, 1876-03-04
Che attrthcra Str
MARCH, q, 1876.
Chimacum Valley.

the following account al tnt llNn'nl III
Chiruacum valley is submitted to our rea lCrs.
Hving OCCASION 20 go from Port Towns
end to Port Lud'3w, rM Port. Discovery,
Inst week, took the stogr ROAD to Tukcy'S
Ian ling stopping thrTH over night; the
mex; day crossing in Capt. Wai'e's 3 eam
FRY Boat. The Fannie, 10 Pnrt Discovery
Mil. After tran%,c,ing my business AT the
MI, Clp,. W it; hnd,l ne NJ the roa.
menrem, nj oftle raiI 10 Pr, Lu low fol
lowing this roal some thr'e or tour miles
brought me ou. at the Chimwum stth mrnt,
some five miles from D scovrry, an ! about
nine miles from PoI, Ludlow; stopping in
the 'tttmrnt over night ut the huaa. ot
RS. Il 'binson. Nv attention WAS 80 strong
ly excited by the general appearance of cult,
urc. thrift and wealth. that | took "a good
deal o' pains ii -d7Ttainn- tie 70 lowing items
relating to tn" settlement. &C.
There are now about 60 voters in Chin.
acum Precinct. :,
NJ R,Ain.op settled there first some TWEEN.
ty three years ag,,
Will,m Bishop ani William EllridG
setild. near to him after the close of the
Indian war, leSs tIlaT twenty years ago.
Mr.. Rh'insons capital consis I'd Of only II
few hundred .d"lars while Bishop and e.
dri,lge were zach worth 25 cents. ut he time
of their resp Give settlements. There wple
no trails. III, streams on hch they could
travel with canoes. VII, re-. their present
ranches now are, there was skunk cnbMgv
prairie, of at0u. one hundred acres to b.
divided between them, the res wns to lie
cleared, as well as r,mds 10 he cut to the
nearest settlements sn h ns r ,rt Discovery.
Ludlow. and Townsend. When VIZ rrhrc,
that now, after rpFls' are all open Il. Their.
are thousands 0f dcrrs ot equally good land
unnccupiri. not only on Chimmcum Greek.
but op~Pil Chuck, Quill Crdlr and along
our SnnhHmisl in this County, and No hard
er 10 clear tlmn their land wns, nee ID We hr
surprised that NJ that time every one called
these men crazy for ttling ON bpave.
mrrSh, and in skupks cahlmg" swamp
However, these men were foolish tn0u! III I,
persevcrr, 90 10 1rrk and try to make
homes in the witltrness, M, only that. Ih,y Y
soon tound.womcn Iraye hearted enough to
share their lot with them They have hail
many obstacles tonvrr come. many loses Ia
endure. In early ays they lost much stock
by mlring in the marsh, nnd'l.y wild beasts
About eight yterrs sgcfAIr. "Rol.insonha' his
barn and snnmrrS.cropH consumed by fire
loss some $780, Last S aNon his n,w hnusu
worth al out $1,000 Has burned, he has now
completed, pn,sher- Rne dwelling He has
also three large barns, veg, tahle houses. tsc.,
and about lac. acres cleared 'lapd.
His aiock consists of thirty-two cows,
six horSesand, ,ipulvs and tory head Of other
stock. .s.t ,sr'~ t':":'
Bishop aid E'lridge were for many years
partners, While carrying ON the business to
gpther hplr receipts are said u have been
ppwards:.of s22t 90 one year selling some
10000 pounds OF butter.
Mr.. B shop has some two hundred acre.
of cleared land, some eighty head Of stock.
thrty Ave COWS.
Mr.. Eldridgo. has a ont one hundrcl and
sky acres ot oleard land, seventy head OF
stock, twenty-five cows. He has milk
house worth II thousand dollars, perhaps the
best in the Territory.
A n1mbrr Of o hers might be named in
IT, oil ,,,lI
these persons are selected because they b.
gan without capital, and made all they own
ON th'ir respective nnche..
Mrssrs. Edridgc and Bishop are sail to
I've the wralthiest men in THAT srttl m''nt.
These are all dairy farms. Batter ia the
pr;nc'ph product. Its average value by
the year ia. NIT far from forty cents pound,
II Is estimated that from 5000 to 5000
pounds have been sold from u tract within
aradius of 2t miles Of the centre Of t'is
settlement These men each derive 80 large
an income from cir ranches. TINT
they nre afraid outsider or the assrssor will
learn how great .sit is sTho way many Of
lUtIl HIV tblh'lIN'N', w ''h'' ~ h't
could make themselves as well elsewhere
ty dsposing of their farms for s12 600 or
$i5OoO each. moveibg To bthcr points and
r.'nvrtirg the ncrey IL oil er usinrs.
One oi our leading Snohomish logger. J..
B. Roberts owns one of these large ranches
at Chinpcum win he not favor us with an
article rrln'irg to It.
Perhaps it ia needless to add that these
60 ahead. like all mhpr wide awake people
around the Sound, are willing supporters oi
the NORTHERN STAR.
II that blessed land nIth Pilgrim F lthers.
not far from Plymouth Rock, in sight OF
thAt heaven pierci'g e shnf', justly nt'on'S
,rde, Bunker Hill Monument, in the HUI.
the Athens Of America. n lite Jewish girl.
has ben sentenced to the house of r lorna
tirn. iernrISr ah~erting herself from III" pub
lie schools on Saturday the .J'wiSh S'hhn' h.
WI the time eysr. come int our pu''lic
s'hnols will be thOrOugh'v s'cuIa'. II some
nf ,h. o,lyno,t a ,r ,h,, hillp m gchn lS were