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


with diasczlty and lack os pessection
Tiuac, hoeever. viii hrsng nsore pcs,.
tre knosle1ge - to the adaptation o.
| parsiesiigr fruits 80 rlse c0ssh htry. and
with test knowls.sge vii come a rro-
dGrfion that VIII give to Pures Ss.arsl
q great surplus Of fruit, which. in both
fresh ard preserved cenaSsion VII
flnd market far beyond oar hor-
ders- The climate, by proria-
ing green pastures the greater
rart Of the year and hy
causing an enormous pro6uction Of
bay, adapts the Puget Sound country
70 the purposes OF the ialrymar.
Milk, butter and cheese can he FRO
anced 10 the utmost advantage. and
il viii be astonishing il ten years henee
cur products in this line are rot, Ike
oar hops, celebrated the world over.
Sites for manufacturing establish
mentseau be secured for little or Moth
ing Coal Is cheaper than elsewhere
on the Pacific slope wafer-powers
are abundant. The climate permits
outdoor labor the year around. Ships
and railroads here meet. The world
Is open 10 as. Under sueh conditions
il may be asserted that this is destined
TO be the seat OF immense future man
ufaeturing interests A great start
has already been made, and this start
/ will be followed by continuous devel-
opment that in time viii place her in
line with PittsburE, Manchester, and
other great Manufacturing censers Of
the world. One Of the latest marks OF
progress is the entry upon wholesale
trade. Many new houses have been
opened during the past year in the
leading towns, whose operations are
confined 10 sales in bulk. They have
met with gratifying success, and their
number promises 10 continue inereas-
ing rapidly in future. These houses
are reaching oat for trade in Idaho.
British Columbia and Alaska, in ad-
dition to the occupancy of the terri
torial field. Nothing has been more
gratifying OF late than the evident
progress made by those already en-
gagged in the wholesale trade.
THURSToN COUNTY.
This county is at the extreme head,
or southern end. OF Puget Sound Its
area is about GOO square miles. Tim
Der and coal abound. From the
Bucods mine 80 600 tons OF coal we're
shipped in lsSs. About is. 600 600 feet
oflumber are manufactured annually.
but at least twice that quantity OF tim
ber, in the shape Of saw-logs, is sent
to the lower Sound mills. The olynl-
pia & CheAalis Valley railway is a
narrowg gauge road Is miles long. that
extends from Olympia to Tenino.
where connection is made with the
Northern Pacific, of which latter road
y miles are in Thurston county.
There is much good land in Thurston
county. Olympia, the county seat,
and a town of 5000 inhabitants, is
the capital of the territory. 1t is
home-like, attractive. delight
full place. The population of
Thurston county is about 1000; the
assessment for 1855 was s., 1896.
III may here as wen be stated that the
population of each county win be esti-
mated, as has been that OF Thurston, by
multiplying the number of votes cast for
delegate to congress in November, iSss, by
Ave, the nearest round number being
adapted
MASON COUNTY.
Tlss l,.u ,.-aat ~
and in it head several OF the largest
arms OF the Sound. Notable among
these is Hoods Canal, sixty miles
long, one-haH of which is within the
limits OF Mason county. Mason
county has an area of 900 square miles.
Its development heretofore has been
slow, but turn seems to have been
reached, and the county is now NOV
ing along with the best OF them.
There is a great deal OF good agricul-
tural land, bIli, owing 10 remoteness
from market, absence Of towns in the
county, and to being little of the old
lines of travel, il has not been much
ayailed of by hOme-seekers in the
past Timber has been the absorbing in
terest, aad is yet, l20,0oo,o00 feet being
cut in lsss, though other inter
ests are now rapidly coming
to the front. Railroads are build
ing in several directions. Among
these are the Coulter road, four miles
long, running west from North bay
the Union River, running south eight
miles from Hoods canal; the Puget
Sound & Gray's Harbor, l3 miles.
southwest from Little Skookum hay
and the Satsop, % miles, northwest
from Shelton en- Big Skookum. One
OF the aEowed purposes of the two
| longer roads is TO reach Chehalis river
and Gray's Harbor. These four roads
were all built primarily for numbering,
but they are ali well constructed,
well equipped. and intended to
be permanent, and with a
little more length and a
little more population along their
lines, viii each have lucrative gen
eral traffic. shelton, the county seat.
is a town only two years old, which
already has 1000 inhabitants. Mason
county has population Of 2so0 and
its tax win foot up S7l5,233.
KIrsAP COUNTY.
kitsap occupies the greater part Of
the peninsula, bounded on the east 10y
Admiralty inlet and on the west by
/ Hoods canal. II is one OF the smallest
counties. its area being oHly soosquaTe
miles, Like Mason. kiisap has here
tofore been given wholly to lumber
ing, bat, unlike Mason. numbering in
Kitsap has chiefly implied the manu-
ufgcture OF boards, spars etc. from
sawlogs towed TO its mills from the
camps IN other counties. As the dis
tinctive feature, however, numbering
/ is losing ground in KitSap, as during
I the past three years several hundred
settlers have gone on 70 the rich lands
/ in the southern end OF the county
| where they are making tine farms,
building towns. and displacing the
wilderness with ali the attributes Of
civilization. The Blakeley szwmil :
| the largest on the Pacific Coast. and
| in the Puget Mil Company. with mills
at Gamble. Ludlow and Utsalady. Is
had the greatest numbering concern IN
the United States or the world seconded
closely, though, by the Biakeley. PORT
/ Madison is the county seat. PoPuia-
ton of Kitsap county, $3.50. Assess
ment, 81 .o32 10.
JETFERsoN COUNTY
I Within the limits Of Jefferson are