The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-03
MR. cLAKKsoS on SEATTLE

as have ever seen
MR- CLARKsoN on SEATTLE
Future Metropolis OF tho Coast-spiendid
Locstion-Energetic People
From IA Interview in the Des Moines Register.
s.On Puget sound wiz b. some large Cities
and probably the metropolis of the Cozst, Tor
mat honor Is still open for composition san
Francisco Is wonderful fl its power OF wealth
and commerce, but II has jet 10 stand the test
Of the development of the unusually rich coun-
try in the Northwest and some city on Puget
sound or the west coast of Washington may ret
rise to that place of honor"
'.whas city do you think IL ahead In the
racer
IT could not answer thar and il would not be
fair 10 guess st It / win say. however. that Sc
attic and Tacoma, both on the sound, are now
far In the lead, while Port Townsend has very
favorable location on the Sound, a. have also
Olympia, Fairhayen, WhatcJn and Blaine.
Gray's Hafbor, on the east, IS also extremely
promising Both eeattle and Tacoma are re-
Variable In their past. present and future.
BON have superior locations, and both have a.
ready built up z large trade and commerce with
ocean and land Tacoma has had with its other
great advantages, the help Of the favor OF the
Northern Pacific road, corporation OF frernen-
deus commercial energy. The rivalry between
Tacoma and Seattle Is intense, and think bene-
fetal to both oy way Of emulation snd sflnuia-
fion, as IL has been to Minneapolis and 81
Paul..
Seattle has, In addition to is location on the
Sound, Lake Washington. large and wonder
ful body of fresh water. thirty miles long and
nye miles wide. The city sits on strip OF land
three or four miles wide between the Sound and
this fresh water lake, suitable I n ship build
ing and q frssh water harbor. The manner In
which 1t has rebuilt itself sfrce the FIRE OF year
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part of the city Was destroyed, has never been
equalied since the rebuilding of Chicago and
Boston after their frea Money Is going into the
rebuilding By the tens OF millions OF dollars,
and either Chicago, New York or Boston would
be proud to have one or two of its streets with
their five, six or eignt-story buildings OF brick.
stone or granite. The instinct of capital as ex-
pressed ct Seattle In building. In banking and in
business Is iufaliible- Capital never goes into
investments to the extent of twenty or thirty
millions without knowing is ground
1.-THE banks of SEATTLE have now some seven or
eight millions of dollars on deposit, and Tacoma
10 not far behind. Labor Is actively demanded
at both pi ces at high wages. Bricklayers are
getting 81 per day the year round, ~ the mild
climate permits Of this, aud other mechanics
are paid in proportion. Where labor is well
paid there il always prosperity: where il is in
low condition and poorly paid there can be no
prosperity-not in America as lesss-whstever
economists or Inconsistency say. Their pros
perify is the prosperity of city or coantry, and
Seattle and Tacoma add the other magical
growth cities of the far West prove the fact
The rate of discount Of the Seattle and Tacoma
banks is per cont. month, and people Airing
money End much profit in doing 30. q they
make investments in real estate that leave them
good profits
SCI have never seen money made 40 easily and
surely a. at these towns and other places on the
Sound II 10 the very place for young man who
wantst, work. Il is easy To see why. Here il q
state OF wonderful natural wealth and popula-
ton of 10000 and destined to have 100000
within . few years Il must hsves cities. towns
aud factories, and all of the things which 60 to
make up cities as well as farms and orchards.
The same appreciation Of property that was seen
In all the Western states which made nearly all
the wealth that these states now hare must be
repeated IN Washington and the new states
west. and the people who grow up with Ii are
going to be the benefciaries of these great ex-
pansions Of value
Seattle has grown purely BY its own energies
and its own merits. The interest that long
dominated against 1t has now surrendered. It
II the gateway both to the sea and 20 the agri-
cultural and mining parts of the state. Il could
not be kept from prosperity. and il Is blessed
with people of enterprise and good faith. The
same may be said OF Tacoma. Seattle, destroyed
By fire and rising again IL q splendid sample of
what can be done in America in city building
in the right location. 1t has everything 10 be-
token it as q city, having ss good electric and
cable cars Is the cities in the East Ships of
every nation lie in its harbors Irs wharves and
docks are covered By the Commerce of its trade
with all the West IN nations and much of that
of England and of the other Eastern countries
1t has, too, wonderful faith IN itself, which
has been the touchstone Of success In every
large and prosperous city. II IL sure to 90 for
ward.
s'I expect to see is give San Francisco q close
race. lis only competitor now in its own
region is Tacoma, which is very much like 1t in
all its marvellous details of business energy.
prosperity and faith. Either is q possible
metropolis of the coast. 1t is hard to decide be-
tween them now from any point of view or
cal ulation. Both cities are actual m sryels
One must take the lead, but the question is not
settled yet Whichever gains the mcgt men OF
Stamina and enterprise win win.
Seattle has had some great help lately, the
acquisition OF quite large number Of million.
aires-Josnua u Sears, of Boston: General
Alger. OF Detroit. and . dozen other rich men,
VINO are founding . great iron plant in
Kirkland, on the rider of Seattle
Foandry works and factories of all kinds
are to be Organized Phil Armour, Of Chicago.
is interested in a belt line now being built
arou Lake Washington, and John d. Rookie
largely interested in Lake Washington lands
There is no American who lives and can who
should not see the Puget sound region and its
remarkable qualities in climate and soil. II
seems to me Certain that the state of washing.
ton, which Is so rich in the eastern part in its
agricultural and in the west in It's forests ana
minerals. is sure TO prove great and prosper.
Gus community and TO become the industrial
state Of the Pacific coast
another thing in favor of Seattle and the
sounf Ia that when the Manitoba road IL I'm
khed to Seattle, that city will be $50 miles
nearer Chicago by rail than San Francisco is
now, a q an Asiasic steamer could land AT Seat
tie and have its freight OF its way over the con.
unent before it could reach San Francisco. Thin
mast count IN the future"
A Case Of HydrophobSa.
Frank Kissinger is at the Salem, Or. insane
asylum. suffering from hyirophoDia. He is "a
years old and sheepherder few dsv. .ro