, 1884-02-09
SEtTsLS.
lfs Aannfaesssass, Balidfsss, Improve.
nsaas. Men and General Prsgress.
SKArTlI Jan u lSs


are no small feature Of the place. From the
Christmas number Of the Seattle Herald.
which, BY the way, is newspaper of which
even New York might well feel proud, 1
hnd that there are the following nanui.c-
tories now in operation there: FounJries
3. breWeries 2, shipyards 3, tanneries l.
boiler makers 3, sash and doors 6, Ice l, saw
mills 6. brick yards 3. fish packeries ). 6.h
cannery I, barrel factory l.
The Hall Paulsen Furniture company is
one OF the most important, and, Judging from,
the extent OF their works and the fine quail
ity Of the work they exhibit at their store.
must have good and extensive business. 1,
is their boast that they can furnish either a
cabin or palace on the shortest notice.
They are a stock company with paid up
capital Of slOO 000; last summer they stead
lly employed 65 men. and their monthly pay
r'll foots up s., 500 regularly. They have
saw mill of their own for their own woods
which consist of ash. FIR, maple, alder, cedar,
spruce. etc. They keep ready for use two
years ahead $40, 600 worth OF seasoned lum-
Der and always have furniture to the value
OF s25. .00O ready TO he shipped 70 any par,
| of the world from which orders msy come.
Besides home manufacture they ship goods
by the car load from the east and lave re-
Gently received 200 sets of cha nber furni.
ture from Grand Rapids The barrel factory
with its great works and ingenious machin-
cry, has 90 often ben described that pro-
pose this time to leave it alone.
There are many fine residences going up
and right royal they look. Seattle is admir-.
ably adapted for showing off prominent
buildingSon account of the hills Those nnu
going up for J. McNsught, NJ. V. B. Stacey.
and Yessler. will cost between thirty an
forty thousand dollars each when completed.
A $50, 900 opera house is going up and will
be completed the coming summer. The
Yessler- -Leary building is a magnificent new
structure which cost Sla0, 900; the rents
alone fetch in 81 l,600 per month. Last year
the city spent over 500, 900 for grading the
streets, and now have between seven ana
eight thousand dollars in the city treasury.
Two new school houses were bu.lt last year
at . cost Of $50, coo each the Central school
will have capacity for 500 children alto
gether. beside the University. there are six
school houses here. The hotel Squires IS nov
building will cost ST., 600. and one az Pell-
town $50, 900. The tide fats on the south
SIDE OF the town are now built over on sub
stantial piles and strongly planked for
distance OF l60 acres it is destined to b
the terminus for half dozen railroad tracks
or which there is plenty OF room.
WATER WORKS
Water works with capacity to supply
city of $4,000 people are now vigorously
being pushed forward. The water is con.-
ing from Lake Washington, from whence II
will be pumped into a reservoir holding
3 900, 900 gallons. with 3l5 feet pressure. by
Two compound engines of l50 horse power.
1t will supply Seattle with one million gsl
Ions daily, and save the city the great eX-
pense Of maintaining FIRE engines. The pres
ent water ia supplied from springs, and is tpo
limited for the growing wants Of the plice.
twenty-five thousand feet of Iiping hav,
already been lad Of 6, S, 10 and II inct
piains, and the conn Any have now under
contract $500 feet of l2-inch. 30o0 feet Of 10
il ch AID COCO feet Of 6inch piIe from tn
.esrIvoir to Lake Washington. There are
two elevations to hold watsr. the lower in
tsnks with an elevation Of l76 feet, and the
water running 10 this from TIE 345 ,est level
will be utilized to manufacture electricity
with which to light the city. The cost Of
;he works will foot up owe, quarter mil
,ioa dollars, and Water will BE- supplied to
families at the low rate of 81 80 per month,
manufactures at 20 cents per 1000 gallons,
and special rate. TO laundries, livery stables,
ships, hotels, etc. The owners are sons o.
them residents and rank among the hvest
and most go ahead Of all in this city Of lire
men they are Bailey Gatzert, John Leary,
Dr. Thcs. Minor and Mr.. Firth, Of S atsle,'
andSchwabscherB Brothers and Walter Broth
er. of San Francisco. Il is a close corpora
tion. Already Seattle can bosgt Of hydrau-
lIc elevators, and when the works are com
pleted the streets will be flushed very easily
THE hotels.
The hotels in Seattle have good reputa-
tiou, and it has been said that 1t Is the only
place in the territory where really good
meal eau be procured. Altogether with the
boarding houses they number 1000 rooms.
The Arlington keeps up its old reputation,
and the proprietors. Messrs. Smith Farrar,
are unrem;ttirg in their attention 70 the COM
fo-t of guess The Hotel Brunswick, owned
by Major A. E. Alden, has a most excellent
reputation, and its popular proprietor IS ore
OF Seattls's most enserprisins citizens. There
are others, no doubt, equally deserving no
| tice, but really could no. sample more than
one at time, so can only speak from my
own experience.
ETAL ESTATE
! More bona .fis real estate transactions
have prolatly taken place IN S>a'tie the
! past year than in all the ether towns ana
citie, Of the territory put together. firm
| here, Me.srs. Esheimsn & Lle.ellyn, IN
| formed me that their businss the Paat yeaI
had amounted to fully $500, ,OOo. and this is
| only one firm out CT score Property IS
increasing in value dolly, and ye: It does no'
appear 70 haye ,ached an eI1rOitsnt figure.
Fortunes will yet lie made IN buying and
selling town lots, fer give il IS my opinion
tha, Seattle has only Just emerged from her
chrysalis STATE and has We. TO become full
/ grown. The live men Of the city who may
De said TO have made it what 1t Is, the men
who lave been and are still identified and
interested in pushing things on. are NJ. '.
B. Stacey, . man vino will decide In mo-
ment wis. he will give or take for anything
he wants; if he wants it he has to have IT.
! He IL one Of the most energetic mea Seattis