Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-09-28

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Night and day.
Radiant rise the mountains.
Laughing dance the fountains:
lis thy lover only weepeth
Night aud day.
TRIP To sNON0MIsn CITY.
We left the wharf at Seattle on board
the steamer Nellie, Just as the voice Of
the dinner horn and the clang of the
bells sounded forth their calls to la.
boring humanity, for a trip to that nea,
little village known as Snohomish City
As we passed down by the city front, W
gathered ourselves together: that is oul
companion, whom we will call "Roxy,'
and ourself, and formed ourselves into
committee of two to tell what w
knew about city building in general and
and grading Front street in particular
We were soon joined by others of the
passengers, some Of whom we're swarthy
woOdmen, who were in favor of going
right ashore and driving of the heath
ems, who could be seen like a swarm OF
ants industriously plying their pick sand
shoveis along the upper end Of the
street. Soon passing beyond the busy
haunts of man, and tired of hearing
John" maligned, we mounted the hur
ricane deck to obtain better view and
quiz genial Captain Lowe, so as to gath
er a little of the information he had
learned of "the river" in his many years
of steamboating on this route.
Passing West Point light house we
steamed up to the logging camp of the
Biackman Brothers, one-half mile south
of Mukilteo. Here logs are hauled by
a steam engine, and dumped into the
bay at the rate of $500 feet day
Since the LIST of April 100000 feet OF
timber has been put into the water by
this firm at this point, although much
valuable time was lost by the breakage
of the machinery. It is quite interest
ing to see the little giant of an engine
with ner great broad wheels come puff
ing down out of the forest to the waters
edge dragging its heavy load. In a few
minutes We were at MukilteO unloading
large quantity of salt for the salmon
packing establishments at that place
They are two in number, and are known
as the Mukilteo Fishing Company and
Levy's Packing Company. The run OF
salmon for this season is unusually light
and in consequence tho canneries are
not steadily in operation.
At Priests Point, the next stopping
place reached, we witnessed the process
of making logs up into RATS, prepare.
tory to sending them to the mill. All
the logs cut on the Snohomish, SnOqual.
mic, Skikomish rivers, and their tribu-
taries are brought in small bOOms to
this point by the men who cut them
Here are mea whose business it is to
make these small booms into large regu.
larly formed RATS, and secured suffi.
GENTLY strong to be towed even in rough
weather across the Sound to any of the
mills. Here at times millions of feet OF
logs are accumulated, awaiting the time
when they will be needed for lumber.
We now entered one of the four
mouths of the Snohomish river, known
as Steamboat Slough; the others being
Ebey's Slough, Union Slough land the
regular mouth of the river. As We
steamed up this passage, the sun was far
down in the west, and it glimmered
through the dense foliage and skirted
either bank, and the effect was ex-
tremely beautiful. Tbs water was of a
deep blue hue, and az smooth as glass.
The steamer moved along with
the trees almost touching her sides. The
vine maple and dog wood underground
swept the waters edge, and were of all
shades from deep green to a bright yell
loH and red, and above this rose the ash
tree, and higher still rose the cedar and
fir, rearing their lofty boughs into the
heavens. To the lover of the grand and
the beautifulino nelcould surpass this,
Passing into the main river again, after
trayersing six miles of this slough, We
arrive at Lowell, fifteen miles from the
mouth of the river. This place belongs
to L. d. Smith, and is the distributing
point for large logging district. II
boasts of one store und hotel. This
will be remember ed as the place bar
gained for a few years ago by the Wash
ington Presbyterian Society, as site to
establish a college on. Five hundred
dollars was paid on the property and the
project then abandoned.
Arriving at SnOhomish City about 9
O'Clock in the evening, we were cordial
ly received, and told to our dismay, that
they were very sorry We were disap-
pointed in not arriving in time for the
Democratic County Convention, but we
should have good Democratic dance,
which would partially atone for our mis-
fortune. The "boys" also apoloQized
with smile for the floor managers and
musicians being all Republicans, as
there was no Democratic young men in
the county. The officers nominated at
the Convention were az follows:
For Sheriff. John SWEET; Treasurer,
Lot Wilbur; Auditor, VIM. Whitfield;
Probate Judge, H. Blaokman; County
Commissioners, 7. 8. Adams, Clark Fer
gueson and Isaac Pilz; School Superin-
tendent, Mr& l.. w. j. Bell; Surveyor. j.
Van Bowen; Delegates to the Territorial
Convention at Vancouver, Charles Har-
riman. VIM. Whitfield and Fred Oser
VIM. Whitfield acted as Chairman Of
the Convention, and j. Van Bowen az
Secretary. No Coroner was NOMINATED.
Snohomish City is very interesting
town, situated ON the east bank of the
river, twenty-one miles from its mouth
Il contains o population of four hun
dred 'at low water" or Eve days in the
week, and six or seven hundred ON Sat.
urday afternoon and Sunday. There an
six stores carrying stocks Of general
merchandise, good drug store, print.
ing office; these with an excellent hotel
q restaurant and many saloons, and
pretty residences form az charming q
little village AZ ever porched iteelk o.
the bank Of any stream. h.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE LEADING
Cigar and Tobacco House
Is THE