The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-10-23
HOME AGAIN.

About eight weeks ago business al
fairs called us to the far west, Everett,
Washington, and we took the famous
n. p. overland at West Superior, We'd
nesday, August 18th, at 400 p. m. and
reached Seattle Saturday Of the same
week at 200 p. m. and Everett a: 5:0o
O'Clock. AS we have said before in
these columns, the accommodations on
this road are unsurpassed for elegance
and comfort, and we frequently heard
it said, while on the trip, that the road
bed of this company is the smoothest
of any of the transcOntinental roads.
While we were rot pleasure seeking,
we could not help enjoying the varying
beauties of nature through which one
continually passes on this trip. lis
simply a grand panoramic view, rapidly
changing from pine lands, prairie, Bad
lands, to barren and then densely wood
ed mountains. with rushing streams
tearing down, down, hundreds of feet,
until the grand finale ls reached at the
Sound, from which the view of the dIf-
ferent mountain ranges is unsurpassed.
While in Everett we visited the fam
lily of our beloved and recently de-
ceased uncle, Hon. III. w. Holiey,
whose death few months since
doubles our sorrow and loss, the grim
messenger having within the past
eighteen months bereaved both fam
lies which were inseparablv linked to-
gether by blood, marriage, and love,
and taken from each the head-the
husband and father, and we have let
Of them nothing but fond memories and
a consciousness that they are free from
sorrow and suffering, but are still inter
ested in our aspirations, successes and
Joys, and are encouraging us to greater
efforts along every line Of our life work.
Everett, (Which, by the way, has lnl-
proved somewhat since our visit three
wears ago, and shows evidence of hay
in. stood the recent hard times fairly
well, her industries having been oper-
ated night and day right along, turn-
ishiny employment to hundreds of
men, yet we took time to pay brlel
visit to Seattle friends, and we have no
hesitancy in saving that this city is the
liveliest We have encountered in many
Il day. This activity is due largely to
The kiondike craZe-for craze is about
what it amounts to. We of the eastern
of hearing and reading of the klondike
conditions which are generally believed
to be greatly exaggerated, but trip to
Seattle will convince any one of the
fact that we have actually known and
heard but little compared with the true
condition as it exists, and as reported
by those who have returned. Every
ether door in Seattle Is an outtittIng es-
adjustment of some kind, and up to a
few weeks ago every one of them en-
loved dav aad night forces in order
TO attend TO their customers. The city
is full of strangers. papers are full OF
advertiser ents, banks are doing three
times as much business as d year ago,
and. as we have said before, nearly all
tins activity is due to the klondike eX
element, because Seattle people have
left no stone unturncd to secure and
hold, by advertising and hard work,
this immense Quitting and depositing
business.
Another business proposition which
has brought Seattle into prominence as
= great commercial point was the es-
adjustment. by James Hill, of the
Oriental Line of trading boats, which
are used in connection with the Great
Northern from eastern United States,
for freight billed to Japan. We had
the pleasure of boarding one of these
boats, The kagoshlma Maru. Toxic,
Japan, 5000 ton capacity, and to say that
she Is a beauty and perlect-as perfect
!, freighter rs either the Northland or
northwest are As passenger boats, Is
enough Her Captain is an English
man, but the other officers are, We be-
keve Japanese.
Enough Seattle and klondikc boom,
ray some of the readers, and so say we,
but ii is pleasure TO see a town SO full
Of life and business activity, and we
trust that il will not be long until every
town and city will give evidence Of re-
turning prosperity, by the improve
ment and operation of industries and
business peculiar 10 their own locality.
The state washington has been
blessed this wear with immense crops
of grains, fruit and vegetables, and with
a big advance III the market price of
salmon, as we'll as lumber, the people
are happy aud feeling prosperous, as.
indeed, they have every reason for
being
Spokane has had revival, and it Is
said that the recent fruit f.tir-w hich.
WAS the best exhibit ever made in the
state-attracted more people TO that
city who will locate permanently than
the most ardent boomer anticipated
And yet in the face Of all these facts
ana rulnors we return TO our home, Su-
perior. glad TO get back and proud of
our many and great industries, and
business enterprises. Glad too, that
our financial reputation is about TO be
established on higher plane than ever
before. We have been discussed from
the Atlantic TO the Pacific and back
again. and when this question is hon
oraolv adjusted. and not until then. we
shall see business men with large cap
ital seeking our city, for II is one of the
best IN the United States Let as, II
possible, induce the Great Northern
10 locate terminals on our bay front,
it is the place for them, and il we ret
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