The morning call., 1893-05-30
Oregon Folks Heartily
Greeted by Our City
Merchants.
GUESS WE WILL DECKER.
San Francisco Wines and Dimes
Her Guests From the
North.
CHAIRMAN e. c. SMITHS LETTER
What He Says Through the Columns
of 1.-THE Call" to Our COM
mercial People-A Very
Pleasant Trip.
CHAIRMAN E. c. SMITHS LETTER

Webfeet folks should Ike possession
for little while If they viii tie with
them the commercial knot that got
loose several years ago and has been
dangling idly ever sin e. mo God to
nobody
The Oregonians have come here
mission which, If successful. will help
San Frlncisco's trade W ond erfully. They
are being met half way and being
e to feel that there Is IA good deal of
enterprise and good commercial sense
here yet, in spite of all the bad things
that outsiders have said of us. They will
be made TO that we are as friendly
and f1iliabie as anybody.
Shake hands, OreEonl
Through the medium OF the Oregon
Pacific Railroad. commercial Southern
Oregon and commercial California were
formally introduced yesterday, and bust
ness San Francisco is happy over this
newly found friendship.
The anxiously looked for eXcuisionists
from Southern Oregon are among us in
scores, having arrived here yesterday
morning on the Oregon Pacific steamer
Willamette Valley, which left Yaquina
City last Saturday morning crowded from
stem to stern with repreSen .ative mer-
chants of the Webfoot State. who come to
consult with our local tradesmen as to fu-
ture prospects for closer business relations
between Oregon and California.
This is no hasty excursion of pleasure
seekers, arriving to-day and departing to-
morrow, but convention of solid bust
ness men from every town and hamlet of a
large region of our sister State.
They are men who have made the Will
lamette Valley what it is to-day, CONNER
cially and agrculturaly. Men from AL
bany, Roseburg and Harrisburg, the great
wheat centers of the north; citizens of
Brownsville and Oregon City. whsre big
wooden mills make clothing for all parts
of the world, and which buy more wool
than any like institutions on the Pacific
Coast; Ashland and Grants Pass are rep
resented, and their agents want to tell the
Board of Trade and the Chamber of Com
merce something about the wonderful
mineral wealth of their section, which is
waiting for development by San Fran
cisco capitalists.
Eastern Oregon wool-growers and
Lfiflners have come 10 talk over the trans
| portation problem with the Traffic Asso-
citation, to try to induce our local mon eyed
men 10 aid them in building lines into
their rich district, which is at present
reached only by wagon roads AID stage
lines, and whence it now costs $40
ton to hiring goods to 4 seaport.
There are bankers in the party, too.
These men know the financial standing of
every farmer or merchant of their CON-
munities, and are loud in their praises of
their people and assure Sar Francisco
houses that Southern Oregon does bust
ness on a cash basis.
The OREGON Pacific has sent its repre-
sentatives to explain just what il intends
doing toward building new lines, putting
on more steamers and reducing rates. 1t
was the cheap SIS round-trip rate which
this company made specially 20 allow the
excursionists to visit San Francisco that
accounts for the number which took ad-
vantage of the opportunity to come and be
welcomed.
Friday morning special train started
from Albany for Corvallis. stopping at
every station along the line. Thence
quick run was made TO Yaquina City,
where the excursion started.
There were seventy-five merchants ard
representative business men on the. train,
besides a number of leading wool and
wheat growers. Twenty-Five merchants of
Ashland, Grants Pass and other points
near the California boundary line started
for this city by rail over The Southern
Pacific yesterday morning. and are ex-
- pected here to-day.
When the steamer Willamette Valley
returns on her next trip she will bring
about sixty persons more, which will make
the total number of excursionists about 49,
The Board of Trade had arranged to
have tug meet the excursion steamer AT
the heads, but owing to the fact that the
Willamette Valley broke all previous
records and accom- plished the trip from
Yaquina City in forty-fye hours, or three
hours ahead of her regular time, the tug
was not In readiness before the steamer
ran in under cover of the fog, and was off
Fort Point almost before the Merchants
Exchange could get the news to the recep-
ton committee.
While passing in, the signal was given
the Willamette Valley to land at Wash
ington-street wharf, aud long before she
got into the dock crowd of several
hundred people accumulated on the quay,
anxious to catch a glimpse of the Ore
gonians. Among the reception committee
were President Watkins of the Board of
Trade, Henry L. Dodge. Lippman Sachs,
Joseph Grant. Webster Jones, w. B.
Wrllman and Hermann Bendel.
President Watkins welcomed the excur-
sonists in the name of the Board of Trade
and the city of San Francisco. and shortly
afterward present ted each with a dainty
bit of blue ribbon. assuring all that these
pretty badges would be passports to the
hospitality of The city.
Webster Jones lost no time in pre- sent
ing each and every OregOnian with a card
OF admission To the banquet, which took
place al O'Clock at the Palace Hotel last
night. Mr. Jones had his hands full and
seemed to be regular bureau of accom-
mediation and information. meeting all
with pleasant smile and pleasing word.
The programme for the entertainment
oil the guests tor this week will re an
ncunced from day to day at the Palace
Hotel and at the Board OF Trade. To-
morrow the tug Fearless has been en-
gagged to take The visitor, around the bay
and to the Union iron Works. The Fear
lese will leave Mission Wharf / at $3.50
o'clock A. NJ The following is a complies
list of the excursionists who arrived by the
Willamette Valley: II. CIngman and
wife. j. b. Gray. Frank Meredith, A.
Kline, NJ. g. Coon, Ed Baker, r. L. Far
mer. j. o. Card. N. W. Smith. J. l..