The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-07

5 presented; what is there to secure the
!, building of a great town at that point.
With regard to towns and termini
there is the same blank Ignorance
permitted here as there was ON the
Central route. The company is run
ming the thing for its own benefit, and
the public may as we'll wait: the dear
public will know in good time, some
OF them, that they have been badly
sold. Ny impressions of Kalama were
not favorable.
PUGET SOUND.
Olympia is a very pleasant town OF
about 200 inhabitants-or with Turn
water (Which is close by and which by
virtue of a very fine water power has
several mills about 1000, possibly
more than that. The country from
Olympia to the Columbia river is
heavily wooded, with occasional
breaks of prairie. some quite extern
sIve, and other places where the tim
Der has been burned for clearing, well
supplied with creeks and rivers. The
land. especially the hottomland, is
very rich, and all of it when cleared
of timber will be good agricultural
ioiit fdlt So az AWAY 10 COMMAND
a market. 1t is mostly if not entirely
taken up, and is held at good prices.
Taking h steamer Olympia from
town of same name) down the Sound
and to Victoria, we first stopped at
S~teilacoom, a little town of about SEQ
inhabitants, which enjoys the pres
ence of one or two State institutions.
and like all her sister towns luXuriates
III positive expectation OF being the
first railroad terminus on the Sound
of the coming track. Next we come
to Seattle, where. on u return, we
remained for several DAYS. and which
Is nearly of the population of olympia
proper The Territorial University
and other schools are located here.
Back inland some distance and cross
ing IA lake to reach them. are the coal
mines. which are producing about 30
tons per day of Il good article of coal.
We should have visited them had no,
the rain prevented. | found at this
place Hoyt and DySart-old friends
from Churchill county, who had been
here a couple OF weeks prospecting
the country OF intendingtO do 50 when
the rain would permit. We also
found a gentleman here who at one
time lived in Virginia, and who
through Il friend MAS i'll constant re
ceipt OF the Virginia Daily Enterprise
the first | had seen since leaving
Frisco. We had II o been able to find
any newspapers that exchanged with
them. even in Portland. 1t was quite
a ''Iedd" struck.
on our trip down, the Beatty Troupe
came on board bound for Port Gamble
where they We're to perform. Tony
w q ~ - .+Efl ,,r1rl -lan, --l... H.
same a. OF old. They have been play
ing Al points III the Sound for Il year
or two.
VICTORIA.
Our next point of Importance and
expecting the .'terminus'' WAS Port
Townsend, on the west side of the
Sound, and on the Straits: from there
We crossed the Straits (Which on our
return with a strong head of wind
caused many to become sea sick to
Victoria. where for the first time we
S.ood on land in the British Dominion.
| did not notice the '~'haitches' as com
ing any mor natural than before. 1t
i Il nice place. but with a decayed APP
p%carance. buildings sufficiently for a
population of 5000. and which it i
>d4b 10 nave Idb III Inc taNS OF fraser
river. NOW with Il population that
would let each man have a house to
his own sole Use. Whole blocks with
scarcely a tenant; stores on the prin-i
cipaI streets vain!y offered at merely
nominal rents. The travel to the
onninica mineS-called also Peace
rIver-has cnlivencd up Victoria con-
siderable. As this i the nearest place
for supplies. If they prove good next
wear she will have IN advantage pro
pOrtlOned OF course according to the
extent of the mines.
At all the points on the Sound an al
utter s~tagnatiOn in business
ecinS to prevail-a few saw mills are
running, but terminus Is their life at
present, not business. Everywhere
the country is buried in timber, clear
to the Cascade Mountains. The soil
generally about the Sound is described
a> thin and poor i'll character, poorly
to agriculture. This is al
ready too formidable a document. and
| therefore omit all description of the
and customs of the Web-feet,
and many other matters which would
probably interest you.
I-- ,.-N &c IL ]