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ITIES are alike, as people are;
like individuals, no two are
alike. Each has its peculiar
features, characteristics, rep
utation, character. So Portland is
like all cities; yet is like none. Every
city is different; Portland is more
different than most
Though never appropriating the
phrase, Portland is veritably a city
of destiny. The Almighty made here
a place for a great city; it was a part
of his handiwork that was "very
good." People are gradually, surely,
now not slowly, doing their part
When nature and man work in har
mony, nothing shall withstand them.
The first important factor in the
making of a great city is situs loca
tion with respect to a resourceful
surrounding country and avenues and
facilities for trade and commerce. In
this respect Portland occupies the
most advantageous position on the
P; -if ic coast. It is at the head of
navigation for ocean-going vessels,
land practically at the junction of two
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all tfie extensive region round about
and with the seaports of the world.
Great Growth.
This is not theory, or a picture, but
an actuality, and is to be more and
more so. The proof is manifold on
all hands. Figures that would fill
this column, but that must be sought
elsewhere, tell the wonderful story
of Portland's growing greatness and
glowing prospects. Portland is the
greatest lumber exporting port in the
world, and in wheat exports is
excelled by but two or three. It will
soon be second or not less than third
in the meat packing industry. Its
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A City Beautiful.
Portland is a beautiful city. Again,
the Creator was generous lavish in
wholesale business this year will ap- raw material for the ideal City Beau
proximate $350,000,000. tiful. Globe-trotters pronounce it un-
n. ..i.j r i ... r j i"R means
vrowinKi ropmiuon in jyuu, nvaicu iui ucduiy i sue auu scenery.
90,462; in 1907 (directory estimate), Good judges say it can be made the
Here, then, come the laden trains 195,195 to be conservative, say 185,- most beautiful city in the world, and
a new Hill roaa IS rapidly building vw, inigci un ocamc anu now sicjjb .ic uciujs iu umm: ii iu,
ness. Many important and increasing
manufactures. Fine churches and
public and private schools. Com
plete system of city and suburban iantly in Portland. Many residencej
electric transportation, and extensive districts are park-like. It is a city of
electric lines being constructed and beautiful homes. Foliage and flow
projected. Best city water in the erage revel in vigorous display. The
world, helping to make Portland summer glory of Portland renders
about the healthiest citv in the world, descriptions of Paradise stale, flat
the death rate being only 8.5 per ani unprofitable.
thousand. Portland is tne Kose uty. in a(
Portland is not a frontier, or rough- richly emerald field roses appear
and-rude town. It is as civilized as through most of the year, but partic
Boston and not so chilly. It is go- ularly from May to October, inclu-ahead-alive,
but conservative; enter- sive, lavishly luxuriant, exuberantly
prising, but solid. No earthquakes prolific, in all hues conceivable, in
or big boodlers. Nothing to be afraid number myriad, bestowing upon jt a
of, and less than most cities to be beauty and through wafting breezes
ashamed of. Standard of intelligence bathing it in a fragrance that bear
high; people inclined to be politically in upon the people pleasantly the
sense of purity and sweetness that n
dreaming theories we connect with
the realm celestial.
Around, sea, mountains, wide plains
and valleys, great production, Limit
less resources; hitherward, converg-
of transportation; here,
great and rapidly growing business,
unbuilding, development; mild and'
healthful climate, beautiful scenery,
rivers, one rne largest on tne racuic ,rr jorrAJ- GOCSJSCE. Of
coast, to be navigable for hundreds onjaTJAUDS GWf7CY7
of miles into the interior, the other wftYEft SUPZif
for 100 milre nn thi" erir n( fa T T
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great Willamette valley. To this s;aport 100 miles inland. This, an down the Columbia, and others are growing more rapidly. Assessed val- Millions will be expended on streets, v , . ... v ' ,.
