Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-08-29

Noted for It's Progressive Industries
and Fairgrounds for Tourists.

I'M ILLAPA HARBOR, with its adjoining
IlHII towns of Raymond and South Bend, is
destined to become one of the great
seaports of the West coast. Similar to Grays
Harbor in geographical outline, and affording,
through the many bends of the Willapa, an even
larger dockage 'front.' it is but waiting the growth
of the tributary districts to make it such. It has
passed through its pioneer era and its future is
assured.
In twenty years growth Raymond and South
Bend have accomplished as much as any similar
cities in the same length of time. An ambitious
program of paving and building Of business blocks
has been planned for the coming year.
The rapid growth of Raymond is shown by
the imperative need of larger school buildings. A
new high school must be built soon as well as
new grade schools The completion of a new
theater in South Bend similar to the Tokay the
ater in Raymond provides, with the latter, the
best in moving pictures and drama, and these
show places would be credit in city of five
times the population.
During the year just past Willapa Harbor
has made heavy shipments of lumber and shin
giles, 150 vessels being required to carry the 1885,
$4,000 feet of lumber and the 93,880,000
shingles.
LAUNDERING activities in the future should in
crease or at least be maintained at the present
status. The Northwest must increase it's cutting
OF lumber to compensate the rapidly vanishing
forests of the East and South.
A state project finished within the year is the
new Third street bridge across the South Fork.
It is 29S feet IN length and it's width of 20 feet
for vehicular and street car traffic and five and
one-half-foot sidewalks on either side is ample to
take care Of traffic for some time to come.
The fishing season of 1923 was a successful
one. The fishing grounds of the Columbia are so
situated that one-half of the entire catch of the
great river are taken within the lirnis of Pacific
county. Yet the county does not get credit for
great deal of this catch as the catch is taken to
Oregon owing to the better transportation facili-
ties for handling it.
Raymond is located at the gateway to what
is known as the finest beach Fairgrounds of the
North Pacific coast. The famous Peninsula is
one continuous stretch of the most beautiful
beach from North Head, at the mouth of the Co
lumbia river, northward to Ledbetter Point at
the entrnace of Willapa Harbor. Holman Sea-
view, Long Beach, Breakers, Loomis and Ocean
Park are all well-lnown summer bathing resorts
Especially at Long Beach, Seaview and Ocean
Park tourists are attracted in increasing num-
bers each year. Tokeland on the north bank of
the harbor entrance is also we'll patronized re-
sort, and many Raymond people own cottages
there, where they spend their week-ends during
the summer months.
Farming, dairying and poultrying are carried
on in Pacific county as to bring returns commen-
surate to the effort. 1t has been proven over and
over that where persons have applied themselves
in exploiting the agricultural regions of this
county they have secured good returns.