The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-20
BIG MANUFACTURING STATE.
Washington's Resonrces'iewed
by Eastern Investors.
IMMENSE NATURAL ADVANTAGES
Tfn plate To BE Turned Ont NJ Port
Angeles on Great scale" ea'ths
pennsyIxanIn COMPANY 20 Erect
and Operate "a steel rant
There-Whas Mr.. Price ihihAs
Of Seattle and It's Future.

william Price. Of MeReespor'. Pennsyi-
xa,.ls ,s5<sa arrival in se4ttis from Brit
ish Columbia gls eaTouicisd H. yestsF-
DAYS posf-Iategiige sosT, left yesterday
afteruoon for tbs East. BIZ. Price VAS
hsrs representing the heavily eapit~iszrd
eognpang Of PeDusyiyanifils VINO arc 70
erect and operate a sfeeI plant az Port
Angeles. Mr. Price stated yesterday 10
a reporter OF the P0st-lnfeii4genc taat
work will bs commenced WITHIN SKY
DAYS and pushed n completion Inc
prlFae ebJect Of the large piAni wa4ch VIII
h.. erected wgli be the nlanufaeinre o. ia
rlafeg. Tn. process will be started be a
hltst fsIFnace. and ended with tue ship
meat 81 hlvh elass tia plates 10 Their des~
finafIof. From tlss conversion OK the
orr into pig iron the product Vih be seht
TO the omen hearth steel plant where II
will be turned into bars. The rolling
mill Will reduce the bafs 70 plates Of the
requisite thickness and the plates " turn
: viii pass through several baths. 20 re-
nave The oxide OF Iron. The next - -
savxara turning out q finished plate -
10 dip the plates In melted tia and the
Finishing process b. 20 pass the plates
through cold rollers which polish the de-
post Of tin. Boxing and packing follows;
the market is already made The tin that
viii be- used sill BE- imported from Tas-
mania. and can bs laid down on the
Sound for much less than ia tbs Hasten
manufacturing towns OF the United
States.
when Il Is considered that the Pacific
coast alone uses q 80 tons Of Tin plate
annually" said Mr Price 'an excuse =
Offered for the building Of a plant for
ITS manufacture. Washington Is not an
agricultural state. it "a going to be- the
manufacturing state Of the future Peo-
pie who I've here do not appreciate the
fortune that are - b. made cut 90 the
natural resources Of Washington. Thee
s. vast Geld for manufacturing enter
prise to supply. why. there isn't an
ether state west az the Mississippi river
ihat has the quality u iron that Washing
tor has and first class eoking coal. At
Ifondale. above Port Townsend. they
started in a little blast furnace. using
charcoal. and IL couldn't last. fron~ihat
Is good iron--is tho rosuls of mixing and
blending different ores. These ores are
ali here n Washington. but the mines
have not heDn Developed. our idea In
going to Port Angeles u 10 be- near the
orc. the coal and at the same time be
near points OF consumption In selecting
Port Angeles we find All OF these re-
quialtes oar first iron. until local mines
are developed. viii come from Barclay
sound II. e. but the other ores necca-
sary TO q first class finished pig will be
mined near nungeness.
.'rhe shipments from Port Angeles can
be made. TO all points of local consump-
ton and trangshipTnent easily as from
any other point and the product for Calf
fernia delivery can be sent direct. The
esnneries of fab and fruit ~ the north
and south. on the Pacific coast, arc the
greatest consumers Of tin plate. and when
the fact II taken into consideration that
2sn1 tons are used on the Coast from
Alaska 10 Southern California. and that
II costs SIS per ton for freight delivery
from the Eastern manufactgry 20 the
ccRst the money that is sent away in
freight alone reaches the handsome sum
Of sfN.0no There Is no reason why this
sum should be sent out Of the country
and there Is no reason why The railroads
should not earn an equal sum in trans
porting the Puget sound product 10 the
great market that exists west OF the Ms
asssppi river There T. no factory IN
America that produces more than i0.eoa
tons annually The coal OF skagit county
II tfHt-ciass cooking coal and has held
up well under experiments IN the East
where II has been sent for trial
Port Angeles Is bound 20 profit hy the
location 81 the plant. and SO IS the entire
Sound country particularly seattle. Thls
cltNenioys the advantage OF splendid shin.
ping faciHi4r~s You have railroads nna
steamship connections 10 all quarters 81
the globe. and it siH not be long before
those facilities Viii he taxed 20 their fun
est capacity. In the East capital Is seek
Ing investment and il e. gradually be-
coming acquainted with the great posi-
hliticH ~ the Northwest. and particularly
with the city Of Seattle which is TODAY
the best advertised town in the world
This II the place where nufaciories are
Eping 70 spring ap. and IN rotation 90 iron
with which am most familiar / can prn-
diet great increase In rs use
seattle has the Alaska and Northwest
territory business ~ the palm 81 rs hand
! have reeenily travelled an through tho
East and Seattle s. the only place mem
toned IN connection VITA Alaska and me
hiendihe. There IS to b. e great com.
munity built IN Alaska and Seattle win
supply u. Eastern capital VIII Haoa The
state N another year. and YOU must en-
courage Sc coming Indi very raceufl,.
there WAS lack ~ assurance thaf the r,,rt
Angeles steel plant would 60 ahead tRis
year nut later developments made N poe-
siele 70 push the project and nov We
naFe much more capital than We no. A
Thcre y no stock fer sale. so ann ,,of sv,--
ihS 70 bonn an enterprise 10 aisn.,s. ~ flS
stock. With the development ~ Ais-1..,
q great amount nj attention Pa .nir. y, ~
drawn 10 the utnnS ~ Western Nsaaht--
ton. and son shfsl18 furnish al oF ,ho ~,
cbinefN~ pumps and evert1hiasr else ..-s
editor these ultnes ana an ~ enc 49,.
s------~---------