The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, December 20, 1905, Image 5

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Newspaper Page Text,TiiE . Oregon" daily tournai; Portland, , Wednesday, .evening, December 20. iw5. PORTLAriD GAH OF OIITIIOL 30 flEARLY ALL ALASKA TRADE In Most Districts City Has Op portunities as Good as Those Enjoyed b'y Seattle. . PEOPLE BUY HEAVILY -,'; i" AND THEY PAY CASH .Nome Is Clour to Mouth of Colum bla TJian to San Juan de Fuca Strait Indications Arc That North ern Trade Will Be Permanent. , Portland has been Inspired to renewed Sort In the Alaska field by the report of the transportation, committee of the chamber of commerce. Facta presented 'by this organisation crystallised public sentiment. When a city, of such., re sources realises that there Is $30,000,000 trade just to the north, which Is nearly all as easily commanded ; from here as Seattle, the resolutions for Improved fa cilities naturally are to be expected. And they are being made-ln Portland, Merchants and business men" have d. -termlned that they ' shall ", share ' the Alaska trade. If Immediate results-are MM SLIPPERS IN GREAT VARIETIES, 0 Ladies' Slippers from 50c to $2 M pair , Children's , and Misses' Xmas Slippers from.. 50 to $1.25 Men's Xmas Slippers from.. ....... ,60 to $2.00 FOR Thursday Friday and Saturday Men's 7 Gun . Metal 'flowered Slippers, with leather counters; regular $1.25 . Suecial m o iarou Shoe Store "" 1 " 230-232 Morrison St. ' Near Second not obtained, the campaign will be lonrer end more carefully planned. Portland is fairly well fortified In mat ters closer at home, and la ready to en ter a broader Held, prepared to wage the contest on a merit and strength basis. . It Is conceded that a trade like that with Alaska has a sweater measure of profit than any other. Mining people buy heavily, pay cash, and when brought In contact with any city, lire the busl nesa element to . enthusiasm and pros, perlty.. United Btatea Alaska purchases more than $11,000,000 annually, and the return products are of a character that bestow the highest returns. . wtaetera Million Thia Tea. ' Purchases by the miners consist of equipment for work, clothing and sup ollaa the ceneral commodities of mer cantile business. Alaska, Including the Yukon bssln of Canada, haa sent to the assay office In Seattle this year about tlt.000,000 gold bullion. Most of the 110:000,000 domestlo products sent from the north, is canned salmon, which Is merely reshlpped when touching the first coast port, to the point of -ultimate- con sumption. In effect, Alaska's return shlpments'are gold, giving to the north west cfty enjoying Alaska commerce trade almost equal to Its northern ship ments. .Two well-defined questions ara indi cated by early considerations. Portland must get the good will and. business of the northern buyers. This involves ship ping facilities for the available points where trade may be had, and the win ning of the confidence of the consumers by straightforward, fair methods. Seat tle rand Tacoma have many steamers running Into those waters.-control the docks In northern ports, and have built up a remarkable trade relationship with the .retailers.. . i. - - Baton Cargo noblest. -But an equally jerioua feature of the question Is the return cargo of vessels used In northern commerce. EvenBeat tle has been unable as yet to overcome this difficulty effectualy. If full return cargoes were to be had, the north-bound rata:wou)dbe lower. If Seattle is able to control most of thtfreturn cargo busi ness, she will be In position to make bet ter rates. . , . - . ' In the preliminary canvass of the sit uation. It Is found that .aoutheastern Alaska, which la accessible by the In land route, is the eertof about one quarter of the present commerce. "The lode mining districts of Ketchikan and Juneau are Important centers. These are commanded by the Inland route, and In the .matter of distance are Seattle territory. The Interior trade that goes over the White Pass Tukon railway line and the upper Yukon steamers Is also of this class, as the port at Skag-. way,, which Is the ocean terminus 01 the railway, ' Is reached, most easily by the inland route. 