Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-02-15
ABERDEEN's RESOURCES.
This TrrOne Ous Statement OF Aberdeen 8
Industries. in the Bulletin, Cor
rected BY Major Abbott.

Being interested III AOeTuccu 'uV''e'
feel constrained to protest against the
lack of tho~oughness manifested in a
statement in local paper purporting to
be an expose OF the amount OF tho pay
rolls Of this CITY. monthly.
Having been over tire ground and been
to considerable trouble in collecting sim
liar data pra'n'ng to Aberdeen, Cos
mopolis and Hoqniam, for railroad and
other purposes, the interests OF the three
p &C 8 cling identical as they will event.
ually grow together and become one
place, anl found Il at the monthly pay
+! ro'' + the three places including mills,
foundrys, hops, fish'n, and logging in
dustries tributary &C., amounted to over
$40 900 monthly, not including 1888, 900,
| or about that. expended annually on the
| outer bar and the vast amount OF money
dropped here monthly by the shipping
interests. was not little surprised to
find that Aberdeen's share was only
about $4,000 per month, according to the
Bulletin, when l had found it actually
more than double that amount.
1t is not fair to any place when the
amount OF its pay rolls are publicly given
to be quoted far and near by rival towns,
and especially one engaged almost wholly
in the manufacture Of lumber, not to in
clude tn" pay roll OF the loggers, of whom
there is an army, when tributary as all
are on this Harbor to the places at it's
other place. This is what the compiler
of the Bulletin statistics did not do, nor
did he include the benefits OF large fish
ing industry &c. all in one article.
One of the oldest, brightest, most saga
cous and widely experienced mill men
on the Ilarbor told me quite recently that
during the past year there was 200, 000 600
feet of lumber manufactured on the emit g
Harbor at an average cost including log
Cling and manufacturing OF - per thou
sand it taking about one fourth more
deliver the logs at the mill than it does
to convert them into lumber after their
delivery, which fact will account for the
too small pay roll reported bv the Bu!-
letn. This, approximately, will amount
monthly, for manufactu ing lumber alone
&c. to about $S'.33333 or about 81 ,0O0,000
annually.
There are now two more mills than
there we're a year ago which at the same
rate will make the average monthly eN-
pense for the coming year about Slo7, l4l,
or total, annually, Of 81 ,2S5,6S2 To
this must be added the wages OF the en-
ployes OF two ship yards amounting to
about $4,000 per month, the fisheries
averaging about $4,000 per month, the
water and electric light plants, several
shingle, box, barrel, basket and wood
turning mills, a foundry and machine
shop, several carpenter, blacksmith and
machine shops, shoe and cigar makers,
the soda works, the wages OF skilled me-
chanics working in their own shops not
included in the foregoing, laundrymen
dock and mercantile clerks, architects,
craftsmen, contractors. boatmen, masons.
plumbers, surveyors, railroad employees,
teachers, &c.
The handling OF freight on the Harbor
is very large and the revenue from it
alone should not be lightly passed over.
The amount of freight shipped into Aber-
deem alone is only exceeded by three
other cities in the state. Quite little
revenue is received from the employees OF
this road, and much more would be re-
ceived if the company looked as we'll after
it's business here and the interests of its
patrons as though there were competing
roads and the only wonder is that there
isn't. As business proposition for any
railroad company there is none better in
the entire state or probably on the Pacific
Coast than to build road here as the
people on the lIarbor are thoroughly worn
ont by the shabby neglect OF the Northern
Pacific company, and are only waiting
the opportunity to give their patronat e to
another company as soon as it shall build
here and gladly so, too, so far as they
can. say this after thorough investi-
CATION Of facts. This company hasn't
even freight house for asserting mer-
chandise; and when small package is
wanted the freight Of an entire car has to
be overhauled, PERHAPS, before it can be
gotten which means much lost time o
the drayman &c. The waiting room for
passengers is entirely too small the place
having grown so since the erection OF the
passenger depot nor is there any covered
way to approach and board train fro m
the waiting room which is SO indispensi.
BILE in Il place where it so constantly
rains in winter.
Its difficult to estimate the pecunia,y
benefits TO the Harbor from the vast eX-
penditnre OF money from time to time on
its waterways in the past few years. Not
enough stress is placed on it by the local
press or on the vast improvement made
in the waterways. Within the past few
days vessel with 100000 feet Of lum-
Der left Aberdeen which speaks for itself.