Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-09-15

Hhatcon, uear Bellingham Bay, six
miles long, thres wide, fashons in
depth, Is situated on a mountain top in
a rocky reservoir, three hundred and
forty fee. above the level of the sea
With capacity to afford clean cold water
to city of millions of inhabitants
Washington and Union jointly, thirty
miles long, ak wide, six feet deep,
are near TO Seattle, ono of them at least
soon u be connected with salt water al
the bay, ara an enterprise which would
have moved Rome OF Paris in their
paimiest days The Meallistss, a noted
small lake almost lAthomleas. beautiful
aud wierd. Medical and Granite lakes,
IN Eastern Washington, are monde
script bodies. highly impeegnated with
alkaline and other chemical Ingredients,
whose waters are unotioos 10 the touch
and curative Of cutaDeous aad some
ordinary functional disorders. Their
medical yirsues are veil sustained. A
constant iasninQ Of the waves creates q
border Of soap suds upon tho shores.
The most beautiful and extensive of all
is Chelan, upon the plains, sixty -6ve
miles BY three, set In q desert and bof-
dered with rocky sides which appear to
have been opened to admit the limpid
waters which course along from section
to section of lower levels, separated from
each other by beautiful falls. Intense
silence rests upon this mystic lake,
broken only by the scream of the birds
and the howlinQ of beasts which come to
slake their thirsts in its refreshing our
rents.
extensive and well defined. The melted
4 das - = t,an L., g.
the western slope run into the Sound,
the waters from the Olympics north
ward into the Strata southwark into
the Chehalis River, which empties into
| Gray's Hsrbor, and from the Black
Hills by the north into the WilIopi
River, emptying into Shoaiwater Bay,
aud by the Cowiits into the Columbia,
which grand YER is supplied from the
| eastward by an area of 10000 square
miles, having It, origin in Utah, Wyon-
ing, Idaho. Montana and British Co
lum5ia, all Rushing through Eastern
Washington by the Snake. Palouse,
| Spokane, Oshiltree and Big Bend Riv-
| ers, below which Is received its contri-
buttons from the western slope of the
Cascades by the Yakima River, all rush.
ing on their tumultuous journeyin2s
through tho Dalles, passing q rock
bound, narrow channel, surQinR, seeth-
| ing. boiling, in miniature Niagara. over
the Cascade rapids, when they are final
| ly joined by tho waters Of the Klickitat
and Kittitas Rivers and glide smoothly
to the sea.
The salt water system has quite a. re-
markable features and is nearly as ex-
tensive. The Pacific Ocean faces our
entire front. Bakers Bay, . safe and
oapscious hsrbor. lies Just within shs
Columbia Kiver bar, whore vessels
| pressed by stress of weather oan always
hnd safe and convenient refuge. Shoal-
water Bay and Gray's Harbor, respect
| lively twenty and forty miles north. have
a joint surface Of 10000 acres, and are
inland seas which, bat for being over
shadowad BY the Ocean, the Columbia,
the Straits, and the Sound, would be
considered Of inestimable value for
commerce and navigation. Each has
conspicuous and safe entrance from the
sea, with we'll defined channels extend
ing from their respective bars, upon
which at mean low tide soundinQs de-
monstrats eighteen and twenty fest Of
water, and thirty at full 1ow. The
channels are plsinly bordered BY surf
breakers over the shoals, which mark
safe appr zach to the good havens and
deep waters within. Quinalt Bay, still
further north, gives convenient navi9a-
tion for sm II craft and an outlet to
many small strsams from the Olympios.
The Straits of San Jusn do Fuca.
whose existenos was denied BY the in
trepid oiroumuaviRstof Captain Cook,
enter the continents at the forty eighth
parallel Of north latitude, at right
angles with the Pacific Ocean, extend
ing eastward one hundred miles, and
fifteen miles in width, having depth
of two hundred fathoms. free from all
distractions 20 safe navigation, and ter
minating in Admiralty Inlet, from which
springs northvard from the Gulf OF
Georgia an inlaRd ssa extending one
thousand iineal miles in straight line
70 the Alexander archipelago in Alaska;
the Straits empty s0uthwArd into Puget
Sound, which runs parallel With the sea
moro than an hundred miles; covers an
area of two thousand equare miles, with
two thousand miles Of coast line; 10
thirty fatho.ns deep and has an average
width Of seven miles, ever free from ioe,
10 without rooks. bars, shoals or quick
sands; with oSlm surface, the waters
black and beautiful. ramifying into
many bays and hArbors, chief Of which
10 Hoods Canal, ninety eight miles; this
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