Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-25

dlsagreeable, not unhealthy. Indeed.
il Was the uniform statement both here
and st Portland that the healthy part
of the year is the rainy season This
appeared to rs little singular, and we
give il for what il is worth, only re-
marking that our information was from
the mos. reliable sources Little or no
miasma is found near the Sound.
Rheumatism Is to some extent indigen-
Gus, but not more so than in this city.
and viii decrease every year as the tim
ber 10 cleared away. Persons suffering
from bronchial or pulmonary diseases
can find more healthful places to spend
the winter, bat We do not think they can
find better place to spend the sum-
mer months of June, July and
August. Upon the whole we should say
the climate is fairly COED at all times,
and particularly desirable In the sum-
mer. As soon "a the pionicking ad-
vsntaees and the wild beauties Of this
section besome known 70 the recreation
seeking public it will be the most popu-
lar summer resort known. In winter it
is seldom cold enough to freeze, and the
summer Is never very warm. At the
head Of the Sound it Ia said flowers
bloom every month in the year. Or the
ClIkQatS III ESf3S6Lu 68uknktOu
tory We will speak anon. The Northern
Pacific Railroad. via Portland, will be
completed by September LIST, and will
give complete line from Superior City,
Michigan, to the Sound, with connec-
tions TO all points East clear across the
continent. This will make Montana,
Idaho, Washington Territory and Ore
Ron tributary to the Pacific seabeard,
and to accommodate the business of
this vast section of country, more rich
and varied in resources than in any
other part of our possessions, with the
outside world will require and will be-
get city larger and more universal in
its industry and commerce than any
city now in existence upon our contin
ent. In less than three years the Cas-
cade branch of the Northern Pacific
Railroad will be completed, and this
will connect with bolts of iron and
wires of lightning Eastern Washington
Territory, with its two and q half mil
lions of acres of agricultural land,
with the Sound, and from thence with
the world, and they will be only half a
days ride apart, and within telephone
speaking distance. Some who read this
may say that this future Tyre will be at
Portland or Astoria, at the mouth of tbs
great Columbia river, instead of on the
Sound. This will never be. When God
Almighty shook the earth to its feunda-
ton and caused two crystal streams of
water to gush forth from the heart of
what is now Yellowstone National Park,
one OF which he made to flow southwark
for 600 miles, and the other northwest
for 1000, then to turn and hov together,
uniting in that great physical wsnder-
the Columbia river-and draining and
watering 100000 square miles of land,
He intended that all this vast region
should be tributary to the junction of
this river with the mighty ocean. But
the SINS of all this vast domain collect
ing in sediment, soaght exit by means
of these natural water courses, and all
came together at the mouth Of this great
river. Here for years and years they
have stopped and gone no farther, and
today they are 30 great that all the tears
of this vast region cannot move them.
and there they lie, perpetual threat to
commerce, and are called by men the Co
lumbia river bar. 1t will cost $50 ,000, 600
to clear them away, il, indeed, 1t is pos
sible, and then to make this vast ex
penditure of any use they must 60 and
sin no more. Thwarted in his purpose,
He made the sea to oleavs crevice in
the land far enough away from this
place to escape contamination. and men
have called this crevice Puget sound
and here he said he would found His
city. And this we call the new dispen-
sation. To show men fully that the
intent was changed, He sat an island
at the mouth of the crevice, which men
have named Vancouver, and He made
two great arms running out into the
ocean which men have called the Straits
of Fuca and of Georgia, and has made
the entrances free from danger. Any
one investigating this subject at all vii!
find thousand arguments in favor of
the Sound to one for this other locality,
thousand arguments We have not time
and space to enumerate. Whereabouts
ON this Sound this city will be, and
herein of the present status of each
point will be the subject Of another
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