The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-29
THE PASSING THRONG.

Harry Carstens and J. J. Folstad, of snoho-
mish, were reg stored at the Grand yesterday.
In conversatirn with a reporter they said:
''Business IS vsry good up our way, which is
Largely due 10 che building of the Great North
ern road. ThGscenic beauties of that line this
side OF the Esuntains viii surpass anything
along the Cans iian Pacific or Northern Pacific
roads. Thsys are many wonderful features
which are only now being discovered for the
first time. OlEy nine miles above Snohomsh
and four mleG east of Wallace, on the railroad,
there Is Il wa.eyfall on Wallace creek equal 10
that OF SnoqQs ME- The entire stream makes
a leap of over ~ feet into chasm whose rocky
sides are lnett with maiden hair fern. and from
the bottom OF which u cloud of mist constantly
arises pares OF us let ourselves down into
this chasm bysrope, and We were thoroughly
soaked by the mist. Below the fall are series
OF smaller fails or cascades, very beautiful, and
further on thecreek runs through canyon
short distenc@:aboye Granite Point are hot sui
phur springs coming out of the ground, and on
the north for.Sof the SKY komlsh there is Il place
where the Tiy@r shoots down several inclines
into still pOol< resting in smooth basins carved
out OF the sola granite, making series OF gran
tie bath tubs, ~ here perhaps the gods won,
to battle. Bqsths great wealth of Snohomisn
county Is n ger mineral resources, ana the
mineral regfzn 10 not half prospected vet
Many ranchus.n, too, are constantly clearing up
more land, so shat the agricultural area is con-
st4ntiy exten=4ug That kind of land is held at
SOD acre, while timber land is worth from
81 10 So Al as.e" Mr. Foistad is interested in
mining pFopeEt!es IN sultan Basin III ming dis
trct, which X over divide from the Monte
CElstO Tailros.i. Much Developments work il
going on in s-ls district, he says
John MeReSvy, of Union City, Democratic
Candidate Tor secretary of state, - stopping at
the Arlington. "A great many people," he said
q 4 wit a Il
reporter LAST night, ''have settled in our
section duEsng the past year. Nearly
al the surveyed lands have been taken I'd, and
the farmers sfS3 constantly clearing more land
The tim Der a:s1ng the sEokomish river il now
being Iogge 1aud these rich bottoms will In q
few years al*o come under cultivation The
Puget MIL Company sFe making e ne farm near
Union Cliy x dykiBg aud clearing. some time
a railroad Wig be built from Olympia 10 Port
Townsend, sad branch will extend from
Union CITY sx Port Orchard naval station. snd
we expect to gave quite n city ia time. Po!.ties
over cur way are getting warm, aud thin. tb..
Peopss psrtS Ia not 50 strong now a. II wa.
early II the campaign A great many peouls
declared the9 se.ves too hastily and ara now
oacksiidins iaso tne old psrsis&'
C. C. Thoy7,on, nusamish Indian ,re,. =,
4Glslip, satG. i have KNOWN John Ncgraw
ever since became here. ! VA. "a losgar a, tsat
ume as MAS almost every ody in thls section
exeepi Stang gaea, who did tot live in tna
city. lhsre .sas uoE brick building in the
place sAs1. boaEdsd a. TIE Occidental, butt