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CITY LUMBER & SUPPLY CO.
26th and Franklin Ave. Tel. 275 ASTORIA
Columbia Iron & Steel Works ENGINEERS, MACHINISTS, FOUNDERS
Portable Electric and Oxy-Acetylene Welding Machines
Port Terminals Tel. 413
ASTORIA
FRANK PATTON, President P. J. BRIX, Vice Pres.
AUSTIN OSBURN, Vice-Pres.
M. E. MASTERSON, Cashier A. W. STINE, Asst. Cashier HARRY KNOKEY, Asst. Cashier
ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK
Capital Pak In $200,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits $220,000.00 TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS Draw Car Own Drafts on All the Principal Cities of the World
Successor to Successor to I. W. LOVELL & SON
SCOW BAY FOUNDRY
ASTORIA FOUNDRY
J. W. LOVELL, Propr. Foundry and Pattern Shop IRON AND BRASS CASTINGS Phone 257 18th and Franklin ASTORIA, OREGON
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION CABINET WORK
PHONE 1457
Rohaut & Gearhart GENERAL CONTRACTORS 219 Associated Building
BRIDGE and ROAD CONSTRUCTION FLOOR SANDING
Real Estate
G. B. SHOEMAKER 191 Twelfth Street
Van Dusen & Co.
AND SURETY BONDS INSURANCE, REAL ESTATE 184 10th St. TELEPHONE 79
BUILDING MATERIAL COAL
ASTORIA, OREGON
BROOKFIELD QUARRY & TOWAGE CO.
TELEPHONE 859
MARBLE MONUMENTS
GRANITE
Astoria Granite Works
(PAUL D. THOMPSON, Prop.)
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We have a larger stock of Wall Paper and Paints than all other stores com- bined. You can get most everything in the line of Wall Paper and Paints that you will find in any large city.
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POLK'S ASTORIA CITY
-and-
CLATSOP COUNTY
DIRECTORY Vol. 1925 XI.
Containing an Alphabetical List of Business Firms and Private Citizens of the Cities of
ASTORIA, SEASIDE, WARRENTON and WESTPORT
And a List of All Business Firms, Personal Taxpayers and Patrons on Rural Deliveries in the Towns and Villages of Clatsop County and a Complete
Business Directory of Clatsop County "The Buyers' Guide"
COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BY R. L. POLK & CO.
(Member Association of North American Directory Publishers) ARTISAN'S BUILDING, PORTLAND, OREGON
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Copyright, 1925, by R. L. Polk & Co., Portland, Oregon
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GENERAL INDEX
Abbreviations
Astoria
Astoria City Officials 14
Buyers' Guide
17
Classified Business Directory
227
Clatsop County Alphabetical List of Cities and Towns 219
220
Clatsop County Alphabetical List of Names
Seaside
180
Street and Avenue Guide 13
Warrenton
197
Westport
209
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
Page
Ahrens M M Co .......
.backbone and
21
Astoria Evening Budget. 29
Astoria Commercial College
Astoria Electric Co. front edge
left top lines and 23
Astoria Foundry front cover and 28
Astoria Granite Works 2
Astoria National Bank back cover Astoria Savings Bank. front cover Astoria Shipping Co Inc.
right top lines and
35
Astoria Stationery Co right top lines and 31
Bankers Life Co. 26
right top lines and
Bloech Victor .bottom end and Brookfield Quary & Towage Co .... front cover and 20
Brown A L ........ left top lines and 33
City Lumber & Supply Co.
front cover and
27
Columbia
Harbor
Development
Co
26
Columbia Iron & Steel Works.
