Editing 1910

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=Lane County=

The [[Lane County]] population in [[1890]] was 15,198; in [[1900]], 19,604; and in 1910, 33,780 (Spicer n.d.:9).

=Springfield=
*[[Cox House]] is built in the [[Washburne]] Historical District. [[Cox, James A.|James A. Cox]] is most likely its builder.

*By 1910 the Portland, [[Eugene]] and Eastern Railway Company, an interurban line, was completed between Eugene and [[Springfield]], replacing the stage. It cost 6 cents to ride the streetcar to Eugene. The streetcar ran up [[Main Street (Springfield)|Main Street]] to [[10th Street (Springfield)|10th Street]]. It was an electric railroad that gave the city access to Portland. Its operation continued until [[1926]] (Mills 1943:391-392) A third span was built across the river in 1910 by Lord Nelson (Nels) Roney for the electric streetcars of the Portland, Eugene and Eastern Railway. Roney used three 200-foot Howe trusses on concrete piers for the wooden bridge (Graham 1978e).

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*In 1910 [[Springfield]]’s population was 1,838 (Spicer n.d.:9). The city’s boundaries continued to expand with various additions annexed in [[1889]], [[1890]], [[1897]], [[1905]] and [[1909]]-[[1915]].

*Springfield had the distinction of being the only “wet spot” between Salem and Oakland in the years between [[1910]] and [[1912]]. There were nine saloons in the city and much ado was made over the fact that the streetcar would bring loads of people over from “dry” [[Eugene]] to visit these establishments. Prohibition did not come to [[Springfield]] until [[1915]] (Graham 1978b:7; Special collections n.d.:Box 66/19, Folder 2B).

*Many small portable or “gypo” mills appeared in the rural areas of [[Lane County]]. One such operation is listed for [[Springfield]] in [[1910]] – the [[Bigelow and Porter Sawmill]].

*[[Lincoln Elementary School]] was built in about [[1910]] to accommodate the increasing number of students in the city (Graham 1978a).