, 1888-07-05
OUR OUTLYING SETTLEMENTS
QUILCESE. jefferson Co, july l. '88.


"f Port Townsend: Ent somehow it i
not, for the traGc all goes TO Seattle.
and 1t begins - look as time rolls on.
that Our interests aud thrse uf tie latter
place are becoming still more closeiy
connected. Now it looks 10 a man up
tree as though this state Of affairs is all
wrong and should be riEL:ed.
Jefferson County ('he habitable part
of I'll Is not 80 extensive that the busi
pess men OF Port Townsend can afford
to throw away One-third part OF their
territory to q rival town who feeis
friendly toward them simply because
they think she does not amount to any
thing. We have a county within q
circuit Of five miles of the head OF Quit
Gene Bay, capable of supporting au agIi-
cultural population OF one Thousand
souls. Any thing can be grown here in
perfection that Can be raised N any
part of Washington Territory. We have
plenty OF good government lands still
subject to entry, population OF about
forty families OF live, energetic people
(very few of the crab progressive sort)
who e. IN Tor schools, churches aud no
whisky in the community. We have
good schools, q post Office (witG one mail
per week) aud two Stores. " Il want an
increase of mail service. We want our
mails brought by steamboat SO that our
goods car be brought in and our pro
ducts taken out that way, and We are
going tn have it The trade u. this
community Is worth now at low esti-
mate fifteen Thousand dollars per year
aud it will double iu two years.
We have trail Of two pointing tow
ards the County seat, but travelling them
is enough to break mans neck We
want roads. One good road running
the whole length OF the county would he
worth thousands OF dollars yearly to
Jefferson County, for there are thou
sands OF acres OF the best of lands lying
south OF this that soon would have fam
lilies upon them il they could be made
accessible by roads. Oar settle s, as
class, have terror OF sailing and had
much rather ruu their boats on wheeis.
We would like railroad (or a couple
of them for that matter and have heard
considerable through the .apvrs about
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cuCle 10 the Conclusion IhGt IT ie ri;
talk t. sell little property lying around
loose on Quimper peninsula. Still we
are ready to add our mite towards build
ing it, it the Company show by their acts
that they mean business.
We want more settlers and will do
what we can to aid them IN finding
claims. We have one of the finest eli
ates in the United States-no extremes
of heat or cold. no levers nor fever and
ague, and a sick person saldUm heard of;
in fact, there has been but three visits
to this community by ph! sician in five
years. We have al abundance Of springs
and creeks of pure soft water. This Is
fruit country. This is grass country,
consequently dairy country. We would
like shoemaker, also blacksmith, to
settle in here. This would be good
place for shingle mill or tub and
bucket factory, us there is plenty of fine
cedar timber.
Our Quilceue people are moving along
in the even tenor of their way-the older
inhabitants looking after their crops
(Which are very promising) and the new
sst.lers slashins and improving their
lands. We have no droDes and the
music OF the axe and saw running
through the scale is the thing from
morning until night. We have our
comers and goers, but the eomers and
stayers are iu the majority. Occasion
ally we have fellow dropping IN upon
us looking for land and praying the
Lord he won't find auy-but not often.
We have a gentleman from Kansas
here starting nursery to supply Jeffer-
son County with fruit trees. His family
will be here in October.
There was a very pleasant and enjoy
able family reunion at the residence of
Z. r. Duuuing last week. The mother
-seventy-tour years of age ard as smart
and lively as a cricket arrived with her
SOD, Fred. S. Dauning OF Portland (Or.),
from Ohio, where she has lived all ber
life. The family, consisting of three
sons and two daughters with their chill
dten and grandchildren, came together
covering four generations and number
ing thirty souls. The old lady is quite
a patriarch. as her family now living
numbers fifty-six persons; and the most
remarkable circumstance connected with
her, is that there has only been three
deaths in the family III ffty-tbfee years.
Although she is seventyfour years of
age she looks as though she was good
for twenty years more, for l noticed she
could read print about rs we'll without
glasses as with them.
After enjoying a regular Oid-fashioneI
visit, interspersed with clambake and
other refreshments, mirth, music, &c,
tue company retired, each ole praying
that the dear old mother mi bit be spared
to them to the end OF the century.
One thing 1 came near forgetting to
write. When the old lady arrived al
Port Gamble the Regular boat for Hoods
Canal had gone, and she came to Qui!.
cene (abou. forty u,ilesl IN a small seil
boat and stood the trip ike an old sailor
Yours, etc,