RAYMOND, THE CITY OF WILLIPA HARBOR
BT WALLACE R. SI Rl'BLE, SECRETARY
RAYMOND COMMERCIAL. CLUB.
WHERE the south fork of the
"VVillapa River flows into the
main stream, 18 miles above the
entrance of "Willapa Harbor, a remark
able maritime situation Is presented.
Both the Wlllapa streams at that point
"wind and bend In sinuous, snake-like
curves around and intersecting a tide
flat or approximately four square
miles, forming, with their associate
bayous, an "island" in the center of
this tide-flate of a trifle over one
square mile In area. The curving of
the rivers is such that they present a
total water frontage, counting both
banks, of about 13 miles of available
ship anchorapre or wharfage within an
average of three-fourths of a mile from
the geographical center of the tide
flat "island" mentioned. Both these
rivers within (in fact far beyond) the
limits indicated have a natural depth
of channel at low tide sufficient to
float the deepest-draft vessels enter
ing Wlllapa Bay, and these Include the
largest ships of the lumber-carrying
trade.
t'pon a portion of the "Island" thus
formed is laid out the retail business
section of the City of Raymond, com
prising approximately SO blocks. For
the present, of course, a large part of
this territory Is occupied by residences,
but ultimately, as the city develops,
the entire area must of necessity be
come active commercial property.
Bordering thi3 business section on all
sides ot the "Island" and also the con
tiguous mainland beyond are reserva-
AMERICA HAS MORE FINE VOICES THAN
OTHER LANDS, SAYS EMILIE FRANCES BAUER
Portland Woman Who Has Succeeded as Musical Critic in New York Is Home for Summer
Handicap to Art, She Says.
BY LEONE CASS BAKR.
EMILIE FRANCES BAUER says she
Is a pessimist, one of the dyed-in-the-wool
sort. But she doesn't look
It. She is the most electrical bunch of
animated magnetism and wholesale
ffmlleshop that I've seen in many a long
day.
When I called on her yesterday at her
liome at 12S Nineteenth street, where she
is spending the Summer with her home
folks she gave me one of the most de
lightful half hours of my life. She Is
--huck full and brimming over with talk. '
What about? Oh, a salad of everything.
! First and foremost she is a frail rib of
Adam from the tips of her tiny bronze
clippers to the crown of her head. She
"wore a wonderful yellow gown that
ibrought out her vivid coloring and beau
Siful eyes to advantage. These eyes, one
imlght add. are chamoleonlike. At first
'I thought theyt were bjack, but they run
'a gamut of all' shades until they resolve
'themselves Into a deep dark blue.
"I'm tired." said Miss Bauer; "really,
tl'm Just worn out, and I've come home
for a rest. 1 feel very much as did that
woman of newspaper llction. who left
her home in St. T,ouis and after a long
search, was found In Portland. When
someone remarked that they couldn't un
derstand what mental influence could
.have caused her to leave, the woman apt
'ly answered: I heard someone say
.Columbia River palmon.' 1 always feel
Just that way when I hear Oregon or
.1-lood River fruit mentioned. I haven't
been home in four years, and I wanted
to come so I came."
Miss Bauer Is an unquestioned and ac
cepted authority on things of the mu
sical and dramatic world. Her criticisms
.are universally known and appreciated.
(She hits, been almost everywhere, and
vrubs elbows with every one worth while.
ller collection of autographed celebri-
ties Is one of the most extensive in the
world, she is on intimate terms with all
the musical genii whom we are permitted
to pay per to look at. and whom some
of us only get to know through the maga
zines, and yet withal she's just a sweet,
Vlunip little democrat. She makes
rlenls of all the waifs, stray dogs and
homeless animal. '
"I love "cats," she said, rolling her big
eyes wickedly as she said it. and rolling
the expression as a delectable morsel
under her tongue. "Cats." echoed her
mother in make-believe horror. "Then
you are doomed." "Yes," said the daugh
ter, "and I love the skinny, sickly, scrag
gly alley variety far more than I do the
satin cushioned, milk-stuffed sort." This
is characteristic of her attitude toward
things generally. She is essentially a
friend of the under doc
Miss Bauer has been asked a very
great number of times to deliver ad-
nresses in connection with her voca
tion, but heretofore she has studiously
avoided anything: of the sort, giving
as an original answer that when she
discovered a subject that had not been
worn threadbare, or a field not covered
ly the average encyclopedia, she would
enter the ring. This past Spring she
conceived a very clever Idea, which
she later worked into the form of a
highly interesting address, called "Per
sonal Idiosyncrasies and Influences of
the Artists in Their Personal Lives."
