, 1880-12-31
PORT TOWNSEND, w. T.. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1880.

cleaned it was sliced in pieces u
inches thick, and after having been
seasoned with pepper and salt and a
little lemon juice each piece was
folded in a sheet of note paper,
which had been previously buttered,
and tied up and placed on griddle
and done over a wooden fire till
brown. never tasted anything so
delicious before.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
Washington Territory was organ.
lied out of Oregon Territory by Act
of Congress, March End, 1858, and
is in the extreme north west corner
of the United States. 1t is bound
ed on the north by British Columbia,
on the east by Idaho Territory, on
the south by Oregon, and on the
west by the Pacific Ocean. 1t con-
tains about 10000 square miles, and
is about $50 miles east and west by
200 miles nortn and south. 1t is di
vided by the Cascade Range of
mountains into two great physically
dissimiIar parts known as Eastern
Washington and Western Washing
ton. Eastern Washington is a prai.
rle country, devoted almost entirely
to stock-raising, growing, and
agriculture. 1t has deep, rich soil,
and well watered, with vacant lands
enough to supply million more
families with farms. If the immi.
grant prefers home on the prairies,
or designs raising stock extensively,
he should steer for Eastern Wash
ington, which now has a population
OF only about $4,000, a large per
centage of whom have settled there
within the last four years. The eli
mate is warmer in summer and cold
er in winter than in Western Wash.
ington, and greater variety of
crops can be raised there, such as
corn, peaches, grapes, melons, &c.
lhe facilities for taking supplies in
and produce out are neither ade.
quate, cheap, nor quick, being Who'll.
ly by boats by way of the Columbia
River. In all probability, however,
it will be only few years till the
railroads now projected and under
course Of construction will place
all Eastern Washington in easy,
quick, and cheap communication
with the tide-water on Puget Sound,
which is its natural and ultimate out.
let and base of supplies.
Western Washington is a timbered
country, bordering upon Puget
Sound and the ocean, and is devoted
to agriculture, numbering, mining,
manufacturing, and shipping. The
soil, climate, and productions are
nearly the same in every part as in
the particular places here described,
but the proportion of agricultural
land is generally conceded to be
greater than in other places in West.
ern Washington. Yet in each one
there are thousands of acres of very
desirable land awaiting occupants.
There are Is large counties in West.
ern Washington, every one of which
except Lewis) borders upon the
ocean, Puget Sound, or Columbia
River; consequently they have all
hrst class shipping facilities. Every
county is abundantly watered by
springs and streams of pure water.
Farms lying few miles back from
salt water, and screened from the
cooi sea breezes by belts of timber,
usually ripen crops little earlier,
and fruits and some kinds of garden
truck do better. Western Washing.
ton is known to contain gold, silver,
copper, lead, cinnabar, iron, coal,
lime ro'S, brick'cIay, pot.ers clay,
building stone, and other valuable
minerals and substanoes. Cnal hoo