The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-11-21
The Puget Sound Basin.
From, tie Orfgonian

Ahs uet-WorN on deep lauG-Iocked
bays, inlets and sounds, opening to The
Pacific through the De Fuca and
Georgian straits. is the wonder If nav
ieators and the joy of commerce.
Fleets OF lumber, Coal, lime, vegetables.
hops, grain, fish. oil. fruit, wool slaves.
hoops. furniture aud furniture woods.
water pipe and pump stocks, shius
knees and spars. aud the products OF
several other new industries. already
glide through these ample water ways
to the OCEAN and the world msrts.
Freigh's are cheaper from Paget
Sound TO Liverpool than from Lake
Michigan to Liverpool The harvests
now annually gathered from the for
sts and mines, from the fields and
orchards. from rivers and sea waters,
oil are mere signs of vastly greater aud
more varied harvests yet TO BE- gather
cd.
LUMBER.
The great mills ar. improving and
increasing their ma :hinery, using late
inventions tn econimizs force and par
feet their lumber for the demand of
builders and shipwrights. and oth~r
wcodworks. while adding twenty t,
eighty per cent to their average daiiy
product. This draws more ship, TO
their wharves, 10 Ids them qnicker and
Oftener. and sends them in search of
new markets.
The Seattle mines of coal are n type
OF vast series OF velns which enriches
this eLtire basin Thee exteLd III
sections northward into British Colum-
b.a, aud southwark to the Columbia
river.sn along the foot hills aud spurs
to the Cascade and Goa mountains
INTO Califorbis. The Seattle Coal
Company will export over a hundred
thousand tons the present year Of very
good domestic which is sold readily in
San Francisco. The Seatco mines are
sending an equal good domestic coal to
Olympia, at lower rates on the o. & T.
narrow guage railroad. A short side
track from the N. P. X. X can put the
same coal cheap into the Portland
markets.
The Tacoma mines have Eegun to
furnish fine grades Of CRATE coal. and
also OF steam and gas aud blacksmith.
aud OF furnace Goals. The steiner
Alaska tested forty tons on her last
trip.and her engineer, Mr.. Stewart,
pronounced it the best coal yet prodrc-
ed on the coast. She will now use il.
The new railroad survey of the n. z.
X. X. Co, via the Cowlitz Pass, re
veals vains Of true anthracite which
give promise of ample supplies of smelt
| ing Goals.
The San Jua. and Orcas Island lime
have already become known as cloic-
brands in our markets. displacing those
from Santa Cruz. AS the latter dill the
Oahu lime Is years ago. The Puyul-
!up lime beds now bid fair to rival
those Of San Juan, as their hops do
those of more southern climcs.
Goa, lime and iron beds near toge,E-
er and near ,he sea. make blast furnaces
and rolling mills and machine sho,
both possible and prof ahle. TIE
same vegetation which produces tae
coal vains. also formed the dep, sits oi
iror ore. Their common laboratory
was in the vast morssses of the carbni,-
aceous Period. Findii & tn, coal out
groupings. you may expect to find the
iron ores near by. and probably H.
lime rocks in some form. All tbe'e
mines are found near Tacoma. The
N. p. X. r. up the Payallup vale,
now openes the coal and lime to mar
KIT, aud touches the outcroppings OF
iron ore that indicate both the
quality and quantity needed for HON.
use and export. Once developed. tn.
-avi"g in freights alone will furnish
large margin OF profit for this home
industry and q chance for export also
to the vast marts Of the Pacific coast,
worthy the attention If the prudent
capitalist aud manufacturer.
LUMBER.
During twenty-five years the mill
companies of Puget Sound have been
exporting their products Of fir and
cedar t. all the m ,rkets Of the Pacific.
while many carkoes of their spars and
ship kue+s have gone to The maritime
ports of France and England. Their
anuualexport now exceeds two hundred
millions Of feet Of sawed lumber. Yet
they have only penetrated the forests
from one to three miles from the shore>
Of rivers aud bays. and only culled the
tim Der. Single trees Often make from
Il, 600 to $4,000 feet. Their average
AS estimated is 10000 per tree and 90
trees, or 500. 600 feet per acre. When
cut close as in eastern forests, this
amount in many places will be double
In the valleys curly maple. alder. ash
cedar aud some other furniture and fiue
cabinet woods are found for growing
market.
The waters Of Puget Sound are the
home of the salmon and salmon trout.
the halibut. the herring. the rock aud
tom cod the founder. the sea perch
and smelt. with ether varieties Of food
fish, besides extensive clam and oyster
beds
FRUIT.