The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-15

the custom authorities last year excesd-d
those issued the prcceding year by 100 per |
cent TO show the incrca~s in
a.: END 'asi"''i: j. DONE only -n.scss..r1 r To
state that q few year. .Ro Conere..
eviction Of < new c1sso~ns nossse. Work
was commenced upon the building, hut 50
rapidly did business increase that last
$4,000, aud n very handsome building il
now i'm course OF erection. IL will he an
"In addition to being the nearest Amer
about $40 miles, Port Townsend Is also
the Union Pacific. The large honases in
land and money given by the citizens Of
Southern Railway company have been
transferred TO the Union Pacific by that
company and accepted by the Pac fc
completed by the Lat of July, 1880. The
Canadian Pacific railway. will also enter
ion to all this, our city has 10 miles OF
steam motor railway and am electric rail-
way is now being built. II will h, the
Houston & system, about three
miles long. We have electric lights at
every corner nm the business portion of
residence portion. A complete system of
sewage has been constructed.
ga system of water works is under ron.
s"s, "bnu, si,ooo.oco." The water i. the
finest the earth can produce. II will he
ssrsam Is To @ii sse away s.sy Nom Of Z ,h %I fa@sisn
countries are represented at Port Town
send by consular agents.
| Here i'm Butte you people doubtless
similar. 70 that Of Seattle. Tacoma, and
grave mistake,I assure, you. . II there is
any one feature more than any other
which m Port as q
mouth of July Is about = degree.
and for December 40 degrees, fahr. The
freedom from excessive moisture at Port
Townsend il a matter of surprise tn
many, il being generally that a
bodies of water and i'm n mild tempert-
ture is subject to very heavy rainfall.
sound, and there are many inland towns
that this; The average annual rainfall
during the past ten years is a fraction
over Il inches. The greatest fall during
one year of this period was nearly 2:
inches. This was i'm 1ss2. and the least
was nearly Is inches, i'm 1857,
Port Townsend In W miles from tins
OCEAN &c ian and about a1 n nGI miles mnr, hr"rn , nS S Seas
tie and 81 miles from Tacoma, ID miles
southeast from Victoria, b.; e., and "
western terminus of the Canadian Pacific
railroad.
"Regarhing real estate i'm Port Town
send you must not get the impression Ia
prices are enormously high because We
are enjoying IA wonderful season of pros
perity. As u matter of fact real estate IL
not at all high yet, when the natural loca
ton for a large commercial center Il
taken into consideration. 1t IL true tina
r during the past few months property Ina.
double i'm price, but IL has also NOR
than doubled in value i'm the same time
and the increasing activity of trad
5 promises still greater advances for tho ~
: ture. Capitalists from Oregon and Cali
; fornia aud the East are making numerou
D investments in the lower Sound country
4 and especially i'm the vicinity of POI
: Townsend, and the establishment q
e various mining and manufacturing ind
a tries in hat vicinity will certainly prov
: AN important factor i'm the rapid growt
2 of the metropolis of that country. A
I rondale at the head of Townsend Ba,
: about Ave miles from Port Townsend.
Z situated the only smelter OH the So,Int
I 1t has an output OF 30 tor
of pig iron n day and the governmcI
Il has a contract for all this for the neg
IA three years. The government also use
this iron i'm the construction OF Unite
States cruiser Charleston. If i had tim
and you could spare the time to listen,
v could give you columns of facts i'm comes
ton with the great coming center OF con
merce of the Pacific coast. But You wi
IS sec from what I have told You that I'll
= poets that Port Townsend offers industi
D and capital, the more evident IL becoms
ii that il is destined to become
N city of commanding promi
.e ence. for industrious and enterprisir
q. people are constantly locating there m
- capital finds n safe and profitable field e
"a investment. The ilexhaustablc suppl
Y. of iron. wood, limestone and minera
IN will be- n source of immediate great wcait
n If you want tai make more money than II
n example of Bntte's wideawakc citizc,
ar and buy real estate now in Port Tow