Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-07-20

salmon product OF the Columbia river
equals $3,OO0OOO annually. In salt
waters, whale, fur seal, cod, the fish OF
commerce, diplomacy and the laborer,
black cod, halibut taken from 200
fathoms depth, some OF them 200
pounds in weight, devil fish, salmon,
sardines, candle fish and seventy other
varieties; clans of twenty kinds, crabs,
Holsters, oysters, at Samish, Oyster
Bay, Olympia, and Shoalwater Bay,
which is the great oyster bed. thou-
sands of acres IN extent, Of the Pacific
coast. Wild geese, ducks, brant, add
to the products of these seas, rivers
and lakes.
All people here after brief residence
agree that the climate is most health
full and delightful. Warm rains pre-
vail in fall and winter, but are not es-
teemed disagreeable. The winter
temperature is recorded ut the Govern
ment Signal Service Office at 424 deg.
average; summer ut 65 deg. In no
other region Of the world exist such
physical conditions, affecting elm ate
and atmosphere, as in the Sound coun-
try. These are unique and perpetual
from, and for all time. The influences
OF the South Sea currents and winds
the displacement and replacement by
tides, which have mean rise and fall
of twelve feet, twice in twenty-four
hours of 400, 600 900 of cubic yards of
water; the cooling, refreshing influence
of winds from the frozen regions of the
north and the snow-clad and ice
covered mountains in our midst; the
aroma from the millions of acres of
pine and cedar forests; the entire alb
sence of dust and vegetable decompo-
sition, all combine to create an atmos-
phere the like of which does not, and
cannot, exist elsewhere. There are no
violent atmospheric commissions, no
thunder and lightning storms, but an
almost uniform state of temperature
in the various seasons, promotive of
personal comfort and healthful condi-
tions. Medical men discover that the
natural temperature of the body is
lower, skin softer, the respiration and
heart action slower here than in re-
gions of extreme heat and cold; that
pulmonary, cardiac rheumatic and di-
gestiye disorders, of functional charac-
ter, find natural solution and cure in
this country. do not know OF ma
larial or malignant epidemic diseases
- existing now or heretofore.
. You refer to advansages. If my
account is true, they must be 80 appar-
ent as not TO require detail and space
admonishes brevity upon points
which might be matters of opinion.
The developments, considering how
short . time has elapsed since the
Territory was acquired; how sparse
and sparing has been the immigra-
ton hitherward, accords fully with
the character OF American enterprise
and progress upon the entire COM
munity west Of the Mississippi. We
have q population of $4,000 people, |
intelligent, industrious and advanced |
churches and congregations OF every
Christian denomination; our common
school system bears character with
the best; o we'll established Univer-
sity, Collegiate Institutes and High
Schools, at Port Townsend, Seattle,
Eteilacoom. Olympia, Montesano and
Vancouver. Hospitals well conducted |
are endowed, an Asylum for the In
sane Of magnificent and costly pro-
portions; eleven National Banks, al
School for Defective Youth, twenty
newspapers. daily and weekly, and all
other paraphernalia Of . prosperous
and vigorous people.
We have . liberal system Of rail-
roads internal, with ramifcations and |
transcontinental soon to be increased |
in numbers. A railroad 10 under con-
struction from Bakers Bay to Gray's
Harbor along the Pacific shore forty
miles.
Manufactures of wood, iron, leather,
sugar and -four have been estab-
lished. We are pre-eminently al
maritime people, ocean and otherwise. |
The ships Of all nations come for
lumber. coal and grain, and we are |
~ located, and have such palpable ad- |
vantages over every other portion of |
the Pacific Coast, that We are in poei- |
ton to compel TO our ports the COM
mere. Of Alaska in cedar, fish and pre-
cious metals, Of the Aleutian Islands in
fine furs, Siberia in the products of
their mines of eilver and gold, of
China in opium, teas, spices, silk and
porcelain, fabrics. whilst their ships
will 60 back laden with lumber, es-
pecially with our meats and wheat,
which many of their denixens having
eaten here will, with all their kind.
soon abandon chop sticks and rice
and SO open to US a new market for
the disposal Of our abundance.
We will possess the commerce of
the East India Islands. Japan and
the Islands of the South Sea, which
no countries ever yet held without be-
coming the commercial masters of
the world. In the same itothermal
belt-the belt OF brain and power
there will be seen, established here
upon Puget Sound large cities, now
in their infancy, which will become
counterparts Of the great commercial
cities of Eastern Asia, of the western
coast of Europe, and of our own At
lantic shore.
Who can look over the history Of
commerce since civilization began
and doubt this Judgment.
| Finally, YOU desire my estimates as