Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-05-10
Another Blast from Dakota.
An Emissary Of the Land of Cy.
clones Tells What He Don't Know
about Washington.

about Warrington.
The efforts made by the interior
districts to divert attention from the
grand resources Of the west, would be
exasperating if they were not so anus
ing in their audacity. We have time
and again re-published letters from
Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota papers,
which indicated that their writers had,
from some cause, deliberately mis-
represented our people and Territory.
So fragrant have been these misstate-
ments, and so untrue the premises
upon which their conclusions were
based, that they seemed almost I'M
worthy OF serious consideration but
the persistency with which they are
placed before the public shows that
there must be an organized effort on
the part OF these Interstate" boomers
to build up their plague stricken States
at the expense of truth and to the
detriment of the most favored region
that the morning sun has ever shown
upon.
The latest OF :hese letters appears
in the Fargo Republican, and is signed
by J. N. Olmstead, who processes to
write from Tacoma. He declares that
"Ia no way can Washington Territory
compare with Dakota, except as .
temporary stamping ground for real
estate men, and further on that
"There is nothing to make Seattle or
Tacoma anything but small, pros.
porous seaports, always controlled
more or less by San Francisco"
These preposterous statements should
cause the blush OF shame 10 mantle
the check Of even Kansas or Dakota
land-boomer, which the correspondent
doubtless is, if he has ever made
even a partial comparison of the grand
scale upon which the God of Nature
has planned the resources Of the
Western divide with the few real
clements Of future greatness OF the
many thousand miles of area which
constitute the grasshopper-devastated
and cyclone-stricken district lying be-
tween the Missouri river and the
Rocky mountains. 1t requires but
the glance of an impartial eye, and
tie least effort Of an active brain to
discover that all Of Natures operations
on this coast have been perfected on
o scale that surpasses in magnitude
other parts of the country even more
than the area of the Father of Waters,
the grand Pacific, exceeds that of the
broad Atlantic. Our valleys are
broader and more productive, and
their resources more varied; our eli
mate is better, more genial and
equable; our bays and harbors larger
our mountains higher, and we venture
to say, Notwithstanding Mr.. O. has 90
emphatically declared to the contrary,
that there is moro enterprise to the
square inch at Seattle today than
there is in either San Francisco, Fargo,
or any other city in the United States.
She has the best street railways Of any
city OF her size, except possibly New
York, with her elevated system; she
is putting up finer buildings, opened
up more avenues Of trade, and is in
every way making phenomenal pro-
gress towards the rank Of . leading
city. What is true of Seattle, may
likewise be said Of Tacoma, in many
respects, and viii ere long, be true of
Olympia and other places on the
Sound, which will, in the course of a
very short time, become the mart of
all nations.
It is doubtless true, a. Mr.. Olm-
stead ASSERTS, that there are idle men
at Tacoma. So there are in every city
in the Union, and it often happens
that even those who really seek en-
ployment are unsuccessful at first.
But We affirm without fear Of contra
diction, that this is prominently the
poor mans country; that he can OBJ
tain living here cheaper than in any
OF the States east Of the Rocky noun
tains. Every article Of food can be
obtained at minimum cost; clothing
costs but little, for the same suit may
be worn summer and winter, 60 far as
personal comfort is concerned; his
house need not have double walls to
keep out the cold, nor be pinned to
the ground 70 keep it from blowing
away, nor need he provide q cellar for
place of refuge when q Dakota
cyclone comes Whaling along.
In fact, the life OF the poor man in
the far west i typified in the "Old
Settler" whoes experiences have been
immortalised by song. He, too, proba-
bly, grumbled little when he first
came to the country, but from . diff
ferent cause, that homesick feeling
which at times besets the strongest
heart, but behold after . time he bursts
forth in these notes Of exultatien:
Now I've got uD6d = the climate.
think II man evef found
Riace g I'VE sa9z and Ae1yy,
No longer the slave Of Ambition,
laugh at the world and its shaMs,
we" 6.,s sninf OF o. my present condition.
The famous steamer Vanderbilt.
presented by Cornelius Vanderbilt to
the United States in 1861, and used
by the government a. . gunboat dur
ing the Southern rebellion, il now q
hulk in the harbor Of Glasgow, Scot
land, - the New York Journal of Com
"'erce has ascertained.. She was sold
by the Navy Department in 1873 and
changed to . sailing vessel, a. such
being employed in the California trade
under the nane of "Three Brothers"
for several years. Then she became
the property OF an English company