Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-16

IIp'1'i' I NV III lI!dt llIt hd>iI tOtiI-
ty Logging Co. WI, to make it. head
quarters :or handling it, immense
product %: lo.> in thu city. recalls
t" mind an incident in which
the late Francis Henry Wa an
actor i'.w wears ago. The old Board
oi Trade had been holding Il >erie, Of
meetings, TO discover by united cnun-
! srl>. som" means OF lifting or com
immunity ont ii I rIt hy drvclopmou:
oi n'w enterprises, and an invitation
was extended to everybody 10 he pre-
cilt and make suggestions.
Those who knew Mr.. Henry are
aware that he possessed an illimitah.c
fund "i dry humor in hi composition.
and that 1t va, likely to BE- manifested
amid the most unusual and prosair
surroundings. 1t was this trait i'll his
nature which afforded the Board OF
Trade some excellent suggestions for
development OF dependent industries,
although the incentive may have been
founded upon mere jest. 1t was ar
ranged 10y him and u trio OF boon COM
panions that they should avail them
selves OF the oft-rcpcatcd invitation to
attend the next meeting OF the board
and give it the benefit of some ideas
that, whatever may be said OF their
practicability, possessed at least the
merit OF originality and were support
ed by logical sequence OF results.
Under the order of suggestions for
advancement of local enterprise, one
OF these friends arose and gravely adj
yocated the cultivation of rye. He
claimed that soil and climate were
peculiarly adapted for raising bounti-
ful crops OF that cereal. He had no
sooner taken his seat than another of
the conspirators took his place and
urged the immediate construction OF
large barrel factory and showed that
hoop-poles and stavc material were
plentiful; another wanted pottery,
claiming that excellent clay could be
found i'll the county for the manufac-
ture Of jugs and other earthern vessels,
and the third was just as enthusiastic
over a glass-works, the product to be
mainly bottles which from their fragile
nature were in constant demand.
The inquiry very naturally followed,
from somebody as to where a market
could be found for such products in
new and sparsely settled country.
Then came the opportunity for the
master mind. Why" said Mr..
Henry, ~ think that point may be
we'll met by creating a market. All
that would be needed to make the
suggested aids available is to develop
some use for the products named.
The first, and most natural and proper
use for rye is to make whisky out of it,
which would necessitate the establish
ment of distillery, employing many
men who would be apt to spend their
wages for the staples of life. A dis
tillery," he continued" would give
employment to the barrel factory, for
shipment of whisky to all points of
the earth where it would lie for MANY
years in the same receptacles to ma
ture and acquire that oily flavor so
priced by gentlemen from the Blue
Grass region; the glass works would
doubtless be kept busy making those
quart bottles which so snugly fit in
the overcoat pocket while on fishing
jaunt, or the TASKS which seem "made
for" the side pocket when one goes to
camp meeting. The use OF the pottery
in turning out Little Brown Jugs"
is too obvious to mention. Thus n
complete industrial machine is evolved.
OF many parts dependent upon each
other and all kept in steady motion by
the fy-wheel, the distillery, that DO.
tent factor which alone is able to
open the gateway to the marts of the
world"
AS there were several active prohib.
itionists in the Board of Trade, at that
time, Mr.. Henry's remarks we're not
received with that unanimity which
augurs success, and even some of those
who were impressed with the remark
able adaptability of the industries sug-
ested were deferred from active SUD-
port by a suspicion that the joker and
his friends were making the board a
but for their humor.
Thus was one of the feasible means
OF local advancemens ruthlessly slain
at birth by the shaft of rid;cule.
The Oregonian it seems is to have a
live competitor in new venture by
George L. Hutchin, of Bloomington,