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

position TO 60 20 new section, capital
stands ready 10 provide the necessary
means. Vessels to carry them Will be
built and roads made, factories aill be
erected to furnish them employment,
and mines opened TO supply them
with coal. SO it has been here. Il aow.
and SO IL viii he. Railroad men came,
and they proceeded to las their bands
of iron in every direction. Six years
ago there was but one transcontineatal
railroad and that was 1000 miles TO ne
south. Now there are tnee
trading in Washington Teri
tory Northern, Canadian ard
Union Pacific and there viii soon ie
four. followed quickly By a fifth and
sixth.
TwESrY YEARS AGO
There we're tive miles OF railroad
in Washington Territory. and ten
years ago, two hundred miles
There are now over fourteen
hundred miles, and more miles
were built in iSss than in any preyi-
Gus year. Previous to 1915 no ocean
steamers were employed in our trade.
and during the succeeding six years
only two were engaged. Now there
are a great many, and the ships are
larger. more elegant, and faster; as
good ships of their dimensions as are
to be seen anywhere. Our sawmills
have each increased its cut OF lam
Der from 5000 and i0.0o0 feet day
20 years ago, 10 from 10000 TO go, 900
feet at present The one coal mine of
1858, with yield of 30 tons a day, has
been succeeded by dozen mines,
with aggregate average daily output
OF 800 tons The railroads
brought competition in transportation
aud cheaper rates. They also exten-
sively advertised the country. The
mills and mines aud thousand other
mechanical enterprises, gave work TO
the newcomers, With these induce
menis they have come by thousands
and the streams of their migration
is constantly swelling II Is now
known that this is land OF great
possibilities. Its soil yields more pO-
tatocs. wheat, oats, hops and other
agricultural products to the acre than
any other part OF the world; its tim
Der Is unsurpassed its coal beds are
practically incapable OF exhaustion
its iron deposits are among the finest
in the world: it, waters abound with
fish; and the DEMONSTRATING elements
are abundant on every hand. Wash
inglon Territory is City times greater
in area than Rhode Island, and car
sustain as dense population. Rhode
Island has 500. .Ooo inhabitants. Wash
ington will have 100000 when
peopled in like proportion. Henry
Willard, at a st. Paul banquet in his
honor last October. said Within
20 years believe there will he 5000.
OO0 people living in the states OF Ore,
gon and Washington. There IS every
reason 10 justify the statement. Not
one acre in twenty OF tillahle soil is in
use. No man can conceive the fu
tnre growth OF the mineral resources
Considering the marvellous develop
ment here on the banks ul the Miss.
issippi. what may We not expect ioi
the western country l hope We May
all tive to see the Developments hav,
predicted.
A QUESTION oF riHE.
Mr.. Willard may have understSled
the time, bat il he has done that, that
is an. Ii is only question Of time
20 OF 20 years perhaps, instead OF ~
when Oregon and Washington viii ID
reoplcd Ike Ohio, New York, Msssa.
chusetts. England and other parts oi
the earth. when their combined popu
lation may even exceed s0,oo,o0.
The world il balancing IL
human beings. II is found to BE- easier
To support them by spreading them
nearly uniformly over the entire sur-
face. and the effort t. do this viii con-
time until all habl able parts arr
denseiy settled. This being true, We
are but in the infancy OF oar develop
ment, and our present lew hundred
thousand will become millions before
Ne know It. ApPrehensioas OF a re-
lapse to the old sparsely-sestlea con di-
ton are only httls more mistaken
than IS the idea that the measure OF our
past growth viii be the measure o. our
future growth.
GROWTH % FoFClATtoN.
The territorial census is no,eriously
detective. The work is poorly paid
FOR, aud Is correspoudinEly sighted.
Names conveniently obtained are
taken. Others are omitted. Bad, how
ever, as the census has been, It's show
inrs are all ot progress. The last
light reports are below given;
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