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About The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1908)
THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAU, PORTLAND. THURSDAY EVENING, ' DECEMBER '31, 1908. fflf OREGON IIIDUSTRIES. WHEAT. FLOUR. -LUMBER. TIMBER. . MANUFACTURING. . 14 -j j . - : : - : - . OBEGOIUIIDUSTEES WOOL; SHIPPING. I MACHINERY I AGRICULTURE. , HORTICULTURE, TRANSPORTATION,. PAPER MARINO. WOOD PULP. " WATER POWER. DAIRVINO. a FISHING. XI VESTOCK. 11 1 1 OBBING TRADE " be left to the wholesalers of cities nearer them. Thus, Chehalis is as , vfar north as the Portland jobber can operate except at a loss. He can go no . farther east . than irHuntiojrton, V. ; . 7 where he comes in competition with P . -: fy 1 ' C X 1- tn Salt . Lake City jobber, who has ortlands Liommercial . Supremacy Attested the benefit f more favorable freight . . . . rates to Idaho points and beyond. To by the Enormous .Business or Wholesalers y an $100,000,000 Annually s-There are 60 Jobbing houses in Portland, r - The value of the business dona by the wholesalers! and Jobbers number of them engaged in the busi ness and the variety, of the products handled by them. , But the closest ap proximation that can be made gives a result of something like 5100.000.000. the south Portland reaches; beyond the state line, down to Weed and Sis sons in - California,' which is as far north as the San Francisco wholesaler can ship his goods at a profit to him self. : V -n- v , ? - V rd ' New Territory or Portland Jobbers, Within the year a new territory has been opened up to the Portland trade. This is the Klamath Falls district In that section the jobbers of Portland city and they will be freighted to him. The brooms that are handled by the Portland jobbers are made right here in Multnomah county, as are a great variety of the goods sold to the re tail trade of the territory : covered by the salesmen representing Portland's jobbing bouses. . ' . -( All these jobbers are banded to gether as the transportation commit tee of the chamber of v commerce. This is a compact body,' the aim of ' : .. , i ut I cai (i -V 'p Portland amount annually to than this.' V,' iOOUl tlVU.UVV.VVU. A". 1UUI(. :- W jtea-f freight shipped by them oi.Ylorth. east and aouth runs far V ifnto the millions. i'tr Almost everything needed and The real figures may. be even larger and those of San Francisco now ope- Pa ' man Is aold by the wholesale trade of Portland, and It largely supplies the retail trade. of the great district em braced under the term "the Ore- gon country,? an empire of200, 000 square miles." . ': v rv Portland has the distinction having the- only" wholesale- dry goods house in the Paclflo north west, that operates en Hs -.own capital, - th Flelschn.r, Mayer. & Co. authorised capitalisation 000.000. - ; " . ?Ttie transportation Question as Its effect the jobbing trade. ' rate on an equal basis, on account of .l ' r .i. ; . the now railroad that Has been DUilt A ner ine ' urst or me year, wnen .- ' r."'7 IC . J the new railroad law goes into effect,-into the d'stnet within, the year. it will be possible to arrive at.the-x- Other new territory will open up to 4 act number of tons of freight carried Portland wholesalers shortly - in a t by the railroads,, and figures may be similar r manner. A number, of new .obtained that , will show ." just how . roads are projected,, and every mile , many, tons of merchandise the Port- of tracks that is laid in this state means .land jobbers " handle. At , present, more business for . Portland , mer- however; this is impossible,, and only chants- ; . - t , v i- in certain . lines -can these; figures be . But' the hope of Portland, jobbers .obtained.-, : But. theC,. transportation for increasing business lies:not ' ao .committee.-. of ,tho .chambef i)f com- much-in the extension of .their terri- merce has , obtained - partial figures torv for beyond a certain point, they w viih.u eiiuw iiaj, inc annual lumu-jc - cannot KO out in. increasing tne Pmi- tireiy.ttpon .of goods shipped by Portland .whole- ulation and " therefore the " require- nrmrot salers .runs far into the millions. ?Ments mf the territorv that is -already With an tj.jri TkKfi'tJ' .'