The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-12
sSoHoMrsH AND VICINITY.
A Review of It's Progress for the Last
Three Months.


SsoHoxrsH, Oct. fL-[Special. Despite
the small amount of building done early
in the season, enough has been accom-
plished during the past three months TO
bring the average for this season fully up
TO that of any preceding year.
Street grading has gone steadily forward
ever since last season. Plaskett is still at
work on his large grading contract.
Nearly everything is finished except
Union avenue and Second street. Here
he has force of men at work. Front
street is finished, both the grading and
planking, and it makes beautiful street.
The Cyphers contract for grading avenue
ID, from Front street to the new court
house, is about completed. All this large
amount of grading has added much to the
value of real estate and beauty of the town.
On Front street the Atten q Co. proposed
brick block has, for the present, come to q
standstill. After excavating for a building
the full size of the lot, 1t was found that
waterpipes. buried deeply in the grading,
so they could not be easily removed, at that
place leaked so very badly as to make it
difficult, if not impossible, to build solid
brick wall where this leakage was found.
As the new city water-works another sea-
son will remedy this evil by doing away
with the present water-works, this inn
portant improvement Of Atten & Co. will
be deferred until then.
Hagarty's mammoth four-story block,
near the head of Front street, is now
nearly completed. Kirk, the furniture
dealer, has moved into his new building
on the south side of Front street. This
block is 30x100 feet, over three stories high
and all occupied by Mr.. Kirk. G. III.
Brakeman has purchased the Ault block,
which he now occupies as furniture store,
carrying choice stock of goods.
Between the Ault block and the Kirk
block are four large business houses in
process of erection. One is for the Chicago
store. It Is called the Chicago block.
Tomlin Elwell owns one, William Patter-
son, the shoemaker, another, and James
Burton the one next to the Kirk block.
Still further down Front street Thereon
Ferguson has torn down or moved away q
number of dilapidated buildings. In their
place he Is now putting up three store
rooms each 3ox90 feet, which greatly i'm
proves this part of town. A number of
offices and other smaller buildings have
also been erected on or near to Front
street.
The valuable bridge across Snohomish
river, built for the city by the San Fran
cisco Bridge Company, is completed. The
approaches from the south, being outside
of city limits, will have to be built by
Snohomish county. Full use of the bridge
Is delayed until additional land can be
condemned for this purpose. and contract
let by the county, etc. 1t will take some
time yet before the public receives the
full benefit of this valuable Improvement,
The Three as" road is about all graded
between Everett and Snohomish. Track
laying has begun and the road is COM
pleted for one mile westward from Snoho-
mish. Here Is a trestle now nearly com.
pleted. When finished track will be laid
from there on to the bank of Ebey slough.
When this is done there will be another
delay owing to non-arrival of iron for
bridges across the river and sloughs in the
river Delta. The bridges are mostly
framed, and if the iron was now here. the
railroad to Everett could be quickly COM
pleted. As it Is, some months may elapse
before 1t will be finished.
The city has voted $4,000 and over for
water-works. 1t remains still to sell these
sbonds and build the water-works. Proba-
bly, but little will be done before another
year.
As usual, crops Of all kinds in this vicin-
ity are excellent. Snohomish hops are
but slightly damaged by lice. Many re-
port an extra large yield. Farm lands are
rapidly increasing in value, as we'll as CITY
property. The logger has at least an aver
age season. while all the single mills are
being run to their full capacity. So that,
ali in all. the prospects of this whole re-
gion were never brighter than at present.