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- i w - l fcOtJ . U ' "---. fe07' PILING UP BIG GAMS; STEAMER LINES TOTAL '43 OREGON'S OUTPUT SHIPPED TO AIL PARTS OF GLOBE Channel and Terminal Improve ments Place Portland in 'ing Position Among Ports. Among all the port of the United States the Port of Portland affords the beet example of rapid growth aad of recovery from poet-war depression. Foor rears ago the "port's business bad dropped almost to nothing- - We bad no regular steamship con nection with any-foreign port Three : years ago the port had the service of five steamship lines three eoeatal end two, to the Orient. This was the status when the Port of Portland's traffic department .was established to ApriL 1920. Today the Port of Portland has the regular service of 43 steamship lines. Tramp steamer service is large. We web the globe with trade lines. Bat more, grain from the Columbia basin, sent through the Port of Port land, furnishes bread for war dis tressed Europe and the newly ambi tions peoples of the Orient. S . Oregon apples are the most ; popular fruit eaten by the children t New York, the canny Scots of Glasgow and the South of England lassies whose pink cheeks rival the blushes of the fruit. Oregon lumber 4s shipped out by water and rail enough daily to build a ity for 6000 people. : Ore iron wool brought' here for export would supply a new suit for each of 4,000,000 men. - Colombia river salmon swim back from the Pacific to go In cans to the far corners of earth. Oregon meat, dairy and poultry products, like Oregon fruit and grain, are becoming famous wherever people are hungry. In foreign tonnage movement, federal authority gives Portland eighth place and Seattle twelfth among the. ports of tha Union. In a new trade, the Importation of copra. Portland ranks first on the Pacific coast if not in the entire coun try, . Apple exportation to Europe Is be coming a substantial commercial factor, and Portland ranks toward the top in this growing business. t During 1920 only C8 shlos entered the Fort of Portland from foreign and 699 from domestic ports. The entries from foreign ports reached 194 in 1921 with 715 from domestic ports. This year the vessels entering from foreign ports will total 240, with 900 from domestic ports. The clearances have corre spondingly grown ; to foreign ports 192 In 1920. 124 tn 1921 and S30 as an esu mate for this year; to domestic ports 611 in 1920, 680 In 1921 and 840 est! mated this year. ' , " Port of Portland High Lights , V- Forty-four million-dollar investment by -port, dock commission and government In channel, terminals ajid service. Forty-three toot harbor entrance and 10-foot river channel at low water. One hundred and ten miles from Pacific, at head of deep-, water navigation. ' At confluence jot "Willamette and Colombia rivers, hinterland of 254,900 square miles. Forty-three steamship lines, giving coast, lntereoastal and foreign service regularly.! . , First port is lumber and wool shipments; second in grain and flour; second on Pacific coast in freight tonnage movement, 'and eighth in United States in foreign tonnage; first Pacific coast port la copra importation. , . First American port to establish traffic solicitation department Columbia river furnishes only fresh water! harbor on Pacific coast and only water grade connection, with interior. ' - ' People of Portland have Spent more than S 17,000,000 for four modern public terminals, channel and harbor improvements ; Gov ernment haa spent about? 116,000,000 for jetty system at mouth of Columbia and Columbia river channel. Port furnishes pilotage and towage service. Public grain -handling facilities best on the coast,' with 1,000,000 bushel bulk grain elevator. - More than 1,000,000 gallons: capacity for handling and storms vegetable oils and molasses. Special ventilated storehouse for apples and other fresh fruits. Our commerce for, the-year, domestic ; and foreign, will sot fall far below 1200,000,000. v a . This in spits of chaotic foreign con ditions aad comparatively sluggish re covery In -domestic affairs, Portland is the largest single lumber exportation port of the Union. Portland Is the largest primary wool market and shipping center in the United States. - -- In grain and flour exportatlons the Columbia river is second only to Gal veston, while Seattle is eighth in the list. - " In foreign export , tonnage of the Pacific the Port of Portland is second ; San. .Francisco is first, Los Angeles third and Seattle fourths The net