The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-05-24

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poud q i1seA guarantees - surres
ef tl6e raad for : eeneFzx;on 10 come
And fhere i everything fayursh1e /,
tse position Al the timber Win resey
snce . tie trzrk, especially II Is,
track In ascending she na0unfsin. e,
oe kept near tie Tfve-. IL Is % y
hoped dat TIE thinker asonx the rieh.
1t way wM be saved for saving. q
would be NO small item IN paying FOL
the rod
There oil promptly spring up alons
| the whole line logging camps and saw
Nails Besides those alre4kfy Ia or<rs
/ ton beard Of some large new enter
pEiscs projected The demand fa,
fumber il 10 snsatiaize. and the profit.
OF the business 30 good. that an ex
tcnsiye fresh se.d Ike this VII be en-
tered with ssid;ty by an army Of lum
b<rmen-
ruK COAL fyrLpe-
The road rasses Eve If not six sepa-
rate coal fieids between Seattle and The
Columbia river So far as il arpesrs
1t present the Seattle railway viii have
monopoly o< AL OF these helsls ex-
cept the Yakima cor Rcsiyn.b which il
vii, share With the Northern Pacific.
The report deals with the varied useS
to which the coal vii be put and the
enterprises il vii keep and Prod. Ruff
nef believes that the Gilman coal can
Always Be mined at . profit
Inox ozTs.
The question here respecting iron
ores along this road is not as 10 their
quantity or quality, or Is 70 their utiii-
ration. but only rs To Whist road or
roads win handle the business that viii
arise from this source Naturally. the
bsslk Of il belongs to the Seattle, Lake
Shore & Eastern railway The Seattle
road Is, and viii continue to be, master
of the situation The location Is de-
cisiye. and all the iron ore on the west
side Of the mountains i owned BY men
whose interests are identified with Sc
attic, and with this line OF railroad.
The best point for manufacture in it.
self considered. the best chance for
fuel. the hest line for transportation,
the best point Tor trading and for ship
ment, are all on the line of the Seattle
railway. Good furnace sites may be
found at many points. but Salal Prai-
RE Is spot which seems to have been
set apart by nature as manufactur-
ing town. II lies near the intersection
OF the valleys of the Middle Fork and
South Fork branches OF the Snoqual-
mie river. il about six miles long and
three miles wide, is fiat, dry, saiubri-
Gus, and well supplied with water. II
has natural outlet 70 the south. rs
well n TO the east and west, Is conve-
nienf to the iron ore of both the Mid
die and South Fork. and not far dist
ant from the ores of the Cie-ellum. Ii
Is less than ten miles from Sno9ualmie
cooking coal and fifteen miles from the
Green River Goals. And. what think
Is still better resources for fuel, it Is in
the midst Of the great Snoqualmie
forests, where saw-milis will soon be
telling the timber, and providing an
endiesssupply Of slabs and refuse tree
tops, from which charcoal could be
manufactured at very small expense.
Ii Is well known that charcoal Is the
best Of all fuels for making iron, be-
cause OF its freedom from damaging
impurities. Its expensiveness gcner-
ally prevents its being much used now,
but here the cost need not exceed five
cents per bushel, and 100 bushels to Id
bushels would suffice for ton of iron.
The only question concerning the
charcoal made from fir timber is as to
its ability to bear the burden in q tall
stack. 1t Is becoming common now
to unilize by products of wood, formed
during its conversion into charcoal by
a process which makes the charcoal
stronger. But all difficulty on this
h. u nc
the size of the furnace stack to the
strength Of the charcoal. This is the
only fuel which has ever been used on
the Pacific coast for the smelling Of
iron ores.
The demand for steel rails in the
Rocky Mountain country and in the
Pacific States is, and will be, large and
perinahent, whilst the demand in
China and other foreign countries will
increase. And so will il
be with machinery and tools OF all
mining and manu-
featuring. This demand will be both
domestic and foreign. and constantly
eniarging. And il may be safely as
serted that no railroad exists, or can
be built anywhere in the Pacific States,
which will compare with the Seattle,
Lake Shore and Eastern Railway in
its control of the iron business.
The report deals with the resources
II limestone, sandstone, granite and
the precious mineral districts of Okan-
agan and Coiville as well as the won
Iierfuily productive wheat and general
agricultural lands OF the Big Bend and
Columbia Basin.