1 rale Chanoe U la north. All trade that la landed farther north is as easily controlled by Portland as Se attle. Nome belna-Cven closer . to. the mouth of the Columbia than San Juan de Fuca strait. Seward and Valdes, the new ports for the Tanana and Jower XUKOn aisiricia, are praciicaujr cm to Portlatid as Seattle, as they will have to be reached by the outside route Developments of the present; year favor Portland -Immensely, as Tanana 'freight haa In the past been taken in via uaw on or at Michael, mostly the former. Seattle has an advantage, as esplalned. In the entire Dawson field. . With com pletion of the (Alaska Central railway, or extension any material aieiance up in 8ushltna river, Tanana traffic will go via Seward or Valdeiprobably the rormer. The gtrfrl -r'i'liiH"f new.- Portland has the same opportunity as Seattle to get In tfiere early and establish Itself in the Tanana. which next season will pro duce by far the most gold of any aingle district In Alaska, m. Mas. ewti. 4 In' rea-ard to the Cook Inlet country, all parte of the Aleutian Islands -and Seward peninsula, above this chain, in cluding Yukon river traffic Portland is In a better. position than .rugec souno. This territory Includes the great copper district about Copper river and Destruc tion bay,' the coal and oil fields of Kayak. Berlna- river and Cold harbor, the sal mon fisheries all the way north of 81tka, the seal and fox fur Industry, the gold industry of Nome, Kougarok and kindred districts, the reindeer Industry which Is commencing to thrive through out the peninsula country, and the new tin Industry wnicn is just Deing aevei oped in the Cape York country. A large percentage of the canned sal moa shipped from the north Is owned by the Alaaka Packers' association. which, as a rule, runs Us own vessels, sending ships north with supplies, tin and cases and sailing them home, with the season s pack. This combine's prod uota could not be estimated as general tonnage for northern liners.' The total Alaska salmon pack this year was about l.iOQ.OOO cases, or 1,00 tons, r ajitatlo at Treadwell. Tread well and Juneau district mines yield from 20,000 to 30,000 tons of con centrates annually. In the winter sea son when the management la shipping coal north for the power plant. It haa been 1 the custom to have the barges return laden with concentrates, so that for half the year the tonnage of these properties Is not available for liners on the return voyage. The Niblack mine. on Prince of Walea Island,' at Ketchi kan, made, a contract early the present season to deliver 10,000 tons of copper -ore to the Tacoma smelter, and Is un derstood to have handled ever a larger tonnage. The Omar mine. In the same district,' was to have commenced ship ping copper ore late In the season. Two large marble quarries on mis same Island offer south-bound . tonnage,, es pecially that of the . American Coral Marble company, which haa headquar ters In Portland, and gives assurance of a heavy permanent output The La Touche copper mine, on Destruction bay, at Seward, has produced good cop per, but shipped little the present year. - ay-prom to Be Shipped. ' A big company haa Just commenced production from an Immense bed of gypsum on Chlcagoff Island, near Sitka, the crude product to be shipped to a plant which la - being erected at Ta coma for the manufacture of lime and plaster. Two other copper mines near Seward hava produced some shipping ore for the southern smelters. The guano Industry la developing "rapidly, with assurance that It will have a per manent south-bound tonnage to offer. One stamp mill hftf been 'started near Nome, having a capacity of 20 stamps, and It is expeeted that a concentrate tonnage will be offered from that coun try within a few years. A email con centrating . plant waa ahlpped north by the Bartela syndicate, which haa the largest tin properties at Cape York, but late reports were to the effect that It did not go Into commission this year.. It doubUess will offer a tin concentrate tonnage -next see son. and If nuoceaaful will Increase Its tonnage' rapidly. Small quantities of stream tin - hava been shipped from this same district, hold ing forth promise ot.jk permanent ln duatry. ' . In troy pounds, the -entire gold bullina shipments from the northern districts runs only to about at ft tons. , This tory that will prove rich in certain ag riculture, which will give permanence to buaineaa adjacent Students aaae fnreaM the time when the broad tunara of the far north will maintain reindeer herds which wlU become Important pro ducers of cheese, hides and tallow. After estimating Alaska's present ton nage, lta future ana pnniwiv7 -foremost. This outline, furnished by i Dromlnent Alaska business man. gives some of the data that Is being consld ered by aggreaslve Portland mer chants in their ourpose-to