. The Street railway journal . FIG. 29.—SCENE IN CANEMAH PARK mutation tickets are also issued based on a rate of 1 cent permile. These are usually issued in thirty-ride books. Monthlycommutation books at a somewhat lower rate are also issuedfor Oregon City and Gresham. That the managements policyin making low passenger rates is a wise one has been demon-strated in a good many cases. One instance in particularserves to emphasize this point. What is known as the MountScott line, running from Portland to Lents, a distance of 7. FIG. 30.—MAIN STREET IN ESTACADA, BUILT IN SIX MONTHS miles, was ori
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 29.—SCENE IN CANEMAH PARK mutation tickets are also issued based on a rate of 1 cent permile. These are usually issued in thirty-ride books. Monthlycommutation books at a somewhat lower rate are also issuedfor Oregon City and Gresham. That the managements policyin making low passenger rates is a wise one has been demon-strated in a good many cases. One instance in particularserves to emphasize this point. What is known as the MountScott line, running from Portland to Lents, a distance of 7. FIG. 30.—MAIN STREET IN ESTACADA, BUILT IN SIX MONTHS miles, was originally operated as a steam dummy line with onlya few trains a day, and it was never a paying proposition. .Thepresent owners took hold of the road, changed it for electricoperation, reduced the fare from 10 cents to 5 cents over thewhole line and put on a service to meet the demand, which nowrequires cars every twenty minutes. The results of these im-provements, and of what is termed locally as the companysbroad-gage policy, are very evident to anyone riding over theline. Where a year, or even six months, ago there was nothingbut second-growth timber and a few open fields, one finds now the entire district between East Portland and Lents platted andbeing rapidly settled by a good class of citizens. Property canbe purchased at very low rates here, and at little expense housescan be built which will at least serve as comfortable homesuntil the owners can pay for their property and improve orbuild permanent residences
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