Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-08-26

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ons sveainZ laat week your eosrss-
! poRaeai foznd himself qofa9 ashOrs 81
toe pleasant little toEa Of COopeTtlls,
! IN Island eozEty. Making himself sod
his tniszjon kroxn - representative
81 ysor paper. be resolved kindly eozr-
ss4Ses Al The hands Of many. The Posi-
/ fxTKsnESswcKR was 30 Be forgd 10 alnansf
every family In that county; 10 less
than forty. fFs s0ptes Of u being sent
70 Go1psviIIs every ~sek- A tran 2
thrgash all the reaisn adiacsas thereto
lfrngFed the fact that there ID Dot .
more nourtshing ssantry settlement IN
the Territory. greater percsBtaee Of
| tie fsrm-h0Bsee and barns indicate
tariff and comfortable living than in
any other region we havs yet found
along the So1nd.
Ine surface 10 comparatively level,
being diversified with woodlands and
SFAiEses. The ossn Rroand " extra fer
tie. and The timbered poFtioos only
need 10 BE- slashed and grabbed 90 be
| e0ma like productive. | vas surprised
70 fnd is 80 old . settled country; toe
Eseya, Croekeits and others who are
there to-day having been on the ground
mafe than thirty years. CSl. Ebey was
q ernsration ago. and az the Crockett
homestead I $40 the bioekhsRses which
wsre erected thirty years aimee &c safe
guard against the Northern Indians.
Scarcely anywhere have / seen 30 many
old orchards. TIE pear trees are still
vigorous, bus the apple trees appear to
be deseriosatine. THIS years apple ercp
il quite large, but they seem inferior N
q 80
and vegetables the same. Most Of the
grain crop has been harvested, and 10
nos being stored or shipped away.
There. a. everywhere else, the people
complain Of pfioss being too loV. In
the way Of stores, hotels. d., OoaosViile
has all the needs demand. As the cosiR-
try tributAry TO IL is comparatively sfD all,
the place will probably never be very
large. Had il more background. its
naturally beautiful and healthy Iooa-
ton would attract many more families
there.
Oak Harb0r il seven miles north Of
Csupes lie, and is eqnslly - old a set
tied community; the BaZbys, MAYORS
and others having settled thereabout |
sarly In tho fiftiss- At-high tide steam |
boats readily ride up 10 the wharf near |
the Store and postofties: bat when the |
tide IL out Il u an ugly place OF approach,
a. well know from experience. Dense
foe having delayed our boat, the Wash |
ingtcn. We had 70 20 from the steamer
Ia q skiff and then wade several hun-
dfed yarda through the mud. The deck
hand whs takes the mail ashore carried
Q fellow mot the writer on bis back
from the skif almost 20 dry gfoHnd,
and then fell spfavline with him-he
said accidentally, bus miscbieyous
schoolboys know how IL Is themselves.
The country back Of Oak Harbor u
neither 90 fertile nor so veil populated
~ that In the rear Of Coupsvills; still
gate number Of families have made q
living there for these many years. Al
msat every house il we'll fxsd 1p. giving
evidence that the occupants were from
the better Glass of people back East, and
that they do not vet consider themselves
out of the world, or even in the back
woods. Books and papers we're seen IN
nearly every household. and they ell
know how 10 treat stranger with eour-
tesy. Tkere is still considerable tim-
bered gronnd there which could be made
to produce we'll, but clearing II would
be costly.
The mail beats from Seattle 10 What.
com pass both Coupeviiie snd Oak
HaFbOr early every morning. going up
QUO day and down the next. was
Interested not little ia hearing the
old settlers tell OF the times a quarter
OF 3 century ago. The tourist with
leisure vsuld find much TO eRtertain
him by ssuntering through such quar-
tiers. WA. WASH.
AGO. %, 1896.