Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-03
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Seattle. June 10 1883.
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wheeling Intelligencer, Sept. 0.l
VICTORIA. b. c., Sept. AFTER my
visit 10 Mount Tacoma and our return
to the town of that name, two OF our
party. Mr.. Hitchcock. of the New York
Tribune, and myself, concluded TO make
AN excursion to the British possessions
on the north side of Puget Sound. So
ON the evening Of the 3lst Of August we
vent Oh board the steamer North Pa
cific, that plies the coasts en- the Ameri-
loan side and finally crosses the Straits
of Fuca to Vaucouvsr's Island, and took
massage for this nice little city Of Vic
toria, the capital of British Columbia.
The distance is 10 miles and it takes
about ten hours to run it. On our way
up We passed several towns and settle
ments. the principal of which is Seattle.
A place of 1000 inhabitants. spent
several hours there and during my ram
blos came across two old residents and
natives of WeIlsburg. w. Va. viz, VIM.
H. White and John L. Carroll. The
former practices Law and the latter is an
engineer, lately in the service Of the
Oregon Railway * Navigation Com
pany. Both have accumulated more or
Iess property and both like the country.
although gathered from what Mr..
White said that il he was back in
Wellsbnrg, as he was when he left there,
he would not leave 1t, especially
since he has heard that SO much
Of a future has at last opened Out to his
old town. / was indebted to him for q
very enjoyable ride around the town and
its outlying surroundings, and for much
information about the country In gen
oral. We had with rs in the carriage
an old virginian named Hillory Butler,
who has been in the Sound country
since 1853, and was once United states
Marshal for Washington Territory, and
was in the block house at Seattle at the
time Of the attempted massacre of the
whites in 1876 by the indians. He
showed me the battle SCARED house in
vh1Uh he lived at the time the Indians
suddsniv swooped down upon the unsus-
pecting settlers. Had it not been for
the accidental presence of the American
maL-Of-war Decatur, which had put in
from the Pacific ocean for repairs, and
which played upon the Indiana with her
guns, not q soul woald have been left TO
tell the tale. The old man il quite n
curiosity in his way. He can talk In
dian almost as we'll as he can English
(as observed by his remarks to the La
dians whom we passed), but his unmis-
taxable Fauquier county, Virginia, dia-
lect, such as "whar" and "thar" and
other negro provincialisms, remain with
him still. Some years ago he bought
two los in Seattle, one for x75 and the
other for 800. and built upon them in
q crude way, and his rents with half
lot still in reserve) bring him 1926 per
month and his board and lodging. He
refused $30. 600 for his property.
should say that the boss talker of
the Pacific coast resides at Seattle, one
Of the real eatate magnates of the place.
spent two hours in his office listening
70 his demonstrations that Seattle was
the coming Chicago Of the North Pacific
coast. Portland. Oregon, he said, would
do very well for side show, and would
probably always be CONSIDERABLE town.
but the real city would be on Puget
Look, said he. at the figures ~ they
stand today. We have a city already
Of 10000 people and are in our infancy.
than 5000 people. This Sound, of
ported products last year 10 the
amount Of SCI. 600 tons, as against 240. 900
ont Of the Colus,bia river. For instance.
Il exported 30.000,000 feet of lumber,
10000 tons OF coal; 1000 tons of bar
lev and oats: 20,0O0 tons of potatoes;
5000 tons of lime; 800 tons of iron:
5000 barrel stave stuff; Loo. 200
pouads Of hops; 1000 cases Of salmon
and lo.0O0 cases of other fish. Besides
these items of our export trade, said he,
We manufacture right here I, ,500, 900 feet
Of lumber every month. and Il Is all
ussd here in building. We would I've An
important place without a railroad, but
With railroads that are building and ts
b built here We aill have $1,000 people
in five years. Put that down, said ne,
- my prediction. and make yourself
rich by investing in real estate here.
In addition 70 this statement he went
on 10 ahow how much nearer the waters
Of Puget Sound were 70 China than
San Francisco or Portland, how much
more navigable than those Of the Co
lumbia river. and he quoted ~ fact
that there was now a Discrimination Of
q uer ton in favor Of Sound waters rs
against those Of the Columbia. And
nnally, eAid he, We are 100 miles nearer
New York than Ia San Francisco. II
eyer there Ii TO be an overland trade be
tween New York and China Il must pass
through the waters Of Puget Sound |
give yoa this resume by the talented
boomer Of Seattle as specimen of the
( way they lay hold upon real estate ideas
ont here: and when add that they have
soGually sold lots in Seattle at 500 per
lfunt foot-which is so per foot above
Tie highest price obtained for tho Pax
) Ion Opera House lots in Wheeling yoa
will see that they talk TO some purpose-
There In another town on the Sound
New Tacoma-which is considered by
4 IL own people a. the rival OF Seattle
- In fact, the future city-but A. did
noe happen TO fall in with the Iseary of
The place while I was there cannst pre-
mt her side of the question. ! should
Ay, however, that the first necessity OF
her situation Ia to provide hotel At the
steamboat landing, where travellers can
~ decent meal.
Our good steamer landed m at this
poeasant little city of Vicaoria, on Van
eouvcr lsland, after dinner last Satur-
day. Az We steamed into the dock the
Physician Of the port cAme aboard aud
a9ned clean bill of health At tile pur-
ner's Office, and vc we're all permitted to
10 ashore. As We passed through the
RatswAy the Dominion custom house
oehcsr amply asked us il we had any
thing dutiable in our luggage, aud on
rscelving negative answer permitted
g 10 pass on without examination.
They have high protective tariff IN ths
dominion, bnt a. the United States Is
also protective country. presume thsl
tney take il for granted that there IL moi
auch to be made by smuggling between
Ne two countries.
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