Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16

Realizing the fact that no city car
long be sustained merely on real es
tate boom, be set himself TO work to
introduce and encourage manufactures,
and to develop the natural resources OF
the country, build roads &c. with the
promise of gratifying results. Some
real estate agents seem imbued with the
idea that all that is required for build
ing a city is rapid sale of lots; or, at
at least, they seek to convey that i'm
preston. In fact some are even accused
of lying, but as class they are sim
ply artists who are given to coloring
their pictures little high. Said a
young man after being here two days:
'They have the biggest liars here in the
worldr' OF course it need hardly be
said that he was from the effete down
east" where baked beans are legal ten
der, and had met a few real estate
passenger agent of the {. n. & w. rail
road. For systematic lying one of this
fraternity will discount all the real es-
tate men in Seattle, as many of the lat
ter are truthful men. / have never yet
heard an imputa,ion against the meth
DDS of Langridge or Mccoy, former
Lancaster boys now dealing in real es-
tate in Seattle. And this suggests
another question so often asked: do
you think the investments made by our
Grant County friends in Seattle proper
ty safe?' In my judgment. yes. Seat
tie will be the metropolis of the coast in
time, or at the least second only to San
Francisco. Its commercial facilities
are unsurpassed, while the country is
rich in its timber and its agricultural
and mineral resources yet to be devel-
oped. DO think the climate good for
bronchial and pulmonary troubles?
Emphatically, yes. The bracing at
mosphere whether purified by the
salt sea breeze or the mountain SHOWS.
and laden with a resinous balm from
the evergreen forests seems healing to
the lungs. As proof of this | would
mention that few weeks since / net
Eugene Wise, who will be remembered
as former Hurricane boy, Lieut.. in
the 25ih and later Capt. in the 49th
Wis. regiments. He came to this state
fifteen years ago, pronounced by his
doctors incurably gone with consump-
ton. He is now strong and well, look
ing almost as young as he did quarter
OF century ago. He has been sheriff
and treasurer of his county, and is now
prosperous merchant at Goldendale.
Had Cooper and Longfellow drawn
their material for sketching Indian life
and selected the Siwashes of this coast
as models, their delineahons would have
been less attractive, as the average ST.
wash falls far below their conception of
the noble red mar. His movements
are about as elastic as those of an ALI
gator. and his highest ambition and best
energies are expended in chasing down
and capturing the frisky clam. A IA
miliar figure is old Angelina. the prin-
cess daughter of the old chief Seattle.
as she walks the streets, stopped under
her burden of a hundred and two years.
Yet her step is about in cadence with
that of the average buck as he tramps
through the streets followed by his
squaw bearing her basket of clans.
Well. take it all in all, how do like
the country? Fairly well-so well. in
fact, that | sometimes fear that | may
develope into boomer. Still can see
draw backs which others will not adj
NIT, and | even 90 so far as to doubt if
Utopia is located on Puget Sound.
Even here people complain of hard
times and many cannot lind employment
who honestly seek it. Yet there is a
spirit of enterprise and push here that
is unknow in the older states. This
dash and daring so characteristic of the
west give it an additional charm, as they
add kind of exciting interest in pass
ing events, and keep one from dropping
into the old wagon ruts of humdrum
life Yet il is hard to break old ties
and sever the associations of life time;
so while never for a moment entertain
ing feeling of homesickness, we can
not but gaze on the dear old faces so
indelibly photographed on memory's
tablet as they pass before our mental
vision; so with tear for the dead and a
heartfelt. "God bless you" for the liv-
ing. will say good bye.
II. S. KEENE.
Seattle, Wash, June 2Sth. 1891.
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