Henry Wolfsohn was so impressed with
the idea and Its possibilities that he
st once decided on a booking for Miss
Bauer. The tour Is incomplete in de
tail, but it Is highly probable that
Portland will have the pleasure and
educational treat of hearing her.
"America is to me the one grand spot
In th world, and I am at heart Amer-
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VIEW
tions for factory sites, with navigable
water frontage for every site; each
manufacturing location being so situ
ated that it has (or may have by the
building of spurs) ample railway facili
ties also. Thus is presented the re
markable spectacle of a prospective re
tail center having sufficient area for
a city of 100,000 people, hedged about
by industrial deep-water and railway
sites capable of accommodating fac
tories employing unlimited workers and
producing unlimited finished products.
To add to the potency of this situa
tion, this forthcoming industrial and
commercial center Is surrounded on all
sides by desirable residence sites upon
the mainland capable of every imagin
able detail of landscape and architec
tural ornamentation providing loca
tions for the home? of a thrifty, cul
tured population, with the possibility
of placing every home so that its occu
pants may daily look out and over the
business and industrial sections of their
prosperous city.
This, briefly, is the situation of the
City of Raymond, Pacific County,
Washington a strategic location,
"where commerce demands a city as
strongly as it demanded Chicago, Min
neapolis or Kansas City."
Given this unique situation, pregnant
with transportation, commercial and
industrial possibilities, it only remains
to demonstrate that the sufficient re
sources and raw materials are at hand
to force the inevitable conclusion that
here is the site for one of the great
cities of the Pacific.
The resources and the raw materials
lean." she said. "It has a tremendous
scope for natural science. No country,
can ever touch it, and it is always
empirical. Too. it has the greatest
producing power and the greatest num
ber of marvelous voices. I hear hun
dreds and hundreds of them tried out
every year in New York. But that great
bugbear, commerce, of the genus Amer
icanus is ever In the way of our girte
achieving what they should. They an
swer the call of gold too soon. They
want to do big things to finish off
with instead of beginning with big
things. If a girl has a beautiful voice
and wants to go into grand opera there
are three things she positively needs
to take with her when she goes. These
are brain, culture and dramatic ability.
A complete mastery of French. Italian
and German are essential.. Not a smat
tering or a menu acquaintance, but an
understanding of diction and trans
lation. The emphasis cannot be put
too strongly on the necessity, too, for
a thorough knowledge of the technique
of acting."
No one perhaps knows better than
Miss Bauer the musical and dramatic
situation of the day. She is an. ex
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MISS KMIL1K FRANCES BAUER. , . . , l
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, JUNE
OX SOUTH FOI1K OP WILLAPA RIVER. SHOWING A SMALL SECTIOX OF
are available without question and em
phatically. ,
mm'
Tributary to Wlllapa Harbor are for
ests of spruce, fir, hemlock and cedar
approximating 30.000.000,000 feet, with
a down-grade or water-level haul for
every tree to the mills and factories
of Raymond. These figures ae as
nearly official as possible, befng taken
from the cruisers' reports of the vart
ous timber owners of the Willapa
region. Divided into localities the fig
ures are grouped as follows:
Vt, Stumpage.
Pacifir County. tributary to
Willapa Harbor 18.000.000.000
On North River, tributary to
Willana Harbor 7,000,000.000
Lewis and Wahkiakum Coun
ties, tributary to Willapa
Harbor 5.000.000.000
Total
. . .30,000,000.000
There is no economic law more inevit
able in its working and less capable of
evasion than that which locates the fac
tory near the source of supply of the
raw material. Raymond, therefore, be
cause of her enormous wealth of raw
material and natural shipping facilities,
is destined to become a synonym for op
portunity in the manufacturing line. In
the manufacture of furniture, nine-tenths
of the material required can be supplied
from the native forests of Paciflo County,
and hardwoods can be imported from the
Philippines, Siberia and ' Central and
South America for loss money than hard
woods can be purchased In the Middle
West and South.
