Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-01-12
IN TlIE FAR NORTHWEST.
A Weeks Journey In and About Puget
seund...Axricaitural and Mineral
Wealth u Oregon and Wash.
lnaton and the Scenery and
Game Of that Region.
ICorrespondence NY. Time.


PORTLAND, Dec. Elm the way Of bust.
ness am traveller, not for commerce
or speculation, nor even for pleasure;
my journeys are made to study the re-
sources of the wonderful region known
abroad as the Pacific Northwest, to
which / came from your city a third of
century ago, and have watched its
growth and development ever since.
Until lately 1.-The Sound" a. We famil-
iary style it, has been merely region
with great expectations. jay Cooke in
tended to build there the emporium of
the North Pacific, and that has been to
some degree the familiar dream Of his
successors. But the fates have not lent
themselves as yet to the realization of
that end. The enterprises of Mr.. Viii
lard are centsring at Portland, where
hundred millions of home capital is
building up wonderful growth and
prosperity, and Q hundred millions of
corporate wealth il steadily working TO
assist it. But Puget Sound will not
play an Indifferent part in the future of
our section A century, or even quar-
ter of a century, hence will show what
il can achieve toward being the netrop-
oils of the far Northwest. No portion
Of the national domain possesses such
variety as the Pacific Northwest. EN-
plOyed az am in studying its resources,
~ . Journalists and In a material point
Of view in the interest Of business enter
prises, i am compelled TO believe that
we possess ON this far coast such ele-
ments of wealth as are not often be-
slowed on any portion of earth.
One evening l went on board COM
Portable stesmer and walked up to break
fast the next morning Just before We
reached Kalama, on the Washington
shore Of the Columbia, to take the
Northern Pacific train for Tacoma, ON
Puget Sound. II 10 dreary ride Of los
miles from the river 70 the Sound over
a wooded country that possesses few
attractions at any season and fewest of
ali in November. Il is simply region
with great possibilities. Sturdy hands
must remove the forests to prepare il for
the plow. That was done IN all the
States from Maine to Illinois, and will
be done here without doubt. At Ia
coma We took Sound boat for Seattle,
the Queen City of the Sounds-a jour
ney of two houfs and . half past heavily
wooded shores, with mazes Of water b.
tween. The. day was not good for scenlc
effects, as il stormed throughout. On
the stsamer met with friends Who had
preceded me and requested me to JOIN
their travels. One was an official IN
search of. .infoImation-a courtly Rentie-
man, with portly aspect and very Eng
lish ways, caught by long iesidence
abroad. The other was German not
long in this country, Of q noble family
ehat perhaps did mot take hand IN the
crusades, though an ancestor vas dis
tinouishedrin the ward that drove the
,Turks hack from the walls Of Vienna.
The Baron il tongue tied with his Eng
lish, but read Il easily. For all his
famous anoes.r ~ and thorough German
education he D. red 10 be one OF the
most modest and Lsiassuming of men,
possessing graceful accomplishment
that would, with less modssty. rank
him an artist, for he could aketch with
rapidity any scene upon our route, TO
be wrought into . skilled picture In
hoars Of leisure. So 10 agreed 70 ira
verse the Sound" toeseher, and onr
pleasant week of travel shAll furnian
the material for my psn skstch. which
will be happy indeed II Il equals the
effects produced By our friend the
Baron.
Seattle vas the name Of IN old Indian
chief whoss early history possesses IN
terest, 90 his name is given 70 the city
that stands where his lodge once sfood.
Il 10 spreading cot wouAsrfully over
slightly RIDGE lbsyond vhiah, in dsaight,.
ful noarnoss, great lakes lio boeDmed
among wooded hills. Many things com
bine 10 build Ssastie into an Important
city. Already it, oommssee isinmense.
They can ship . thoaeand tons Per d.y
of coal from mines tributary - 1Ss
whaxves. A marrow gaeo railroad votks
t. way mn tho valloyo q a1Doam - -