The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-08-25
QUEBEC OF PACIFIC.
New Title Given to Seattle by
Editor Rosewafer.
Eases or HER FUTURE GROWTH
xhe Omaha 'sBee's" Deaehfy Eaissr
kxteis the Csty's Pluck and
Forecasts Her Fnszrs.

The Omaha Bee Of August - devo.es q
column and o half TO an article on Seattle
by fts editor, Edward Rosewassr. written
during his recent visit 70 this city. Mr..
kosewsser shows that his studies during
MS trip 70 the Coast, has bsen profitable
70 him for be writes With q conviction
OF the supremacy OF Seattle. nov and
IN the future. and MAKES prediction
- TO the growth OF thu city which
viii please its most sanguins citizens.
The article 10 an follows:
SEATTLE. Aug. f0.-Perched upon the
crest OF lofty hills thar overlook Puget
sound. the city OF Seattle strikingiy recalls
the American Gibraltar on the St Law
renee. With the exception of the far
famed bay OF Naples | doubt whether
there 10 in all this wide, wide world more
lovely and fascinating spot than the site Of
sea-girt Seattle, with the waveiess salt
water bay at its feet and three limpid
fresh-wster lakes bathing its TANKS. Like
0asnec. this city IL built mp in tiers rising
above each other from the sea level TO an
elevation OF over 100 feet by steep grades
that make the ascent most dilhcult and
compel everybody to patronizs the cable
cars
"The harbor and depot ground. occupy
the lowest tiers. The business streets are
ranged in several tiers above the harbor
and the residence portion Of the city
covers the hiiltops aud the plateau ada
cent 70 Lake Washington. Lake Union
and Green lake. back OF the Puget sound
front
"The Queen City Of Puget sound. as
Seattle IL properly called, excels any city
of equal population in America in the
compacsness OF her jobbing and retail
stIeets and the number Of imposing and
substantial business blocks. The great
ire Of 1859, which swept away the entire
business portion of the city, has had Its
compensating effect. Monumental struct-
ures OF stone. brick and iron, ranging
from four to eight stories in height, have
replaced the two. three and four-story
shells and firetraps. Transforming Seattle
into miniature Chicago.
1.-THE buiwark of Seattle, quite apart
fran her natural advantages, are her enter
prising. public-spirited business men. On
the morning after the great fire four years
ago. when the town was still eHveioped in
smoke. a mass meeting OF citizens was
held to devise measures of reief and dis
cuss the future. The first question was
whether the funds that had been raised
for the sufferers of the Johnstown food
should not be kept nj home, as almost as
disastrous calamity had overtaken Seat
part of Armory hall. Mol Send it on
Let il CO. and there was not an opposing
voice in that audience. During the pres
ent depression, when every other city has
been shaken by bank failures. Seattle
has weatherec the storm 20 far
Her bankers and business men are sup
porting esch othef with the same unanim-
ity that has always prevailed here when
ever the material interests Of the town are
at stake. No wonder Seattle has van
pushed all competitors in the fierce strug-
gle for supremacy that has been going on
between rival towns on the Sonnd' for
the past twelve years. Only another con-
vival Of the tittest, or rather the fighters,
as l have often put It So many magic
cities have sprung up the last quarter of
the present century that il would be CON-
monplace to apply the term to Seattle.
The fact that she Only claimed 5000 popu-
lation In 1850. and now has fully 5000,
speaks for itself.
what has made Seattle grow so rapidly
and what is there to stimulate future
growths7 Natural selection, superior
facilities and indomitabie pluck are re-
sponsible for Scatties marvellous growth
up to this time. The development of the
vast and varied resources of the Puget
sound country are bound to make her
city of quarter of n million within the
next twenty-five years. And / venture to
say that this Is very moderate estimate.
There is more solid wealth in the vast for
ests of the Puget sound country than has
ever been taken out of oil the gold and
silver mines of America Seattle is in
the very heart of the greatest timber re-
gion of North America. Within o stones
throw of the sound are millions of acres
of giant ars that reach height of
from $50 10 $50 feet, measuring from SIX
to twelve feet IN diameter. These trees
are all straight as an arrow. and seldom
have limb below 100 feet from the
ground. In King county. of which Sc
attic is the capital, there are thousands
and thousands Of acres of timber land.
which yield from 900 to Il, 500, 600
feet of merehantable lumber to the quar-
ter section. At 81 per loo this repre-
sents from 81 500 TO Si2 500 for the timber
product of loo acres. The magnitude of
the Puget sound lumber industry, which
finds its principal mart at OF near Seattle,
is almost beyond computation. Western
Washington is estimated to have % 900 600
acres of timber land The largest lumber
mill in America is located at Port Blakeley,
about eight miles south of Seattle across
the Sound. This mill Is 500 feet long by
i02 feet in width, with battery of thirty
nine i0o-horse power boilers and machin-
cry that cuts the logs seven feet in dame
ter and 100 feet In length. Its average run
has been 300, 090 ieet OF lumber daily. This
mill supplies spars and ship timber for all
parts of the civilized world. When | Wis
tied this mammoth concern yesterday sew
entcen steamers and ocean vessels were
loading at the mill wharf One of these
ships was loading up huge timbers for Cal
cutta, two of them were destined for Aus
tralia and several for English and German
Yorts. The Poss Blakeley mill is. how
tver. turning out only q comparatively
small portion OF the lumber exported from
Puget sound. More than 500 lumber mills
and nearly as many more single mills.
biz and small. line the shores Of the Sound
and the streams adjacent
THE lumber barons of Michigan,
Minnesota aud Wisconsin have caught on
TO the fact thar the future lumber supply
must come largely from this region, and
many of them have quietly secured firm
foothod. Gen. Alger, who has made his
fortune in lumber. has secured vast tract
OF timber land halfway between this city
and New Whatcom. The Michigan mill
ionaire confidently expects 10 double his
fortune in less than ten years. His exam
ple has been followed By the Standard OIL
millionaires--Rockefe FiaEler Whit
ney and Colgate Hoyt Right here il may
be proper 10 point to an important lumber
industry that is assuming cast proper
tons | refer to the manufacture
OF red cedar shingles. which are
now being shipped extensively TO
Omaha and other cities of the
Middle West The eiuYnhalifv ~