, 1877-01-27

who have done least Of all comes the
complaint that some other section has
been represented too thoroughly, while
they poor .tjio,cS, have been shghtrd,
Let us pnrticuhrizc II little. Not far
from this place is situated the settle
mpnt OF Pin Chuck valley. Pill Chuck
creek cnptying into tn" SnohomlNh
river about one mile above town. This
valley is fine valley, the settlement ol
which will I've Of great benefit to this
town, vet there are comparatively tc"
settlers there ns cOmpnrd with t'i"
whole region represented b' tie STAR
what we say about this Nriry rnn inter
est few besides its settlers, q. ! the po"-
pie Of this town directly ju- 'd Ia its
settlement. We have tried 20 devoic
considerable space to this rrg,p On oc
count Of its prospective value to the
whole county 0s OilOrdlng houd OF ron-
nertion between the Suuhomsh an"
Silhguamish valleys, as well as tor Us
value as heing situate adjacent to tNis
place. The space occupied in dcscrib.
mg this valley in our columns, has been
81 great that all the support received
t ON there, would not pay more tn n
one. fourth the cost OF setting up the ar.
lirIrs descriptive OF that valley that
have appeared in the STAR, and it hns
been made a matter of special complaint
by people up river, that We have said so
mWch about Pill Chuck valley. Yet not
Withstnnding all this, There j. a person
residing within few miles of this towr +,
u citizen OF that valley, who made mag
nticent promises OF support, upon our
starring the STAR, which he has kept
with his usual taithtulneSs. This per.
son has given US the generous support
OF single subscription, while the arti-
cles in the STAR descriptive Of his i'm
mediate surroundings. more beneficial to
HIM han any one else, have cost US some
ten times the amount of his subscription,
to pay our type settlers to II them up,
to say nothing of paper, ink, editorial
work, etc, Yet this person makes ter
ri lie threats of how he is going to with
draw all of his great support from the
STAR, because we have not devoted more
space to his own local interests.
On the other hand the people outside
of this valley stating that we have fully
kept our promises towards them in try
ing to represent their interests and have
given snch interests the necessary study,
and have secured all the expected bene-
fits; yet some complain that the Snoho-
m sh derives manifold greater benefit
than they can, because people will not
distinguish between names sounding so
near alike as Snohomisb, Syinomish,
Samish, etc, and the paper being pub.
lishrd at Snohomish, this place gets the
credit, and benefit. Tho surrounding
regions TOO often being regarded as sul,-
ordinate, and dependant to this, in place
Of being independent centers of wealth
and influence, with natural resources,
wants and interests similar to our own.
1t can not be denied that there is a
certain degree Of truth in oil this, yet as
these regions receive benefits acknowl-
edged by them to be MANIFOLD in value
the support given by them to the STAR !;
they have no just cause Of complaint,
and while our citizens derive so great
benefits from being in a measure regard
ed ss a sort Of center for so many re-
gions of great natural wealth, and there.
by achieves so great prominence, GER
talnly none here can complain, even if
there is occasionally su article in the
STAR, that is not descriptive Of certain
part of Pill Chuck valley.
Then again our affairs have been in
such condition that we found it con.
venient, after writing up very thorough.
ly. to devote q very large amount Of
space and time to write up and study
the regions north Of the Snohomish. The
people there paid us for writing up very
fully, and publishing special number
specially devoted to their section, so
there could be large amount Of extra