The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-10-13
=@crABLIsHED AUGUST "a, 1852.

East and West freigllts on the Northern
Pacific road. He cited me to the fact tha
the Central and Southern Pacific roads o
California were not moving the wheat o
the State eastward, and told me that Que o.
the officers OF the Southern had recently
informed him that the experiment o
shipping wheat TO tide water at New Or
leans had not paid, and had therefore,been
abandoned. And 80 he thought that the
present experiment OF shipping wheat
eastward over the Northern Pacific would
not pay as q regular business and would be
confined 10 the wants OF the mills al
Minneapolis for mixtures with their hard
Minnesota and Dakota wheat. He believ-
ed that prices would come down for ocean
freights 10 Liverpool and that wheat would
continue 10 go from Portland to that mar
ket by water. ID
I asked Mr. Thompson what was 70
bring ships from Liverpool to Portlond II
wheat freights fell of materially in price,
seeing that they could hardly hope to &c.
cure cargoes Of European merchandise from
Liverpool for this coast. He said that ships
did not come directly to this coast from
Liverpool as rule, but come here from
Asia after discharging their cargoes In Aus.
tralia, China or Japan, or at the Sandwich
Islands. It would still pay them to come
here at reduced prices and seek cargoes OF
wheat for their return voyage. He there.
fore was firm in the iaith that the wheat
fields Of eastern Washington and Oregon
would still continue to pay tribute To Port
land, and thatas more land was reduced to
cultivation and the country filed up with
settlers and producers the city would Z ow
in size aud wealth. ,,..,
II Portland is not to grow to. a good size
and become an important center MIR. Vii
lard aud his friends would seem to be
making a large mistake In spending 80
much money in their terminal operations
and facilities here. They are spending
millions OF dollars, and have already spent
millions on both sides OF the river. His
so ocalled Terminal Company" Ia building
great dry dock, great grain elevator, a
great Union depot and great hotel, and
also great bridge. The work going on
and projected, as well as that already done,
covers vast expenditure, aud inasmuch
as Mr.. Wizards Pacific coast hackers are
mostly wealthy Portland mon, who have
large real estate interest at stake, 1t seems
reasonable that they are putting the money
where 1t will do them the most good.
That which has thrown 80 much uncer'
tainty over the future OF Portland, in addi'
ton to the obstruction at the mouth oil the
Columbia, Is the fact that over at New
Tacoma, on the Sound, the Northern Pacific
road, or rather an inside ring OF that road,
under the auspices Of Mr.. Wright, Of Phil.
adelphia, a former president OF the road,
organized mammoth land company, and
have for years past been peddling out lots
TO settlers until they have built up town
over there OF about 1000 to 5000 people.
They have very little good country tribu-
tary to it--almost nothing In that way
and the chief importance OF the place is
derived from the workshops OF the N. P.
road, and coal dump for loading vessels
with coal from the Carbon river coal fields.
THE TOWN OF SEATTLE.
Despite Of these purely artificial advau.
tages town OF twice its size Seattle has
grown up within 25 miles Of it on the
Sound. By the way Seattle is the town
that expects to be the Bound terminus OF
the Cascade branch OF the Northern Pacific
1.-The branch that dchects from the main
line at Wallula, 2l4 miles east OF Portland,
and crosses the Cascade range at high and
expensive grades, 10 the, waters OF the
Sound. ! have described the place TO you
in my correspondencefro from the Sound. tbs
the most important rival Of Portland north
OF San Francisco, and is the seat OF vast
lnmber industry: What 1t will depend on
when the lumber 10 used up cannot see,
but as that day lisa good way off as yet. no
doubt that citizen John Lsary, who is
big man OF the town, would say, "suihcient
unto the day is the evil thereof.
There is another speculation that have
heard broached in connection with wheat
shipments from the Oregon and Washing
ton grain regions that may be OF some in-
terest in this connection. A curioug per.
son said to me the other day, why will not
this wheat go over the Northern Pacific to
Fort Benton, on the upper Missouri, and
thence be carried down In barges 10 New
Orleans? Fort Benton isabout 5000 miles
above st. Louis, and ia the head of nayiga-
ton on the Missouri. 1t is come 700 miles
east Of Portland. Inasmuch as the wheat
harvest is late on the Pacific coast, and iur
asmuch as the upper Missouri freezes over
early in the winter, ! do not suppose
that such project could amount to
much. And tho same objection applies to
Duluth az Q winter port OF shipment.
Wheat must move all winter from this
coast, unless stored in elevators on speous
lation near the source OF production. And
by the way there really is big elevator
scheme on foot, that embraces the build
ing OF thirty or forty elevators by one com.
pany In Oregon and Washington for the
storing OF wheat Issuing of ell
eyator certificates the same 40 ip Chicago,
or any other elevator point, thus enabling
the farmers to hold the wheat as long as
they desire by securing advances on 1t.
l conclude from all that / have seen and
heard during my six weeks OF sojourn and
travel on this coast that Portland is the
most important point on It, both now and
prospeotiyely. II 1t goes inte manntactnr-
ing, as 1t seems solnewhat disposed To do,
and depends less wholly on commerce, Its
future will be all the more certainly and
extensively assured. Unfortunately for the
farmer this Ia not country Of diversified
industries. 1t has but one occupation, that
Of rais;ng wheat. The farmer here; unlike
his brother 6f the Ohio Valley, sells his
products at the minimum price and buys
other peoples at the maximum. He de-
pends wholly on a foreign market Tor the
sale OF his surplus. A.w.c.
Unknown Man Found Dead.
Special DtPdieh % NE bltelliCeaoer.
PARKKRBuRd, W. Va, October 19'-The
body OF an unknown man was found in q
harm in BelpIe, O., this morning, He is
9upposed to have died Of natural causes.