The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-20

Ssls eAk.. wien Is printed ln1er the tale
bered thar Il vas Mr. Stanley xsso seat
gu 70 ti1e S9Tad through the Associated
ffess tAs ErsI 2utAent.c news q ms great
Judgments about Seat.isas methods ARA
character are IT some instances severe. bat
re fol:ewIag viii nevertheless be found
Much has bAen said IN the Eastern
press about the boom in Seattle. The
pank c4eaTances from week 10 week prove
tAat there Is a boorn and give rise 10 all
sorrs Of exaggerated stories. AS 4 mat
ter OF fact. Seattle is booming, but Il IS
not healthy hoom. It cannot be main
tanned Not but that Seattle has the
greatest natural advantages OF any city
IN the world. ] repeat that statement
any city in the world
This and a thousand and one other
expeoients has put Sa1sls through the
hard times, bat she has come through
and comes up smiling. confident. and with
large Ideas. Her people pull together 81
a pubic way. and they win. Her Cham
Der OF Commerce IS the nervisSt. shrewd
est. most rescurcefuI body of the kind
On earth Il does up Portland. san Fran
cisco and Tacoma right along. and Scat
Ties newspapers stand by IL like na5o4s
Indeed, II pays them. for when il coInas
10 advertising in public or private way.
It is case of name your own price.
There's nothing hi6e-bound about Seattle
She has plenty OF men who are not worth
dollar today who were worth. or
thought they were worth, from $500 go 20
sl.en.eo eight years ago. and who VIII
/ be worth half as much more and more
1 certain OF Il. too before they die.
Seattle is growing now. and she IS
going 10 grow. She is the metropolis OF
al the Puget sound region by big odds,
She viii multiply In population and wealth
FIVE times within the next twenty-five
years. In other words. she VIII have
from 10000 10 So00a9 population in 1875
Paste that prediction In your hat
When this Klon7ike excitement struck
the country, the nerve centers-Seattle ia
as nervy center as I know of-hegan 20
respond. Seattle turned herself fairly
wrong side out and she brought the BUSH
ness. The hank ciearances show that.
Her merchants didn't wait 10 order by
mail; they telegraphed. Perry the wizard
OF the lakes. never made a greater hustle
for ships of war than Seattle did for ships
OF commerce. She met the returning min
ers away up at St Michael and she steer
ed them into Seattle. AS a result, she did
business before other cities got ready.
She had made fortunes while 9TH
er cities were wondering If the news was
true and were celebrating whether or not
ness. She is most advantageously situated
to control that business. She has three
quarters of If. and she may hold IL.
She has made preparations enough TO
hold three times as much business az is
In view at present, and unless the Alaska
gold supply proves lasting or increases.
she Will later be fiat. All this risk OF get
ting ready for business, Of doing the bust
ness that has actually been done, has Gre
nj "A q a pI far Il
ing houses. Also for residences for the
city has probably increased 10000 IN pop
uiation within the six months. For time
the shortsighted policy Of asking high
prices was followed and retail supplies OF
all kinds cost from 25 to So 1-S per cent.
more than In Bingharnton, but the man
agement Of the city was too shrewd 20
keep that up long. They have choked of
the fellows who wanted TO get rich In
month and prices are reasonable again.
From the fact that the business por-
ton OF this big, sprawling town is large
ly confined to a dozen blocks or squares,
rents have advanced enormously. Had
not there been many vacant stores and
residences before the boom commenced.
the advance would have been greater.
AS II is. store 20xl00 on a good street
will probably command $500 per month.
or near that A six 10 ten-room dwelling,
according to location. rents for from $i3
to $40. A boarding house is small for
tune each month TO Its owner. Draymen
and expressman are coming money. Peo-
pie are coming and going constantly, and
dray loads of trunks are seen on every
block. Merchants are rushed and while
prices To residents are about % per cent.
higher than formerly. sugar still retaIls
at Sc per cwt. -four at about 81
per cwt., milk at cents per quart
and vegetables at fairly reasonable prices.
Butter and eggs are high Good butter
retails AT 50 cents or more. and eggs at
about 80 cents. Meats are very cheap
and good. While there are Decent lodging
houses and Decent restaurants. no one
but a half-breed can live in them, but
for from 81 to s. per week one can get
a very fair room by the month, and good
table board can be had for from 81 to s.
par week. Hotel rates are not much
higher than In New York city. and In
several OF the best the service is fairly
good. while the bin OF fare is excellent.
when Il comes to Quitting Seattle
can outfigure the country. II looks as
II there was an understanding among the
merchants TO hold the trade By asking
only reasonable prices. and the banks are
backing up such merchants as wish TO
take advantage and buy in large guam
titles. The great business harvest OF the
city VIII he Eeaped within the next 100
son Will be past.
The extreme high rents cannot long
hold, for much building IS going on and
the city Is so spread out that building
sites are cheap, Some time ago l advised
Quitting for the klondlke from Seattle,
and as prices advanced ] had some mis-
eivings but within a short time things
have so regulated themselves that / am
inclined 10 believe that advice yet holds
good. Seattles lumber, agricultural and
local mining interests are moving right
along. Only the other day the Treadweu
Mining Company gave the Stetson & Post
MIN Company an order for 5000 600 feet
Of lumber which Seattle mills will cut
anu Seattle ships transport to Alaska
This Is only an incident. The fisheries
are picking up the sh,ngie Industry Ia
increasing, and al about the East Sound
region the great FIR and cedar trees are
growing about as fast as they are cut
II once seemed as # this Sound region
must be dsuuded OF its forests. hut year
Is today more actual feet Of standing
timber IN this region than In New York.
Pennsylvania and Ohio combined. The
wealth 81 forest, Sound. swale and re-
claimed tide fats Is something almost be-
y0ud creaeuCe. II viii be years and years
before this cCuctry IS rs beautiful ~
well cleared and as pleasant in many
ways 70 I've n as our own Southern tier
but even now I, has It's advantages and
& VIII ore day be as wealthy a section
as the United States knows with Seat
tie the very core Of al that section
II. A STANLEY.
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