The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-22
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X Needham. who formerly published the
Bulletin In this city and has been connect
ed with other Seattle papers, and later
published the Juneau Searchlight. came
down from wrangel on the Corona and is at
the Stevens. He VIII return with a print
ing plant, from which he will prin, the
Stickeen river Journal
Wrangel has not over 800 whites said
MI Needham last night. .'buf people are
coming in on every boat. and new buildings
would go UP much faster IL we could ge.
carpenters. A hotel is 10 be built. also a
new wharf, and the Canadian Pacific IS
preparing to build two wharves. Alto
gether there is work waiting for twenty
five carpenters. Wrangei used to be a
large town during the Cassiar excitement.
when miners came there BIZ steamer and
toek river steamer up the Stickeen, turn
ing south in an almost opposite direction
from Lake Teslin. Capt. Calbreath has
river regularly from Wrangel to Lenora
eleven miles below Telegraph creek. for
years, and placer miners have been work
ing on the river and its tributaries for
twenty-five years.
THE river was closed by Ice last week.
A man came down from Lenora for the
mail. arriving at wrangel on Monday,
and left Tuesday morning on the return
trip. He came down In q canoe TO ka-
shakes in three and one-haif days: then
the river froze and he came the rest Of the
way 10 salt water on loot, borrowed a
boat and pulled to Wrangel. which Is on
Wsangel island, as near the mouth OF the
river as ocean vessels can so. He Is TO get
500 TOR the round trip and wins $50 in bets
II he returns by Christmas.
From Telegraph creek to Teslin lake, q
distance OK 150 miles, the country is prairie.
in which moss-covered marshes occur oc-
easionally. OF course, II q stampede oc-
ours In the spring like that on the Skag-
uay trail. this trail will be cut up in the
same way, but the Canadian government
last year appropriated $500 for the repair
OF the road by corduroying these bad places
and has appointed Capt. Calbreath to look
after 1t. The surveyor general has been
examining the trail, and has gone to OF
tawa to report, and he expressed gratifica-
ton at finding 1t as good as It is. This
wagon road, which Is to be made by the
Canadian government, is entirely apart
from the railroad which the Canadian Pa
cific is about to build That company has
taken up $50 miles Of rails on branch
running into the Cariboo country and is
about to ship them over to Wrangel.
I'VE have in Southeastern Alaska one Of
the greatest mineral belts in the world.
I put In from May to September pros
pecting In sealing boat and came as far
south as Mary island as far west as
Prince OF Wales island and prospected the
country on the east between Benin canal
very good quartz lodges. The Gravina
Mining and Milling Company. of Portland,
has spent $4,000 In developing twelve
claims at the south end Of Gravina island.
opposite Metlakahtla. This company will
put in a stamp mill at Ketchican in the
spring. and has agreed with Ave or six OF
US to transport our ore to the mill and
m yv%fo
Mr.. Sylvester. of the Searchlight. have
some very promising claims on Prince Of
Wales island and have sent men to de-
velop them. Most Of the ore in that Sec
ton Is copper sulphides. but We get very
good gold returns"
An old man who had just obtained work
at Henry Winsiow's lumber yard few
days ago heard his employers name for
the first time from the lips OF a man who
had been sent from the city employment
Office, and who asked for Mr.. Winslow.
"Winslow," he pondered, ''that name
/ sounds familiar; I wonder whether he
comes from our county in Wisconsin"
A few minutes later Mr. Winslow passed,
and the old man asked him IL he had any
relatives in Wisconsin.
Yes" was the answer. "All my people
live in that state. Where do you come
FROM"
81 lived twelve miles from Bear Creek
and there is a family OF Winslows near
there"
They are my people" answered Mr.
Winslow. his interest thoroughly aroused.
What is your manner"
"R. Sweet" was the old mans answer.
II used to know you when / was boy"
said the employer. and a hearty hand
clasp followed, the recognition being mu-
tual.
Though Mr.. Sweet remembered the boy.
who had grown to manhood since they met,
he did not recognize the Seattle, where he
had worked once before in lumber mill.
for that was twenty-five years ago. After
three years service In the Fourteenth
Wisconsin regiment. he went rowing, and
in 1872 came from Waterloo, Ia. to Seattle,
by way of San Francisco. and worked IN
Yesler's sawmill with the Indians at 81
day also being employed at various times
at Port Discovery, Port Ludlow, Port
Townsend and Olympia.
But in those days Seattle was a mere
village, clustered around the sawmill
boarding house and three or four stores,
and he had to learn its topography all over
again. He looked al the buildings on Pho
neer place. where the tide once ebbed and
flowed. and asked:
Where did you get the foundations for
these great brick blocks?
In fact his whole conversation was pune
tuated with exclamation points AT finding
what had grown out of the frontier village
he remembered. The relations OF employer
and workman were forgotten, as easily
happens in free America, and the young
man took him all over the city yesterday
riding on one car line after another. and
pointed out the many improvements and
great enterprises which have placed Seat
tie In the front rank among the cities of
the Pacihc coast. In return. Mr.. Sweet
told all the news or the Wisconsin home
and the hours sped fast and pleasantly. as
they can when friends meet after long
separation.
.Hongkong is as settled a community as
any In England" said II. W. Robertson
who is on his way home to Scotland, after
six years residence in that English colony
In China. and stopped over 81 the Rainier
Grand yesterday. We have no trouble
with the Chinese. for they prefer our
government to their own. With Us they
get fair play. but In their own country they
no sooner begin TO grow rich than the
mandarins begin 80 squeeze them. our
business with the United States has been
materially affected by the Dingley tariff
for the shipment of sugar has been almost
entirely stopped By IL. The tea trade Is
carried on more from Shanghai and other
Chinese ports.
There Is little prospect OF the develop
ment OF China, though IL is an immensely
rich country. The chief obstacle Is the
profound contempt OF the Chinese for
everything foreign. Even our own ser
wants. though they are excellent servants.
and even anticipate our wishes, despise us
on account OF our European habits and
customs The war with Japan had very
little effect. for the vast majority Of the
De0rafa do MT even know that there was a