Sa cue Prtrt ann mva nnH unit
point, by down-grade, water-level ample river channel being assured, coming; the transportation captains uations, $200,000,000. Increase of boulevards and parks.
routes, railroads do and must still js doubly advantageous, because, have their eyes on Portland, the dif- postoffice receipts over last year, Portland has a site of nearly 50
more converge, conveying along with first, water carriage being cheaper ft jnt, the peculiar city, built on a from 20 to 30 per cent; of bank clear- square miles, through which flows
fleets of river steamers, the products than land carriage, ships always seek spot indubitably designed by the arch- ances and building permits, from 40 the Willamette river. A concave cor
of most of Oregon and much of the head of navigable waters; and, itect of the universe for a great city, to 65 per cent, though last year don of evergreen hills form its west-
ishington and Idaho, an area of second, in a fresh water harbor the the great city of the Pacific north- showed big increase as over the ex- em boundary. Eastward, with scarce
some 200,000 square miles grain, foul bottoms of ships are cleaned west. position year of 1905. Greatest per- ly perceptible slope, extends the land
fruits, livestock, minerals, timber, without cost, and the devastating Here come, then, too the laden centage of increase in buildings, scape uf fields and woods to the Cas
hops, wool, etc. in vast and con- . teredo is absent. The Creator, kindly ships, bringing products for the montli after month, of any city in the cades, five of whose snow-peaks are
stantly increasing quantities. since' battle cultus is necessary for trains to carry away, and to load with United States. Also, most weeks, visible from the city's western ..ill
Here, geographically, Portland sits man's development- left him some our products, for consumption by the greatest percentage of increase in borders; Hood, directly east, tower
supreme, unrivaled, throughout all wurk to do in deepening channels and people of many lands. This, then, is btnk clearings. Probable population ing most pronounced; picture. ue,
this wide expanse of immensely re- digging canals. He is doing this, and a railroad terminus and a seaport; a in 1910, 275,000. gigantic, pleasurably awesome, optic-
sourceful country a region that will thus make Portland a more fa- great commercial center, a focus of Boom? No. Steady and solid, ally 20 miles distant, really 60.
could easily support 10,000,000 peo- vored seaport than San Francisco or trade and commerce, a market and a Sound banks with big resources. Con- Trees and all kinds of ornamental
'pie, and that is naturally tributary, Seattle, mart, a place in business touch with servative methods. No wildcat busi- and flowering shrubbery grow luxur-
to use the ordinar) commercial term,
So sits Portland, like, and unlike;
similar, but peculiar; smilingly and
confidently offering and pointing,
thousand-handed, to the doors ajar of
Opportunity.
Portland's assessment shows her toi
be the richest nd most prosperousj
in the northw tern port' n of the'
United States and Canada, wi ' an
assessed valuation of $800,000,000,
being $50,000,000 more than that of
any other city in this part of the
country.
to this city.
A Favored Seaport.
For observe, this situs includes, the
fact of a seaport, and. better still, a
Portland has the only fresh water harbor Portland's manufacturing industries repre-' Portland is the gateway and distributing
on the Pacific Coast. It is the only city sent an invested capital of more than center of 250,000 square miles of territory,
with water grade connection with Eastern $32,000,000, with an annual output exceeding the largest eontrlbutive yistrict of any city
Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
Portland is the largest city in area north
of Los Angeles, covering 44 square miles.
In population, the largest in the Northwest.
Portland has the only first-class postoffice
$55,000,000.
Portland has two telephone companies,
and more phones in proportion to its popu
lation than any other city in the world.
Portland's bank deposits in i9M aggre-
north of San Francisco. Its receipts during gated $61,250,000. Bank clearings duriug the
the past year were in excess of $550,000. r-ame period amounted to $281,170,796.
in the- Union.
Portland shipped more wheat in April than
all other cities "on the Pacific Coast combined,
outdistanced only by New York City.
-Portland'! total imports fcom-oxeign.
countries last year amounted to $3,300,000;
its exports amounted to $11,000,000.
Portland leads all the cities in the
United States north of San Francisco
and west of Minneapolis in school
population, postal receipts, wholesale
trade, exportation of wheat and flour,
and distribution of agricultural im
plements.