Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-05-06
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Letter .. Kassas City Ttmes By A. X.
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Litter 8. Kassas City Times By A. X.
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Oar train arrived at Tacoma in WASH.
iuRton Territory, about p. NJ, giving
us scarcely half an hour IN which 70
transfer our persons aud baggage 10 a
little stern wheel steamer at the wharf.
The boat was so small and old and
dinay that / wanted to get back 20 the
cars and 90 on to Seattle on terra fifrns.
Bat my companion iaugced away nv
fears. Besides, l vas rRvenously hun
cry aud oar only chance for Supper that
night vas on board the steamer.
Pfomotly the hawsers we're drawn in
and We we're steaminQ giong over the
deep waters Of Puget sound.
EntertBg Seattle baRbos We encouut-
cred the depsoss fos ever say. WHAT.
Vith toe blowing Of fog horns, the ring
inc OF btiis on anchored ships scattered
around us. a hair breadth escape from
collision With one Of them and an In
nate feeling of insecurity II cur own
antiqusted vessai, you may possibly i'm
agins the exclamation OF relief uttered
when the boats bridge struck she wharf
asd we s,eppsd lahore.
Here VAS seattle, the buAiaot, rough
est ard most enterpFisine city Of ihe
great northwest. Moss grows ever
green upon tbe house tops OF Seattle, so
great Is the humidity. Bns notvith
standing the excessive prevalence of
moisture there are no moss backs
among the denix:ns Of this progressive
city. LIS streets are full of push, &C.
tivity end rustic. The hum of the
great lumber mills. watch cover acres of
It's water frontage, she rushing sound OF
cosi from the coal docks leading great
ocean vessels az their slips and the puff
ing OF engines 10 every direction are
constantly IN ONES ear.
Seattle is a second Kansas City. Its
lumber. lite coal, its varied mineral re-
sources ase iuexhanstibIs. /. has nov
one railway connection With the soath
and east. In very shoEt time it will
have two more transc5ntiaental con-
necitoEs. The great agricultural couu-
try OF eastern Washington Territory
viii then b come tributary to Seattle
a country which In q few years will
raise more wheat than California.
Upsn the shores Of Paget Sound will
grow great city and Seattle With its
innumersble resources. its coming rail-
way facilities AID she ildomi.ahie
pluos and push II it's people. is destined
10 b that CIV.
Mr.. w. H Llewellyn, formerly CT
isaavsiis. sow al active real estate
over and aeert of Seattle. proved the
moss liberal host into whose haDds l
bad ever fallen. He has tramped il
over a great deal OF the Territory and
can point out every lair of the grizzly Ia
.he mnuDtaiu fsstneFses and take the
snxfons spoftsr5aa among toe deer re-
cessa. IN tbs forests or TO streams where
the ganey trout spripg 10 the d. With
thrilling zsal.
Game of oil kinds sCd q ID os many
varieties abound in the vicinity CT Sc
attic. The whole country vest Of tse
Cascade uDouGtaius ~ covered With for
IS, trees OF larase dimaGsicrs AZ re
suit, the ia1bsr interest IS and mast
ever DO c prominent feature OF corl-
msrce. The most extensive coal a. ids
on the Pacific cosst, together " th vas,
iron beds and other minerals. are n few
miles esst Of the city in she mountains.
These mines are only 10 tteir infancy,
bot are sirssay being pyofitably and ex-
tersively worked. Ise liaes OF lo.ai
railFoada have been built from Seattle
TO the coal and iroa nines.
Jhs rich soil and tie climate be are
admirably adopted 10 the produ-tion of
hopa. Ia the cleared valleys this Is tie
leading pzoige.iau. The ccs. o! clear
ing es sose Oh sso1nd OF trees aud
bushes appraximstes 800. And be-
siaes the coas rsust he takeo into coz.
sidsratioa considerable loss cs time.
1he first cost OF the Wild land il bat
,SiGsas. Auns Of this lsDd hiss bsen
oyeEed %, sud many farming eotnmu-
niiss. ~iin smell local settlement
scattered here aud there, hsve taken
tbs pisee Of deep. psimevsi. almost I'm
pcresrshse forests. Tee prol,s OF hop
ralasne setnstin1ts are enormous, reach
Tea over ii COG per scss shave all exlerss
ses. Bet sach results are roe. lie
svsraee zee results. however, are sur
prisaa'y large, aud a tea-scrs hog
farm - better than ten acre sral. or
. svsntv-asye grape trsol in California
or so asFS gram farm east Of tae /
Rockies. SO she iEsFes tell ace. ! ssn
boa spsak from practical kaoyladge
So rSsoy seductive estimates Of TIE
preaits Of frEit raising ani farming OF
tha .s~iae Coast have been desronsfras
"a y % ne. oCgeytr, that | aIu slEos.
inclined to desht say Of then. ibc-
gin o. take them ali a. ysu Gid nv
s1ark s.oIy, "Cusa grass sslss.r
sss hog gathering Il dore mostly ~ |
Indian .AhoseFs. These Iu5ians CONE /
frosu tie shores ~ rage; soand, freua
Rs.tssA tois2tis and along 90 ste
PasiEe Coast alGosf as ss- a. Alassa.
A.tSs tte efc2s are gathered thew n
tara In their fsaIl szacsz srs spend the |
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