The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-02-03
Western Wonders.
Remarkable Resources of the Big State of
Washington. Hints to klondike GOers.

national Republican committee in Wash
ingtun, d. c., and Senator Hanna S conf
dental secretary and right-hand lieuten-
ant, lived for a number OF years in Washing
ton, as territory and State, and is probably
as well equipped with knowledge concern
ing it as any man living. He is enthusiastic
on the subject, too, and while graphic in
describing it's substantial features he be-
comes positively poetic in Inning pic
lures of its natural beauties He warmed
to the subject one night recently at the
Cairo, where he resides, and became elo
quent as he proceeded.
I'm undeveloped resources, said Mr..
Perkins, 'Washington is the richest in
the Union, and at no distant date is des-
tined to be one of the largest pro-
ducels from natures stOrehouSe. The
truth about Washington sounds like lie.
Nature has dealt with her lavishly, and
those who are not familiar with her gen
erous moods do not easily believe until
they see how bounteously she there be
slows her gifts. If we state the facts even
with moderation, we are suspected OF eX-
aggeratiOn. A man who has never seen
Niagara can have no real conception of a
cataract; one who has never been in the
tropics knows nothing of the fury of the
hurricane; so one who has never stood in
the presence of Mount Tacoma cannot
realize how the grand old mountain looks.
Paint ii for him in the most glowing
coloIs, carve it with the hand Of a Phdias
OF an Angelo in enduring marble, des
cribe it with the genius OF a Milton, even
as
"a shining peak a whole days journey
high,
and yet he does not realize its huge bulk,
its rugged outline, its varying colors, its
graceful proportions, It's impressive
silence, its solemn grandeur, its lofty
cliffs and deep georges, its lights, its
shadows, its sublime. vast, glorious self,
forever gray with the age of aons of time,
yet ever new and fresh as if just from the
hands of its Omnipotent Maker.
WONDERFUL CROPS.
Take the eastern farmer through the
ripenng fields of Palouse. Walla Walla or
the Big Bend and show him from fifty to
seventy five bushels TO the acre, and he
will admit that Washington is great
wheat State,'' continued Nh. Perkins.
Nv ashlngton fruit growers can show you
blackberry bushes from which the fruit
has TO be gathered by the use of step
ladder and whole orchards of prune and
pear trees that have to be stayed up to
prevent their own productiveness from
proving their destruction Potatoes, 500
bushels, and hay four tons to the acre,
can be produced in this new State, while
hopgrowels get 3, 900 pounds to the acre.
wv ashington forests are its greatest
source OF wealth. more valuable many
times over than those of Minnesota, Michi-
gan or Wisconsin. Our giant frs to equal
which
g The tallest pine grown on Norway hills
10 he the mast OF some great admiral
were but d wand. In the mountains are
found gold, silver and copper ores while
nearer the tidewater is the granite,
graphite, asbestos, clay of infinite vare-
ties, and tin.
There is no State in the Union that
offers better inducements for capital than
W ashlngton, The Klondike of the
States Puget sound is the gateway to
the orient and to-day Tacoma, her chief
port OF entry, ranks IN many things second
only to New York
A WIDE AWAKE CITY.
Tacoma. the man pu1t If entry on
Puget sound, is a city of 40. 600 people: |
the terminus OF the Northern Pacific rail |
way and ot the greatest and most success !
1ul steamship lines plying between the /
nlteG states and the ulieIit. aud aso the /
terminus Ut lines to Alaska and San Fran |
CISCO. Four hundred and five ocean vessels /
cleared tlom her port n 1886 I he exports |
and imports OF 1891 u dale exceed those |
OF all othel ports in Puget sound Gus
toms district combined, Tacoma1s being
oll, 20, lob, ali other ports il Puget |
sound beng POI, sos She handles
more tea from China. and Japan than all |
other American ports including New York. |
and stands next to New York in ollentai |
merchandise distributed She manufae-
lures and sells more lumber than any port
on the PacIllc coast, this going to China. !
Japan Australia, New Zealand. Africa.
Germany, California and ali
parts of the United States. She mas
within heI limits the largest single mill |
III the world Bnlion from mines in
Alaska, Montana, Idaho, British Column
bla and the State of Washington is sent
to the Tacoma smelter. Tacoma's facili-
ties 1or handling freight has earned her
the reputation of being the quickest and
port in the world. The North
efn racine ear shops, costing over one
million Collars, are -ocated at Tacoma
ana she has the most complete freight
yards on the Pacific coast, most extensive
docks, warehouses and coal bunkers.
The climate is m)st healthful The
city has perfect sanitary system, fifteen
public schools, five universities and col
Ieges of high standing, has s, 16S pupils
enumerated, ), 800 enrolled. She has III
miles OF graded streets.
a FUTURE NJ METROPOLIS.
Tacoma is the future METROPOLIS of
The Pacific northwest" he went on. at
IS bull- on terraced slopes overlooking
commencement bay, with one of the fin
est harbors in the world, a city of magni
hcent homes inhabited by cultivated,
rehned and enterprising people, with
schools and churches lnequalled by any
city of her size in America, and she offers
every comfort and luxury afforded by her
sister cities of the east The scenery adj
accent to Tacoma is unequaled by any city
d the coast, overlooking the placid
waters of the most M gnficent sheet of
water in America, with the Olympic
mountains In full view, and Mt. Tacoma.
covered with her snowy robe, standing
Ia, 444 feet high, a sight once seen never
10 be forgotten, and unequaled. The
waters OF the sound are alive with fish.
ana there are at least ninety five varieties
nat are good for food some of them
.ound III these tributary waters being the