, 1888-06-28

No effort has ever been made to
boom Port Townsend. While Seat
tie, Tacoma and other cities have
send out thousands Of dollars
worth of advertising matter broad
east over the country, the port-of-en-
try has never expended a dime in
this direction. Yet, within two
years, it has doubled in population,
grown from a conservative little town
or about 1.50O to a prosperous city of
nearly 1000 people. What lesson
does this teach? 1t means that the
natural and inherent advantages of
our charming city have asserted
themselves, broke through the crust
Of oblivion under the onerous load
OF lack of enterprise, and attracted
to our midst a good share of the peo
pie and capital who are hieing them
to the sun-kissed shores of Puget
Sound.
Moreover, "a change has come over
the spirit of her dream" Her citi
gems are up in arms and resolved to
make the Key City what Nature de-
creed her to be-a great commercial
and manufacturing city. A syndi-
cate Of gentlemen got together a few
months ago, put up $1,000 each, and
sent surveyors out to examine the
feasibility of n railroad connecting
Quimper peninsula with the Colum-
bia river. The most favoroble re-
port was received to. wit: That the
highest grade such road would have
TO encounter would be SO feet. The
Port Townsend Southern Railroad
was then organized, and the work be-
gun OF getting subsidy and right of
way from the citizens. To-day this
subsidy is the largest ever offered,
1885 acres, speaking volumes for the
generous spirit of the people. and ex
hiblting the enterprise perspicuity
that is bound to win in the race for
greatness.
Meetings are held weekly to fur
ther the interest of the road, and
work is sure to be begun on it within
6 very few months, perchance weeks.
Handsome business blocks are be-
ing erected, hundreds of private resi-
dences are going up, several large
manufacturing ente, prises have re-
Gently started up, and the ring of the
hammer and sounds of industry are
heard on every side, the peans OF
peace and plenty that are sweeter
than the songs of triumph in war,
and tell of the teeming thousands
who will wend their way to the Key
City, and build another Frisco at the
gateway of Puget Sound
Why You sHoJrID co1rr To popr 1ro1vny-
SEND.
Because by virtue of its beautiful
and commanding situation on Quinn
per peninsula, at the Gateway of Pu.
get Sound. it must be the future
great city of the New Northwest.
Because the construction of the
Port Townsend Southern Railroad,
now assured, making this city the
terminus of transcontinental line,
is the only thing necessary to insure
that greatness beyond all peradven-
ture.
Because it has the finest harbor in
the world, and more shipping enters
and clears at this port than at any
other city in the country, with the
exception of New York.
Because it offers unrivalled facili
ties for Manufacturing Enterprises,
and the Port Townsend Business Ex-
change will yield to no city in the
country in procuring the most liberal
subsidies to the inaugurators of la
Dor employing institutions of any
character. On the completion of the
T. I. S. r. r. shipping facilities will
be unrivalled by land as they are
now by water.
Because rich copper mines have
recently been discovered adjacent to
the city, and strong companies are
now being formed to operate them
Because the evidences of an album
dance of coal equally near are con-
elusive.
Because our climate is the most
sslubriOus Of any city in the sun
kissed Sound basin.
Because Port Townsend's iunu-
merable advantages are becoming
known abroad, and hundreds q
strangers are pouring in and making
fortunes in real estate, and you car
do likewise.
Correspondence solicited from all
Address all communications to the
PORT TOWNSEND Bus. EXCHANGE,
Port Townsend. W ~