, 1883-03-08
Editorial Correspondence,
SEuoME. W. T., Feb. y, 1888,

Tor to EOCys Landing lar enough
away from the smell of ink and the
click of printing presses to readily
imagine himself emancipated for Il
time from the bondage of routine
work.
EBEY's LANDING,
so long ago the scene Of the tragic
and untimely death of Col. Ebey,
Puge; Sounds first Collector Of Gus
toms Ebcy's Landing, with its few
surrounding farms and placid looking
dwellings, is much the same as it has
been for years. 1t seems to lose no
sleep in the general excitement and
strife of other localities for business
and commercial supremacy. You go
ashore from the ferry boat and walk
short distance to the top of the low,
sloping hill where mine host and lady,
Mr.. j. Allison Ebey and wife, contrib
ute to the wants of the inner man in
a substantial dinner. Mr.. Ebey is Il
son of the former noted citizen whose
name has been transferred to the
place where he planted Il settlement
in early days, and where his life was
forfeited through the treachery Of
murderous sayages. Ebey the young
er ministers to the wants Of the pub
lie with a wayside inn and Il stage
line three miles to Coupeville. Rid
ing with him across WILDLY Island,
one sees evidences Of thrift and con
tentment on all sides. The produc
tive soil is just beginning to warm
under the genial rays of an afternoon
sun, and vegetation seems almost
ready to burst forth in the newness of
spring life.
COUPEvILLE
has had a long sleep, and is just wax
ing up with an impulse of business
life common already to many Puget
Sound towns. Even its corner loung-
ers b, gn to step around more briskly
with al air of business Importance.
Since the long years ago when every
adventurer VINO came to this fare Il
nome of the clam and the iife-giving
"spud' pictured to himself fabulous
ncnes waiting to be gathered up ana
borne to the Atlantic coast--siuce the
spasm OF early day ambition passed
away, Coupevllle has nearly died with
lnanIrion. Its beautiful harbor,
Penn's Cove, beside winch it nestles
SO costly, has seldom been disturbed
by the PROV Of sea-going craft except
when scows, schoouers, sloops and
other cOnveyances arrived TO bear
away the surplus products Of the sur
rounding country to local markets
Its occasional poky steamer,with now
and then lonesome passenger, has
given way, however, for more com
modious and stirring craft; the crowds
of passengers coming every week to
anxlously inquire about the country
are leaving some of their enthusiasm
here. Coupeville will shake herself
and arise to achieve distinction along
with other towns.
Touching at Oak Harbor, the loca-
ton of broad acres and substantial
looking farm houses, we proceed to
Utsalady where lumber is being
crowded into the capacious holds OF
sailing vessels as fast as buzz saws
can manufacture it. The activity of
the lumber trade is demonstrated by
the fact that our steamer discharges
lot of boards and plank within a
few hundred yards of the mill-the
same having been brought from up
Sound. The explanation of this car
rying Goals to Newcastle is said to
be in the fact that the mill is 50
crowded with foreign and other or
ders that its owners have no time to
be bothered with job lots.
A few hours more and we pass
through the Swinomish slough and
round up at the
LA CONNER
wharf. This is one of those spunky
little towns that seems to say" Here
I am. Come and look ut me. I'm