags, etc 1
Undertakers' Supplies.... 3
W. S. KIRKPATRICK ADVERTISING SERVICE.
OTHER SUBJECTS TO BE COVERED IN THE OREGONIAN
"KNOW OREGON" SERIES
Portland and its manufacturing.
Portland, the railroad center. ,
Tourists as a trade resource and our climate and scenery.