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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1887)
(t) tBIic'guftjj ilstorfom. ASTORIA. OREGON: FRIDAY.. APKIL 8. 1887 THE MODERN TENDENCY TO CENTRALIZATION. The railroad has done much to ward bringing about a centraliza tion of business. This is seen in the number of small towns whioh Railway company will pick up the missing links and push along to the Oregon Bacific and Yaquina. Then .the rumor assumes shape that some narrow-gauge railroad in Colorado is coming this way and will not stop until it has struck the Pacific shore. The transfer of the 0. & C. to the Southern Pa cific will coin a dozen more pre dictions of probable movements. fever is still half a centurv ao-n were of much The combination : i. i,o. oa. . worlcinp". Now and then a little IMV4V tUiUWt M4iVV fcfc uw y v - ti day. It is also seen in the new states where towns twenty years ago were centers of business and are now no Jonger such. There are two influences always active in railroad transportation. One is the distribution of business, and the other is a concentration of it at some particular joints. Thus, the temporary terminus of a rail road is both a place for the con centration and the distribution of business. The centers that were created by stage lines andjy small agricultural districts lose much of their importance when the railroad creates equal or better facilities at some other point. Thus when a considerable district has been trib utary to a town or railroad station, a considerable businesses built up. There are stores, warehouses, ho tels and all the appurtenances of a thriving town. But when the rail road goes beyond and extends equal facilities- to other points, it is seon that a strong decentraliz ing influence has set in. The old order of things is disturbed. The new law of distribution takes effect. Some towns are almost killed by the advent of a railroad, while others are built up. The towns thus reduced in importance were those which for a time had become centers of business by means of stage facilities and wagon trans portation. They supplied an area of territory whioh at a later date has been abridged. Another and more important center draws from the same territory. This process is constantly going on. The re sults have already been worked out in the older states where most of the railroads have al ready been constructed. This law of centralization is at work upon the railroads as well. A few years ago such a circum stance as the consolidation of a number of railroads undpr-one directory was not known. Even so late as ten years ago the largest railroad corporation was not con trolling more than 1,500 miles of railroad. Now there are railroad corporations controlling from 3,000 to 4,000 miles of road. The dis patches regarding the sale of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, indicate that by the close of '37, one cor poration will control 10,00Q miles of road. This centralization of capital in railways is one of the remarkable events of the last twen ty years. There is also a reduc tion of the number of managing directors. One man is at the head of the great combination, and there are five or six men working under him. Of coursejthere are many subordinates working under these men. But the small stockholders have no influence. In short, little is heard now about the work of more than three or four individu . als in connection vith any great railway combination. Thus we hear of Huntington as the hoad of a great railway combination reach ing from the 'Atlantic to the Pa cific, which, with branches, covers about 4,000 miles. If fifty years ago any one had predicted that one man would be practically at the head of a railway combination stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific and covering, with brandi es, 4,000 miles, he would have been set down as a visionary "man. This work of consolidation is still going on. It has assumed already immense proportions. Of course there is a limit, be cause the time may come when there will be no more railroads to bring into half a dozen great com binations. At present we hear of one or-more grand schemes for new continental railway combina tions. Sometimes it is given out tilt the jJJneago & Northwestern peoiai Auction. Condemned UI S. rroperty On Hr.ij's Dock. This Day at 3 P. M. By Order of Liout. M. F. Harmon A. A. Q. M. Blacksmiths and Carpenter Tool. ai den Tools, also Spades, biiovew ana i-ivo Barrack Chairs. K. V. UOEiDKX. Auctioneer. THE CRYSTAL ALACE T,e road is left to pursue its local bus iness quietly. It. accommodates the farmers and the small towns on the line, and every year in creases its business, providing it does not depend upon mining speculations. Very little is hoard about dividends from these local roads. But they manage to pull through from year to year, and now and then extend the road a few miles further into important agricultural or timber districts. These local roads will be all that is left out of the . great combina tions, and even some of these may finally be picked up as links of the larger ones. This centralizing influence has a great many ramifications. It kills towns and makes them to some ox- tent. There must be other re- j 1 J I sources. 