St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-02
STATE OF WASHINGTON.
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ST. PAUL INTERESTED IN ITS o.
= KELOPMENE.
o2irs NUMBERING INTERESTS.
The New States Output Runs Into
y the Millions Of Feet-The Larg-
!. est Salmon Fisheries in the
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y, Weighing Five Pounds-Three-
T., Inch Strawberries.
10 the Editor of the Globe
p There is very much to interest and
attract the tourist. the investor and the
home seeker In the state of Washing
/ ton. Its development is important to
/ st. Paul. our city having such direct
rail connection with it,and its resources
! are so different from those of this state.
Fits physical appearance is entirely un-
| ike the prairie states, resembling Min
nesota, however, In its water privileges.
| Puget Sound is the largest and finest
tide water harbor in the world. and its
cities arc destined to control the trade
| of Alaska aud the Oriental countries.
Ships sail every week now with lumber
| and wheat for all ports of the earth, and
tea, silks, curios. furs and fish come tor
| shipment by rail to the East.
The numbering interests Of the sound
country are enormous, the present an
nual output running into millions of
feet OF lumber and shingles. The
cedar shingles are going to capt
I ure the trade, fifty years Of expos
ure to rain and sun not wearing them
out, nor will they easily take fire. They
| are made in plain and fanciful shapes,
and the rapldity with which the ma
chimes turn them out is only on par
/ with the general advancement in ma
| terial growth. The saws in the shingle
| machines make 1000 revolutions 4 min
| ute. A thousand feet of lumber will
make 10000 shingles. and when a single
| tree will yield from 5000 to 10000
| shingles, worth Sl.25 per 1000, one can
| Judge of the output of q single acre of
mammoth trees. Those who doubt the
| estimates given of the quantity of
| timber yet standing need only
| go back into the country and wall
! der about among giant trees running
| from 200 to go feet in the air, ana from
| three to ten feet in diameter, to have all
doubts dispelled as to the substantial
| character of the claims that Washington
| has the finest forests of understandable
| timber on this continent to say the
| least. One needs only to see the ships
loading with lumber for European coun
tries to understand that it must have
goo qualities to induce ship and bridge
| builders to come so far for it. Compared
10 the logs of Puget sound the sticks
RATED down the Mississippi are like
matches spilled out of box. Fir logs
| ten feet in diameter and 100 long are
! co nnon, and ceuar trees still larger.
y Another interest certain to become
! important Is that of fishing. Already
| the Columbia river, of which Washing
I ton has nearly thousand miles. fur
! nisheS the largest share of the worlds
| supply of salmon. Puget sound aud all
tie countless BAYS and iniets north a
| thousand miles to Alaska, and the great
| Pacific itself abound in Salmon, cod.
| ha!ibut. herring. mackerel, smeit and
| other varetle, of food fishes. Oysters.
! CLANS and crabs are round. The oysters
| are very small, but clans are large and
| can be picked up Oh the flats when the
I tide is out, and edible crabs
can ~ De had for the catching.
A man fond OF fish and fishing can have
plenty of both. For the poor man the
/ table is set when the tide goes out. No
Ship sails out into the Pacific without
! seeing schools OF whales aud porpOises.
| One day last fall steamer running out
OF Seattle raced for several miles with
! thrty-foot whale, the huge deniZen of
| the vast deep keeping in the lead, and
finally turned off from the steamers
route and escaped. A visit to salmon
| cannery is about like one to a slingle
mill, completeness. manipulation and
/ rapidity being the order in both.
| In agriculture and horticulture Wash
| ingtOn Is beginning to make record,
| On Puget sound the farmer must clear
off the heavy timber but it don't take
many acres 10 furnish livelihood when
| the large yields are considered. 1t is
country for extensive farming, where
| one can get the benefit OF rich soil and
Il generous climate. You may be- sur
pr:sad when tell you that vegetables
ale frequently left Ill the ground al
winter and dug as needed; that flowers
are i'll bloom out OF doors all winter:
| that cherries grow in such clusters
that they look like punches Of grapes; l
| once SSw a bunch OF cherries weighing
over five pounds clinging TO twig less
than a foot long: berries are prolific. Of
| hne flavor and large size: blackberry
bushes grow to the Ihousetop,
and l have seen strawberries
three inches in diameter. President
Blackburn, of the State Horticultural
society, told me that a neighb0r of his
| gathered in one year 49, 60 pounds from
three acres. or 6.120 pounds 10 an acre,
lis receipts amounting to STA an acre:
apples, pears, prunes, peaches and other
deciduous fruits grow with half
chance. There is little or no snow in
| the winter along Puget sound, but in
| stead. plenty of rain; in reality there
are only two seasons, the rainy AID the
| dry. An entirely different country lies
east of the Cascades, where wheat
raising has been leading industry,
but owing to low prices farmers
are beginning to diversity. Fruit rails
ing, too, is destined TO be an important
| business In central and Eastern Wash
ington. The Wenatchee Valley is get
ting fair start in the business. and
when large irrigating bitches now con-
| templated are in operation thousands of
! acres will be ready for the planting of
trees, bushes and vines. Parties there
now with large holdings are selling Off
| five and ten acre patches, enough to
| give livelihood to family. The
climate in the Wenatchee country is
| superb. but those who lives west of the
mountains are just as enthusiastic, where
the climate Is not unlike that of Eng
land. which has produced the earth con-
Quering race.
- The mineral wealth of Washington,
| Idaho, Montana and British Columbia is
practically undeveloped. Rich discov-
cries have been made in various locali-
ties, and now that silver is depressed,
in which that vast region is marvel
ously favored, miners are turning their
attention in other directions and numer-
Gus indications point TO revival of
gOld-mining on an extensive scale, and
tswith more wonderful results than in
the COS, when tue placers yielded many
bmilli0ns of the yellow metal. Amer
ticans are fond of adventure and they can
be gratiied in the West, and muscle
and money will unfold surprises this
l5year in these Northwestern mountains
and valleys. Discoveries and develop
iments in that region will infuse new
9ife and activity into financial and COM
mercial affairs. have seen samples of
gold quartz and dust from dozens of To-
calities of recent discovery, and when