The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-20
LOOKS BRIGHT FOR SEATTLE.
Former Resident OF Lowell Tells of
Her Wonderful Resources.


Il varies the monotoay a little TO get
hold of a man who has been uaVeiing
east from Seattle these days. IL has nor
been so hard to discover the individual
who has either bought or Is going 10 buy
his ticket for Alaska and the gold helos.
but il is rarely that one runs across an
Individual fresh from the city into waica
miners fnoYn the kioniike have been pour
ing with their sacks Of yellow goid.
Mr.. II. II. Dearborn. who has been a
resident of Seattle since lsco. lett thst
city about three weeks ago. ana IS now
in Manchester registered al the new
Manchester House. He was formerly
resident Of Lowell. and is well-known 10
Boston business men. He Is enthusiastic
over the prospects of the country in which
he has taken up his permanent residence
and anticipates that the gold fever Will ada
Thousands TO the population OF Seattle
within the next few months.
THE principal Quitting point for Alaska
and the gold fields Is Seattle said MI
Dearborn. ''The Pacific coast Steamship
Company runs a line Of SeeNton vessels
from San Francisco to Seattle and another
line up the coast all summer, and / sup
pose they will continue the service on ac-
count Of the exodus 10 the newly discoy-
cred gold fields during the winter.
As matter of fact, the miners have
been bringing down gold from the Kkon-
dixie region for the past TWO years and
more. SO II is really no new thing out
: there. II was about two years ago that the
first batch came down from the Yukon. a
party OF ten or twelve miners, with $l5o coo.
They kept the dust and nuggets pretty
close 10 them, bringing il in bags and IN
their bedding.
Much of this was displayed in the win
tows of banks and in tewelry stores, some
of 1t in dust and some In nuggets. and me
whole population had chance 20 see Just
what the virgin article was AXE.
'gThe miners don't confide all OF their
dust TO the captains Of the vessels mat
bring them down from Juneau ana PROB
ABLY the 100000 which was reported 70
have been brought in about two weeks ago
did not include more than one-half the
amount which was really brought down on
the bat by the returning miners.
seIvhe climate on the coast from Seattle
1000 miles north TO Juneau is very even all
the year round. II Is about the same III
Seattle now as il is here today. so far as
weathe goes, and all along the shore OF
Puget sound Ii is much the same. Along
the water courses there are flowers n
bloom the year round. and the grass is al
ways green. This is accounted for by the
Japanese gulf stream, which makes into
the Sound. In Seattle there is very little
Stow in winter, AMI some winters there Is
none at all.
'Out In Seattle we know that the mines
in the Cascade range east of the city, and
in the Olympic range on the west are
remarkably rich in minerals Of all kinds.
The latter have been very little prospect
ed so far. but still there have been some
very valuable finds. The Rockefellers and
lots OF others have made big investments
in the Monte Cristo mines in the Cascade
range. forty miles east Of Seattle. There
are 200 men employed in these mines and
a broad-gauge railroad has been con-
structed at an expense OF 100000 to
transport the ore to the Coast.
I'VE expect 10 see Seattle jump from
population Of 65.oa0 TO 10000 in the next
eighteen months. Any one can buy sup
plies 10 much better advantage than they
can at Juneau or Circle City. At the lat
ter place you have TO pay double price Of
tentimes. The merchants of Seattle have
probably sold goods TO the value OF 81 oo0.-
0o0 to miners who were going up to the
Klondike.
The resources of the country about Sc
attic are marvellous There Is gold. silver,
copper and timber in abundance there.
II you put all the people east of the Mis-
sissippi there II would not run out in 100
years Why, thirty miles east Of the city,
at Snoqualmie pass, in the Cascade range,
there is outcropping of iron which can be
plainly seen Is TO 20 feet wide and
one and half miles in length. This as
says O. per cent. OF iron. Within a mile is
a coal vein with an average thickness Of
ten 10 twelve feet and an apparently In
exhaustible supply. There is any guam
tity Of limestone and everything that "A
smelter should require.
What we need most is Eastern capital
TO develop the country. There Is no safer
point for investment"
He leaves for his home in Seattle the last
OF this week via the Great Northern rail-
way which has It's Pacific terminus at Sc
attic.