The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-03-21
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covered and companies formed for their
development The one known as the
"Denny Mine" in Snoqualmie Pass,
is spoken of as the "richest and most
remarkable deposit of magnetic iron ore
| i'm the worldn as well as being ineX-
| haustable. AS for other minerals, gold
in moderately paying quantities is
found on the head waters of all of the
streams issuing from the Cascade noun
tains. Also ores of silver, lead and
copper. Minor minerals, such as gyp-
sum, marble, limestone, granite, build
ing sandstone, pottery clay, etc, exist
iii illimitable supply. As for coal al
most the whole country is stratiiied and
underlaid with it. Ignite is the most
mined, though the poorest in quality,
| because the nearest and most easily
reached; but Unreasonable stores Of the
more valuable kinds, semi-bituminous,
bituminous, camel and anthracite have
been discovered, the development of
which will be matter of mammoth
profit in the future, as each successive
improvement in the outside market,
dives out all competitors of inferior
quality.
Persons coming to Puget Sound to
settle down and grow up with the
country should make their calculations
to arrive with plenty of money; the
more the better, money is here, as else
where the best Introduction. If they
cannot bring money, but conclude to
come anyway, they will need to bring
in place of it plenty of pluck and en-
durance, with these qualities alone, and
other things being equal, man stands
a chance to do better and get up in the
world faster and easier than in the over
crowded and exhausted older sections
of the world. Dairying is the most
promising and profitable opening for
agricultural enterprise in the state. The
peculiar adoption of the soil and moist
equable climate everywhere cushion
hillside and meadow with a velvet
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The cool nights of summer and warm,
moist winters are such that delicious
favored golden butter is made the year
round, of even quality without extra
trouble or pains, and, as a matter of
course, the milk is of the richest and
most abundant. The stock cattle are
wintered through without shelter or
feeding. The dairy business is profit
able, as the home product of butter and
cheese, at an average price of 80 cents
per pound for the one and 20 cents per
pound for the other, does not half sup
ply the Puget Sound market.
Another good agricultural speciality
is fruit growing. All experience, and
hundreds of exuberant fruit gardens
and orchards everywhere attest the fact
that every kind of soil in the Puget
Sound Basin, upland and lowland,
river bottom and table land alike, is the
congenial home of the apple, the pear,
ounce, the peach, the cherry, the Plum
the prune, the nectarine, the currant
and all kinds of blackberries, straw
berries, huckleberries, gooseberries,
ETC. The soil and climate make it ia
particular the paradise of those coy,
delicate and difficult fruits, the prune
and plum, which have here perfect i'm
munity from the enemies Of their kind
so deadly elsewhere, and fortunes can
be made here by their enterprising
growers in very few years.
But very large portion of the wealth
of "the Evergreen State" lies in her
vast forests of fir, pine, cedar and hem
lock. There is no better ship timberin
the world than is to be found on Puget
Sound. Large exports of fir and cedar
lumber are annually sent to Honolulu,
England and South America. The
mariner, the fisherman, the lumber
man, the miner, the merchant, the
manufacturer, the herder, the mechanic
the fruit grower, the dairoman and the
farmer all find an opportunity here for
work, and each finds here customers for
his products in all the others. Each is
aided by the others in the prosecution
of his industry, and thus, with symmet-
rical development of the resources of
this region, had times will ever press
lig,itest upon its population.
I SAN JUAN COUNTY.
This county lies in the extreme
Northwestern portion of the State, and
consists of the islands of San Juan,
Orcas, Lopez, Shaw, Waldron, Decatur,
Blakely, Henry, Stewart, Johns, Flat
Top, Speiden, Crane and a multitude
of smaller islands, one-hundred and
sixty-two in all, embracing what is
known as the Archipelago De Haro.
Good harbors are found everywhere,
where large vessels can lie in safety and
although the angry breakers roar out
side they cannot invade our land-locked
Ravens of rest. The principal harbors
are as follows: Griffin's Bay, Swift's
Bay, Fisherman's Bay, Friday Harbor,
Roche Harbor, Mitchell's Bay, Deer
Harbor, West Sound, East Sound and
Desperate Harbor.
Although these islands are 5000 miles
; further north than portions of Maine
and seven degrees higher in latitude
tnan northern Ohio, so cold in winter,
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