The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-29


ore. city or sixty varieties OF fishes mounted on
yellow cedar panels, together With many xmas
OF furs ana woods, including TIE rare yeiiow
cedar, which Is q fac grained wood capable OF
the very finest polish, and wels adapted fof
wood carving. Then he has Indian curiosities.
specimens OF whalebone, ivory and OIL Among
the ores there appear specimens OF goid-oeaf-
Ing gaiena and other rare ores. n addison 20
the worlds fair collection he hss personal
collection OF $500 pieces, which Will also De on
exhibition. Speaking OF that country ne
said: ALASKA is struggling urder serious
Disadvantages. The laws seen TO nave
been framed with . view to retsfdiug the de-
veiopment OF that country as mucn as possible.
What that country needs 10 simpsy fair pay.
She wants chance to have her resources de-
veioped, and for this purpose she wants terri
toriai form OF government with = delegate In
congress- When went to Alaska Portland and
San Francisco had all the trade Of chat country,
but now can see that Puget sound Is getting
some OF the business. think the merchants OF
that country would prefer to trade nere, because
Seattle 10 the nearest market and supply point
and am sure that Seattle can win ail that trade,
and the state OF Washington be greatly benefited
thereby If 1t would assist Alhsks to obtain q
veiopment of Alaska will rebound 20 the benefit
OF Seattle aud that It IL to the interest Of this
city to assist Alaska"
d. b Goldberg, representing NeS York med.
lcal publishing house, in conversation yester.
day said: SIN the publication of medical
works. the same as In the manufacture of jew.
eiry, America leads the world. American pub
fishers have the entire Americas continent,
Australia and New Zealand wholly to them.
selves, while they successfully compete in the
very homes of the French, German and English
publishers It 10 not because our writers are
ADLER than those OF other lands, because Ameri-
eigners write for ours. But the secret lies In
the superiority of American colored plates. Our
plates are trusr to nature than the soreign ones,
and at the same time are made cseaper. An.
other thing II that American writeEs are better
liked by busy practitioners for the reason that
they are more concise In their statements. The
drectness Of their style II refreshing to doctors
who have not the time to 60 ixto elaborate
minutiae, much Of which they already know
about by experience. But the chief point of
merit OF American medical works, and the one
which sells them in every civilized land, 10 the
plates"
MI. and Mrs. Fremont Morse and children, OF
San Francisco are stopping ut she Rainier.
Mr. Morse is connected with the Ualted States
coast and geodetic survey, having been stationed
during the summer at Sitka, aud has Just
returned on the Mexico. The seasons work of
his party has been the determination OF Mount
St Elias. Mr.. Pratt, another ASSISTANT OF the
survey. stationed at Tacoma, sent cEronometers
to Mr.. Morse at Sitka by the stesmer Queen,
and Mr.. Morse sent chronometers to Mr.. Turner,
another assistant, stationed al Yakstat bay BY
this means the longitude OF that pace was de-
termined, and from there Mr.. MyGrath, the
leader OF the party, by series of trisngulations,
determined the longitude OF the .siount The
data have not been completed yet, but II Is
thought that Mount St. Elias is wholly within
the United States. The work of surveying the
boundary line between Alaska snd British
Columbia will take five or six years, while a
great amount Of work remains to be done in
the surveys OF the archipelsgoes. both in the
southeast and southwest.
A. J. Hammond, cigar manufacturer OF sagi-
nav, Mich, was In the city yesterday. eyes,
the cigar business Is great business,'' said he.
"and there are great many people In II, but
the trade was never in better shspe than at
present Cigar brandsf You can count them
by the hundred thousand, and huncfeds Of new
ones are put on the market every daf. Whereit
will end the Lord only knows. It's good thing
for the printers and photographers, slough, be-
cause new brand Of cigars must be: advertised.
The amount of gray matter used up@in devising
new schemes for advertising IL enorsnous. Yes,
it is somewhat beWilderins to the cigar buyer,
but If he cont put his faith In advertising he
must put 1t in the dealer or else he n3ust become
a connoisseuf in cigars-something very rare. A
smoke is what most men want They don't stop
to discriminate as TO the qualities Of the cigar,
although In general way smokers are getting
educated to the difference between good cigar
ana bad one. But the hne points of q cigar
are lost on most people,"
Theodore Plummer, q wholesale lElmber man,
of Nashville, Tenn, who has been purchasing
cedar shingles here for shipment TO his trade,
returns tomorrow to his home, having com.
pleted his purchases. 81 can best summarize
my impressions of the Puget sound country and
Seattle by saying that II were not established
In the East certainly should locate here. Your
cedar shipgle will sell oil over t.e country,
and the market for It will grow larger every
year. but by rail / don't think your lumber will
get far beyond the Mississippi; bat the Mica.
rauga canal would be the making OF this coun-
try. II you had An s. freight rate to New York
the lumber business would Be rev6Iutionized.
Some of your mill men seem afraid that there
will be glut of the shingle markss, owing to
90 many mills starting up here, but think the
market can be extended more and slore every
year. and that thore 10 little danger 10 be feared
from overproduction for some time.
Ben Turner, one OF the pioneers IN this Sec
ton and a prominent logger of Olympia. 10 q
guest Of the Occidental "This city is very diff
ferent from what it was when I eaw it first
That was thirty-six years ago. Caief Seattle
was living then and this city was cnly little
trading port. Ycsler and Denny and two or
three other white men were here at the time
made great mistake in not locating here, but
OF course no man can see what the culture will
bring. The logging business 10 not sery bright
at present. but think 1t will pick urs again. We
are getting all the way from $5.5s to $12 per
thousand for logs, the latter price for long
sticks. There 10 not much sale for short logs
but there are no long ones afloat. / am paying
oil the way from 90 cents to u for stu buy
ing In the lump, but think the price Of stump
age will eventually go higher"
Milton II. Landers, OF San Francfscc, travel.
ing auditor OF the Pacific Coast Stea1sship Com
pany, 10 in the city. Mr.. Ladders il making
tour of the Sound, visiting tho cola pspy's va
rious offices. He may take passage l.ome today
on the steamer Umatilla Speaking If the ship
ping business this year, Mr.. Landess said his
company was doing quite well; that ae thought
it made some money on tho Alaska rosite during
the excursion season, but keeping a vessel like
the Queen laid up for the other nine months in
the year was great loss. The passenger traffic
on the compauys Southern line has been very
good, but the freight has been light Mr.. Ian.
ders was formerly purser on one 4 the CON-
pany's vessels.
l. B. Hilliasd, general manager for che Pacific
coast OF Bradstreet's commercial agency, 10 q
guest OF the Northern Mr. Hilliard a taking a
bird'seye view OF tne commercial situation in
the West. and for this purpose 10 making q tour
OF the leading commercial centers IL. this Sec
ton, He says that business is extremely dull
In SAN Francisco, but that considerable activity
prevails at Spokane, which he attcabuted in
part to the advent of the Great Noreaern into
that town. He takes great interest IL the rail
road situation on Puget sound, and says that