Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-06-27
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The sun was we'll down the west q
the fine eide-wheel steamer North Pa
cite, Captain Wilson, took "a out of tho
blue harbor of New Tacoma. The east
ward view of harbor and city, Puyallup
reservation and the valley behind it,
vas such as artists may rave over, but
never copy. Mount Rainier, white
coated monarch of the Sound coontry,
stood up Watching, as il to ses that all
vent well With the sunset pageant.
There was but little time for enjoying
the first Grand view, foE q thin line Of
land. like rug woven Of soil and rock
With q df tree plush over q carpet Of
fern, aid out upon the waters, cutting
Oh the bay and the town and changing
the panorama to forest, mountain and
sky.
For two hours the panorama unrollsd
and aid silently past-indented shores
and pebblY beaches, shrubs and trees,
rocks, promontories, and distant noun
tain tops, flying birds and hssey oloods
-duphcated, above, below; two worlds.
an effect 50 bewildering that II Wa
/
longed-whether IL was our boat sailing
on its head or the lighthouse over
yonder!
The night came up from the lower
world dimDinR its outlines and grad
ually absorbing its oolors; and then,
drawing around the upper world,
seemed TO send its blood into the snow
hooded mountains, for they gl0ved
pink, then fier0ely red. The red faded
/ to pink as the night rose upon them,
| and then to gray as the darkness in
creased, and at Last died in the cold
stsely blue. Sunset and twilight ON
Puget Sound is slow. serene, enchant-
ing; gorgeous a. q rainbow and sweet
as an infants smile.
The lights of Seattle como into view
as our boat rounds q point and enters
Elliot Bay. The busiest place in the
world today-a thousand lamps fash
upon the water from its wharves and
lower streets, and twinkle among the
stars from its hilltops. A forest of
masts and spars, the sound of escaping
steam, great piles Of freight ON the
wharves, and crowds OF people in the
streets denote that We have arrived at
commercial CITY.
At three O'Clock in the morning the
blasts Of steam whistles, the startling
bells, and the thud of wheels upon the
water begins and does not cease until 8
O'Clock, as boat after boat starts out on
its regular journey for the day.
COmmotiOn in tho harbOr is only
lesssned after the departure Of the reg
ular boats, for there is no hour in the
day whom it Is undisturbed by the AZ
rival or departure Of water craft. Their
numbers are countless, and their char |
aoter variable with each new conner.
Big black ocean ships and white little |
river boats, noisy tugs and silent sail |
ers. pr0pellers, sternvheelers and pic
turesque sidewheslers, ships, sl00ps,
punRiss and fats Of all degrees coming
and going, coal and lumber laden, or |
with loads of produce from the farms
or supplies for the lumber camps.
Nearly all transportation il by water,
and tho demands of Q thousand miles |
of shore line around the Sound and
Straits creates IN immense tonnage.
Other points, of course, have shipping
and command portion of the trade,
but the great bulk Of 1t indisputably
oenters at Seattle.
The thousands of immigrants who |
turn northward at Portland arc settling
around the arms and bays and up the |
estuaries and in the valleys of the large
streams which como into the Sound
from snow-capped mountains ON both
sides. Though known for years, much
Of it was practically undiscovered ooun- |
try till the agricultural settler came.
The logger until year or two ago was
the principal pioneer; he cared nothing
for land without trees, and bought his
provisions anywhere, without troubling
himself about the low bushy reaches
which the farmers are taking. The
country to him was good for nothing
but logs, and We believed what he told
till the enterprising immigrant proved
by actions that the lumberman didn't
know. The older farmers have all
grown rich, and the new ones will suo-
tary though beautiful water ways will b
marRined with farms and orchards, and
Q new commerce will rise TO lay greater
wealth ct the feet Of the cities.
A thousand tons of coal per day comes
into Seattle BY rail from mines near the
foot of the Cascades. but the treasures
of these mountains are yet comparative
~ untouched and probably undisc0v-
cred. Handsome specimens Of white.
gray, red and mottled marble we're
shown me-. Granite, Rypsam, limestone
and kaOlin are knows 70 lie in immense
quantities among them. Anthracite
coal Is believed to 30 hidden high mp the
mountains. The opening Of . railroad
across the Cascades must open miles Of
wealth in these rocks. There are proofs
enough that they exist.
They tell you that the average Seattle
ite il Wild and asks more 70. his town
lots than the owners Of Mob Hill prop
erty in our sister CITY Of California. In
looking around at tho insxhaustible
mines Of coal and iron and stone, the
lumber and the land, the open way 70
the ocean, and tho opening gates toward
q rich interior country, can see moth
ing but wisdom In his wildne1s unless
he sells out. didn't como here 70 boom
the town lots; they are doomed"
enough already. In fact, the people are
selves. Their enterprise ID not wind, -
which they raised $4,000 Tor q Gift 70
build q little piece Of railroad to nav
coal field. and by the expensive building
and street Improvement, In proQrees,
Originally there was but little Aat Of
few acres to start town ON at tho foot
OF steep blum, bot the work Of grad
ing, leveling and terracinQ 10 90 far
along that the town il indispotably
handsomer than il would have bsen on
q level. Its cost must have been enor-
NOUS. The work ID not done yet and
the soft soil dries and pounds up into
tsrrible dust. The battle Of the sprink- |
Ter on new street 10 one Of the sights
Of the town. ! saw one sprinkling
away With ell It's might enveloped in .
cloud Of dust that obsoursd Il, except
a the wind broke through.
Il ID q smoky city - vol. They
have told of PittsburR that the mothers
let tie children run st large duriag the
week, and ON Saturday night stand at
the street corners catching every one
that comes along 10 wipe TT fAoe with
VT rag. % - 10 eors out the right ones
10 take home for Sunday. Seattle may
mot b a. bad, bat between the dust and