The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1876-10-13
Comfy and City Official Press
Friday, October ID, 1876.
MORE MANUFACTURES
NEEDED.

Seattle is steadily widening her bor-
ders aud concentrating within her
haritJr the chief trade Of Western
Washington, get .till remains almost
exclusively dependent town Except
ing several articles Of raw material.
whose export constitutes our living
the expedieut Of tributary and de-
pendent people import nearly
everything we eat. wear or use Instead
Of ~ doing. we ought now 10 be a com
pe,iug point of export for many of the
articles which we purchase abroad
Among these in particular ara dried
beef. leather, candles, glue. porc.no
provisions as hams. bacon. aud lard, and
WOODEN goods We mention these. to
lay. a. belonging to olass for which
We possess unusual facilitles for grow
ing the material upon the wide pasture
ranges across the Cascades, and for
working up aud exporting here in this
city
The amount IT these articles imported
30 the Sound for the supply Of the
home requirements is very great. and
there is nothing TO hinder rs from
making market for such articles, If
produced here, wherever our vessels
can sail or our railroads penetrate.
Already we send away for manufacture
large quantities of hides and wool, and
as SOON as the roal il pushed across
the Snoqualmio Pass, the way will b.
opened for the ingrcss Of large guam
titles Of both articles from the pastures
Of the Eastern plains; for the manu-
faeturc of which into clothing. blankets,
boots and shoes, betting. harness, and
the innnmerable fabrics wrought Of
leather aud wool, there is no point
so favorably located as seattle
There Is here every facility for tanning
leather of the best quality --exeeilent
tanning bark Is abundant and right at
hand, 20 loo had for the gathering, and
lts utilization for this purpose would
keep many thousand dollars AT home
every year. The one tannery that has
long been ia operation here - not able
10 supply 1.-THE Of the present demand
in these articles.
The business of hog driving across
the Pass has already been successfully
inaugarated as We have noted hitherto.
Mississippi hams. bacon, Ia and mess
pork has constituted In TIE past one Of
our heayies, import bills As swine
can be raised In our prairie countries
mere eheaply and easily than in the re-
gions around the " Porkopoliscs" of the
Great West. there is possibility that
we may NJ some future period return
The compliment by exporting To those
cities Tue swine is more wholesome
animal when grown upor clean pastures
aud grain fields than when brought up
IN farm styes aud wallows, IT IN town
Sums. q "a Chiaoi~
For the growing of wool there is mo-
batter range In the world than the
eastern portion of this Territory, aud
some extensive sections on this side
This interest. lie 4. remembered. repre-
sents tens ot millions of dollars annual
iueome 81 Australia. ia the raw. and
has mainly built up several of its great
cities We believe il will prove as protia-
bic here, when engaged IN on the scale
that Is practicable. Will not some Gu
terprising capitalists who arc straight
enesi by too sharp competition IN the
East, como to cur rescue. by establish
Ing here the much needed industries
ot pork packing house. tannerles aud
wolea factory. and lay the foundations
ot princely fortunes for themselves III
thus building up the prosperity Of cur
e'sy and Territory.