, 1878-08-10
A PICTuRE or THE SOUND.

Imagine country as varied in it,
appearance, in its soil and surface ns
New England; extending north and
south, Though il is an inland sra 15O
miles long and about halt ns wide rs
Long Island Sound, the sound south Of
CoHnect,cut. SJppnSe this sca 10 have
numerous arms tX'ending right and left,
che Of them, H0ul's canal 50 mites long;
t" be 81 c 'mplcte.y Llnd locked, that It's
surface is' ever rutllcd by the widest
storms ol old ocean: to he Studded with
islands varying in size from small bare
rock, Ia one so miles long and large
'nough for u county, like WlIidby Island.
Suppose the waters of this sen to cont in
~ obstacles tn Its free and perfect nnvi
ga,inn; It's shores. bold md high. and
covered with forests OF living grren; thrir
.cnurs, meandering and twisting, like the
famous river OF TINT name. The fnund
my Of each point md hcatllund present
ing to the eye new and unexpected scenes
Of beauty, fit for the penil ofthe artist.
and tliis irregular shore line forming nu
merous harhors easy of access: hut safe
tor shipping against every wind that
blows. Then place Port Townsend, the
pert OF entry at the lower, or northern
end and on the west size; with thr large
mills, THEN fires almost ptrpetually burn
ing, the same sidr Olym Ia. the capital
ofIhc Territory, nt its south end or hend;
with the business centres, or commercial
towns Of Seattle anil Tacoma rn tho cast !
side, the terminal points of railways and
the places from which coal is shipped to
San Francisco; New Tacoma heiug hnck
I'd by the Puyallup valley, with ITS fields
of hops and its fruit; and in the rear of
Seattle the fertile White river valley,
with its broad meadows and fine stock
and DAIRY farms, the inexhaustacle coal
Fields of Newcastle and Cedar valley, and
the undHvelopel resources OF that section;
while tn the nor,hwartl are to he found
Ihe great and fertile valleys Of the Sno-
homish, Stillaguamish, skagit, Samish
and N0otsack; the Beaver meadows and
fertile uplands between them, and the
tide marshes at the mouth 0f these
rivers. here is to be found the growing
country Of the Sound, the future home of
hundreds of thousands Of immigrants,
md the place destined to become the
garden spot Of this coast.
AS fame for so beautiful picture,
ct the snow clad SUBMITS of the Olym-
pic range he its western boundary. and
the Cascade mountains, with the snowy
reaks Of Rainier and Baker, visible 100
miles awny, its eastern border.
Then imagine climate VIII ,se winters
ire nearer like April weather in Conn,
han anything else that 1t can be com
pared with; andsswhose summer weather
the glorious afternoon weather
Vt the New England Indian Summer,
coupled with the most luxuriant vegeta-
ion, while The frosts and signs af decay
If that season are all left out, and you
lave the picture Of the Sound completed.
TRAMPs.
During six years residence, we have
lever met one; nor do we know a pauper
Vho was not made one by sickness. or an
ccldent. This is the poorest country
n the world for the shirk, the tramp,
# the lazy man who lives by his wits,
nd but few Of that class como to the
'0und; it is one fthe hest for him who
wants home and will work for it.
A man can live as cheaply here as in
lass, and can get work, SO hp can start
with no capital, but he needs enough to
'uy tools, clo'hing and provisions for
me year.
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