Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-10-16
Will DEVELOP
LOGGED LANDS
Southwest Washington Sett-
lers Agency Adopted at
Meeting Here
WANT OLYMPICS OPENED
Development Association On
Record Favors Opening
of Monument

The adoption of the bylaws and ar
ticles of Incorporation of the South
western Washington Settlers agency,
favoring plan of developing the log
ged-otf lands for the settler and
placing the improvements as a mort.
gage against the property until paid
for and urging the development of
the Olympic peninsula, were the two
important matters taken up at the
Sixth quarterly meeting of the South
western Washington Development as
sociation, which closed a successful
three day session Saturday night.
Trustees are Named
The new organization, which will be
an offshOot of the association, will
have it's headquarters in Aberdeen and
will be known as the Southwest
Washington Settlers agency. Trus-
tees of the new organization are
George S. Long, Tacoma; n. B. Cotf
man, Chehalis; d. F. Davis, Centralia
J. +. Barnes, Centralia; Ralph H.
Burnside, Raymond; w. B. Mack, Alb,
erGeen; Thomas Bordeau, Seattle; l..
|. Wakefield, Elma; George Mccoy
Vancouver; S. e. Mumby, Olympia !;
f. w. Leadbetter. Portland.
The meetings were of great inter.
est and attracted prominent men from
all section of the state. The adop-
ton of the plan to settle the logged.
off lands, proved to be one of the
while the new electric process of
burning stumps by an electric and
char-pit system combined, was also
explained at length. Attention was
called to the experiment of land
clearing now under way near the lit
tie town Rainier, Oregon, where the
electric process is being demonstrate
ed
Coffman Issues Def
Perhaps the best speech of the
meeting was by N. B. Coffman OF
Chehalis. Mr.. Coffman issued the
def to the cities of the Pacific North
west, terming the Southwest part OF
the state as "Our Territory" and any
attempt of the larger cities to try tc
steal or take away the trade, would
! result in fight. Speaking of the
building of great commercial city
on Grays Harbor and making this a
jobbing center for Southwestern
Washington.
During the discussion of the devel
opment of the Olympic peninsula, Gif
ford PinchOt came in for great deal
of criticism for the formation of what
is known as the Olympic monument
and the remarks of F. w. LoOmis, in
his address, seemed to win the ap
proval of the auditors. He said re
garding this matter:
"Only one thing retards us--the
Olympic national monument created
in honor of the conservation hobby
sired by Clifford Pinchot and damned
by the red-blooded manhood of the
aggressive west"
Reports From Clubs
Practically every one of the so clubs
represented in the organization re
sponded to the roll call and told Of
information regarding progress be
ing made in their section. The sub
ject of county fairs, which have beer
successfully held in several counties
came up and Mr.. Coffman in endea
voring to place the credit for the
holding of fairs said:
Had it ever occurred to you gen
tlemen before that no fairs were evel
held by the counties of Southwestern
Washington until this association was
organized. Did you know that one
half of the counties of the Southwest
held successful fairs this year anC
that every county is planning a big
fair for next year. 1t is the organic
alton of which you are members, thai
is doing this. The news, that fine
commercial homes are being organic
ed comes to our ears. Do you know
why they are erecting these homes
1t is to entertain this organization
Addresses were made by T. II
Martin of the Tacoma Chamber O1