Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-09-22
PUGET SCUM ID.
fhe Terminus Of the Great North
ern "aeIfie Railroad visited by
Gen. Thomas q. Haley

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Thomas f.. Haley returned home last
Saturday from Puget Sound. After
attending the Grand Lodge of A. o. U.
W., at Cheyenne, he went to Denver,
and from there over TO Tacoma and
other places on the Sound. He
speaks in glowing terms of that
country. He spent a few days at
Victoria, d. c., and says that sub
stantial buildings are going up
rapidly in that place and lots Of
other improvements are being made,
but there is not the rattle and hum
ming Of busy life and activity that
prevails on the American side. The
coal and iron mines and lumber in
~terests in Washington Territory are
immense, which, taken together with
the interests Of the Northern Pacific
railroad, are building up the country
rapidly, permanent Improvements
taking place in every direction. Some
% years ago this scribe, attracted by
the natural advantages then much
talked OF, took a trip to Puget Sound,
and although there was everything
ut that time to impress the visitor
with the belief that it would eventu-
ally become a live country where to
settle down and await the infowing
tide OF an energetic population, would
undoubtedly by slow accumulation
surround him with lands and other
interests that, in course Of time, would
make him rich, it was too slow for one
who had become attached to the at
fractions OF a life in the California of
those days. But the time has arrived
when the promises of the past are be-
ing realized, and the sparse popula-
ton OF those days has been added to
until from mere villages large towns
have sprung. Port Townsend has in
creased from 300 to 5000 inhabitants.
Seattle from about 1900 to $4,000, and
Tacoma, then a mere village with a
handful OF people, has become the
terminus of a great trans-continental
railroad with a rapidly growing popu-
lation, at present numbering 10000
souls. The railroad machine shops
and offices are located there; it is
practically the head OF navigation on
the Sound and it possesses immense
advantages, big hotels, gas and
electric lights, street cars and cable
railroads are among the modern inn
provements, and the town is evidently
destined TO become a very large city
and a formidable rival Of San Fran
cisco. Seattle is also supplied with
gas and electric lights and has horse
ears and cable roads. Hundreds Of
people are going in daily, hotels are
crowded and real estate transactions
and business in all branches are very
lively all over the Sound, and any
man going there with a few thousand
dollars can double his money in two
years.
L. W. Davis, OF this place, was at
Tacoma last Spring visiting his
brother John, who has charge of the
$. p. X. X. Cos. coal mines and
other large business interests with 800
men under him. During that time
the brothers, taking George Mullins,
Of this place, into the transaction,
purchased 100 acres of land on the out
skirts Of Tacoma at 5000 per acre.
The ground adjoining it has since
been taken in as an addition to the
town and lately was sold for $500 per
acre. The 160 acres is now worth
5000, and is held for 5000 per acre.
Laborers and mechanics are in
demand on Puget Sound. The wages
paid are the former at 81 to 81 80
per day. Carpenters are paid So 80,
and bricklayers and stonemasons 81
per day of nine hours work.
General Haley met a few Nevada
people there. Major Curtis, for
merly OF Austin, is at Port Townsend,
in charge Of a 50-ton furnace, smelling
iron from an iron quarry, the
material yielding GA per cent OF the
metal, which sells at 81 per ton
higher than any other in the market.
Joe Kelley, formerly OF Phoebe, is at
Seattle, looking for a place to embark
in business. Pete Knight is with
Jack Moore in the interior at Hell
lensburg, a town Of 10000 inhabitants.
Gen. Haley did not meet them, but
he thinks they are safe for a large
fortune il they remain there.
Spokane Falls has about $4,000 peo-
Pile and is a rapidly growing farming
and manufacturing town. There are
several good mines, and on the west
slopeof the range lies n of the best
and most extensive farming and stock
raising counties in the world, all of
which are natural feeders Of the
Northern Pacific terminus and other
towns on the Sound, hence the pros
perity OF that great country must con-
tinue and be permanent.