front cover and 28
Columbia Soda Works. left top lines and 35
Erickson Floral & Seed Co 23
Finnish Lutheran Book Concern .. right top lines and 30
Finnish Meat Market right top lines and 72
Finnish Mercantile Co
24
Troy Laundry
left top lines
Hauke E & Co.right top lines and 24
Hansen J H & Co
Hawkins E P. right top lines and 33 26
Hotel Astoria 26
Hughes E B ...... A B C Cards and 35
Kaleva Auto Co left bottom lines and 18 Karlson C W & Son .right top lines and 36
LaRose
Beauty
Shoppe
.back cover and 19
Larsen & Matta .. left top lines and 18
Laws W C & Co
right bottom lines and
33
Lovell Auto Co ...... back cover and
19
Lowe Martha H
left top lines and
20
Makela Henry & Son
left top lines and
22
Malarkey Leo J .... back cover and
22
Mogenson & Juopo
31
Nyquist Motor Car Co
right top lines and
19
Oregon Painting Co
right top lines and
31
Owen-Peeke Feed & Grain Co Inc
23
Pacific Development Society
left bottom lines and
30
3
Pacific
Machine &
Blacksmith
Co
left bottom lines and
28
Pacific Painting Co
left top lines and
31
Penney J C Co
right top lines and
22
Pohl & Gilbaugh
left top lines and
36
Rohaut & Gearhart
front cover and
22
Rosenberg Chas C C
32
St Mary's Hospital
25
Security & Finance Co Inc
left top lines and
27
Service Garage
18
Shoemaker G B.front cover and
33
Unique Tailors
20
Utzingers Book Store
right top lines and 19 Van Dusen & Co.front cover and 27
Welch-Webb Co Inc.
back cover and
34
Western
Machine and Welding
Johnson Optical Co
left top lines and
96
Works
right top lines and
29
Whitely-McDougle & Co.
left top lines and
18
Wilson Shipbuilding Co.
left top lines
Wilson's Studio
176
Ziem R B ....
right top lines and
35
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FOREWORD
R. L. Polk & Co., Inc., herewith presents Volume XI of the Astoria City and Clatsop County Directory. The publishers have endeavored to produce a volume combining all that is vital in the civic, social and industrial life and activity of Astoria City and Clatsop County.
A careful enumeration of the citizens and the business in- terests, and a compilation of the results by trained employees assures as correct and reliable a work of this character as is possible to be produced. The publishers have an organization wholly devoted to the publication of Directories, and their methods and results are unrivaled. Their imprint on the hund- reds of Directories published for cities throughout the country attests the quality and reliability of their product. A Directory is an essential and indispensable means of reference and an index to what is in a city. It portrays the community as it actually is, as an important function of the Directory is to set forth the characteristics and advantages of the city as a place of residence, as a business location, as an industrial site and an educational
center. The Directory acts as a mirror, reflecting all that is noteworthy in the city and county in the above respects. It is a recognized standard work of reference, and becomes the most reliable history of the community and its citizens. As there is no other publication which gives the information contained in the Directory, there is probably no other publication in which all of the people are so vitally interested.
A complete index to contents will be found on page 6.
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ASTORIA
"THE GATEWAY OF THE PACIFIC TO THE COLUMBIA EMPIRE"
Oldest American city on the Pacific coast, Astoria is in one sense the newest and most modern.
Founded in 1811, the business section of the city was entirely destroyed by a conflagration Dec. 8, 1922, and has since been wholly reconstructed acocrding to the most modern practise in city planning and building.
Astoria was founded in 1811 by a trading party sent out by John Jacob Astor of New York, after whom the settlement was named. At that time there was no American settlement west of the Mississippi river.
The Columbia river, at the mouth of which the city stands, was discovered in 1792 by Captain Robert Gray of Boston, sail- ing the ship Columbia.
The site where the city was later established was visited in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark expedition. After the founding of the city by the Astor party it was seized by the British in the War of 1812 and renamed Fort George. Restored to the United States by the Treaty of Ghent, it has since remained an increas- ingly important center of American life on the Pacific coast.
HOME OF CHINOOK SALMON
Astoria is most widely known as the home of the Royal Chinook salmon. This salmon, which is without peer among the foodfish of the world, is caught only in the Columbia river and the industry connected with its catching and packing centers at Astoria. A score of salmon canneries and cold storage plants in and near the city produce a pack of salmon which averages about $8,000,000 in value. The industry employs thousands of men and women and is the third largest industry in the state of Oregon. Oregon's fisheries are concentrated at Astoria.