Owing to the large and almost inex
haustible supply of spruce nearby, Ray
-Commercialism
ponent of it. "Strange to say, music
is in advance of the dramatic condi
tions," she declared. "The reason is
simple: people In America take .music
seriously . Our interpreters have to
work to awaken Interest in it, requir
ing individual efforts as well as club
concentration. It is, I might say, en
tirely educational. I do not refer to
the people who are producing the
music. The producers are giving the
public an opportunity to hear all the
great works of world study In musical
life of every country, and they are
brought before the people In the form
of unbiased criticism, which is of Itself
educational. On the other hand, the
conscience of the drama Is In its money
drawer. The only thing the manager
dares consider is his box office values.
They are not an educational medium
and lay no claim toward such a title.
"In New York alone this Winter the
opera played havoc with the theater:
it demoralizes the attendance, because
the theater does not and cannot have
the same plane and altitude as does
music."
Miss Bauer has had the privilege of
knowing personally such celebrities as
mond offers excellent sites for box fac
tories, veneer plants and pulp and paper
mills.
In addition to the timber wealth of
the region surrounding Raymond, there
is unlimited opportunity for dairying,
general farming, fruit culture (includ
ing cranberries), stock-raising, bee cul
ture; indeed, every aspect of agricul
tural and horticultural progress. The
logged-off lands of Pacific County will
provide an empire for the energy of the
farmer, the dairyman ancl the fruit
grower. Almost this entire region is
tributary to Raymond by a down-hill or
water-level haul.
One of the distinctive resources of Wil
lapa Harbor is the oyster. Raymond, on
account of its strategic commercial posi
tion, must inevitably sustain an active
relation to the development of this rapidly-growing
Industry.
Given substantially similar conditions,
no surer index of probable progress can
be obtained than by observation of what
has already been accomplished. At Gray's
Harbor, north of Willapa Harbor, the
natural conditions furnish nearly a paral
lel for comparison. We. of course, main
tain that in many respects the Willapa
region has great advantages over Gray's
Harbor. On the tide-fiats and uplands of
Grays Harbor, incidental to the develop
ment of timber and other resources,
which are a duplicate of the Willapa
country, progressive men have built two
cities within 12 years that stand as
marvels in the Industrial world. Aber
deen, from a lazy, shiftless, inferior saw
mill village, has grown to a queenly city
of 25,000. Hoquiam, its mill twin, has
similarly grown to upwards of 10,000.
Renaud, Mary Garden. Caruso, Bonoi,
Emma Eames. Melba, Sembrich, Gadski.
Olive FTemstad, Tascaninl. Paderewskl and
hundreds of lesser stars. She knows these
folk in their home life, with' the relation
and position they bear to things not of
the stage; she has visited them and, in
many instances, received visits from them,
so between all these avenues she has
been afforded the best chances of reach
ing the inner self of these great ones.
But In no senee is Miss Bauer a hero
worshiper. She Is a student of psychol
ogy, and takes a keen and broad Inter
est in everyone and everything with which
she comes In contact. She attributes her
success (and it Is hers with a capital 3,
and long bars through the S), to the. fact
that she possesses a fund of revivability.
She is a dangerous woman in that she
has a wonderfully retentive memory, and
dates, names, facts and lines are at her
tongue's end in amazing rapidity. Her
weakness if she has one is. she con
fesses, candy and pretty gowns. She says
she is a pessimist from principle.
"If I plan on something being bad and
full of blue devils and It turns out bad,
I'm not disappointed, but if it turns out
lovely, I'm so glad I Just have to be a
pessimist."
While she is eternally feminine, she
likes her work to sound as if it were the
brain-child of a man.
"I am determined to eliminate from my
work any sentiment or color that wiil
cause folk to say 'That's the woman of
It.' I believe emphatically in a sympa
thetic criticism, and if it has to come
through severity, why let It come. Per
sonally, I detest the spirit of a roast, this
printed exhibition of grouches and near
temperament, done in most instances sim
ply to show that one Is a capable critic
and can do what his readers expect of
him."
"Yes." in reply to a query, "I love my
work, but I never would advise a woman
to go and do likewise. The woman who
is spared a career should be the happiest
woman in the world."
Miss Bauer does not speak from the
viewpoint of an unfilled or disappointed
life, for she is the personification of joy
ous serenity and has tasted deep of the
cup -of success.
"But even the woman who seems the
least like a home woman, could be per
suaded to stay ' in that niche, if fewer
women had the career bee in their bon
nets. To all girls I say, and have said
time without number, unless you have
an infinite capacity for pains, which some
one has said is genius, stay at home.
