The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-01-03

kept al I1e coed T1iEES sic 1Ed When ia
ransc OF 1855 stTzsck the country and dried
Up the golden stream OF outside money
which was being trzns<used into re ar
te~es OF her trade. but she has Immensely
edded 70 them since those streams were
dried Cd and -he backward tide OF interest,"
began 70 tnpoverisa her. All that was
good % what. during rns period prior %
1888, she added 10 her productive indus
tree her commerce, her Transportation,
and other facilities for dong business and
al her convensences as a progressive
Western CRY she has still The uGprodue-
tive industries and those az a s1occsatFe
character have been cut OF. es the dead
limbs are Topped on 4 healthy tree, which
Therscpon shoots out new and vigorous
LIMBS. aiding by the.r verturs the scars
made by the ampu1ation. SO Seattle has
built up new industries on q more sub
startial basis. she has provided. by the
Efforts Of her own people and WITH the ara
OF the government, for the enlargement
OF her ocean commerce and she mas en-
iargsd that commerce by extending her
traae I'D the coast 70 Alaska. down the
coast 20 Central America, and last and
greatest stride Of all. across the ocean 20
japan Thus the vanguard OF the nsw
worlds army, having reached the contta-
ent's further shore after conQuering for
the arts OF peace the wilderness II has
crossed, joins hands across the watery
waste with the newiy-swakened giant or
ire s.uunbering Orient. The newest and
oldest civilizations unite their energies IN
the common cause Of human progress
The Country Opened Cp.
The sast period or rapid development ex-
persenced By Seattle ana tia country
which proudly looks up 70 her as its me-
tropolis was Characterized by efforts TO
open the way for settlement and produc-
frv4h " he of oh
trail was succeeded by the wagon road
and the wagon road by the railroad. First
the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern
stretched into the Cascades and north
ward 70 the boundary. where IL linked the
city with the transcontinental line Of the
Canadian Pacific. Then the Seattle &
Northern was built up the grand Skagst
valley. the Bellingham Bay s. British CO.
iumbia cut through the cedar forests Of
Whatcom county and the Great Northern
coast line. skirtlng the shore OF the Sound.
was built northward TO add this latter
line to the gridiron which Seattle was
spreading over the land and also TO form
another link with the Canadian Pacific
system. Lastly, the Great Northern main
line WAS extended across the continent to
this city and made IL a transcondnentaI
terminus as we'll the center OF the local
railroads.
While this had been going on. the set
tiers had swarmed into the woods and
mountains. Some made for themselves
farms la tho valleys, OF which the black.
ioamy soil seemed to be unfathomable:
some cut logs and built sawmills along the
railroads and rivers, reaping the harvest
of soaring forest trees which crowded one
another n lifting their heads ever higher
and higher to greet the sun: others pene-
trated TO the Iarthest recesses OF the
mountains and found them veined with
III - rssxa IT, -
metals. They brought back the news OF
what they had found and proved Seattle
to be the metropolis of a mineral belt I'M
e9ualed In extent. The hrst fruit OF this
discovery was the cons truct.on OF the Ev-
erett & Monte Crlsto railroad, a pioneer
among the mineral roads watch are des-
tined to make the Cascade range give I'D
its riches. Ii follows the south fork OF the
Stillaguamish almost TO Its head and has
caused mining to take squirt along that
stream and its tributaries.
Good Comes of EVIL.
The completion OF the Great Northern
railroad was coinc.dent in time with the
panic and marked the close OF one and the
opening OF another epoch in the history of
the CRY. The characteristics of the new
epoch have been internal development, es-
Establishment of new industries in the cities
and expansion of the external trade, both
by water up and down the coast and
across the ocean and by rail with the
states to tho east. One good result OF the
depression was TO drive out the men 1t
had left without an occupation in the
cities and force them 10 scatter through
the most remote sections OF the state in
search OF a nvenhood. Some OF them took
10 farming, numbering and logging, but
most OF them went prospecting. The
mountains are full Of former real estate
men, surveyors, engineers and building
artisans from Seattle whose means of liv-
ing were taken away by the subsistence
of the boom and It is 10 the efforts OF these
men as much as any others that the great
mineral discoveries OF the last three years
are due. One can fad IN the mining
camps OF Washington educated men OF
every profession. VINO. finding no oppor-
tun-ty TO earn a living in the city In the
way they had chosen. piuck!ly went out
and, returning TO first principles, began
10 wrest living from nature by the work
of ghelr muscles. Thus the business de-
preston has promoted the development
OF the back country, which win ere long
send a stream or wealth flowing into the
city TO re!nvigorste it's business life.
Increase of Manufactures.
At the same time manufactures have
undergone marked increase in the city
The weaker concerns have been weeded
OF the fttest, but their places have been
taken by larger number OF new concerns
in q greater variety OF industries. having
a sounder financi Al standing. There are:
-four nail of which the capacity is taxed
20 supply the demand: iron foundries and
machine shops; furniture factories;
steel shipbgiiding works at which two
government vessels are beng coustr ucted;
numerous bodybuilding shops; boiler
works. three brewer1es number of book
binders and two publishing firms which
have done as cred3tabsa work as any IN
the country; bottling works; box factories;
brass founiries. sewer pine works. brick
works. candy and cracker factories: rail-
road car works; carriage works. gar fac
tories; a creosotlng works dven~ works;
several cereal mtsls: upholstettag works,
sb.rt factories. harness works, makers CT
sncuoators. shoe factories soap factories.
a tannery. fawelry factories. meat pack
ing houses. 2 syrup factory. marble works,
SAL works. numerous zAwm.sis and sh.nFie
mills. shoe fsctory, soap factory. several
spice factories. a VIE works, large tn
ware factory aud wO0.en rlA. The
fishing industry has expgr. eDced great de-
ye(epmeDt. a new canUery having been
added a f~gerf- ff-a asf~v yarfe, asfa. n1fsS.S4