Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-08-15
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A Tacoma. d. s~sress Tells all About


Detroit Free Press-
Among the guests at the Michigan Ex-
change 10 a rDan perhaps Is years Of age.
whose genial courtesy and gray side
uhiskers, together With medium bot
we'll proportional figure and pleasant
features. strongly remind aue OF Jas- q.
Birney of Bay City. exU nited States
Minister TO the Hague
The stranger Il DR.. wn- Sezcsube,
OF Tacoma, W. T., Who . 10 the city 10
take q two or three days rest after
making the trip from Puget Sound over
the Northern Pacific Railroad.
Just where 10 laconaF askea q
representative of the Free Press OF the
doctor.
LIS on Discovery Bag, an inlet at the
upper end Of Puget Sound, and thirty
miles from Sesttie.'
IL i the terminus of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, is IL potF
AT present Il 10 the temporary tsrni-
nus Of the road. believe.
"1h y do you y temporary
Because | think, with many othe.
persons, that the road will have two
western termini--ons at Tacoma and
ous It Seattle. OF course, the Tacoma
people ali argue that their city will be
The sole and oRly terminns-the editor
of the Tacoma Ledger, particularly, y
an advocate Of tnat ylew, as he should
be-"
"How large a place Is TacomsT
Two years ago, when ! vsnt there.
there were ONLY feg houses; nos we've
eot a main street, well graded. broad
and massachusetts is called Pacific
avenue and Numerous hne business
blocks have been erected. lave seen
property on Pacific avenue sold for from
1910 u 5000 for twenty-five feet front.
and / presume We have upsard Of GU
inhabitants"
What has built up ths town 50 rap
idIyT
s'Ihe coming of the railroad has
made the town and the coal and timber
resources of the country brought the
railroad"
How much coal is shipped from that
pointT'
81 cannot give you the aggregate, bat
| knox the Carbon Hill Coal Company
for which corporation | have acted as
physician daring ihs pas; two years
own two steamships with 400 tons car
rying capacity ca b, and II was no ordi
nary thing for Us to tarn out GOO tons
daily"
And the TIMBER
Timber. never say so much aud
of such wonderful quality, and I've been
around she vsrld oDce and am two thirds
of the way around once more As tc
the coal cannot saw, except that there
are coal indications TO be found all
around there; bat when Il comes 70 tina
Der, then I'm at loss to express myself
IL IL everywhere and always for bun
dreds Of miles, and Il 10 of the most
wondrous quality"
GOOD or ead!'
Good, of course, aud inexhausti-
ble."
Then YOU wouldn't advise man to
60 there looking for prairie farm!
Well, not unless be had the consti
tuition and the means TO clear mp, Il
make a prairie, and by that time he
would be rich enough TO retire from
business"
"How's the climate?"
"For me il il faultiess. For instance
| was comfortable last winter living II
house with walls but one board thicl
and papored on the inside. OF course
had stove and kept an ordinary FIRE
but there was no day when / peedeS
anything but light ovsrcoat when out
doors"
How are your SUMMER
Beautiful Tbs present has been q
trifie vet, as We would call it, but W.
never have rain storms such as yon hav,
had here this afternoon"
where do you get your farm pro
duce. etc. z"
Until now California has been oul
source of supply, but with the railroad
finished we snail depend largely on Iowa
Minnesota and other States this side tn,
slope"
Where's your lumber markei!"
We've got the universe. Onr bay
Discovery Bay -admits any oeaft thai
floats While some OF our smaller mill
find their market along the coast, tbs
larger ones own their ships and sen,
their lumber TO the Sandwich Islands
japan. Australia, Valparaiso and othe
South American ports"
(which is the future great city o
Puget Soupdg"
can best answer You by quolinl
from the Hon, Mr.. Brsnts, our repre-
sentative in Congress. Hs said, in hi
address on Puget Sound, made befor
Congress: AT some point on Pugs
Sound will spring no great city; the
Tyre Of Americs and the com nerce oil
all nations will do il honor"