The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-12
AHEAD OF SURVEYS.
Settlers Crowding Into Timber
and Farming Lands.
WAITING ron THE GOVERNMENT.


Mr. William r. Brown, Of Ortzne, i q
the Snoqaaamis hotei. He Vas formerly
county surveyor. his term ending I year
aso last March. At present he Il engaged
IN locating claims. In talking Of the mat
Ter Of immigrants to this stste he said last
night to Posr-IxrELI1sExcER reporter:
The people are filing up the
country very rapidly. more rapidly than /
hase ever before seem I've been . sur
veyor in Wisconsin, Minnesots and the
Dakotas. and know that there
the government surveys always
used TO keep far ahead Of the
settlers. When the immigrants would
come they would find the land Ill surveyed
Tor Them II Vas fourteen years ago that
1 came here and settled In Snohomish
county. There was no great rush Tor
Washington land then. Ten years aeo I
vas the 6nohomish county surveyor, and
know Of beautiful timber and farming
land within two or three miles OF the town
which was unclaimed. You had almost TO
COAX people to 80 out and take it But nov
the case - reversed. Ever since Willard
came the people have been rushing in by
thousands. Practically al Of the SURVEYED
land on the Sound Is taken, and the settlers
are pushing into the uusurveyed town
ships. When the time comes TO survey Z
township We ind that the land is already
taken up Men go into the woods long be-
fore surveys are made and settle on lands.
waiting tor the surveyors to come in. In
tact. the immigrants are settling the coun-
try IS fast rs ever they can.
There has been some difficulty in get
ting surveys made on account Of the low
rata which the. government offers: but /
understand that through the efforts OF our
congressional delegation, the rate has been
raised: surveying in this heavily INBRED
region is 80 hard that extra pay should pe
given for it. Now there viii not be such
trouble IN getting surveys made, and the
land will be settled even more rapidly.
They say tbst two-thirds Of the people
here live IN the towns and cities-a pro-
portion which Is not healthy. But the
thing viii correct itself. for, as / said,
people are getting into the country Is
rapidly - possible"
DR.. T. X. Losee. Of Red Hook. NY.
and Mr.. William n. Johnson, of POUCH
keepsie, who are at the DiIer. are making
. pleasure trip through the Northwest.
They come from Duchess county, which
IL probably the richest, most fertile and
most highly cultivated part of the famous
Hudson valley. DR.. Losee, in speaking Of
the country, said yesterday: "Of course
your land IL not yet reduced to cultivation
. ours Is, but with what / have seen Of it
SIN delighted am afraid you are ahead
OF Us. though Duchess county is my home,
to which my heart turns in spite Of the
aiiurements Of the growing West
Mr.. George Hazard. of Tacoma, secre-
tary Of the Democratic state central com.
mittee, Was IN the city yesterday. He says
his committee is hard ct work; but it is
evident that he is not even a. hopeful a
Thomas Carroll. who processes to believe
that he has . fighting chance for election
to congress.
Mr.. Robert B. Wade. New York bust
ness man. who arrived at the Rainier hotel
yesterday, said: Pm not an expert in
cities, and I've made no examination Of
Seattle; but It Is easy to see that this place
Is much more advantag eously placed than
Tacoma"
Mr.. James Spiers, one of the proprietors
of the Fulton iron works, of San Francisco.
IS at the Rainier hotel with his wife. Mr..
Spiers spent . day or two in the city 4
short time ago on his way to victoria TO
meet Mrs. Spiers, who has just returned
from the East
Mr.. Charles E. Brown. of Chicago. is at
the Rainier. Mr.. Browns father is super-
intendent of the Pullman sleeping car ser.
vice throughout the country.