Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-01-04

tsrs, md IT. merchants control the bus-
ines, which brings about tN0 Per
month into the town.
Somsthing les than year ago dre
occurred IN the business part Of Oiym-
pin and Destroyed half sooee OF moro
Of the best business houses. In Teviv-
ing from this stroke the business men OF
the town woke up. They pat bxick
stores where wooden buildings had
stood before, and vhsn the improve
menfs were done they were surprised to
find that their adjoining real estate had
nearly doubled. Il II curious fact that
the lire was . great blessing to the
town. Il looks better, and property
holders assert that il had the effect Of
waking up the place which Was fast 60
ing to sleep. Olympia has had it, am
bitious dream and has gotten over Il.
Il looks with amused impartiality upon
the contest waginR between Tacoma and
Seattle, and is content TO be q prosper
Gus local town. 1t is connected by .
narrow-gaee railroad with the Northern
Pacific line. Olympia is destined some
day to be great resort It has mag
nifcent scenery, fine drives, fne boat
ing space, good bathing grounds, clam
beaches, ETC., and salt water and fresh
water fish, and game of all kinds
abound. And better than all these, it
enjoys the advantages of q modified
ocean air, which invalids, Who suffer
from the raw ocean climate, find agree
able and healthful.
rUMwArxR
Is q mile south of Olympia, at the
mouth of the Deechutes river, whore, by
a series of rapids and cataraots, it falls
into tho Sound. Three grist mills .
planning mill, and wooden pipe manu-
factory are located here, and the popu-
lation.of the town is mostly made mp OF
people employed about these establish
ments.
POET TowNsKND
Ia another Of the most important OF the
Sound towns. Il 10 located near it,
northern extreme. and is port OF On.
try. It has q population OF l5U, OF
whom 500 have become residents within
year. Its merchandise sales for the
year have been above $s31,OC9, and
100000 has been put into new build
inRs. Port Townsend is the trading
point for largo agricultural settlements
ON the mainland and ON several Of the
north-Sound islands. Its principal
home enterprise il new merchant saw
m i'll, one of the establishments on the
Sound owned by resident capitalists.
Extensive iron beds lie near Port
Townsend, and q company formed Of
Puget Sound and California capitalists
ia proposing to work them, preparing TO
put IN great capital and establish roll
ing mills. Inexhaustible beds of bog
ore are found near at hand, and mag
netic ore will be brought from Texada
Island, B. G., which belongs TO the
company. Forty men are now building
furnace which it is proposed to start
up next summer, with . working force
Of 500 men.
SOUTHERN wAGHm0T0N.
There 10 much good country in Wash
ingt0u Territory along the Columbia
river. From the mouth Of the river up
to the Cowlitz river the country Is very
rough and covered with valuable tim
Der. Two large saw mills whose lumber
cut ID something moro than g hundred
thousand feet Per day, and several
salmon canneries whose business. 10 set
forth in other columns, are located
here. On the Cowlitz river there is an
old and rich settlement which deals
with Portland direct, employing three
steamboats, regularly in the trade. The
bottom lands Of the Cowlitz are highly
productive.
From the Cowlitz q fine strip Of bot
tom and foot-hill land extends along
the river to the Cascade mountains. Tho
Lewis river country. thirty miles north
of Portland, 10 q fine section, which,
like the Cowlitx, deals directly with
Portland.
The city Of Vancouver, located ON the
Columbia short distance above the
mouth of the Willamette, is one of the
most prosperous towns in tho Territory.
It has about fifteen hundred inhabi-
tants, and is the trading point for q fine
farming country. The military post,
just east Of the city, is one Of its inter-
esting features.