, 1891-12-31
greatly to the prosperity and growth Of the

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The advantages of Olympia as the seal
Of manufactures are very great, and will
certainly attract and build up extensive in.
dustries. At the head of navigation of d
great inland sea, with railroads radiatine
TO every point of the compass, her com.
munlcations and facilities for trade both
Il by land and by water are unrivalled.
4 Her factories can draw their supplies OF
materials, especially crude materials such
as ore, stone, clay, brick, lumber, COAL etc.,
at the lowest rates owing to the competition
inevitable between so many roads, and be-
tween them and vessels, and will have the
same advantage in the distribution Of their
Iproducts.
The proposed harbor improvement Of
Budd's Inlet between Olympia and Tum-
water will afford three and half miles of
frontage, counting both sides, on d deep
water way, with lines of railroads along it,
and ample room for buildings and works,
50 that every mill or factory can receive
and deliver its goods at its own gates by
water or by rail at will
i Moreover the Deschutes Falls at Tum-
water are of great value in starting manu-
lactures, and those already underway will
attract others as soon as the country Is ripe
for this branch of industry.
! Even now lumber mill to replace one
recently destroyed by fire, paper and
pulp mill, fruit packing establishment, a
starch factory, g furniture factory, tub,
pail and barrel factory, woolen mill
drain and tile works, and brick making
works would pay well. The citizens Of
olympia, with the liberal spirit which has
always characterized them, stand ready to
| AID by subsidies, or by giving locations, to
any one who will establish such industries.
| DEscHUTEs WATER POWER
The Deschutes river flows through Tum-
water and empties into Budd's inlet at its
southern extremity, two miles above Olym-
pia. 1t rises In lakes at the foothills Of the
Cascade mountains, has a length of thirty
miles, and volume exceeding eight thous-
and cubic feet per minute at the lowest
summer stage, which can be largely in
creased by suitable dams, ETC., on its upper
waters. For quarter Of mile above tide
water the river rushes down a narrow rocky
| canon lowing over lodges of hard basaltic
| rock, and makes total decent Of eighty
two feet to the Sound This decent is
broken into three falls of twenty-six,
twenty-six, and thirty feet respectively.
owing to Its narrow and rock-bonnd bed
the streenl is easily damned and controlled.
saw mill on the upper falls was recent
| ~ destroyed by fire. The middle falls sup
plies the power for the electric lighting sys-
tenn Of Olympia and Tumwater, and also
for fine Touring mill of the latest inn
proved construction.
a tannery, shingle mill, sash and door
factory, and other works are operated by
the lower falls; but only fraction Of the
water power that can be, and ultimately
will be, developed upon these falls is uti-
lized. Besides these the following manu-
facturies are situated in Olympia: Two
lumber mills, two shingle mills, water pipe
manufactory Cunning out great quantities
OF wooden and banded pipe); two brick
yards, furniture factory, planning and
moulding mill, sash and door factory,
foundry, and number OF smaller indus
tries.
HARBoR IMPROVEMENTS.
Budd's inlet affords one of the best har-
bors On the Sound, perfectly land-locked,
with ample depth Of water, but not too
deep, which extends to within mile of the
city. From this distance to the town the
water shoals rapidly at low tide, but at high
tide there is depth enough for the Sound
steamers and vessels. A long wharf has
been constructed to accommodate them at
low water, and al mean, or high water,
they land at wharves in the city. The state
board OF harbor commissioners will recon-
mend an appropriation for the improve
ment of Olympia harbor, one of two only
they propose to recommend, Bellingham
bay being the other. The engineer bureau of
the army also recommends an improve
provement by dredging broad channel,
etc. The senators and representatives of
the new state are deeply in earnest in urg-
ing an appropriation for this improvement
and it will in all probability be made in the
next harbor and river bill The state also
devotes three-quarters of the money de-
rived from the sale of tide flats to the inn
provement of the harbor.
STATE CAPITAL.
By an overwhelming vote Of the people
under the provisions Of the constitution,
Olympia was made the permanent capital
OF the state, and cannot be divested Of it
except by an amendment of the constitu-
tion itselS.
Congress has endowed the new state with
one hundred and thirty-two thousand
acres of land for the erection of suitable
capital buildings, and this ~princely grant,
worth today one and a half million dol
lars, and rapidly increasing IN value, in
sures the erection OF capitol worthy
state of such boundIess resources and mag
nificent future.
The capital Of such state as Washing
ton would alone suffice to build up no
mean city. The permanent residence of
the governor and state officers, the seat Of
the United States land and surveyor-gen-
erals offices, the place of meeting of the
legislature, the supreme court, and many
state boards, must attract considerable
population. Olympia, too, is a city of
homes, Of school, of gardens, and fruit
trees and shade trees, city which draws
uisitors, and attracts families of means and
refinement, families with children to school
and bring up. as place of residence.
There is no reason to doubt that Olympia
in the next ten years will become city Of
$4,000 population. She may not become
great seaport and commercial center like
Seattle or Tacoma, but she will be second
to them alone.
Perhaps no more satisfactory evidence
can be found than the opinions Of men Of
known ability and wide experience, and
certainly none are keener nor more OBJ
servant than the managers Of the great
railroad system. The fact that so many
lines have made Olympia their objective,
shows clearly the confidence these able
men have in her future growth,
Another opinion, prophetic and remark
able, because made at q time when the
town was extremely dull and depressed,
being completely side-tracked by the North
ern Pacific railroad, was uttered by Gen.
Sherman in a brief speech to the citizens,
when he visited Olympia some years ago.
Gen. Sherman then told his somewhat sur
prised auditors that Olympia was a natural
strategic and commercial point, and that
one of the greatest cities on the Sound
would ne,day grow up here.
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