Lawrence Barber

“ The enterprising Holladay established Portland's first horse car line to connect the ferry at Front and F streets with downtown Portland. It was a mule-drawn car, worn out from long usage in San Francisco before Holladay brought it to Portland, and it was pulled over iron rails from the turntable at Front and G streets down through town to Carruthers street, in South Portland, where another turntable was located. ”

“ The Portland days of the O&CRR Ferry No. 2 were numbered, however. People were tiring of having to cross the river by ferry between the city and the countryside of East Portland, and enterprising citizens finally built the first Morrison street bridge of timbers in 1887.
Then the owners of the Union Pacific railroad, who also then controlled the Oregon & California railroad, built the first Steel bridge, at a location just downstream from the present site, in 1888. It had two decks, one for trains and one for wagons and pedestrians as does the present one, built in 1912. ”

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