, 1888-11-29
TERRITORIAL.

tine city that Is to 53aa lilL-0 .H-
land ought 10 En called }ga.s.
DuriuE tho RAINY season Lasrc is
much les ram at IyIt IuWu-eaG /.
than at any other place ON tGa Sound /
The rainy season began. uoyly q
month earlier q Iar0uI and Seattle T.
than ut this place And during the /
winter much more uu,~doav work Cuu
be done here than at either ui the /
other places named. The Ma-IiuE~ /
ton street contractor bears witness to /
this.
Noel Jacks. Territorial secretary |
for the Y. N. & \. WAS At Walla |
Walla few days ago. The Union |
says; Mir. Jacks i Il man about 30 /
years of age. and IS q pleasing speak |
er. His remarks We're principally
upon the objects and work of the as
soeiation- He explained the work
ings of the association in other cities,
and advocated the establishment of
Y. NJ {. \. rooms here. with gymna
sium, bath rooms, parlors. reading
rooms, etc.
Bowen Brothers and Jameson,
who own the lime works on Orcas
island, in East Sound, are building
about fifty coke ovens at Wilkeson,
which will not be completed for sev-
eral weeks. They have already
received orders for a quarter of 4
million tons of coke. Yesterday an
order was received for 1.5OO tons
from Col. Glid1en, the owner Of the
Tiger" gold mine at Cuur dAlene,
and another for $50 tons daily from
parties in Montana. Tacoma Ne1rs
Washington Territory now ranks
sixteenth among the coal producing
states and territories, and yet her
coal has barely been touched. At
Cleelum alone vast quantities of coal
exist, and within two miles of the
town vast mountains of iron of the
finest quality have been exposed.
The territory has moe of both coal
..Ia iron than Pennsylvania has
within the same area, and she has
vastly more territory than the Key
stone state All that is needed in
either Oregon or Washington to pro-
duce coal and iron enough for the
world is capital, enterprise and oper-
alton to place these staple minerals
on the market.
Whatcom lake, situated three
miles east of the town of Whatcom,
is II to 2 miles wide. and II miles
long, and in places is 400 feet deep.
1t is situated at an altitude of 300
feet above Puget Sound. From it
flows a large creek which empties
into Bellingham Bay at Whatcom.
This lake will evidently afford an
abundant supply of pure water for
the town of Whatcom. When the
rainy season commences in October
myriads of red fish rise up from the
bottom of the lake and run up
stream to spawn. They are never
seen at any other time. They very
lakes of Idaho, which natural histo-
ry puts down as distinct variety of
fish. One of their peculiarities is
that they never bite at bait set on a
hook. They are very delicious,-Er-
dmiGer.
A Press reporters attention was
called this morning to multitude of
Hull SIO Otl1C6 vi
Chas. Reed, and vending his foot
steps in that direction he found that
fifty men were to be sent to Fidelgo,
to commence track>laying on the
railroad between Fidelgo and Ana
cortes. This road is being built by
the Oregon Improvement Company
The work of surveying and clearing
the right-of-way is now completed,
and the track-laying will be pushed
with great vigor until it is completed.
This road is hailed with joy by the
settlers along the line and in the VIZ
cinity. The road penetrates a vast
farming tract, (which, owing to this
improvement, will enable the farmers
to get their products to the Sound
and on their way to the best market
on the Coast. Mr. Reed expects
still larger orders from these quar-
ters. The road will probably be
completed in the course of a few
months.-Seattle Press.
It is evident that the editor of the
Washington Farmer is trying to get
up boom for Ship Hartor. He
says: There are just two points in
discussing the availability of the
several places on Puget Sound for
the international ruling metropolis,
which no one can gainsBy It is 200
miles less from the wheat fields of
Eastern Washington and Western
Idaho, via Skagit Pass, to Fidalgo
island and the Liverpool vessel, than
by the present line of the N F. r. r.
to Tacoma; and it costs 500 more to
load wheat ship at Tacoma than at
Fidalgo, for the reason that there
must be figured towage, wages of
crew, interest on money invested in
cargo going and coming, insurance
of vessel and cargoes, loss of time,
etc. The additional cost for a vessel
to go to Tacoma, and the fact that
the Tacoma route is 200 miles long
er than the Skagit route, make an
unanswerable argument in favor of
Ship Harbor on Fidalgo island, and
demonstrates to any candid mind
that if one trunk line of railway goes
to Fidalgo, all trunk lines must 90
to Fidalgo, for the simple reason
that none of them can make a sue
cessful terminus where the cost to
load a cargo of wheat will amount to
$1,000 more than if loaded at Fidal-
60
Dan Harris, at Fairhaven, is get
ting ready to unload his property
there. by reporting that Nelson Ben
nett has offered him $4,000 for GER
tain water front property, with
view to making Farhaven the ter
mines of his coal road This isan-
other example of the old adage:
Drowning men catch at straws."
Nelson Bennett's coal mines are in
section 10, township 80 north range
east of the willamette meridian.
This meridian cuts through the har>
Dor at Port Townsend and a little
west Of Shiz In.L..-- y