Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-04-22
A Brief Review of the Coming Metropolis Of
Southwestern Washington. A Pay Roll
of One Dollar Day for Each Inhabi-
tant. Schools Churches and
All That Go to Make
Modern City.

lOuS, ana the canal may before many
years be made an absolute neces-
sity by heavily increased volume of
business. 1t would assuredly ma
terially shorten the distance be-
tween the Sound cities and Orient
al ports.
Important adjuncts to Aberdeen's
harbor are the Chehalis and Wish
kah rivers, both of which flow
through the city, both of which are
navigable and afford unsurpassed
wharfage. Manufacturing plants
have been quick to avail themselves
of sites on these rivers, which have
proven exceptionally advantageous
in the case of saw mills.
The industrial strength of Aber-
deem might be envied by a city of
900 people. Her eleven immense
saw mills, five shingle mills, two
shlpyards, cooperage plant, box fac
tory, brewery. cold storage estab-
lishments, brickyard, flour and feed
mill, sheet metal works, foundry
and machine shops, clam and sal
mon canneries, cigar and candy fac
tories, with numerous other enter
prises, have created prosperity
that is synonym for the happiness
and contentment of the wage earn
ers. The payroll of the city is $14,-
500 for every working day in the
year, making her claim of the larg-
est per capita payroll in America a
rightful one.
There is another fact in which
the Aberdeen citizen takes pride
that this is the greatest lumber
shipping point in the world. The
output of Aberdeen's mills goes to
every corner of the globe but of
course the greatest portion finds a
market in either San Francisco or
San Pedro. While the recent car
shortage has caused no slight in
convenience, in marked contrast to
the situation which confronted mill
owners in the interior, Aberdeen
mills were hardly able to keep up
their orders for water shipment
The shipyards on the Harbor have
been kept busy turning out steam
ers for the lumber trade, and the
man who chances to own a. few
shares in one of these boats is for
tunate indeed
One hundred billion feet of stand
ing timber is tributary to Grays
Iiarbor, and no doubt before the
half century necessary for it's cut
ting has elapsed, areas once logged
over will again afford merchantable
timber for the woodsman. Neither
Washington nor Oregon can show
a body of timber comparable to this
district.
with thousands of tons of mill
refuse going to waste in towering
refuse burners, aberdeen is an un-
rivalled field for wood pulp and
wood alcohol manufacture. Furni-
ture and other wood working plants
would be most profitable invest
ments, for the choicest native woods
are available, while hardwoods from
the Philippines and Australia can
be procured with the utmost ease
here on the Pacific Coast. Japan
ese oak is imported by the ship
yards as cheaply as Eastern oak.
Transportation facilities, too, make
Aberdeen doub1y suited to these in
dustries.
The railroad situation has really
deserved an earlier mention, since
it is subject of superlative import
to Aberdeen's present population,
and will prove a compelling argu-
ment with thousands Of prospective
citizens who appreciate its signlf-
cance. Aberdeen Is now on the
Northern Pacific railroad, but the
Union Pacific, under the guise of
the Grays Harbor & Puget Sound