, 1873-07-31
San Francisco Correspondents

Dan = ftdnCISCO correspondents
SAN FRAsc1sco. July 81 1873.
So the long agony is over. and the Du
luth fizzle is to be repeated at the Pacific
end of the road! The announcement
that Tacoma has been deliberately Sc
lected as the terminus of North Pacific
railway was received here a day or two
since. and caused very general surprise.
The rough and torbidding shore necessi-
tates the expenditure of millions to re-
dnce it to practicable grade-the total
absence of anchorage for vessels, and
the difficulty Of supplying an adequate
quantity of fresh water, would seem 10
have precluded any sane man from de
liberately selecting such boint for a
commercial city. Bnt the secret of the
selection is rot to be found in any in
telligent Judgment as to national or
commercially strategic advantages. The
demands of commerce has had nothing
to do with the selection. The men who
have made it. don't expect to live long
euough to see city grow mp at Tac"m"
anu really don't care whether one grows
here or not. The sole controlling ell
ement in the selection was how to re-
alize the most money for the land
ring in the shorteet tire. Hence Rice
and Ainsworth must hav giggled within
them. when . e people Of Seattle offered
them one-half their possessiOn>-for
they knew their journeying down to
Mnkilteo and tarrying at Seattle was q
mere fraud. intended Il. give sn air Of
sincerity and good faith to the selection
while all the time they knew that Ia.
coma had been pitched upon as giving
the ilost land to cut up into so by 100.
The way the money is to be made right
soon is 10 lay ont some four or i've
thousand acres into blocks and lots
water lots and public parks and sich =
then have the whole thing lithograI he'd
in A. l. style, and the lots thrown on
the market in tne Eastern Cities. In
this way the Land Ring expect to real
ize a million or two i'll short time
and Sim. Reed and Ainswvrth will pOck.
ct their share. To build city at Ia
coma is not expected by any of the Ring.
rlsyxn,w this to be an i,npossibiiity.
The R.ilroad Company will build a
wharf or two--put up q tavern. ware
house and repair shop. few.otbers will
gather around, a little hamlet will slow.
ly spire up, and in Eve years the lot
owners will let them 60 for taxes,
In the meantime Olympia will have
bnilt her Rad, aud have established her
own commerce. Her coal vesses will
be ample enough to bring return car
goes from this city sufficient for the
supply of the country south and west Of
that point, and thus divert the trade
from Tacoma. Then il Seattle does
her duty, she too will connect with the
road at the nearest poin', aud thus Ia,
coma will perish bet~een its rivals Oh
either side.
In the judgment of scientific and
practical men there are only two point.
IN the Sound which have the requisite
advantages for commercial emporium
Seattle and Townsend. As time is
money. It would seem that the road
,hould seek the nea est good harbor /.
the sea shore. and thus iu this regard
townsend is far in advance. But when
YOU wish to combine manufacturing
commercial "nd agricultural advan, ages
hese all are found side by side atSeatils
md no where else.
Of course there is profound disap
,ointmeat VI seattle. but there is u.
.ccasien for it. In i've Yeas from to-
lay your city will contair hundred to
.neot population a. against the Ring
hamlet. 30. march right on. and sool
sou viii ind the North Pacific mer
buyinR your hands ii your own prices.
md begging for night of way into your
city. QooAsiorA1.