The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1870-11-03

| Special Correspondence of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
OLYMPIA, w. T., Sept !, 1870.
There is so much to be said about Puget Sound tha
hardly know where to commence.
l. The climate is the most inv gorating anc
agreeable you can possibly imagine. While you II
the East sweter in june July and August i'll the day
time, and often endure hot and sury nights the days
here just enough help the vegetation, but
soon the sun sinks below the horizon it becomes
cool-deghtfully There has been no ngh in the
hot month of August" since have been here that
did not sleep under Two blankets.
| / when the Northern Pacific Railroad Is
ma asishfie siops w come oat here
| and spend couple of months on Puget Sound They
sail along the waters of the ovlest sheet of water
in the world catch salmon, trout brook trout to
their hearts content, shoot blue grouse and rough
grouse (pheasants more than they can carry and an
occasional bear and deer. 1t is the best hunting and
fishing ground that l have Besides all
this YOU can enjoy cool and invgorating climate,
and in the distance behold sights of indescribable
grandeur-Mounts Baker, 10000 feet high; Rainier
u 600 and Adams, $500 feet. You would never tire
gazing at these noble peaks lifting their heads into
and above the clouds. Rainier absolutely looks if
you could almost throw stone into its banks of snow
vet it is ninety miles distant. 1t is higher than ST.
Bernard and rises from plain, standing solitary and
alone The climate of San Francisco is cold and
ogy be dsagreeable to all strangers here it is
cool and braclng
9 The timber is all it has been described, and more
than expected l think am below the mark when
say there are 5000 square miles of timber lands
5000 900 acres, with average OF 10000 feet to the
acre which would make o00O, 900 feet of fir,
pine and cedar Before this could be cut off for the
worlds consumption, new growth would spring up,
for an old settler tells fir tree will in twenty
years grow from twig to sawog two or three feet
in diameter, that, in fact, the lumber be
exhausted. Its pentifulness be shown by the
price here S. to 81 per thousand worth, with you,
$50.
g. Fish. The Goldfish, habut, salmon, smet trout,
clans and crabs, better than in the East the
oysters good, though small in size, but being
mproved-can be shoveled out by the half-bushel
f. Most of the land that has timber Oh it is best
adapted to grazing but the coast west of the
Cascade Range, cattle aten and thrive better than
ever them do in any part of Pennsylvania. In
the Valleys of the Skagt, Puyalup and Chehais there
is bottom land varying from two ten miles in width
of exceeding richness where farms already opened
and which are destined to maintain large popula-
ton. The Skagit is navi gable for steamers sixth
miles, the valley is equal to the west branch of the
Susquehanna, in Pennsylvania, in fertility, and five
times wide This is Of several. East Of the
Cascade Range there is great deal more arabic land
FRUITS
s. Fruits. All that has been said of Puget Sound
a fruit growing region has been true. never saw
such large and luscious apples and pears and the pums
surpass anything you can imagine Trees, often but
little larger than good wakingstick will bear bush
els of frut-twce as much as you saw. Rasp-
berries backberries, cherries and strawberries grow
in proportion Strawberries are and grow
enormous size, frequently as large hens egg.
have of delicious tasting plums-not prunes
any five of which, picked off at random weighed a
pound l put some of these monsters in jar in alco
hol send you but they spoiled, and you will have
take my word for it. The fruits all of excellent
flavor and bear every year. not alternate years. abun
dainty that you have half crop fruit
tree and never will until you viset Puget Sound
believe there is about as much btuminous coal in
Washington Territory, on the Sound, there is in
Western Pennsylvania, and of about equal quality.
The winter climate is milo. Roses in December
yes in January good deal of rain, but said not
to be disagreeable. j. b. NJ.