Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-09-09
maidens that besought me with tears Of
blood to leave not San Francisco.
A PARALYZINa SIGHT.

$4,000
About II O'Clock, after a rapid run up,
we banged through a raft Of logs that
CHANGED to be in our way, and the next
minute the lights of Portland twinkled be-
fore us. I was simply paralyzed (amal-
gamated is, I believe, the ~latest), when
| walked out next morning to view the
place, houses going up everywhere, four
story bricks, three-story bricks, two-story
bricks and frame houses by the dozen,
and house after house, both frame and
brick, just completed and being moved
into. This is the l~iveliest business Town
on the Pacific Coast, and the wealthiest Of
its size in the United States. Everybody is
rich that has been here any length of time.
Property in the last eight years has in
creased a thousand fold. have had dray-
men pointed out to me that were assessed
last year ON $3.50, 600 and over. One old
negro paid taxes on S95, 900. Why, "dam-
NIT" they nave all got money; but why
not? They never spend anything, and
lots that they paid $50 for are now worth
$4,000. One man I was talking with the
other day counted up over forty men that
had their millions, and hundreds that are
worth from three hundred thousand to q
million dollars.
THE GROWTH OF PORTLAND.
The Town has grown wonderfully in the
past four years, and is still growing, and
will continue to grow. In 1862 there were
$500 people here, in 70 II 900, in 80 20,-
900, and she now claims 10000. To talk
about a own on the Sound ever excelling
Portland is just as ridiculous q position as
a man can place himself in. l met DR..
Chamblin here the other day. He has
been in every town on the Sound, and he
says there may be q own at Seattle some
time, but never to exceed this place.
Seattle is not improved at all, and most
of the streets will not admit of teams
traversing them. 1t has 5000 inhabitants,
and is full of all kinds of business men.
There are about seventy-five lawyers there
and a c%orrespondingly large amount of
other business men. New Tecoma does
not amount to anything. 1t is asleep, and
awaiteth the sound of the trumpet"
Olympia is a pretty place, but sleepy. The
Dalles has been a good town, but the rail
road has passed through, and it is now
looking into the ''Valley of the shadow OF
DEATH" As to
EASTERN WASHINGTON TERRITORY,
I have not much to say. Walla Walla
(this is on information and belief, Dele
gate Thomas Brent from Washington Ter
ritory being my informant), is about in
the same fix as The Dalles. 1t is a very
pretty place, but the railroad shops have
been moved from there, and the grain goes
through instead of stopping, and it is at a
gentle standstill. Cheney mot A. e.,
Sprague (not Billy and Spokane Falls are
lively little places, destined to amount to
something soon. They are in Eastern
Washington. But all of these places are
but as
EEDER o PORTLAND.
This is the "liveliest business town on the
You will observe that I have I'M
business. Otherwise the town
is slow. The people are all healthy,
wealthy and contented. They have grown
up here, got rich in spite of themselves,
and are content to poke along in the way
have done. They pine not for the
giddy whirl of the dance and "sich."
Why, l have talked with half q dozen
young ladies and not a single one of them
ever heard of Mike Foley. Now, what do
A MOIST LIBEL.
The weather has been very fine since I
here. 1t has rained but two days in
eight. 1t is very wet here in Winter, but
theory about the moss growing on
the backs OF the people Is all a mistake.
story was undoubtedly started from
the appearance of some young lady's back
after having been walking with her
''best Teller" near some moss-grown, ivy !
tower.
BRANCHES OF BUSINESS
ali we'll patronized. Everybody Is
doing well, and you can hear no com
anywhere. BARRIERS are we'll estab-
lishad and are good workmen. There are
no bootblaoks in the shops. That Is q
industry. Shaving costs from
10 cents to IS cents; boot backing IL cents.
The stores are all doing well, and some of
them are elegantly apportioned. The
that will equal Gibfried's. The saloons
are, as q class, very poor, there being but
few good ones in the place, and I haven't
seen but one barkeeper in the town that
is any where near flrst.class. The drug
dry goods. wholesale houses and
retail houses Of every description are
booming; wages will compare favorably |
with those Of Eureka. Lawyers fees and
doctors charges are about the same.
There are no idle men on the street. In
short, to give you a more local explanation
of its prosperity. I will tell you that it is
estimated that there is ten times the bust
ness done here than there is in Salt Lake.
Two thousand o n of freight are shipped
in here a day, on an average. The sala-
ries and 'perks" of the different Offices
are as follows: Supreme Judge tsalary
office, $4,000 a year; District or Circuit
Judge SALARY office, $500 a year;
County Judge (salary office, 81, 500 a
year. The others are "perk" offices, Dis
triet Attorney, County Clerk, Recorder
Sheriff, etc., make from $40, 900 to S12, 900
a year. These salaries were adopted
when this State was first admitted and
was poor, hence their smallness.
Eugene stoltz arrived last night from
San Francisco, with the intention Of locat-
ing in business here. Fred. Fisk, I hear,
move to California soon. Judge G. G.
Goodwin of Salt Lake Is here. He is de-
lighted with the prosperity OF the place.
We were talking about different towns and
their disadvantages for business and en-
joyable living, and he delivered himself
after the following manner. He said: 81
will tell you: # you have a little money,
or no money at all, here is the place to
live; if you have a good deal OF money,
San Francisco is the place to live; II you
have a h-l-wasting lot OF money, why,
New York is where you want to 60, and II
you have SO much that you don't know
what to do with Ii, and can speak French,
you are a id fool if you don't make a
bee line for Parrse." I conour.
IN CONCLUSION.
Now you know as much about this
country as I do. Whenever l md out
ANYTHING new / will give 1t to you. I am
very comfortably flxed. with my single to
the breeze, and myself cozily ensconced in
the office of ono OF the leading firms Of
the place, and I think that il I can stand
the gloomy. dismal Winters for a few years
I can make some money; il not, 1t Is not
-. - c., Eroro;sco. and IL oosts only 800