Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-05-13

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tEen milss betueea sheFs an4 the hop
ranch was pasBed over % heEssbacks
lhe total disea1ee beinE mlaas ~ SD
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writer, tat VII become popular PSI
aeneer lins. 1s the toarisf. e. even or
home peoFieS the noa1e posscsass many
varied features thai would BE- of inter-
es& The two lakes and the gEeat bodies
q fins and alm0st unfoaened timber
Wo1id present Macy things % aitrac9
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~ f0Mnd many en1eFpEiai1g and ploH
pczouB people. I wag TIERS last fAlis
ard, thuuQ1 I have aiucs been over
neaFiy I'll fhs seand country, ! have
found hut fen better bodies q land. II
every oommunily bad q fsw sroh men Sc
/ both tinnas found George 1ibhesls 70
BE-, they uoale ksep shines moving and
/ Greatly contFibute toward making better
times and q bsttar ooantry.
Disk Seh. she president and manager
Of the Hnoqunlrnie Hop Growers AssD
citation. made my eoi0urn there rl09t
agroeable, and fEom him Iobtainea fhess
faste ab0aa The pIaoe:
1he association was foxIned In 1859.
when aboat aaven hundred aeFas of land
were bouaht from Jerry B0kst and 9TH
ers. and the next apKing TIVE hundred
asrea we're planted In hops. Ihe aore-
age has been gradually increased until
this asaaon they are eultivatlna 80 acres.
making il the largest coneern Of the
kind II the Gated states. Their design
il 70 finally have hop field Of 500 acres,
which w0ald probably be the most e.
lonsive IN the world. Ihey have laKka
store, & coed sized hotel, barn large
enough for forty horses. and thirtsen
bop kilnB - feet square. Thar last
years czop amounted 70 100 bales Of
ALBERT 90 pounds eaeh. and was sold at
an average Of * eents . pound. The
year before theg pat up so bales and
realized II ceuts.
/ foand rs white men at work oulti-
vatine the hops and 81 Indians engaged
tying tbs y0nna vines 90 the p0lea-
When the pickinQ season arrives they
viii need about % white men and some
thing like q theasand Indians viii Be
there gathering hops and having merry
time esnoraliy. Thew Raisa ali their own
/ feed and garden stna, and viii this year
/ Gus $50 tons Of hay Tue ranch ID GA
the direct and only route across the
mountains via the anOqaaimie Pass.
On what IL kaown a. knoqualnaie
i Prairie around tbs hop ranch are quite
q number OF settlers, who are heWinQ
cut good homes from the timbeFed land
round about. TIE Snoqualmie river
flows Ia pure, cold and rapid current
down shronQh 3 valley all she way to
where Il emptiss into the enohomiah,
miles below. Tue coil IL fully as fertile
as along the other rivers that come down
from the Cascade range, and has she
advantage Of mos being 20 subiect to
overflow. As nearly everywhere else on
the Sound, the forests are generally 30
thick and 30 all-peFvadin9 as 70 make
Il no easy matter 70 clear farm.
Six miles down the river Is Falls City,
near which there has been more or less
settlement for many years. aud 10 time
70 come Il Eay be q point Of some i'm
portanoe, though its present growth is
very feeble. The Methoaiets have re-
Gently finished q church near there, and
there Is 4 good sawmill On the river q
few miles below.
TFamping on dewn toward shs post
| village Of Tolt, az the mouth Of Tolt
river, tafried and gHxed with admira-
tion upon Snoqualmie Falls. just think
Of agood-sizsa river plunginQ In single
mass over q preeipioe Of 275 feet, the
winds vhiElinR the spray In all direc-
tiong and she sun forming Fninb0ws
with q thousand tinta. have seen no.
thing superior 20 Il except Niagara Falls
and Yosemite Valley.
AZ / continued on down the river
found tne forest openings 10 be more
frequent, mitch Of the timber having
been taken OF by loRgers, some Of whom
have bean delying away for q dozen
years. and still there is LETT enoaQh tim
beF 20 keep them employed for another
generation.
On down che river there are within
King county two other postofi8ees, Nov
city and Cherry Valley, and both sides
Of the river are more or less thickly
settled all the way down. Their great
Get inconvenienoa ia the want OF an
eRress 70 market. Il does not yet pay
steamboats, 70 make regular trips up that
far, AID they have not yet any wagon
roads 90 their desired trading psint, Sc
attic, nef 10 any ether market. Much
Of their provisions Is bought ct SnehO.
mish City and taken up the river In o.
noee. There ss q fair horse trail from
Toit and q foat trail from Novelty 70
she road that leads FROM MaRedmond's
10 Houehton. They have both been
surveyed 81 county roads, and viii Be
opened for wagons as fast as the County
| COMMISSIONS furnish the means. The
Tolt and Novelty country IL only about
tveaty miles from Seattle, and nearly
ell their trade viii come here as sooR
- they can Get over the roads with their
teamA w. A. WASH.
SEATTLE IEIUsrnArKD.-Ten for q dol.