The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-01-14
THOUSANDS ARE COMING
Astoria Will Receive More Benefit Than
Any Other County in the State II
Efforts Are Made to Advertise
It's Resources at the Fair.

land anxious that Astoria should real
some benefit from the Lewis and Clari
fair. The management is not workin,
for Portland alone. but for every sec
tion of the state, as it realizes the NOR,
people who can be induced to locat,
in Oregon. the greater the ultimat
benefit to Portland. Among the best
friends Astoria has is Tom Richard.
son, manager Of the fair. He is 6
friend to every nook and corner Of the
entire state and is doing everything
within his power to have the various
sections represented, in order that
there may be an equal distribution of
the immigration that is certain to come
to Oregon during and after the fair.
The following letter, received yesterday
from Mr.. Richardson is self-explana-
tory:
Portland. Ore, Jan. 1?, 1905.
y. S. Dellinger Co, Publishers AS
torian, Astoria, oregon.
"Gentlemen--J. W. Casey of the Chi
cago Milwaukee & ST. Paul came into
this office this morning and reported
a very pleasant visit to Astoria, and a
discussion he had with Mr.. Curtis rela-
tive to an editorial that was to appear
in the Astorian Of this morning.
Mr.. Casey asked me to write you
letter giving my ideas relative to how
Astoria could effectively handle visit
ors to the exposition from the interior
In a way to insure their making a
visit to Astoria and seeing the Pacific
ocean during their attendance upon the
Lewis and Clark centennial exposition
and oriental fair
Il am convinced that if you, as the
publishers of the Astorian, could make
a deal with the Astoria chamber of
commerce similar to the arrangement |
between the Portland Commercial Club |
and the newspapers of this city and
have a copy of special edition of the |
Astorian devoted entirely to the re-
sources of Astoria, its attractiveness |
and the pleasures that are to be derived |
from a visit to the Pacific ocean,, go
to every county officer, city officer,
state official, member of the legisla-
ture, commercial body and newspaper
in Oregon. Washington, Idaho, Mon
tana and the entire inter mountain
country some time in February, you
could get the people to talking about
this trip so that they would have their
plans made in advance to visit Asto-
ria, see your city. the surrounding ],
country and the Pacific ocean. This !.
would be good advertising, but in order
that the paper should do the most good :.
it should be accompanied by a circular :
or postal card from the Astoria cham
Der Of commerce.
Now it is well to look matters :,
straight in the face, and to realize why y
his has to be done to get results. Peo- :,
pie from long distances will buy their :,
tickets coming one way and return =
ng another, and many of them will
have the opportunity of seeing the Pa :,
,ific ocean at other points along the
,oast. l do not refer to tickets via
Puget sound points, but to those which ),
include points in California. There
ire hundreds of thousands Of people
coming here, however, who will have
10 other chance to see the Pacific ocean
Except through a visit to Astoria, and
.hese you should reach in advance.
rhe business men and property hold r,
rs Of Astoria, through its chamber Of
commerce, would receive advertising
worth a hundred times its cost through
he circulation Of the Astorian alone.
''The truth of it is that you have ca
o get the people thinking about this Ell
lisit to Astoria before they come to b!
and If ! lived in your city, ii
believe l would act upon the plan OF
presented in your letter
Very truly yours,
tom RICHARDSON, Manager"