, 1888-03-15
Boomerang er Up!
CLALLAM COUNTY, March 7, l

Sl-AI-l-.ih NSoN-sl Is -h1-bL NAl - ACC''
Nh. EDITOR:-Now that the Glou-
cestcr fishermen have arrived, and
the Mollie Adams, one OF their YES
sells, and that Port Townsend is to be
the headquarters for all, and eveLtu-
ally to become the ''SundOWn seas"
Gloucester, and the great prospects
your glorious town has as the ter
minus OF the Southern Pacific rail-
road (or IL branch terminus, as some
will have ID, and your custom house
building, and new substantial brick
blocks going up Cnb after another. Il
harbor always filled with the ''proWl-
ers of Old Ocean''-why Port Town
send should not rejoice and feel
frisky your correspondent can't
imagine. Let me congratulate you!
But there is il speck IN the otherwise
uncloude1 sky denoting, so il Is said,
that further down to the sea place
is to become the great END or the
Pacific knob TO the western door of
the southern Pacific railroad. Al
ready bOoms are being inaugurated.
Port Angeles puffed up trifle. Lots
and other real and personal estate
suddenly sprang into great demand
in the old First Camp" and then as
quickly fell backward when her Uery
unsuitable, poor, miserable harbor
("The worst on the coast" as Ger
tain Dungeness man eXclaimed) was
discovered to be 50. 1t seems that a
new survey had been made of Port
Angeles harbor by some of our Brit
ish neighbors and they, in their great
wisdom, doomed the spot, and took
up that charming, snug harbor,"
Crescent Bay-a water locked harbor,
whose terra .tiyna side is OF edge.
But they propose to tunnel You
know, nowadays a railroad is not
considered well put up unless it has
a BIG tunnel and some water lots
and that's no doubt the only objec-
ton to Port Angeles, none being
necessary there. Crescent Bay too
has any quantity of water lots, in
fact that is another feature all rail-
roads must have in order to be rail
road. They can water their stocks
so easily, you know. Bat then Cres
cent Bay may lose ground, and in
her turn fall back. You see, the
railroad magnates have not yet seen
Pyscht, nor Neah Bay, and last, but
not least, Tatoosh. All! Tatoosh.!
The veritable LANDS End" with
several harbors limitless in extent,
upon whose gentle heaving bosom
the merchant maritime fleets and
navies of the earth can easily be ac-
commodated and yet there would be
room for the ''water flyers" of two or
three more planets. The inimical
beach of Tatoosh is just as good as
Crescent Bay and a little more safe
to approach in time of "northeasters,' -
and has more land surface on which
a town of some future note can be
built. A hrst-class tunnel will be
needed, under the waters, just three
miles long TO connect it uninter-
ruptedly with the mainland under
the mountain to the prairie back of
Neah Bay, or still more a suspension
bridge, just to think how great Il
chance there will be for expert en-
gineering and money expenditures
tubular bridge perhaps as aross the
straits of Meani, England. Water
lots till you can't rest! CIiffy lots
alsoi and scenery that will knock the
bottom out of Tacoma, though that
essential part of her building up
Tatoosh don't care for or take any
stock, as it is all real with her, not in
the least drawing on any imaginary
paipatating scenic grandeur. So let
the glorious development go on, it is
a pleasure to your humble cores
pondent and he counts on it being
thus to you and your numerous read-
ers. INTEREST.