THE CITY OF PORTLAND SHOWS THE STIR OF PROGRESS AND COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT
SACAJAWEA. THE BIRD WOMAN. THE FAITHFUL GUIDE OF LEWIS AND CLARK
SIXTH STREET PORTLAND IS TYPICAL OF THIS PROGRESSIVE CITY. THE HOTEL PORTLAND AND “THE OREGONIAN” BUILDING ON THE LEFT
In Portland is the constant stir of progress and commercial development—it is in the air. With the completion of a forty-foot ship channel from the city to the sea, to which end surveys are being conducted by the government, the largest vessels will have no difficulty in making Portland. Business enterprises of all sorts thrive; the building up of attractive suburbs, and of seaside resorts such as Long Beach and Yaquina bay—all these mean that here is a city of 160,000 people that will bear watching. There is no use hurrying through Portland; there is too much to be seen and done; you cannot overlook the fast-flowing Columbia, with its close-bordered forests and its matchless cascades and varied scenery. Powerful and comfortable steamers stem the torrent of the mighty river and at the rapids of the Dalles, close to the mystical, mythical Bridge of the Gods, a system of locks has challenged and overcome Nature’s mastery of her aquatic highway. Portland is famous for its hotels and hospitality, its fine streets and buildings, its clubs, its schools and churches. Civic pride is evident everywhere; art galleries, a notable library, beautiful avenues, parks and homes, with an excellent car system reaching far out into its pleasant suburbs, all speak of culture, wealth and progress. Here the traveler may rest and think over his trip and consider his return journey, providing this western land so seemingly new, so ever green, so bustling with activity, so wide-awake, so climatically glorious, does not hold him, as it has held many others, in bonds that they would not break:
We have seen a world! We have chased the sun
From sea to sea; but the task is done.
We are hushed with wonder, we stand apart,
We stand in silence; the heaving heart