tonnage of the vessels In the two-year period has increased more : than four times tn foreign entries and ftnore than twice in clearances foreign. bShip tonnage has doubled in domestic entrances and more than doubled in domestic clearances during this period. The port plant has been brought to L the top notch of efficiency. From har bor entrance to harbor end facilities are provided for the promptest ana most economical. handling of freight movement. Q ' The advantages of Portland's water grade communication with ner vast hinterland over competitors that have mountain barriers i to cross are again and again demonstrated in the figures of growing commerce. A few"" years ago the Columbia en trance was a baffling problem. It is now a problem solved with a depth of 43 feet at low water over a width of 4000 feet and a depth of 40 feet over 6500 feet. This means that the harbor entrance common to the ports of Portland, Astoria and Vancouver la more than 60 feet deep at high tide, a channel which may safely and without delay be used night or day by any vessels of the Pacific and with less fear of fog than at any other iiarbor entrance on the coast.. The channel from Portland to the sea not only has a maintained depth of 30 feet, but is the subject of a proposed extra federal appropriation of 81.700.000 which will be used In diking and dredging Intended to broad en . aad deepen what Is even now the finest river, channel for ocean-going crazt in the country. Harbor maintenance has attained new efficiency in the last three years. The dredging of three years ending with 1919 amounted, for instance, to 12.484.619 cubic yards, and with prac tically the same equipment to 22,400.000 cbdic yaras auring uie three years enaing in 19ZZ. , The material dredred this vear bv Port of Portland equipment would blot out alt the buildings m the area front ing the Willamette and bounded by aaaaison. Tenth- and Broadway streets. Or it would completely fin the Willam ette from Hawthorne bridge to a point norm or the Broadway bridge. The I dredged material of this vear alone r amounted to 10.(00.000 eubie yards. In addition to inner harbor work, and cooperation with the government below the mouth of the Willamette, the port's dredging plant is being used tn constructing the 11-mile dike behind which the city of Longview near Kelso will be established. This plan permits the port to earn a large sum of money and to save the Long-Bell company probably more than a million dollars. The growth of lntereoastal business has been the outstanding feature of the dock commission's . year. It became evident that the gigantic Terminal No. 4 was being utilised largely for for eign and heavy commodity business. Terminal No. 1 on the west, close to the business district, was equally popu lar for lntereoastal freight. This termi nal was expanded by the construction of a new pier 500x248 feet. As a whole the terminal covers more than 15 acres. Terminal No. 2, on the east side, is chiefly used by coasters. The apple exportatlons of the year reach 475,000 boxes and to accommo date the movement, a ventilated stor age warehouse was constructed, ne cessitating a 800-foot harbor line ex tension to Pier No. 1 of Terminal No. 4. Apples grown In Oregon, Idaho and Washington are being shipped by way cf Portland terminals. Apples came this year to Portland for export from Ashland, Uedford. Rogue River, Bock Point, Grants Pass, Myrtle Creek, Creeswell. Drain, Boseburg, Soutberlin, "Eugene. Southern Oregon, From the Willamette and Umpq.ua valleys came also large" quantities - r prunes. Twenty to 25 trucks a day have .been utilized la hauling fruit to Portland terminals, supplementing rail trans portation. Hood River. Moeier. The Dalles, in Oregon : "uyle, unaerwooa. Opportunity. Spokane. Fairfield and Creston in Washington and Lewlston tn Idaho are 'all towns that have taken advantage of Portland's exceptional fruit shipping faculties.