The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-04
INJURING THE STATE.
Employees at Washington Build.
ing Deter immigration
WHAT arAcoMa VISITOR HEARD.
n Large Lady Cendemnfng Oar ctinsss
and Booming ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
for Oar spienafd Timber.

Tscoxs. Oct. q. Special ia prominent
real estate man has just returned from sne
Worlds fair. and be is still ssry sngFy.
Here - the way be explains -
III got downright mad every time went
into our state fynilding One day boiled
oyeT. uas waiting for my mail when 2
man, his gafe and daughter came ~. ~
was Iowa day. snd they were from lows
we are thinking Of moving. began the
man. and we'd like TO know something
about the weather out IN Washington.
What kind Of weather do ron have Out
thefef We have some nice days IN TIE
summer, answered the woman, rather
large woman. vho Is paid 20 represent our
state. bat in the winter time il rains All
the time. Down in California. she now
showed some signs of enthusiasm apd t1-
tsrezt In what she vas saying. we have
OH such fire weatherP Then, upon my
soul. she vent all over the whole PROPOSE
ton again. that -, 20 far as u referred 10
the beauties OF California. and this time
she inside IL still stronger. i do believe
sise declared. that you will find the finest
weather in the world in California. IL -
10 pleasant and sunny
Gee whixl Il made me hot. | couldn't
stand 10 apy longer. I stepped In and ex-
planned as mildly as possible that the rea-
aen why our exhibit a. the fair vas NOT .
was because Just such women and nten as
this large ia1y. whom did0't know. we're
there 70 rniarepFeseut as. Nov, / said,
this woman has told you half truth and
that indeed only about portion OF our
state. There Is very little snow on Puget
sound during the winter. and il does rain
there during that season. Still there are
many. many warm sunny days. about
half OF the total, when IL Is just rs pleas
ant as IL 10 in California or any other
place on earth. East OF tae noun
tains. IN Our state, there lie something OF
TIE Eastern winter. a. far - snow is con-
cerned. The winter east Of the noun
tasns, however, is not rs severe rs the
Eastern winter. The summers east of the
summer, Dat perhaps not 50 hot
Then | took up that large woman who
misrepresents and is drawing a salary TO
represent as, and | may say again that
haven't the slightest idea in the world
who she Is. | said. speaking 20 the Iowa
friends: This woman has perhaps lived
a short time in Washington aud knows
nothing about the state in general, per-
haps little about tte climate near 0lym-
pia or some other locality. There are
plenty OF this class of ueople here on be
halt OF our exhibition. You drop down TO
the forestry building and ask the gentle
man there IN charge OF our interests
what he thinks OF our timber out la
Washington. which ! may say has been
proved by government tests and tests OF
railroad companies and others practically
interested TO be the strongest and most
durable timber in the world tI was speak
ing particularly OF FIR and cedar shingles.
and that gentleman will tell you
that We have some fine coarse
timber, but that they have the I'm
est pine that grows up in Wseon-
SIN. That man Is Scotchman aud has
lived many years I'm Wisconsin. He came
10 Washington two or three years ago and
has perhaps less than 81 900 invested. He
knows all ahout Wisconsin. and Scotland.
no doubt, but he knows very little about
this state That large woman, who tells
hBlf the truth. went into a tit about the
pleasures OF living in California. She adj
United she had been In Washington only
n short time, also.
Kept files OF the PosT-INTEIIIGEscE or OF
any other daily in the state. The officials
Eobhie the papers just as soon as they ar
rive and read them and laugh.
THE old farmer from Thurston county
who has On exhibit In the agricultural de-
partment and pays his own way IL the
best represen tative We have there. We
have two measley lunches OF shingles. A
piece of ilr board and water soaked log
~ the forestry department. Twenty-6ye
feet OF the water-soaked LOG were swiped
when II passed through 81. Paul, and the
balance is what W. gaze at ut the fair.
There Is some finishing material, out II
doesn't show OF Why. there il box OF
the bark there OF the kind. / am told.
which took the frst prize for producing
tannln. Yes. it's there. and Ii has never
been opened. I saw the box.
The irrigation interests east OF the
mountains are looked after. but we on this
side are given the cold shoulder