Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-08-10
The City of Aberdeen
A Breif Description of the Metropolis Of
GrayS Harbor.
A Well Built Modern City Bustling With Enter
prise, and presenting Unrivalled Advantages
for Manufacturing and Commerce.
Facts and Figures Tersey Stated.

Population, 1900, 3,747.
Population 1905, 10000.
The largest lumber center in the world.
Building operations in 1904, $334,854.O0
Over twenty miles OF improved streets.
Industrial pay roll, over 100000 per
month.
Two banks with responsibility of $780,.
900 each. "
An excellent water system, owned and op-
Grated by the city.
A modern sewer system is being built
throughout the city this year.
Several first-class hotels and numerous
minor ones with moderate rates.
city hall is being built this year at
cost of about 100000.
Nearly 100 steam and sailing vessels en-.
gagged in lumber traffic from Grays Harbor.
Output of mills in 1904, fumber, 34,OOO,.
900 feet; lath, 55OO0,O0O; shihkles. 44,OOO,O 900.
Center of Grays Harbor steamboat freight
and passenger traffic = more. than twenty
steamers engaged vi
Regular line of passenger and freight
steamers three times week betwsan ,Aber.
deem and San Francisco and San Pedro.
A steel bridge Is being built across the
Chehalis river, to connect the city proper
with South Aberdeen and CosmopOlis.
An electric street railway connects Aber.
deem with Hoquiam on the west, and is now
being extended to Cosmopolis on the east.
Aberdeen is a terminal point on the North.
ern Pacific railway, 1877 miles from Seattle;
SO miles from Tacoma, and 147 miles from
Portland.
Aberdeen has churches Of nearly every
Christian denomination, and several pre-
tentious church buildings, able pastors and
generally large attendance.
Situated at the head of Grays Harbor,
fifteen miles from the Pacific ocean, Aber.
deem has nearly twenty miles Of deep water
frontage on the Chehalis and Wishkah
rivers.
The Chehalis river at Aberdeen is about
27O0 feet wide. with depth sufficient to float
the largest ships. The Wishkah river which
bisects the city, is 200 feet wide with a
depth of thirty feet.
The Grays Harbor Gas Co. are now con.
structng large plant to supply fuel and
light to all parts of the city of Aberdeen as
we'll as Hoquiam. The concern is backed
by San Francisco capitalists.
The public schools of Aberdeen are not ex.
celled in any eastern city of $4,000 popula-
tion. Four large school buildings are now
in use, valued at $5O,35v.OO Twenty-seven
teachers are engaged and 1,O9O pupils en-.
rolled.
Aberdeen is joined on the west by the city
OF Hoquiam, with population of 5000, and
on the east by the town of Cosmopolis, with
1,500,. giving population of 1850 within a
radius OF five miles from the center of Aber-
deem.
Aberdeen is well built modern city, with
electric lights, water works. sewer system,
school houses, hospitals, churches theaters,
public halls, improved streets and volun-
teer fire department that would be credit
able in much larger city.
A splendid electric light. power and street
car system is operated by the Grays Harbor
Electric Co., company representing Penn.
sylvania capitalists, who have invested
half million dollars in Aberdeen and Ho.
quiam, and are still extending.
Aberdeen is the center of large and
growing fishing business, and mas one salmon
cannery and one clam cannery. employing a
number of people. The shipment Of fresh
salmon to the east has assumed large pro-
portions and refrigerator cars are run direct
from Aberdeen to New Iork and Boston,
loaded with Grays Harbor salmon.
The leading industries of Aberdeen are:
Ten large saw mills; four shingle mills; one
large cooperage factory; two shipyards; one
marine railway; one general woodworking
factory; a large brewery; foundry and ma
chine shops; a steam laundry; soda works:
a cigar factory. and numerous other minor
industries
The steamer Toledo has been placed on
the route between Aberdeen. and other
Grays Harbor points and Portland. to run
during the Lewis and Clark exposition, and
permanently If the business between those
ports will justify.
The Grays Harbor Electric Company has
just opened a beautiful park. Of ninety
acres. Just outside the incorporate limits of
and between Aberdeen and Hoquiam.
Grounds for baseball and other athletic
sports and dancing pavilion are provided
here for the amusement and recreation Of
the people Of both cities.