TIMBER
The city stands in the midst of one of the greatest timber belts in the entire world. Tributary to it is all of the timber along the Columbia river, as well as that along the coast for 100 miles south and 25 miles north of the Columbia river. Logging and lumbering have always been one of the essential industries of Astoria.
The value of the annual timber and lumber cut of Clatsop county of which Astoria is the county seat is conservatively esti- mated at $10,000,000.
SHIPPING A PRIMARY INDUSTRY
Shipping is one of the primary industries of the city, and is the newest in its development. While the city was founded as a seaport, its growth in maritime matters was hindered for nearly
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PORT OF ASTORIA
a century by the channel conditions at the mouth of the Columbia river.
The federal government has succeeded in eliminating this danger and today the Columbia river is characterized by war department engineers as having the safest entry of any bar har- bor in the entire world.
The largest vessels plying the Pacific enter and leave the Columbia river with ease and without danger at any time and at any condition of tide and weather. At the mouth of the river there is a channel with a minimum depth of 45 feet of water over a width of 1,200 feet, with a minimum depth of 40 feet of water at mean low tide existing over an entrance channel 6,000 feet in width.
Following the elimination of the Columbia river bar as an obstacle to shipping came the development of the Port of Astoria and its great terminal system.
Astoria lies at the gateway to the second most productive river basin in America. Its position places it at the tidewater terminus of the only water level railroad route through the Cas- cade or Sierra Nevada mountains down to the Pacific ocean. It is served directly by two transcontinental railroads, the Great Northern and Northern Pacific, operating to the city over the Spokane, Portland and Seattle railway, which they own jointly.
PORT IS MODERN ONE
With this strategic position as a basis, and assured of the perpetuity of a more-than-adequate harbor, the people of Clatsop county constructed the Port of Astoria terminals, a system of three gigantic piers and auxiliaries, costing more than $4,000,000. This terminal system and the rate and facilities which it affords has served to attract a vast amount of commerce and its busi- ness has not only grown but has multiplied. Each year since the war, when the real commercial history of the Port of Astoria as a maritime factor began, has seen a substantial growth in all departments of the business of the Port of Astoria, this growth sometimes being several times that of the preceding year.
Astoria is not yet a great seaport, but the constant nature of its rise and the undoubted advantages of its geographical position entitle it to a place in the front rank of Pacific ports.
The Port of Astoria terminals are models of their kind for the entire United States. They were constructed along most modern lines and with the advantage of being planned with a great ideal in view.
Astoria has regular and rapid freight service with all parts of the world. It enjoys equality of railroad and ocean freight rates. It is nearer the orient than any other Pacific port.
Its port terminals have become an industrial center, the exceptional facilities of transportaion, handling and storage
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which they offer serving to attract industrial concerns to cluster about the great transportation center.
Physically, the Port of Astoria has remarkable advantages.
Astoria has the largest fresh water harbor in the world. Floods and freshets do not effect it on account of the tidal action. Vessels are never subject to damage or delay on account of floating ice. The fog-bound hours are fewer than at any other Pacific coast seaport. The fresh water of the harbor kills marine growths and ships loading at Astoria leave with their bottoms cleaned of marine life.
IS A DAIRY PARADISE
The agricultural territory tributary to Astoria is of excep- tional fertility and advantages. The so-called tidelands, border- ing the Columbia river and its tributaries about the city, are deep alluvial deposits. They are diked after the fashion in Holland, but the tidal action drains them. There is no pumping and irri- gation is needless.
The mild, equable climate keeps pastures green throughout the year. Snow rarely lies on the ground for a week during the entire year. The summers are not hot and the pastures never burn.
Forage and root crops grow with exceptional ease and pro- ductiveness.
These factors make of the Astoria district a dairy paradise and dairying is the primary agricultural activity. In Astoria the dairy products are manufactured, and they enjoy a wide reputation throughout the west.
Poultry raising is another important agricultural activity. The availability of cheap logged-off land, the mild climate, the abundance of green feed, and a certain and active market have reacted to the advancement of the poultry business during recent years until it is second in importance to agricultural Clatsop county.
