The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-08-01
THE SOUND.

Chronicle gives the following in-
teresting account Of matters and
things on Puget Sound and Vic
toria i:
At Olympia in Washington Ter
ritory, there is the dullest kind Of
dullness. The railroad is passing
the place fifteen miles away, and
real estate and business have had q
great decline during the past twelve
months.
Seattle is as dull as 1t can be and
live An attempt to make it a
moral place almost ruined it forever.
1t had grown lively on its retail
liquor BUSINESS, and particularly
the sale Of liquor on Sunday; and
then came
THE TEMPERANCE FEVER,
Which caused each retailers license
to be placed at s4O0 per annum-
and next followed the Sunday law.
This last was the feather which
broke tie camel's back. 1t ruined
the famous death-den, known as
the "Collar and Elbow" and John
Pencils celebrated "Mad House"
closed for repairs. The men in the
logging camps and neighboring
mills, who receive their pay on each
Saturday night and who were wont
to visit Seattle and get broke on
Sunday, had now no inducement,
and a great "want OF change" was
noticed by the Seattle aloon-keep-
ers. Added to this the Puget
Sound Banking Company failed,
and several other failures Of impor-
tance had already preceded it.
All the mills on the Sound are
running light, and there is not SO
much logging in the pineries as in
former years. The shipments Of
lumber to Harry Meiggs in Peru,
has almost ceased, owing to some
thing being the matter financially.
AT Victoria, B. G., the times are
as dull as the dn'lest. From being
once city Of 10000 it has settled
down to a modest 1000, and the
contraction gave it a hurt that will
be felt for many years to come. On
many of the outside sidewalks |
found the grass growing luxuriantly
through the boards beneath my feet
and actually found herds of cattle
grazing quietly in the streets in
a most the heart Of the city. The
harbor at Victoria is very small,
and the Canadian Pacific Overland
Railroad Company have selected
the harbor Of Esquimalt, three miles
distant. where a rival and more
lively town may spring up hereafter.
Wells, Fargo d Co. close their ex.
press and banking business at Vic
torla on the 18th instant, but it is
said that their agent here will con-
tinue a similar business in the old
place, thus keeping up the connec-
ton.
A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY.
Before leaving Cape Flattery, l
visited and circumnavigated Wa
ada Island, six miles eastward from
the Cape Lighthouse, and in doing
so made the discovery OF a singular
tall of water, and one which has
hitherto remained unnoticed and
unknown, lost in the mazy wonders
Of the place. This fall is caused by
the flowing Of the surf upon the
rocky shores of the island and re-
ceding again alternately over the
same ledge Of rocks. So remarka-
BILE is the formation of the place
that the water falls to a depth Of
about ten feet Oh the side next the
island, and instantly reverses and
falls to the same depth toward the
straits. The water falls in this
manner alternately as often as
twelve times a minute, and is alto.
gether most curious affair. Its
width is about forty-tive feet, and
its distance from the solid shore Of
the island is about one hundred and
fifty feet. The process of this fall
has been continuing SO long that on
eacn OF its sides the rock is percept.
IDLY worn away by its action, and