1N0 large town couiu ue built upon the desert. There must be some natural wealth to be developed. When once a town has attained' capital, business and population reaching up say to a hundred thousand people, or half that number, it is not much affected by the decentralizing in fluences of a railroad. It will have local facilitiies for transportation which cannot be destroyed. But the present tendency is to con centrate capital at a few points. This was recently noted in regard to the whaling business. The ten or fifteen prominent points are re duced to two. It is also seen in the manufacture of boots and shoes in the Atlantic states, svhere, at present, only two towns seem to have much prominence as centers of this manufacturing interest, viz., Lynn and Haverhill. And in these .places the small manufac tories have given place to large brick structures and to stronger "companies. The same influence in kind appears to bo at work in consolidating the great cotton manufacturing interests of the At lantic slates. Thus, a Bostonpa per notes that twenty years ago the great cotton manufacturing es tablishments . of Lowell were in the hands of eight corporations. There were then 4,000 spindles. Now there are 8,000 spindles un der the control of seven Corpora tions. Capital for great commer cial and banking operations is con centrated at few points. A few years ago a flour mill which made a hundred barrels of flour in a day was considered a very extensive affair. Now there is such -a group of flour mills at Minneapolis, in the very heart of this country, as were never known before. No doubt these vast combina tions in many instances cheapen production. There are other ques tions suggested by this revolution which cannot be discussed here. This tendency to vast combina tions of the kind here noted is a recent one, or, rather, there is a new stage of development. Such vast organizing innuences are working out results whioh can hardly bo measured to-day. Even if most of the results are to be beneficial, there is a strong under current of doubt or uneasiness lest a great combination of capitalists shall overstep legitimate bounds and undertake to control the ad ministrative policy of the country. GRAND Department Ball OF THE Astoria Fire Department, For the Benefit ol the STATE FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION. TOURNAMENT FUND -at Ross' Opera House. 0a Monday Evening, Aprilllth, 1887. Under te management of the Board of Foremen of the Astoria Fire Department. Committee of ArranRements : C. J. Trenctiard, "W. J. Barry, L. W. Holt, B. S, Reception Committep : Ed Hallock. C. Brown. "W.G.Ross, CSV. Fulton, C. Adler, Dr.J.Tuttle. Vlnnr Managers ; W. E Varren. h. bUD- renant, A. E. fahaw, F. L. Parker, V. M. Ear hart, T. S. Jewett. m J , Tho WVttprn. Amateur Brass Band has kindly donated the music for the parade otj tho department uunng me uay, aim ir mu ball In the evening. Tickets ----- Sl.OO, By order of the Board of Foremen. 3 By E. Z. FERGUSON. Sec'y. Supper by the Woman's Relief Corps at Liberty Hall. PINE STOCK OF Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and Silverware "ijt'ST RECEIVED. ALSO ANOTHER LARGE IXVOICE OF 3FtJLQla.oymi.oi3Lfit Leltttool OIooIslis. Fine Watch Repairing a specialty. CJSUElXi DLEU, Manager. CHAS. W. GIBBS, Watchmaker and Jeweler. Empire Store. Get The Best The New Improved Family And Manufacturing SINGER Sewing Machine. 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Our Stock of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods is one $i the moat complete north of San Francisco. v Our past reputation justifies us in saying that We Lead in Quality of Goods and Prices. W. T. FARKBR, Manager. SHEET LEAD STRIP LEAD . SHEET IRON, E"jti AND Copper, MURE AY & CO., . GROCERS And Dealers In Cannery Sillies! ii Frank L Parker, Dealer in- Fancy anil Staple Groceries. H0! FOR THE SUPEB.IOB.I Two more Carloads of those famou3 8UPEKIOK Stoves and Ranges Just ar rived from the Factory. These poods are what their name indicates, none a V P UKl OB in the Market. FIrebacks to these Stoves are Guaranteed 15 Years- Every Stove TVarranted-Call and Inspect them ar MAGNUS C. CROSBY'S. Special Attention Given to Filling Of Orders. A FULL LINE CARRIED And Supples furnished at Satis factory Terms- Pnrcliases -delivered In any part of the city. Office and "Warehouse In Hume's New Building on Water Street. P. O. Box 153. Telephone No. 37. ASTORIA, OREGON. DEALER IH Hay, Oats, and Straw, Lime, Brict, Cement, Sand and Plaster Wood Dellrered to Order. nrn'ta ' . cm " jgiirj I Drajlng, Teaming and Express Business. STEAMER JOB PRINTING. Neat, Quick And Cheap at The AST0BIAN JOB OFFICE. Fisheri To save time and guess at nothing, our utrons. the Fisheries, will ODiice us. io send samples of twjne "when possible, and in the case of oddnets.tllke Dredges. Trawls and the like, to send a diagram. In ordering anything, name all particulars. "Will be eldd when one has any new ideas about nets to sit down and write us. IVe purpose to studv up minutely, the Fisheries pt the Pacific, so we can send the best style for catch and profit. All letters promptly answered. GLOUCESTER NET & TWINE CO., Gloucester. Boston Office 5 Commercial St. G. A. STINSON & CO., BLACKSM1THING, A.t Capt. Rogers old stand, corner of Gasa and Court Streets. Ship and Cannery work, Horseshoeing. Wagons made and repaired. Good work guaranteed. 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Oranges, Lemons, Nuts, Figs, &c, &c. NEW TO-DAY. Department Notice. N ALL JDZMBERS OF THE ASTORIA FIRE Department are herebv called to meet at their respective Engine Houses in full uniform at 1:30 P. m. sharp, on Monday. April the llth, 1887, for tho purpose of department inspection and parade. By order of B. S. WORSLEi', Chief Engineer, C.J.TRENCHARD, Foreman No. 1. 'W.J.BARRY. Foreman R. E. No. 2 L. W.HOLT, Foreman Alert II. & L. Co. Sunny Furnished Front Rooms. OVEE THOMPSON St BOSS' STORE. IN Suit or Single. LADIES TAKE NOTICE. Mrs. F. E. Hudson Has removed to the corner of Genevieve and Chenamus streets, up stairs next to VanDasen & Co.'s store, where sho Is pre pared to do Fashionable Dressmaking. Acent for Estes, Taylor Square for Dress Cutting. To Whom It May Concern. THE ASTORIA DEEP SEA FISHING CO. will uot bo responsible for any debts, unless contracted by authority of the company.- CITY BOOK JUST STORE. Direct from the Factory a Fine Assortment of e Baby Carriages. 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