The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-16
DESERT TO PARADISE.
The Exchange Made BY an Inn
migrant ArixOnian.
4 STAMPEDE TO WASHINGTON
Istsresting ralk About the Land u Cas
tuss Recks aad Rosd-Agsats--
The lrondale FURNACE.

tuss Rocks ana Roaa-Agents--
The Irondals rurnacs.
DR.. +. 8. Collins, Of Hagerstown. Nd,
arrived in the city yesterday on the steam
er City of Puebla, having come sround
from New York BY the Panama route on
the steamers City Of Paris and City OF New
York. For several years DR.. Collins has
been phyDician TO the Silver King Mining
Company, but. having wearled Of cactus
and sand, has come to Seattle to locate
Hewas astonished ct the s'xs and activity
OF Seattle. and says there is more building
in progress here than in any city be has
recently visited after tour throughout the
East He said to . Posr.InrxLLrGxxcxR re-
porter:
"A city like this Is great relief after the
monot0ny Of life in an Arizona mining
town. It was place Of about $500 peo-
pie, OF whom about 200 were women. The
company employed about / 100 men in the
silver mine and quartz mill. but the silver
lode has recently run ont and the force has
been cut to about seventy-five men. also
had private practice, extending over .
radius Of about thirty miles, and have
on visit to . single patient. made up
my mind ct the beginning that / would
never be held up by road agent, and
always carried revolver, but one day rs I
was riding along about twelve miles from
the mine. heard shout Hands up and
up they went, for l never gave . thought
70 my gun. was relieved of q gold watch
and chain and . few dollars in change. IL
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ing grows there but cactus, and the trav-
cling IL ill mp one side Of steep mountains
and down the other. Ii you put your
hands on rock to pull yourself up, you
ind 1t full OF cactus thorns. There was
not tree in eight miles of the camp. The
place Is right on the edge Of the Apache
reservation, and whenever We saw an
Apache We had to keep our eyes on him
until he passed out OF sight for fear of be-
ing ambushed by the treacherous savages
The country Is an absolute desert at pres
emit. although where irrigation is practiced
splendid fruit grows. and it might be trans
formed into rich section. As it IL, almost
the only productions are mineral and cat
tie. There is great mineral wealth, but it
cannot be developed until railroads make
1t accessible. About the only way to have
the country made productive as an agri-
cultural section is for the government to
undertake irrigation work on grand scale
from the Colorado, the Gila and the Salt
rivers. The Huskayampi dam. which
burst last spring, was on the Salt river.
But until the sections which do not need
irrigation have been settled up it would be
unnecessary to irrigste such . country,
and the lest thing to do would b to make
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Indians loose in it.
Il passed across the isthmus Just a. they
were settling the war between San Saliva
dor and Guatemala, and there was still
very intense feeling between the people of
those countries. The night we left Pam
anna on the City Of New York, Salvador
ian and . Guatemalan engaged in an argu-
ment which they were about to settle by
duei. The rest Of the passengers inter-
fered and forced them to compromise on q
fist fight They we're having it hot and
heavy In the smoking-room and the Saliva
dorian was getting the best Of it, when six
sisters of the Sacred Heart, who were
going to Guatemala City to nurse
the wounded. came in and
are by far the best soldiers, for they are al.
lans have more Indian blood in them.
The Acapulco, on which Barrundia was
murdered, came up after the City of New
York, so that you have more information
about that affair than l have. Minister
Miner is extremely unpopular among both
the Salvadorians and Guatemalans, as
they regard him as o meddlesome busy
body"
H. Vail v&o kkAk l.
stampede from the Silver King camp to Sc
attic. Theodore H. Daulton, Of Graham &
Daulton, Frank Hunt, the millwright. I.
B. Walker. Frank Atwood, of Fairhaven.
| and several others are all from there. Sew.
eral persons who came on the steamer with
him were from Silver King and were on
their way to Seattle.
NJ. Curtis, manager of the Irondale fur.
mace, near Port Townsend. Is at the Raj.
nier. He says that the furnace will proba-
bly, remain out Of blast until next spring.
by which time he expects to have the 5000
tons of iron now in stock cleared of. tits
being sold by degrees. 700 tons having been
shipped last month to the Southern Pacific
railroad at San Francisco. The owners of
the furnace have been considering the erec-
ton of q rolling mill to convert the pig
iron produ ed by the furnace into mer-
charitable iron. for which large market is
expected to be found on the Sound.
c. L. Hamilton, Pacific coast agent for
the American Construction Company, re-
turned yesterday from San Francisco and
left last evening for Port Townsend,
Coupeville and San de Fuca. In the pro-
cession of the Native Sons OF the Golden
West at San Francisco on Admission day.
he rode in carriage with several friends,
carrying two banners which bore the in.
scription: Seattle, the Queen City, greets
San Francisco, the Empire City. The fire
never touched us, and We are still with
Won Formulation in 1880 O63. popnlatiou