The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-18

great tin boflers A constant stream of negroes
poured In and out Of here at noon ana supper
time carrying the rations for themselves or the
mess of which they were members to their
quarters. Lumber was hauled in and the erec-
ton of sheds for the kitchen and 70 quarter the
negroes for whom their was no room, began
and was pushed with great rapidity.
Franklin is blessed with one of the most
beautiful sites in Washington, though IL is the
last place real estate man would choose for
TOWNSHIP. II ciings TO the steep side of q noun
tain which rises preeipitously from the right
bank of the raging. roaring, tumbling Green
river. The main part of the town is so high up
the mountain that the railroad has to crawl up
the side to the tail OF Y ana then turn back
again TO reach the required elevation. The
struggling main street has In one place been cut
out OF the hillside, and the level space thus &C
CURED is 80 narrow that the houses on the lower
side have one wall almost hanging over the
edge OF precipice, while on the other side the
houses are perched high up on the steep banks.
Ia other places this street has been widened out
by the dumping OF earth cut from above and OF
refuse from the mine, and the schooihouse has
by this means been gifted with a respectable
play ground.
The lower town is on level bench which is
reached from above by flights OF steep, uneven,
wooden stairs. about 100 feet high, hanging
from the face CT the rocky cliffs. AT several
points along these cliffs small waterfalls leap to
join the torrent below, breaking into white foam
1 In their mad descent The houses in the lower
town are blessed with space for gardens and pre-
sent charming appearance rs one looks down
on their roofs from the heights above.
Beyond, TO the south, mountain rises above
mountain in glorious confusion, each one
higher than and differently formed from, the
one in 'front.' while the farthest ridge in sight
rises fully 1900 feet above the river, bis summit
fortified by rocky parapet in whose crevices
patches of snow still lodge. Green river rushes
between two great walls of rock, which in
places on the opposite bank rise TO great
height and show dark and forbidding
as some prison through the foliage OF the
overhanging forest. It's bed 10 filed with giant
rocks. which its restless waters have worn into
nll manner of fantastic forms. At the eastern
end Of the town the stream is crossed by hand.
some bridge, over which the invaders came,
and from the standpoint of the lover of grand
scenery. the site could not have been better
chosen stream tumbles down the precip-
itous mountain on the left bank Just below the
bridge, and then spreads itself like snow-white
lace over the face of perpendicular rock which
confines the turbulent torrent Above the
bridge the river rushes in boiling rapids among
great powders and between perpendicular cliffs
hundreds of feet high.
From the western end Of the town Mount
Rainier can be seen, forty miles distant, due
south, towering above the intervening ridges
like giant, his whiteness forming n beautiful
contrast TO their rich, dark green covering.
1t is into such q scene that discord has in
truded.