Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-12-17
BUILDING A new TOWN.
How Everett, on Puget Sound,
Is Being Evolved From
the Forest.
Biggest Commercial Enterprise
Yet Undertaken in the
Northwest.
A Manufacturing Center Under
Way-ResOurces of West
ern Washington.


Way-ItesOnrces Of West
ern Washington.
The arrival OF the now famous whale
back steamer, the Charles Wetmore, at
Everett, the new city in Washington on
the Puget Sound, is an event of more
than ordinary note. The steamer was
bnilt at West Superior, sailed her first
trip to Liverpool this summer with a
cargo of wheat, returned to New York
and, loaded with materials for the con-
struction Of two vessels ofequal capacity.
again steamed into the ocean bound for
Everett. Washington. and has made the
trip around the stormy waters OF Cape
Horn.
The construction of barges like the
Wetmore, as is now we'll known, promises
to radically change the marine commerce
of the globe. The vessel is called barge
Is built OF steel plates, end her master
and inventor is Capt. McDougall, an
American citizen. A syndicate of capt.
alists has been formed to build feet Of
whalebacks to carry the trade Of the
Pacific ocean, from this country to the
most distant quarters of the world. The
location of this great yard has been made
on a deep fresh water river running into
the beautiful Puget Sound. The work
of erecting this extensive plant has
already been commenced. and 10 few
months hundreds of workmen
will be engaged IN the building
OF such steamers on the Sound.
The place where this work is now going
on has become within short time theme
of intense interest on the sound, and in
fact all over the new northwest. Il has
been announced as the tide water ter
minus of the Great Northern road. and
such place is expected to become for
that system what Tacoma has to the
Northern Pacific. The town Of Everett
was located by asyndicate of wealty men
over year and half ago. When no one
contemplated new city, and when half a
dozen different towns on the sound we're
each claiming to he the terminus Of the
Great Northern, a party of wealthy New
York and Washington capitalists deter
mined to build manufacturing town on
their own account, invite people of all
classes to locate there, and secure if pos
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ment. These plans are now known to
the public, and are rapidly developing.
So secretly was the land obtained upon
which this proposed city is to be built,
that very few knew Of the transfers of the
property or suspected the magnitude OF
the enterprise until the manufactures
began to rise. buildings 60 up, and peo-
pie flock into the new place by hundreds.
The newspapers of the sound, jealous OF
q possible rival, at present refrain from
mentioning the existence Of Everett. 1t
has never been baptised by boom line
of outside advertising. The town adver-
tlses itself in the largeness OF it's projects
and the men behind them. It is claimed
that there is plenty of room on the sound
for another city, to do profitable share
of ocean trade from a water front 600
miles nearer Japan and China than San
Francisco; although as general propo'
si.iou the towns OF that big waterway
are considered already built. Everett,
however, is going to be large town.
The reasons for it are many
and convincing. The Great Northern
railroad crooks its Q bow into the new
place and it is announced that there the
road will first strike tide water with it's
main line. The whole sound is one big
harbor and Everett's location is OF
course satisfactory in this respect. The
townsite Is on peninsula about five
miles long and mile and half wide.
One side and end OF this strip Of land is
washed by navigable fresh water river,
fed from the SHOWS of the Cascades.
Fresh water is great desideratum. 1t
means much to shipmasters and that
plling for wharfs. docks. bridges and
buildings is not effected by the toredo,
9 boring marine insect that destroys
piling by honey -combing it in short
time, and whicn is terror on the Pacific
coast. The site is broad gentle slope
Of ground, overlooking the sound.-a
very different location from Seattle, Taco
ma and other towns built on abruptly
rising bluffs.
The manufacturing enterprises that
were begun before any stir was made are
the chief Inducements to those people now
anxious to invest in Everett. Besides
the barge works which will employ from
three to five thousand men, when fully
under way, there is q nail mill OF lm'
mense proportions contracted for, q sugar