, 1880-04-08
PUGET SOUND ARGUS.
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undcrlaid by vast bed OF gravel which
renders it liable to dry up about the
middle OF each summer. In the spling
aud early summer it presents most beau'
rirul and in fact gorgeous appearance
hciug one mass OF green vcgetation-wit''
wild flowers in proftlse and pleasing varI-
eties; but in July and August at'er
the early rains have gone, It's supply oi
moisture disappears through the sraNei
underneath quite out of reach OF yegeta-
ton. and TIE level plain gradually assumes
a barren aspect to he revived only at the
recurrence of another spring. Very little
good land is vacant in the vicinity Of this
prairie, except grazing land. 1t Is al
survcyed, however, and the settlers have
q. S. patents for their homes. The set
tiers are q mixture Of native Americans
and foreigners. They have, with few eX-
ceptions. lived here upwards of twenty
years. have comfortable homes and are in
dependent as far as making livelihood is
concerned. No regular religious services
are held in tlic community, but ministers
have frequently visited the place and
..held forth to attentive audiences.
Returning to the shore line, We take up
our journey westward, and find that the
settlement is almost continuous until We
arrive at Dungeness harbor, distant from
Sequim bay about eight miles. We find
here beautiful body Of WATER almost en-
tirely enclosed by the mainland OH one
side, and narrow sand-splt, five miles in
length and shaped like horseshoe, Oh the
other. On the outer end of the spit is
located large, importa Mt aud substan.
tial government lighthouse with a steam
fog signal attached. One head keeper and
two assistants are here employed, and the
services they render to commerce is incal.
Culable. On shore, OH an elevated plain
about so feet above the sea level, and ueal
an almost perpendicular bluff overlooking
the harbor and the straits beyond, is the
TOWN OF DUNGENESs,
or, rather, 1t nucleus and commencement
lt consists OF about dozen houses. com.
prising-thc county Jail and courthouse
tfor this is the county seat, store build
ing and a store and hotel building. posi-
office, two-story frame building owned
by the order Of Good Templars-ot whom
fl urishing lodge is located here-ant
several dwelling houses. This town, Ia
the language of the Western traveller, il
''about the size Of New York, only It ain
quite built up yet" It is connected
by goodwagon road with Se1ui,n prairie
"a distance OF about six miles--and othel
roads radiate from 1t In different directions
through the settlement. AT the foot OF
the hill, on a small sand-splt, are located
few dingy Indian huts, and few Indians
live here. Their chief occupation Is fish.
ing. digging CLAIMS lot which there Is All
abundance) aud using their cedar canoes
when opportunity offers in tile local trade
with the white people, to earn few dol.
lars.
TIE uARDoR.
is amply large enough for any sized fee,
when once you are inside, and, being com.
pletely land-!ocked, It Is comparatively
safe; but Notwithstanding the depth of
water inside the enclosure, the channel
leading thereto (trom the eastern side, is
so narrow, shallow and tortuous that yes
sells drawing more than ten feet OF water
cannot enter with saGety. even at high tide.
This fact Is sufficient to warrant the pre-
diction that the town occupying the
slightly and commodious background will
never be very large. although it Hias plenty
CT room, and. the resources contributory
to its wealth being likely to increase, It
will probablygeN'and to a few hundred
Inhabitants 10 The ecautse Of time. es&J
As stated before, the Dupgeness settle
mcnt is almost continuous with that at
Sequim, there being scattering farms
along between the two. About midway
between tiIem, on The water front, is u
small Indian village. known as Jamestown
where tle d,isky natives have made start
at living ike their more eutsrprising
white breihrri. They. like those ut Dam
geness and Seqnim. belong 10 tie resrrva.
zion at Skokonish,. uuder the care of
Agent. Edwin Eells. Some years ago.
while they st llTttained intact the genera
tiltby appearance and shittess habits Of
the whole Clalam tribe. anG after their
groveling natures had he'd them to ad1pt
tlerwfite mans vices with reference to
drinking whisky and raising bloody alter
cations. complaints were made and peti-