Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-03-20

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IaSel overland some fifty miles and reach Olympia on
the south end of Puges Sound during which travel you
cross the headwaters Of the Chckalees pronounced &
@4 on which IS said be an extensive body of beauti
iu4 iarmng ands-prarc and timber alternating, soil
rch ana now IN the midst Of winter season. covered
with rich carpet Of green uxurant grass This stream
debouches into Grays Harbor bat the bar at its mouth
renders the entrance 80 dangerous that all probability
the Jehasites will become tributary to the commerce Of
Olympia 1t is upon the Jehas that DR. Mammalian con-
templates settling his colony Of 5000 German families
from Pennsylvania who expected to arrive in septem
Der Of this year
From the Jehas to Olympia the country is level well
watered alternating with groves of timber beautiful
prairies with soil exceedingly rich and fertile except
in the immediate vicinity of Olympia where it is thin and
gravely.
Olympia is town, just starting up fayoraby
ated to become Of the three principal cities which Ma
ture has designed shall up somewhere the
Of Pugets Sound Here the customhouse for the North
Oregon District has been established and the Collector
has already given proof Of his vigilance by the seizure
Of two British vessels for smuggling
few miles east from Olympia, bring you Nisqusly,
near the mouth of creek Of the same name, an old
tradngpost Of the H. B. Co., which under their dispen-
sation has its best days. Turning your face to the
norhward and keeping along the shore of the
Sound, four five miles bring you to Stelacoom o
At present, there females in the place. it has
prospect Of increasing its population in the natural
way Uncle Sam has few of his Boys" here to keep
things 0. X.
Passing Steilacoom, you to considerable
stream Called Pu-ealop (not named the map,) upon
whose banks said to be charming claims. Be-
tween the headwaters of this the Cascade Range
sweeping round in semicirce towards the south and
west thousands Of sections of mighty fine land"
yvAfp wifi
bic Of being converted into earthly paradise
From the Pue-alop continuing north, you next reach
the Dewa-mus, ION the map s.Sakpam, quite large
river running through another body of fine farming lands
part prairie and part timbered Immediately at the
mouth of this river Tide Prairie of mile two 10
extent but somewhere in this vicinity city No. fDo will
grow up-for why? Because there is good Pass oppo-
site, leading through the Cascade Mountains which
road will be made thereby commanding the trade Of the
great and beautiful Yakima Valley, lying the
side Of the mountains, and through which will hereafter
travel the great overland emigration their way to the
Pugets Sound settlements Put point of your diyd
at Fort Wala Walla, and you will find the distance to
Vancouver and that to Pugets Sound about equal The
dozen the Columbia is formidable having
both the Daes and Cascades to encounter. Now, If We
get good road through the Cascade Range directly
on line from Wala Walla, towards the Sound, the
nearest point on the latter to said road will be an i'm
portant
Some thirty forty miles further north bring to
the river Saoho-aas, (on the map called sTaxpam y
another fine stream, which, some fifty miles from it's
mouth makes fall of about 215 feet perpendicular,
where leaps from table shelf of the Cascade Range
On the banks Of this river extensive beds Of superior
quality Of coal said to have been discovered North
Of the Snohomas two other considerable streams,
with, however such breaking names that afraid
to attempt spelling them But little is yet known of the
Init is
ed to be of similar character with the other Opposite
the Snohomas and running up north lies Whtbys Island
about sixty miles in length the soil Of which cannot be
beatn At latest accounts there thirty claims
already taken on it.
The country on the east side between the Sound and
the Cascade Range of mountains will average about fifty
sixty miles in width. Immediately the sound there
is heavy forest of timber from to four miles in
width consisting of fir and cedar Of which grows
eight twelve, and sixteen feet in diameter Many Of
the cedars are long, tall and straight running up sixty
seventy feer without limb Passing through this belt
Of timber you in the alterations or prairie and
tmberei lands, generally level good, rich soil, and all
finely watered by little from the Cascade noun
tains.
On the western side of the Sound to the Pacific
coast the country is pot so well known. Report, how
ever leads believe there beautiful valleys
and pleasant plains running into and down from the
Olympus Range of mountains whose highest peak towers
up over 5000 feet 1t is confidently predicted that rich
deposites Of gold win be found in this range whenever
prospected. =
Leaving the Pacific at Cape Flatery, approaching the
Sound from seward, you the Straits of Juan de
Fuca, nowhere less than fifteen miles wide, and steam
ing onward and eastward, seveny-fve miles, you
the of Admirably Inlet, very near where
City No. will grow up but whether it win be called
Port Townsend" other name, remains to be
seen You are the entrance Of the most magnih
cent harbor in the world; about hundred miles in
length every where deep; and not rock wherein to
split on whose waters the ships Of all nations might
aoat and surrounded by belt Of timber sufficient to
lumber up the markets Of California, the Sandwich Is
lands Japan and China for all time to
Then with such sheet Of water and such country
around it, who can cretel tsfuture destiny tits
to Japan and China sfan7any other Pacific port Itmay
become the headquarters Of the American whaling feet
50 soon as we can furnish them with the outfits and res
Il may become the great depot for coaing Pacific
steamers. II may become the centre of as rich
gold region has yet been discovered and long, the
Inhabitants Of the young and brilliant STATE or CoLUa
BI may be proudly knocking OF the halls Of Congress,
for permission add another the already bright
galaxy flashing the eOYed banner Of our glorious
Union. D.
NJ b. The above is at your service. have written
hastily but 50 much at length that forebore 70 tell you