- Most or u apples shipped by water go to the At lantic coast, chiefly New Tork; and Glasgow, Liverpool. Southampton and London in Europe. , In cooperation with the Hood River Apple Growers association testa are to be made of the efficiency of the ven tilated fruit storage provided which wSl be' helpful In handling the fruit movement of next season. In- the . routine operation of .Port land s terminal other experiments are used to determine relative - effective ness of various kinds of equipment. For instance it haa been found by tests at Terminal No. 4 and the bulk grain elevator, that 12 times as much labor is required unloading sack gram from cars as bulk grain and tnat tne cost of unloading aack grain from cars and of placing it on the warehouse floor is tour times greater than to unload bulk grain from cars and place in bulk elevator bins. -- Dock officials are looking' forward to an early inauguration of phosphate rock movement for which facilities were provided some time ago. j Since 1920 the port and dock com missions together have maintained a traffic department, ;T the ? first of its kind in tha history of American ports. With headquarters in Portland, this department also has personal :- repre sentation in New Tork and the OrfSnt. and during- the coming" year will place port traffic agents in South' America and Australia. The work, of the traffic department is to foster friendliness be tween this and foreign ports and to induce shippers to use the faclfitlee of this pert. The great growth of lnter eoastal - and Oriental commerce, : to gether with the Startling increase of steamship lines regularly serving tne port, is significantly contemporaneous with the activities of the traffic de partment. ,'-', , To r:r revert to vthe--opening of this article, the Port of Portland has star tled shippers throughout the world by the Increase to - number of snip lines in the last four years. This increase has been co Incident with the increase of port facilities, the. improvement of the channel and the selling campaign in behalf of the port itself. If Port land had 1 not demonstrated a j self reliance distinctive among all porta and if the people of Portland had not appropriated taaay millions of dollars for terminals and -channel improve ment, Portland! would doubtless be to day ranked as merely an Interior town with incidental, ocean traffic rather than as a world port. The record snows that in 1919 we had the service of the San Francisco A Portland Steamship company with the McCormlck and Nelson lines carry ing lumber to California and the Pa cific Steamship company ; making . its first sailing to the Orient In May. In September of 191S the Columbia- Pacific Steamship company was alio- Commodities Moved Through Port . How Columbia basin products go through the port of Portland In response to world demand Is shown by the following-table, covering commodity movement for 11 months of 1922. as compared with the same period last year: . , LUMBER . " , - Shipments Foreign Feet. 11 months 1922 . ......... 221,510.347 11 months 1921....... 147,316,834 Shipments Domestic 11 months 1922..... 11 months 1921........... 31.566.000 i WHEAT Shipments Foreign , , 11 months 1922......... 11 months 1921........................ Shipments Domestic 11 months 1922 11 months 1921... .. FLOUR Shipments Foreign 11 months 1922 11 months 1921 Shipments Domestic 11 months 1922 . . 11 months 1921 ...i VESSELS ENTERED AT PORT OF PORTLAND From Foreign Ports No. Vessels. Net Tonnage. 11 -months 1922.... .221 , 837.059 11 months 1921 170 622,144 From Domestic Ports 11 months 1922... 841 2,047,803 11 months 1921 647 1,636.431 VESSELS CLEARED FROM, PORT OF PORTLAND The Year's Commerce $184,392,552 1 ' Export 11 Months -Portland to Atlantic porta 15.924.989 .259,803 22.780.434 231,633 41.532,530 Portland to Gulf ports Portland to Pacific ports Portland to Alaska ' , ....... ... .. . . ...... Portland to Foreign ports ...... ....... Total (11 months) ... December (estimated) 80.729.J94 7.300.000 Total (12 months) ....$ 88.029.394 IMPORTS 11 MONTHS Atlantic ports to Portland ...... ..;...,.. 21.583,399 2,416.040 57.663.719 7,700.000 Gulf ports to Portland . ....... Pacific ports to Portland ...... Foreign porta to Portland ..-"., TOtSl '. . . - . -. - 4 December (estimated) ... -........-.... 89.363,158 7.000.009 Tftal (12 months) Grand total, 1922 . Grand total, 1921 Gain of 19)22 over 1921 . . . . . . a e-e) ...... . ....... . 296.363,158 .. 184.392.552 .. 145,494.390 . .28,898,162 88,420,000" 31,566.000 Bushels. 22,2,21,456 34,489,152 39.178 192.115 Barrel's. 967.451 1.113,865 493,786 464.172 Valuation. 5,323.442 3,785.898 1.865,164 725,611 Valuation. 26,376,574 44,033,961 52,174 240,774 - - Valuation. $ 5,034,235 '6,438,200 3,166,307 3,142.467 For Foreign Ports . 11 months 1922 ......... 11 months 1921 , For Domestic Ports 11 months 1922. . . 11 months 1921. . . . . . 4 . . . 310 287 760,. 