The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-02-17

on the Coast. and the time is close at
hand when il viii be done.
The cost OF bringing vessel
around from New York to Puget
sound is a much larger sum than PEG
pie are generally led 10 believe. For
instance, il cost the owners of the cay
of Kingston the sum OF seo. 600 counting
every thing, 10 bring her around on her
long voyage. which you see adds quite
a sum TO the original cost OF any YES
sci. The wha,eback Wetmore made a
trip from New York TO Liverpool. be-
fore coming out here and even had
! she been properly handed az all times
she would have cost the company a
good rosied sum for her long voyage.
The first had luck the Wetnrore ex-
perienced was while lying at Liverpool.
After siischarg.ng her cargo her captain.
a good seaman, was suddenly taken
down with fever and died in a short
time The command of sfle.vessei then
deyolved on the first mate, who loaded
her in such q way as TO cause n con-
slant strain on some OF her parts and
ii surprised me To find she was aprar-
entity unhuY1t after such a voyage and
such handling. She was then heavily
headed and made the trip cut here all
right. What happened to her on the
Coast was simply series of cansalties
nabIe TO occur in the case of any boat
at some tinre.'
Everett has a number of ether i'm
portant industries including the Sum-
ner Iron Works and several saw and
single mills. al employing more or
less labor continuously. The Monte
Cristo hotel. under the management
of Joseph Irving. is the property of
the Everett Land Company and is COM
piete in every respect.
Mr. j. B. Croker Is the personal
representative of John D. Rockefeller
and is auditor OF the Everett Land
Company. Schuyler Duryee is general
manager of the land company.
Many stories are told OF the way
Henry Hewitt, jr.. purchased the town
site from the original owners. In all.
the owners OF the peninsula numbered
about fifty. including several small
farmers along the banks of the Sno-
homish river. One old fellow. who
hailed from Nebraska. had bought a
small farm on which he was at
tempting to grow crop of potatoes,
in the clearing under the shadows of
gigantic forest trees. He was continu-
ally scoiding his wife about being the
cause Of his leaving their home on the
prairses OF Nebraska where there were
no trees to cut down and waere the
sun could shine at all times without
obstruction. His wife always told him
that their luck would turn z1Ene day
and that she preferred the balmy elm
ate of Puget sound. with the hardships
they had TO suffer and with the hope
to buoy them up. rather than the hot.
scorching summers and the winter
blizzards of their former prairie home.
One day a man dressed in a suit of
corsduroys came to the house and after
a few minutes conversation offered the
old couple $4,000 cash for their home.
The offer was accepted. and now the
Old farmer agrees with his wife that
Puget sound is a country OF wonderful
Possibilities.
4. d. Smith. the well-known logging
man, was offered a quarter of a million
dollars for his holdings at Lowell.
which he refused. Rucker Bros. and
w. G. Swallwell were two cases of re-
fusal to dispose of their interests to
the townsite company, and both have
made fortunes selling off land when the
town started 10 build up.
Like many other Western towns
Everett is a city OF magnificent dis
itances.' On the bay side the land CON-
pany has erected a number of brick
blocks, and property was sold with con-
ditions compelling owners to put up