Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-02-12
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Frank J. Paykes, editor of the Waila
Waila Sfatesmds. In . third letter from
this city % hrs pspes, gives Seattle the
send-o6 following:
The Hall d Pantsou Furniture Com
pauy 10 ous 0f the most important, and,
judQin9 from the extent u tlseir UOsks
and the fine quality Of the work they
exhibit At their store. must have good
and 0xtenstve business. Is 10 their
boast that they can furnish either .
o,hin or palace on the al Jrtsot notice.
They are . stock eUmpAny With . paid
up capital of e1O0(,o0; lass summer
they steadily employed g. men, ard
their monthly pay roll fooss up $500
regularly. They have a saw mill Of their
oAn for their own WOoda, which oonsase
Of ash, 6s, maple, alder, spruce. cedar.
sto- They kesp ready f"r uss two ysans
ahead $1,000 worth Of scasOoed lum-
ber, ard always have furniture 70 the
value Of &25. .WO ready to be shipped to
any part Of she world from which orders
may oO@s. Bssidss home mAnufActass
they ship goods BY the carload from
the Est, and have recently seosived 100
sets Of chamber furniture from Grand
Rapids. The barrel factory With it
great works and Ingenious machinery
has besu 20 often described that pro-
pose this time 10 Isaye il alone.
There are many fins resideuoes going
mp, and right royal they look. Seattle
u sdmirsbly pdspted for showing Oh
. prominent building on account OF the
hills. Thoss nov going mp for J. No
NauQht, n. v. h. Stacy and Yesler viii
cost between thirty and forty thooeand
dollars each when completed. A $780,
O0O opers- hvuse V going ~, and viii be
completed the coming SIMMER. The
Yssiss. Lsary building u magnificent
u structure which cost el2O,U00; the
rents alone fetch in tl60O per month.
Last year the city spent over $1OOsOUO
for grading the streets. and now have
between seven and eight thousand dol
lars in the city treasury. Two new
school houses we're built last year at .
cost Of $4,000 eaoh. Tns Central
school will have capacity for 100 ohil-
drsn. Altogether, besides the Univorsi-
ty, there are six school houses here.
Tie hossl Squire u now building will
cost 81, 2,O0O, and one at Delltown $780,
zoo. The tide dats ON the soath side Of
the town ass nov built over on substan-
tial piles, and strongly planked for .
distance Of l60 acres. 1t 10 destined 70
he the terminus for half . dozen rail-
road tracks. for which there y plenty OF
room. .r. r....
Water works with capacity to supply
. city Of 5000 people are nOv being
vigorously pushed forward. The water
il coming from Lake Washington, from
which it will be punped into reservoir
holding 5000 O00 gallons, with Sl5 feet
pressure, BY two compound engines Of
l5O horse power. 1t will supply seattle
with 100000 gallons daily, and save
the city the great expense Of maintain
lug 6re engines. The present water 10
supplied from springs. and II too limit
ed for the growing wants Of the plass.
twenty-five thousand feet sf piping
have already been laid Of 6, 8, 10 and
II inch pipe, and the company have now
under Contract 650O fsst Of IL inch, 1000
fest of lO inch and GOO Of 8 inch pipe
from the reservoir to Lake Washington.
There are two elevations to hold water,
the lower in tanks with an elevation Of
l76 feet, and ths water running 70 this
from the 36-foot level will Do utilized
to manufacture electFicit, with which
10 light the city. The cost Of the works
will cost over 5O,6OO, and water viii b
supplied 70 families at the low rate Of
tl.5O per month. manufactures at 70
csnsa PET 1000 gallons, and special rntss
10 laundsiss, ivery stables. ships, hotels.
eso. The .owners are sOms Of them
livest and most 60 ahead Of all in this
city of live nen; they are Bailey Cat
zsrt, John Leary, Dr.. Thomas Minor
and Mr.. Furth, OF Sc sttle. and Walter
Brothers and Hohwabaoher Brothsls of
San Franaiooo. Already 6satsls can
bosst Of hy6Sonlso elevators, Aad when
will bs flashed very sAsily.4
utation, and il has been said shat It 10
the only place in the Territory where Q
really good meal can be procured. Al
together, With the boarding houses, they
number 1000 rooms. The Arlington
keeps up il old reputation. and the
proprietors, Messrs. Smith d Farrar,
are unremitsing in their attention to
the comfort of guests. The Hotel
Brunswick, owned by Major A. E. Al.
den, has . most sxostlsns reputation,
and ito popular proprietor 10 one Of Be-
attle's moat enterprisiHG citizens.
There are others, NO doubt, equally do
serving notice. bat I really could not
sample soore than one at time, 40 can
only speak from my own experience.
More bona 6ds real estate transactions
have probably taken place in Seattle the
past year than in all tue other towns
and citiss Of the Territory pat together.
A Arm here, Messrs Eshelman & Lew
ellyn. informed the that their business
the past year had amounted to fully
$500, 600, and this IL only ono 6rm out
Of q soore. Property 10 increasing in
value daily. and yet IL does not appear
to have reached an exorbitant figure.
Fortunes will vet bs made In buying
and selling town lots, for give Il ~
my opinion that Seattle has snly just
emerged from her chrysalis state. and
has yet 70 become full grown. The live
men Of thu city who may be s.id to have
made u what it ID, the men who have
bssn and are still identified and inter-
ssted in pushing things on, are n. v.
B. 6saey, man Who will decide in
momsns what he will give or take for
an vthinO hA Wnnta. ~ ha wanta IL ha