, 1873-07-10

sessions, and would secure our town
ial suprena y upon Puget Sound.
But failing In this. orr case wonld by
no means be hopeless; it would only
delay, not defeat onr ulti triumph
over all rival towns. All observation
and experience teaches us that Leading
business centres. once established. are
never changed by ubsequent events.
In 1852 when San Francisc" was de
stroyed hy fire aid the place Of every
business house in thu dty WAS only
marked by smouldering heap of ruins
nearly all the merchanls ana Shippers
con binen TO remove their business 10
i;enicia. much better site for com
mercIal metropolis, but the PROJECT fail
| ed
When Sacramento-waS swept away hT
| lire and food, with little but he dt bris
left to mark the site Of the former city
IL powerful combination of capitalists
expended large SUI of money i'll build
Tug up rival town three miles below.
upon IA much more commanding sit",
upon grounds not subject to overflow.
and only sunk their money In the at
tempt. A few years ago. when Portland
Was inaccessible to ocean craft at GERS
tain seasons Lf the Year. Il combination
of san Francisco capitalists. who then
controlled the steamer line of transpor
lion. attempted to build up rival town
upon the Columbi. river. That project
was an utter failure. rs all such projects
| are bound to fail, where capital alone
| attempts to compete with capital ami
population combined The whole pow
er of the Northern Pacific Railroad
failed to establish and maintain the OPP
position town of Dulnth to tie small
village of superior City. 1t was II spec
'llative success, but il practical future.
| The Company has been Obliged to tx
tend its line to Superior City. making
hat its practical terminus. The same
result will inevitably follov th- At
| tempt to create ii city III the wilderness
II, Tacoma. Ktlama aud TacDua can
never be anything more than way sta
tons for the bn,lnesS of Seattle ana
| Portland, from which The road Will de
rive It's chief revenue. This ftct Is al
ready demonstrated III the case of ka
lama, ant will as certainty apply t"
| Tacoma # it is tested. Who beiieves
that Portland has suffered the loss Of II
dollar in buslnes by the tonn ting Of II
railroad town forty miles nearer to the
ocean. Or that Seattle wouid suffer the
loss Of any of its present business All
vtntages by attempts to build Il railroad
town at Tacoma
Now, as to the alternative. which it Is
oniy the par; of cnnmrn bnsiuess saga
city to regard Us ii possible cuntinSenelt
We lose none Of the advantages Of fora
ton which has secnred to his town Its
present commercial supremacy; aud l.:
oar citizens vii! jndiclously use the
means they pledged TO this project, the
can speedl achieve advantages equal,
If not superior to any lost by losing the
present terminus. The pfelimluuries
are already perfected for the constiuc
tian OF a ra'lroad III continuation # the
Union Pacific to the Columbia river. III
or neat Wailula. An examination of the
map will show that W.,llIia Is nearer to
Seattle than to kaia ma, and that knla-
ma is 40 miles 'tistan, from Seattle
By this 1t will be seeh that by ii direct
road over the Stevens route, tn. uugh
The Snoquaimle Pass, we gam over l4O
miles i'll distance and an lncompurable
amount III trade. This direct rou;e
passes for the first twenty mile, through
almost unbroken coal tield>. in the
the heart If as rich an agricultural sec.
iion rs any upon the continent. then
enters Il mineral region aboiIntiilIg in
IRON beds. with many indications of rich
deposits OF the more precious. though
not more profitable. metals; crossing
the mountains. at distance of not more
than sixty miles from this point this
route enters the rich valleys and PLAINS
of .he Yakima, and thence TO the Waila
Walla country, famous for its agriculiu
raj resou ces. The amount ALREADY
subscribed in this city to secure the
terminus. would be sufficient. if offered
as IL bnlnls TO a responsible company. 10
secure the speedy construction of II
railroad over this route, from Seattle to
the Columbia river, giving us an advan-
A road over this route is Il manifest des-
tiny. and that within few years. BY
any contest hereafter We only propose
II conflict with the Northern Pnciic
Railroad as dernier resort and a meas
ure of self defence. and only throw ont
these suggestions for consideration. that
ourpeope may keep in view preparations
for any contingeicv which may arse.
wH.r SEATTLE HAS TO r,eHi. lin an
interview with General McCafver. last
evening. the General with his usuai
honest frankness exhibited his map and
pointed out upon it the principal own
ers of Tacoma. From Il is we learned
what we had little doubt of before. that
one of the principal proprietor, Is Mr.
L. S. Smith. the agent of the old land
ring which operates nnder the corporate
name of Lake superior and Puget Sounu
Land Company, company. as Is well
known, which up TO recent date was