Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-06-21
nasay AND WEEKaY.


fCorrespondsnce East Oregonian.
The irst time ever read the name of
Rattle, | pronounced IL Settle. Hnd after
fifteen years think my first IN r. was
4 success, ~ IL Is certainly settling very
fass. while another man, looking st the
other side of the shield. will prob ,hly
say with equal truth that il IL sing
1 notice that our nsighbor. the Walla
WsIla Union, kes little fun at our
expense over our high land and our low
houses, and thinks that Seattle is not
mach Of town after all, except in land
eatimates.
I think myself that there are more
bricks in walis Waila than in Seattle,
snd CONFESS to certain disappointment
on my first sutry in town at tho many
wooden buildings, owing to the great
diflOulty of obtaining brick.
But IL must bo remembered that fl0OO
10 seattle representa-, when placed In n
wooden building. fully $500 in Walla
Wells or Psndleton. pass-d through
three two story houses tho other day.
Apsly finished inside and ont, with hard
hnish and good moulding, four cham.
bsrs aud five rooms below, gas and
vster aud good paint, all ready for en-
trance, for $4,000 for the three. Either
Of them would cost $500 in your place.
I stood upon University Hill and count
cd twenty three houses building at once
In sight when I Hrst came here, and l
can ait here and reckon up fully fifty
houses With at least Ave TO ten rooms
each, that have bsen started since April
18th. There are fully 600 feet Ut brick
block nov In process OF erection on
Mil and Commercial streets. The old
central school house preperty, a hall
blosk on Third street. Is offered for sale
on wednesday for not less than $50. 900,
and somebody Ia sure to huy it, for the
Presbytsrian church property is bonded
for $1,000 without the house and only
one lot. sales are actually made and
money paid bona fide, and l believe GO
days viii give another rise.
The census Just completed gives G645
people. There can hardly be any fall
until the railroad actually gets here,
especially since, as see, the Yakima
division Of the Cascade branch has
actually be run.
The beauty and safety OF theso lower
waters impress inc more forcibly every
day. Although four vessels were blown
ashore at Victoria in April, there was
nothing here to harm q common sail
boat.
The frst 20 per cent. Of the stock for
opening q canal between Lake Union
and Lake Washington has been called
In. aud bids are called for TO do the
work. This will revolutionixe the inland
trade. The CITY nov extends a full mile
and half from the railroad wharf and
lots ara selling there from f6O0 60 flUt
eaeh. Lots are selling At Lake Wash.
ington for $40, 'wo miles away.
don't desire To lead men to IL Va their
lands and homes in Eastern Oregon or
Washington, for those i,nds will doublr
In tvo years, and rofit " more sure
there than ON he here ut present. vet
this growth be2un and carried On In the
face Of repeated ofIi ,iL state.nents that
The terminus Was TO be at Tacoma. Is
not likely 90 stop now since Seatil- has
juas completed a suhscr pti"n OF $lW.-
0O0 70 secure road 30 miles toward va
kimA, and another road uow building
70 TAcoma. assures Il of direct railroad
connection With Portland and San Fran
CISCO within a year.
We believe in Seattle. and we're col
lectivel ready to bet our bottom dollar
On 70 by investing or subscribing "r
building. Towns arc buiit that wav
more than by assuming tie melody OF
fru0 pnnd.
Yours for the connecting link,
ID. 7. PiERcE.
Seattle. W. T.. June 8. 1889.