Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-11-07
A Busy SCENE.

0aS1 HNLNEs
The immense new warehouse Of the
Oregon Improvement Company pre-
sented yesterday and day before scene
of busy industry, which no man familia,
with those indications which go 70 show
a prosperous community and a CON-
mercial center, would fail to accept as
conclusive evidence Of seattle's com.
handing position in this regard.
On the 9Th inst. the Geo. W. Elder
discharged 5ss tons Of freight On that
wharf, at which, were already aocomu-
lated large stores of grain, brought from
the adjoining counties, especially those
TO the north Of Us, and several hundred
barrels Of picked salmon, the product of
our local fisheries. It viii not do 70 say
that the immense warehouse was as full
az it could hold, because if merchandise
had been piled even with the roof sew
eral hundred tons more could have
found stowags room. As it was, how
ever, boxes and bales and barrels and
packages of all descriptions were 90
numerous that only narrow alley ways
were left for stsvedores, roustabouts,
visitors and the crowd generally who
went down to take look at these strik-
ing evidences of the growth Of the Queen
City Of the Sound.
We doubt If any single exhibit Of the
onward march of this city has, in all res
poets, been SO satisfactory and conclu-
sive as the scene on the wharf re-
ferred to. The spacious warehouses on
the wharf have, ever since their enclo-
sure revealed their true size, been re-
garded as, perhaps, unnecessarily large
for the storage which would offer, but it
is now apparent that the improvement
Company fully comprehended the stu
alton, at least as far as present needs are
concerned.
1t is already evident that within
very few months extensive additions to
the spacious warehouses already CON-
structed will have to be made. The fact
is, the Seattle boom has hardly begun.
The next twelve months will show so
marked an increase over the rapid
growth of the last year that "the Oldest
inhabitant" will wonder what the end
Of these things will be. But he will not
live to see the end. None of rs will.
The great city Of the Northwest is to
grow up at this point. With the trade
of the Puget Sound Basin already CEN
tralized at this point, with ample capital
devoted in liberal spirit to the ad-
vancement Of all its interests, with prac-
tically unlimited mineral wealth and
vast agricultural and grazing capacities
within the limits Of the imperial county
of which it is the shire town, with har-
Dor which no changes Of time or tide.
short Of a physical cataclysm. can ever
impair, the future of Seattle is assured
for permanence and prosperity beyond
the possibility of peradventure.
And yet, after all, the sos tons Of
freight discharged ON the 9th inst. by
the Elder, is, comparatively speaking,
but drop in the bucket to the vast out
put which this city is constantly in re-
oeipt of. The bent was chiefly noticea-
BILE, as showing for the first time to the
general public the appearance which the
new warehouses presented when "ohuok
full" Of freight, and afordina everybody
an opportunity on day not devoted to
business, of seeing "the boom" in tang
ible shape.
We have yet to meet an individual
who saw these wharves and warehouses
and the huge piles Of freight therein and
thereon on Sunday last, who did not say
that he gathered therefrom new and OIL
larged ideas Of the rapid progress which
Seattle is making a. a commercial GEN.
ter.
We have said above the sos tons
brought by the Elder was mere drop
in the bucket compared with the output
of freight at this port. Within less than
a week the steam collier Mississippi has
at our wharves $40 tons, the
w. L. Beebe 225 tons, and
the steamer Empire l45 tons. making in
all 1855 tons, exclusive of all or any of
the amounts brought here by the twenty
five or thirty steamers and propellers
plying between this port and the several
cities, the mill towns and logging camps
on Puget Sound and its tribut aries. We
are fully justified in selecting our cap
ton, for the business departments of
this Roodly city do, in truth. present "a
busy sCene,"