The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-17
SEND THE PRODUCTS.
The Best Advertisement Wash
ington Can Have.
FOR ITS WORLDS FAIR EXHIBIT.
MT. C. b. Bagley Writes Intelligently
and with Authority Of Question
OF Immediate Importance.

Oh 1mme0l3to importance
SEATTLE. Aug. is. 1890.
To THE EDITOR: That the state should
make generous appropriation of funds
for proper representation at the Worlds
exposition in 1898 at Chicago of her manu-
features, products and resources. should
need no argument. If the railroad COM
panies 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, holdings. ETC., are few and unim-
portant. Possibly by the time the EXPOSE
ton at Chicago is opened, one or two large
iron and steel plants may be in operation;
but in all the wide range of metal, wool,
silk, cotton, linen, leather. glass, china
ware, cement and other divers workings
we have nothing to exhibit. Practically no
steam engines looms, agricultural, mining,
milling and similar machines and imple-
ments, no railroad engines and rolling
stock, no cotton, linen and silk fabrics, will
be credited to the great state OF Washing
ton. In fact, nearly all that is attractive
in art and manufactures viii be conspicu-
ously absent from our exhibit
Still We have much to show that will be
of interest to capitalists, manufacturers
and laborers, for we have resources suf-
ficient to employ tens of millions of capital
lying idle and waiting profitable investment
in developing our mines of iron, coal, lead,
copper, cinnabar, silver and gold, our banks
of fire clay and mineral paints, our lodges
of slate, marble, and q dozen other build
ing 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, tam
neries, lead, glass and pottery works. boot
and shoe factories, ship yards and car
shops, are all needed here and will find ev-
eryihing ready at hand for profitable use
in their several directions. These will en-
ploy thousands and tens of thousands di-
rectly, and these and their families will in
turn require as many other thousands to
build homes for them and supply their
clothes and food.
Washington has room for q million pros
porous and happy homes. The western
part of the state. particularly, offers unlim-
tied opportunities to the small farmer, the
dairyman. the market gardener. the fruit
grower, and all the filters of the soil who de-
pend upon careful cultivation and dilIgent
labor, rather than upon numerous acres to
provide for their daily wants, and to lay
aside each year the proverbial store for a
possible "rainy day." 1t is these that
make much of the aggregate wealth and
population OF a great commonwealth.
Lands suitable for these purposes are to be
found in every square mile between the
mountains and the sea, and every mount
ain 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 ex-
hibit of all the minerals must be made with
exact information as to where they are to
be found, their actual quantities and work
ing qualities. their position with regard to
transportation lines, nearness to fuel and
water, and the fiuxes and other chemical
agents required in their reduction. Our
limestones, clays, sands, marbles and other
building materials must be gathered and
all the Information that any practical
worker of the same would likely ask must
accompany them. Specimens of our fir,
cedar, pine, larch, spruce, hemlock and
other native woods should be there in pro-
fusion, accompanied by all of the details of
the forests where they grow and the lines
of water and rail transportation to min
and market. The salmon, halibut, herring,
smelt, trout, clans and oysters of our in
land bays and streams and the cod which
throng the waters of the Pacific ocean off
our shores and up to the Alaskan seas,
with all the Information in regard 10 man.
ner and cost of catching, curing or market
ing the same must be presented
with the fu'lness that this inn
portant industry deserves. The hop
industry in all its branches will likely be
given full DISPLAY by the many intelligent
and wealthy men engaged in that large and
growing industry. The grasses that make
all of Western Washington one of the best
dairy,ng regions in the world must have
their place. The wheat, barley, oats and
rye of the vast grain fields of Inland WASH
ington 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 large one and will have its
place there. The apples, pears, plums,
prunes, peaches, grapes and other small
fruits ana berries from both sides of the
Cascade mot ntains can be made to fill and
beautify large department and will at
tract 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 informa-
tibn regarding them outlined above will re-
quire months of intelligent, conscientious
labor on the part of a corps of men, and
the expense of the work connected with it
will necessarily be large. Much of it will
be of q character that no one or two cities
or counties could justly be expected to bear
the burden, and as the whole state will be
benefited the public treasury should fur
nish the necessary funds.
This will be the great opportunity of this
state to attract population of desirable
class hither, and if our legislators do their
duty they will not allow it to pass. At
least $lo0,0o0. and better still $500, 600.
should be appropriated. to be used in in
stallments covering the next three years,
and the increase of taxable property that
will be the direct result from this outlay
will soon repay it ten-fold.
Public spirit, state pride and selt-interest
all demand that Washington shall not be
allowed to make beggarly showing that
will give the lie to the just claims she
makes as offering more varied and impor-
tant Inducements for the industrious lab
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