Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-20

1ve1ypIyC CsASGes.

Tia time IN near at hand when san
v,.,-;.co merchants are TO be placed II
asros competition TO hold the valuable
and fast harvesting trade Of this fsi
northvsss. Alrsady advance AGENTS OF
the meat importing hoasss Of Nc. 1oir !,
.nd Cbioaeo arc ~spsinR cot the land
ga settine stakes among "a. 80 700
reurssensativss Of the vast nanuiae'o,'
-. a,ms Of Nsv Eneisnd. PsnnssI
..o,. ana the West are quietly invssn-
tic. tbs exsens Of demand 70 Be sup
49, IN tbsir various lines OF pfodue-
~, and the cost Of transportation
h,.h., with the completion OF the
Nortbsrp Pacific Railroad nev era
vill dawn upon the commerce OF 'ns
porxhvsst coast. Cp 10 this time ffsos
has bsen undeffthe almost absolute 90
miuiou of San Francisco. Isolated from
a,rse< communication With other trace
esptsrs, save by the SEA, involving r'sk
.,d Io.. Of time, the people Of this rap
,aI, growing region have besn forced
- nav q toll 70 San Francisco on every
thing Imported and consumed. in''
stats Of things now nsars the end 10
~. than tvo months the merchant OF
s..ttls. Who handling goods imported
from Europs through the port OF Ne"
yo,t haa been forced 70 deal through
san Francisco, or who, selling articles
r,.nufactured east of the Mississippi
hiss besn compelled TO pay TO san fran
oisoo the cost of handling and shipment
% this port, with profits added, viii be
enabled 10 got bis merchandise or man
ufsctursd articles in car load lots d.
reot from the great importing houses OF
Nov York or Chicago, or from the m n
ofastoyiss Of the East at precisely the
..,.a rates A the San Francisco mer-
chant from whom he has heretofore
cn,chassd these articles, and 10 the cost
Of which has bssn added that merchants
profit. In short, Seattle will be as re-
CARDS all importations from the Eass'
precisely on sqsal footing with the o''y
vb,sh for % many years has dictated
vriess upon this northwest coast. There
esn b bot ono legitimate result OF tois
radical change In transportation ser
v,cs. The inevitable effect must DO that
srom .ome point or points on tide water
IN this northwest region the articles Of
Eastern and European manufacture i'm
ported for consumption and uss VIII %
distributed. Great Wholesale houses
will spring up snd warehouses b aiIed
With direct importations. The volume
Of srsf,c With the city by the Golden
0sts viii sensibly diminish and It's place
vill b Alled By local houses with direct
Easteru connections. San Francisco
viii mot however In great measure feel
The change. The country Ia growing %
rspidiy both 10 tho northeast and south.
sase Of that city that what her NOR
chants lose here win bs made up BY in.
creased trade In other sections. But
here 70 shall Be greatly beuefistsd. The
city which commands the distribution
Of The major portion Of the imports
which will b needed 10 supply the pop
ulatiou Of three million souls. Who With
In ten years will people the States Of
Oregon and Washington, will be sscont
only TO her sistsr city. San Francisco, II
power. wealth and population. And
this Ii what tho completion Of the North
srn Pacific Railroad means. Il signi
Ass that new outlets 10 the great Pacifi'
ocean have been created, and that nev
inlsts TO the products Of the Orient hav'
bssn opened up TO servo tie worlds de
mand. Il betokens also that ere . gen
Grafton shall have lived and died Their
viii b builded hero facing the evening
another Boston. New York, Philadelphia
and Baltimore, and that somewhere to
ward the sunrise, not thousand mile
from here, new Chicago will lift ul
her towers Of brick and stone. demand
Ing and controlling the vast inland com
msros OF An empire second only 10 ths
beyond the Missisippi nov dominated
b. her elder ulster.