Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-04-05

They can be put aboard snip al nooI'
deem and be started we'll on the way
before ship starting from either OF the
other places reaches the Pacific, and
rail rates are just the same to and from
Aberdeen as to Tacoma, Seattle or Port
land. In addition to the difference OF
exnense before mentioned, is that OF
pilotagc, which is from $50 to 500 on
every vessel going into Seattle, Tacoma
or Portland, while the entrace to Gray's
lIarbor is such that no pilot is required.
Thus Gray's Harbor has decided adj
vantage over every other place in COM
peting for the trade OF Asia; and If 1t Is
true o. the Asiatic trade it is likewise
true Of the Alaskan, South Sea Islands,
or any other trade that can be developed
by any place on the northwest coast
Especially is this true Of the European
or South American trade, for ships
bound for either OF those places 60 to
the southwark. a ship going to Tacoma
for a cargo would sail directly past the
entrance 20 Gray's Harbor, up to Cape
Flattery through the straits and
down the Sound, sailing distance of
3l6 miles, and the same distance coming
out with cargo. Thus travelling more
than 600 miles further than if going to
Aberdeen.
In estimating the difference there is
to be taken into account the use OF the
ship, the wages of the crew and the ex-
ira insurance, in addition to the towage
of from $3.50 to $1,000, and the pilotage
of from $50 to 500.
These advantages that Gray's Harbor
possesses over other harbors are, OF
themselves, sufficient to make it one OF
very great Importance, and yet it has
"other strings its bow" in it's wealth
of undeveloped resources all around IT
and tributary to it.
sEs''.' Timber.
From the waters edge Of Gray's Har-
Dor, and extending northward to the
Olympic Mountains, there is an almost
unbroken body of timber, splendid in
quality and averaging more to the :"-.,-
Iiia,. ss'.J ~..-~- ..-.e~ ~~ay IA me UnlteV
States. The rivers Humptulips, Ho-
GUAM, Wishkah, Wynoochie and Sat-
sop, with their numerous branches, run
through and interlace this vast body
of timber 80 that unequalled facilities
are afforded for logging and floating the
logs down to the mills on the harbor.
On the south side of the harbOr the
timber reaches away to the Columbia
river, and the Elk, Johns, Neuskah and
Little North rivers reach out to consid-
cradle distance into it, and afford excel
lent water for running logs, and the
grand old Chehalis reaches out its arms
and gathers in the logs for hundred
miles to the east OF US.
There is no other place in the state
where logging is 80 cheaply done, and
where logs sell go cheap, and yet the
loggers pay just as much stumpage
as is paid at other places, and make as
much money. This enables the mill
men to buy logs for less than is paid iq
other places, and makes it possible fQl
them to make lumber cheaper than 1t /.
made anywhere else in the state, and
all on account of there being 90 large q
Weld per acre, and the timber area being
90 we'll watered that logging can be
cheaply done.
The Puget Sound Lumberman has
made careful estimate of the timber
resources OF all the states, and OF the
counties in Washington, which we re-
produce in this paper. This estimate
shows that Michigan has in round mum
bers twenty-four billion feet, Wisconsin
twenty-six billion, Minnesota twelve
billion and Chehalis county, in which
Gray's Harbor is situated, thirty-nins
billion feet of standing timber, or, ir
other words, Chehalis county has one
and half times as much timber al
either Michigan or Wisconsin, and
more than Michigan and Minnesota
combined. These are figures taken by
the Puget Sound Lumberman from gov
eminent estimates, and are reliable
But this is not all the timber that il
tributary to this harbor, for Chehali'
county is only part Of the Gray's Har
Dor basin. Its limits extend away be
yond and include so much more that I
is estimated by great many to contain
including Chehalis county, one hundret
! and eighty billion feet, but more con
! seryative men estimate it at one hun
dred billion; whether it be one hundre'
and eighty or one hundred billion, 1t l
quite enough that it's cutting, bringing
to the mills and manufacturing int
lumber will furnish employment TO
tens of thousands Of men as long as an.
! who are now living win have use for II
= All who have seen the wonderful
Growth Of the cities. and development
: OF the harbors Of Michigan, that hav
e had absolutely no other resource wort
t mentioning but the numbering could nc
y help being enthused with not only tn
l. great possibilities, but the great Gel
t tainties Of the magnificent future this