Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-01-01


during the year 1882, there have been
constructed 25O new residences, costing
all the way from $500 to $4,000 each.
10 make low estimate, We will place
the cost of these buildings and the
and we find that $3.50, 900 has been ex-
pended during the past twelve months
for houses to live in. Estimating that
twenty-five feet, We find that by placing
them close together they would make a
solid front along one side Of q street
OF nearly one mile and half.
BUSINESS HOUSES,
As the population of the city in
creases, business keeps pace with it.
During the year three brick business
houses have been commenced and COM
pleted. These are the Marshall block,
McNaught, Renton and Walker block,
and the Boyd d Poncin block. During
the same time, twenty-five or thirty
wooden structures for business pur-
poses have been built, and are now oc-
cupicd.
PURLIC BUILDINGS.
Under this heading We find a new
County building erected at an expense
of about 5000. A City Jail, engine
house and Council chamber. 5000. New
school house, now nearing completion,
for which the money has been raised to
pay, including furniture, $25,OOO. New
Catholic church, $4,000. New MethO-
dist Protestant church, 5000. German
Reform church, $l5OO. scandinavian
Baptist church, $500. Congregational
chapel, $1,000. Sisters hospital, $50
600. Besides these, there have been COM
menced two of the finest brick struc-
lures in the TerritOry-the Leary and
Yesler block, to cost $4,000, and the
new Occidental Hotel, which will cost,
when completed, $l5O,OO0.
WHAT THE MUNICIPALITY HAS DONE IN
1882 IN THE WAY OF STREET IMPROVEMENT
AND OTHER BRANCHES OF CIVIC LABOR.
During the year just closed the street
improvement has been chiefly as fol-
lows:
Streets graded, miles, cost $25, 800.
Sidewalks built, y iailes, cost SIS, 200
The street grading has been upon
Front, jackson, Second, Third and in
tersecting streets. The sidewalks were
laid upon MaiDfrom Second to Eighth
streets; jackson from Seventh to Tenth
street; King from Seventh to Tenth
street; Front from Pike to Lake ave-
nue.; Union street from Front to Eighth
street: Seventh street from Cherry to
Madison, and Ninth and Tenth streets
from Pine to Virginia -besides other
shorter sections.
There has been opened up for travel
about five miles Of new streets; this has
been done by the Street Commissioner,
SO that the expenditure has not been
segregated, but il has been at a proba-
BILE cost of $1,000.
MArERIALR.
In the manufacture of lumber 10 car
~ on these improvements the Columbia
and Puget Sound Railroad Company
have run their mill constantly during
the year.
Messrs. Stetson & Post run their old
mill till it was unable to supply the de-
mand for lumber upon them, and they
built large and better sawmiil, using
the old structure to increase the capa-
city of their sash and door factory.
Hall d Paulson have kept their little
sawmill running constantly also, and
what luu,,-r they could spare from their
furniture f..ctory has gone into build
ings.
Yesler d Anderson have been crowded
with orders since the completion Of
their new sawmill. several mouths ago,
and the same might be said Of the new
mill at Lake Union, while the Seattle
Lumber and Commercial Company 5
mill for a good portion of the time has
run night and day.
Besides this considerable lumber has
been brought here from the larger mills
elsewhere on the Sound. The combined
cutting capacity of the Seattle sawmills
is about 10000 feet per day of mes-
chantable lumber.
Several brick yards and stone quar-
ries have also been kept busy TO supply
the demand for building material.
In mentioning tho improvements, We
must not forget the new cOpper-piled
coal incline, completed by the G. Il p.
s. Il. II. in 1852, at q cost Of about $50,-
600, and new copper-piled wharf and
warehouse, at q cost Of about $30, 900,
not including the grounds on which
these structures are located, and for
which the railroad company paid in the
neighborhood Of 100000.
lAGTOhIB6s
The various manufacturing establish
meuts within our borders have kept
fully up with the times, and increased
their capacities as the demand upon
them has increased. Every branch Of
manufacturing has prospered here dur
ing the year. and there il room for
many more factories Of different sorts.
THE ~ar-ev rxprkrvrp
The great reason that Seattle contip-
ues to prosper is that the people have
unbounded faith in her future great
mesa, and consider her success az q
matter of conrse, and prove their faith
| by their works.
In other places. people who have the
capacity TO improve hold back and lOok
around TO see what some railroad COM
pany, or some corporation, is going q
| do, while here in Seattle person whc
has the capacity 10 improve, goes on
and does 30, feeling assured that the in
vestment is a safe one, and the first
''miss' in this direction is yet to be re-
ported. =
| ouB CONCLUSIONS.
| On the whole, after looking over the
| ground, We can say for Seattle, and the
whole Sound country, that the pas,
year has been an eninently satisfactory
one, and 1888 comes on the scene and
finds rs enjoying an unprecedented era
of prosperity. We welcome y0u, neu
year, and trust that in saying goodbye
to you twelve months henoe, ~ maj
have no reason 70 regret your CON
J ing.