Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-01-01

cVSso01 ooitoS0ou oisaklct ol 0RSt
So7nd- Third, the beaatifnl bay on
vaieh il ID located has lesgth Of six
miles and AZ average width Of three
miles, free from rocks, bar OF shnal.
With an shoraQe neither too deep nor too
soallov, and room for the entire navy
and merchant m Nrine Of the Caited
states 10 ride In safety at one time.
Fourth, it 10 q natural center of trade
and travel. having mail roatss and lines
Of travel radiatin2 10 all directions- Is
10 nearly opposite Victoria, the seat Of
the provincial government for British
Columbia, and 10 connected Herewith
BY daily mail. and IL also the south
err terminus for the proposed mail ser
vice to Alaska IL has q semi-veekly
n all to all postofhoes II Clallan county
and along the Straits Of Puos. 8 dis
tancs Of 30 miles westward semi
weekly and proposed daily mail NORTH
, ward 100 miles TO SemiahmOo, Eear tn.
British Columbia boundary line, and
! intermediate points IN Whatcom and
San Juan counties q tn weekly mail
/ to Island county; daily mail to all
! southern ports on the sound. and daily
mails 10 local paints within the county,
all carried BY steamer; besides, it Is
the first port on Plget Sound reached
| BY ocean steamers, every eight days,
| from San Francisco.
Port townsend has population OF
/ 200O. and is one of lie hsalthiest, pref
tlest and most pre-; porous towns in the
| Territory.
| Its growth il alrsady characterized By
/ magnificent brick and stone buildings,
\ iadi stIHg a solIdity aud stability sci
/ dom noticed among the young and
/ growing towns of the West. Tue nsg
/ Government Custom House to be crested
| here, th= United States VI ,riue Hospi-
! tai, slre adv b1iit, the military station at
I Fora Iownssad. three miles distant,
near tbs head of the BAY, the steam
Z savniI ia ths eiee Of tbs town. sash
and door factory, foundry, machine
/ shops. brewery, cigar factory, ami the
N sgnihcent smelling works and nam
| moth savmih on the southern shore OF
! the bay, all bespeak a city here in the
/ near fu 1re, tesmiEI With a hardy, in
dastrIous people, and euzzing with
I Notwithstanding industries.
/ 1t il the SCAT of District Court. hsv-
| ing both United States and Territorial
| jurisdiction, to which four adi0iuins
COUNTIES are attached FOX Judicial par
| poses.
L
transacted here through the custsas
collection district, amounting in duties
TO upward Of 10000 annually, brings
an extensive coal trade With shipping.
The largest ocean trade with foreign
countries neoessitates the presence here
Of British, French, Gillian and other
oonsuls.
| Port Townsend's fns public school.
her opera house, her four churches, all
indicate intellectual culture and literary
privileges. while her Firss National
Bank, organized two years ago With
$5O, 900 capital, subssq GENTLY increased
TO $75, 600, in its large and substantial
stone building, indicates healthy and
solid business basis. Ssne Of its fire
proof buildings, erected this year, will
compare favorably with those for simi-
lar purposes in San Francisco. The
Board Of Trade at Port Townsend re-
ports a. fellows:
showing Importance as the port of
| entry for the Puget Sound Customs
District, We may say that during the
last fiscal year greater number of
American steam vessels engaged in the
foreign trade entered and cleared at
this port than at any port in the United
States, and their tonnage was only ex-
ceeded by the tonnage Of the same class
of vessels that entered and cleared at
the port Of New York.
The number entered was ESQ, with a
tonnage Of 264 .655 tons, against 239 at
| New York, with a tonnage of 35l, 1913
les At San Francisco, with tonnage of
236, 769 At Charlestown aud Boston,
with a tonnage of l0o, Ala, and l23 at
New Orleans. with tonnage of but
1876. The number cleared WAS 573,
vito an aggregate tonnage of 293, I5l,
against 227 at New York, With a ton
mage of S3S. SIS 165 at San Francisco,
with tonnage Of 81 ,935; at Boston
and Chsrlestown, with tonnage of
l05,007, aad only % at New Orleans,
with tonnage Of but 81, 1913.
| "Of American vessels, sailing and
steam, the number was only exceeded
BY New York. and the tonnage by the
two ports of New York and San
Francis 70. The number entered Was
675, with tonnage of 1000
against 1869 at New York, with ton
mage of l,oO6, SIS; ga at Boston and
Charlestown, with tonnage Of 304 1876;
452 at Philadelphia, with o ton
mage ~, 25S; 4l6 At ban Francisco with
q tonnage of 1853; PIG at New Or
leans, with tonnage Of 81 $40; 1877 ~
B ,ltimore, with tonnage Of So 1861, and
| all ether still less in both number and
tonnage. There we're cleared TO Of this
GLASS Of vessels, with tonnage of $780,
69i, against 1882 at New York, with
tonnage Of 93S. 1852 All at San Francis
90, with q tonnage of 450.667; 322 at
Philadelphia, with tonnage OF 1S3, AS;
1856 at Baltimore, With tonnage Of but
81 $50. and all the others Of the l3l ports
| IN the United States still less 10 number
Of tonnage.
when We take into calculation all
| classes Of vessels, steam and sail, Amer,
lean sud foreign. the number that en-
tered and cleared in the foreign trade
daring the last year 10 only exceeded by
seven other ports in the Usited States
New York. Boston and Charlestown,
San Francisco, Phiiadelphis. New o.
leans, Huron and Oswego. and in ton
mage by only nine other ports in the
United States. those Just named and the
ports Of Baltimore and Superior added.
The amount Of commerce hos near
| " doubled for the last two years In
| 1850 the number of vessels entered and
cleared vas 592. with q tonnage OF OS,-
$40 in 1881, 62S, with tonnage of 3iS,
40 in 1889. 766, with tonnage Of 4i7.-
4
s34. 324 in 1854, 1887, With . tonnage Of
6s7, O36.
During the last fiscal year the ton
mage Of American vessels In the foreign
trade, which entered and cleared ct this
port was exceeded BY four Of all the
ports Of entry In the United States, and
the tonnage Of foreign vessels In that
trade was exceeded ct bat six Of the said
, ports. Oaly one port in the United
States exceeds Port Townsend in Amer.
lean ocean steam vessels in foreign
trade, and the tonnage Of foreign ocean
steamers in said trade Is exceeded by
only seven of said ports.n
Jefferson county has tax roll footing
Up in round numbers o million dollars !;
her scrip 10 sold ct par, and her eduoa-
tional advantages are superior, school
being maintained on an average eight
months or more ssch year, even In the
country districts.
A Iroudsles on Port Townsend Bay,
Tia Pugst sound Iron Company have
expended about half million dsllars In
prcpafstion for manufaeturine iron and
have the only smelling works nosia Of
Osveao in Oregon.
At Port Discovery and Port Ladlov