, 1889-09-26

pricc--wlth contracts for building on tho
business street. The lots were sold,
5000 for corner and $50 for inside lots.
They 'sold like hot cakes" as many of
them would have done at double the
price. All were treated alike and the
terms enabled almost any wage e-workcr
to buy. AS before indicated, the desti-
nies Of Hoqulam and the proposed town
ut the. proposed railroad terminus were
linked together not only because OF the
joint ownership of the managers,
but because Willie the "torminus,,
being, off deep water IS
Hoquiam, by its splendid river water
front aud the level nature of the land, Is
peculiarly adapted TO become the indus
trial and manufacturing center of an cx-
tcnsivo country. Hoquiam is already
quite a business place. IL has but one
sawmill, but am informed that its out,
put for the year has more than equaled
alllthc other mills OH the hurbor. IL has
very extensive wholesale houses and
builds some fino vessels. IL has good
schools, churches, hotels and about 300
splendid people, with about twenty-five
buildings under way and forty more IN.
Guiding fine hotel and II large and
hegltiiul bank building. Messrs. Ar
nold Il fogg of Iowa are conducting the
latter enterprise.
The town is indebted not more to its
natural advantages than TO the wise
policy of the company, which has the
direct care of George +. Emmorson.
This gentleman II member of the firm,
IL sole manager OF the great mill and the
extensive Wholesale houses, and amy
person who by energy, industry and in
telligcnce shows himself worthy, ilnds
L. "a ..ll .t.l l.t
to buy building material, ana thus we
sec some rs handsome cottages as can
bc found In the West being erected by
PERSONS of moderate means. AZ far as
the ownership Of the land Is concerned,
| Hoquium has ceased to bo "ouc man
town" but the skillti,l hand OF the zone
man" energy Is seen and felt In every
public enterprise. In other towns the
water front IS private property and held
at very high figures. In tioQuiain the
company, though the most of its III
torests are gone holds fifteen miles of
| fine water front where dccp.sea vessels
may lie along the sides OF the banks.
Not one inch for sale says Mr.. En-
mcrson, "but fifteen miles TO give away
| to any ono who will use 1t in profitable
I industry
a few days ago was waiting over in
| the town for steamer, and met u gen
| tlcman WHO was eudcnvoring TO secure
| grounds for large sash and door iucto-
/ ry. The location he had selected was
insufficient In size, and Mr.. Emmorson
rcpurchased two lots ut double the price
for which he had sold thciu a few weeks
ago, and gave the entire property, worth
from 5000 To $4,000, to the enterprise.
Thc whole wator-lront property is held
for gratuitOtls disposal to those who will
use It, The firm will also draw out oi
| the retail trade In any line whenever
any one will start in business with n
suitable stock of goods.
But the terminus or point before
referred TO as being three miles below
has been christened Gray's Harbor
| The property has been plated and
thrown OH tile market, and is sclllna
quite rapidly. The prices vary accord
ing TO location and the terms are one
third down, the balance in one and tive
years, with deduction OF 40 per cent oi
the purchase price, providing. 4
building, is erected equaiinl
IN value the price of the
weeks been spending $500 per day ii
building wharyes To deep water, grading
streets and making other improvements
I A delightful drive along the beach con
/ meets the two towns, and over 100 men
are working ON the Gray's Uarbor n
! Ccntralia railroad. | am Informed by
gentlemen OF good business standing
1 that great force is at wor'S ON the Cen,
trulia end, and that tho work will be
pushed us rapidly rs rDssible to com
| plesion.
The Northern Pacific railroad, Will
which this line conUtcts ut Centralia, Is
~ N srsatcX a I. ~ilroad corporation il
'N-trt''N ~ II r .lot only the cheapest and
most convenient for passenger traffic
but the most prompt and reliable freight.
carrier on the continent, and II these en-
tcrprising gentlemen succeed in connect
ing the great Pacific ocean with tho
great Pacific railroad by this shu.tcu il
will earn Immortal glory and reap ricll
reward. will not say that all schemes fo
money-muking show such apparent bust
ness integrity, but believe this is mo-
I an exception. This is the way town.
are built IN the West. lfthey are 'mat
schemes" for moncy-making, there |,
surely "mothols III Madness" for /
would seem that all who JON III the en-
terprise are To share in the rewards. In
what do these "methods" differ from
those of the East, except in their create
magnitude, (Which is made possible b,
the fuct that the world is coming TO us