The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-05-23

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Major a. b Rogers arrived q the
0rridental yesterday from 81 Paul
Major Rokefs. Il yin be seMemhezed.
discovered the pass through the SCI
links for The Canadian Psciisc railroad
after all tie engineers had failed. and
fos The service be sa< presented With .
check for s5sD and guld wafch APP
propriafeiy Inscribed Whea the
Canadian road wzs compsrtesi. Major
Rogers and his nephew spent spent =
year in tie casrsese mountains spying
ouf and prospecting the various passes
and looking. 30 Is uas rumored, for .
practical rssufe for the Nanitoha road
20 the Sound
Several DAYS ago II was stated in Z
s. Paul paper that Major Rogers Was
coming vest TO organize an engineer
ing party 10 locate lire al railway
from the American boundary 70
Alaska Referring 10 this matter to .
reporter last evening Major Rogers
said. That il
ALL uouxsHFxK.
And no one uas more SURPRISED to see
IL than I. Just before left 81 Paul. .
reporter asked me where Was going.
and ! tgld him 10 Victoria. Imagine
my surprise next morning when |
picked up paper and read column
intervieE in which was reported as
saying that l Was engaged IN that
Alaskan railroad project
Has your visit any railroad signf
csnre
Not in the least. While my nephew
and I we're prospecting in this coun-
try last year We both took q great
fancy to What Is known rs the Big
Bend country in eastern Washington,
and be. being . young man and real
ixing the great possibilities of that sec
ton, determined to 60 into business
there, which be has since done Ny
trip west is fox the purpose Of visiting
him. I shall remain in Seattle until
Friday. as have an appointment TO
meet Captain John Irving here Sat
ursiay l shall start across the noun
tains to spend several weeks with my
nephew.
awere ron not last year in the en-
ploy OF Jim Hill"
THAT l. something which no fellow
can ind out, but l viii tell you one
thing. At the present time ana not
in the employ Of any man or corpora
ton. | am travelling around here on
my own hook and in the pay Of no
one"
DO you expect soon to go into ae-
tive service
NO, I have done my share OF hard
work, and the past seven years have
told on me When l was young |
could lay out in the mountains in
snow and rain for weeks and months.
cooking my own grub, and spreading
down my wet blankets wherever night
overlook me. without feeling the re-
suits Of it zfterward. but
THOSE DAYS HAVE GONE
BY for me. l do not banker after that
kind Of a job, and what Is more.
would not accept one. As l said be-
fore, have done about all the hard
work ! am going TO, and Ill turn my
share Of this mountain-pass hunting
over to younger men"
Many people would like TO hear
YOU express your opinion in regard to
Seattle. Have you any objection7"
well, III tell you what think Of
Seattle. and my opinions are not made
from hasty glance at the place either,
or based on what somebody has told
me. In the first place. !. in common
with the majority Of those who have
given the matter any thought, believe
that great commercial city - 10 he
I..tI 81 - 81
and for the life OF me. cannot see
located as she is on one Of
THE vINEsT uARBoRs
In the world, and surrounded by fresh
water lakes in the heart Of great tim
Der and mineral country, and with the
great wheatfields OF Eastern Washing
ton almost at her very doors. Your
citizens appear to be wide awake and
public spirited, and the Seattle. Lake
shore c Eastern railway, which,
learn, has been constructed to Spokane
Falls, har the advantage Of the great
Snoqualmie pass through the Cascade
mountains. which pass Governor I. l.
Stevens, after a thorough exploration
of the Cascade mountains, pronounced
the
BEST AND MOST PRACTICAL
II have visited many towns and cit
les during the past few years. but for
its population Seattle is the liveiiest
and most business like of them all.
Mark my words, before the end Of five
years immense iron works will spring
up in your very midst, and that means
a growth such rs the town has never
seen before. All the conditions are
here for n great commonwealth, and
all that il required is capital and skill
to develop your resources No one
has more abiding faith in the great
ness OF Seattle than have, ana that
faith is the outgrowth Of personal OBJ
servation. Ii | was thirty years
younger right here would drive my
stake and grow up with the city. l
talked to my nephew about il, but he
had his heart set on the Big Bend
country and ! did not discourage him.
for look upon that country ~ the
greatest wheat producing section of
the Territory. and destined TO he one
OF the greatest sources of wealth to
Seattle when the Seattle, Lake shore
Il Eastern road is completed across