The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-01-01
EXPANSION.
Review Of Ssatt|ss Growing
Manufactures.
They Have q'rsbled Within
Twelve Months.
ElllCCn 4ullafa 'ta oOlhan'i'
Employed.
7hres-Quartsn Of a Million Paid
in Annual Wages.
Expansion in Every Productive
I)pnartmpnt
Expansion in Every Productive
Department.

The past year has witnessed very
important advance In the manufaetur-
ing interests 81 Seattle. While II can
not be claimed that manufacture has
as yet attained any great proportions
here, Excepting In the single line OF
lumber IL Is true that the city is
answering IN q small way the demands
made upon Il as ceDier Of supply.
1t will be seen that the beginning of
many kinds Of industry are here and
that In each there has been notable
progress during the past year. IL Is TO
the variety of our productive industries
that We would especially call attention
as illustrating the variety OF our re-
sources on the one hand and the tend
ency 10 wide development on the
other, and such beginnings as we have
here in a hundred sorts OF manufae-
ture are infinitely more important for
the city than would be a single or two
or three mammoth establishments
whose total product might be worth
double the total product of our COM
paratiyely small establishments.
In the very near future, however,
Seattle promises 10 become the center
OF manufacturitg interests OF the lar
gest kind. The Moss Bay Steel Co.
which has located its works on the
east shore OF Lake Washington. is an
enterprise far greater than any other
iron enterprise on the Pacific Coast
1t proposes to create smelling, roll
ing aud subsidiary works on large
scale, and TO employ force OF 5000
men. The supply OF ore viii be drawn
from the snoqualmic mines, owned by
Denny, Horton and Others, and leased
upon royalty 90 the Moss Bay Go. for
term Of years.
For the establishments already
under way the year has been one
OF exceptional prosperity. There are
to-day over 1900 men employed IN
manufacturing industries In Seattle:
at the close of 1881 there were scarcely
400. The amount Of wages paid 10
these men approximate $4,000 an-
f,ually, md the value OF the monthly
output runs into millions.
THE COMING YEAR.
Great however as has been its nc.
tiyity in manufacturing circles during
1888 indications for the present year
are even brighter. For the first time
In her history the wonderful POSSIBLE
tiles Seattle possesses as a manuiac-
turing center with her unequaled
commercial situation, her inexhausti-
HE resources OF timber, coal and iron,
and her great agricultural baek-coun-
try seem 10 be in n fair way OF bec0m-
ing fully realized. The number OF new
ventures started during the year and
the uniform success that has attended
them, and the unprecedented extern
sion and prosperity of our pioneer
manufacturing industries certainly
furnish grounds OF iustiiica-
ton for the widest dreams
of the most enthusiastic property
holders Seattle possesses. IL is only a
few wears since, when the numbering
industry was the only manufacturing
industry OF any importance in Seat
tie; then the iron-making industry be-
gan to assume importance an i'm
portance increased threefold during
the past year-and one by one other
manufactures took root and grew.
In the latter part of 1887 the activity
In ala branches of trade was plainly
noticeable. an activity which was
greatly accelerated with the coming
OF 1883. Early in the year nm enter.
prising citizen established an excelsior
mandatory, the first in Seattle and
tho fifth on the coast. The expert
ment proved SO successful that in =
brief space of time another excelsior
mandatory appeared on the scene,
and both of them are working night
and day In the endeavor 10
keep pace with their orders.
Excelsior being the raw material prin.
cipally used in the manufacture oi
mattresses. there followed, as q natu-
raj consequence, the establishment OF a
mattress factory. tha success Of which
has justified the attempt
A now broom sweeps clean and the
Washington broom works entered the
3 field in successful competition against
the Chinese made hrOoms OF san Fran
cisco competition SO succcsSful in
fact, that they are constantly increas-
ing the number OF their cmployes
Situated en- the gFandest body oi
water In the world aud surrounded hy
inexhanstihle lumber and mineral re,
sources, why should not Seattle be a
great ship.buildinc city . 50 thought
Bailey Gatrert, Robert Moran and
others, and as the birth az that
thought the Seattle Dry Dock and ship
Marine Railway CO. spranr into
existence.
One thingica 90 another, TobntlI
ships the timber must he ere
osotcd ia otder 60 preserve Is
against the insidious action oi
the elements, snd almost sian.
ultapcously two ereosotiug com.
panies we're incorporated abe work.
OF one OF which, when completed. W.l
be ihe largest Ia the world
These are the principal ot abe utN
industries which have hsd their rise
In our city Oi the elder ones. ths
numbering interest has increased "a,
per cent. the iron-making industry
fSsas. as mentioned befe7c, inerea,e3
esAore than three fold, the cigar IN
siustry shows an Increase IT nearly ~
fler cent. and the same gain has beer
observable all along the hne.