The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-17
TOATTRACTSETTLERS
immigration Agent Favors an
Office at Chicago.
A GOOD EXHIBIT ESSENTIAL,
Unless the West II Alert, the Move
menr VIII set In Toward the south
Views OF ID. r. Ward.

That Chicago Office is reces~arv fer
Washington u secure immigration Is the
opinion % D B Ward. state .nnsgr atom
agent az that city. who has returned %
Seattle 20 &C T-sr with his chief. SeAsesZ lry
OF State Price. sE.d WITH ths .xesltiye corn
uaittse o. the state immigration commas
sacn. which wia meet IN this 5sy today.
Mr.. Ward WIS appointed ir December ami
sent TO Chicago January -. He speat bu.
few days there looking over the posi-
biiittes OF work 20 be done AMI the method
pursued by other states 20 obtain settlers
When asked yesterday what his conSi2-
sions were as 90 the best method 20 be
adopted by this state. be said:
MY idea Is that IN the first place we
should have good Office II Chicago on the
street level and on enc OF the principal
streets. ] have secured the refusal o.
such an Office; It should be large enough
10 make complete or at least q good
representative permanent exhibition Of the
resources OF Washington This exhibition
should include specimens Of our agricultural
products and cur fruits: II should be espe-
cialiy complete In its geological DEPART
ment showing the coal and its areas and
the variety 81 mineral deposits IN the es-
pecial localities in which they are 70 bs
found The lumber interest should be an
other prominent department and should
show ali our woods and the beauty OF their
grain and utility for interior decoration un-
der treatment TIE fisheries OF the state
should also be represented. and We must
particularly call the attention Of the peo-
pie thexe 10 the a5aptabllity for dairying
purposes Of this part OF the country.
There Is no state IN the Union which Wi
turn ozt more milk producing feed 10 the
acre than vii the rich. alluvial sol OF
the river lands OF Western Washington
and the irrigated lands OF Eastern Wash
ington. We already have quite q number
OF creameries. manufacturing high class
Of butter. This We ought TO show 10 the
people who come 10 Chicago. What We
show people and what We tell people ara
two different things"
What are other state doing Mr. Ward %
well. In Chicago they have not opened
up yet Minnesota, for example, Is thor
oughly organized. and they have raised
through the country auxiliary immigra-
ton associations q very handsome sum for
carrying on the work They have hand
some business offices in St Paul and an
able secretary.
''Ths people os Chicago did a smart thing
at the recent Atlanta exposition There
Is. as you know, bitter rivalry between
Chicago and ST. Louis. st. Louis has all
the Southern trade and Is the Headquarters
for the whole people OF tho Mississippi val
ley. To wres; trade from her Chicago. at
the Atlanta exposition. offered to the
Southern states to provide accommodation
for a miniature OF their exhibition at At
ianfa, IN some building Ia Chicago. The
Chicago people caught the Southern states
with this generous ofYer ard FOR the pur-
pose Of getting the trade Chicago VIII turn
every hoTne-seeker she can In the direc-
ton Of the Mississippi. valley.
by reason az this the South is going
70 have a great boom and Washington IS
not going 20 get any considerable imni-
grafton from them for the next five years,
or until that boom bursts. unless she
makes a very vigorous effort"