The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-07
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THRIVING CASTLE ROCK.
Three Mills Running and Room md
Need for More Factories.

CASTLE ROCK. March s-castie
Rock. a thriving village on the banks of
the Cowltz river In cowlitz county, all
In 1.-THE Southwestern combine" has re-
Gently been grossly misrepresented
through the columns of a Seattle jour-
ma by an alleged correspondent. writing
ostens.bly for the good of his fellow
man and falling wide OF the mark by
his efforts. on account OF his vision being
obscured by the personal pronoun /.
II is strange that the whiri and COM
motion caused by popular opinion has
the tendency to induce all men TO turn
their affairs toward Alaska when results
can be secured bearing as fabulous rec
ords as any that have been reported
from Klondike. and with considerably
less trouble and suffering. without In
any manner using anything like the
work that is required 10 accomplish a
purpose in that far-away northern coun-
try. and all of this can be accomplished
AZ home in the state OF Washington, and
no further away than the county OF
cowlitz. We afford In the ST. Heiens
district opportunities for acquiring a
fortune through the means OF mining
with apparently no effort as compared
with the kiondike region. and as TO the
suffering one must endure there. the 81.
Helens district 3 comparatively = Pic
mic.
The resources or {7stie kHNk are
the manufacturing Of shingles and tn
order TO manufacture shingles IL is nee
essary TO do so by floating TO shc mills
here single bolts from the headwaters
OF the Cowlitz and ia tributaries. For
several years the mills have depended on
the timber from The Toutte river. and
almost invariably during the fall Of the
year the freshets cause more or less dis
aSter IN the loss OF bolts. which always
[.1yz Esas.N he yfFxsf
Now IL capitalists could be Influenced to
take hold of a project that would terrni-
nate In the building OF fiume extend
ing nearly 10 Mount s.. Belens for ran
ming bolts and other timber into Castle
Rock a distance Of nearly thirty miles,
il would pay and pay big. Our own
county would be improved helping prog
ress In the state and it's development,
and Ii would be a better investment than
any Klendike scheme that as yet has
been presented. 4 project Of this kind
would bring into market u region of
timber that could not possibly he
reached without an enormous expense.
and would add diversity Of Industry 10
our already thr wing town.
And then we need a creamery: here !.
another opportunity for capital. with the
material here awaiting for some enter
prising man or men To come along and
pick II up.
JUST AZ present politics n this section
Is lying low. The busy bee Is commence
ing 10 buzz Just little fn the bonnefs
o. some OF our brothers WHO are anxious
20 serve the dear people. The coming
man Of Castle Rock wishes TO be
senator IN the next session Of Washing
tons legislature. and Candidates for
county officers are OF mushroom growth
or today and of tomorrow, III am
so soon 10 be done for. what was ever
begun for7.' IL their finale and requiem.
Our town has water system and eiAc-
trio light plant. The water company
furnish 10 their consumers water second
10 none. piping II from a mountain
stream into reservoir on the top OF the
rock that gives the village its name. IL
/ am rightly Informed this reservoir 10
10 feet above the town, giving ample
pressure by gravity TO throw water over
any building in the corporation. thereby
a1ordIng ample fire protection. Our
electro light system ~ carefully man
aged. and ss Al throughout. nor could
we do without it, II lights our streets
and dwellings. and Is voted SUCCESS by
all our citizens
We have : mayor, and our mayor has