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TIIE MORNING ASTORIA N. ASTOhIA, OR EGO,
FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1905.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
JAY TUTTLE, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Actios Assistant gurgeon
t.S. Marine Hospital Service,
Mm hours: 10 to IS a-m. 1 to 4: $9 p-m.
417 Commercial Street. Ind Floor.
Dr.RHODA C. HICKS
OSTEOrATHIST
fUaaaU Bids. STS OommercujJ 8t
rHONKBUCK.
DR. T. L. BALL,
DENTIST.
(24 Commercial St. Astoria, Oreeon.
Dr. VAUGIIAN,
Dentist
Pythian Building," Astoria, Oregon.
Dr. W. C LOGAN
DENTIST
678 Commercial St., Suanahan Building
MISCELLANEOUS.
C. J. TREXCHAR1)
UI Estate, Insurance, Commission
and Shipping.
CUSTOM HOUSE BROKER.
Offica 133 Ninth Street, Next to Juatict
Office.
ASTORIA, OREGON.
BEST 15 CENT MEAL
Fou can always tind the best
15-cent mealin the city at the
Rising Sun Restaurant
612 Commercial St.
FIRST-CLASS MEAL
fr 15c; nice cake, colfee.1 pie, or
doughnuts, ac, at U. S. Restaur
ant. 434 Bond St.
BAY VIEW lHOTEL
y JE. G LASER, Prop.
nornc Cookinj, ComforUbltUkdt. Ruton
ablc Ratts'tRdJNict Treatment
Astoria today la a bustling, cosmo
politan city of 15,000 people. Its popu
lation represents almost every nation
ISy en earth, In consequence of which
it Is a lively center of business activity.
Its advantageous location at the mouth
f the great Columbia river makes it
the trade mart of the vast productive
region of northwester Oregon and
aoutnweetern Washington, and it is the
aopply point for fully 25,000 people. It
is Oregon's second city In size and im
portance. The estimate ef population hf-re
given Is conservative. The 1900 gov
ernment census accredited the city
with about 9000 I eop'.e. but thi launch
tog of new enterprises, together with
the natural growth, has added many
hundreds to the population in the past
five years. Failure to dewlop local re
wurces has resulted in slow growth,
but a new era of commercial activity
is dawning and the prospects for the
shy's future are very bright.
On its magnificent location and won
derful natural advantages Astoria
bases Its expectations of future great
aess. Situated on the only fresh-water
harbor of Importance In the world,
with the broad ocean but 10 miles from
fts wharves, it enjoys marked advant
ages as a shipping center. The gravity
route of the Columbia rh-er is nature's
highway for the great Inland empire
til Immense product of which must be
expored from the ocean port. At As
toria the largest ships may find safe
moorings, and Its harbor will accom
modate all the shipping that may ever
rami! to the northwest coast. It is
pre-eminently the Pacific slope port
as New York is the Atlantic port, and
must soon receive from the transcon
tinental railroads the p-cognitlon which
its advantages Justify, as has New
Tork on the Atlantic coast.
Development of the lumbering in
tfustry will alone m;ik Astoria great,
There are 7."i,0ni,0nt.fl0 feet of tilm-r
ttsriding In the forests near the city.
This vast timber supply Is great
enough to keep in steady operation for
20 years 100 large mills, and to afford
jrttrployrnent during that period to 15.-
18 persons In the manufacturing
plant, to say nothing of the army of
workmen that would be employed In
the forests. The first steps towards the
development of lumbering have now
been taken; and four mils, with a dally
utpt exceeding 300,000 feet, are In
operation. The forests are only a snort
iistance from the city, and the cost of
Feminine
Snapshots
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Co-operative Housekeep
ing, Like Marriage,
Sometimes a
Failure
Lately there appeared la a newspaper
an atnustng account of how some girls
tried to reallie the harmony of commu
nity housekeeping. Tbey began beautl
fully new furniture, pretty china and
tuffy little "coay corners" till you
couldn't rest It was so sweet so
homelike, so restful and all that, they
said. Presently oue girl determined to
make all the others keep their rooms,
even to their closets and bureau draw
era, In the exact apple pie order In
which her own were maintained. Of
course there was a grand kick, and
feminine Irritation followed. Next the
girl who managed the co-operatlvs
housekeeping purse Invited one week
several of her friends to dinner, thus
entailing added expense. Of course her
sense of Justice should have prompted
her to pay the added expense herself.
j But she apparently had no sense of
Justice, bo she told the co-operative
family they must economize the next
week, and that girl was mean enough
to cut down the me:ils and skimp all
the rest to pay for her hospitality.
