Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-02-04
RESULTS EXPECTED Legislative gossip
FROM VISIT OF ABERDEEN DELE.
CATION TO STATE CAPITAL
Chances for Fair Railroad Rates Are
Good. County Division FavOrabIy
considered by County LegiSla tive
Delegation. SOlOnS to Visit Aber.
berdcen.

The delegation OF representative citi-
zens of Aberdeen returned from Olympia
Thursday night, well pleased with the
results of their mission, which was two.
fold.
First, to call on the state railway COM
mission and present their argument for
distributing rates out OF Aberdeen, and
second, to lobby for a bill creating the
county of Grays Harbor out of portions
Of Chehalis county.
The delegation that waited on the state
railway commission represented the ABB
erdeen Chamber Of Commerce and was
composed of A. Rupert, Fred @. Furth.
A. G. Mcleod, w. r. Macfarlane and
Representative J. @. Hogan.
The brief submitted by the delegation
cited instances Of alleged discrimination
against Aberdeen in favor of Seattle and
Tacoma, and it was set forth that Aber-
deem has ambitions in the line of becom.
ing jobbing center, having an eye on
the Wholesale business originating in the
harbor towns.
The following specific instances show.
ing the disadvantage under which Aber-
deem works were cited:
Commodity, Aberdeen to South Bend,
bar iron, 20 cents. nails 20 cents, beans
80 cents, sugar 80 cents. paper bags 80
cents.
Aberdeen to Centralia, bar iron %
cents, nails % cents, beans 25 cents, gu.
gar % cents, paper bags 25 cents.
Seattle or Tacoma to Aberdeen and
South Bend, bar iron 10 cents, nails 10
cents, beans 10 cents, sugar 10 cents.
paper bags % cents.
Seattle or Tacoma to Centralia, bar
iron 20 cents. nails 20 cents.
Aberdeen to Tacoma or Seattle. beans
% cents, sugar % cents. paper bags %
cents.
The entire legislature. Governor Mead
and etate officials were invited to visit
Aberdeen, and the invitation was cor.
daily received. 1t is proposed to char
ter special train next Friday, and en-.
tertain the Solons until Sunday evening,
showing them all over the Harbor. They
will probably be guests at the Elks ball
Friday evening.
The bill to create the county of Grays
Harbor was in charge of E. G. Finch,
president Of the Chamber of Commerce.
1t provides that Aberdeen shall be the
county seat, the county shall be desig-
mated as belonging to counties of the
twelfth class, and for the purpose of
representation in the legislature new
senatorial and legislative district is
created. new judicial district is desig-
mated. The boundaries of the proposed
new county are as follows:
Commencing at a point in the south
boundary line OF Chehalis county where
the line between range west Willamette
meridian and range 8 west Willamette
meridian intersects the southern bound
ary of said county; thence along the
said line northerly in the due course
thereof to where said line between said
ranges and intersects the township
line between townships II north and
township Is north; thence easterly along
said township line between townships II
and Is to where said township line inter.
sects the range line between range west
Willamette meridian and range 6 west
Willamette meridian, and joins the
southw estern boundary corner of Mason
county, thence northerly along the
boundary line between Chehalis and
Mason counties to the northern boundary
of Chehalis county.