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PUBLISHES FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT
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COVERS THE MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA
33rd YEW. NO. 47
ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY FEBRUARY 23, 1908
PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
ASTORIA-GREAT PACIFIC SEAPORT
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be in the liiiniim. The key in in the
luck, ami the haml "f "lie of the
urcate-.! cxiansioiiit of the I'niteil
Slate i iii'Hi the key.
The city lta a century of coinmtiiial
bfp behind her ami a place in the run
nl history of the Noilheit that
imtxt make her newer chronicles of
Micces ami achievement much ea-ier:
And only that -die lie HH miles oil
the beaten path of interior railway,
.commerce have those later aunaN
been repressed in the record; yet,
while the larger phases of commercial
accomplishment have been retarded,
he has forged slow ly ahead to prom- j
iitenee as one of the chiefest of the
world's salmon and lumber centers,
her civic development keeping exact j
and timelv p. ice with her commercial,
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progress.
At the gateway of the enormous:
vallrv of the Columbia and of the!
v.it Inland Kmpire behind it; with
the completion of the new and huge j
transportation enterprises now afoot,
storia must figure conspicuously in
the unfolding of the gigantic com
merce inevitable for the Northwest,
and become one of the world's best
known sea and rail terminals. The
country she stands for is inconceiv
ably rich in a myriad staple com
modities, grain, lumber, dairy-products
and fish being the principal items
of abundance in long list of human
supply. These aside from t lie essen
tial products that come in the wake
of population and endeavor and 'dis
covery as the world counts these
agencies.
The cenic glories of the Columbia
culminate about Astoria and contri
bute Kreatly to the charm of the
place, and this, with the equable cli
mate that prevails the year round,
make her notable among the Pacific
coast resorts. Nature seems to have
begrudged nothing to make Astoria
crved and made to figure pronoun
cedly in the life and interests of her
people, and to leave her a status as a
habitable, comfortable, convenient
, .mures of the times. The acquire
ment of the Astoria & Columbia
River Railway, between this city and
Portland, and the building of the
i nd pleasant dwelling place for the Portland & Seattle Railway, known
n an of industry, of affairs, of leisure j as the "North Bank" line (and which
and of fixed pursuit, the student, pro- j will run from Spokane, via Astoria,
ilucer, traveler, the merchant, mil 1 -
to San Francisco, in time to come)
great summer pilgrimage to the coast
resorts and mountain camps of the
States of Washinngton and Oregon,
and is herself in the heart of the
"winey sunshine belt," known the
world over as the ideal climate on the
hither side of the Rockies. There
are from 100,000 to 150,000 people
CLATSOP COUNTY COURT HOUSE.
attractive and successful. Depending i man, the fisherman, everyone that ap
npon hersell for advaiiceinent in her neciates ami needs tliese things; and
somewhat isolated position, she has a distinct feature of her existence to
aided herself always by cultivating day is that she has fewer idle people
the best of nil civic attributes, her than any city of her size on the coast.
h eal government, her .schools, her
churches, her social and fraternal
agencies, her business and commer
cial stnnd-trds, all have been con-
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CITY HALL, ASTORIA.
She maintains one of the finest sys
tems of public schools in the State
an I this is augmented by a group of
private schools both denominational
and non-sectarian; her water supply
service rank with the peerless
quipmcnt for which Portland is
anions, and it is the property of the
nnnicipality; she is in almost hourly
.ontact with the outer world by rail
and steamer; the press of city and
county sutlers nothing by contrast
with the same agency in any city of
the whole country of her size; she is
in instant touch with the hundreds
of outlying towns on the sea and
1 river coasts of Oregon and Washing
ton; indeed all her civil, educational,
ethical, industrial appointments are
on a par with the best demands of the
culture of the day and the people.
Astoria has much to hope for from
the great transportation schemes now
unifying and consttmating all around
her. President Hill, of the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific rail
way systems is. the master-mind be
hind the negotiations upon the con
clusion of which the Columbia Basin
will he wholly included in one of the
most extensive and composite railway
will give uninterrupted and easy ac
cess to the open sea at Astoria, from
the grain fields of Oregon, Washing
ton, Montana and Idaho, on the
down-grade, water-level, and put the
operating companies in supreme mas
tery of both banks of the Columbia
from Portland, Oregon, and from
Vancouver, Washington to the sea;
while the eastern end of the great
grain route is covered by the lines of
Portland & Seattle road, one of the
best built and costliest railways on
the American continent. This latter
road will he finished during the early
summer and it is then the actual pol
icies of terminal and distributive
function will he announced, anil with
out doubt, much to the advantage of
Astoria and the mouth of the Colum
bia, neither of which are likely to be
overlooked in a ileal of which they
are the very crux and objective.
With a salmon business aggregat
ing nearly $4,000,000 and twenty great
canneries on the circuit; with half a
score of the finest lumber mills in
the country putting millions on mil
lions of feet of choice lumber on the
markets of the world, annually, it is
not hard to comprehend that Astoria
has a pay-roll of 5,000 people and an
account between four and five mil
lions of dollars a year; figures which
speak potently for a city of her size.
Astoria is the very center of the
ir.mi the inland valleys of the last
four States named who throng hither
from May to November, a fair per
centage of whom go no further than
this city, and vibrate hence to what
point may attract them for the day
or the hour; and these hosts of people
always have the best possible word
for the City-by-the-Sea.
Another immense transportation
feature of development here is the
coming of the Harriman lines. They
will enter the city from the sontk
and, it is presumed, will make the.
circuit of the peninsula to the splen
did O. R. & N. docks already owned
by the system on the north front of
the city; or will tunnel the eastern
neck of the peninsula and approach
their water-frontage by the direct
route from Young's River. The road
is known as the Pacific Railway &
Navigation Company and was started
by Mr. Lytle, long known as an able
representative of E. H. Harriman in
the Northwest. The line starts from
Hillsboro, Oregon, and moves to the
coast with "Twot"erminaI " objectives,
Tillamook Bay and the mouth of the
Columbia, the point of departure, be
ing near Buxton on the main line.
Some 22 miles of the system have
been built and so far as this end is
concerned there are not more than
sixty miles yet to be constructed.
The projectors have already pur
chased nearly a mile of terminal
grounds on Young's Bay immediately
south of this city, and have thus se
cured yard and dock sites on both
bay frontages; all of which is very
significant and satisfactory to the
people of this section, since it gives
assurance of the fixed interest of this
great system in this particular terri
tory. Time, and a short time at that, must
be relied upon for the developments
of this and other projects now cer
tainly headed toward Astoria; and as
silence is among the commanding
policies of railway' projectors every
where Astoria must be satisfied with
the convincing steps already under
way and bide the fulfilment of , all
they promise. It goes without saying
however that Astoria and the mouth
of the Columbia are inseparably in
terwoven in the purposes of the
builders of these lines and will pros
per measurably with their completion.
She is working while she waits, and so
directing her energies and plans as to
meet the exigencies of her triumph
and make her concept of the situation
dove-tail with the purposes and largess
of the builders of the great enter
prises now directed to her gates, so
that when her hour comes there will
be no confusion, no disappointment.
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