Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-31
LATE EASTERN NEWS.
ON the Admission of Warrington.

ON the Admission of Washington.
On the 9Th March Mr.. Aldrich, from tn,
House Committee on Territories, made tn,
following report to accompany Mr.. Brents
bill To admit Washington Territory int,
the Union. The original bill has been 81
modified AS TO embrace within the new
State only the limits of the present Terri
| tory of Washington. The opposition tina
grew out of the proposal to include par
OF Idaho i thus avoided. The appended
report is highly flattering to Washington
Territory, and yet IT does not i'll thu
smallest degree Overstate its resources
progress and prospects:
Washington Territory was organized
out OF portion OF the Oregon Territory
nv act fCongress March 3, 1853.
1t is bounded by British Columbia or
the north, Idaho on the east, Oregon OF
the south and the Pacific ocean on the
west.
1t is about $40 miles east and west, and
200 north and south, is III form nearly a
perfect paralltlOgraIn, and contains co.
99i square miles area.
BY the census of 1850 its population in
elusive of Idaho and part of Montana
then within its borders was LBS. By
that of 1870 the population within its pre-
sent borders was 22,l95. By local census
taken in 1878, il was 50,50l. Bv another
taken in 1879 ii was 57,7S4 by the national
census of 1880 it was 75.ll6.
Its vote in 1870 was GlS2; in 1872, 1901; IN
1874. 1894; in 1876, 1907; i'll 1878, 12747, and
in lSSU. -, 1913
Its taxable property, by assessment OF
1873 was SIT S65.9SS SO; in 1879, SCI ,lN All
0s: i'll 1880, S23, 70S5S7 and in 1881, S2j, 1885,
AS.
BY the report of the Territorial Auditor,
made i'll October, 1881, il was shown to be
entirely free from debt, with a surplus of
S22,2l7 "a cash in the Treasury.
Its present rate of taxation il bllt Ok
mills on the dollar.
The amount of its poll and road-poll
taxes for 1880 was $40, 283 30, and for 1881,
Sl0S,9 %.
Its people are hardy, intelligent, moral,
enterprising, economical, abiding.
AMI in full sympathy with our system of
Government and its most advanced civil
liZation.
Its climate is mild, equable, and remark
ably healthful.
tural, manufacturing, mining, fishing and
commercial resources are, probably, I'M
eXcelled in any part of the nation, if in
the world. Their development, now
scarcely begun, must soon become a
source of great prosperity, producing a
rapid and steady growth in population
and wealth. Its product of cereals, most
ly wheat, for 1880, was 4,10S,370 bushels,
according to the census report; and for
1881 the Committee is informed that it was
estimated at about 5000, 900 bushels. being
an average yield of 27ls bushels per acre.
Its cut of lumber, according to informa.
ton furnished the Committee, was, in
1880, about 250,000. 900 feet. and in 1881 about
3O0,Oo0,OOO feet; supplying in great meas
ure the markets of the Pacific coast of
North, Central and South America. the
Sandwich Islands, Eastern Asia and Aus
tralia. According to further information
Obtained by the Committee, its coal pro-
HUpf a nI1tItV and
haps, the best on the Pacific Coast, for
1870, was about 1I5,OW tons, and for 1881
about 80, 900 tons. Its sal mon pack, the
Committee is also informed, was, for 1880,
about 100000 cases. worth over 81 ,000, coo;
and for 1881 about 260, 900 cases, worth
nearly 81 100000. Its wool clip cannot be
stated accurately. but from the best in
formation afforded the Committee, it is
estimated, for 1880 at 3,000,000 pounds,
and for 1881 at nearly 4,0OO.OOO pounds.
Its iron industry is of but one years
growth, during which the Committee I'M
rier pig-iron was produced, and that the
amount will probably be doubled during
the present year. Several other impor-
tant branches of industry appear to be in
successful operation, of which the Com
mittee are unable to obtain accurate data.
1880 as shown by official reports, was
Sc, 129 1872, far exceeding those of any other
Territory.
As far as statistics haye been obtained.
they indicate a large increase for the last
wear, The number of vessels belonging
which comprises less than one third ofthe
Territory (the balance being in the Ore
gon and Willamette districtsl in the fiscal
year 1880 were 105 is steam and 62 sailing
with tonnage of 29,O29 81; and in 1881
there were 117-44 steam, u sailing and
| 9TH with q of % In
1880 seven vessels, with q tonnage of 6S2.-
81, were built III the district, and i'm 1881
ten were built. with tonnage of 1852. go
The number of vessels entered in the
foreign trade at Port Townsend, the port
of entry of the district, in 1880, was 287,
tonnage lis, 067, in 1881. 800, tonnage 1872.
G69, and i'm first half of 1882, 19i, tonnage
1891 55. Cleared, in 1880, 305, tonnage l60,
353; in 1881, 322 tonnage les, 100; and in
fiji st half of 1882, 1874, tonnage no. il8. The
coastwise trade 10 estimated to Dc fully
twice rs large. The exports of the entire
Territory during the year 1880 are estimat.
ed to be about 3,0O0.000 tons, and in 1881
about 4, 900 900 tons.
The spirit of railway enterprise, the
handspring OF American thrift, is begin
ming to breathe new life and vigOr into
all these other nascent industries, and
affording better, cheaper and more ade-
quate channels oflngress for this swelling
tide OF Immigration. Several hundred
miles, more than ever before, were con-
structed during the last year within its
borders, and many more are in progress
of construction. The Northern Pacific
the great transcontinental railway, whose
western terminus is on the shore of thai
magnificent harbor of the northwest
/ Pacific coast, the Puget Sound, with its
| 1894 miles of shore line, and its innumer
able bays and inlets in this Territory--is
rapidly approaching completion. The
| Ora,ron short line hr,lpchiuU off from fbt
Union Pacific at Granger, and passing
| through Idaho and Eastern Oregon, i.
nearing a union with several diverginl
shorter lines which ramify every section
of this Territory. The Oregon railway, be
tween Portland, the commercial empor
ium of Oregon, and the eastern portion o
this Territory, will be finished during tn,
present year. The building OF the Seattl,
| and Walla Walla railroad, reaching from
tide WAGER to the agricultural! region of tn,
interior, is fairly under way, and severa
others are already in contemplation at al
| early dav.
The people of this young and risinl
commonweaith-rich in present accumu
lations of money and property, and richie
| in grand and varied resources of all par
ties and with one voice are beseeching u
through their Delegate, by repeated mem
orials of their Legislature, by the uniform
declarations of their various party plat
ferns, by their almost unanimous vote
directly and indirectly on the question
and in every possible way, to clothe then
with power to form a State Government
and admit them into the Union, that the,
may enjoy the rights ana privileges per
tanning to American freedom and citizen
ship. Is there any just reason why thei
appeal should be refused?
Their character, habits, and civil institu
tons are unexceptionable. Their materia
and financial condition is better than mos
of preceding Territorial communitie
emerging into Statehood. From the fact
given, it is manifest that the population O
the Territory has increased as rapidly a
its predecessors at the same stage O
development, and certainly at no less rat
than between the censuses of 1879 and 1886
which was thirty per cent. At this rate,
now has 126,953 inhabitants. and before it
, State machinery can possibly be con
structed and put in operation it will
exceed the number constituting the basi
of Congressional representation. OF tn
TWENTY-FIVE new States which have en-
tered the Union through the portal @
Territorial prObations the population b.
, the preceding and succeeding censuses
and the late of increase during the decad
were as follows:
Date of Population Population Rate De
admis by previous by follow cent of
sion. census. ing census. increas,