The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-01-01

4 sssort time only until our Exheries
viii rival in extent those Of the Ssw
England coast. sewfoundIand or Nor
way.
LrMEEk
Tbs great resource OF Western
Washington IA earlier days vas Iu1n-
Der. This. for ioug time. exceeded
IN value al other products combined.
No longer Is this trae. In fact, its
supremacy is disputed hy c0as and
ny Other resources Be this
a. Il may. however. the Sasi-
mess os making and marketing
lumber never was 50 great A. in Iss8
Many new saxInilis were built, old
mills we're enlarged. logging railroads
we're constituted, and 4 product 3 per
cent- greater than ever before Was pat
upon the Ensrket. The s4wmills OF
Washington Territory have present
daily capacity Of 10000 feet, and
their product last year wzs about go. :
GO go feet Probably 10000 .ooD feet
we're semi bT rail and ship out OF the
Territory; the vast~7emainder being
required in the building Of orr own
towns and cities, railroads. farm
houses, fences, etc.
COAL SHIPMENTS.
Coal commanded exorbltant prices
in 1855. and the profits OF its produc-
tion we're enormous Stimulated By
"a extraordinary demand. the old
mines we're worked To THAR utmost ca
paeiiy and new mines were opened,
the output for the year being .l01. GO
tons, OF almost twice the prodne
OF 1857. The coal fields OF the Terri
tory have been merely prospected, but
enough Is known OF them TO assure
the reader that their exhaustion will
be impossible in ten thousand years
at the rate operations in the past have
been conducted
MINERAL DEPOSITS.
II Washington is richer in one thing
than another. that thing is minerals.
Owing TO its inaccessibiiity bat little
has been done with iron, but it is
known that there are vast deposits
(mountainsl OF it in many places. The
only iron yet marketed is from bog
ore in Jefferson county. Furnaces
were built several years ago, and con-
stanily increasing out-turn has been
the result. Five or six thousand tons
of pig-iron are annually produced. Its
quality j. first-class. and ii commands
the highest rates in the San Francisco
market Vast quantities of magnetic
iron have been discovered al Sno-
qualmie in King county, and at Gle
Elum in Kittitas county, and move
ments by capitalists are we'll forward
looking 10 their development. \
superior iron is found in Skagit
county, the marketing of which will
quickly follow that at Cle-Eium and
SnoquaImie. Bog ore is found through
out Western Washington. Galena,
copper. silver, gold and other minerals
are abundant On both slopes OF the
Cascades men have been mining un-
interruptedly for gold for ID years,
while other men have been working
tue ltACtlH VI titr EtlAhts AVAuAittA asANa
other rivers. Their doings have been
quiet and unaceompanied by excite
ment They have made fair wages,
and the gold they have secured
has probably averaged $4,000
year During the past
two years considerable excitement
has been caused by discoveries in the
new county OF 0kanagon. The
precious metals have been found there
in many places, and in quantities
warranting the most lively antieipa-
ton for the future Fifteea hundred
quartz claims have been recorded. Sales
OF mines have been maie at high figures.
Concentrators and smeiters are talked
Of at many places and at some places
are being put in These mines will be
thoroughly tested during the coming
year. ana if they are what it is hoped
they are there viii be q great rush into
that region, and 0kanogan will in 4
single twelvemonths step into the
front rank of Washington counties,
and gold and silver mining viii strive
with lumber and coal for first place
among our industries.
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