, 1881-11-26

tnis country as inpossaht - tns iumhos
trade, is yet in It's infancy. Although
there ar. inrumsrsble coal heds exkeudinR
from the extrsane north of Whatcoa
county nearly TO the month Of the Cos.
iiz, ON the Columbia river, the New
castle min. Is the only one that is yet
worked On large scale. About COO tons
per day are taken from, this mine It h
taken by railroad thirty miles, to tide
water, at Seattle, at the very moderate
cost Of mining and carriage Of 81 per ton,
and sold there at S3 and q.
A PERILOUs LEAF
The superintendents take great pleas
ure in conveying visitors over this road to
the mine. The visitor is weak enough
To pass over the l3O-foot trussel with mind
fully made up never to crafty curiosity
in that direction again after listening To
Superintendent Williams relation of how
he jumped from car when the ninety
foo. trussel gave away two years ago and
was landed with the wrecked train in the
abyss below and awOke from the stupor
of being only stunned to find one p-n
with both legs broken and another q
nlangIed corpse. And. if he be Is valor-
Gus as bear hunter who has not found q
bear wher he arrives at the mine, if ii
should be ut the moment when the col
. liers come up, each bearing lamp upon
his head and looking like an imp Of dark
ness, this second shock will drive all for
titude from his knees, and, while invul-
unfairly playing palsy, he will not re-
fuse something on which to brace up be-
| fore he consents to make q mile long pI-
grimase into that dark hole. 1t is alleged
that even Though he be good templar
and 400 miles from homo his overstrained
nerves will argue in extenuation for tax
ing more something" that it is no time
for the observance Of ceremonies when he
prepares, at the end of the railroad jour
| ney, to MAKE the descent from the upper
to the lower level. This descent is about
700 feet and at an angle Of q degrees-
The cage or platform upon which the
passenger makes this descent is worked
by a. stationery engine which is located
upon the hill above the shaft, and from
| the moment he starts until his emcrgence
to the light Of day, If he be Catholic, he
counts his beads; if Orthodox, he asks
the Lord TO save him for Christ's sake /;
| and if he be an infdel he varys the
prayer by saying 81 wish to the Lord
Harry l was out of here, and l wish i
may be d-deed If | ever enter such a
place again" Upon being told when he
aseelds to the top side that the cage
works sometimes break loose and the
thing goes down on its own hook like the
devil on a hogs back, he would be will
ing for tie sake Of All assurance that he
could be Immediately transported to a
place of safety, to consent that that place
might be the company of the girl Of the
period VIII" could articulate for him,
| "This is too utterly utter =
| THE PREVAILING DISEASE,
| Which the physicians Of the Sound have
pretty unanimously declared il small
pox, is still spreading. Owiag TO the ell
forcement of the quarantine regulation 8
there are Ii" Cases III Olympia. The sit
uaticn at Tacoma is said to be appalling
and all Of the incorporated towns on the
Sound are quar,niinel against the place.
The new incorporation act of that city was
| sent from hore two weeks ago, on the day
of its passage, and the same evening the
city council organized under1 land passed
stringent laws, having for their object
the prcvcnti.n Of the spread of the dis
ease, but from p,evious inability to con-
troll the population it has BECOME very
general throughout the city, and the San
itary measures adopted have not thus far
had much effect inprevsnting its ravases,
but they have stopped public funerals
and burials. News from there to-day Is
10 the effect that the pest house is full Of
patients, and footing hospital has been
fitted up in an old vessel lying there and
that is also filling up. Biackweils hotel
was closed yesterday and another shut up
to-day, both having smallpox patieuts in
them. Many Of the inhabitants are
panic stricken, and not being permitted
to leave the town 10y the steamers, they
are moving in various directions by wagon
and such other conveyance rs they can
get Charles Eagan, who was clork of
the House here two or more sessions IN the
COS died Of the disease at Tacums yester
day. MORE ANON.