Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-04-05
- NILES 1T RAEK

tne esiumeta ana PuGea soun,
kaIlrsad.
AT : o'elock Saturday morning, a.
instant, an sxeEFsioa train pulled o.
from the Coinubia and Puget soon.
railroad depot, boand for the settle
nsnis along The line Of The rseeril,
built extension Up Cedar and Gree
rivers. The gnssts numbered eighty O
hundred, including Mayor Lsary ana
ex-AAyOrs Collins Yesier. BGoxn-snith
Gatzsrt and Jacobs, ex-MAyor we@S
Joining the party later. On their return
Ihe exeursi0nists also included amons
Their number Mr.. and Mrs. W.R. Brzv
lev. Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Osborn Mrs
Captain kOss- Miss Maad Williams
Aessrz. Edward Wheeler. D. II, GiI.
nan, I. X. Pumphrey. A. T. Hazlev
OeorRe kfnDe2r, &. n. Jsnnef. Arno.
brown, DIR. Z. l.. smith, G.. Davies Hi.
Iary Batter, T. ii. Jefferson. ;. Coulter
@. b. AdAir. J. II. Nc5rav. Geo- II
hlil, 1. Naddell, J. Z Jones, aud others,
ootn ladies and gentlemen The party
we're accompanied by Superintendent
n.
OF whom we're 1niirInQ m their devotion
TO the comfort and pleasure Of the
Raes,s from their going out to their re-
tarn-s
rhe morning fog lifted early. and by
the tune kentOn vas reached had dis
appeared entirely. the sun shining sIo-
rloasiy all the rest Of the day.
10 kenton the csGntry Is in . high
state OF cultivation. The city gradu-
ally loses Itself in the country. the
tracts connected with the houses grad
ually increasing in Area from a lot or
two % blcck, four or i've acres, and
from that 10 farms Of a quarter aud
half section each. The ground IL ex-
tremeiy fertile, producing heavily OF
hay, hops, fruia, garden truck, etc. Just
nov the improved places are most in
wiling TO the eye, the grass wearing its
greenest hue, TIE trees leaving and h1w-
eEiER, the gardens being freshly made.
cattle TAT, houses aud fences in good re-
pair, etc. A ride over this piece Of road
vii dissipsts the too common idaa that
there u no agricultural land near Puget
Sound.
kenton furnishes q real surprise.
There seems 10 be little there 10 sustain
a town, and certainly nothing TO cause
ITS rapid building. And yet no old es
tabllshed tosn in the Territory is grow
ing faster than Reaton. Eight OF ten
houses are building nov or Just finished,
while the town has certainly doabled its
population In the past too years. Il is
apfettily located place, well built, home
iiks, and yery attractive.
From Renton 10 Cedar Mountain the
road passes through more good country.
II v the valley Of the Cedar river. The
farms are fewer and roueher than those
oelov, but nov that the railroad gees
by, they will soon take on Appearances
equal TO those of the earlier settled
places nearer town.
Cedar Mountain, six miles from Rem
ton and nineteen miles from Seattle, is
quickly reached. Here all is new. The
sswmlll u cutting lumber for which
there Is instant call in the b0ilding of
the town. A large store bullding has
been erected, and hotel. Three cot
taRes have also beea put up, and the
ennkers. A Number Of families are liv-
inR IN tents, and must continue there
until houses are built for them. A CON
slant development of the mine IL going
on, until an output Of a hundred tons 4
day has been reached.
Beyond Cedar Mountain the settle
ments are further and further apart and
are generally newer and never. The
soil h good until the road leaves Cedar
river, when IL becomes thinner, and is
like the ordinary timber land TO be seen
in all parts Of the Sound country. A
dozen roliwsys face the track at differ
snt points, from which logs are received.
and brought on fiat ears to the railroad
saxinili Ia this city. Several camps of
JRRers, surveyors and railroad men are
90 be seen along the road. A route is
now being located for the building Of a
road from this extension 10 q point OF
junction with the Cascade division OF
the Northern Pacific. A mile Of road
IL also building to section IL, belonging
to the Black Diamond Company. and
but short distance from the mine of
tue latter company, around waicL the
new town IL building.
Black Diamond l. bran new. Three
months ago ii consisted OF q few tents
and three log houses. Il nov contains
SCORE or mere of tents, the same log
hOasss and half dozen frame build
ings. Paint il yet an unknovn art icle.
The townsise has been plated, and as
rapidly as can be the town will be built,
and. Judging by what has already been
done, will be built and maintained on
good principles. The slope and the
work around il il, perhaps. the best to
be found at any mine on the Pacific
coast, aud another Stops, about like the
hrst, has already been sunk at the SEQ
tion II mine. The bankers bave a ca
pacity for NO tons of coal, and gill be
enlarged. fhe mines will be rapidly
developed, with q view 90 the shipment
from them az an early day Of thousand
tons Of coal dag. or moro. This coal
10 claimed 10 be the best yea opened in
the Territory. and its introduction 70
the market u expected 10 be easy. Fac
ing the town Of Black Diamond Is a
beautiful lake, called Lake Jones, Gov
erinR i've or six hundred acres. The
hotel there IL. for q new town like that.
Q very large building. and 10 exceedingly
well kept.
The railroad has been extended from
Black Diamond - Franklin, shree miles.
rbis piece Of road is the most attractive
on the entire line. u extends along
Green river. which pears ia torrent
handred and fifty feet below, while the
bluE On the other side of the track rises
aimsst perpendieulerly from fifty TO q
hundred feet higher. The Cascade
moantalns furnish fine vIsx along
this piece Of road, while only two OF
three miles avAy. aeruss Green river, is
the neg line Of the Northern Pacific
Company. The OreQon Improvement
is here developing 9 valuable coal prop
eFfy. II h doing but little Of present,
h0t With the completion of the rosd
will be prepared for quicker york In
future. Franklin Il the contemplated
end Of the railroad. iss extension be-
yond being all bnt impossible. owing to
the roaRbness Of the country.
Coal is very abundant In that region
II can be seen from the road croppinR
out in q doEzn or twenty places4 A IRE
thai swept over the land fer many miles
% or % years ago destroyed all the
unber, and = ueS erosth hiss since
arisen.
The excasioaists were handsomely
treated At Black Diamond. B. b. Jones.
the Superintendent, and Thos. Heacock.
Territorial Ains inspector. were very
eoarteouS In fact. the excursion vas
Rot up by them. They provided Hrst-
class mach ~ The hotel for the entire
company, which. ~ also the ride over
the road. vas furnished frse Of cost 10
all pArsakers The occasion Vas the