Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-03-19


oniS tas written page OF history - the
Landmark II the past, great and dIyer-
shed are the changes wrazgt,. Physi-
cal lAss ara f1sd and 1naltersols: those
of ind viiu4ls, religions and .ove-u-
msnts feeble and hGcszatinc. Each
sasceeainR ge1sE&ti0E taat plays IT'S
part n tho great drama o. civilized life
II Itself more enlightened aad better
advanced IN science and ar1 than It's
Predecessor The attainment Of this
condition IL tue finished result Of the
progress and experience Of PISS; ages.
Epochs Of darkness. Of idols. Of pods
OF ignorance; eras weak. vaeilIatiny ana
oaFsaroos, gone a. enbleC-s of deeds
that we're dooe IN their time. 10 Rlse
place 20 another ace, tse gre.test the
world has ever known as age of iroa.
Iron makes the rails, the printing
pres, the ploE, the machinery. lhe tools
and the implements Of var of the Ia
tons OF the globe. Its texture Is in tae
telegraph and all the nstaIlursic arts.
II builds and aoceseratss the sossd of
the oceans argosies. II is better than
silver more potent thsu gold. 1t il
king, all over the world. Coal is its
aBettoE. IL and coal collectively are the
inexhaastlble treasure mine for the
mass Of the labor element OF the world.
They ars tue base upon which rests she
commercial sRperstructure of the globe
Iesy ere tbs eeniraiizers Of people and
the principal factors underlying the
greatness, permanence aud power Of
government.
As an example look at England
Britain has an area in square miles of
~ Az; total population Of p. 665, 900.
and density per square mile of 392.
Not quite so large IN landed surface as
the State Of Oregon. England Is the sest
OF the strongest government on the face
Of tue globe. She has the supremacy OF
the ssas; her ships carrying more Fl tue
com meree of the world than those OF
any other nationality. Upon the banks
of tbs river Thames her people have
built London, the largest city, either
ancient or modern, within the limits of
tins terrestrial sphere. West, on the
other side OF their domain, is Liverpool.
toe greatest shipping entfepot on the
face OF the earth. In other localities
sre large manufacturing and CONNER
oisl cities, sach 81 Sheffield, Glasgow
and Manchester. For years, nay, for
people have besn massine and
on the Isle of Britain. Every
year her cities solIdify and expand; Der
people progress; there il more material
And what are the oaases
tbst have produced this prodigy The
answer he: mineral resources, principally
coal and iron England annually mines
and raises over 100000 tons of coal
and manufactures IN the aggregate more
taaH 7,UO0,oOO tons of iron and steel. |
These raw materials she veaves into the
Industries of the world, and froEa tie
results arising from this process have
terminated the greatest achievements
of her inhabitants.
Washington Territory is the Britain
of the Pacific northwest. Il has prAc-
tiosily Inexhsustibls measures of coal
and iron, vast timber possibilities, an
empire OF fertile lands, q climate mild,
healthy and invlRorating. and an ex
pansive ocean highway TO the west.
henever these crude commodities are
developed through the agencies of labor,
genius and capital. then there will pull
lulats a great metropolitan city; and
Pacific slope.
sanh a place will be neither in Cali
forEia Lor Oregon, both of which at
present far outrank Washington IN com
merse aud material development. 10
pioneer days the gold of the arRonauts
caused 10 grow among the sand dunes,
across the waters of the Golden Gate, 4
mushroom town; "a time advanced the
agricultural wealth of California gave
life and permRnenoe to this embryoS
and later still the overland railroads,
built and equipped by a Republican
Congress aud endowed wish lavish u. |
b. land gIaut) have made the present
mature city Of san Francisco. II is an
incorporated town of more than $4,000 |
inhabitants; has the only really availa- |
BILE harbsra9e south of Pu0et Sound and |
u 9TH of Quay mas, Mexico and is the |
center of tHe wealth and enterprise Of |
the Pacific coast Yet San Francisco, |
while p.e-eminently FIRST IN agricultural
possibilities, is absolutely wanting in tie |
great essentials of modern progression,
coal ami iron. Being barren OF these |
minerals, that city cannot manufacture;
henos II will never lnaugurate, control
and direct the galieOn fleet Of the Pacific
and the inland arteries which meet IL at
the oceans tide-gAte With correlatIve
exchange.
All along she western coast line of the
United states (excepting the Goid-n
Gate and Admiralty Inlet long reaches
of dangerous sea beach prevail. OBJ
structed by sunken rocks, shoals and
barriers OF changing sands. Upon this
unprotected outline comk the breakers
and blow the winds from OF the stormy
Pacific With terrible impetaosity and
infurIated violence. A vessel once
stranded on this shore IL q wreck. OF
the few coast shelters that do exist. all
are absolutely wanting In the many re-
quisenents necessary for an economical.
brisk aud complex shipping industry.
THIS scarcity Of an available harborage
must result IN consolidating al the most
accessible point the bulk of the ship
ping trade of the Pacific coast. EN-
bryo river villages and har-bound beach
hamlets are by these physical barriers
forever side-tracked from entering as
competitors IN race for commercial So
prenaoy.
Oregon Ia O land Of no valuable min
eral possibilities. Ii IL an expanded
empire of fertile ssil, the agricultural
productions Of which will, few years
hence. seek the markets Of the world
through the portals Of q Pases Sound
pors.
Seattle, in Washington Territory, has
ell the advantages for the GENERALIZATION
and massing Of people. and for the safe
and permanent investment and aagre-
CATION OF capital. 10 h within the ra-
dius of the great isOthermal lands whics
eneircie the commerce Of the globe, in
practically the same mean annual tenn
psratare as Paris, Berlin. London, New
York and Chicago. Il 10 endowed With
q climate tempered and nodded by the
latent esloric Of the great Japan current,
making toe atmosphere hsaltkfnl, mild,
iavigorasine and prolific 10 the ripe ma
tarity OF rare organism. IL 10 at the
tidesate OF @ mighty ocean. IN the north-
western coptiues OF q great and enter-
prising independent repaolie of more
than Atty tive million souls; nation Of
free people, OF free schools 10 all. re-
gardless Of ssx. creed or color. Of free
lands. q. O.. all that have not been
granted 70 railroad oorpoFationsl richly
clcshed With unlimited resources. lis
harbeF affords safe and protected an
chosAgs for shippiDg, i commodioas