Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-09-22

A Project that VIII Greatly Benent
Ysefne County.
Pacific Journal. i

A project is on foot for the conssruc
ton Of a narrow gage road from Ilvaco
to Oysterville, or some point on Shoai-
water Bay. and lists are being circulated
for tbs purpose of securing money sub
scriptions TO aid in carrying on the work.
The terms upon which these subscrip-
tons are 30 be paid are such rs prevent
the possibility of any chicauery on the
part of the recipients. The men en-
gagged in pushing this enterprise are i.
w. Case, Jacob kamm and l.. A. LOOMS.
No better guarantee could be had OF the
speedy construction and ultimate sue
cess Of the road. Messrs. Case and
Kamm are men Of ample means and
great experience and ability; and when
ever they interest themselves IN an en-
terprise. it's success is assured. j.. A.
l.oonis is too well known in this section
to require any laudation. o his enter
prise and intelligent faith in the future
IF this county il due the ever increasing
prosperity we nov enjoy. He IL already
largely interested in three transporta-
ton lines in this county. and the people
know that he means business. As to the
need and benefit of such line Their
can be no doubt, and the probabilities
are that il will be self supporting from
.he outset. At any rate it will pay the
citizens of this county, and especially
those on the peninsula. IL will treble If
not auadruple the number of visitors to
our beach, and surely double the value
Of real estate. 1t will secure Us daily
nail and perfect expross facilities, adj
yertise the country and induce imRigra'
tion: be. in fact, 10 this county what the
Northern Paciac has been to the North
vest. Stretching toward us from the
aorth and south come rapidly advancing
lines. and within few years there viii
be- an unbroken rail and steamer line
from San Francisco to Seattle, of which
this peninsula will be the great focal and
transferring point, the connecting link
between the north and the south. Any
one who doubts this has but to turn to
his map and notice the lines of road
along the Mississippi to be satisfied thai
quick and direct transportation by raj
| to San Francisco must take the place OF
the slow and hazardous sailing vesse
and ocean steamer--at least for passen
gers and perishabDe articles of com
merce. But little can be hoped for fol
years, if at all, from the construction OF
a canal from the Columbia river u
| Shoalwater Bay. 1t Is not at all proba
BILE that depth of water can be main
| tanned sufficient for vessels of more thar
a very light draft, and such a waterway
would fail to compensate as for the de
struction Of our oS ster beds, which thu
admission of large volume Of fresf
water would inevitably cause. TIT
railroad, then, is our great factor o
future prosperity, and We should worl
or IL with all our power. 1t remains 4
be seen whether the citizens of on
county will realize the situation ant
secure the advantages within thei
reach. or whether they will cOntinu'
to slumber until more epterprisinI
generation slides them off into LIANT
where aerial navigation has been per
fected and the shrek of the whistle j
not known and the news is disseminated
by the trumpet of the archangel insteat
| OF by the Pacific Jou,Hai.