Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-08-19
OLYMPIA, SATURDAY MORNING, Aug. 10, 1876
A VALUABLE AID.


VALUABLE AID.
Messrs. Williams, Blanchard & Co.,
the San Francisco agents of the Pacific
Mail Co. have instructed their Olympia
agents, Messrs. Crosby & Lowe, to in
vite correspondence of our people, with
a view of encouraging new industries
and creating a remunerative field for
the resources which remain dormant
only for the want of an incentive to as
sist their development. The interest
manifested by these gentlemen in the
advancement of business on the Sound
is truly gratifying. While it is, OF
course, prompted by desire to secure
the permanency of their Sound route, it
it will inure none the less to the advan-
tage of our people, and result Ill no less
benefit than if our advancement was
the primary object of their Incorporation.
They simply wish to build up a business
owned and controlled by the people,
which will pay the largest possible rev.
enue to the corporation they represent.
It is our interest and bounden duty to
aid a company which places it within
our power to do something for ourselves,
to make market for such supplies as we
can produce, ample, reliable and accessi-
BILE at all times and for every commodi-
ty that can be applied to the use of man.
There is no longer any excuse for apa-
thy on the part of our citizens. Every
shipment of Puget Sound products, so
far as is known, has yielded satisfactory
returns, and their number and extent is
just beginning to be realized. We have
in our timber, in the soil, and the waters
CT our inland sea, never-failing source
of prosperity and wealth, available fol-
all who possess the will, the energy
and the intelligence to direct them to a
proper use. The power of Tumwatel
may be utilized in hundred different
ways by preparing the finer grades OF
timber fer the varied uses to which it is
applied in California; and our farmers
might, we believe, be able to compete
with that State in many products, in
quality and price, if they would adopt
and adhere to some system while giving
the subject thorough test. If some
crops do not pay, others will surely
yield remunerative return, and to
make judicious selection of these in
wolves about all the prescience and
Judgment that is requisite as condition
of success. With the counsel and ad-
vice that will be cheerfully given by the
agents, there is scarcely a possibility OF
loss from any well-timed venture. The
large experience of the firm as commits
sion dealers, enables them to forecast il
not to some extent control the market
for staple products, and it is to their
interest that shippers by the line may
realize the largest possible profit from
their enterprise.
As an indication of what may be &C
complished by the systematic cultiva-
ton of q single article of export, the an
nuAl hop crop on the Sound affords a
striking example The yield will ag-
g,egate in value, in round numbers,
$lO0, 900, in the Puyallup valley alone,
this year, Notwithstanding the prices
are lower than they have been any pre-
ceding season. The discovery of the
patented processes for drying fruit and
vegetables afford an opportunity for
operations on an unlimited scale, in
which our Territory would enjoy at
least equal'facilities with Oregon, where
it is becoming, each succeeding season,
q more valued resource to the State and
lucrative business for the producer.
The cost of the best drying machinery
is matter of little consequence SO far
as We are concerned, as prominent
business man of Portland, who has al
ready invested considerable money in
this Territory and contributed in no
small degree towards furnishing the
:" sinews of war" for this seasons oper-
atoms, is ready to invest the capital
necessary to purchase the patent right,
apparatus, and erect suitable buildings,
soon as it is ascertained that the people
will sustain such an undertaking.
It is to foster and encourage just such
enterprises as this that Messrs. Will
liams, Blanchard & Co. desire to be
placed in communication with the peo-
ple--to ascertain the peculiar advanta-
ges we possess which may serve to build
mp lucrative and permanent trade.