Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-09-20

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esserv.sioas Along tie RESIDE.
sraBEcK, W. T.. Sept. 18th, 1889.
As intimated in my last passed from
Port Ludlow TO Ssabeck via Port GAM
BILE. Not making close connection with
the steamer for Seabeck, / laid over a
day at Gamble. and had hardly handed
tho brown paper parcel, which consti-
tuted my luggage to mine host of the
Teekaiet. when the ubiquitous Mougoli-
an. with his pole over his shoulder and
q basket Of vegetables at each end, put
in an appearance. My life, from my
twelfth to my nineteenth year, was spent
in raising and selling vegetables, and l
never see "a nice lot of ans,squashes,
cabbage. cucumbers, corn and such like
garden SASS without feeling an ire
sistible desire to stop and have a chat
with the producer. / found the John
Chinaman above, equal to the average
of his oountrymen in intelligence, and
able to speak English well enough to be
we'll understood. Examining his basket.
found a fine assortment of vegetables,
which l name with prices attached:
3c per pound, cabbage TX,
string beans DC, turnips lie, potatoes *
sweet corn go per d0z., celery four
stocks for one bit. All Of these products
would compare favOrably with the best
anywhere. Applying my patent inter-
viewers extractor Of knowledge to the
vegetable vendor, l found that he had
purchased a small ranch three miles
north Of Seabeck for about $500, and
that his yearly sales amounted to some
thing like $14O0. He finds a ready mar
ket for all he produces. He employs
four of his countrymen, and takes his
produce, except what he ships to Seattle
per steamer, in his own small boats. He
uses as fertilizers such static drOppinos
AS he can get in Gamble, Seabeck and
other places, besides the offal from a
Chinese fishery near by. There might
in ell this but for the fact that on my
return to the hotel / mentioned these
facts, and was informed by the land
lord that "three or four white men had
starved to death Il use his own words,
although they were doubtless spoken
metaph0ricaliy) on the same ranch.
And" added the landlord, "the proba-
bility is that We would starve to death
for vegetables mp here if it were not for
the Cinnamon"
John Chinaman will be mentioned
again in this letter.
THE ROUTE To sKABECK.
leaving Port Gamble on the steamer
st. Patrick for Seabeck, twenty miles
distant the vessel skirted the eastern
shore of Hoods Canal. / requested
Captain Macomber to point out the
Chinaman's ranch. He did SO, and
with the aid of good field glass / was
enabled to survey the field of his opera
tions. 1t was field in which stumps
were tho rule and not the exception.
But between these stuDps every availa-
BILE foot of land seemed to be cultivated
to its full capacity. Neither time, room
nor labor seemed to be wasted. Near by
was the Chinese fishery from whence
the Chinaman obtained his fertilizers,
or portion of them. A short distance
beyond a German had found vacant
tract with an alder swale running out
from the beach, upon which he had 10
Gated, and which he declared his inten-
ton to convert into a homestead; and
Judging from the progress he had made,
believe he will.
JOIN cHINAMAN AGAIN.
Four miles north of Gamble Captain
McComber pointed out the ranch OF
Thomas Watson. Seeing it Only through
the field glass, have no hesitation bin
asserting that with a proper amount of
Anglo-SaxOn energy which converted
the beech and walnut forests of the
Western Reserve into the splendid dairy
region which it is, that this same Wat
sons ranch could be converted into a
fifty-cOw dairy of the first class in three
years. And yet this admirable opening
for sure paying industry has been
rented to Chinaman, who p0tt8rs
away in one corner of the fair domain
raising vegetables and taking such care
as he chooses of the nucleus of a fine
orchard.
On such a state of affairs may seem both
gratuitous and superfiuous, but l can
not refrain from saying that, such being
the case, the white farmer who aids in
this direction has no valid reason to
complain il the Celestial comes in force
and pushes him from his stool.
PURSUING OUR COURSE,
Captain Macomber pointed ont the "Lit-
tie Devils Hole" and the "Big Devils
Hole" by which euphonious titles two
indentations in the shore line are known,
and remarked, in passing. that on the
opposite shore, the west side of the ca
nal, the only occupants for the whole
twenty miles between Gamble and Sea-
beck were few cedar shingle makers,
and some Frenchmen, engaged in the
manufacture of dog fish oil, which they
take to Seabeck and Gamble, and sell
for fifty cents gallon.
THE CAPTAINS RANCH.
Thirteen miles north of Gamble, Capt.
Maoomber pointed out his ranch Of 226
acres, 20 acres Of which are cleared,
upon which tract is q young orchard of
225 trees. Back from the water front
and hidden from sight by an interven-
ing belt of pines, the Captain informs
mo that he has large body, perhaps
100 acres, Of alder thicket, which be
hopes to have cleared for ay-raising
purposes. 10 this end, the health Of
his family preventing his residence ON
the place, he will lease his ranch to an
industrious Swede. This is better than
giving the Chinaman q foothold.
UN0ocUPIKD SPACES.
have named seriatim all the inhab-
tied places ON Hoods canal, between
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