523 1.132,447 1.065,426 1.751,950 1,209,608 cated shipping board vessels ;. for : Shanghai and North China porta -This is the official listing of steam ship, lines regularly serving the port today: Admiral line. American-Hawaiian Steamship company, Asiatic-American Steamship company,' Blue Star line, Charles Nelson line, Columbia Naviga tion company, Compagnie General Transatlantlque, Croweli & Thurlow, Ellerman's Wilson line. Elder Steam shin -- company. - Furnesa -Prince line. General Steamship corporation, Grace Hne.' Holland-American line. Isthmian Steamship line, Java-Pacific line. John son line, K line (Kokuaal Klsen Kai sha), Kawasaki Dockyard . company (Kawasaki Klsen KaUha). Xatin Amezican line, Luckenbach Steamship company, Matson Navigation company, MeCormick Steamship line.' Mitsui y A Co, North China Une, North Atlantic and Western S. S. company. Norway Pacific line. Ocean Motorship company. Pacific-Argentine-Brail! line, Pacific Australian line, Pacific-Caribbean, Gulf line. Pacific Mail Steamship company. Royal Mail Steam Packet company. San Francisco and - Portland 8. S. com pany, Societe Generale de Transports Maritime, South China line, Teyo Kisen Kalaha, Telkoku Kisen Kabuahiki Kal sha, Williams line. Yamashita Kisen Kaishat Moore & McCormlck, Garland line, Munson line and the Yamashita Une. With these messengers from foreign lands and American ports coming-and going; the Portland harbor is as color ful, romantic and busy a place as could be imagined. Ocean Steamships Using Terminals ' Increase Double Use of Portland's public ocean termi nals Increased more than 100 per cent during the past year. , The following tables show, in tons the volume of business handled over the four terminals during the year ending November 80, 1922. as compared with the year ending November so. 1922 1 Terminal No. 1 . . . , Terminal No. 3 , . . Terminal No. S . . . . Terminal No. 4 . . . . Total ... 1022. 387,080 102.680 8.55T S47.2T4 1921 114,581 76,862 1.120 146,564 61.50 - 889.077 APPLE SHIPMENTS MILLION BOXES Oregon Orchards Supply Fruit That Goes to Atlantic Coast '- and Cities of Europe. QWKEL I'E PUTS PORT Oil K1M1IT1E MAP Portland boasts of lumber, wheat and wool shipments that help feed the peo ple of many, nations. But no product of the Northwest represents quite so much of Portland's : 250.000 square mile hinterland ' or Is carried farther than her applea ; , . Apples, ehlpmen'ta through the Port of Portland this year will aggregate 1,000.000 boxes, a gain of about half a million boxes over last year. , r Apples of average sixe number : 125 to the box. At this rate our shipments would furnish an apple apiece for every man. woman and child in Great Britain. France and Belgium, with many millions left over, for those who wanted a second helping. . Placed side by side, the apples from the North west sent this year through Portland would make a, row across the Ameri ca continent.-;. v-- The apples go to the Atlantic eoast. chiefly New York, and to such Euro pean ports as Glasgow. Liverpool, Southampton and London. ' , . ; They are gathered into Portland by every modern form of conveyance ex cept the airplane. - 8TOSAGE PBOYISED : Trucks, river boats and ' railroads each carry their quota. Ventilated storage room is . provided at terminal No. 4 with a capacity of 500,000 boxes at one time. In cooperation with the Hood River Apple Growers associa tion and the dock commission these facilities are being rigorously tested with' a view to uetermining the keep ing property of apples of various kinds under various condltlona To carry the fruit to the Atlantic coast and to Europe, ships with large refrigerator " spaces are employed. Millions Spent in Improvement of Harbor, and M uch M ore to Be Expended on New Jobs, In the recommendations to congress for 1923 expenditures. Major General Lansing Beach, chief of United States army engineers, submitted a proposed budget of 61.700,000 for the second Portland district.' 61,000,000. to So tor new work and $700,000 for mainten ance. The 1923 project, which includes deepening the channel to more than 80 -feet at points where currents make "it advisable, and widening the present channel on curves, has been authorised by congress, but appropriations as yet have not been trade. S With their ladders set for digging to, a denth'of 33 feet, the three dredges of the second Portland harbor district have dug through 34 miles of channel in the lower Columbia river during 1922. ' They have maintained a channel width of 300 feet from the mouth of the Will amette river to the sea. Uncle Sam's dredges' have moved 7.380,223 cubic varda of material from the river bed, disposing of it on the shoals along the shore of the river or dropping it at sea, at a cost of a little over 6 cents a cubic yard. In the lower Columbia river approx imately 9900 feet of dike, of piling and rock, to assist in maintaining the chan nel, has been build at a cost of 3147, 893.80, or $1491 a foot. , Through the' Willamette and Colum bia rivers, '-iand has a channel of 30 feet in depth at low tide and zero water, while with tides and higher waters the channel is actually from five to 15 feet more for nine months of the year. In maintaining the 80-foot channel, the dredgas dug- to a depth of S3 feet sero water to provide a mar gin. .