Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-08-29
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SEATTLE. Aug. IG. lS9l


the Worlds exposition in 1898 at
Chicago of her manufactures, products
and resources, should need no argu-
mcnt. II the railroad companies be
excepted, there are no large firms or
corporations interested or likely to
give much aid, financially or otherwise.
Our manufacturing industries. save
those producing sawed lumber, laths,
shingles, doors, mouldings, etc, are
few and unimportant. Possibly by the
time the exposition at Chicago is
opened, one or two large iron and steel
plants may be i'll operation but in all
the wide range OF metal, wool, silk,
cotton, linen, leather, glass, china-ware,
cement and otherr divers workings We
have nothing to exhibit. Practically
no steam engines, looms, agricultural,
mining, milling and similar machines
and implements, no railroad engines
and rolling stock, no cotton, linen and
silk fabrics, will be credited to the
great state OF Washington. In fact,
nearly all that is attractive in art and
manufactures will be conspicuously
absent from our exhibit.
Still we have much to show that
will be of interest to capitalists, man
ufacturcrs and laborers, for we have
resources sufficient to employ tens Of
millions of capital lying idle and
waiting profitable investment in de-
veloping our mines of iron, coal, lead,
copper, cinnibar, silver and gold, our
banks of fire clay and mineral paints,
our ledges of slate, marble, and dozen
other building stones. Our forests,
fields and mines offer all the crude
materials needed by the manufacturers
OF iron and steel goods OF all kinds.
FIGURING and wooden mills, tanneries,
lead, glass and pottery works, boot and
shoe factories, ship yards and car shops,
are all needed here and will find every
thing ready at hand for profitable use
in their several directions. These will
employ thousands and tens of thous-
ands directly, and these and their fam
lilies will in turn require as many other
thousands to build homes for them and
supply their clothes and food.
Washington has room for million
prosperous and happy homes. The
western part of the state, particularly,
offers unlimited opportunities to the
small farmer, the dairyman, the market
gardener, the fruit-grower, and oil the
tillers of the soil who depend upon
careful cultivation and diligent labor,
rather than upon numerous acres to
provide for their daily warts, and to
lay aside each year the proverbial
store for n possible "rainy day." 1t is
these that make much of the aggre-
gate wealth and population Of great
commonwealth. Land suitable for
these purposes are to be found in every
square mile between the mountains
and the sea, and every mountain stream
is lined with them far up into the
rocky passes.
The part that Washington is to play
is not to show what now is, but what
is to be in the near future. and to do
this a full exhibit of all the mineral
must be made with exact information
as to where they are to be found, their
actual quantities and working quail
ties, their position with regard to
transportation lines, nearness to fuel
and water, and the iluxes and other
chemical agents required in their re-
duction. Our limestones, clays, sands,
marbles and other building materials
must be gathered and all the infor-
nation that any practical worker of
the same would likely ask must ac-
company them. Specimens of our fir,
cedar, pine, larch, spruce, hemlock and
other native woods should be there in
profusion, accompanied by all OF the
! details Of the forests where they grow
and the lines of water and rail trans
portation to mill and market. The
salmon, haliDut, herring, smelt, trout,
CLAIMS and oysters of our inland bays
and streams, and the cod which thronp
the waters OF the Pacific ocean Off our
shores and up to the Alaskan seas,
with all the information in regard to
manner and cost of catching, curing
or marketing the same, must be pre-
sented with the fullness that this inn
portant industry deserves. The hop
industry in all its branches will likely
be given full display by the many in
telligent and wealthy men engaged in
that large and growing industry. The
grasses that make all of Western
Washington one of the best dairying
regions in the world must have their
place. The wheat, barley, oats and
rye of the vast grain fields of Inland
Washington will require immense
space and will, no doubt, be sent there
by the prosperous farmers of that
region. The wool industry of the state
is Il large one and will have its place
there. The apples, pears, plums
prunes, peaches, grapes and other small
fruits and berries from both sides OF
the Cascade mountains can be made
to fill and beautiiy large department
and will attract great attention there
as they are bound to become sources
OF large revenue TO the State in the
near future.
To gather the articles and the in
formation regarding them outlined
above will require months of intelligent
conscientious labor on the part of 8
! cOrDs OF men. and the cypense of thf