Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-11-12

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Take any steamer on Pn0s< Sound and
Il q bound 10 bring you 10 Pors Iosn.
sad. fIrs< or Ixs<. In the course Of tEo
or three trips % Alaska i hes been my
rood forfune 20 touch h&re nine times,
Ard the fiQht house et the end Of the
Iopo sandy spft Of Point Wils0n. at chs
entrsr,oe 81 the harbor, 10 always . siRn
Of fair promise 10 ms. The big ssxmili.
tbs wharrss, and the busy water front
Al firsf inpxssses one with the eotsrprise
and prosperity Of the town The ousi-
MSS part Of Port Townsend lies alonG
ne level shore az the foot OF . pefpen'
dicnlar bir1 100 fses high, and the resi-.
3snce portion stretches hike qutef and
shady New EaRixnd village along the
hfQkts. Straight sfairways and LONG
zie-zsQ inciines lead the foot pasenRes
10 upp<r town. and two steep
roads cat in the sandy biaf by easier
grades connscs the strssts Of the two
teMus.
Port Townsend has . proper ambition
10 Be- 4 railway terminns. bus bstrays
none Of the fever and dslifium OF seat
lie and Tacoma Port Townsend knows
that IA has futzre before II, AMI ID only
waiting 70 grow up to IL. when ths
Northern Pacific railroad was hrss talk
I'd Of, and long before Jay Cooke ran
the frst branch from ksianf, on the
Columbia River, 20 the headvsters OF
PUGET SQUAD, the engineers took the map
Of Washington Territory and drew their
pencil lines through Olympia and mp the
vest coast Of the Sound 90 Port Town
send.
.The Government can never fortify
beyond PORT Townsend said she Chief
Engineer, in thdke days when the torpe-
do had NOT been perfected, and General
Alexander vas making plans for great
system Of Notifications along the bor-
dsr. Port Townsend lies on q penln-
sula, with deep water on either side like
Manhattan Island, and the great city OF
the SQUAD must DO here,n said the same
The maps that showed the prophetic
pencil lines have been buried In the New
York ofiises of the company, and during
Ihs reign Of Mr.. Willard only the merits
81 Tacoma and Seattle were con sidered
BIZ that auteerat. There has lately been
much quiet talk a. to the probability OF
The railroad eventually reaching Pert
aud shipowners discuss thas
future prospect With all seriousness.
The towing companies will lose great
deal when Port Townsend monopoiizes
he commerce Of the Sound, as it must
when the railroad comes. bat the sailing
vesseIs will save the expense Of the long
toy up the Sound, and steamers, they
saw, can make Port Townsend BY the
compass from the entrance OF the Straits
Of Fuca in any fog or weather. Heavy
foes and the smoke of forest fires In the
summer often hinder navigation in tbs
labyrinth Of channels that form Puget
sound. Impetas was given 70 the termi-
nus talk few weeks since by the VISIT
Of General Miles and party Of Portland
After prospecting the tim
bered shores of the peninsula the syndi-
cate bought 10000 acres of timber land
around Port Discovery, which opens
frem the Straits Of Fuca, i've miles
across the peninsula from Port Town
send.
roEr TOWNSEND.
II In not probable that the fortifoa.
tons once planned by the War Depart.
ment will ever be built on this North.
west border, now that the torpedo and
dynamite gun lave revolutionized naval
warfare, and made the old sytem oil
coast and harbor defenses useless. Fort
Townsend lies five miles west of PORT
Townsend. at the end of the long bay,
and Ia garris0ned by two companies Of
the Fourteenth Infantry. the famous
Irish brigade. These companies have
Just been brought here this summer
from posts In Wyoming and Nebraska
by the exchange of regiments, and the
next general order contemplates taking
the Infantry 10 Fort Vancouver and
other interior posts, and garrisoninl
Fort Townsend with artillery. Thefort
80 called by courtesy only, 10 n pretty
collection Of quarters and barrcks sur
rounding q green quadrangle that slopes
TO bold bluff overhanging the water
The great range Of the Olympic noun
tains forms background for the fort
when viewed from the water. and from
the parade ground there Ia a magnificent
view Of this long arm of the Sound, and
Of Mt. Baker and Mt. Rainier, with tht
range of the snow capped
Cascades.
All the cosntry between Puget Sound
and the Pacific ocean Is IN unknown
UNEMPLOYED aud unsurveyed wilderness;
that ought TO tempt brave and adventur.
Gus spirits with the prospect of an IN.
broken wilderness. Astounding In bis
game and trout. Fish stories have been
told me by anglers who have dropped
their yellow hackle flies in those hidden
creeks, that would make Munchausen
shake his head, but one can not afford
to doubt the word of any one who goes
into the heart OF real wilderness for his
trout. 10 is known, though, and proved
BY whole picnic party OF witnesses tina,
one skilled fly fishermen brought back
sixty spreckied brock trout after an ab.
senoe Of less than three honrs. He
crawled through the underbrush and
orept along Chimioum Greek, and
brought all his fish back TO prove the
tale. A fishing party went over 10
WhAtcom Lake, on the east shore OF the
with all essentials for three days camp.
They told wonderful stories beforehand
how The trout were crowded in that lake,
Inquiry since their return shows that
Two days were spcnt ornising among the
eastern shore, and neither fish nor fish
stories prove that they did any angling.
Trolling for salmon IL good excuse for
spending idle days on the water, and
sailing and lacking over these enchant-
cd waters with q string astern, il the
happiest, LATEST kind Of way to kill time,
Lone fishermen 90 out af midnight, aud
at the tura of the tide in the dark hours
the tom cod bite fast anywhere from the
End Of the wharf 10 the end Of the Sound.
SUBMARINE Ix1sAnrrAxrs.
Puget Sound teens with other things
Ihan food hsh, and those blossoms Of
The sea. the snemones. the rays and the
Jelly tish, hoat lazily through the waters,
like Inhabitants of another world. Gold
and crimson anemones wave their long
Steamers In these clear, green waters
the csroila of these living flowers meg
surtng from SIX to twelve inches across.
jelly. fish lie ON the beach like
bits OF Ice. and bic clam shells aud seal
lop shells and the queer disks of the
= sea dollars" strew the sands. The
other morning the two visitors who reve
most ever Port Townsend and is sur
were raped up az o'clock 10
visit the beach At the lowest tide. There
is only one dead low tide az the chill
dren call IL, in these waters each day, and
the tides are puzzle and paradox "a
mariners, No one has yet been able 20
make out q tide table for Victoria hsr.
Dor across the the straits. A fine young
freshman, astir At thai still and dswy
hoer OF The naornine. rowed our boat in