OREGON 



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OREGON 



terials furnished by the forests, farms, fisheries 

 and mines, the improvement of rivers and the 

 extension of railroads are developing Oregon's 

 manufacturing industries. By far the most im- 

 portant of these is the milling and manufac- 

 turing of timber products, the largest being 

 located at Portland and Astoria in the Colum- 

 bia basin and at Eugene and Springfield in 

 the Willamette Valley. The canning and pre- 

 serving of fish and fruits is another leading in- 

 dustry. Flour and grist milling, slaughtering, 

 printing and publishing, car construction and 

 iv pairs, foundry work and the manufacture of 

 woolen goods are important. Nearly 36,000 



lines to San Francisco and other coast points, 

 and much trudr is i-arried on with the Orient. 

 The value of the imports of Portland in 1915 

 was $3,250,000, and the exports $20,406,000. 



The west section of the state is well supplied 

 with railroads, but the region east of the Cas- 

 cades, except in the Deschutes Valley and the 

 northeast corner of the state, is practically 

 without railroad accommodations. The Ore- 

 gon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Lines 

 (Union Pacific system) extend the entire length 

 of the Columbia River west of Port hind, and 

 the Spokane, Portland & Seattle road east of 

 Portland. The Southern Pacific's main line is 



THE MINE 

 Gold 

 THE FACTORY 



Woolen Goods 

 Furniture, etc. 

 Men's Clothing 

 Railroad ShopWorK 

 Condensed MilK 

 Confectionery 

 Canned Salmon 

 Sheet Metal 

 Leather Goods 

 Butter 

 Bread etc. 

 Foundry.Machine 

 Printing, Publis hing 

 Meat Packing 

 Flour, Grist 

 Lumberffimber 



OREGON PRODUCTS CHART 



Figures Based on U.S. Government Reports 

 Millions of Dollars Annual ly 



15 10 5 



THE FARM 



Winter Wheat 



Oats 



Green Grain 



Wool 



Potatoes 



Alfalfa 



Spring Wheat 



Timothy, Clover 



Apples 



Eggs 



Barley 



Hops 



Gar den Vegetables 



MilK 



Butter 



Butter Fat 



Poultry raised 



Cultivated Hay 







persons were employed in factories in 1916, and 

 the value of manufactured goods was almost 

 $110,000,000, Oregon ranking thirty-third among 

 the states. Half of the manufacturing is done 

 in Portland. 



Transportation. Facilities for water trans- 

 portation are extensive in Oregon. Ocean- 

 going vessels navigate the Columbia as far as 

 Portland, and river steamers go as far as Lew- 

 iston, Ida., passing through the Cascades by 

 means of locks and around the Dalles of the 

 Columbia by means of the Celilo Canal, which 

 was opened to navigation in 1915. The Snake 

 River is navigable north of the Oregon bound- 

 ary. The water traffic of the interior of the 

 state is carried by the Deschutes and Willam- 

 ette rivers, the latter being navigable from 

 Portland to Eugene, a distance of 150 miles. 

 In 1916 there were 2,136 miles of navigable 

 waterway in the state. There are steamship 



west of the Cascades, extending south into 

 California. The great undeveloped east-cen- 

 tral section has recently been entered by two 

 rival lines in the Deschutes Valley, the Oregon 

 Trunk, of the Hill system, and a branch of the 

 Oregon-Washington. The Hill main line to 

 Portland from the west runs along the north 

 side of the Columbia in Washington; it serves 

 both the Northern Pacific and Great Northern. 

 There are 3,000 miles of steam railroad and 

 over 700 miles of electric road in the state. 

 Public utilities are regulated by a commission. 

 In 1913 a state highway commission was cre- 

 ated, and in the next year $4,000,000 was ex- 

 pended upon the improvement of county roads 

 and bridges, and $1,700,000 upon the improve- 

 ment of state roads. In 1915 the Columbia 

 Highway, a magnificent automobile drive 200 

 miles long, crossing the Cascades at the foot 

 of Mount Hood, was opened. 



