Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-04-25
SOUTH ABERDEEN
RAPID GROWTH OF ITS MANUfAC.
TURING INDUSTRIES.
Advantages of the South Side of the
ChehaliS River Set TO, tn. Trans.
pOrtatiOn Facilities, the Great
Factor, as Found Here Are Unex.
Celled.

Inc factors tlat go to make q
manufacturing center out of any To-
cality are geographical location in
regard to other manufacturing or dis
tributing centers, transportation
rates and the availability of the raw
materials.
Given these factors the elements
that go to establish a manufacturing
center in any part of city or To-
cality are nearness to transportation
facilities, cost of site, topography of
location ana iocai conoltlonS and
charges.
Industries always cluster about
railways or waterways, and when the
two exist they build as close as pos
sible to both. In the beginning, each
plant secures the location best suited
to it's needs and it's means. An in
crease in the number and kinds Of
plants increases site values and then
a transition begins to take place. The
first plants may not need such good
and by this time costly sites and they
give way to industries that must
have every possible advantage as to
dockage and rail facilities. The
changes continue to take place and
in time all of the original ground
occupied by industries has been CIV
en- over business blocks. railway ter
minals and passenger and freight
docks.
Changes of this kind are taking
place here today. The coming of new
industries and the railways have
worked the change. Waterfront
that was owned by the Anderson &
Middleton mill is being transformed
into depot site by the railway. The
Western COOperage company has sold
portion of their mill ground for
the same purpose and finds them
selves short of room as well as find
ing that the property occupied is
more valuable for purposes other
than milling. Changes of this kind
are outcome of development and the
process is duplicated in every locality
that goes to the front. The fringe
of plants along the waterfront con-
tinues to grow until the situation be-
comes acute and then they are fore
ed back or to cheaper sites.
Originally nearly all of the indus
tries were on the north side of the
Chehalis, but the growth of the city
has changed the balance of the in
dustries and the following figures
show clearly where the manufacture
ing plants are concentrating and be-
coming permanently established
away from the business center of the
city.
The following figures show the to-
tai cut of Aberdeen and COsmOpolis
and then the cut on the north and
south sides of the Chehalis. The
figures do not cover any of the coop
~ to ni
river.
Aberdeen and Cosmopolis, Lumber,
1909, 334,OOO,OOO; shingles, 91,121,-
900; lath, 100000.
Aberdeen, lumber, 1856, 900;
shingles, 14,726,OOO; lath, 32,070,-
900.
South Aberdeen and Cosmopolis,
lumber. 14S,1OO,O0O; shingles. TO-
395,OO0; lath, 24,930,OOO.
The industries on the south side
of the Chehalis river now employ
1900 men, with monthly pay roll
Of $4,000.
The position of these plants and
of South Aberdeen offer the maxi
nun of efficiency. The long water
front around the sharp bend in the
river giving them ample water front
while distances on land are short.
Here in South Aberdeen all of the
railways are concentrated as at no
other point in this district.
Every plant has three transcon-
tinental lines and the ocean at its
doors, with the promise of the fourth
transcontinental line.
AS a manufacturing center South
Aberdeen is unequalley. 1t offers
every advantage that manufacture
er requires and the securing Of low
er transportation rates will cause
an influx of smaller manufacturing
plants that will utilize all OF the re-
naming unoccupied property within
reach of the railways.
South Aberdeen has not been con-
sidered seriously for many years but
the coming of the railways has chang
ed the map as we'll as the conditions
and the results will not be overlook
ed for long. We have payroll here
now sufficient for city Of four times
the size of the one that we now have,
and the gradual centering OF the
Dlants in South Aberdeen is one OF
the surest signs that Aberdeen is be-
coming a city in fact as we'll as In
name.
]. A. CHAMBERLAIN.