Even If the stage has lost perhaps a
shining mark, it is so much better for- the
girl. Of course, if you are already In It.
why stay In it, v and fight it out. Carry
it to the limit: don't let sex interfere,
and achieve something; but if you are
not in, don't get in.",
The Oregonian was Miss Bauer's alma
mater. "I feel." she said, as I was leav
ing, "that J am not writing to a more
appreciative or critical audience in any
of the European or New York publica
tions, for which I write, than T am in
the audience I have in The Oregonian
: patrons.
BEARDS EXPOSE HEARTS
Berlin Journal States Men's Styles
Show Captors' Nationalities.
BERLIN. June 5. A society Journal
here says if a. good-looking young man
suddenly Brrewru a wOH ot4 h,h v, .j
he loves a woman who cares most for
domestic Joys. That is why one sees
more iuii Dearas in Germany than any
where plan
If another man appears unexpectedly
wearing a small, upturned mustache of
uiciaiicuuiy aspect, ne surely loves
..... . .. n 1 l. tut 1 1
a man. formerly famed for his beauty
uecause oi nis Deara. should appear
clean-shaven, he has been captured by
.n American woman, ir ne wears i
toothbrush mimtshA u n n n ' . 1
mm e him At nil Via 4tkai.
English woman or a woman who dotes
v j IU1U& cngiisn.
I
THE WATER FRONT OK RAYMOND,
The- two cities, with their vast mills, I
factories, shipping and civic improve
ments, present a spectacle of municipal
thrift and enterprise hard . to surpass
anywhere on earth. T'.ie citizens who
have produced those cities are worthy
of the admiration of their fellow men.
It detracts jiot one whit from Ray
mond's luster to state that its promoters
have had the Grays Harbor cities In mind
as patterns for their efforts. They have
reasoned (and rightly) that if American
brains and energy can build great cities
at Grays Harbor, similar brains and e
ergy can duplicate the process at Wil
lapa Harbor.
Raymond is the result of this reasoning.
The builders of Raymond have had in
mind always the vital relation of indus
tries (consumers of natural product and
employers of labor) to the healthy growth
of the municipality and its tributary
country. They have, therefore, secured
and are securing the location on its fac
tory sites above described of manufactur
ing plants of Ivse capacities. What has
been accomplished within less than five
years In this direction reads almost like a
romance: Twenty-two manufacturing
plants, involving U. 900.000 capital, putting
out 795.000 feet of lumber a day, 135.000
lath, 1.000,000 shingles and 600.000 baskets:
employing 1200 men in the plants, with a
payroll of J75.O0O per month: 900 men In
neighboring logging camps, with a pay
roll of 66.000 a month.
The possibilities are not by any means
exhausted by this list. There Is room for
yet innumerable industries that will ex
ploit the rich field of by-products which
is as yet almost untouched. There is
room for multitudinous wood-working
Oregon Exhibit Lures All Visitors at A.-Y.-P. Fair
Led From Case to Case in Search for Colored Grains Used in Dome Picture, One Sees All Resources of State
Almost Without Realizing Time Spent in Great Building.
ALASKA - YUKON - PACIFIC FAIR
GROUNDS. June 5. (Special. )
Nestled in a grave of towering
evergreens, left from the rative wilder
ness of the fair site, stands iho beautiful
Colonial building that houses the Oregon
exhibits at this fair of all the Northwest.
With its spacious lawns, decorated here
and there with beds of Oregon grape, the
Oregon building Is one of the most attrac
tive at the exhibition: and in contrast to
ine solid Forestry building. Just across the
Washington Circle, its graceful lines are
wen revealed.
Bordering it to the left Is the Washing
ton building, more severe in design, but
scarcely less attractive, while across the
lawns to the right is the big, rambling
Duiiamg that houses the display of King
County. Directly In front of the Oreeon
building Is the music pavilion, thus mak
ing it one of the most centrallv located of
all the fair edifices, and one sure to be
visited by the major part of the visitors
from the Pacific Northwest, as well as
by those from the further states to the
east and south.
Comfort Awaits All.
In fact, ever since the onenin dav.
the Oregon building has been the Mecca
of all visitors to the fair. Reports of its
exhibits have gone afar, and its location
such that it furnishes for the tourist
an excellent base of operations in the
campaign of sightseeing. During the fre
quent band concerts its spacious porch
ib crowaeo. wun visitors seeking rest and
enjoyment in the great armchairs that
tne commissioners have provided on its
cool and shady porch; while the two bal
conies upstairs are sure to be filled with
other visitors, who are combining the
chance to rest and at the same time enjoy
the views that these porches afford. One
of them .gives a vantage point for ob
servation of the passing crowds, while
the other has an outlook that is rivalled
only by the wonderful vista of Cascade
Court.
