The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-07
THE PASSING THRONG,

W.. B. Wilson, OF Vancouver, B. c., 10 stopping
az the Rainier. MIR. Wilson was one of the pio-
neers in this region, and in 1861 went up to the
Caribou mines in British Columbia at the time
OF the great boom in thas country. 81 believe
said he, ''thas the farther north one goes the
better the mines will be found, and / think the
Caribou country will come to the front again as
great producer of the precious metals. That
was a wonderfully rich country la the early
oays. l have seen miners get twenty ounces of
goid TO the pan whiia scraping the bedrock.
But it cost q great deal to live up there. Flour
was sl.5o a pound. and everything else in pro-
forlon. In consequences, mines which would
not pay one or two ounces q day were aban-
ooned. The little ranches scattered along the
valleys, which perhaps paid their owners neatly
Is large prolts "a did the mines, one By one were
deserted as the vast tide of prospectors, traders,
speculators and gamblers, which flowed in
curing the Fraser river excitement, gradually
suns!oed. a great trunk road was
Quilt and still later, when the Canadian Pacific
was completed, the cost of supplies was re-
duced, when tae com paratively poorer proper
Ties were worked, and Chinese are now making
money up there on the Cd abandoned placers.
There have been one or two excitements started
ABOUT rich quartz discoveries, but the cost of
working them has prevented their DEVELOPMENT.
In the early days there was no prospecting done
Tor silver, and there is NO reason why rich ores
OF that metal should not be found there also. If
the Canada Western road should be built as
Outlined the line would wind around the big
oeao OF the Fraser and cross the Rockies
through ~fellowhead pass to the north fork of
tie saskatchewan and thence east to Fort
Churchill, on Hudson bay. This road would
almost circle the Cariboa country, and thereby
render the cost OF living there cheap"
Road Supervisor W. 4. Van Dusan, of Cherry
Valley, was in the city yesterday, registered at
the Diiier. live only twenty-five miles from
front street., yet the onir thing we have to do
Win this city is to come here and pay our taxes.
We sell all our produce IN Snohomish, because
We have no means of communication with this
city by road. 1t costs Us s42l q ton to ship hay
20 Seattle by boat. And get we are not neglected
by the county commissioners. It only illus
trafes that this section Cannot be developed in u
day. We have built a f,w neighborhood roads
In our section, and done it cheerfully. I built
q road four miles long with five bridges for
ooout $500, and still some people kick, but l
notice that the people WAC do the most kicking
about tho expenditure OF public moneys are
usually that Class who pay little or no taxes"
w. W. Dedman. of Port Angeles, deputy
sheriff OF Clallam county, was in the city yester.
day, registered at the Grand. "One result of
Inc recent election was very gratifying to the
people Of our county," said he, sand that is
that more votes were cast in our county than In
Jefferson county. Heretofore in the conventions
OF both parties Jefferson had q prepouderatiny
voice as regards affairs il our section"
Claude Catch, son OF Prof. Catch, of the state
university, vas elected mayor of salem, Or, Oh
the Republican ticket yesterday. Mr.. Catch
has many friends here and paid this city a visit
only a few days ago.
Mrs. William Wallace, Mrs. E. G. Ames aud
Mrs. CraIner came over from Port Gamble yester-
day to attend the opera and are registered atths
Rainier.
d. A. Jackson and Rsv. s. d. Belt, of Wood
land. Cal, are guests of the Grand. Mr.. Jack
son is a prominent raiEin grower of that sec
ton,