The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-03-05
Cultivated Susceptible
land. of
cultivation.
LOCATION.

Elsewhere -...-.....i tulses.....-.-s.
The principal towns are as follows
Quiicene. with q population OF about
400. hotel. barber shop. two blacksmith
shops. two general stores. three carpen-
ter shops and q sawmill with q daily ca
pacity OF about 1000 feet b. NJ.
Port Gamble, six miles inside the mouth
Of the canal, thirty-seyen miles from Sc
attic. has q population Of about $50. a
large sawmin and a general merchandise
store. The town il owned by the Puget
Mil Company, who ship lumber all over
the Pacific coast. 1t receives a daily mail
from Seattle and Port Townsend. and a
sFi-weekly mail from towns along the
canal
Union City, forty-six miles from Port
Gamble. has a population of 300 people,
two hotels. one sawmill, one drug, one
grocery and one general merchandise
store. the latter doing business of from
$500 to $1,000 annually. One blacksmith
shop. one shoe shop. one non-denomina-
tional church and a 5000 schoolhouse.
There Is a daily stage and mail to Shell
ton, except Sundays. daily boat and
tri-weekly mail to Seattle and down canal
points. Fare. $50.
About 5000, 900 feet of logs are shipped
annually to the mills at Port Gamble.
Blakeley, Tacoma and Hadlock.
Nearly 800 tons of hay are shipped an
naaly from the Skokomish river. Some
live stock Is sent to Shelton and used In
the county.
Hoodsport. forty-two miles from Port
Gamble, with a population of about fifty
people, contains two hotels, general
merchandise store. blacksmith shop. Pa
cific Postal Telegraph Office and large
sehooihouse. A stage runs to Lake Cush-
man.
Iron and copper mines are located
srr1lxy Ax.&
been shipped A brig of some 800 tons
burden Is now on her third trip from San
Francisco after piles. On her last trip
she brought up two tons of groceries. Her
freight charges are cents per running
foot on piles. and So per ton on freight.
Lilliwaup, forty miles from Port Gam
BILE. Is summer resort noted for its water
falls. These are situated about a quarter
of mile from the canal and have a
total fall Of 30 feet. divided into four main
falls or cascades. The town Is composed
of a hotel and postoffice. and has popu-
lation OF about twenty people.
Dewatta postoffice, nearly opposite Lilli-
waup. on the east shore. contains about
twenty people.
Hoiley and Bangor postoffices have
about thirty inhabitants.
Seabeck, twenty miles from Port Gam
bic. is deserted town of some forty
houses. 1t was formerly the site OF a
large sawmiil which burned In 1885, and
has not been rebuilt.
Clifton, at the head of the canal on
Union river. has a population of about
twenty souls. general merchandise store
and blacksmith shop. daily mail thorse-
back TO Seattle via Sidney and Port Or
ehard, fourteen miles. and TO Allyn on
North hay. six miles. tri-weekly. About 40
tons of potatoes and 300 tons of hay are
shipped from here annually. Oysters are
shipped TO Seattle and Tacoma by wagon
road across narrow ridge to North Bay,
and then by boat TO destination. The
shipments amount from three to four
bushels per week In season. The beds
are fast being depleted. party through
carelessness In replacing the culls
and partly by exposure TO heavy
frosts occurring when the beds
were bare on an extreme low
tide. steam logging road. seven
miles long, the property Of the Puget Mill
Company, Is in operation at intervals.
Allyn. at the head OF iow-tide naviga-
ton on North Bay. forty-two miles from
Tacoma, has a population of about fifty
people. IL contains a general merchan-
disc store and postofiice and a boarding
house where lodging can be obtained. A
steamer carrying malls makes the round
trip to Tacoma daily. except Sundays:
fare. 50 cents.
Logging is the chief industry although
little has been done the past year and a
half
The farming land IN this vicinity under
cultivation Is confined to small garden
tracts insufficient 10 supply home demand
Goods are purchased In Tacoma and Seat
tie In about equal quantities
A railroad has been surveyed from here
10 Clifton, and a portion of 1t has been
graded
The Puget Lumber Company's shipment
for the month of September. 1894. is as
follows: To Honolulu. l.537 900 feet of
lumber. H.i75 linear feet cedar poles (445);
10 California 2ss6 900 feet of lumber, 4s2. :
30 pieces laths. 1880 linear feet piling
u.9o).
The steamer Idaho running from Seat
tie 10 Port Townsend. touches at Port
Gamble daily. except Sundays. Two pas
senger and freight boats, the Delta and
Rainier, run one way on alternate days,
except Sundays, from Seattle 10 Union
CITY, touching at all intermediate points
on the canal The Monte Cristo daily. ex-
eept Sundays. from Tacoma. making con-
nection with the Susie for Allyn. The
schooner American Ranger makes month
" trips from Seattle 20 Quilcene bay. A
brig Is on her third trip TO Honolulu from
San Francisco. Numerous vessels lie at
the Puget Mil Company's wharves at
Port Gamble, loading lumber for various
Examination OF ridge between HOOD
canal and North hay--Lieut. Case. in 1871,
FIRST discovered this narrow isthmus
which Ia, at the narrowest place. two
miles wide. The general elevation OF the
ridge Is no feet. fits maximum elevation
Is Sos feet and the lowest pass Is 80 feet.
y reconnaissance was made crossing from
water 10 water three times and along the
backbone of the ridge and it's spurs twice.
From these trips with aneroid and COM
pass the accompanying contour map OF
the region IL compiled, drawing largely
rom coast survey chart No. s. 80. Two
projects for a canal were considered,
namely: 4 high-lexel canal and sea-
level canal Tha frat Is isnpractica BILE
through lack OF water supply. Lake De-
bro. called kellams lake by Lieut.. Case
which lies almost in the path Of the short
est route. is shallow water body hav-
ing less than thFes-fogrfhS OF a square
nile drainage basin. II Is said 10 he forty
ftszS deep IN places. nut the ends are shall
law and considerable chasge fl Its cut
line Occurs from season TO season The
second project. rhs only feasible one. will
require aa average cut Of 30 feet for two
raties At the narrowest poins. 2 maxi
uHn, cur OF 80 feet with dredging across
-sssH feet OF tide fats 70 obtain twenty