The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-09-17
From Puyallup.
PCYALLrP, Sept. Is 1877

Tacoma 1t is four and oue-half miles BY
good wagon road to the Puyallup Res
erVa,ion. This latter is in charge 0,
Rev. n. $. Mann. the missionary
teacher and local agent. There ar,
900 Indians on the Reservation. which
has $4,000 acres of land belonging to it
Of which the Indians last year culti
waited 1850 acres. In one and one halt
years they have built under his direc.
tons 81 new houses of sawed lumber.
They have superior roads built under the
direction of an Indian road master
elected by themselves. Each man i, to
do a certain amount of work and
does II cbeerfuily. Mr. Mann is trying
very hard to get his people to the white
man $ standard Of morality. Last wear
he married 10 couples and they all
abide by the results, and one or two mar.
ry every Sunday, and the result is an
Increase OF morality and population and
a decrease Of sickness and crime. The
church is Presbyterian and the elders
all Indians. are strict in the observance
OF its rules. There were 32 births and
"a deaths last year
From the reservation six miles up
the railroad track is Puyallup station,
or what is more generally known as
Mccker's. 1t is quite an interesting
little town, and is all alive at present,
as they are in the midst Cf the hop
picking season. There must be as
many as 1000 Cinnamon and Indians
at work. Their camps are scattered
about In every direction. and at night
present quite an animsted scene Mr..
Mceker has large store at the station
we'll stocked with assorted merchandise,
and at present is filled with customers
and loungers.
ID. A. Young has a large stock of
merchandise near the depot. which has
been open five months. and his place
is also filled till late at night
Joseph X. Weasner has large and
we'll assorted stock Of furniture, and
manufactures the Bartlett spring mat
trass, rs well as all kinds of furniture
w. +. Robertson is just up from San
Francisco. and has opened photograph
gallery. He has some fine specimens
Of his skill OIL exhibition.
The Valley Central Hotel, fine new
building kept by George Harmon. is
4Ox6O feet, and contains % sleeping
apartments. large dining hall, read
ing room sc, and is well kept.
M. Is Kelly has a boot and shoe store
nd ia a. h.,a
And now l come to the Puget Sound
Manufacturing Company, in charge Of
Mr. A 5. Farquharson-a most i'm
portnnt industry. and one that requires
more than passing notice They are
manufacturing slaves, beading. broom
handles, and Excelsior" for mattresses
They have now on hand 500 cords OF
the wood in the yard to make Excelsior
of rs soon as some machinery arrives
which they expect on the next steamer.
They will employ 60 men, when their
machinery is completed, and they have
the wood in abundance at their door
almost. All of their goods except that
required for home consumption will be
shipped to San Francisco instead Of
shipping the wood as heretofore and
havingit manufactured there aud re-
tunred here. They are going to manufac-
turc fish barrels and sell them cheaper
than can be had in Oregon. hope they
may have the success which as enter
prising men they deserve.
And now we come to the hop bust
ness, the most important there is in this
part of the country. MIR. J. p. Stewart
is one of the first hopgrowers here.
He has about nine acre of hops this
year and has 43 Chinamen engaged
picking. He pays them 7j cents per
box and they average nearly box a
day They beard themselves. His
highest average yield is 2,763 pounds to
the acre, ana the lowest average 2,2l6
pounds He has raised one ton to the
acre from the frs: years planting, but
.his was an extraordinary circumstance
and the hops were planted in Decem-
Der. His kiln is % feet square and he
dries about half a ton day Mr.
J u. Stewart gives very many
very Aood reasons why the hop grow
ing interests Of the United States should
be transferred 10 this country. Eight
hundred pounds 10 the acre is fair
average crop III the East. while here it is
three times rs great. Then they have
au occasional failure there which never
occurs here An article in the Breaeers'
I Gazette. published in England. says that
our hcps are equal 10 the English
article. and gives as a reason that they
are raised in similar climate. A great
drawback 10 our hop growers 10 that
we are raising too many tor home con
sumption, and freights are from BIC to
a pound. Mr.. + Meeker, whose
father WAS the pioneer Of the hop bust
ness here, has 36 acres in this year and
100 pickers employed. He thinks about
1000. 900 pounds of hops will be ship
ped from this valley this year. They
will he shipped carefully TO New York
and Liverpool One Of the greatest
draw backs to any increase IN the hoI
raising business here. Mr.. ii. inform:
me. is the impossibility to get help to
pick them. They have oil they car
/ lind now and still have not hall
enough. The business will not warrant
them in paying big wages for a child
work. and then they could not take
care Of white men even if they could
afford to hire them. The season Is tet
short 10 warrant any outlay for tbA
purpose. while Indians aud Chinamer
take care of themselves.
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