Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-17

at least pretenoe 70 reliaoiiisy. a.
far q Puget Sound was concerned there
vss not even shadow Of pFetsnce.
mss nORTnRRs COAST TRADE.
The trade of tho North Pacific coast
has developed extraordinarily during
the past two years. and. enjoyed at one
point, has become sufficient to sustain
a city Of large dimensions. The annu-
altrade Of Oregon, Washington. British
Columbia and Alaska must represent a
total value Of &35,0OO.O00 in imports
alone. II employs great feet of YES
sells, and, with q like value Of exports, Ia
q trade which has gone long way to-
wards building up, sustaining and on
riching the coast metropolis-San Fran
cisco. At tho prospect Of losing large
share Of their trade, the bulk Of it we
may say, the merchants Of that city arc
Justly excited, and they and the press
are writing and talking up the matter
with q view to taking steps to prevent
tho threatened transfer by ths overland
route to 1t. Paul, Chicago and the At
lantic. One writer depicts the con-
sternation now plainly evident in ths
business orioles Of that city. He says !;
San Francisco will certainly bc at
Afo~ n ~
Eastern Oregon aud Washington Terri
tory trade, when once she Northern Pa
ci6c and the Granger City extension Of
the Union Pacific are in working order,
but Why need San Francisco merchants
set mp . whine, clotbe themselves in
mercantile sack cloth and sprinkle tho
ashes Of dead hopes upon their heads in
consequence Instead Of sitting upon
the shores OF our incompatible harbor,
and wrinRing our hands In utter dssola-
ton, lot ~ be mp and doing the work of
men, like mon, to avert the threatened
calamity, and IL We can forget tho
small and petty business jealousies that
have 20 long stood y bar to our general
progress, and join hands for the general
welfare, We can not only avert an inn
pending disaster, but turn the seeming
oocaai0n Of II to our good uses, and
thus pluck victory from ont Of defeat.
The same writer has, however, . less
dolorous view concerning the trade Of
Western Oregon and Warrington,
which by the putting forth of little
extra effort he believes can be retained
BY his city. On this head hs suggests
10 his fellow townsmsa:
L,et us urge forward tho completion of
the California and Oregon line, into the
Willamette valley, and We viii reach,
secure and retain against any possible
competition from the East, the princi-
PAL and richest portion Of Oregon, let
q encourage and support = decent line
OF steamers TO Puget Sound ports direct,
and We will hold that trade In spite OF
any antagonists railroad 10 those
points, Tor u is . we'll known axiom
IN trade that where the raw materials
and product!ous OF any section are mar
keted, there viii the producer obtain
hts exchange OF commodities, and ~
long - Hau Francisco takes The coal,
lumber, iron, hops and oats Of Puget
Sound, % long will tt b TO the interest
Of the farmers. miners and merchants
OF that region 70 buy their goods in this
market. And a. long - W have
Southern PadAo system that il able and
willing % mako N such rates from the
East and South, ~ will enable us 20 i'm
port and distribute 70 the coast proper.
at competing rates, ~ against any com.
bination that the Union Pacihc and
Northern Pacific Dan or will make, Just