The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-03-31
THE GREAT WEST.
A st. Paul Paper Gives an Interview
of Interest to Coast People.
(st. Paul Dlsnatchl

(St. Paul Dispatch.)
Robert S. Doubleday was at the Com
mercial club this morning, and refer
ring to the recent interview In the Dis
patch, said:
1t was with some surprise that
read in the Dispatch a day or two
since an interview credited to a St
Paul business man in which the latter
Is represented to have spoken most
disparagingly of the great Western
coast ccuntry, and indeed to have
painted it as anything else than what
1t really Is.
With utmost respect to the gentle
man and his opinions, it seems to me
TO De the worst possyoie tasle to at
tempt To fly ones KITE by pulling an
others down. 1t Is nos necessary. 10
admit tine truth concerning the newer
country OF the west does not neces.
SLrliy renect upon Minnesota any more
than 10 acknowledge minnesota to be
L remarkable suate in many respects
reflects upon New YORK.
During the past year spent many
months traveiling throughout the va.
rlous sections OF tine Pacific Coast
country from Mexico to Britlsn Coz.
upmia for Eastern publications. 1t
was my pleasure as well as my dut,
TO carefully observe conditions, ana
anticipate TO some extent the probabll.
tiles based upon resources and natur.
al advantages, for the country men.
TONED and the people it contains, Tn,
TACT Is, that the Coast section is s,
vast and SO varied in its resources
IT'S conditions and It's possibilities. that
1t is easy enough to find certain IN
calities in it that will answer almosS
any description. AS whole, however.
1t is truly marvellous country, TEEN.
ing with untouched wealth, wearing at
all times the verdant splendor of mar
Velous fertility, while indeed many sec.
tions are verltable garden spots. ely
Sums with which there are none
other to compare in the United States
l found there localities of which may
he said that which cannot be statec
truthfully Of amy other section in
America. The people were absolutel,
content and the grumbler was not [,
be heard.
1T is true that certain of the largei
coast cities are not growing so RAPIDLY
as they did; that, indeed there is nc
great activity in them. That was in.
evltaIble and Nuhe cause lis obvious
enough Ninety per cent of the people
VINO have gone to the coast country
since the boom days" of Kansas. Ne
Oraska and the Northwest were over
were bent upon being corner lot boom.
ers, land sharks, realty speculators
and sitting in comfortable offices O,
motel parlors, making fortunes by
quick processes, catching one anothe,
In realty deals, and depriv1ng each new
conner of whatever ready capital he
might have. AS boosting the prices
OF corner lots, mere location values
noes not create any real wealth, thi,
bubble soon exploded. Had the peo
pie VINO emigrated eastward devoted
themselves to the development of tn
country, they might all be comfort
able circumstanced, and their cities
would have taken care of themselves
as they always will
THE chief grumblers, 1 may saw the
only ones, of the Pacific coast, ar
those who a few years ago were
making" a thousand dollars a week
IN real estate transactions, but having
killed the goose that laid the golden
egg are rfbw obliged to live on the in.
ter Ast of their suddenly acquired
wealth-wealth whi h, by the way, the
have secured without giving any tan.
glble return so far as / can see-and
they proceed to loudly bewail theii
fate.
"Of my personal knowledge there
are scores of people who have gone
there with commemorate purposes
some judgment, and very limited capi.
tai, and are prospering exceedingly
Indeed, contrary instances are compar.
atively rare. The poorer people posi-
lively are not suffering there as they
are farther East and the future of the
Pacific coast will make one of the
grandest pages in the history of Amer
lean prosperity"