Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-02-17

constant operation, Wnicn manufacture
and export about 200, 900, 900 feet Of lum
Der; III addition to a vast amount Of laths
and shingles, every year, besides furnish
Ing large quantities of piles for the Pacific
coast, aud the 6ucst spats ID the world fol
this and foreign lands.
Of other manufactures, on anything like
large scale, We are entirely destitete;
owing to the absence of sa&cicnt demand
for them, and probably shall remain Sc
until the requirements Of our largely in.
creasing population, and that of the country
to the cast Of the mountains, which viii
have to draw its supplies from the Sound
upon the completion of the railroad, shall
be commensurate with such undertakings
Consequently, however great our facilities
may be for various enterprises which might
give employment to skilled labor and con-
tribute to a general prosperity under favor
allie conditions, we shall still have to
await population that will first till the
broad acres now lying waste and unpro-
dscGve in this Territory, before we shall
be enabled to safely branch out extensively
in this line ourselves, or induce any
investments by capitalists with that eEd Ill
view. We have already, however, num-
ber of manufactures on small scale, just
sufficient for our necessities, such as
foundries, machiile shops, sash and door
manufactures, and the like, which are
generally appendagcs to some ofour exten.
sive milling establishments; and, doubtless,
there are some other manufactures which
might be conducted here with profit on a
limited scale, amongst such the making of
pals, wash tubs, etc, concerning which
one of our correspondents inquiries. There
is an abundance of the best cedar for such
fabrics, and, what is quite as important,
considerable of market here, and possibly
in Oregon, for them, providing they could
be furnished at reasonable eaough rates
Ship building, also, has been carried on to
some considerable exteat, foer or five
steamers and seventeen vessels Of all sizes
have been constructed at various points on
the Sound down to the present time, among
the number being one ship Of thousand
tons burden aud several barks ofthe largest
size Having every facility for such con-
struction in the shape of an abundasoe Of
the best material, which can be procured
at cheaper rates here than in any other
country. shipbuilding must become an
important and leading industry. Ere long,
therefore, favored as we are by every nat
ural advantage, we may expect Puget
Sound to become the great shipyard for the
Pacific Ocean, and, after the conlp'etion
of the railroad and the consequent accession
of large. population on the coast, the seat
Of extensive manufacturing enterprise; of
still larger Commerce the resort of the
whaling vessels of the Pacific and dis.
tribrtiEg poiat for the products of the
fisheries of the North Pacific.
Having adverted to some of the leading
physical features of the country, to the soil
and its productions, and to our manufac-
lures and chief exports, we will add Il
paragraph upon the climate and health Of
tho Territory, concerning which there
seem to be erroneous impressions and con.
flicting accounts. by reference to the
map, out geographical position will be
found to be several degrees of latitude
further north than Chicago, where rigor'
Gus and long continued winter weather il
experienced and from this fact it is nat.
ural to conclude that the same season here
should be still severcr and more inhospit.
able. But such is not the case. Owing
to thermal curreat in. the Pacific, which
enters and sweeps by these waters, and to
the high ranges of mountains surrounding
this great basin, we have mild and equa
BILE temperature, such as is not possessed
by any sections in the northern States
the thermometer seldom reaching above
800 in summer in winter never down te
zero, and but rarely to the freezing point
Shows, too, are unfrequent. aud when they
do occur are slight and Of short duration
Stock is said to do we'll on the river bot
toms and in the valleys during winter
without feeding-working cattle only being
housed and fed. Our rains, however, art
somewhat excessive and continuous during
The winter months, and from May tit
December not month passes without al
occasional shower: In consequence, sucl
an occurrences as q drouth OF failure O
crops. in' this region is unknown. Yet
notwithstanding these peculiarities and ou1
closeproximity to the ocean, fogsy weathe
does not prevail to any great extent. Be
ing thus subjected to no sudden change
Of temperature or excesses of heat or cold
the climate is decidedly tho heaithiest il
America, there being no prevailing dis
cases and an entire exemption from feveI
and ague and other grades of fever so com
mon to newly settled countries. TO al
which wo may add that during the summer
months and till latc in the fall. barrin:
some smoky days oecasioued by forest dres
we have the most lovely and genial weatAe
anywhere prevailing on the continoht.
MUTUAL HELps.-Walter Scott wrote
"The race Of mankind would perish die
we cease to help each other. From the tim'
that the mother binds the child's heaG