Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-10-01

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Anew OUTLOOK.
Al mirht reasonably be expected 'ne
information embodied in the interSie"
With Mr.. Leary, published in the DAILY
pnsr-IxrrII1oxxcKs Of the 18th uit-,
bad a decidedly inspiriting and irvis
Grating effect upon the business pulse OF
Seattle. Not that it particularly needed
a tonic, bat, as sometimes the heal
thiest and most vigorous physical sys-
tenn finds itself toned mp by some rare
and unexpectedly received article OF
diet, 90 very often the most pros 'efous
community finds its arteries OF srade
swelling with new life when p1biic
spirit and capital devise some new plan
for increasing the volume OF trade and
enlarging the bounds OF 'ts CONNER
eial relations.
The history Of this virile. self reliant
and po-ahead community is replete with
moves ON the municipal chess board,
full Of dash and that peculiar audaci'y
which a great Frcnehnan once epito
mixed AZ the secret Of success.
When but an infant IN swaddiin2
clothes, 80 TO speak, its busy, tireless
workers with money, muscles and brains,
saw that something was necessary to be
done 20 assure its growth and tend to
it, psrmanence and supremacy, and the
narrow gage road, which has firmly o.
tablishsd the position OF Seattle AZ
great coal distributing center, was built.
How powerfully that move, considered.
II you please, An audaoious experiment,
has attributed 70 tins growth and d.
vslopmsnt Of this CITY, Il fact With
which all are t0o familiar TO need any
comment at our hands.
great number OF INSTANCES OF sim
liar character might he referred -. bni
our readers generally are too familiar
With the growth and deve opment Of
our commercial aud manufacturing in
tsrests from small and often insianifi-
can't beginnings to make it necessary
20 dwell on those.
With the flight Of time. the increase
Of population, the founding of new
cities, tho adverse interests Ut great cor
porations directed against. and activS!'
operating against, the bes. and most i'm
portsnt interests Of our city, the nsces-
sity ARISES for new combinations.
and renewed efforts. not only to hold
our own. bat to keep ptcc with the
march Of improvement and develop
ment.
Il would be difficult. il not impossible,
for the mott s.gsoions and ftr-seelng
friend Of our lOo,l interests. prospect
I've 40 we'll ~ present, TO dsviss plan,
Of series VI plans, looking to the crea-
ton At this point Of great CONNER
cial and msnuf .oturin2 emporium, ch-
culatsd 70 subssrvs tho object aimed ~
NOR perfectly that tho plan outlined in
the interview referred TO.
The establishment Of well conduct
Cd bank with good working capital,
managed by men Of experience, capao
ity and trustw0rthiness, ID always
noteworthy event in any community Al
indicating healthy growth and pros
pec.ive increase in the volume Of trade
and development Of its resources. That
the First National Bank Of Seattle will
prove an important factor in the great
problem which the city il working ont
IL not to be doubted. This new enter
prise, however, fraugbt Al It ia. under
sound and intelligent infringement.
with great poss. bilities Of good, and un.
question IDLY important as it in. il, new
ertheless, NJ an index of the rapidly in
oreasing development Of tho Central
Sound region, a mere drop in the bucket
compared with the statements embodied
In the interview concerning the negotin-
lions respecting the Seattle, Wallis
Walla and Baker City Railroad.
These statements are too fresh in the
minds Of our readers to need recapitu-
lation. They possess, In their direct
ness, inoisivsness and particularly, all
the elements which commend such deo-
larations wherever made 10 that degree
Of public confidence which ent es
them 10 be oonsidered a safe ground
work for individual calculations, invest
ments and ao.s.
That the feasibility Of this railroad
enterprise, truly Of great pith and mo-
msnt 10 Seattle, will bs attacked, re-
vilsd, misrepresented and denounced by
parties who scam 10 think that Ssattl
regards Tho localities in which they hap
pen 80 sojourn ~ menacing rivals, in
not At all improbable; but We counsel
our frienfs who are 70 be 10 greatly
benefited by this Same enterprise n Il
10 DO alarmed.
The business men Of Seattle rcalixe to
The fullest possible extent that in order
TO secure the results upon which SO
much depends. they must put their owr
shoaidsrst to the wheel, and not wait for
tns Jupiter OF the present railrnd sys-
tsm Of the Northwest to push the waa-
ON. stf
And having onos resolved, all thei,
psst history shows that the next thinl
10 do, and the thing which they always
have done aud always will do. il to act.
II there are aay feeble handed or wesk
knssd brethren among M 10 advise then
10 study the histories % the communi.
ties in California, which. b~tng simi
larry situated, have asserted thei.
rights and maintained them. and fro,
the rscnrd which they will find spread
out before then 10 taks henri Of graos.
10 10 altogether absurd to inxein
that = community which has alrssd,
done 10 maoh FOR issslf a. Seattle ha,
done will ever permit the vast resources
OF lumber. iror, copper. coal. marble.
limestone and dairy, ffuit, essda and
grazing lands which the trend OF th.
country declares tributary to her,