The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-21
ENGAGED IN THREE
GREAT INDUSTRIES.
The Pacific Coast Company Leads
in Pacific Coast Progress.
With Seattle ~ HeaAQuarteRs. II Op-
crates steamers From Alaska TO
Mexico, Railroads IN the Richese
Sections of ~ ashiaEton and Cali
fornsa ana the Famous New
caatie and franklin Coal Aines.
E.eamshipa
Railroads.


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The operation ~ these three separate but
closely connected departments q industry
Is the business OF The Pacific Coast COM
pany the reorGaElzsd oregon Improve
ruent Company. Steamships that enter ss-
cry important part Of tie Pacific coast
from Mexico 10 Alaska inclusive railroads
that zap the coat mines q King county.
Washington. the immense Lumbar districts
OF the SAT-. safe. and the grain fields %
the fertile valleys az Southern California,
mines that produce huniresis ~ thousands
% tons % coal every year. great portion
Of the product besng the famous Franklin
steam coai known IN every city on the
coast 81 tae hest there +.
IL a q b,Is ness faat has des eloDed and is
deve opiHg with the growth Of the land
that IL Tapped by the waters OF the Pacific
villa Seattle The heart of rs system. ils
arteries * end through Mexico. California.
Oregon Washington. British Columbia
ard Alaska. Tie Pacific Coast Company
Is prosperous when tie Pacific coaat IL
prosperous. Tn. rush Of feYerizh human
iiy 10 Alaska and Northwest territory dur
ing the present year has brought maay
sheksis Into the Golfers 81 its steamship
lines the tremendous Increase in the coal
ard lumber output Of the state % Washing
ton has made IS railroads creak with The
traffic OF many trains, ard when the finger
Of adyer-ity touches any portion % the
Golden West the blood Of The Pacific Coast
Company artery that reaches 81 is tainted
and The Pacific coas: Company suffers
with the rest. As witness, when during
the Tong month"; Just past the skies Of
California we're sunny from morning until
night. and day followed day withneit rain.
and the growing crops IN the valleys were
swept by no. winds and cried FOR moisture
which G!i not como until too iate-then
The Pacific Coast Company knew that in
\
ears ~ grain the engines would be hauling
temples the wrong way
The business Of THE Pacific Coast Com
rany III 81 such varied nature that but
comparatively few people know It's I'm
mensity. They do not know that IN 1897
rs gross earnings were nearly 81 00Gso and
thar IL pad out about 5000. 600 in wages
aud other expenses. They do not know
that l. operates twenty-Cus steamships ns
fts own with 81 total tonnage OF - coo to-
gether with chartered vessels when traffic
6ennnds-tbe biggest and best equipped
fleet o. the coast. They do no, know that
II operates the Columbia q puget Sound
railroad from Seattle 20 the Newcastle
Lawson. kenton, Cedar Mountain Black
Diamond ard Franklin coal mines They
90 net know that /. operates the Seattle Il
Northern railway, which extends from
Anacnrtes Through the fertile valley - the
Skasii 10 Hamilton. " ash on the Skagst
fifrfs 90 OF thlrtN-f0Ar miles. They
do GOT know That II operates the Port
Townsend Southern ra.iruad. Which has
two division. one extending from Olympia.
the capital 81 the state Of Washington. NJ
teen miles % Teulno where Il connects
with the Northern Pacific railway; tina
ether from rort Townsend 10 ou!lcsne. IN
Jefferson county. Wash ng-ton. distance
OF twentY-srven miles They do not know
that II operates tho Pacific Coast railway
extending from Port Hartford on the South
ern California coast south @aat through the
grain growing valleys OF san Luis Obispo
Arroyo Crande. Los Alamos. ending al Los
Ouyos. They do not know that Il owns
and operates the coal mines Cf Newcasti.
and Franklin. mines that produced 80 01
tons II is,i. and viii produce iooeo tons
mora this yea-. They do not know that IL
has the largest and finest coal bunkers at
Seattle. Astoria ard Oakland there are on
the coast. that II owns wharves at Port