Next there was a girl whose special
brand of theology was not approved by
some of her mates, and they undertook
to reconstruct her. If there Is oue thlug
the powerful feminine mind Is strong
on it Is theology, and the girl refused
to adopt a more fashionable creed than
the one she held already. More fric
tion. At length some of the women un
dertook to tell one of their number
how she should dress herself, and that j
was the last drop In the bucket. "Har
mony liar broke up In disorder. Will
women ever learn to mind their own
business and not meddle with one an
other? e it
If you are obliged to speak disagree
able truths, practice gentle ways of
uttering them, that you may give as
little hurt as possible.
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"There's an old lady here who looks
like a perfect picture. She's one of our
saleswomen," said a girl In the suit r-
department of a great store. "She!
( mnpf Ka inirante Vimim aIiI Grin hna
: uiuoi ?v v v 1 1 j j mm viu, tuc una
j been here years and years, but she
I never misses a day or an hour from
! her work. Some of the girls give up
and stay away from business If the
least little thing gets the tnatterwlUi-
FACTS ABOUT
bringing logs to Astoria Is light, mark-
lng this a most desirable point for the
manufactuer of lumber. The advant
ages offered by this city as a milling
point are beginning to attract the at
tention of mlllmen who desire to op
erate economically, and before long
Astoria will rank a the largest lum
bering producing port on the Pacific
coast.
The growth of the salmon industr)
will likewise prove of great benefit tc
Astoria. By means of artificial propa
gation, this magnificent business has
come to stay. It will be built up, with
in a few years, to four times Its present i
magnitude, and will then mean more
than J10,(a)0,000 annually to the city.
Several Alaskan salmon canneries are
owned and op"ratl here and .-ach
year bring large sums to their horn
office. The risibilities of Astoria as a
fishing port or center In other lines of
fishing industries are also of great
importance, and the attention of capi
talists is called to this city as a deep-s--a
fishing center; also to the great
runs of genuine French sadrines which
come Into the river by the hundreds of
billions every year.
The lower Columbia river district,
with its mild climate, offers unsur
Kissed Inducements to dairymen, farm
ers and small-fruit growers. While
small-fruit growing has not been ex
tensively rng;iged In, those who "nave
followed It have been most successful,
and one enterprising grower Is now
harvesting two strawberry crops a
year the only Instance of the kind
known In this sec tion of the country. '
Settlement of the produc tive lands of
the county will work wonders for the I
city and assist materially in Its up
building.
There are many other i (sources J netting It with four transcontinental
which will combine to bring about the ' railroads; Is the uttermost railroad ex
future greatness of Astoria. Here are tension point on the American contl-
to be found opportunities for men In'nent; In 200 miles nearer Yokahoma
every walk of life capitalists, small 'and other oriental ports than any othr
investors, fanner, dairymen, fruit
grower and laborer. This new country,
where fortunes await the energetic,
offers -to those seeking location the;
best advantages of any section of the
west.
In every respect Astoria
Is metro-
politan. It enjoys splendid facilities It Is the only place where the royal
of all kinds, Is a pleasure-loving city chl nook salmon Is packed: has sub
and thoroughly up-to-date. Thou-jstantlal public and business buildings,
sands of strangers visit Astoria every ! factories and handsome residences,
month, and during the summer season Astoria's School System.
It Is the Mecca of those who live In , Astoria's schol system Is not sur
the Interior. It has its different quar-j passed by that of any other city of
ters, like the larger cities, and, best'of the size In the west. At present then-
For further Information Send $1.00 for a
thenc. Mrs. Wank goo right along
She's got more grit and more endurance
than a ihweu young girls." Lutor I
saw Mrs. Blank. Kenlly, seventy years
old though flic was, she hud the hand
somest face on that floor, although It
was the suit department, where the
good looking saleswomen lire generally
plaeeik Slie had line feature, softly
waving gray hair ami a smooth, pret
ty complexion. She had also a sweet
gracious uutiiiier that was mightily
taking. Here, then, was a woman who
had mssed through all life's storms
and sorrows mid come out at seventy
years of age handsome and peaceful
faced, her powers of body and mind
perfectly held and she earning lur llv
lug as n cloak and suit saleswoman
This item Is for girl.
