The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-15

lily in Duluth and is OF middle age. War
ner is about 30 years old and has q family
here. Physicians say that Jordan's
chances of recovery are about even.
PROGRESS OF sNOHoMISH.
A Review OF Its Industrial Development
in the Last Quarter.
SNoHoMIsH. July 1.-THE estimates given
some three months ago. in an article
written by myself for the PosT-ISrELIr-
GEYcER concerning the PROBABLE amount
OF business and improvements OF this place
realized that, at present, it is unnecessary
TO itemize and set forth the several i'm
provements now under way.
The Robinson-C yphers block is the most
important business house completed
within the past three months. 1t is two
stories, with cellar underneath, neatly and
tastefully finished and fitted up and cost
$4,000
Excavations are now completed and
brick on the ground for the Burns brick
block, which will soon be in process of
construction. 1t will contain two stories
and basement and will cost 1900 With
brick as high priced as one year ago it
would have cost $4,000. 1t is q valuable
Improvement for the town.
A great many residences worth from
$500 to 81 500 each, to say nothing of less
costly dwellings, have been built this season
and more are nnder way. ]. s. White, the
skillfur architect and builder, reports that
he is ready to commence work on three
fine residences. each of which will cost
about $4,000 One viii be the property of
J. H. Plaskett, and another viii become
the home of Hon. Samuel Vestal. A large
number OF fine residences, worth from
$3,000to 5000 each. haYe been built in
Snohomlsh during the past two years.
MANUFACTURERS.
Ou the whole the progress has been ex-
cellent among the productive industries of
this place and vicinity. The different de-
partments of Blackman's big mills are
about completed and at work. The main
mill has been saving for several months
past. They seem to have successfully met
and overcome the many difficulties in the
way OF quickly building SO large concern.
All the lesser milling enterprises are being
rapidly completed, or are at work doing
good work, except the NolI shingle mill
and the Snohomish Lumber Company
mill.
Mr.. Noll was good business man, but
lacked experience in the mill business. He
acquired valuable real estate, put up
good building and filled it with costly ma
chinery. but the various parts were so ad-
justed that it could not be run SO econom-
ically as many less costly establishments.
After running it awhile he tried leasing it.
This was not altogether satisfactory to
himself or to those running it. Finally he
sold IL and went to making money in real
estate and otherwise, at which he has been
quite successful. This mill has not been
running since last winter.
The Snohomish Lumber Company was
started nearly one year ago by Messrs,
Stevens, Dow, Ordway and Boyd. They
began saving last fall. just after Black
mans mills were burned. The men who
started it were industrious, prudent men.
skilled in the work they had TO do. The
market was excellent, and many things
seemed in their favor. Soon after starting
Ordway and Boyd withdrew from the con-
Germ. This left Dow and Stevens to carry
the burden alone, with insufficient capital.
Hence the failure. Had they had longer time
10 handle the business before they were
compelled to settle for machinery, ETC..
possibly they would have come out all
right. The mill is soon to be sold, when it
probably will be successfully run by other
hands than its first projectors.
POPULATION.
Like other places. Snohomish can CON-
plain that the census does not fairly set
forth her claims TO population. The
boundaries of the city of Snohomish do
not include any settlers or citizens living
or working in South Snohomish. 1t was
taken when nearly all the semi-tsans;ent
lumoermen, whose only home is Snoho-
mish. were away from town. working in
the various camps on the river. The CEN
sus enumerators also failed to find many
citizens. Thus today, an old settler, whose
home is a few miles above Snohomisl, and
who has lived there almost from the first
settlement of the county. told me how the
census taker had failed to call on himself
or his family, and a number of his neigh
bors. Upwards of dozen persons in that
settlement were not counted. While the
official census makes it much less yet
within one mile of the business center of
Snohomish there is at present population
of fully 5000 inhabitants.
TRADE AND BUSINESS.
Money has not been over-pien,iful and it
is not a boom year in business. Logging Is
not especially active, and the advance in
real estate the past two years has locked
mp an undue share of money in real estate
and its Improvement. Still, despite all
these things, business has steadily in
creased. Its volume largely exceeds that
Of 1889.
Many prophesied that when the railroad
should be completed across Snohonlish
county and the city OF Snohomish should
become way station OF the Seattle. Lake
Shore < Eastern Railroad Company, that
then sr~iiroad business and importance
would rapidly decrease. Such has not
been the fact. The receipts for freight and
passenger traffic at this station are now
ab9u. $4,000 per month, and rapidly in
c.easing. Several steamboats, are also en-
ployed on the river, which do a very large
business in addition to that done by the
railroad company. ELBRIDsE MoRsE.