Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1890-07-31
THE NORTHWEST.
Thriving Cities ON the Northern Pa
ci.ic Railroad.


Thriving Cities on the Northern Pa
cl.lc Railroad.
PORTLAND, OREGON, JJLY 4, 1890.
Special Correspondents,
To take up the thread of my journey
somewhat will say our trip from Helena
to Tacoma was with out incident, though
the scenery is remarkably fine, especially
along the Clark's Fork and is eliminated
by the extremely fine scene spread before
the admiring tourist at Hope, Idaho
Lake Pende Reille lies at the base of the
road bed (Which winds about the noun
tain side for niles and is thickly studded
with islands of all fantastic Shapes and
sizes AT Hope we run our watches back
one hour to correspond with Pacific time
making difference OF two hours between
the time Hand county people 60 TO diA-
ner aud those ON the Pacific coast We
arrived at Tacoma after hot days jour.
$3.50 a. NJ, and at once went to the Ia
coma" to finish our nights rest. This ho-
tel is very nicely located on high bluff
over looking the barber, it is built very
solidly and has good service with reason
able rates. Being called early we took
the boat OLYMPIA one Of the N T. COM
panies finest steamers on the Sound. for
Victoria, b. G. The day was all could be
desied The trip through the peaceful
waters of Puget Sound was most delight
full and exhilenting We touched at
Seattle and Port Townsend en- -route, and
arrived about ) p. NJ, on British soil
| Seattle has rebuilt most rapidly since It's
disasterous Are of 1889 and many changes
have taken place, prominent among them
being the widening OF the principal bust
ness streets. The population is about
prises are all well represented and doing
we'll. Port Townsend could not be seen
very well from the docks, and the fact OF
an ocean steamer With a big Raymond ex
cursion party bound for jaunt to Alaska
being tied up to the dock by us deferred
| our party from leaving the docks for the
half hour We were there. There were too
many interesting scenes among the pass
engers to be missed and we concluded to
stop on cur way back to see the town
more thoroughly. The population is
about GO0O.
Victoria is most beautifully located at
about %, 900 population, is remarkable for
its scenery aud historical points. but we
all concluded that the town lacked some
thing usually seen in an American
are too slow and hesitate to adopt Amer
lean ideas. The English Government
has naval station here and one or more
men-o-war are always In port or on the
ing completed is the main point of inter-
est among buildings in Victoria. II be-
longs to the estate of the Earl OF the
same name and will cost near two million
when finished. The people seem pros.
porous at all points visited by our party
and each point with pride to their own
town as an example of what united
energy towards The common good will do
for them. Seattle for instance has shown
much nerve and pluck in the way she bas
rebuilt and she has had yet one more big
fire, bat a few days ago they had $780,
900 blaze, but the people are going ahead
together and good toS II will yet show
up as the result.
From Victoria we went through to Port
land with out stop and one has no idei
OF the city they Will find till they ge
here. 1t is the only well developed city
west of st. Paul and north Of San Fran
CISCO The buildings are large, bull
we'll, and with the wide well improves
: streets go to make beautiful city. Re
gading the population ii is estimated thi'
census will return all OF $4,000. As
proof Of the prosperity of the people anC
that nothing is over dcne | will mention
first that the volume of wholesale trade
alone last year amounte to Si27 900 600
SOS, 900, 600 being the capital employed
The baLk clearirgs for 1889 averaged nea
: $500, 600 daily and there is room TO
more capital in the business. No item
regarding the retail trade can be had
this time. And as for laborers. help, etc
can only say that pick up any daily pa
per and il is noticeable that the "heil
wanted" is much larger than "employ
ment wanted" Last week | carefully
: noticed that only 10 both sexes sd
yertised for situations, and in city o
Z this size that is good showing.
must stop now, and like the week..
naper stories continue in our next"
: II.