Note this remarkable dipping from a
newspMr, "It'irlug a lire In a hotel
a woman dressed herself In less than
fifteen minutes." The unfeeling editor
adds, "This record Is likely to stand
for at least a century."
Among the cabled dispatches at the
beginning of the St. Petersburg out
break was the following highly slgnlfl
cant one: "It appears that the women
are becoming a highly Important ele
ment In the situation. The feminine
half of the common people has become
rabid for revolution, and government
officials say this Is the gravest devel
opment thus far."
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Somebody nsks whether public offi
cials and employees are paid to be civil.
If they are. then certainly no more
than half of them earn their money. It
always pays to he civil, whether we are
paid for it or not.
Miss Martha S. liensley, a graduate
of Vassar and a teacher, adopted the
j role of nursery governess mid went
! about Investigating the child question
j In the families of the very wealthy.
1 She found almost everywhere a dispo
sition on the part of rich American
pareuts to shunt oft their family duties
and hire others, almost anybody, to
take care of their children. Mothexa In
fashionable society sec their Children
once a day, the fathers often not for
days together, Miss Iteualcy say a. Well,
If this Is what we are coming to, the
next move will be the fashionable In
fants' hotels that are talked of, where
babies and little ones may be cared for
night and day at a staled price and a
good high one. Thus they will be no
bother at ail to their pareuts except
perhaps when some of them die and re
quire a funeral.
Here is something women should
bear constantly In mind: In so fur as
we depend on others to that degree we
weaken our own powers. If a wife lets
her husband manage all her financial
affair,. Bhebe1ngjn utjer Ignorance
ASTORIA AND ITS INDUSTRIES
all, it Is the healthiest spot on earth.
Astoria wants more people. Its na
tural resources will eiutlly support
from 250,000 to 600,000 population, yet
there are only 15,000 people here to
reap the benefits that nature has so
generously placed at their disposal.
The homeseeker will find no better
place to locate, and few equal places
Labor Is aJways In demand, at the
highest wages, and there Is much en
(ouragement for the man who wishes
to engage in business. Strangers often
remark the uniform courtesy of the
people ami the general effort on the
nart of Astorlans to make matters
pleasant for visitors. The home-seeker
or Investor who falls to visit Astoria
will make a groat mistake, for no other
community in the Pacific northwest
offers such opportunities as the lower
Columbia river district.
Astoria has a 1300,000 gravity water
system, a paid Are department, first
class street car service, gas and elec
tric lighting systems, free public li
brary, unexcelled transportation facili
ties, complete school system, 40 civic
societies, three dally and. six weekly
newspapers, excellent telegraph, antj
telephone service, thre banks carry
ing deposits of about $2,000,000, two ex.
press offices, first-class theaters, 14
churches, labor unions representing
every branch of trade, two energetic
commercial organizations, two social
clubs, admirably conducted hospital,
miles of manufacturing sites, ple nty or
fine residence and busln-Hn property;
Is the only fresh-water seaport on the
Pacific coast; Is situated at the moutn
of a river that drains an empire; has a
harbor large enough to accommodate
coast; has a trunk-line railroad con-
Pacific coaat port; is 160 milts nearer
the Cape Nome mining country than
any other port on the Pacific coast; Is
the salmon shipping center of tne
world; Is the center of one of the
greatest poslble dairy industries thatjeedar. There are also soft, or bh
the country today possesses.
to' theiiv he will suddenly And some
One day that he has managed them
Into the ground and there la nothing
left for her.
ELIZA AKCIUKD CONNER.
MIDDLE AGED FOLKS.
Tkm rhaasre Which llaa Corn Ovar
h Spirit of the Tinea.
