Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-11-04

LUG -0ohbtdsb 4oeHt1HSs OF Union, Oto-
Ron,) contained the editorial article fol-
lowing: "Union still leads in the race
for the metropolis Of Eastern Oregon.
Following close on the announcement
of the investment of large sums of
money in Union City real estate by ont
side capitalists, comes the news pub
lished last week, of tho incorporation of
the Union Mills Manufacturing Com
pany. by Messrs. Ainsworth, Brazee,
brown and others, the object Of the same
being the building and operating of
grist, WOODEN and oil mills in our city.
Our advantages and resources have at
last been seen by outsiders, and the full
frultion of our hopes of being a city in
fact and not in name, ia about to be real
lied. Unlike the company which inves-
ted here last summer with the intention
of establishing manufacturing bust
ness, Ainsworth and his associates have
already begun operation, and next sum
mer, Union will, without doubt, contain
more manufactures than any other
town in Oregon east of the Dalles. Mr..
Brown, one of the incorporators of the
new company, is expected in Union
daily, when, we understand, the Union
Mills will be Immediately repaired and
started for an all winters run. II the
objects of the company are fully carried
out, the benefits which will accrue to the
town can hardly be overestimated. 1t
will increase our population to five
thousand within two years. It will fur
nish a nucleus, around which will be
clustered other milling and manufactur-
ing enterprises. 1t will make the town
a distributing point for the upper cOun-
try and furnish reliable market for
surplus produce. Already the effects of
the location of wooden and other mills
Is seen in the business of the town.
Prices Of real estate have advanced, nu-
merOus sales of which are noted, and
building is going on at a greater rate
than ever before. Last week Messrs.
Huntington and Wright took the in
iatory steps In business which prom
ises to grow to large proportions. Over
one thousand hogs were bought and are
now being butchered and cured into
bacon. The fattening properties of our
grain, the altitude and climate of our
town, are all favorable to the produc
ton OF q superior quality of bacon.
The market for home bacon is
and always will continue to be
good. We have all the upper cOun-
try and, when connected BY rail, our
butchers will be on even terms with
those of Portland, for the reason that
the altitude and climate of this country
is far superior to that of Portland for
curing meats. II the views of these
gentlemen, which are ours also, are cor
rect. this business Of packing meats will
grow into large proportions. Men with
small amounts of capital attracted by
the prosperity Of the town and the bril-
liant future before it, have recently To-
Gated in Gown. One tailor, two jewellers.
one barber, one baker, and several car
penters have located in town and COM
menced business with very fiattering
prospects. One large mercantile estab-
lishment has been added to the bust
ness houses of the town during the past
two months. These facts are evidence
of the confidence felt in the iowa by
outside trades and business men.
Union, however, has other prospects
outside OF its natural resources and
manufacturing business, which will con-
tribute to Its future growth. AZ stated
In these columns a few weeks since, the
Seattle, Walla Walla and Baker City
Railroad Company, a corporation or
Ranized at Seattle, w. T., for the pur-
pose Of building and operating a rail-
road from Seattle to Baker CITY, have
recently been offered all necessary cap.
ital to build and equip their road. We
new understand the company have ao-
cepted the proposition, and that the
building Of the road will commence in
the near future.
This road will doubtless be built. nm.
less the Oregon Short Line builds on to
the Sound from Baker City. II built. il
will GROSS the Blue Mountains, so we are
informed, via Sunmeryille and at Union
come in contact with the O. II. & N, Co,
road. The proposition here comes in,
will parallel roads be built for thirty
i've miles merely for the purpose of
reaching an objective point. It is not
probable. II these roads are completed.
"a now contemplated, it il more than
probable that Union will be the point of
juncture and that We will be found with
three distinct outlets to outside mar
kets.
This country is far more interested in
the building of a road direct to Puget
Sound than in the completion of q line
to Portland. Without such a road, we
will forever be at the mercy of the ''be-
neyolent monopoly" task master Who
talks nicer, but treats us no better than
the old U. s. N. Co. These facts, with
others heretofore stated, confirm Us in
the belief that Union viii outstrip all