The San Francisco call., 1896-06-10
new COUNTRY EXPLORE D,
Northwest Washington Rich in
Rivers, Farm Lands and
Fine Timber.
Cover nment Party Recently Surveyed
the Section So It Could Be
Settled Upon.

! Hon. Lawrence E. Doyle, formerly of
San Francisco, and now a resident of Port
Angeles, Wash, is in the City. Since
leaving here several years ago he has
served as a member of the Legislature
and as State Senator of Oregon. Mr..
Doyle says he received an independent
nomination for Congress in 1894 from the
people of Clallam County, of which Port
Angeles is the county seat.
Mr.. Doyle has recently been with the
first Government surveying party that
ever went into the wilds of Northwest
Washington north of and on the ocean
side of the Olympic Mountain range. Six
men were in the party. They followed
half dozen and more rivers far up toward
their mountain sources, and found the
country wonderfully rich in tall timber,
| farming lands and tur-bearing animals.
| The Olympic Mountain range is the most
rugged of all the mountains of the Pacific
| Coast in North America, has been but
| little explored and is as yet, though with
in 100 miles of the cities OF Puget Sound
and a pioneer fort at Port Townsend,
almost an unknown region. He says in
! dicationS were found In the streams OF
rich mineral ledges.
Mr.. Doyle says that along the ocean
coast are large deposits of black sand car
| rying large quantities OF hne gold. lie
saws that few pioneers who are up in that
region take from 50 to 81 80 worth OF gold
per day out of this sand by the crudest
means, and that if they had the necessary
1 apparatus to save the finest gold trey
could make fortune in one or two years
There is no snow on the coast to interfere
with the work. He says there are deposits
near the mouth of the Ozette River.
The Dungeness River, the valley o.
which they surveyed, is large stream
with fine fir, spruce, cedar and occasion
ally hemlock timber. Several large trl6u
tary creeks have rich farming land in theul
valleys and are surrounded by great cedar
forests.
Other rivers which the party assembled
and the valleys of which they surveyed
are the EIwah, Liar, Twin, Haste, Pei
chat, Suesh, Ozette, Hoe, Duties, Soldew
Clowah and QuiIlayute and Ozette Lake
nearly all Indian names. Ali have rict
bottom lands and tall, straight timber o
the varieties stated.
There are very few settlers in any OF The
valleys The object OF the trip was to sur
vey the land so that it could be thrown
open to settlement.
Game, elk, deer, bea-, grouse, par
fridge and pheasant abound, and the fur
bearing animals are bear, cougar, cats
| uldi Ten, AoAcAS, ObbOL ohN q AS" SSSA' 49,
said Mr.. Doyle. Lake Crescent is seven
teen miles and Lake Sutherland tifteer
miles from Port Los Angeles, affordine
fire fishing and hunting. Admiral Boards
lee was there last year, and he says he l:
gong to spend a couple of months there
this summer if he can. There warm anc
cold springs are side by side near by. We
found the water of the springs good fol
rheumatism.
THE finest parts of the States of Wash
lngton and Oregon are along their ses
coasts" continued Mr.. Doyle. Thou
sands of dollars worth of as fine timber a'
stands out of doors are burned by the set
tiers in clearing the land. l think the
construction of railroad from San Fran
cisco along the coast to Port Angelo;
would prove good investment, for 1t would
bring tributary to this City all that timber
a rich farming country which would soor
settle up. and a mineral belt that is moi
yet even prospected. If coal is not founo
up there, too, will miss my guess.