The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-06
THE PASSING THRONG.

hdJOr II. aIuer, OF COiIdX, Is at the airing
ton with Mrs Warner, on his way homo from
the meeting Of the state tide land commission.
He said: 'There will be an increase of about rs
per cent. in the wheat acreage OF the Palouse
country this year and the production per acre
will probably be about 25 per cent. more. It
will tax the powers of the Northern and Union
Pacific roads to move such q crop. There is lit
tie of last years crop left. Nearly all Of the
farmers sold at good prices and many of them
have paid of their mortgages, though in some
parts OF the country the crop was very light. II
the crop is as good this year as last, nearly all
the farmers will clear of their mortgages
They are q good, thrifty class of peo-
pie, being the most enterprising among
the farmers Of the Eastern and Middle states
The grades OF wheat chiefly grown are the little
club, red chaf club and Chile club all soft
grades The hard wheat of Dakota is mostly
Scotch Fife. 1t has been tried and grows well in
Our section, but in such q rolling country the
grain ripens earlier on the southern than ON the
northern slopes, and as Scotch Fife shells very
without the loss OF much that has first ripened.
The Great Northern road does not help as yet,
but President Hill says he will build feeders
into the Paiouse country as soon as he has fin.
ished the main line. The Palouse country, by
the shipping of its wheat, has made Portland
the richest city in proportion to its
population in the United States, aud 1t
is to the interest of both Seattle and
Tacoma TO get that business. The Northern
Pacific reaches into portion of the country
and brings some grain to these cities, but the
bulk OF it goes to Portland by the Union Pacific.
Most OF the trading goes to Portland, but it
ought to come to the Sound and your business
men should reach out for it It is our interest
to build up our own state, cities and seaports
Branch roads should extend to all portions of
that country to center all its products on the
Sound, and I hope the time is not far distant
when the Northern Pacific and Great Northern
will reach all parts of it. While the Northern
Pacific has been of great benefit it is so closely
allied with the Union Pacific that it does not
extend its branches. 1t is to be hoped that
when the Great Northern is built through both
IT and the Northern Pacific will extend their
branches The Peoples party is making some
movement and is organizing for the fall cam
paign through Eastern Washington"
CD. Ebersole, a business man OF Birming
ham, Ala, is at the Rainier, having come here
in the course Of tour of the Pacific coast. He
said last evening: Everybody at home told me
to come to Seattle, saying this was going TO be
the New York OF the Pacific coast. They all
talk OF this as the coming city Birmingham
has been quiet for the last eighteen months,
owing to the low price of both iron and cotton.
Eighteen of the twenty-five iron furnaces are
running, but they are stocking most OF the pig
iron. Still We are shipping iron to all parts of
be making steel from our iron. You know that
the Tennessee Coal, Iron Railroad Company,
and the DeBandeleben Iron Company have con-
solidated, with capital OF $l7,I00,Oo0. They
are now trying to get the other companies to
join them, and they would then represent capt.
tai of nearly $S0.OOO,oo0. St Louis
company has begun the manufacture of iron
pipes at Birmingham, and inside of eighteen
months We shall have two steel plants running;
then things will boom again. Alabama is much
like Washington in some respects. 1t is divided
into two sections, OF which the northern Is
rather mountainous and is rich in minerals, but
has little agricultural land. while in the south
ern half they grow little but cotton. We are
equally fortunate with you in having the iron
and the materials for smelling 1t in close prox-
| unity. On one side OF a valley We can mine
| iron ore and dump Ii direct into, and on the
other side mine coal, COKE it and dump II, too,
| into the furnace. We have little to do with
the black belt, where the cotton Is grown, ex-
cept what business the wholesalers DO. You
have the advantage here OF even more diversi-
fed industries than we have"
G. II. Thornton, a merchant from New What
com, who arrived in the city last evening and ia
| AZ the Northern hotel, tells story OF Captain
| Bass. father of Attorney Daniel Waldo Bass,
| who Is at present resident OF New Whatcom,
81 well remember" said Mr.. Thornton, "when
| captain Bass received an appointment in the
| customs service, during Cieveiands admins
trsson On the occasion OF his first official visit
| TO Tacoma he was feeling especially good na-
| tured the morning of his arrival. and entering
| restaurant glanced over the bilI-of-fare until
| has eye rested On the line 'roas. duck With
loEdly air he pushed an electric button with his
| index finger and IN second a waiter was at his
| eide Give lie roast duck, he said. The
| waiter glanced at his guest and concluding
| inat he was an epieure, asked: 'Ntll you have
| II highT The captain fastened to reply: Well,
| should say sol l an q Democratic Office
| holder and nothing IS too high for me- When
| the duck arrived the doctor stuck his fork into
| II and then hesitated. He shifted the sir suspi-
| eiously' withdrew the fork and viciously poked
| his hnger 1t the electric button The waiter
| rived. what do you mean By giving me fowl
| that IS month old?' he demanded Il brought
| what you ordered neekly yentured the waiter.
| KS the highest We have It's only been buried
| aweek That was the first tirno the captain
| ever knew what high duck really was"
snsrit James Hagaa. of Snohornish county,
was at the Diller yesterday with John Vein
| hardt, ls-year-old boy whom he was taking to
Chensiis 10 serve three-year term in the re-
| form school for burglary. The boy wss arrested
iof eufslasizing several stores at Everett, secur