In the middle of the nineteenth cen
tury a man of forty-live waa regarded
almost elderly, and a woman of Uie
same ago was expected to have long
stnee cut herself adrift from all ties
binding her to her youth and to assume
the appearance and deportment of
staid, exemplary matrou. All tills ha
changed In a particularly Interesting
way, of which the prominent feature la
a seeming contradiction. If the three-year-old
child of today Is as kuowlusj
as was the six-year-old of half a cen
tury ago, and the teu-year old boy of
today Is In many respects uuite as
much a man as was his grandfather at
eighteen, oue might naturally expect
tli at In due gradation the modern mid
dle aged tnau should be old beyond bis
years. Hut sucn is not the case.
Middle age, so far from hurrying ou
Into senility, so far even from standing
still, would seem actually to have step
ped backward aud marched alongside
of youth. There la a Jauntluess, a
buoyancy, an elasticity, about the mid
dle age of today at which our fathers
would have shaken their heads as un
seemly. The gulf w hich ouce separat
ed the middle aged parent from his
children has beeu tilled up. The cur
tain which shrouded the middle aged
man generally from the eyes of youth
and which caused him to be regarded
with respect If not with awe has been
lifted, and In obedience to the same In
fluences which have made the school
master the frloud of the schoolboy aud
the regimental officer almost the com
rade of his men the middle aged uiau
of today Is never so happy as when
working, or playing upon an equality
and actually In coinHtltlon with youth
As with men. so It Is with women.
Social statisticians tell us that the age
at which women are considered most
eligible for marriage has lieeu very not
ably advanced of late years, ami we
know that the lament of many a match
Disking mamma is that the most dread
ed rlvuls of her darling are not to be
found so much among the girls of her
owu age as among women who not
many years ago would have lieen rele
gated to the ranks of hopeless old
maidenhood. The fact that the middle
aged woman of today Is much younger
In maimer and tastes Is, of course, not ;
the only reason for this, but It Is among j
the most potent.- London Spwtator.
Families desiring either Colonlnl ;
or Shonlwnter bay pysters enn nlwuyej
secure them fresh at the Imperial
oyester houito. which makes a specialty !
f supplying families or parties. I
are six large school buildings her'.
The sc -hrads are conveniently located In
ail. sections of the city, and in every
respect are modern in their upimlnt
ments. Well-appointed school are to
be found throughout the county, and
children living on farms and In vil
lages enjoy educational advantage al
most equal to those afforded illy chil
dren. Aitoria'a Water System.
Astoria posw-sses a 1.100,000 gravity large. Vet cedar Is found mixed with
water system, which is not equalled .the cither timbers, the trees seldom he.
In equipment by any other system luing of greater height, although often
the Pacific northwest. The water very large. 'el cedar Is Hot plentiful
works are operated by the municipal in this section. In general estimates ol
government as represented by the
water commission, and constitute the
city's most valuable asset. The watei
is brought from I'.ear creek, about in
miles distant, which has Its source it,
the mountains.
The reservoir Is situated cm the pla
teau back of the city, where the sup
ply Is regulated. The water system of
Astoria Is extensive enough to supply
the needs of 100,000 reople, besides af
fording fire protection to nil parts of
the city.
Tha Lumbering Industry.
The mouth of the Columbia river
has the greatest body of timber trlbu
tary and available of any jsdnt In the
world.
The lumbering business Is the larg
est In the Pacific north west; It out.
ranks In value of product any other
line. Production of wheat Is n close
second, being worth $17,000,000 a year,
while the value of the lumber output
is $1K,000,000. ' Coal, gold and sllver.j
fruit, cattle and sheep, wool 'and fish,
all of which are produced In great
abundance, fall far below, nor hardly
equal in the aggregate, the wealth de
rived from the forests. The town,
therefore, that commands the greatest
resources available of fine timber must
have a great outlook, llemand for
timber will not decrease, but become
greater with every year.
The timber trees of the forests tribu
tary to Astoria are, In order of qual
ity; Douglas fir, commercially known
as Oregon pine; hemlock, spruce and
is-
eye, maple, vine maple, ulder, wild
; cherry, willow, etc.
The fir Is both red and yellow. It
grows five to 14 feet In dlu meter, and
150 to 300 feet tall; 351 feet Is said to
have been measured on one fallen tre.
