The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-01

wf.at wss known a. she EkAgst pass sousss
according - fhs nap EIsd eT the eoznp ans
vita tie secretary os state on August -.
fs-s. bat which wns abandoned n favor Of
tte ccwlstx Pass IN 1919 The lands which
hna eeen atghaxswn from pubic sntry
wers nsvsYtheless kept bound up through
faElure Of the company 60 release them
The concurrence Of congress vas necessary
kut the tardfness which attended AL legia-
s.sson against corporations Vas not relieyed
a. il msghs have been had the Northern
Pscf6c beer disposed % sid seattle II pro-
mossng fE
The sentiment OF this portion Of Tie fer-
rfsnry throaxh thOse tgying years may pe
best ascsFtained By . quosafion from ne
puhSie prints sentsment which LAY doI-
mant during the influence q HENRY VIZ
lard only 20 bs aroused 70 stu gTeaser m
tensEty and activity after bis oowniAal.
ksueipsffnx events Tor the pnrposs O
ssowing tks ohjeetive point % when tneT
I'D Il Il convenient here 70 refer 20 pubic
aneetfag held at Yakima on July z, lss4s
wheu YeeosutiOns we're adopted Teciting
that 'sths lands along the proposed Cast
ea<s branch road hare not been earned
and af shis iate day the circumstances are
zach that these lands never can be earned
By the ssmpie construction Of . raiiro2c.
They hare been greatly enhanced IN value
and Its enhancement represents twenty
wears Of hardship on the part Of struggling
frontisrsmen. Our cultivated farms, our
schooih0uses, our churches, oar local
railways, our villages and cities, and the
ascending smoke from = thousand
furnsoes and factories and mills an pro-
elslm 10 the world that the Great Northwest
has been transformed from 8 wilderness
without the presence or assistance OF the
Northern Pacific railroad, which. be e ~
membered, Il not yet completed. Indeed,
IL might ho easily shown that the railroad
land grant has operated 70 retard rather
taan advance the development OF the ter
riiozy, preventing tbs construction OF
nunh-needed thnroughfares,
Bat the stern resolve Of the men OF Sc
attic wAs rot confined 20 speech-making.
With stnFdinezs Of purpose which cafae
down through their veins from the old
stock which built up nation in the face
OF smpeTfal England's repEessiye laws. they
stood shoulder 20 shoulder, they bore hard
ships brayely, they made sacrifices repeat
edIv, and poared out profnseiy the money
their industry coined awa3 in the lumber
depths and faT back i'm the mining regionA
The prosperity Of the city was broken By
periods OF depression and despair. In
1873 after the selection OF Tacoma as
terminal siSs. there was quite 8 stampede
from the city aud there was more than one
occasion when the city seemed doomed.
Furniture was sold AZ auction in the streets
and the more timid and less sanguiue
abandoned The struggle. For scme time
the efforts Of the people we're directed 10
collateral methods OF compelling ths
Norfhern Pacific to fuifill the expectations
Of early days. These took the form %
public meetings at which memorials to
congress were adopted. Judge o, Jacobs.
then delegate 70 congress. took an active
part In this branch OF the campaign. and
in Q measure IL was due 20 his endeRvors
In 1878 that Law was passed for the re-
Lief OF settlers along tbs original survey.
Judge Jacobs appeared before Carl schurx.
then secretary OF the interior. and Land
Commissioner Williamson. appealing for
the relief OF the settlers and argued against
The relocation through the Cowlitz pass.
The secretary, however, subsequently APP
proved Of the location.