- ' Engaged on the lower Columbia river are the 24-inch pipe line dredges Mult nomah and Wa!.kiakum, and the hopper dredge Clatsop with two 18-lnch sue- , tions. . The three have been operated at a cost ot $407,036.04. . Their work for . the year, with the month of December estimated accord ing to the projects they were engaged on during the latter part of the tenth month, are as follows : . Cu. yards Dredge. , ".. Excavate Wahkiakum ................. 2.276.700 Multnomah ... 2.623.78V Clatsop 1.479.743 . Total Length of 1 cut. in feet 61,695 . 48,670 69,030 , Gross cost operations $129,797.00 $187,455.80 $139,783.74 , . 7,380.225 Cost of cu. yard . .- $ .057 $ .053 - $ :056 179,395 $407,036.04 (av.)$ .055 Eleven dikes In all have been com pleted or - are in the process of con struction. The longest single dike, at St. Helens, which was begun during the year, will be 2800 feet long when completed. . Four separate dikes - at Martin island bar have a total length of 3900 feet.- . The following steamship lines give regular service to and from Portland: To the Orient 4. Asiatic-American Steamship Co. Furness Prince Line Java-Pacific Line "K" Line . A Mitsui & Co. North China Line . Ocean Transport Co., Ltd. South China Line" I Teikoku Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha . Toyo Kisen Kaisha . , Yamashita Kisen Kaisha To Australia General Steamship Corporation Pacific-Australia Line .Yamashita Kisen Kaisha To Europe American-Hawaiian S. S. Co. Blue Star Line V Compagnie GeneraleTransatlantique Ellerman's Wilson Line , .431 ASldUC vmc I m TTitmaca T?i-M rA T ins fi Holland-America Line Isthmian Line Johnson Line ' Norway Pacific Line Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. Societe Generale de Transports Marime . Trans-Oceanic Company To West Coasfof South America Grace Line - - V ' . General Steamship Corporation , Latin-America Line Toyo Kisen Kaisha . Yamashita Kisen Kaisha To East Coast of South America' f Pacific-Argentine-Brazil Line To Gulf Ports of United States ...... American-Hawaiian S.,S. Co. LuckenbacH Steamship Co. ' Pacific-Caribbean Gulf Line Munson-Line ' P O R TLA ND THE GATEWAY OF AN EMPIRE i - "Ka V - m TsSllMTORY R1BUTAV TO ' I I f" A JjL POHTL AND. OriCCOM - - OR I , EASTERN OFFICE 515 BARCLAY BUILDING 299 BROADWAY -. . NEW YORK CITY For Further Information Address THE TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT : PORT OF PORTLAND THE COMMISSION OF PUBLIC DOCKS y SPALDING BUILDING, PORTLAND, OREGON, U. S. A. OR PORT OF PORTLAND 122 HIGASHI-MACHI -X; KOBE, JAPAN To West Indies Compagnie GeneraleTransatlantique Pacific-Caribbean Gulf Line To Hawaiian Islands Matson Navigation Co. To Atlantic Coast of United v States American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. Argonaut Line- Costef, Curran & Bullitt, Inc. Croweli 8c Thurlow Line a Elder Steel Steamship Co. Isthmian Steamship Line Luckenbach Steamship Co. Moore & McCormack Co., Inc. Munson Line North Atlantic & Western S. S. Co. Pacific Maa S. S. Co. United States lntereoastal Line Williams Line ' To California Ports Admiral Line - Columbia Navigation Co. MeCormick Steamship Co. . .Ocean Motorshipv Co. San Francisco & Portland S. S. Co. Chas. Nelson Co. Standard Oil Co. .' Union Oil Co. . The Following' Railroads Serve This Port - Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Rail way Co. (Connection via O-W. R. - & N..CO.)' : - -Great Northern RailwayCo. ' Northern Pacific Railway Co. Southern Pacific Co. . Union Pacific System Spokane, Portland & Seattle Ry. Co. (North Bank Road) Oregon Electric Railway Oregon Trunk Railway United Railways " Portland Railway, Light & Power Co. (Interurban Lines) v J River steamboat service is available on Columbia and Willamette rivers. Tramp steamers are daily offered here for charter for full cargoes of - wheatT flour, lumber and other . . products of this territory. J