Cranberries are grown in the region about Astoria and they form an important crop, competing on more than equal terms with the best berries produced in the east. Phenomenal yields are frequently secured, production of 500 bushels to the acre not being unusual. Despite the fact that the Columbia cranberry bogs supply only one-fifth of the Pacific coast demand, less than a quarter of the land available for this crop is in production.
The existence of fireweed, a peculiar nectar-bearing flower which thrives in the logged-off lands, has given to Clatsop county a thriving honey industry and one which is growing with great rapidity. The fire-weed honey is water-white, heavy, fragrant and so rich that it enjoys a national reputation.
Astoria has an annual rainfall of less than 60 inches, and the precipitation is so well distributed throughout the year that crops are greatly benefitted.
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THE NEW ASTORIA (1925)
December 8, 1922, fire swept the heart of Astoria, leaving behind it a desert of ashes 40 acres in extent where the business district had been. The loss was in excess of $11,000,000. The peculiar nature of the city's construction before the fire left it in a pitiable condition afterward, with no streets penetrating the devastated district, where the ground level was nine feet below the streets.
The problems of reconstruction were tremendous.
Pass swiftly over those years of toilsome rebuilding. This booklet is not a record of past dramas, of deeds done. It is a record of the attainments of the present-and it attempts a glimpse into the future.
THE NEW ASTORIA
Today Astoria is the only city in America up to many times its size with a sub-surface wiring system throughout its business district.
In the reconstruction its streets were widened to care for the peculiar needs of the modern multiplying motor traffic. The streets are of heavy concrete construction, with tunnels beneath for the carrying of service pipes and wires.
More than $7,000,000 has been spent in this reconstruction. Nearly 100 new, modern, fireproof buildings have arisen since the fire. Their construction has been governed by a strict build- ing code carrying the most modern requirements and provisions.
The pavement is of concrete seven inches in thickness throughout the entire business district.
The streets are brilliantly and beautifully lighted with an ornamental street illuminating system which lifts gleaming opalescent globes on the peaks of attractive pressed metal stand- ards in ordered ranks along the thoroughfares. The lights are controlled by a master switch system, the illumination starting automatically as darkness makes the light needed.
No ugly wires and poles clutter the air above the streets and walks. No power lines carry danger through the atmosphere. All are conducted beneath the streets in tunnels.
The pavement carries no car tracks to catch wheels and slow up traffic. The City's traction needs are met by the operation of a modern motor bus system in which giant motor street cars carry the intra-city passengers more rapidly, more comfortably and more efficiently than did ever the street railway which they superceded.
The strict building code under which the new Astoria was built made the city's business section practically fireproof. There are no flimsy structures, no fire-traps, no ugly, antiquated build- ings. Every business structure in downtown Astoria has been built since Jan. 1, 1923, and everyone is constructed as only a building can be built which embodies all of the latest ideas in the planning and construction of business edifice.
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INSURANCE RATES ARE LOW
The result of this modern construction, coupled with the operation of the city's highly efficient fire department and the new fire alarm telegraph system, has been insurance rates which have practically reached the absolute zero. Where before the fire disaster, insurance rates in Astoria were extremely high, the lessons learned in the school of fire, employed in the planning and development of the new city, have brought insurance rates to a point than which there is no lower.
Astoria's water supply comes through a new 21-inch steel pipe line from the head waters of Bear creek, 12 miles east of the city. The supply is pure and adequate. No typhoid or other disease has ever been traced to the city's water supply.
The post-disaster Astoria is admirably supplied with modern hotel buildings. Where hotel accommodations were a problem before the Great Fire, the supplying of this necd was one of the first considerations in the reconstruction of the city.
The primary element in Astoria's hotel system is, of course, the Hotel Astoria, an eight-story structure, building at a cost of $400,000, but public subscription, so that it is essentially a com- munity enterprise.
In addition to this hostelry, which is without equal in the entire state of Oregon, excepting Portland, there are five other entirely new and modern hotels with still others in prospect. Astoria needs more hotels than the average city of its size because of the immense tourist trade which flows down the Columbia to Astoria in the summer season.
In the readjustment after the fire, the obsolescent street rail- way system was discarded in favor of modern motor bus service.
