The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-22
THE PASSING THRONG.
Trip Through the Beautiful
Quillayute Valley.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS HERE.
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His trip Was on bustntas, but he took many OBJ
eervations. and he gave an account Of rome Of
them TO xfELLIaENcxR reporser.
/ left Seattle two weeks ago." said Colonel
Sharpe. taking steamer to Nesh bay and got
the full benefit OF the big storm that was felt al
over the Sound on the b. Nearly every pas
senger aboard was rery seastck. and when We
reached Mean Bay, Monday night a. 10 O'Clock.
al we're clad 70 ret into the small boats for .
shoot through the surf to the shore.
As quick as Was landed made for Botado.
point two miles away, where lives United
States Indian Agent Medium. Remaining with
him two days. or until the Indians returned
from the hop fields, embarked, the only white
man with party Of twenty ave canoes Of IN
dians. ct daybreak. Thursday. We shot with
the tide around the rocks that mark Cape Flat
terry. and went down the coast 70 La Push,
distance OF forty miles, arriving a. the end Of
the trip Ct o'clock In the afternoon. The
ocean was unusually calm for this season Of the
year. and the scenery was grand. II wss the
mo fascinating experience OF my life. though
trip that many white men would not care 70
undertake.
La Push II at the mouth Of the QuiIlayute
river. and there put up at the ranch Of Daniel
Puiien. the only white resident In the vicinity.
secured two horses, and, guided BY }. r
Smith. q settler OF Forks prairie. took the trail
through the mountains into the country back
from Ihe szashcre. went through the valleys Of
the Quiliayute, Dickey. soleduck. BOgochfei
ana Co0wer rivers, and found : most fertile
and productive country. Nearly all the best
land in the valleys IL taken up BY settlers, some
OF them having nIed on their places fourteen
and fifteen years ago. The QuilIayuto valley IL
settled for distance OF f1fty.six miles from the
mouth Of the river. and the valleys Of the tribu-
tary rivers mentioned are settled from twelve to
twenty-five miles from the Quillayute. Al
though the land y immensely productive, con.
sisting OF = rich black loan, and including some
Of the most beautiful and attractive farming
tracts in the stats. the great drawback to the
settlers 10 the lack Of roada They have no way
Of getting in provisions or sending their pro-
duce to market except BY sea. schooner
leaves the Sound and goes to Is Push. where Il
n met by Indians in canoes, and they take the
provisions mp the rivers TO the settlers.
'sfhe settlers combined in Z demand for
roads, and made proposition to the commits
sioners OF Clallam county to make roads II the
commissioners would furnish bridges. The
settlers have Subscribed $4,000 to build Z road
eighteen miles long, between Claliam bay.
where there 10 . good dock. and Beaver prairie
The road will b built BY the settlers them.
selves. each subscribing - many day1 work.
"A great many obstacles were met in our trip
on horseback Finding barrier Of timber and
cliffs ahead. We EMBARKED In canoes anti more
open country was reached, and In this way
went nifty miles through the Pysht pass into the
mountainA We visited nearly every settler
along the rosie. and ali Welcomed Us warmly.
THE Quillayute, Beaver and Forks praifiss
were all visited. On the return Tip lieut. across
country. and reaching Pysht, point north II
Quillayute, I took the steamer for home.
The woods abound IN game of al kinds. and
the rivers are full Of trout salmon and other
fish. The entire feyion IL huntee's paradise.
People on pleasure bent, or IN search Of homes,
can reach this fer.ile region the easiest by way
OF Pysht Arriving there By steamer you take =
horse over the trail fifteen miles to Fieldsons.
beautiful spot, six miles TO Beaver Prairie. nine
miles to O. p. Nelson's on Forks Prairie, and
SIX miles moro to Quillayute Prairie There are
about 200 setilers in that vicinity and great
many OF them have sQaatted ON unsurycyed
land. They are c1amoring for survey 20 that
they can mako filings aud secure comfortable
no mes.'