. t).4ij :v'tliiri ; Th tnnrt nennle there are in oi - . firfiii the a'reater will be the volume - ' 4 ,incrc; arc. auout 3U argc jopoing - - . rrtuA' t.l. houses doing business in Portland, be sides a large number of smaller firms engaged in the wholesale trade. The ' large jobbers sell each year goods val I. Jf NCT other way is the commercial supremacy of Portland, the chief city of the Pacific northwest, bet- t ter snown uian uic nnmcnuc. volume of her wholesale trade. To I ued at from $2,000X30 to $10,000,CXX) each, and many;of them are supreme in their , lines ; within . the territory wherein they operate. -, . . , Portland's t wholesale territory is rigidly prescribed by the railway freight rates. Beyond a certain dis- arrive at an exact figure representing "lance the differential makes it ftripos- the value of the merchandise disposed sible for the Jobbers of this city to l of annually by Portland jobbers would do business, at a , profit, and points tbe an impossibility on account of the outside this radius must of necessity sale merchants. Colonization not ex pansion, is their aim, as it is the aim of men in ;other lines ef business in Oregon;,;Vt "f,-:,.' , ; The Scope of the Trade. .- The jobbers of Portland deal jn everything. There is hardly an ar ticle that any one can need or, wish for that cannot be obtained by the retailer from some of the wholesalers in this city. Does the country mef chant-need in a case of needles, he can get it from Portland. Or is it a car load of pianos, he can send to this If i wBAY . STATE lAirJTtf ?'- --. - ,V EVERYTHING IN ' PAINTS L . ' A -(.- " ' fc v. , . :,. :, . -J, :.f . ' " , J ;;:;,.: v.: iii --f 1 i vr : . ' 121 i ... ''-4 i .1' " , - , j aw k v '-"AND' OILS.','"" ' ;i1 The above cut shows our-new .warehouse on East Salmon' street, between Water5 and First j rty thousand (40,000) square feet of floor space, .equipped with .electric pumps, steel fanks, I M easuring appliances and latest improved "method of handling oils cheaply.' filanafaclnrcrs, Iraporlcrs & Jobbers Front sod Morrison Sis.. Portland. Ore. which is the good of alt' The indi viduality, of the members is sup pressed and they pull together for the good of the -wholesale trad? and of the city -of Portland. ;;-.'" ' v The Transportation Question.' Naturally the most serious prob lem that they have to face is the transportation quftj.0n. , O. late years there has been a disposition on the part of the railroads to limit Port land a wholesale territory, and the re cent raise in freight rates has fnade the problem even more serious than' before. The jobbers realize that as long as. present conditions continue to exist they cannot hope to do busi ness any farther from home than they now Operate. They know that the only way for them to supply a larger" trade is to increase the population of Oregon, bring in more people to con sume things. And they are accord ingly devoting much of their energies to that end.-. 'This not only helps them, but it tends to the upbuilding of the state and innures to the beneht of everybody who lives within the area tributary to Portland. ; ; Portland's jobbers ; and Portland are necessary to one another, and the jobbers and wholesale merchants are wise enough to recognue this and are doing what they can to make this a greater and greater city, and Ore gon a greater and greater state. W1 " !! ' U.I . -t V1 '(-xLf'Jr.- CUm;TnrnA.frillAn fAmnint'c Cf-nnmnrc : . Five Staunch Steamers Kept Busy ToWg IxgsTrom JIIQYCI I IQII-3UUI IUUUII VUlllUailY O -JLCaillCI-3 Lumber tamps to Portland Mills tne year Kouna m m ' Away back in 1881 Captain Charles Bunseu established the People's Freighting Company, and. a few years after J. Wi Shaver entered the firm and has seen the one-boat concern urow into the fikient Bhavep Transportation Company, with five staunch steamers, Shaver, Sara Dixon, M. P. Hender son, No Wonder and JVauna. The old MansaniUo. with which the company started, is now out of commission, and the company's five fins steamers are kept busy towing- logs from the logging campn on the Columbia river to the lumber mills of Portland. The company is composed of Delmar Shaver, pre8" dent; Lincoln Shaver, vice president; J. W. Shaver, secretary treasurer; Qeorge M. Shaver and Mrs. 3. W. Shaver, widow of the late O. W. Shaver. The Shaver -boys were all born and raised in Oregon, and are well known and popular men. By strict application to business they have built up a splendid trans portation business and are keeping time with the growth of their country. The dock and offJc-e of the company are at the foot of Davis street. . t I 01 ' , IT 1 1 " 1 f.'ViiN n , i ,lti,. r f ( - I f " - p 9 . r' f '''fesS - - ' :'; Fleischner, Mayer & Co. Portland, Oregon r Iinjorfers and Jobbers of Dry Goods, Notions, Hosiery; and Furnishings Manufacturers of Mount Hood Brand Men's Furnishings 510.Tirst;Avenue,?Spokan:Wask J; : Cor. 1st and G St&, Eureka, Cel. Room C, Pacific Block; Seattle, Wash. R mr Alexander Young Bldg Honolulu, T. H.
