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FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated. 
Vol. XXL ROCHESTER, N. Y., MAY, 1913 No. 5 
PORTLAND, OREGON, THE MECCA OF 
THE NURSERYMEN 
Thirty-eighth Annual Convention of the American Association 
Will be Held in June 
Attractions of the Locality 
The 1913 convention of the American Association of 
Nurserymen will be held in one of the fastest growing cities 
in the whole country. No other city of the same class can 
show such tremendous advance during the year just passed 
as this \dgorous Pacific Coast metropolis. 
The year was conspicuous for important achievements. 
In all lines it was a twelve-month of prosperity, growth and 
expansion. The tremendous crops produced throughout the 
territory of which Portland is the center, contributed very 
largely to the favorable showing for 1912. Extensive railroad 
construction and the carrying forward of large industrial 
projects gave great assistance in maintaining prosperous 
conditions and the statistics of the year reflect a consistent 
advance in all lines of activity. 
Bank clearings of Portland for the past year amounted to 
almost $600,000,000 and postal receipts were well over 
$1,000,000. Building permits reached a total value of 
$14,781,757; the city spent $4,484,857 in street and sewer 
improvements and hard surface streets were increased to a 
total of 272 miles. The city paid nearly $1,000,000 for new 
school buildings and grounds; the extension of the water 
system cost $790,041. Portland has paid much attention to 
its parks and streets, while its buildings as a rule would be a 
credit to any city on the continent. Its people are decidedly 
optimistic at the beginning of the new year and believe that 
the future holds more for them than even the bountiful 
past. 
The city has been incorporated only 52 years and it now 
has a population of 265,000. With the opening of the 
Panama Canal, the continued improvement of the Portland 
harbor and its approaches, so as to give the full benefit of 
the opening of that great waterway, the construction of 
additional railway lines, both electric and steam, bringing a 
constantly widening territory tributary to Portland and the 
settling of the vacant lands of the state by a producing 
population, Portland’s future is secure and its people never 
more optimistic than now. 
PORTLAND’S ATTRACTIONS FOR TOURISTS 
When the nurserymen of the country come to Portland 
for their annual convention next June, they will come to a 
land of remarkable scenic attraction. This region is noted, 
more than anything else, for its variety of scenery, which 
ranges from the most rugged and forbidding mountains to the 
charming vistas of its farming country. Lakes, rivers and 
dashing mountain streams combine to make this section one 
to suit the most exacting taste. The drear monotony of the 
prairies is lacking and instead, forest, mountain, and stream 
arrest the eye and charm the beholder. 
Portland as a tourist center is as yet comparatively little 
known. California has been exploited for years but the lands 
further north have suffered because of the lack of widespread 
knowledge reaching the traveler in regard to its hitherto 
unknown beauties. This lack of advertising is being reme¬ 
died, however, as more and more the people come to know the 
attractions of this region and those who have been here are 
the best possible boosters. 
There are many notable things about Portland that 
appeal to the traveler, best of all is that they are so close at 
hand and so readily accessible. Mt. Hood, that seems to 
tower over the city like a sentinel on guard, is easily reached 
by trolley and auto-stage and its summit can be gained by a 
short trip from Portland. This mountain is a notable peak 
and from its top a remarkable panorama is spread before the 
eyes. Two states lie at the feet of the spectator and rivers 
and mountain ranges make up a remarkable picture. Other 
snow-capped peaks are readily accessible from Portland, but 
if less rugged mountain scenery appeals, the Cascade, Coast 
and other ranges offer innumerable lesser peaks and a wilder¬ 
ness of foothills where the sportsman may get the best of 
hunting and fishing. No less imposing than the line of snow¬ 
capped mountains seen from Portland is the Columbia River 
Gorge, which everv good tourist must see if he is to view the 
best scenery of the American continent. The palisades of the 
Hudson appear small when compared wdth the .gigantic 
