The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-01-28

MAKE FACTORIES
And PAYROLLS
Start kealth-lroducing Enterprises
Which Will Feed Commerce.
LET INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT
Follow IN Their Natural Course II
Farmers Raise Sugar Beeta and
Flax Mills VIII he Erected.
LET INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT

"T'h. port of Astoria can better nf-
ford TO turn all It's attention and money
To the building Of ructorios and the
establishing Of payrolls, than wasting
time over internal improvements
which will simply increase taxes be-
fore the city and county ~ prepared
for IL. said Mr. r. E. Adams yesterday.
Mr. Adams came here from Montana
week or ten days ago. rcprssen,s
Eastern capitalists. and has spent his
time IN thoroughly inves,is@ing this
eity as a place for Investment. He left
thlg morning for the Fast. but said
he would return again Before going
away he gave reporter some 81 his
ideas of the situation here.
Il have bren much interested in tho
talk about proposed Improvements The
building ot a seawall, new court house.
and new county BRIGGS are all very
well. and will be necessary IL the fu.
,urc. but In my opinion the time has
not come for such an increase In your
taxation as would be required for the
undertaking.. and even the passage of
bills authorizing their construction,
while not nccessitA;inS immediate conn
mcncemcEt OF work. would only excite
certain CLASSES and be constant men
ace TO taxpayers. What you want
here. next 90 your railroad. which WIN
soon be completed. is something TO
make pay'rolls and dinner pail brigndes.
then these other internal improvements
VIII take care OF themselves. With
your fine system OF waterways. YOU do
not even need 20 pay 30 much attention
TO county roads though they are ne
ecsslty. and should be looked after. hut
for the present the natural waterways
throughout the county can take care
of the bulk of the business.
1T appears 10 me, looking at the
situation from practical and business
siRndpoint that II you get factories
here. provide the means Of getting To
the markets or the world. population
win rapidly follow. your farming lands
win be- occupied and roads bridges and
rcawalls win build theipselves, rhlle
now courthouses. city halls and post
offices will spring up like mushrooms
In night.
Have your farmers ever made
and practical test OF raising
sugar bects? II II said your tide lands
are particularly well adapted for their
culture but no one knows this for
certainty. Raise few and analyze
them, II found n success. capital win
soon supply sugar mill. II the beets
are raised. This industry alone means
millions.
Have you ever thoroughly tested the
growing Of fiaN here? II Is once prac.
tically demonstrated that Il can be
raised successfully and OF good quality.
fax spinning mills win follow as surely
~ day follows the night.
THE largest and finest bodies OF TIM
ber on the coast grow In Clatsop coun-
~, Are there any large mills here to
lumber for export, as Is
being done on the Sound? Astoria has
he finest outlook for a large lumber
business OF any place
n the United States know OF.
"a dry dock IL needed for the repair
Il the ships that come to this harbor.
4 you are going to be shipping port
'ou must have one,
Here Is also the natural location for
Export -four mills Soon the wheat
rom all parts OF oregon and Eastern
will be coming down here
N your railroad and on barges down
he Columbia through the newly open-
d Cascade locks, This Is the very
,lace to make -four for the rapidly
rowing Oriental trade.
Many other manufactures could be
,rofftably established here, and TO a
mere outsider It would appear to be
oolish not 10 bend effort, and every
Iollar that could be saved from pres
mt unnecessary taxation, to securing
hese large enterprises which will soon
'eople your city and county and make
III things else possible and feasible. The
abroad alone cannot bring that pros
'erity which will build olty. with
ut II nothing can be done, but with It
must be auxiliary enterprises to make
rattle, develop trad to its fullest ex-
ent, and bring people. Get people and
rade and town lots will quickly be-
ome a scarce article ON the market"