Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-06-03
GREAT WASHINGTON STATE.
senator Squire Says 1t Has Forest
Enough 70 Belt the Whole Earth

senator Squire Says 1T Has Forest
Enough 70 Belt the Whole Earth
"1he state of Washington, wrote
the bright, bad boy on his examination
paper, is at the upper left hand cor
ner Of the United States" And the
Jack Homer who settles in that cor
ner,' adds Senator Watson c. Squire,
els going to pull out lots Of plums
Senator Squire settled in Washington
when it was territory about four
teen years ago. He was appointed
governor by President Arthur in 1881
and was left undisurbed by President
Cleveland until 1851 When Washing
ton was admitted to the Union as a
State in 1889, Ex-Governor Squire 5yus
elected senator for the short term of
two years, and in 1891 he was reelect-
ed for the long term. He was a New
York boy, was graduated from Yves
leyan college in 1859 and has been in
his varied career a teacher, a lawyer a
soldier-in the war he rose to be a
captain of sharp-shooters and after
ward judge advocate for the army Of
the Cumberland-an agent for the
Remington Arms company-he married
the daughter Of Philo Remington-and
finally a farmer near Seattle, and to
farming he still gives as much Of his
time rs his political interests will
allow
when l went to Seattle in 1879,
he said to the New York Tribune re-
porter, there were only two or three
thousand people there. One poor mar
row-gauge railroad and a line of slow
moving, clumsy steamboats, connected
the town with civilization. The rest Of
the Territory was a little less than a
bowling Wildene s. Now there are
three large cities in the state Seattle,
Tacoma and Spokane, and a population
of half a million The largest growth
has been most recent. The size Of the
vote has increased in the last two years
from $4,000 to 10000.
Now three through lines connect
Seattle with the east, the Northern
Pacific, the Canadian Pacific and the
Great Northern, the road which is
just being completed by James J. Hill
Three years ago Mr. Hill told me in
the lobby of q New York hotel that he
was going 10 build the road He got
his money Mt per cent laid heavy
rails from ST. Paul to Seattle, and is
now putting on the last Of the ballast
The opening of the road win be mark
ed by a trip of 800 capitalists, repre-
sentng a billion dollars, over it's entire
length The party, l understand, will
be the guests Of Mr. Hin 1t win ar
rive in Seattle about June -, and Spe-
cial entertainments viii be provided.
Mr. Hin has told me that he intends
also to establish a line Of steamships
between Seattle AMI Japanese and
Chinese ports
"The establishment Of easy and
cheap means of communication win
give a great impulse to the industries
of Washington and viii immensely in
crease the value Of it's resources
Why the timber alone of Washington
is estimated to be worth at the present
value Of about a dollar a
thousand feet over S41O.OOOOOO Wash
ington has more merchantable timber
than the three other great timber
states. Wisconsin. Minnesota and Mich
igan ana all the Middle and eastern
states combined We have a growth of
giant fir trees that would, standing,
form a belt a mile which would reach
round the earth at the Equator and
have a line left over which would
stretch from Seattle TO New York one
county alone, Pierce cut 2o0,O00OO0
feet of lumber in 1892
I'VE are expecting much from the
completion Of the Nicaragua Canal
A friend of mine recently cleared
10000 on a shipload of lumber which
went round Cape Horn With a shorter
and quicker route much more business
win be attracted