The Estacada Wood™Manufacturing Company’s factory started doing business last fall, and the business has been increasing ever since. Tiieir plant is continually being en larged. A carload of crossarnrs is turned out daily. The lrest of opportunities for other manufactories are open, and as soon as thej powerful eltctric plant is completed on the Clsckamas^river near here, new factories will locate in Esta cada. The man looking for a location for a factory of any kind .shouldjlookjover the opportunities here. The Estaca da Brick & Tile Company will be making firstclass pressed brick within two months. Its large plant, shown elsewhere tin tillo this paper, is nearing completion. Cooper & Eyman have - * u - « m — rill j/e i y lo ^ ^ w tore O. L . r . llo w e , Main S t startL. j a l*.,] spring and mattress factory. a Councilman William K. Havi- land Sr. Mr. Haviland is the senior mem ber of the common council, and i- “ The Estacada" is one of the finest hotel a valuable unite in that body. Be in the state. Its furnishings are elegant, and fore coming West two years ago ht its table service is beyond doubt equal to that wascircuit ju Ige in his home district of the fashionable hotels of the big cities. The for a number of years. house is under the management of L O. Mac Mahon, a lady of experience in the hotel busi Mr. R . A . Stratton, Cashier of T h e Estacada State Bank, ness, and of wide acquaintance in the City of Portland. the local agent of the Oregon W ater Power Townsite Com The Th e Wonderful Progress of Estacada in Its First Tw enty-or.e Months UNDERWEAR, SHOES and RUBBERS IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF U N D E R W E A R , SH O ES, OR RU BBERS You will find us with a Cimplete Stock always on hand in Men’ s, Women’ s and Chil dren’ s sizes. Also a full line of Dry Goods, Oil Clothing, Umbrellas, Rubber Boots Staple and Fancy Groceries % Sole Agent for the celebrated “Byer s Best Blue Ribbon Flour Our prices are as low as the lowest. Free delivery to all parts of the city. REED C & BARRj Cenerai Merchandise A nd Its Great Posiblitiis of Lif: Estacada State Bank There is not another town in the state of the size of Estacada that has a state bank of $10,000 capital! zation. The Estacada State Bank was promoted and organized by J. W Reed, R. A. Stratton and T . Yocum. Mr. Reed, who is president is the most widely known and extensively interested business man in Estacada. Mr. Yocum is well known through out the county, being one of its oldest settlers, and is a successful fanner and sawmill operator. Cash ier Stratton, who has charge of all the business comes from Minnesota where he was formerly in the First State Bank of Fonda. The Estacada State Bank does business under the state banking laws, and is subject to inspection by the state Bank examiner. • Its office is located in the Reed & Barr store, and is supplied with a large safe with an inner security chest. In addition to a general banking business they are the agents for the O. W. P. Townsite Com pany, proprietors of the Estacada townsite. Foreign drafts are issued and business attended to for non resident property owners. This bank has just purchased one of the best corner business blocks on Broadway, and as soon as the pres ent front in the building can be re placed with a plate glass front and cement walks put down, and the in terior remodeled, the bank will be moved into its new home pany, will gladly answer all communications with reference to city property for sale here. gard to business openings and chances. Should you be intending to build, let prices on the lumber you will use. will pay you. us give you our Come and see us, it W e make what you want. lim ber and dry it in our own dryer. W e finish our Special attention is given to dimcn.ion and heavy material. X X See our local Agent, Allan Cooke. At the 0. W. P. ¿«pot The Sprlngwater Mill Company F'tacada. Oregon He handles lands, improved and unimproved. Oregon Daily Journal, October 21 Everything can be raised in abundance on our soil that can January 12, 1904, was a day’ very aim ilar to this one, the bright sunshine and be raised anywhere. Here, also, you will find game and fish balmy atmosphere vying with the song in plenty. birds in the tall trees at the then tenant less townsite of Estacada, in bringing Y o u will find the following lines of business open here and gladness to the hearts of a great multi tude of men and women gathered upon needed: that beautiful spot intent npon laying the foundation of a future city. Not a house A Creamery was there, no building of any kind save an office structure about 8 by ten feet in A Fruit Cannery size. The Oregon Water Power Townsite I company, owner of the townsite, had A Laundry ' provided a large tent in which nn auction sale of lots was to be 1; el A Livery and Sale Barn and this was the only inclos A