Located as it is. in the heart of the life
of the fair, it is hut fitting that the ex-
mDit within should be of the finest. And
to make it so, the unparalleled resources
of the Beaver state have been drawn
upon, and set out in such a manner that
each division is given almost equal promi
nence. In fact, the interior arrangement
of the Oregon building Is an Invltaton
to look and see what Oregon has, a subtle
invitation which leads the visitor on from
case to case, from room to room, until
all that Oregon has to offer has been
seen.
Apples and Green Leaves.
Entering the high doorway beneath the
pillared porch, one is confronted first with
the apple pyramid, an artistic grouping
of Oregon's most luscious fruit and the
green and shining leaves that make Hood
River and Rogue River orchards so beau
tiful. This pyramid, over 20 feet in
height, is kept fresh by the constant sub
stitution of new fruit for any that may
spoil; a large supply of prime apples being
Kept in cold storage in the refrigerating
plant in the basement.
And right there the "leading psych
ology of the Oregon display begins, if
such a term may be used. The eye nat
urally follows up the pyramid to Its apex.
and sees beyond the grain picture of the
state's resources that -fills the graceful
dome. In colors true to life this great
panorama portrays an Idyllic Oregon
scene, showing the palisades of the Co
lumbia, with its . waterfalls; the dense
woods of the mountain districts, the grain
fields and pasture land of the interior.
the hop vines, the birds and beasts that
are native to the state, and the perfect
.peak of Mount Hood, rising white and
coia above an.
As the eye take in this panorama the
Lumber Manufacturing Center, With the Best of Trans
portation Facilities and Increasing Activity.
WASH.
plants which can take the raw material
now going largely to waste and make it
into woodenware, including barrels, tubs,
washboards, brooms, mousetraps, washing
machines, etc., into excelsior, wood-pulp,
toothpicks, matches an inexhaustible list.
There is room for factories of the higher
class, such as furniture, wagon and buggy,
sash and door, inside finishings, church
furniture, pianos and organs. The field is
large and the markets of the world await
the progressive manufacturer. Transpor
tation both by water and rail in the cheap
est possible form is at hand for the deliv
ery of the goods to consumers far and
near. Raymond offers free sites for the
building and operation of such factories.
Five years ago Raymond was not even
a name; today it with good reasons be
lieves itself to be one of the most Im
portant young towns in the Northwest.
At that time it had but one sawmill and
probably but 50 people.
. How different todayl On every side as the
traveler enters Raymond may be seen the
smoke of her factories, and the hum of
their machinery may be heard in every
portion of the city. Compare the condi
tions existing in Raymond five years ago
yes, but three years ago with the large
mills, the shipyards and the foundries
and machine shops of today, and it will
at once re-eal the secret of the rapid
growth of the city.
The $75,000 a month paid to Raymond's
wage-earners certainly entitles it to the
pseudonym, "City of Payrolls." Lum
bering predominates, and the mammoth
sawmills, shingle mills, shipyards and
various woodworking concerns.' and the
drone of their machinery, the shriek of
question naturally arises as to how all
this could be done without paints, and by
merely using natural grains to get the
coloring. And so,, naturally enough, one
turns to the pillars of grain that support
the dome, and to the other grain ex
hibits, hunting for the different kernels
that contain the magic colors of the
dome picture. And one finds them all.
and in the search for the different cases
Is led to other exhibits, that attract one
from time to time away from the search
for the multi-colored grains.
Passing to the left one is aware of the
sound of bubbling water, and looking to
see whence comes the gentle rippling, one
sees the salmon hotchArt. fi , i, i. .u
aquarium. Here one may trace the de
velopment, or tne salmon from the ruddy
eggs to the fuU-grown king ot the Co
lumbia, and in nunanlnir thj.
also sees the other fish native to Ore
gon waters. Turning from this ehihtt
back to a further search for fnlrtrH
grain for the human mtnri ts Via.,
convince, and must be "shown" one sees
the giant sheep ,that symbolizes Ore
gon s wool industry. After smiling at the
sheen, one catches a friimnu rt a
creature of purplish hue the "prune
uuui 01 prime prunes in sym
bolic form of the state animal.
