The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-10-12

The ferry. We are told, sometimes clears
f25, O00 III q single day
After all. We believe San Francisco
IS an overgruwn city The natural
maritime out 1T of the Sacrament
AID San Joaquin river systems. 1t ha>
been h-r adva,tsg tia, her tributary
valleys have converged at the ocean
htrbo, She had cam bined 10 favor
Ger start the elements Of an open deep
-ea port. shelter, Easy access. open
'auds. mines AMI a inviting climate
But TO-DAY SIZE draa. tribute not alun.-
from the pla.n. Of California and the
mime OF N"> ada which is natural. bat
Also i am lac 4tir.. 4l-rtiI-wr~r III.
gtain.f l'f- III Or. g"h aud Walla Vail
tie pasture of + stern Oregon. tbs,
.pii.,s al Ihhn and Mntan.. TIE
f.r-,t- ct Puge : nd. aud the II err
u,i qnarrI-, al BRUSH Columbia
tli which w.'uid b. teit-r No
coininni ,ted ard conserved il conc.n
tra..d IN a nuinr port where even lie,
ttr fsci.liI-~ nr If ,r.ica than at thu
iar away Bay al San Frauci,co
Witalu c-rtn,' limits there * gam
in the COT sJl!iriIon and !!Ifica,I urr that
.nceutrntcs thr res urre> of an iinve-
ria. territory, ht: when carried too f..
tins bcc"mes "A trtne. San FrsTci-cc j.
The one ciiy of the W stern b Iit Of the
Amerlcau cont .ct.t. She l. the spoiled
pct Of good fortune. A consequences l.
that all emigraIion goes there, and in
Year of calamity like this Ia year of ca
lamity within the circumscr,bed bounds
Of California; the whole coast goes
down and is involved in calamity
on account of the misfortune Of the
small part. which ought not To be. Ar
irving Immigrants seeing only the mel
nncholy PROSPECTS h'ch arid California
holds out TO them III q drouth year,
turn about and return dishcartencd 1t
is actually fact that this year the tide
of departures from California is greater
than the influx. So the whole coast
suffers even San Francisco herself
from not being properly supported AID
supplemented a. she should b. by he
due development of the cogna;e advan-
tages Of Washington Territory and the
Columbian group Of States.
San Francisco draws for her support
upon the farms and fisheries of Oregon
and Washington Territory. Even the
wheat Of Walla Walla and the Palouse.
east of US. fluids its way to market
through her port. At the same time,
she draws most Of the coal that drives
/ timber out of which she Is building. the
piles CD which her foundations rest,
from rs and the outside worli. IL may
then be u pertinent query why she
should always continue to absorb all
| the wealth and all the life of the entire
coast? Assuredly she will not always
do so. 1t may be objected that she
monopoiizes all the capital But what
of that? Capital is only an artificial
and not natural advantage; and CAPT
tai grows For the matter of that as
compared with the other cities Of the
country. San Francisco herself had no
capital twenty-five years ago. Let but
q mine be opened IL our mountains or
q railroad be finished across them and
the b lance of commercial power on the
Pacific coast will become rapidly ad-
jus'td
The destinies of places turn upon lit
tie circumstances. We have observed
that the start If San Francisco was dine
to the natural conveyance of out
let's upon her harbor and the
Hardness Of the development
of the Columbian city, on the other
hand. to the natural want of concen-
.,f h.,
out lets of the Columbia. the Sound
with its tributaries. the Frazer, etc
All the bays north and south Of San
Francisco have been enlarged to gen
eral commerce by distractions across
their entrance SO that commerce is nat
urally forced to choose the alternative
Of either 1.-The Bay" or 1.-The Sound. "
drOuth which will work to divide the
empire of the Bay The warm. semi
tropical climate invites to ennui and to
lethargy by its languid softness and is
less favorable to the active enterprise
which Is requisite TO the maintenance
of supremacy than is ours. Then they
have another gentle dissuader in the
PussoAiSot S0s tuIudhCo
ally cause n rattling of the dry bones
We predict that it will be another case
of New Orleans against New York.
One Of the more recent improvements
now being extensively laid down is a
street railway for running up and
down hills without the use of horses.
The motive power is All engine
stationed at the top Of the hill.
operating on an endless wire running
beneath the rails, which draws up the
loaded car. Its own gravity suffices to
run it back. This is q great convenience
to the denizens of the Clay and Cali
fornia street hills
Among the first men we met in the
city were our towsnmen Messrs. Poncn.
Collins, Ehattuck, and the ever genial
and irrepresaible Tom. Morris. who is
engineering the local sale Of Seattle
coal. Otis Freeman. the steamboat man,
is still in the city and still negotiating
for increased steam communications for
the Sound.