, 1892-11-01
PE0PLEARE COMING.
The Puget Sound Country in An
other Decade.
Two Great Arteries of Commerce
SOOn:tO be Opened, Which Will
RevOIutiOntze Things--A Great
Chance In Washington.

Special Correspondence of The Tribune.
WASHINGTON, D. O., November Let US
turn for moment from politics to business
and contemplate the state of Washington,
particularly the Puget Sound country, a
few years hence, when commerce will be
revolutionized by the completion of two
immense arteries now in course of con-
struction, both of which are attracting the
attention of Europe and Asia, as well as
America. Both are far greater reaching in
the wonderfully good effects they will have
on the United States, than anything that
has occurred since the destruction of
slavery, and both will make Puget Sound
the greatest shipping port of the world.
One is the completion of the Great Russian
railway from Vladivostak, Siberia, north
of Yokohama, Japan, to Moscow, a dis
tance of 5000 miles; the other is the com
pletion of the Nicaragua canal.
VladiYostak is less than two weeks sail
from Puget Sound and is 600 miles nearer
to the Sound than to any other port of this
country, and the commerce of the United
States now flowing to Russia via New
York, Liverpool and st. Petersburg, will
go direct from the state of Washington.
VIC 1lAO L ttoAhS OONdllt W lduANO5bdht duul-
hilating both time and space, important
factors in the race for commercial suprem-
acy. Russia intends to build this road in
five years time. 1t will be the longest rail-
road in this world and will open vast
country which must be supplied with the
products of America.
What wonders the opening of a waterway
across the Central American isthmus will
accomplish for the vast shipping interests
of the state of Washington is not matter
of conjecture. 1t is certain that many new
markets will be opened and that tremen-
dous business boom will be inaugurated
In less than another decade, both of these
commercial transformations will,Occur, and
tits for this very reason that the great trans
continental railroads of the country are
pushing into Washington, piercing the Cas-
cades with tunnels, and establishing their
terminals on the placid waters of the Sound.
See what an effect, all this is going to
have on the state of Washington. The
increase in population of the last ten
years will be nothing in comparison to
the tremendous influx of people from all
parts of the country-peOple whose eyes
will be opened to the immense possibilities
of Washington, by the exhibit which will
be made at the world fair in Chicago next
year. The greatest manufacturing city of
the country will certainly grow up on Pu-
get sound, because all the conditions are
there to build it. 1t is growing now, but
how tremendously great will be its growth
when we begin to send the wheat, -four,
hops, timber coal aud other products by
The new channeB of trade referred TO
above. What a splendid country for the
youth of the east to settle in. The hust-
ling young man of twenty, thirty or forty,
if he emigrates at once, and has the ne
cessary pluck, can make fortune in ten
years. 1 find that nearly everybody east
knows something about the Puget sound
country and its wonderful climate, but
not all of them know of the vast extent
of its inland sea, and of the innumerable
cities and towns growing up along its
shores, or of the wonderful inland city of
Spokane with its dancing Cascades rush
ing through its center. When they are
told that Washington is larger than all
New England, has greater water power,
finer sites for cities and towns, more BEN
Efficient climate, a much more fertile soil
and contains greater mountains, more
beautiful valleys and must necessarily
soon have as many people, they begin to
think: They are thinking hard and the
rush of people for the evergreen state next
year and the year following is going to be
tremendous. Q. NJ. b.