The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-01-01
Z PROSPEROUS YEAR.
EEyEw or THE DEyELoPNEST or
MsIffSGToN's RESOURCES.

4 REVIEW or THE DEyELoPNEST OF
MsHfSGToN's RESOURCES.
The aneral trade OF the territory
never wa better than during the past
twelve nonths. An expansion has
taken plae in every avenue New
lines havebeen opened. The impulse
given has zen seen and felt by all.
Map makef have found it impossible
10 keep pae with the development.
Their publications. were not print
ed before ,ew railroads and new
towns wee built. Directories
we're unsatissctory for like reasons.
The census, o the vote OF one season
of the year, cald not be accepted as
indicative OF ae local population the
season followag. Such activity aud
such prcgrcssnever were witnessed
before. In thiartiele but little men
ton can be mac o. things in detail,
and bat few o. the more important
ones have been slected.
F0EEIgs COMMERCE.
In foreign commerce a great ad-
vance was made il,ISSS. Four ships.
heavily loaded witt general lnerchaa.
disc, arrived in Fget Sound from
Liverpool i've shis came in from
japan with full carges of tea, aud a
large number of shiF, more than in
all previous years embined. sailed
for Europe ireighted .lth the golden
wheat OF Eastern Washington. I.um-
Der exports to Sonth America. Aus
tralia, Asia ana the zlands OF the
Pacific. aggregated t.0oo.oo0 feet,
requiring tgo hundred sips for their
transportation. Trade with British
Columbia kept several lace and mag-
nificont steamers con .nuy en-
ployed. averaging ten ts,s week,
their registered tonnage rsresatlug
weekly upwards OF 1900
THE FIsHEEIKs.
The fisheries kept pace with the
general progress. The salFau catch
on the Columbia river dIrinuhe year
was s61. 900 cases. Giving thesrritory
credit Tor one-half, We have tso coo
cases. Twenty-Five thonsane eases
we're put up On Puget Sound, tabaut
double the best previous years cord.
About 5000 eases we're pat . az
Gray's Harbor aud other hoes
These figures aggregate -, ,to0 cas- OF
salmon. The trade employs >eral
months each year about 500 men.he
CAPITAL inves ed being $4,000, ad
the prodac; worth 81 600 90 aud o.
wards. A feg thousand barrels Z
salmon are usually Pal up each yes.
and during the past year the bu usine,
was inauguratcd of sending go Easter
markets in refrigerator cars. The
fisheries we're further extended last
wear. Three large schotaers eams
from the coast OF Massachusetts
which were employed in cathing bal
iAnt and preparing them foi the mar
ket. Their operations extsn.e,i from
the mouth ol the COLUMBIA river %
Alaska. aud they included many car
gees Of fine fish. These werepsrtisliy
distressed oi in the territorial sarkets.
but the great bulk was seit TO the
East hy rail. Much more in a.s line
viii be done in iSS9. aad the llh VII
no. oaly he sent fresh to the uarke;,
but viii be preserved by local sying
estahlis hmenis. The luF-sealfish-
cry made advances also last
wear. aud is expected 10 still fisher
advance during the coming bar.
Something viii, il IS more than lisly,
be done ia the way u fishing for ~,
and possibly also in whaling. There "a
be no question that Puget Sound ~
the Calf OF Georgia ara most adna-
ably adapted for the general rs
cries. This fact IS being seen an
acknowledged more and more eaei
succeeding yezr. and j! IS > matter q