The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-03-24
RAILROAD men
PRAISE VALLEY
Visiting Officials Of O.-W. R. &
N. Here on Get-Acquainted
Tour of Line

A representative body of the city S
business men were at the Club rooms
last evening to meet the O.-W.R.
h n. officials at an informal recep-
tion. Among the visitors were
Vice-President Robt. E. Strahorn !;
VIM. McMurray, General Passenger
Agent; r. B. Miller, Traffic Man
ager; F. w. Robinson, General
Freight Agent; Chas. E. Woods,
Right-of-Way Agent; A. G. Kamm,
Division Superintendent; Robert
Burns, District Freight and Pas
senger Agent; Harry Lounsberry,
Assistant General Freight Agent;
Walter V. Woehlke, special writer
for Sunset Magazine, and A. G..
Reschke, Secretary to Traffic Man.
ager.
The party came down from North
Yakima during the afternoon and
were guests of few of the members
of the Club at dinner at the Hotel
Kennewick before going to the Club
rooms.
The meeting had been called os-
tensibly that the business men
might have an opportunity to meet
and hear Traffic Manager R. B.
Miller tell what the North Coast
could do to help the development of
Kennewiek city and valley.
AS president of the Commercial
club, Scott Z. Henderson presided
over the meeting and first called up
ON Vice-President Strahorn who, in
his brief address expressed his salts
faction that his pet dream of years
had at last come true. He con-
graduated the people Of Kennewick
on the showing made by them on
the excursion and expressed the
hope that the relations between the
road and its patrons would continue
friendly. Mr.. Strahorn explained
that in order that no one could say
he had exploited any city on the
line of the new road for his private
gain, he had made it rule never
to invest his own money except in
those cities not touched by the North
Coast. He thus explained his in
vestments on the Pasco side of the
river, but assured his hearers that
his interests were just as much with
Kennewick as though his whole for
tune were invested here.
Mr.. McMurray followed Mr..
Strahorn and echoed the hope of his
chief that the roads relation with
Its patrons would continue in as
happy vein as they had started.
MIR. Miller was then called upon.
After prefacing his remarks with
one or two humorous and applicable
stories, he proceeded to hand his
hearers some straight and valuable
talk. In the first place, touching
on what the North Coast could do
to help Kennewick, he said that
hennewick did not need any help
IRON anybody. You have two great
competitive railroad systems, you
nave the steamers from Portland
and you have an immense, fertile
area back of your city. What
more can you possibly want? You
haed help from no one. With these
advantages it is a certainty that
Aennewick can get what she wants
without anybody's help. | can as
sure you that the @. W. R. & y.
Will co-operatein every way possible.
FARTHER than that | do not need to
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MIR. Miller then went on to saw
.'at our ranchers should turn more
,'om frult raising to dairying and
"Oe raising. With tens of thous-
"uS OF neT orchards coming into
earring every year and other thous-
anus being planted he expressed
we lear that the future might see
"'i oVer-production of fruit, On
'ne other hand, said the sneaker.
WY could be no imaginable over
supply ofpork, or of dairy products
as the demand was now far greater
'"an the supply and must continue