Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-01-29
JETTY
BUSlNESSMEN'S ASSOCIATION
MEMORiALIZES.
The Businessmen's Association Meeting Tries
to do Business. Thirty Feet Of Water
From Aberdeen to the Sea Is the Slogan. A
Road to Tap the Surrounding Country an
Appreciated Necessity for City's Growth.

The businessmen of the association,
about thirty in number, held an interest
ing meeting, Tuesday evening, in the
city council room.
Two matters were the chief subjects
for discussion: viz. the harbor improve
ment, and the wagon road outlet for
this city.
Regarding the road, and in view Of the
announcement Ct the county commission
ers that the city must locate its road, the
following resolution was unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, By the Merchants and
Business Mems Association that the
opinion OF this association, after mature
deliberation, is that the city council Of
Aberdeen should at once locate road
out OF the city eastward along the bank
of the Chehalis river, as suggested by
the board Of county commissioners"
In the matter OF harbor improvements,
the committee reported the following
memorial, copy OF which will be sent to
each member of congress from the state
of Washington, and each member OF the
present legislature from this county:
To the Honorable Senate and House of
Representatives Of the State OF Wash.
ington: Your memoralists, the Mer-
chants and Business Mems Association
of the city OF Aberdeen, most respect
fully represent, that:
Whereas, The commerce OF Grays
Harbor, consisting principally Of the
shipment by water of lumb Der and other
timber products Of this the heaviest tim.
bered section OF the state, has increased
amazingly within the past few years, the
annual cargo shipment OF lumber now
amounting to about 100000 feet
month, and will continue to increase for
many years to come; and
Whereas, There is now a population
OF upwards OF 10000 people inhabiting
the basin of Grays Harbor engaged in
the lumber industry whose product must
find it's main outlet to the markets OF the
world through the above mentioned
waterway; and
Whereas, The United States govern
ment, few years ago. initiated plan OF
improvement Of tie bar or entrance to
Grays Harbor, which plan contemplated
the construction of two jetties, one on
either side OF the entrance to the Harbor,
the one on the south side of the entrance
to be constructed at an approximate cost
of 81 900, 600, and the other on the north
side of the entrance, being less extensive,
20 cost approximately 100000; and
Whereas, The south side jetty has
been completed within the past few
months, and the benefit OF this improve
ment and large expenditure of money
will not be felt eflectually until the no tn
side jetty be built in accordance with
the original plan adopted, and there
having yet been no definite survey made
up to this date for the north side jetty for
want OF an appropriation to defray the
expense thereof; and
Whereas, The completion Of this inn
provement as originally adopted will in
sure a 30-foot waterway across the bar OF
this harbor to the cities Of Aberdeen,
Hoquiam and Cosmopolis; therefore
We respectfully solicit and ask, that
Doth houses of the WASHINGTON legisla-
ture memorable the congress of the
United States to make an appropriation
to deflay the expenses OF surveying the
site and preparing the plans for the north
side jetty at the entrance Of Grays Har.
Dor, to the end that an appropriation
may be made at the next congress TO,
this much needed improvement without
undue delay; and your memoriaists will
ever pray.