The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-06-02


day of the Pacific Coast Admen's As.
sociation proved an event OF consid'
cradle note, delegates being present
from all the Pacific Coast States,
During the afternoon session ]. II,
Whyte, manager OF the Astoria Cham.
Der OF Commerce, address the conven-
tion on the subject OF Putting AS
toria on the Map" He spoke as fol
lows:
The Astoria Chamber OF Commerce
is now busy taking care OF results
from its FIRST year Of advertising and
has begun its second year with re.
newed energy and with greater
force and power,
The first advertisement OF the elias.
sihed advertising system OF this or
ganization appeared July 18th, OF ,ast
year and Immediately following as
many as 400 letters a day were re-
ceived and from that time on until
December 18th, period OF six
months, about 1900 letters have been
received and answered, and in addi-
ton to the personal or circular letter
answers about 10000 pieces oi litcra.
ture were mailed TO inquirers.
As many as o. classified advertise
ments were run at one time through
out the United States and Europe and
the combined circulation continuously
Tor these adlets was not less than Co..
100000
We are now in the position OF a
man who has worked up a valuable
business and who can devote most OF
his time and attention to caring for
the same. We have established our
pressed brick and terra Gotta plant
which speaks for itself and probably
will speak in very loud tones through
out the entire west because we have
discovered shale in Astoria that will
make a dazzling porcelain white brick
worth 500 a thousand, not to speak
OF other kinds OF less value.
To further our efforts towards set
Ting our splendid dairy and farm
lands, we have begun a cooperative
movement, il we may express il in
these words, with the Forest Service
OF the Agricultural Department Of
Washington, ID. c., Dr. l.. + Haw-
ley is now in Astoria and has his lab
oratory in place and will for the first
time make thorough chemical analy
sis OF the volatile oils and other pro-
duets OF fir, spruce and hcmlock trees,
especially paying attention to the pos
siblities OF extracting products from
the stumps off OF the cut-over lands
Should DR. Hawlcy be successful in
asccrtaining that there are valuable
bi-products which may be extracted
from these woods We will have per
formed double mission, enabled our
selves to clear off the stump land at
a very much less cost, and at the
same time, have established manu-
featuring enterprise OF value.
Should we find that there are valu-
able bi-products in the heretofore
despised stumps Of Clatsop County
we will offer them free to every manu-
facturer Of such bi-products in the
United States together with bonus
Of $500 an acre clearing.
# man can successfully manufact-
ure bi-products from stumps in Mich
igan and in ttbe southern states and
pay from So to $3.50 a cord for them,
it certainly would be of interest to
him to know that he could get free
stumps in the Northwest and in ad-
dition bonus Of SIS an acre.
Within a short time we shall have
completed arrangements for drilling
for oil and gas, expecting to be able
to find natural gas in commercial
quantities because natural gas is now
being burned to some extent in the
vicinity Of Astoria.
We will soon have in shape an
electric railroad. enterprise so that
construction can begin on line from
Astoria through Seaside to Tillamook
A scientific cheese and butter maker
from Germany. early this fall will
stimulate the dairy interests Of Clat-
sop by the establishment Of steril-
zing plant, such that milk can be kept
i necessary for the purpose Of manu-
iacturing cheese, as long as fourteen
lays.
We have completed connecting
-oad with the Clatsop Beach 50 that
we now have an Is mile seabeach
automobile speedway, the finest in the
world