The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-02
PUGET SOUND.
How Towns and Cities Spring Up From
Big Forests.
The Immense covered Wilderness has a
Thousand Beauties-The Rainy Season
Grandeur Of the Mountains-Arrow-Lik Like
Treas

sOciate the northern territories Of his
country with eternal snow and ice,
and the long, slender body of water
known as Puget Sound with polar
bears, walrus and ptarmagin. This
opinion is doubtless still held to a
greater or less degree by bearded men
| throughout the east. The Puget
Sound country is a marvellous and
mysterious land. 1t is a land of
| romance, Of grand, wild scenery and of
| innumerable possibilities While snow
is drifting over the ranges OF Wyom-
ing. the plains Of Nebraska and the
mountains OF Utah, the Japanese trade
winds from the Pacific wave the roses,
asters and chrvsanthcmums in thous-
ands OF gardens along the sound. The
rainy season in this country is the
most disagree bic season Of all the
year. the nights and mornings are
chilly, the sky is overcast with sea
clouds and the rain falls in a seeming
ly ceaseless drizzlc. The constant fall
Of water and the humid atmosphere
start moss to growing upon the house
tops and upon awnings. Everything is
wet, dank and disagreeable. Even tn g
flowers in the gardens look disconso-
late. The winds from the north then
sweep down the sound, but they are
never so cold as TO cause suffering.
The scenery is wild and romantic.
For miles and miles the shores are
studded with pine trees, each as
straight as an arrow and all so COM
pactly clustered as to give the idea Of a
green, fluffy carpet stretching away as
sfar as the eye can reach. Flying above
the yea5ty wake Of the boat are hun
drcds OF gulls whose piping cries sound
like the Creaking of cOrdage aboard
ship. The water is covered with hotil-
las of ducks, and now and then q string
Of geese flying scarcely above the Ship
spar sweeps toward the mainland with
whirr that is music TO the ears OF a
sportsman. The water of the sound is
seldom rough. 1t is nearly always
dark, as though it reflected the sombe r
trees on shore. Sometimes a sunburst
will paint the water half dozen colors
with purple environment and then
shading off to indigo blue and green
until the center OF the priSmatic circle
is reached, where it will rivet a yellow
disc.
After passing through the Straits o.
San Juan de FuCa enroute to the
British possessions the tourist behold:
the snow-capped OlympicS in all their
glory. Although these mountains anc
their canOns are filled with bear, elk
deer, and antelope, the Shoshone auC
the timber Indians Of British Column
bia and Alaska never visit them. Cen
turtles ago, SO runs the legend of these
red men, one OF their number wen
into the Olympics to kill game He
Travelled many days into the fastnesse;
OF the mountains until one morning hi
found himself in the heart OF a great
canon where game was so plentiful
that he had only to drive an arrow
from his bow to bring down a beast.
While he was in the midst of his spor
hideOus looking Indian of abnorma
size and possessing q voice which
when used to its greatest capacity
sent stones and powders rafting dowr
the sides of the canon, bounded into
the gulch and destroyed and ate tn,
invader
The victims bones were afterwart
found by friends who went out to fine
him and who narrowly escaped sharing
the same fate. Ever since then not al
Indian HIS everset foot upon the Olym
pics, where the great, red cannibal i
supposed to live.
The principal ports OF Puget Sounc
= are Tacoma, Seattle, Port Townsend
and Victoria, The exports of timbe
, from these big towns of the sounc
amount to millions of dollars yearly
No such timber grows elsewhere in tn,
United States. In an area larger thar
the empire Of Germany not crooked
tree can be found, Some of the timbe
, is shipped to China and Japan, but tn,
bulk of it goes to the Sandwich Island
. and interior points of this country
Port Townsend is thrifty village a
, the mouth of the straits, with one Q
. the grandest harbors in tn
world. British war ships com
ing from the north on thei
way to the sea steam past Por
Townsend. The government has al
ready built fortification, and estat
=, lished military post at this point, bu
+ the defenses as they stand to-day woul
> not last long before the fire Of moderl
, ships of battle. Fifty years ago Vic
| tOria was merely depot for the Hud
, son Bay Fur company, Port TQwLaenC
was 4 clump of Indian tents, and tn
:; sites of Seattle and Tacoma were COY
1 cred with fir trees. These towns ar
now growing with incredible speed
: and 1t will not be long before this con-
parativeiy new country along tn
shores of Puget Sound will appear i
the maps of the country with radiatins
lines of railroad and big black star
marking the sites of commercial cen
tCra,
STORIES ABOUT SHEEP.
rwo Bands that Persisted in Fol
lowing the Leader"
Several "sheep men" from the In
land Empire were gathered about tn