As an evidence OF the fertility of the country
described. Col. Sharpe brought home with him
. mammoth potato, fifteen inches In length and
three inches through, raised on government
land which had received no cultivation
Posr-1NTILLicENceR reporter met MIa H.
Friedlander. mauaGer Of the Narquam Grand
opera house. OF Portland, ct the depot last even
ing. when that gentleman just returned from Z
trip to Victoria with the Clara Morris company.
He says the Victoria theater ives crowded. a.
thusiasm over tbs great actress performance of
Camille" was unbounded.
OF the Seattle operarhouss, Mr.. Fsiedlandsr
says:
THE people Of Seattle should not make any
complaint a. to the opera house here We are
not to blame that there 10 not new and Arst-
class place of Amusement Mr.. hanna and nv.
self have actually expended several thousand
dollars TO improve the old Turner'S hall q best
We could so a. not to leave the CITY without
any OF the standard attractions until . new
house ID finished. When was here several
weeks ago furnished the press with list Of
the great stars and combinations that we would
play In Seattle this season. That we have thus
far fulfilled our promise goes without saying
aud We have added since then such fine t.
fractions a. Daniel Frohman's great Lyceum
Theater Company, This Boktonians' sAil the
Comforts OF Home Lawrence Barrett Lotta.
shenandoah, Emma Abbott, and all the
splendid companies controlled byMr. Al Hayman
Rich & Harris, Abbey 6choffel Grau, Klaw 4
Eriander, Charles Frohman. 7. II. French. A. l.
Sanger. and all the prominent managers OF this
and foreign countries Mr.. Al LYMAN. who
furnishes most of the attractions now to the
Coast and Sound, has interests in the aters all
the way from New York 10 San Francisco and ia
at present the lessee of tae Baldwin, New Cali
fornla aud Grsnd opers-houses of the latter
city. He stand today AT the top round of toe
Re
lea and Europe, and with many advantages
over and above that OF the majority of them
can secure ana control ali the great stark and
travelling combinations. For short season,s
tour OF the Northwest (Which includes the
Coast and Sound ne often guara tees a carr
psny all the way from $4,000 to sl5o,o0O and
that is why Seattle. Portland Tacoma and ser
Francisco. are getting tae very acme OF shows
We are now booking for next year such emin.
ent artists rs Sarah Bsrnhardt Booth. Modia.-
IA and host OF celebrities.
1t Is ali sheer rot for any one to atiyer,i..
that they viii present standard attractions hero
for unless they can play such an entire eircnit
from New York to san Francisco as Mr. Hay-
man controls they would not and con a No.
Q ford TO come here. We have decided To MAJ
stlii further improvements in the Turner'S h.ll
In the seating arrangement anu the comfort af
our patrons generally, and ere long exn, ..
TO have every convenience possible In the
house."
Mr. Philip G. Eastwick the enpinee, vho :.
appointed by the governments 10 susyev RI.
route FOR saip canal from Lake " ashinrton 10 |
the sound, has arrived IN seattle YESTERDAY
he went out TO Lake Union; and he VII,
soon establish headquarters at Fremont and
Ballard aud begin the work OF suryeyins. M
Esst"ick was at one time the Seattle city enei.
neer and be Is pretty familiar with the ground
Ia question. He was appointed to tue nos,t,on
BY Captain T W. symous who with Colonel q
Il. Mendell and Major T. y. Handbury make nm
the government commission.
Among the notable visitors in Seattle at this
.me are MRS Harriet A. b. Corts. of walla
wslla. sister al Mrs Hon. J. B. Allen. ana NJ,
George T Myers, OF Portland Mra Corts' hu.
band was killed during the war ana she v.,
herself connected vita hospital work with the
Army OF the Potomac.
party consisting OF Arx A. Mcpon.,d NJ.
E. Erase, MrA Bart Mira Huyfable ana AZ.