Butter on Display.
Turning from this, still in the search
for grain, one is confronted bv the dis
play of Oregon butter, moulded in a
reingerating case, and plastic as clay.
But one still wants to see the red grain
used .in the dome picture, and while
looking for it Is led to the lumber evhihit
that rivals that in the Forestry building.
And side by side with this is the mineral
exhibit, showing that Oregon has re
sources under her wooded hills, resources
well worth delving for.
ay this time the visitor has comnletcd
the circuit of the lower floor, and that
red grain is still missing. So the search
is taken upstairs, and there, sure enough.
In tall glass jars, are the red and yellow
nerneis 01 oninant hue that are used
in the picture to portray the colors of
the pheasant's wing. Once satisfied that
this dome picture is no fake, and made
doubly sure by the inspection at close
range, one turns to rind the stairs, and
In so doing sees yet other exhibits, not
ably that of the state schools and In
stitutions. And so the visitor is led to
examine these before returning to the
lower iioor.
Tired, perhaps, by the wealth of dis
play that has met the eye. the visltoi
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THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLAHTA, GA,
their whistles add to the all-prevailing
hustle and activity of the growing manu- ,
facturing city.
Raymond has a population of nearly
3000 people. It has city water, electric
lights, sewers, a complete salt water fire
protection system, is rapidly improving
its streets, has established a fire limit
within its business district requiring tha
erection of brick, concrete or stone struc
tures, has taken steps for the immediate
construction of two free bridges across
the Willapa River and the South Fork,
and proposes in the near future to fill tip
the tide-flats of its retail business district
with sediment pumped from tts river
channels, thus with one operation deep
ening and widening its harbor and im
proving its business area.
It is a city of homes. Every one who
buys vacant property within the city lim
its Is required to erect a building. For
each two lots that are purchased one
dwelling must be erected.
The city has excellent water for domes
tic purposes, the use of manufactories
and fire protection. We also have a good
electric light system mentioned before,
and the cost of these two necessities Is
most reasonable.
A splendid school system, two churches,
a city hall, a fire department, and all of
the many Institutions that make for the
welfare of a properly ordered city, are
already established. In short. Raymond
Is the ideal city for the prospective in
vestor, be he business man or homeseek
er, and we have only to be given the op
portunity to show him our resources and
surroundings, in order to convince him
that all we have said in this article is no
exaggeration.
searches out a place to rest, and is
directed by courteous attendants to the
rest rooms. These chambers are fitted
up with a sumptuousness seldom equaled
in the hotel palaces of the . East, 'where
no expense is spared to make the guest
comfortable. Lounging in a chair as
soft and alluring as the most fastidious
could demand, the visitor rests; and at
the same time sees still other Oregon
exhibits furniture and decorations, on
all sides. No chance has been lost in
the Oregon building to display In the most
attractive form the resources of the
state.
Finally rested, the visitor reluctantly
starts to leave, but a merry crowd com
ing from a darkened door to the right
of the entrance piques the natural curi
osity. xand the darkened door is investi
gated. It is found to lead to a spa
cious and comfortable auditorium, with a
huge while screen at one end, on which
are flashed colored views of the incom
parable scenery of the Beaver state.
Watching these pictures of magic beauty
and listening to the description of the
places shown, one waits quite content
edly until moving pictures, the delight of
young and old alike, show the activities
of the pioneer state of the Pacific Coast
pictures of city and country life, of farm
ing, lumbering and mining.
And a Place to Kat.
And so. little realizing how the time
has passed, one leaves the Oregon build
ing, only to discover, perhaps, that half
a day has been spent within during that
Insidious search for the red grain. Half
a day and It is time to eat. The" ques
tion is no sooner propounded than an
answer Is found, and in the same Oregon
building. In the basement is a clean
and neat restaurant, where Oregon-raised
foods are sold at reasonable prices, and
so the visitor returns again to the hos
pitality of the state and eats for the
first time. perhapsv Oregon strawberries.
After such treatment one goes away
with the kindliest feelings for the state
below the Columbia, and with a wealth
of Information on its resources stored
within the mind. Also this information
has not been forced on one. but has
been actually sought out. and so makes a
more lasting impression. As one visitor
expressed it:
"My own curiosity buncoed me into
seeing everything you had. and I'm
glad I'm a curious man."
A cubic: foot of gold weighs 1210 pounds;
ellver. W5 pounds.
DRIVES OUT
J