The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-16

Mutual Liz Insnfanco Company. a Eew
xofk He = looking Over the agencies ID
snas Part q tho country. Atone time be
49, s9itor of the Chillicothe Cbnsfitssjon.
me lie insurance companies seem 70 b
doine "a excellent business IN this place, !,
sald hs yesterday.
Nj. William Burd, OF the Burd-Stuyyes-
ant Company, Of St Louis, i ct the Rainienl
Motel I've watched this country some
wnat, said BE last evening, sand am
convinced that you have something sub
ssantiai. For my part, however, believe
Ct. Louis = very good city in which to
invest money. Chicago Is ahead Of rs. We
may - well acknowledge that gracefully:
but By the next census We shali annex !
number Of outlying towns that are really
part OF St Louis, and so our total Of
population will be swelled considerably.
Inc increase according to the last census
Was y per cent, which Is net bad.
The way the railroads are coming in
the Union Pacific, the Northern Pacific,
the Great Northern and the Canadian Pa
enc Tor Whatever terminal any Of these
roads may choose for the sake Of land
speculation. each will be bound to tap Seattle
iof the sake Of the business done here. So
Jon VIII get the great advantage of compe-
tition IN your freight rates. You know
that any agreement the roads may make
IN rates. they will every now and then begin
cutting, and IL is q fact that rates are al
Ways little lower after every rate war.
This competition between various trans
continental lines will give you what Cali
fornia lacks. That state is in the hands OF
the Southern Pacific, which brushes out all
factories trying to supply the home market.
The Southern Pacific wants to bring AZ
much manufactured stuff from the East a.
possible, and so factory started at San
Francisco, unless it makes stuff which viii
be shipped East, IL hampered by rates prac-
ticaily prohibitory on its imported supplies.
Your factories will not havesuch an obstacle
to contend with.
I should think factory for making fer
tiliseTs and glue out OF offal would paw
here. You will soon begin to use fertil-
ixeys here on the land which has been the
longest under cultivation. You could not
use all the glue here, but you could send it
East - San Francisco factory is doing,
that now pays very we'll. The glue stock
= gotten cheaply. of course, and the I'm
ished product can be sold cheaply."
Mr.. Horace E. Mann, of Bisbee, Arizona.
y at the Snoqualmie hotel. He is travel
ing for his health 1t present ssYou are
proud of your country" said he. ''but
Arizona Il > pretty good state. / know
men who 60 all over, but they like Arizona
about IS well - any place they find. We
ere doing . great deal in the way of irri-
eating, and in the salt valley We are raising
very fine crops.
Am . relative OF Horace Mann, the
famous educatorf Yes, he was my grand
fathers brother, and he died in 1859, the
same year that was born. am from
Massachusetts,, but left there for Arizona
sixteen years ago"
When the writer was lad in school ten
or twelve years ago, the picture of Horace
Mann was one Of the few decorations on
the walls. Horace Mann was father of the
public school system in Massachusetts,, and
was one Of the best known men OF his
state. He was voluminous writer on
educational topics. and il still revered by
many as the patron saint Of public schools
in America.
Mr.. n. Kelly, of Sunnydale, . hop buyer.
II now ct the Enoqualmie hotel. 1.-The hop
market II little dull, !" he said, '.for the
contractors are getting their purchases to-
eether. There il good chance that hops
may 60 yet higher. but think the brewer
ies have large stocks which win last for
some time yet The cost of raising hops
this year Was about cents . pound, and
30 every one made . good profit, while
those selling for over 30 made enormously.
Still the hop louise, which was new thing
this year, caused considerable losses. Hops
this year were not SO strong as last, for the
early season was rainy and cloudy. Thus
it happened that they had less Sunlight,
and the sun is the thing which gives
strength and favor"
Mr.. Morgan Morgans. superintendent of
the Black Diamond mines, is stopping with
his family at the Snoqualmie hotel. "Our
mines are going along without any diff
Guilty since the wages of the men were
raised Is per cent" said he. 81 did not
make the increase till Saturday. So far as
can see there is no reason for expecting
any further trouble. Whether the price of
coal will be put up at once l cannot say.
That viii largely depend upon the action
taken at San Francisco. At present there
is brisk demand for our coal, and there
has been for some months on account of
the small output from other mines"