Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1865-07-15
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by wAy Of the Na;ch-z Pas. With an a.
errv which foIeshadows success We
publish elsewhere the proceedings OF a
meeting held in Pierce county on Monday
the 10th inst, where the sum OF five hun
dred dollars was subscribed within few
minutes, and the utmost enthusiasm pre-
vailed. 1t is pleasure for us to chroni-
Gle the evidences of unanimity which char
acterize the present movement, and the
general disposition manifested to put the
road through at once, regardless of cost.
We have been dilly -dallying long enough,
in all conscience. With anything like
united effort three or five years ago, we
might have opened the road, and our Ter
ritory would have been the richer by thou
sands of permanent settlers, and the
wealth which industry and enterprise
bring. We might just as well have been
several years in advance Of our present po-
sition. We might now have $4,000 or
10000 inhabitants west of the noun
tains, had a mode of ingress been opened
five years ago. And with this population,
how long would it have been until the
dormant resources peculiar to our Terrific
ry would have developed! The wooden
factory would have been built, and the
the shepherds flocks have covered every
hillside; commerce would have spread
until our Sound would have been thronged
with the merchantmen of all nations the
milling interest would have received an
impetus which would bring wealth to our
very doors the fisheries would be yield
ing their annual product 10 enhance the
general wealth; the coal mines of Squak
and Whatcom, as we'll as the deposits of
precious metals, would have been thor
oughly opened and explored-and who
knows but what we might have struck
upon "wind-fall" like that which built
San Francisco!
Now is this so very visionary! Would
not these results have been secured, had
we but the population to set the ball of en-
terprise in motion: AS necessity is the
mother of invention, so demand is the pa
rent of enterprise. We have market for
every product. We need but the requis-
lite skill and capital to set the Whole ma
chinery in motion. Each branch of in
dustry would receive portion of the
driving power, and the country would
move steadily onward with momentum
not to be resisted.
We have begun latesin the season, and
no time must now be wasted. Let us all
put our shoulders to the wheel, and lift it
out of the mire into which it is sinking.
Shall we in 1868 say: If we had but given
ths emigration an opportunity to reach
the Territory all would have been well, as
we now Sigh over the past, or shall we
then have it to say: Behold the evidences
Of prosperity We owe to the investment Of
a few hundred dollars in 1865. Let us,
then. be up and doing.
This county has subscribed an additional
sum, making the whole amount. including
the 1855 contributed BY thu Ladies Union
Society. 500. This, With the $500 Of
Pisree county. vii make a god l~gin-
niHg- l'osb,l<s King and Lewis ~il
hiring up the rear in . Ilke literal manner.
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