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

The professions are represented by
twenty-five clergymen. tventy-six doc
tors and forty-tiye Ia xyers-
The University has had an attendance
during the pas; term of over $50 pupils.
The trade Of Seattle is of varied
character. The principal export is coal,
OF which Just about 100000 tons have
been shipped during the past ten years.
Barrels. furniture and other manufac-
lures of wood stand in the line OF ex-
ports next 10 coal in quantity and value;
gram. oats particularly third; Eops
fourth, and then potatoes, hides, furs,
fish, &c. Substantially, all these ex-
ports 20 to San Francisco. Their guam
ii,y during the past twelve months can
not have been less than 10000 tons:
and their value not tar from S3,oo,Oo0.
Seattle is a business center for all the
Puget Sound country. Of the thirty
steamers plying on these waters all but
half dozen here have their headquarters
aud here secure their principal trade.
The local steamers are principally built.
repaired and supplied here, and they
with their crews go far towards sustain
ing the brisk little city they acknowl-
edge their home port.
The people of Seattle a few years ago
unai led built and equipped railroad
twenty-five miles long, extending from
the city 70 the coal mines back of town,
ut cost to them of almost 100000.
This road they sold a year and half
ago to Henry Willard, President of the
Oregon and Transcontinental and
Northern Pacific Railroad companies.
Mr. Willard has improved the property
vastly since his purchase of it, and in
connection with IL he has built and put
into service line of four large steam
GOLFERS. He, or the companies repre-
scented by him, have promised to extend
tho road thirty miles further into a
country of the'fnest character, abound
ing iii coal, iron and timber, with soil
of unsurpassed fertility and capable on
a limited development of giving the
road an annual freight traffic of 81 ,OOO,-
600. Ia compliance with another pro-
mise of President Wizards, to connect
Seattle with the lire of the Northern
Pacific, a standard gage road of about
thirty miles in length is now in course
of construction, ana will be completed
early III 1888. This section will make
Seattle the extreme northwest terminus
of the whole railroad system of the
United States. and is expected to be of
immense assistance in the rapid build
ing up of the city. He has also pro-
missed at an early day to build road
over the Cascade Mountains, Of about
200 miles in length, which will make
our city the port for the great country
known as the Columbia River Basin.
In addition to these, two local compa-
MES have been organized, one to build
railroad to Gray's Harbor, on the Pa
citic Ocean, eighty miles distant, and
the other to build To Walla Walla, in
Eastern Washington, and Baker City,
in Oregon, about 800 miles distant.
These enterprise are ali feasible in an
eminent degree, anu it will not be sur
prising to soc them all in paying opera
ton three years hence.
The finest and most extensive body of
timber in the United States is 10 be
found in Washington Territory. Here
are quarter sections that will yield each
S,000,UO0, 10000, 0,and even 100000
feet, while of the whole area of the Ter
ritory 20,UOO.O00 acres can bs found 10
average $1,000 feet each. or in the az
gregate 100000 600 600 feet, two-thirds
Of which are easily available. The tim.
Der interests center IN and around So
attic. Within thirty miles are the six
largest sawmills on the coast, each of
daily capacity OF over 100000 feet of
lumber. and an aggregate daily capacity
OF S00,O0 feet. In addition to these i'm
mense establishments are thirteen
smaller ones, seven OF which are in the
city, and which are employed princi-
palIy on local work.
Ia the city the Chief Justice of the
Territorial Supreme Court has his
home; the Office of the United States
Inspector of Steam Vessels is also here;
two telegraph companies unite here, the
Western Union and the Puget Sound:
the city directory contains 450 names Of
business men, firms and companies;
the town has dozen wholesale stores,
three banks and thres daily and three
weekly newspapers, and in every respect
IL Is a live, go.ahead, vigorous place,
promising To more than hold it's own, as
II has in the past, with all competing
points.
fhe climate is pleasant and health
fos. During the past winter the tenn
peratura WAS AT no time below - de-
grees Fahrenheit and during the SUM-
usr previous II WAS at no time above 80
degrees IN tho shade. The average tor
the year round is about 81 degrees. The
extremes of heat aud cold are both I'M
known. The rainfall OF the year aver
Ages about tifty inches and the So swfall
about ten iuches. Malaria is unknown.
and more generally agreeable climate
AND healthful locality cannot be found.
As usually approached from the sea,
the city presents handsome appear
ance. Il Is spread along the water the
length Of mile and half. and il ex-
tends back half mile 10 mile. The
business portion Of the town is built ND
on flat, next to tho bay, of thirty acres
IN area. The residences are on the hill
sides, climbing to the SUBMITS, VARYING
nights of from 100 TO 800 feet. The
town Is between two ranges of noun
tains, each about forty miles distant,
and both are seen in their grandeur from
the steamers decks. Rainier, II. IA feet
high, IL the loftisst and most conspicu-
Gus of all, and on an unclouded day is a
magnificent sight. In the outskirts of
the town Is Lake Union. a beautiful body
of water four miles long and one wide,
and near II and less than three miles
from town, Is Lake Washington. twenty
five miles long and one to dive miles Ia
width. The water in Lake Washington
Is from 30 to 100 feet deep, or quite suf-
hcient to accommodate at the same time
the combined mercantile and war fleets
of Great Britain and the United States.
Lake Samamish, eight miles long, is
Just beyond Lake Washington. and is
within twelve miles of Seattle. These
lakes, with the Duwamish. White, Black
and Snoqualmie rivers all within King
County. furnish the people an inland
navigation Of about l25 miles, the future
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