The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1881-07-19

sold for eighty FIVE dollars an acre. I'm
proved lard Is advancing in every di-
rectlon.
The scenery of the Territory Is of the
grandest character on the Pacific. The
Straits of Juan de Fnea, the Sound and
the Columbia. Many OF the mountains
srs snow-cspped during the entire
/ year. and the great monsters already
mentioned are white with eternal
snow.
The most remarkable feature OF the
Puget Sound Basin is the climate, which
for heslthfulness, miIdness and the pro-
motion OF personal comfort, is not par
alieled elsewhere under the sun on this
sphere. refer to that region which
extends from the Straits to the Colum-
bia, and from the Cascades to the sea.
During the past winter, the thermom>
eter az tue L. 5. Signal Service Station,
at Olympia. averaged i3 degrees above
zero. There were but few days of
snow. saw no ice, nor was the earth
frozen. In summer time the days are
cool and the nights especially sgreea-
BILE Day breaks at half-past three,
and twilight liugers until nearly ii
clock. An impression exists that the
fall and winter months are wet and
disagreeabie. This as greatly exagger-
ated. Ii has not rained one day In
four since / have been here, no more
than on the Atlantic Coast; nor have
there been any severe storms, nor do
thunder showers ever occur. East of
the mountains the winters are colder.
and the summers hotter than they are
here. Yet these conditions are neces-
sary to the productions of that country
Summer winds are high and dust pre-
walls, bnt the former are necessary for
health. and the latter spreads fertil-
iZing alkaline powder over the land,
with the consequence, good crops and
hard grain. The climate there is
about equal to that of Maryland or yir-
einis, winter and summer.
The cities of the Territory are well
located for future prosperity and
growth. Seattle. on the Sound, and
Walla Walla in the east, are the lead
ing towns, and the centers of commerce
and trade for their respective divisions.
Many others exist with prospect of
much prosperity. All leading denom-
nations of Christians are represented
by churches. Ample provision is made
for the highest aud for ordinary educa-
ton. at the Territorial University, and
by common schools. Twenty five news.
papers, daily aud weekly. are estab-
lished at different points. all of which
are conducted with marked ability, and
are especially Jealous in advancing the
best interests of the Pacific coast.
About four hundred miles of railroad
are already constructed. The Northern
Pacific connects the Sound with the
Columbia. extending it to Portland;
and that city will soon be connected by
rail with Eastern Washington. 1t is
expected that the Cascade division of
the Northern Pacific will soon be com
menced, an enterprise indispensably
necessary to the full development of
our entire interests. Within FIVE years
all the transcontinental roads must
make their termini on Puget Sound,
for no system can be complete without
such termination. The people are es-
pecially intelligent, enterprisiLg and
successful, and there exists the highest
regard for law and order.
Agriculture, manufacture and CON-
merce are prosperous to q marvellous
degree. Puget Sound is destined soon
TO become the great convefging point
for the commerce of Eastern Asia,
China. Japan, and all the Indian Archi-
pelago will convey their productions
through Puget Sound on their way
across TIE continent to the Atlantic aud
to Western Europe. The route is di.
rect and the distance shorter. Puget
Sound is in the very geographical cen
ter of the United States and its posses
sions. Draw line upon map or
globe from Maine to the most western
of the Aleutian group, and another
from Alaska to the Gulf of California
and they will cross upon the Sound.
There is no place where men of large
means can find such opportunities for
profitable business, on raising grain.
live stock. or establishing sawmills,
iron foundries, WOODEN In .nufacturies.
tanneries, shipyards. fisheries and oys-
ter beds, as is presented in Washington
Territory. For men of moderate means,
who intend to get government claim
or buy cheap farm where crops are
sure and market at hand. / know of no
better country 1t is better appreciated
by Europeans AMI Asiatics than by our
own people, who seem to be- obliyious to
their opportunities for securing good
homes at nominal prices. and which
wall soon disappear under the immense
immigration which is reaching our
shores nom beyond the seas. The
American Inheritance is rapidly pass
ing into the bands of strangers. and
the close of this century will witness
the closing of the last land office in the
United States. The leading men OF
this country. in public as we'll as In
private life. and the American press.
owe duty to people less favored for
means Of information, to present facts
and give iudicious advice TO the people
who are able to develop the resources
OF this great northwestern and other
new portions of our favored land
1t Is true that these people may en-.
counter hsrdships. for the present, vet
it is no more than all pioneers from
Plymouth Rock to Puget Sound have
undertaken and successfully overcome.
The hardships of travel. in these DAYS