The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-04-13
He Speaks His Mind Aboat the
Sound.
CHARACTERISTIC



world by pointing cat the cx1mes and follies
most grateful release from those lesser an
nogances which In thedr aggregate form
the serious burden Of life. For twelve long
weeks " have read no journal. No have
sought no information concerning the
events which interest the world and chai-
lengs the attention OF the public That II
has rainsd in California, re have
been informed from the converse
ton around ns. tbss Bismarck
has been removed from the position Of
chancellor 70 the empire he has created
and been driven into an honorable exile
from oil that interests him in his native
land by the successful insrigues Of Q band
OF Jesuisical conspirators Who surround
the Vatican at Rome. comes to " ~
malaria steals through the atmosphere: Ne
learn Of it - Of the approach Of deadly
contagion; IL comes in the whispered fears
Of wars. of panics on the bourss; We So il
In the pale faces Of III who have anything
10 lose. anything to dread: We hear Il in
the movement Of armed battalions prspar-
ing for the march ahd bivouac, In the
ciamor which disturbs the navy yards Of
Europe, preparing their greet ison-clads to
hold themselves in readiness for action
HrRREp SUMMARY.
Our visit in the city OF Washington
trip through the great cities Of the North
east-our visit to the Dominion Of Canada
and our journey by the Canadian Pacific
road from Quebec through Montreal, Otta-
Va (the capital). and Winnipeg TO VAN
eouveS, the terminus, on Puget sound
from walled Quebec. the dulIsst Of old his
toric cities on the American continent,
across . hemisphere robed IN its garment
Of snow-across broad and fertile plains,
WHARF once the buffalo mads his summer
pilgrimags-through prima torests-over
summers sun unlocks them from
mon free TO hunt his spswning-beds and
disclose the fresh-water specklsd trout that
With his head cut of, disemboweled, and
ready for The gridiron, win weigh nine
pounds-fhr the grandsst mountain
scenery from Bamf for thousand miles
westward to Vancouver. the two-ysar-old
miracle emerging from The pine forests
thst now leave thsir stumps standing in
stros1s WHARF city b growing with blocks
Of stately buiidin0s with busy Wharves.
with "a increasing overland and oriental
commsrcs. the most busy and ac4ivs anA
promising city that Hes northward Of ths
American bordae-lins. ii
-- II SuE puu1R
We arrived in San Francsco BY way Of
Victoria. through the crazy land which
margins the beautiful waters and sur
rounds the most attractive inland 80 on
earth. Everybody in the new state Of
Washington Is In slunatic condition. Pass
ing % hastily through IL and stopping only
at Port Townsend, Seattle and Tacoma, We
have no sufficient data upon which to base
IN opinion how much Of the phenomenon
We observed Ii traceahls TO honest and in
nocent intellectual alteration and how
much of il is chargeable to speculative,
culpable. gambling greed The line which
marks the debatabls ground il altogether
indistincl
Every man. woman and child whom We
had the good fortune to encounter IL inn
pressed with the belief that Puget sound 10
The great port of Eastern commerce; that
through the straits Of San Juan de Fuca
the Oriental trade which has hmiided the
great commercial emporiums of Venice,
Lombardy, Spain. Holland. England and
II
comparable to London. Paris. Vienna,
Berlin and Amsterdam; that upon their
busy wharves are 10 be laid the silken bales
OF the Orient, mats bursting with Indian
productions. dye-stuffs from Pacific islands.
ali the treasures from the far lands, a,i
the merchandise from Australia. from
Japan, from the western coasts of South
America and the United States. and all the
trade Of the American continent which lies
west of the valley of the Mississippi Just
where this great city Is to be located is the
only point upon which public opinion is
not agreed: whether il is Port Angeles,
Anacortes. Port Townsend. Seattle, Ia
coma. Puget. Centraiia. or some as yet un-
known location where the bluff coast meets
the unfathomable waters OF the sound.
there are 80 widely divergent opinions that
the shores OF this most attractive inland
sea are crowded with embryo cities. 70 the
extent that every farmer bordering upon
the Sound has city for sale IN the hansls
of some confident real-eState operator. and
every man in the territory adjacent is gam
hing in town lots.
THE cALIYoRSfA BOON
Al the time we succeeded in passing
through the new state. every citizen in il
was wealthy in anticipation and happy in
mplating the fortune he was conf-
dent that he would realize At time not
distant. We had seen the resnlf Of the
boom in Southern California we had OBJ
served how easily some men lose their
heads IN their greediness for gain. We had
seen the disastrous results attending al the
hooms which have advanced the prices of
real estate in California We have wit
messed the cruel disappointrnsntx which
have come to families. We hare seen fam
lilies reduced from circumstances az ease
and comfort 10 conditions OF poverty and
distress. and our judgment is ~ fault If the
community which surrounds Puget sos,nd
il not preparing itseif for results ~ dtsas-
srous Ms these which have visited ell other
places in the West where real estate has
been subjected 10 inflated and speculative
values
ADVANTAGES OF wAsHISsrry.
The Puget sound country has &C a6van-
tase over our southern coannes. because
its resources are more abcndAaI Il has Q
climate next in comparison With that Of
California II has kareor SUFFICIENT for
the accommodation OF all the CON merce il
anticipates Its soil IL nesssr adapted for
general grain-growsRg than anv part OF
California IL Is almost equal TO that Of
oreroa- IL has coAl-hituminous--in mex
kaassihae Quantities Is hxs forests Of TIM
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