enter xne nnrthom field. In addition to the Alaaka trade being the most profitable of all open to the northwest. It is alse assured permanence and ' far greater proportions than at present, all of which stimulates tne iocbj -- slveness. ; T. ' ' ww Treewater" Bank." fa.i.i .r.fh in The Journal.) vr.tiir. Or..' Dec 20. J. I. Elam, th nioneer . flour manuiacturer, wui he at the head of the new banking In- .titntinn which will be started here Lunn mfter the first of the year, mi now hank will be known as tne rea- nib Miiiina- ComDany's Bank' of Freo water. As soon as possioie a line Dri-a building will be erected by tne ban. The plana of those at the head bf the bank are not as yet definitely known, but It Is understood that the bank will be capitalised with 125.000. year Nome produced $5,000,000, accord ing to official figures, Tanana about 700.000, and the Klondike -"17,300.000; while the . southeast coast -production from lode mines- was slightly above 2, 000,000. Seattle's assay office, la cred ited with receiving about 119.000,000 of the 'total Alaska gold output Next year Tanana probably will produce be tween IM00.000- and O.OOO.OOO gold. Nome will better Its this year record, while Klondike la expected to remain about stationary. . These are the moat Important com modities offered for south-bound ton nage. Puget sound Has a ' marked ad vantage In handling them, because of the assay office there - and the two big smelters at Ticoma and Everett The ore and concentrate tonnage' will go to the smelters. Portland would be a bet ter distributing point for the salmon and marble than Puget sound. -Zadnstrlea of the Tatar. Of the future Industries of Alaska, Portland merchants are more hopeful than from anything that haa occurred In the paat No doubt la felt that the northern country will continue a great gold-producing district, until within 10 or 12 yeara It has an output or, ,- 000,000 to. $50,000,000. When more ex tensive propagation of aalmon la under taken the permanency of thia Industry la assured, Lode mining Is Just in Its Infancy, and unquestionably will 'de velop In proportion to the placer Indus try. When northwest timber oecomes scarcer, Alaska Is the last United Btatea possession to which the lumber manu facturer will turn for virgin forests, and his search will be rewarded richly on the southeast coast - Alaska's inex haustible SDruce has been spoken or aa the future supply for wood pulp for ths manufacture of paper, and mis in dustry la expected to grow, rapidly In a. few years. . ; . . , Can Balsa Boms Thing. While it has been doubted, the fact la proved that Alaaka has mucn terri- HOUSE California - Prune; Wafers Cure liver diseases and all stomach troubles; they act gently but aureiy. strengthen tne ooweis ana sumuiaie them to healthy action. , , 100 Wafer 25 Cents S. O. gkidmore -Co., Bragglsta, 151 Third St., sots agents (or roruu,-oi, :.SALE:of': m .V:"- m ,ci:; . el r T7t TT T (C " " 7 -rr COATS THESE PRICES tell the story ' ; $ 4.00 HOUSE $ 5.00 HOUSE $ 6.00 HOUSE $ 8.50 HOUSE $10.00 HOUSE $12.50 HOUSE COATS $2.95 GOATS $3.25 COATS $4.15 COATS $5.95 COATS $7.35 COATS $9.85 Every one NEW thi3 season LEADING ; CLOTHIER The Perfect Light is to -;; BECAUSE it: is cheapest, always ready, and gives the brightest and , softest light of any illumi- nant known. brightest and softest light of any It is equally adaptable to the home, omce, factory or workroom . Welsbach Burners The ideal light for the home or office. Give a soft, steady, light that can be regulated to suit the occasion. The prices are low." . SAVE TIRED EYES rOR THE HOLIDAYS Portable Reading Lamps of Bronze, Oxidized . Copper and Art Brass, with a wide variety of V 'tinted shades in Art Noveau Glass. Gas Ranges- r . DID IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU . . T, How pleasant and comfortable it is to cook on a GAS RANGE? No wood" or coal to bring in and no ashes to take out, no fires to build, absolutely no danger and cheaper; than wood or coaL Day or night your stove is always ready. You need only a match to cook a dinner. .Well send our man to give you-prices if you phone us. J.j . ...... - - ' - ' " --. ' ' 1 : . ; SOLD IF YOU SO DESIRE. On Easy Monthly Payments . " ; . , v - -'i ttumpti rey Gas An Lamps Over 4,000 in use in Portland to day. Ask the man who uses them. Hell tell you how they, save money for him. GIVES1 JA0ST LIGHT REMEMBER ' GAS IS THE CHEAPEST FUEL KNOWN Portland oas. CrnmEmj PORTLnUD, ORcGOIl A YOU CAN PAY FCH YCUP. GAS f.Z VC'J u:::it