Astoria has embarked upon an extensive school construction program as a postscript to its rebuilding. It has greatly improved its water system. Its electric power supply has been more than doubled.
EVEN GOVERNMENT MODERN
Even the city's government is modern. Providentially, with- in three weeks from the time the city was destroyed by fire, a new charter became effective, putting the city manager form of gov- ernment at the reins.
The results have been reflected in the astonishing recovery of the city from its ashes. Not only was the reconstruction com- plete within less than two years after the holocaust, but the city had actually attained a more sane and stable basis than before it was scourged with flame.
Despite the burdens of reconstruction, Astoria's public credit is far better than before the disaster, a consummation attribut- able directly to the operation of the city manager form of gov- ernment and to the willingness of the reawakened citizenry to face facts and to meet them.
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STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE (1925)
Seated upon one great peninsular ridge protruding into the Columbia estuary, Astoria queens it over the Gateway to the Columbia Empire. The Columbia river, seven miles wide, lies to the north. Young's river, a mile wide, is at the city's back. Westward is the sea-and eastward is all the wealth of the Co- lumbia basin.
The climate of Astoria is beneficent. The annual rainfall averages about 60 inches. The lowest temperature shown by records running back over many years was eight degrees above zero. The hottest day on record saw the mercury at 90.5 degrees. Annual total snowfall averages three inches. The average mean temperature throughout the year is 50.43 degrees. The mean average for winter is 43.95 degrees; for spring, 52.80 degrees; for summer, 59.48 degrees; for fall, 45.5 degrees.
IS A TOURIST CENTER
Astoria stands at the junction of two of America's greatest highways, the Columbia River Highway which follows the great stream down from the heart of the continent to the sea at Astoria, and the Roosevelt Highway which parallels the Pacific coastline at the very edge of the breakers.
The first of these great roads is completed and is known throughout the world for its scenic wonders. The second is being finished rapidly and within a handful of years will rank with the greatest of tourist-calling roads.
Astoria is the center of a vacation wonderland. At its doors are the Oregon coast resorts, dominated by Seaside, the premier watering place of the Pacific Northwest. Ranking next to Sea- side are Gearhart, Cannon Beach, Astor Beach and a long list of other famous resorts.
Astoria extends a welcome to the tourist, to the manu- facturer, to the shipper, to the farmer, to the home-seeker and the home-builder. She extends not only a welcome, but an oppor- tunity.
Old in years, Astoria is young in prospects.
ASTORIA STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE
The streets within the city of Astoria running north and south are numbered from First to 57th, the numbers running from west to east. First street being on the west boundary line of McClure's Astoria and 57th on the east boundary line of Van Dusen's Astoria.
The streets running east and west beginning at the water- front are named as follows: Front (water), Astor, Bond, Com- mercial, Duane, Exchange, Franklin avenue, Grand avenue, Harrison avenue, Irving avenue, Jerome avenue, Kensington avenue, Lexington avenue, Madison avenue, Niagara avenue, Klatskanie avenue, Clatsop, McClure, Whatcom and Olney.
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In Alderbrook, the most easterly addition to Astoria, the streets beginning at the waterfront are Ash, Birch, Cedar, Date, Elm, Fir, Gentian, Hemlock, Ironwood, Juniper, Kingwood, Larch, Maple and Natle.
In Taylor's addition, the westerly point of the city, begin- ning at the waterfront, are Taylor avenue, Alameda avenue, Co- lumbia avenue, Grand avenue and Harrison avenue. Crossing these from north to south, and beginning at the next street west of First, are Hume avenue, Lincoln avenue, Melbourne avenue, Kingston avenue, Ilwaco avenue and Hull avenue.
Central addition is south of Niagara avenue between 2d and 12th, streets running east and west beginning with Lewis ave- nue, Milton avenue, Nile avenue, Ohio avenue, Potomac ave- nue, Quebec avenue and Olney avenue.
Smith's Point is the extreme western point of Astoria. The avenues running north and south along Youngs Bay are Dres- den avenue, Antwerp avenue, Bristol avenue, Chelsea avenue, Denver avenue, Frankfort avenue, Rees avenue, and Fern avenue.
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