PORTLAND, MAINE. Its Resources, Industries and Public Works.
The city of Portland, situated on Casco Bay, is the chief commercial metropolis of the State of Maine, having a population of over 42,000, or, including its immediate environs, a population of 60,000. It is half a day’s sail nearer Europe than any other Atlantic port, and lies at the eastern extremity of the shortest railroad route to the Pacific coast.
It has a fine, capacious harbor, easy and safe of access at all seasons of the year, with a depth of water allowing vessels up to 7000 tons burden to come to the docks and wharves at any stage of the tide, requiring no pilot. It has large drydocks and marine railways. It is the point of distribution for the agricultural State of Maine, a State which produces as its principal crops yearly, 1.103,610 tons of hay, valued at $12,801,886, and 6,684,496 bushels of potatoes, valued at $4,003,372.
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