Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-12-23
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
ITS RESOURCES AND INDICTMENT,
FOR IMMIGRATION.

Extract, from the Centennial Address of Hon. Ell,
wood Evans.
Coal and Coal Lands.
The appearance of veins and out
of coal in almost every
portion of Western Washington in
dicates its general distribution and
its inexhaustable supply.
Biologists generally ascri-e it to the
tertiary formation. On the Columbia
river, Ignite or brown coal appears
in thin seams, extending continuous
ly northward, the quality improving
as we go north. After the expert
ence of nearly quarter of century,
the value of Washington Territory
Goals for economical and commercial
purposes, is demonstrated. All the
mines accessible to tide water have
been profitably worked, ard the coal
ranks with the best Pacific Goals.
BELLINGHAM BAY MINES.
In the Fall of 1852, coal was dis
covered on Bellingham Bay. From
the first mines, $50 tons were shipped
to San Francisco, since which those
discovery claims have not been
worked. The mine of the Belling-
ham Bay Company, SO long the only
from this Territory, was dis
covered in 1853, opened the succeed
ing year, and has been in active and
successful operation ever since. About
100 tons per day are taken out, but
the daily yield can be increased to
400 tons if necessary.
SEATTLE GOALS.
This includes Renton, Talbot, Sc
attic, Lake Washington and other
mines in the VII II ity of Seattle. As
early as 1854, coal mining was pur-
sued by DR.. Bigelow, on Black river,
with but Indifferent success, owing
to difficulty of transportation to port
of shipment AID high freights to San
Francisco. The shipments of coal
from Seattle to San Francisco, for
the year ending June 3Oth, 1876,
were 1895 tons. Since Jan. LIST,
1875, when large shipments really
began, the Seattle Company have
loaded 81 vessels, with cargoes ag-
gregrating 94,51s tons, the Renton
Company IS vessels, with 1889
tons; the Talbot Company IA vessels,
with 1O, 1888 tons Total, 1873 ves-
sells, with cargoes aggregating 1913,
295 tons of coal. The shipments of
the four previous years aggregating
less than 5000 IONS.
sKooKUM-CHUcK COAL FIELDS.
Are situated on or near the line of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, about
20 miles from Olympia, and are hut
partially developed. The close prox-
unity of these mines to the railroad,
transportation to Puget
Sound or Columbia river, and the
good marketable quality of the coal
early successful develop
ment.
PUYALLUP COAL FIELDS.
p. G. Eastwick, civil engineer
of reputation, after adve,ting to the
discovery in July, 1874, and to the
location and e~tent Of the limited
fields, by him examined, says in an
official report:
"The coal beds discovered have
been so numerous, and many of
them of such q character, both as to
size and quality, as to establish be-
You'd question that a supply Of coal
of quality equal to any and ample
in quantity to meet all the demands
of the Pacific Coast for years to
come, can be economically and profit
ably produced from The very limited
area which up to the present time
has been but imperfectly explored.
Within this field there are found the
non-coking Ignite Or brown coal, a
number of varieties and quantities Of
bituminous coal which leave upon
distillation cokes of various hardness
and density, and anthracite coal OF
good quality
Prof. W. s. Sheafer, eminent in
Pennsylvania as a mining engineer.
has Just completed thorough pre-
liminary reconnoisance Of these coal
fields. He describes the coal district
as extending from south Of Carbon,
or Little White River, in q north
westerly direction, crossing the
Carbon, Puyallup, White and Cedar
rivers, a distance Of fifty miles, and
perhaps much farther north. It's
width reaches westerly from near the
base of the Cascade Mountains on
the east, until lost under the drift Of
the low valleys bordering Puget
Sound" The Goals belong to the
crstaceous era; newer, softer and
with less Of carbon or gas-producing
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