, 1877-02-03
UNOPENED AVENUES.
UNTRIED INDUSTRIES OF A
" NEW COUNTRY.
INVESTMENTS FOR SMALL CAPITAL.

INVESTMENTS FOR SMALL CAPITAL.
We find too many who come among
us for employment and who. because
they do not find work in the channels
of industry already opened. go away
saying that Puget Sound is no country
for poor man. The truth is, that it
is the best country for a poor man that
ever ''laid out of DOORS" Scores of un-
tried industries yet lie dormant. Just
because men do not see that. to get
ahead in the world. o man must look
to something beyond the drudgery Of a
day -laborer in coal-pit or saw mill.
This is essentially commercial comma
nifty. basing its existence upon the
splendid waterfront OF Puget Sound.
In the New England States. amid severe
weather and under disadvantages wholly
unknown here, thousands of men have
grown opulent and built up an empire
of CONNER CO upon the sterile shores of
a region far inferior to our own home.
sALT-MAKING
Would require but little capital to start
it and would reimburse its projectors
| literally after the first year. Most of
the salt in use on the Pacific Coast,
comes from the lagoons at Carmen Is
land in Lower California, which is a
portion of Mexico. This salt, of course
has to pay duty at the San Francisco
Custom House; yet It's proprietors have
made princely fortune from their en-
terprise. The expense of starting such
works would be merely nominal, if
taken in hand by men who are practi-
cal coopers 1t would require watts, wide
and shallow; or boxes with water-tight
bottoms, all communicating with each
other by means of
TRoUGHs, OR sLUIcEs.
A pump, to be run b. windmill,
must be then placed in deep water to
pump up the salt water and fill the
troughs for evaporation. During the
winter months, the amount of salt rea-
lized would be comparatively small; but
from April to November, the yield
would be very great. ton of coarse
salt is worth seventeen dollars here
Capt. Stratton, of Port Angeles, with
the crudest appliances, got fifteen
pounds of salt from sixty gallons Of
water in two days. This would give a
ton of salt from every 5000 gallons of
water evaporated in the same length of
time. Less than q Thousand dollars
would be needed to turn out sixty tons
of this salt per month. and 1t would
soon be in general demand.
SPRUCE SLAVES
Command ready sale in San Francisco
and Honolulu at $50 to $50 per thou.
sand. according to quality. In the lat
ter market, they are used exclusively in
the sugar trade for half-barrels and
syrup kegs. In San Francisco, there
are pickles, powder, syrup, dried fruits,
picked meats, salt fish, and host of
other articles packed in kegs. For
powder and other dry articles, the red
wood of California gives as good slaves
as needed; but liquid articles demand
encasing in tasteless wood, hence the
spruce is above all others. Every log
ger on the Sound knows some locality
where patches of spruce can be found,
especially near the Straits. The Puget
Mill Company has opened direct SUI
gar trade with the Sandwich Islands,
and will soon be making slaves regu-
lar article OF export.
GLUE FACTORIES
| Conld be established in the vicinity of
Olympia, Port Townsend and Seattle.
I to work up great deal of offal thai
now goes to rot. Wherever there are
two or more slaughter-houses glue can
be made in quantities that will pay one
or two mems labor. Of course, it
could not all be consuned at home. but
such quantities as would be shipped
away would also bring back money in
return. The ease with which sea- fish
cries can be conducted here and the
abundance of sturgeon in the waters of
Puget Sound, would render the produc.
ton of gelatine and isinglass very feas-
ible when taken hold off by men who
are practically conversant with such
matters.
Is an article originally manufactured in
Russia from the spawn of the sturgeon.
1t is an acquired taste to like it, but
when mans palate once becomes
habituated to it, sandwich of caviar
on rye bread washes down very nicely
with glass of foaming lager. At pres
ent the nearest factory of this article is
at Astoria, in Oregon, whence it is
shipped to San Francisco, and thence
back to all parts of the north coast. Its
maker, Bofchers, is help to the place
where he resides, because he utilizes
what would otherwise go to waste.
Such men do not crowd or jostle the
rest of mankind in the endless race for
wealth. They mark out their own
paths in life, and get rich by adhering
to them.
SAIL MAKING
Is sometimes needed here by the grow
ing commerce on the Sound. Of course
every vessel in this trade has duplicate
sails to cover disasters, but the estab-
ishment of sail loft here would give
q great deal of work to two or three
men. Then there would be awnings
| for the stores in summer, as we'll as a
score of other uses not suggested at q
casual glance. There would be more or