Bowling Ally ure on the property. It was 1 o’clok when the auctioneer mounted the plat A Feed Mill form and sold the first lot at $250, and for next two hours there was greater ac A Wood Yard tivity in Estacada real estate than had previously been witnessed at any point in Lime, Sand and Cement Deal | Oregon in the previous half dozen years, ers j The people, men and women, had been taken to the place in the trains of the A Lumber Yard j Oregon Water Power and Railway com pany, and given several hours in which M an y other lines are still open for hustlers. W e ’ want a to look around and “ size up” the situa tion for themselves. They had looked dozen or more good hustlers right now. upon the Clackamas river that bordered the townsite, saw the immense water W e will welcome you, and help you to make some money. power it afforded, viewed the great for ests that stretched out to the south and east; had passed through the fertile farms to the north and west, which are travers ed by the railroad; became acquainted with the purposes of the railway com pany to there construct one of the most powerful electric power plants in the world, and had become hungry for an ! opportunity to invest some money some of the property to be sold that day. The consequence was that bidding was Cooper & Eyman lively beyond all expectations, and be fore the hour of departure had arrived ¿ fu r n itu r e the foundation was laid for the thriving and actively progressive “ baby city” Cooper .'i Eyman, the local fur whose tangible industries are so vividly niture merchants, have one of the portrayed on other pages of the Journal today. The pictures printed but meager- finest store buildings in the city, 1 y represent that which is found at Esta which is well filled with a line of cada now. The large stores do not ap goods that is always in demand by pear in the illustrations, and there are the local trade. The firm occupy many of them, representing all kinds of two business buildings. One is oc business. The beautiful residences, many erected upon the charming bench of land cupied exclusively by furniture and just to the north of the business district, in the other they conduct a cabinet overlooking the city, river and delightful making shop. In this building they j heights on the opposite bank are not manufacture coil wire bed springs, shown at all. The fine 60 acre park, cov and mattresses. They are doing a ered with native trees, many of them big busines in these lines as well as 150 feet tall, cannot be seen, nor is the in the furniture department. Mr. pictun squeness of the river portrayed. The brick plant shown is designed to E. E. Eyman, has charge of their supply the demand for any kind of that undertaking department. He has material required in plain and ornamen had special training for this werk tal brick; the wood working plant has orders already booked three to four and has had considerable practical An assortment of un months ahead. It is likely that a furni experience Broadway, looking North towards the Cary Cash Hardware ture factory will be added to the indus dertaking goods is always kept on tries of the city before a year has passed, hand. Cooper & Eyman meet the and when the immense electric power pity prices in all articles sold, and plant is completed it will not he long be a m to sell cheaper. They have ev fore manufacturers will be looking for its erything to furnish a home with C a rd e n Seeds, L a n d P la s te r, S to c k advantage*. Rst tcada is located 35 miles southeast and what they do not happen to Fo o ds, S h in g le s , L a th , E tc . of Portland and is the center of a prolific have when you call, they will send agricultural as well as timber regie n. It and get you at wholesale prices. W ARN YOU W AN T T H E S E , C A L L ON is a m>>st charming place fo ra summer resort , and there will yet be scores of Eagle Creek summer residences erected there on the banks of the Clackamas river in which Wilbur \V«de, of Heppner, and family trout and salmon so plenteously abound. were visiting at H H Wade'» laat week. A General Grain Com m ission Business Mr. and Mrs. Matholmy of Eastern rAREHOVSK NEAR THE DEPOT State Taxes Oregon were guests at Henry Githen's last Sunday. Dick Gitbens and E ’ . Elmore, Dong- County Treasurer Enos Cahill po d COUNTRY AND TOWN PEO PLE #1 i.ncio into tbe state treasury today to lass were in town recently, apply on the state tax from Clackamas James Linn and family were at the ex- Wanting any printing done should call at T h e N E W S Shop and aee i county. There is a balance due the state position Saturday. what we can do, and yet ou rp rtc- 1 of #5.000. The total amount due tbe Kill Oithens and Emms Dowty i k i a « - — I state is #34,000 on a pleasure trip to the city E S LUM BER. H e will also inform you with re sta ca d a tate B ank FLOUR. FEED, C R A IN JO H N F. LOVELACE