The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-12-04
PUYALLUP ITEMS,
FOR THE INrELLIGgyCER. /

PUYALLUP, Dec. 2. 1879.
A blacksmith chop has been opened
a. Sumner by gentleman recently
from the East.
The neck tie festival at Sumner last
Friday evening was we'll attended. AMI
a jolly CORD time was enjoyed by ALL
The proceeds Of the gathering, some
$50, were donated to tie Rev Mr. Did g.
icy.
Several Of the Valley people are At
tending court at Steilacoom this week.
1t isthonght there will be bot few
cases to dispose Of. a. the change in the
law has brought the session month
sooner than was expected, aud few are
prepared for It.
Mr. l. d Durgin will take passage
for San Francisco in few Gays. there
20 dispose OF quite lot Of native forest
seeds he gathered during the past fall.
He also takes with him several hun
dred young forest trees. which will
someday adorn the parks of tho Bay
City. Mr. Durgin will bring back q
select stock of flower and vegetable
seeds. plants, etc, for the spring trade.
Isaac Woolcry and Sherwood Bonney
are visiting relatives in Eastern Wash
ington.
Puyallup Station is growing into
Iaite town. New buildings are con-
tinually building. Families are NOV
ing in from q distance almost every
week. and everything aid everybody.
alive aud active. The stave factory
gives employment to large number
Of hands, which together with the
farmings operations thereabouts makes
Puysllup moro lively business center
than many older and more pretentions
places on Puget Sound. 1t can boast.
already. the possession OF one or two
saloons, three stores. two hotels and
several boarding houses, a blacksmith
shop. . meat market or two, telegraph
and postofice. jewelry.:shop, be.ides
several OF the lesser accoutrcments Of
a city. Mr. Meekcr, when recently in
San Francisco, purchased a large stock
Of goods with which 10 replemish his
s.ore at this place. end when they mr.
rive he will BIZ able to supply his GUS
toners with almost any article they
are likely to call for. The store Of
Measvs Wagner i Farquharson is also
we'll stocked with a general assortment
Of well selected groceries ana drygoods.
which they sell at reasonable prices.
Experim >nts will be made during the
coming year in growing sugar beets,
and If it is found that they Can be sue
cessfnily grown here. and possess the
requisite saccbarine properties. new
industry will be inauguratcd at Puy-
allup, that of sugar-making. As soon
~ that fact can be determined. parties
in San Francisco are ready to here
erect sugar f.ctory, and bny all the
bcets tho farmers can raise at rsmuner-
alive prices. 1t is to be hoped that tho
enterprise will! prove successful. for
,he Puyallup hop-srowers need some.
thing of n staple naturs t. carry on in
connection with their hop-growing,
that the sure returns Of which may off
SO, the fuotua,ing and uncertain tom
denotes Of the latter business Nor is
thi, the only embryo enterprise that
promises TO engage the attention Of
Puyallupites. Experiments made on
an extensive scale during tho past sea.
son by The Puyallup Tobacco Manufac-
turing Company have demonstrated to
their entire satisfaction, that tobacco
Of a good quality for cigars can be
successfully grown here. The cam
pany has several tons Of its own grow
ing now on hand which will he made
into cigars at the Puyallup factory as
soon as the tobacco can be prepared for
working. The company has been max
ing cigaH fpr some time past. out Of
tobncc6 brought from San Francisco.
bat will soon begin work on that of
their own growing.