The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1876-10-28
County and City Official Press.
Saturday, October 20, 1879.
RAILROAD pROGNOSTICA-
TONS.

Our British cousins are bcc0ming
rather noted for their amusing bluniers
in regard 10 matters geographical. seem
ing 20 show a sublime Indifference u
the little TRIES Of place and distance
that il truly Saxon An ardent Briton,
across the Straits, in communication
10 the Co9oHist essays 10 present some
considerations personal, Provincial,
Dominional aud Imperial. TO establish
the Esquimalt terminus 10 be the best
location for the Canadian Pacific Rail
road, Ito answer the desired end of
placing the Empire. nauticslly. strategy
cally and commercially in the mos. ia
vorable position possible on the Pacific
front Of our Northwest American pos
SESSIONS. This ford rhstorician fore
casts the evoiutions Of commercial des-
tiny around our waters In the following
prophetic bu. withsl complimentary
strains
who that knows the facts can deny
that Esquimalt alone Of our hArbors of
fers this position. Who can reasonably
gainsay that tho Canadian Pacific Rail
road should have its western terminus at
Eslulmalf. II Britons in tho future are
"a have fair shake in commercial com
petition with their American cousins of
the Fucsn Straits. Admiralty Inlet and
Puget Sound, all having much safer
navigation than that IL the iIaro Archi-
psiago. the Georgian hnif, aud the dan
gerous narro~s 10y which Barrard Inle,
II by the steam 'uggea sailing ships and
steamers approachable. Our astu,e and
enterprising cousins across the border.
suffering like ourselves under CONNER
uial depression. and now engrossed with
Presidential election. will soon again
lot the world know what they propose
regarding northern railroads to the Pa
chic. They most probably will
proiong the line from Tacoma
To HOLMES harbor on Wildly l..
land From Tenino some sixteen miles
:. Il. of Olympia. u railway can at no
great cost loo constructed Ia Port Town.
send. aud one from steamer
deck can see how easily such y line
could be prolonged To the safe and
large harbor Of Edix Hook OF Los An
geles OF the Fucan Straits, Just opposite
Esquimalt. from which il is some sev
enteen miles distant
With American railway termini AZ
Holmes harbor or Los Angeles. as there
may be. ere the twentieth century is out
at its teens. II not sooner. where would
British commerce on the North Amer.
lean Pacific be with its only railway
terminus away up amongst the coast
mountains at BurrArd Inlet. which.
compared with EsQuimalt. has limited
accommodation for shipping and that
not all of the first order
For more than quarter of q century
Puget Sound" the name nevadsys
gwen 10 all the inland seas of the Unit
al States south of. aud CONNECTING With
tho Straits DE Faca, has been an ever
increasing ,ssort for merchantmen. l,
has had during tina, time a very small
record Of maritime disasters. The same
cannot 10 averred of Burrard inlet,
where there have been two saw-m,ils
for some twelve years Will not com.
merce always seek tho safest routes '
and. In the all-important points of "a fe,y
and sasc Of access is there. can there bc
any comparison between Esqaimal. and
Burrara Inlet
IL plea sing to know that our neigh
bore have faith in the political sagaei,y
and commercial enterprise of the Amer
lean government and people. but fro,n a
local standpoint our writer's geogrAph.
icai logic 10 rather amusing and per.
picking than convincing The uncon-
scioas real estate proprie,ors on Holmes
harbor. on WILDLY Island and Ediz
Hook and Los Angeles on the Fucan
Straits may have grea, fortunes ia pres
pats IL they only knew their sivnn.
sagcs.