In the coast mountains. Considerable
noble, fir, or larch, and some white pln
are found on the highest of the coast
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mountains, but little near Astoria. The
spruce, of the tldelund species, la found
only on the west slopes of the coast
mountains. It attain a diameter vary
nng from about an average of six feet
to H or 17; and specimen 67 and it
feet each In girth have been measured
- II) to 21 feet In diameter. Hemlock
occurs as a mixed or smaller growth
with fir anil spruce, trees seldom being
of great height, although often very
timber production 20,00 feet to the
aire Hie olloweil. Hlligle acres have
been knout! to produce, ten times this
ani nint. (Juaiter sections of timber
land on the market are usually esti
mated at .1.000,000 to (1,000.000 feet eac h,
board measure.
Mills and Manufacturing.
Although manufacturing is as yet In
its lufani-y In Astoria, more than 4100
persons are employed In the Institu
tions nw doing buslnesH here. The
salmon industry employ by far the
greatest number of persons, but the
seasons extend over a period of only
about six months, and at other times
j those engaging In It follow other lines
of pursuit, The lumbering Industry.
Including box factories, barrel factor
ies, etc., is rapidly assuming propor
tions, and will, within u few years, out
rank the fishing Interests.
ANtoria wants more manufacturing
concerns, and offers the very best In
ducements to capitalists. Here are to
lie found unexcelled sites, with the ad
vantage of both rail and water connec
tions, and the Intending inventor In
western properties should look over the
Astoria situation. Kite can be secured
at very low prices.
More tbnn $.1,000,000 is invested In
manufacturing plants here, while the
value of the yearly product exceeds
! $6,500,000. In all, 4341 persona are em
ployed, receiving annual wages that
aggregate $;,059.00.
Salmon Industry.
Astoria owes Us existence largely to
the great salmon Industry of which II
is the center. Year after year the Co
lumbia river has given up Its wealth
of fish, and In the past 25 yeurs has
yielded $75,000,000, nearly all of which
has been placed In circulation In this
city. Where other crops have failed,
the salmon supply has maltnulned Its
average of production, and In this re
spect can be classed as one of Oregon's
the Weekly Astorian.
Your
for 1906
OF
Oregon.
greatest resources.
Tha annual salmon yield of tha Co
lumbla river Is vnlued at $$,000,000.
Ths spring fishing season lusts only
about four months-from April 15 to
August 25o II imii. ST.'.ftnnn
... w , HVVVV
monthly to thosn Intrrrated In It luid
those who live at and near the seat
of the Industry.
Ths Dairying Industry.
Dairying In Clatsop county In In Its
Infuncy, and very few dairymen reullxs
the natural advantage of this cotih.
ry. The climate, coupled with the pro
ductiveness of the oil, makes It an ,ea
district for production of butler and
cheese; dairymen are taking more In
terest In the br I ii rid care of slock.
With the genuine butter cow, such
is few hero have as yet, much better
results may , obtained, though even
now the luxurl.-m pasturage enables
the cows to furnish an abundance of
rich milk, with more than an average
of butter fat. A modem equipped
creamery Is In operation In Astoria,
furnishing the farmers n ready sale
for their cream, at an average price for
the year of 2214 ,...! ,,r p,mnJ fr
butten fat; ,i the cow yield, under
good cure, almiM 225 pounds of butter
rat per year. There Is general mr.
est In Increasing the dairy business;
m in or the dairymen are preparing to
enlurge their herds, and new darles ara
being stnrte.1. Kver-growlng rruss
and the best Imuket i. wo., mskrt
this an Inviting field for those who
understand the enre of cows.
All the Oregon const country, espe
cially that near the mouth of the Co
lumbia river. Is very similar to the
great dairying sections of Kurope, such
as Henmark. Holland and the Chanml
Islands. The winters, however, me
milder and the summers dryer.
The lands best adapted to grass-
growing ur0 the tldclands, Whith ,e
river bottoms, adjoining the Colum
bia or Its branches, and overflowed by
the highest tides. These lands may be
reclaimed by diking, Rt an expense of
about $10 per acre, ny diking large
tracts by machinery with steuiu
dredges the expense may be reduced,
and more substantial dikes erected, one
acre of tldelund has been shown to b
ample for keeping one cow the entire
year. There are still ln Clatsop county
aborut 20,000 acres of tldeland to be
diked, much of It being easily cleared
after the diking Is dotw. This Is no
experiment, as many of the best dull)
farms have been made on diked tit-
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land.