The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-16
EXCURSION is SURE
Sound People Will Invade
WaIId WaIIa Next Week.
AGENT CAlDERHtAD IS ACTIVE
Appeared Before Seattle Chamber of
Commerce and Urged Body to
Indorse Excursion.
AGENT CALDERHtAD IS ACTIVE

The Seattle Chamber OF Commerce
yesterday Endorsed the excursion to
be run from this city to Walla Walla,
and urged the members of the organ
days Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The
excursion train is to be run out of
Seattle on the morning of October Fl,
and will return on Friday. The spe-
eial tickets, which entitle the holders
to the round trip, will be good until
Sunday night, and Seattle visitors will
be permitted to remain through the
remainder of the week in Walla
Walla.
s. e. Calderhead, of Walla Walla,
appeared before the Chamber of Com
MERGE to provide for a big delegation.
Mr.. Calderhead argued that friendship
between the jobbers of Puget sound
and the merchants of the inland sec
ton would have a strong tendency to
swing the trade of the valley to the
Puget sound centers. He said:
81 have been told by some jobbers
that the difference Of a fraction of a
cent is sufficient to turn the trade of
a merchant from one house to an
other, but that is not true. | have
been connected with large companies
and dealing with large interests for
years and my experience has been
that friendship plays an important
-, a
have found it profitable to keep in
close touch with the farmers Of East
ern Washington, and our railroad, the
Washington & Columbia River, car
ries a large amount of freight that
can be traced to this circumstance.
This excursion is proposed to pro
mote friendly relations between the
jobbers Of Seattle and Tacoma wiz
the merchants of the Walla Walla dis
trict. For five years | have been
watching the Portland jobbers' effort
TO control the Walla Walla trade
They now control that field almost alb
solutely. Something like 60 per cen,
of the grain raised in the WalIa Wal,a
country is marketed on the Sound an
you are merely acting as bankers for
the Portland wholesale houses. You
nay for this grain and the farmers il
turn pay the money over to Portland.
"One of the reasons you are not en-
joying the Walla Walla trade is that
you have so much business you can
not look after it all. You have been
Ef-ht To ~ a A o,r1yo fro do
yet here is a country fully developed
that stands ready to give you more
business than Alaska could in twenty
years and you are making no effort
to get it, The time will come when
you will want this trade and you
should prepare to get it.
Every one of the wholesale houses
in Portland has a resident represen
tative in Walla Walla They look
after the trade closely In Waila
Walla Friday and Saturday are the
big marketing days and at such times
the merchants have no time to order
goods. But on Monday and Tuesday
the Portland representatives go into
the Walla Walla houses and check up
the stocks. They send in orders that
are filed and on the shelves in Walla
Walla before the rush at the end of
The week begins The travelling men
# the Portland houses have instruc-
lens to the effect that if the mails
will not carry their orders in time for
lelivery when the merchants want
hem they are to telegraph or use the
,ong distance telephone. 1t is this
fostering care that keeps the Walla
Nalla trade in line for Portland.
Il have been trying to get an i'm
rrovement in the service between
Seattle and Walla Walla. You may be
he Northern Pacific and Washington
Z Columbia River railroads will put
)n through train between Seattle
md Walla Walla. At present we
ave arranged SO your goods go right
through and are delivered On equal
terms with those Of Portland. Despite
the Pasco transfer you can reach
Seattle as quickly as you can reach
Portland from Walla Walla.
/ The people of Walla Walla are
| anxious to meet you and l have taken
the responsibility of ordering the spe-
cial train to carry you to Walla
Walla. l am confident that the ex-
cursion will be a thorough success and
| ! feel sure that you will provide big
| }arty.'
An invitation from the Walla Walla
Commercial Club was presented to
| the Chamber Of Commerce, and this
vas accepted.
| MOther-I nope that young man