Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-11-05
0.W, TO BUILD BIG
EXPORT DOCK HERE
M,CIEARY COMPANY TO MOVE
ENTIRE PLANT-CONTING
ON HARBOR PROJECT.

That the O-W. r. & N. company
now constructing line into Olympia
to be in operation by January l, pro-
poses to construct large export lum-
ber dock on the local waterfront, 500
feet long, with storage capacity
which will permit inland mills to cut
and store large quantities of lumber,
If the federal government will make
the necessary improvements to the
local harbor to accommodate the
class of vessels employed in the coast
wise and off ff-shore business, is one of
the significant statements in the brief
prepared by the local Chamber of
Commerce to further Olympia S
claims for the local harbor project.
It is addressed to Colonel J. B. Cav
anaugh of Seattle, federal engineer
for this district.
The statement appears in letter
signed by Senator P. H. Carlyon,
local representative of the O-W., in
which one paragraph says: 1.-THE
plan contemplates the construction Of
q dock 500 feet in length, with rail-
way tracks conveniently arranged for
unloading from trains to dock and
loading direct to vessels with loco
motive crane"
McCleary to Move Plant.
Another significant statement fol-
lows a letter from the Henry Nc
Cleary Timber company of McCleary.
offering the fullest cooperation in
Olympia's efforts to obtain the har'
Dor Improvement. One statement in
the letter said: I'VE realize that
sooner or later a large part Of this
business will be shipped via the Pan
anna. canal. When this condition ex-
lists, the natural thing for US will be
to enlarge our manufacturing facili-
ties in your city," and then the
Chamber added: Mote: It is an
assured fact that within year or two
after the local harbor is improved
this company will move it's entire
door factory, q second sawmill and
its shingle mill to this city from Nc
Cleary. Its door factory Is the largest
in the world"
The report collates freight rates
showing that, II Olympia had proper
harbor facilities, it would be the nat
ural outlet for the freight OF the
whole territory from Dupont on the
north to Napavine on the south; re-
lates the history of local harbor de-
velopment, and calls the attention of
the government engineers to the fact
that the city has spent $20O.94S on
it's harbor, $4.046.04 more than has
been spent by the government Let
ters from various local mills and
other industries, those in the sur
rounding county, and in Centralia
and Chehalis, and from the CONNER
cial organizations of the cities of this
district, indorsing Olympia's claims
for the harbor improvement, are In
corporated in the brief, while various
statistics showing the growth of
Olympia in the last 10 years, as evi-
denced in its bank deposits and re-
sources, its postoffice receipts. as
sessed valuations and civic improve
ments, are featured.
An Economic Necessity.
The brief, as Secretary H. l.. Whit
ing says in the letter of transmittal,
sets forth "facts, figures and argu-
ments which we believe to be over
whelming enough in their scope to
convince the federal government that
the immediate completion OF the
Olympia harbor is an economic neces-
sity demanded by a large number OF
industries throughout Southwest
Washington, and that such being the
case the government is fully justified
in making such appropriations as are
necessary to complete the project"
In closing the brief, President j.,
l.. Peters of the Chamber and r. II.
Carlyon, chairman of the harbors and
navigation committee, say: "The
Chamber urges that thorough in
vestigation be made of the Olympia
harbor before decision as to the ex-
tent of improvements is made, for 1t,
will stand an investigation of the
most rigid character"
Road Hearings November 20.
hc k,,o ,ioo to will hold