, 1883-12-06
For Newcomers.
PoRT ANGELES, Nov. 80, 1883.

PORT ANGELES, Nov. 30, 1883.
EDITORS ARGUs:-As the upper Sound
and tributaries are fast filling
up by the increasing immigration,
and Eut little attention seems
directed to this part of the Terri
tory bounded by the Straits of Fuca,
with the exception of Quileute, which is
fast settling up and will soon be heard
from in the shape of fat cattle, wool and
dairy produce, L will cndeavor to give
YOU passing description of Clalam
county between Port Angeles and Neah
Bay.
Ten miles east from Neah Bay Is a
small tide stream called Hoko, which
heads in the Coast Range, running in a
southeasterly direction. This stream has
considerable bottom land its whole
length, about eight miles, which have
seen. 1t is not surveyed. There is any
amount of good timber on the mountain
slopes. principally spruce and hemlnck.
A good road can be made from there to
Clalam Bay, which is four miles east by
water, and a good harbor for any sized
vessel. Clalam Bay has little or no good
land, but excellent timber a few miles
back from the beach. 1t, also, is un-
surveyed. Three miles east from this
bay the second coal mine in this Terri
tory was worked a short time in '64, but
owing to the many faults in the seam it
was abandoned, having shipped only one
cargo to San Francisco, and that was on
the bark Golden Gate. 1t was Ignite
and of the quality of Seattle coal. Our
worthy consul at Victoria, Allen Francis,
easad himself of many a dollar in it..
Six miles east of Clalam Bay is Pyscht
river, the largest river emptying into the
Straits, and navIgable about two miles
for light draft vessels at nigh tide. There
is very little good land there, except at
the mouth, where a few farmers have
located. This river is noted for the
quality and size of its timber. The
timber ends here on the coast and runs
back into the interior -c5nti I Its4 -l.slt to
Quileute. West OF this river to Cane
FlattoTy little or no fir grows, all the
timber being spruce or hemlock, which
grows in large quantities. And if the
California tanners want hemlock bark.
Clalam Bay and Hoko is the, place to
get it.
For twenty miles east of Pyscht river
is one continuous hilly country with Il
dense growth of excellent fir and some
hemlock, yet unsurvoyeI, with three
small streams emptying into the Straits
of Fuca. Lyle river is the largest, and
has only one settler. It is a dense for
est of fir the whole length, which will
have to yield to The ax ere long,
The next place is Crescent Bay, a
small, snug little nook, with a small
tide stream called Salt river, and there
are about ten settlers and two logging
camps. l am told there is some excel
lent land yet unOcCupied, especially be-
tween it and Fresh Water Bay, a DIS
tance of about four miles Fresh Water
Bay extends from Observatory Head to
Eikwah river, with some good land vet
open to settlers. Six miles back from
the head of this bay is the famous fish
ing lake, and all who go there to fish
come back perfectly satisfied, and say
1t Is the finest place to fish for trout in
the United states. Here would be n
splendid opening for some one with the
means to build a hotel and put small
boats on the lake, and advertise it as
summer resort. The approaches to
and on the lake are grand in scenery.
with all kinds of game, and an unlimit-
ed quantity of CLAIMS on the beach where
the steamers would land.
Elkwah river which empties into this
bay, cuts the Olympic range of noun
tHlEs and heads on the southern s!one-
through the rougLest kind of country.
IN places with almost perpendicular
walls Of sandstone. 1t is interspersed
with some good farms and timber. Near
the mouth of the Elkwah river is a
stretch of bottom land about SIX miles
long, which is timbereI principally with
cedar and alder. There are some good
claims yet to be taken up on that river.