The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-03-23

lean subject fully an dense as anything
which ever appeared IN any English news
paper.
An Immigrant farmer. scaling the rug
ged peaks az the Cascades and planting
wheat crop IN tas scattering patches OF
coil by the aid % shotgun. might make
= subject for q humorous cartoon Ar at
tempt 70 sarrn within tire limits OF the
Cascade reservation, excepting on = few
Isolated tracts. would be a much more
difficult undertaking than the like pursuit
in the widest mountain region o. ths
Adirondacsz or AIleghanIes- Our BaIti-
more contemporary can rest assured that
even Il this reservation Is opened. the
Eastern farmer Is perfectly safe from any
competition By farmers who may locate
within It's borders.
For the further information Of our East
ern readers. We win again state that the
Cascade reservation. containing nearly
seo6 ose acres. comprises IN great pars
range OF mountains among the highest
on the continent. the Jagged peaks Of
which. covered az the summit with per-
petuai snow. stretch in an unbroksn line
from the northern 70 the southern bound
airy OF this state, one individual peak
rising TO the height Of ls.sls feet. and
hundreds OF others from s.ooo 20 lz,o,o feet.
From summit 70 base these mountains are
practically destitute OF vegetation, and
there il no soil on which vegetation could
find q hold. Glaciers abound and feed the
So
70 the coast. II In as idle TO talk OF farm
ing iE connection with these mountains as
Il would be Il the SUBMITS OF the Andes
were In question And 10 a Large extent
the same Is true Of forestry. There is no
timber OF commercial value in the range.
or. indeed. within the entire limits OF the
reservation. which takes IN not only the
summit. but he slopes OF this mountain
range.
Rugged, barren. picturesque. yet for
bidding an this mountain range is. IL yet
contains the elements OF vast wealth. not
only for the people OF Washington. but
for the people OF the whole United States.
Countless lodges OF ore, containing not
only the precious metals. but copper and
lead In abundance. have been discovered
therein. and thousands OF the claims dis
covered are row developed into mines
More money has been spent in this work
OF development within the past three
years than has been spent In the expan-
sion OF all other industries in this state
combined. Potentially. the mining indus
try TO be prosecuted within the limits OF
tbs Cascade reservation means more to
this state than does wheat 10 Dakota,
coal TO Pennsylvania or even oysters TO
Maryland.
The selfish interests in this state
which abuse" President Cleveland for his
reservation order. are the interests of
every man. woman and child In the state
or Washington. which are seriously and
adversely affected by the creation OF the
reservation.
IL the people OF Pennsylvania were for
hidden TO mine coal. and all iron furnaces
in the state were shut down; IL the people
OF Dakota were forbidden TO raise wheat;
IL an executive reservation were made OF
Chesapeake bay and tho people OF Mary
land were forbidden to dredge or tong for
oysters therein. the people OF those states
could understand precisely how the max
ing OF the so-called forest reservations
affect the people OF Washington, and the
selfish interests" affected would likely
be heard from ia fully as loud a clamor
as Is at present going up from the state
OF Washington.