The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1881-09-25
DAILY INTELLIGENCER.
Sunday, Sept. %. 1881.
LETTER FROM DAVID NEwsonE.
OREGON Cry, Sept %. 1881.

OREGON CRY, Sept %, 1881.
EDITOR IsTELLIGEScER:
l have arrived safely in the Webfoot
land. and am greeted by kindly, IA
miliar friends. For three dsys was
engaged in the publishing house of
Steel Bros of Portland. TO write my
notes on Western Washington, for pub
licstion in their monthly, entitled
The Resources of Oregon aud Washing
ton This house is true to the inter
ests Of yoor Territory. Islso wrote. for
one day, sketches from my notes on
Washington Territory for the Pacific.
Censor. 81 Vancouver. In all my man
uscript for the press every = here. /
eDdes vored to give full, comprehensive
statements of the great leading inter-
ests of Western Washington. do not
wish TO mislead any one nor to repre-
sent that or any other part of this
northwest coast IN false color either
too good or too bad. Many over here
suppose that am too partial to the
Territory. But let any man see, hear
and find out by personal experience
there as / did and report adversely to
my statements, / can only say that our
perceptions are not alike.
Nearly all my data of Western Wssh-
ington is new and strange to general
readers in this State. These Comprise
an account of what is now the con-
dition of ell the great leading in
terests OF your section. / find that
there was really no accredited pub
lie correspondent this season, who
visited in person the manufacturing.
mining and agricultural interests to the
extent that l did. l again repeat what
/ said in my farewell letter to the INs
TELLIGENCER, that with good will TO all
and malice towards mono upon the
Sound. / endeavored to state facts as /
perceived them in that section; and
that if erred it was not intentional.
My description of the coal mines, tim
ber, numbering establishments, iron
works. lime mines and the Sound wa
ters really seems little like exaggera-
tions TO those who have never seen
them. The thickness of the coal veins,
their extent and the quality Of the coal,
and the product of the lum bering estab-
lishments on Puget Sound are truly
wonderful. But. are they any more
wonderful than the great inland sea
and its inlets, bays, hsrbors. straits and
canal. penetrating 80 far inland? This
Puget Sonnd has only been duly ap>
preciated but lately. To see is to ad-
mire it.
There is scarcely any other portion
Of country. on this great Pacific coast,
that has bad much greater difficulties
to contend with than the people of
Western Washington have had. Bnt
American like. they have borne up
wonderfully under them and the good
time to them mas come. Seattle, with
out any railroad boom, or large farming
interests and supplies from great wheat
growing districts, has gone forward to
the wealth. grandeur and Importance
to which it has attained.
Whether the main trunk, or feeder
eff the N p r r from Wallula to the
Sound shall reach your city or not, its
future is we'll assured as one of the
best mining, manufacturing and COM
mercial centers on this coast. The fact
that four of the heaviest corporations
in the United States have taken hold,
and now own and run extensive min
ing and manufacturing and railroad
Interests in Western Washington is
suggestive Of the estimation in which
that section is held by the public
abroad. These are the N 2 r r Co,
tie o II & N Co., the G Ups S Co.
and the Oregon Improvement Co,
whose President is Henry Willard.
Perhaps there is no section of the Uni.
ted States to the same extent that has
as large aud valuable natural resources
not yet developed. but which can be
by capital and American enterprise, as
Western Washington has. l may never
live to see The wonderful progress in
wealth. population and growth of your
country that younger men may see.
All day yesterday passed through
the thoroughfsres OF East and West
Portland and Oregon City and wit
messed the display of Grape and half
mast fiags, incident TO the death of our
lamented Chief Magistrate of the ma
ton. That be should have been thus
taken off by the ball of q half crazy
devil is truly lamentable. 1t is not
for me to offer comments upon this
matter.
With my hearty greetings to your
self and my kind friends in your coun.
ty. l make my bow and close.
DAVID NEwsoMR,