, 1875-05-01


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.sasuns Are YOU aware. people
~ Claiam and Port Townsend.
that the butcher. here will pay
one cent a pouul more for meat
from you than incur the risk and
trouble Of going - Ear after il:
Merchants aud people Of Port
Townsend, would YOU not rather
SEQ your money going into Clalam
county than 10 the southern and
eastern parts Of tho Territory, and
thence 10 Portland!
a contributor in tie last issue
Of the AEGUs speaks Of a steamer
10 aid in settling up tho country,
which would also build up a trade
for itself. NowI have my ideas
about steamboats,. They cost mon
ey to build them, it takes money
to run Aem--they wear out and
roads don't-and you don't want
a one-horse concern to run on Fuca
Straits. At the rate that the coast
line has been improving for the
last seventeen years it will take
fifty years to pay for a steamer, de-
pending on the trade, fit to navi-
gate those waters. In my opin-
ion, the only kind of a craft that
will pay to cope with tho stormy
waters of the Straits, one that will
not have to run for harbor every
capful of wind, or drop an anchor
for an adverse tide, is a prairie
schooner. When the day comes
that you can navigate one of those
crafts between Port Townsend
and Dungeness, the former will
have some show of getting some
of that ten or twelve thousand
dollars back that she pays as a
semi-annual meat bill.
The next question is how far a
road would have to be built to
connect Port Townsend and Sc
quinn. In looking at Whites map
l should suppose it to be about
fifteen miles. From thence there
are good natural roads on the
beach, with very little exception
to Pillar Point, a distance of sixty
miles from here. How often do
you meet with the poor laboring
stranger, desiring employment,
without cent. You tell him there
is mill at Port Discovery, but the
poor fellow does not like to take
the chances of being refused a
passage after walking eight weary
miles. I say, again, throw out
your roads; make Port Townsend
a rendezvous for the laborer as
well as the sailor.
know that a road between Port
Ludlow and Hoods Canal, with q
ferry to Port Gamble, has been
needed for years. The residents
of Quilcine are calling on you for
a road. Would not such a road
cause a ferry to spring up to Sea-
beckg You formerly had large
portion Of the Gamble and Sea-
beck trade. Throw out your
roads and you can gain some Of it
back again. The day ought not
to be far distant when, with less
than ten miles of water passage, a
person can ride from Blakely to
Neah Bay.
Has it never entered your minds,
people of Port Townsend and
Clalam county, that the mail to
Neah Bay ought to be carried by
land? Can it not be done equally
as cheap, and with a far greater
degree of certainty? All that's
wanting is a road to Sequim, and
one of twenty-four miles from Pill
lar Point to Neah Bay. One hun
dred head Of cattle were driven
between these points two years
ago. And what man has done be-
fore can be done again. Would
not the merchants Of San Francis
co interest themselves in this in
view OF having telsgraphic COM
munication with the mouth of Fuca
Straits.
People of Port Townsend, con-
slider among yourselves if it would
not be to your interest to have this
road to Sequim. You could at
least give enough out of your own
pockets to have a survey and esti-
mate of the cost, and by this set
an example to the people of
Clalam. T.