Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-08-04
GOVERNOR SEwfsGrs sisRRCH AT
WHATCOM.

A large crowd assembled in front of
the Washington Hotel last Thursday
evening to listen to the address of Gov.
Newell. The opening remarks were a
description of Whatcom county. The
Governor said he had travelled extensively
through nearly all of Washington Terri
tory, but this was the first time he had
visited Whatcom. He had reserved the
hest till the last. Whatcom county, ex-
tending one hundred miles from east o
west AMI fifty miles from north to south,
with its superior agricultural resources,
its fine timber, ETC., had a splendid future
before 1t.
The speaker text CT lied attshsion to
the vast and wonderful country lying to
forests of yellow cedar-the most valuable
timber in the world to-day, save mahog-
any, and worth in market $109 per 1000
| feet; its fisheries, which include 700 miles
Of Goldfish banks, salmon in inexhaus,ible
numbers and whales in immense schools;
the Yukon river, the second largest in
the world, nayigable for hundreds of miles.
And the great commerce which in the
near future must of necessity spring up
with this country of magnificent resources,
will come to the Sound.
The great waterways OF Washington
Territory were touched upon at some
length. There *ss no country in the
world tina. he'd SO many miles OF naviga-
BILE riv.rs Few people realized the value
anu magnitude OF these great waterways
The coal fields aud timber are thus
brought near to shipping points and coal
could be broughs to an ocean steamer
within an hour after it came from the
mine. He contrasted this with the coal
fields of Pennsylvania, Illinois and Indi-
ana, which were situated more than a
thousand miles inland.
AS to the extent of the cJst ia WASH
ington Territory, the speaker said he had
been told by competent authority that
all OF Western Washington was simply
one vast coal basin. A large part Of this
10 covered with valuable timber and the
soil of nearly all of it extremely fertile.
The tile marshes were also notable fea-
ture of this section, being of vast extent,
wonderfully productive and needed very
little preparation to make them ready
| for Agricultural purposes.
Grays ::Harbor, said the Governor, is
attracting considerable attention, by rsa-
son OF the fine timber and agricultural
country tributary to it. Were it not for
Puget Sound and the Colu nbia River'
Gray's Harbor would certainly be the
most important harbor in the Territory.
EasstfH Washington, in the speakers
opinion, equalled western Washington
in its resources. He knew Of farmers
| who had grown rich In FIVE years. Had
travelled over hundreds Of miles of the
country cast Of the mountains, every acre
OF which would produce enormous crops
Of wheat and other grains.
| nc tuctots VI WHO tCSsou WSiv SOuS"Os'
upon, the great quantity and fine quality
Of the iron ore mentioned. The speaker
hoped that gold would never he discov
cred to any great extent. as he had never
known any lasting prosperity to attend
gold country and men who khd studied
the subject thoroughly were agreed that
it cost five dollars sof every dollar that
was mined.
In conclusion, the Governor predicted q
magnificent future for Washington Terri
tofy. Situated in the great chain. belt
commerce tfat girdled the earth, in the
same latitude as london, Paris, Boston,
New York, Chicago, aud the great cit:.s
OF Esla.' with her fine climate, great un
developed wealth and magnificent har-
bora, cities would arise on her coast aud
in the interior. There would be city at
the head Of the Sound and one at the
foot [spplause], but the greatest would
bs at the entrance 10 the Straits. Him.
prsssive silence.
The Governors remaifts were listened
to with the closest attention and at its
finish he was greeted with loud and long
applause.