The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-05-28
FROM CLALLAM COUNTY.
PoET ANGELES, May 6, 1879.

fOHI ASOELES, Alay y, 1919.
Ed. IsTELLIGENcKR:-In your issue
of Nay 3D. I read an account of the
meeting at Seattle for the purpose of
devising means to encourage immigra-
ton to Puget Sound. will take Judge
Burke's first proposition: Have We
country possessed Of such natural ad-
vantages as to justify an honest man 10
encourage laboring men to emigrste
to Puget Sound" That is q question
few are able to answer truthfully, and
requires careful canvassing of every
locality west OF the mountains'to ascer-
tain how much agricultural or grazing
land there is suitable for settlers COM
ing in with but small means TO start
with. This can only be done by parties
living near or we'll acqusinted with the
different settlements of western Wash
ington Territory. Correspondence
shonld be opened Immediately between
your committee and responsible parties
in every precinct at the outlying ports
OF the Territory. have no doubt but
your committee may be we'll acquainted
with the country from Whatcom to
Olympia. as you have had steam com.
munication on that part of the Sound
for years. but OF the country south
west of you they know little or roth.
ing about. From Port Townsend to
the mouth of the Columbia is long
distance, and only this year has steam
communication extended to Neah Bay;
south of that place is farther off to
emigrants or travellers than New York.
Now, it is a we'll known fact that
everything on the lower Sound centers
in which has done more than
any other city or town on the Sound to
centralize trade-for when Q settle
meat is started between Semiahsmoo
and Seattle. there they send a steam
boat, which is o great help to their
further development, while we of the
lower part of the Sound have for
many years had to depend npon canoes
and small sailboats; hence there is little
known of this par. Of the country in
Seattle. Now we have the staunch
little steamer Dispatch. with the most
accommodating captain who takes pleas
ure in landing settlers anywhere on his
route, which is great help to parties
looking for land. Yet the work has
only begun. II remains for Port Town
send and Seattle, and more especially
your Immigration Committee, to induce
Capt. Monroe to make two or more
trips during the summer to the Quille-
huyte SO that many persons who want
to see that part of the Territory may
do so conveniently. There is more
good land down there awaiting settlers
than in any other part of the Sound
country. Advertise the Dispatch, or
any other boat, to leave Seattle any
time between June and September for
Quillehuyte river, ard think she will
have full load of passengers, if only
to see the country and hunt elk and
other large game.
We are having three townships sur
veyed at the back of this harbor. All
the land for mile back, and fronting
the water for eight miles, is reserved by
the Government for some purpose only
known to the late Victor Smith and
Salmon p. Chase. think when it is
surveyed it will remain with very few
exceptions in its primitive state a long
while. Why the Surveyor General
does not make some effort to extend
the line from Clallam or Neah Bay to
Qullehuyte so that many townships
could be surveyed to secure the homes
to the few already there and the many
who will 60, seems strange. No man
feels safe in taking up unsurveyed land
in an Indian country on account of the
false philanthropy Of Secretary Schurz
and others who think that all the land
west of the Rocky Mountains belong
by right to the Noble Red Devils"
who have as much use for it as q
soldier has for walking cane.
Every available acre Of farming land
ought to be surveyed. no matter where
located on Puget Sound, SO that it can
be settled up by farmers ana grazers,
who always are the "out posts" Of other
industries which are sure to follow in
their wake. So mote it be.
HUSTLER.