Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-02-14

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| The following 10 from the great
New Years issue Of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle:
The progress. made BY Washington
Territory during the past year, while
not 20 be compared in ratio with the
phenomenal advance made during
the preceding three years, has yer
been such as TO justify every conf
9ence 10 its future and warrant the
Investment Of the millions of eastern
money that have been paid 10 aid in
the Development of Its extensive
resources In other words, the days
of boom" for the Territory are
past-at least for the present-apd
business Is now done on q business
basis, without regard to inflated
values or The seductive alluremeuts
OF the professional real estate boomer
II says not little for the Ten tory
that II has come so well cut OF the
term of feverish excitement which all
new countries seen destined 10 pass
through, aud that to-day. in every
part of il, there are the best kind Of
indications Of solid and permanent
prosperity, giving promise OF great
fHtnre in store for it when it shall
have attained 10 the dignity of state
hood, q time which-Democratic op-
position notwithstanding - cannot
now be long deferred. Il is conf-
IDENTITY expected that at the present
session OF Congress Washington will,
along With Dakota, command the
recognition 10 which her population
and progress justly entitle her. and
that her opponents will be shamed
out OF their opposition, based as it is
simply on partisanship and the fear
| of the introduction into the House of
Representatives Of additional Repub
lican members.
The resources Of the Territory can
hardly be said 10 be more than pros
pected as yet. The immense agri-
cultural resources of Eastern Wash
ingiou and the apparently inexhsust-
ible mineral wealth of the country
west Of the Cascades have been mere.
ly sampled. so far, by the settlers.
BY and by, it is confidently predict
ed, al least half the solid wealth of
the coast will be found within the
limits of this. the youngest of the
Territories in the Union. Dnring the
past year much has been done to show
what can still further be effected 10
the future towards convincing the
world OK this fact, The special in
dustries that have made the greatest
strides are numbering aud mining.
These are, of course, carried on
chiefly. il not entirely. on the west
ern, or Puget Sound side of the Cas-
cade range. The magnificent forests
which clothe the surface Of the whole
country from the submits of the
foothills " the very oceans rim"
are capable of supplying timber suffi.
Gent for the wants of the wsrld for
many years 10 come, even if the sup
ply from other countries were to fail
entirely. The coal measures found
in almost every part Of the country,
though only Ignite and not, of
course, comparable to the Pennsyl.
vania product, is yet of q most ser
viceable quality and commands a
ready market, both for domestic use
and for export. The principal min.
ing districts are in the vicinity of
Seattle lthe leading city of the Ter
ritory) and Tacoma, the present ter
minus of the Northern Pacific road.
The output from the mines 10 those
localities will be realized to be of
very considerable proportions when
1t is stated that fol the year Just closed
over l20 cargoes were shipped by sea
from the two ports named for foreign
points.
| Considerable is done in salmon
canning. though, of course, nothing
10 compare with what is done in that
line on the Columbia and Fraser
rivers.
On the western side of the Cas-
cedes the facilities for agriculture are
comparatively limited, the only soil
which is at once easily cleared and
remuneratively productive being the
bottom lands along the rivers in the
Chehalis valley, and near the boun-
dairy line on the north, in Whatcom
and Skagit counties. The White and
Green rivsr valleys, near Seattle. con
tain many fertile farms which produce
the finest hops in the world, and the
same 10 true Of the Puyallup valley, in
Pierce ooanty. The product Of wheat
and other cereals 10 not q great deal
more than what 10 required for home
consumption, owing CHIEFLY to she fact
that the phenomenal rise 10 the price of
hops IN 1882 caused all the farmers 10
90 IN for raising that crop-a step which
the recent depression 10 prices has
made them deeply regret. consider
able quantity of last years hops was
iefs unp,cked In Consequence Of the
weak demand and low Prices.
The bulk OF the wheat produced BY
the Territory grows east OF the mouH-
sains." ss the oountry lying on the other
side OF the Cascade range from Puget
Soond ID generally called. There she
facilities are practically Unlimited, the
soil being deep, loamy and rioh, and the
supply OF water ample to meet all de-
nands. Owing. however, to the inter
vention OF the MONTANA, the wheat
crop produced IN that part of the Terri
tory has 70 ss shippsd via The Daliss,
and the record OF its amount and value
falls 70 be credited 10 Oregon, instead
OF Washington Territory.
The complssion OF the Cascade di.
VISION OF toe Northern PAsific Railroad,
which 10 nov regarded ~ likely TO be-
come an accomplished fact, will do
much 10 oonsc lidats the interests of the
tvo divisions into which the Territory
10 nov divided BY the vertebral col
unn' Of the mountains. and IL the por-
ton OF Idaho lying north OF the Salmon
river be added shen the Territory be-
comes State. the resols will b that q