Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-09-08
LEAGUE
HAD BUSY
MEETING
Much Enthusiasm Visible Next
Meeting in Salem

Three large conventions of the
| Willamette Valley Development
League were held at Forest Grove
Friday, and the entire program was
carried out in every detail.
Delegates chosen to the Spokane
convention September 25th were: f.
w. Waters, Salem; T. F. Ryan, Ore
gon City; JEFF Myers, Portland; c. C..
Chapman, Portland; Louis ]. Simp-
son, North Bend.
State Business Mems League.
The Business Mems League of Or
egon perfected a permanent organi-
cation by adopting bylaws and con-
stitution, and electing the following
| officers: G.. E. Sanders, of Albany,
president; NJ. Peterson. of Forest
Grove, vice-president; Geo. F. Rodg-
ers, of Salem, secretary and treasur-
er. The next meeting is to be held
in Salem, Wednesday, September 12,
1906.
Committee on Resolutions.
Walter Lyon, of Independence; G.
E. Sanders, of Albany; H. D. Patton,
of Salem o. w. Eastman, of Oregon
City, and w. H. Hollis, of Forest
Grove.
A committee on election of officers
recommended the following, who
were elected:
President, w. L. Tooze, of Wood
burn.
Secretary, Walter Lyon, Independ-
ence.
Treasurer, A. ]. Johnson, Corval-
lis.
Directors, T F. Ryan, Oregon City;
w. H. Hollis, Forest Grove; James
Hemenway, Cottage Grove; P. A.
Young, Albany; L. ]. Simpson, North,
Bend.
Resolutions.
The committee on resolutions re-
ported in favor of free locks at Ore
gon City, asking additional train SER
vice on the West Side, and favoring
construction of competing railroad
lines.
The convention expressed gratifi-
cation at the prospect for early con-
struction of railroads and electric
lines in Western Oregon, and urges
that citizens and communities over
whose property they pass place no
obstacles in the way of their compile
tion. The convention condemned all
efforts to hold up construction of new
railroads by unusual demands for
right of way and depot grounds.
The convention endorses the eff
forts of the Portland commercial
bodies to secure appropriations for
the Improvement of the Columbia
river and its mouth. but deems the
construction of a deep sea harbor at
Coos Bay and the Improvement of all
the harbors on the west coast as OF
equal Importance to the development
of Western Oregon, and the indus
tries of the entire state.
Advertising Oregon.
Extracts from address of g. c.
Chapman. OF Portland.
One inch of advertising space costs
$S4 for just one insertion in one of
the big magazines. The back page
costs $4,000. For one advertisement
a varnish company paid $4,000 to
a fashionable journal. These are reg
ular rates regularly paid by steady
They are paid because
of the power of the printed page to
influence the people.
Nearly all of the great immigra-
tion movements of the last century
were the result OF advertising. Pos
sibly the one exception Is the Nor
mon flight to Utah. The discovery 4,
of gold in Sutter creek was herald
ed throughout the world in newspa-
pers and magazines, and California
has not recovered from the advertis-
ing it received. This was free ad-
vertising. Free advertising really is
the most valuable advertising, repre-
senting, as It does, the point of view