Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-12
PRIDE OF THE COAST.
Citizens of Washington State Boast.
full of the Greatness of
THEIR BEAUTIFUL TWIN CITIES.
Seattle Wonderful Example of Western
Thrift and Enterprise.
VAST RESOURCES OF THE SUNSET LAND
lcoRRKspoNpExcE OF THE p1spArcz

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPATCHI
SEATTLE, May 6.-There is but on
Seattle. Would you see town in whicl
development keeps page with resources, am
bilious projects with material prosperity
town which has made greater strides durin,
the past year than any other north OF Cali
fornia and west of the Rocky Mountains;
If so, you must come to Washington, fo
here is the magic city of seven letters anG
three syllables found-Seattle-a town O
varied and exhaustless resources, place II
which one can find plenty of chances tt
make money, and, better still. to spend it
Even if the Seattle man dies young in
years, he has lived long. He lives more in
10 minutes than most people do in an hour.
He knows how to live, too. All that is
worth seeing he sees. He is an enterprising
article and as ''elear as hounds tooth. u
The sign, power to let" seems written
upon his comprehensive brow.
Washington is immensely proud of her
| twin cities, as they are called, Tacoma and
Seattle. 1t is difficult to say to which she
yields precedence. Seattle does not depend
upon any one resource for her future growth
and success. Consequently the young man
who here enters the arena of action cannot
complain of her lack of adaptability to his
chosen trade, business or profession.
NAMED AFTER A WOMAN.
The city takes its name from Angeline
Seattle, an early pioneer of feminine prog
ress, and a woman whose ways were kindly
and gracious as "the aims deeds which she
did" bear witness. Many cities in the Mis-
sissippi Valley have grown into CONNER
cial fame by having centered in them an
immense grain trade. The growth of the
cities of Pennsylvania is chiefly due to her
vast iron interests. The mines have given
the towns OF Colorado their precedence In
California all cities of metropolitan impor-
tance have sprung up in a few years in re-
gions where the fruit industry is the chief
resource and financial reliance.
But Seattle has all of these resources COM
bined. She manufactures iron, handles
grain, converts timber into merchantable
lumber, raises fruit for market, develops the
mining OF precious metals, exports and i'm
ports the products of other countries, and
her natural location is such that these are
not her only resources. A city like Seattle
that can sustain $4,000 people and grow
5000 year must have facilities for employ
ment at once varied and almost limitless.
1t hiss been said that the future of the new
State of Washington lies in China, Japan
and Corea. Here youth and age meet face
to face.
THE NEWEST CIVILIZATION
of the entire world looks over the Pacific at
the oldest Here the picturesque Asiatic
hobnobs with the uupicturesque, but wide
awake American. Into the heart of the
sunset land the people of Washington look
for their future riches The Asiatic coast
imports annually over $500, ,000 900 of goods.
The greater part of this trade gets into En-
glandi but Seattle people claim that most of
this wealth will eventually come to Ameri-
can shores. Natural laws will drift the traffic
to the Pacific coast, as distance saved is in
favor of the Americans. 1t is this outlook
which makes Seattle sanguine of great
future success.
Since the fire of June Seattle has seemed
to be endowed with new life and vigor.
am told that $40, 600, 900 at the lowest repre-
sent the cost of buildings now constructed
Like Chicago, fire has no power seemingly
to kill Seattle-it but kindles, but inspires.
Three miles of costly buildings have
recently been erected. Seattle is the
center of a great wheat field which
produces annually over 10000, 900 bushels
of wheat. The city is truly the commercial
center of Washington. A s., 500, 900 iron
and steel plant has lately been added to the |
city's important manufacturing interests.
Her resources in coal, soapstone, lime and |
building stone, marble, slate as well as gold,
silver and copper are unsurpassed in the
West There can be no limit to growth |
when there is no limit to resource.
wAsHINGToN's RIG FORESTS.
1t will not be long before Western Wash
ington will become known as The country of |
crops. 1t has been said that there is suf- |
fcient timber growing to support the people |
of Washington for at least a century. Such |
enormous trees one has never before seen in |
this section of the world. II is no uncom-
mon thing for lumbermen to ship beams 200 |
feet in length. They generally have to he |
shortened, however, owing to difficulty in |
There are several vessels
in Puget Sound, as long as 130 feet built OF
timbers which run from stem to stern. not
one of them spliced. Spars and masts are
in Seattle and sent to foreign
countries-toN North Africa, Spain and South
America.
Last summer during the forest fires
enough timber was burnt off Western
Washington, in the vicinity of Seattle, to
pay off more than the national debt. Yet.
in this vast lumber district, its loss was not
even felt. There are nearly 10000. 900
acres of timber land in Western Washing
ton, and the saving and shipping of lumber
finds its center in this busy and
city. Idle hands here mus.
necessarily be the fault of idle brains. En-
thusiasm helps enthusiasm.
Cities, like people, prove an inspiration
to each other. One bit of individual iptiu-
ence goes further than we think; ever cir
cling and widening, Seattle feels the fire of
Tacoma. Tacoma catches the glow OF Seat
tie. The latter being larger town has
doubtless more distinctive-perhaps enter
The twin cities, how
aver, are rivals in the best sense of the word
each seeking to prove its Americanism bv
It's push, thoroughness and dauntless cour-
age. How we'll each succeeds, the events of
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