Arizona republican., 1900-10-10
EXPANSIONS WORK.
Steady Prosperity on inc
 Pacific Coast
Great Business Interests Developed There in the Last Four Years. Everything is Not Due to the Government Transports.

past four years there has come to the
 Pacific coast country marvellous growth of all it's industries and de- gelopment of many latent resources. Tn the Puget Sound country this is partially due to the gold discoveries at the base of supplies, the terminals of the most northern of the transcon- | tinental railroads. Coming and going, | the gold seekers have left their money in the cities along the shore of Puget ! Sound, not only the money necessarily expended for personal needs and for ! transportation. but large sums in | vested in equipment of every conceiv-
 able kind. The days of tho great rush
 are over but in their place has come a | steady and profitable stream of ont l going and incoming business wdich ! can be estimated to nicety from | month to montl. Tn the days of the ! great stampede the hotels put their ! guests to bed upon the billiard tables
 and In the bathtubs and charged full 1 rates for so doing. Nowadays these
 
 tions so as to provide each traveller
 with bed and board, and while this en- 1 tails more or less investment of cap~ ] ital, the business is steady and thcpe | fore more surely profitable.
 The merchants of the northwestern l coast are no longer filing orders for l supplies by express, but they are able 1 10 estimate the demands to he made I ;,, ,J1 ,,I i their stocks up to the required point. | The Alaskan gold fields have yielded ! enormous profits to q few. but their 1 discovery has been the source of pros ! peri,y to thousands upon thousands of 1 people only asking legitimate trade nr l an honest days labor for moderate 1 wage. Four years ago business was , dull in Seattle, Tacoma and other near | by points, and many people who had i invested their all in that section of the ! world pondcred seriously az to what i the future was to bring forth.
 1 The situation is very different how. ! No legitimate business fails to receive i It's share of the impetus which has ! been given to all branches of trade,
 and where four years ago a thousand ! men were seeking daily employment. ] i site help to conduct even an enterprise ] of moderate proportions. All this pros ] perity is not due entirelN- to the dis | covery of gold in Alaska. for there are ! other causes almost equal in their po | tency. The agricultural interests oP ! Washin~ton and Oregon arc in a i nourishing condition. A large whc1.
 crop sold at satisfactory prices has put i heart into the farmers of the grdip l sections and ample supply of fruit 2; 1 better prices than have prevailed for several years has brought prosperity to the hundreds of Itlle valleys plsht~ ed in orchards. The great saeep anj cattle industries of these two states in the extreme northwest have grown apace The price for cattle is better than for ten years past, and the prize of wool has doubled since 1896, bring ing with it corresponding increase Ia the price of the sheep.
 Oregon and Washington have for many years been the feeding grounds of great bands of horses of moderate size
 and of little breeding. The distance to the markets of the east and the low prices which prevailed throughout the country for cheaper grades of this kind of live stock prevented the horse raiser of the northwest from realizing upon l his increase. These bands of horses grew in number to an alarming degree. , They were offered for sale at any price i the buyer might see fit to give, and i seven or eight years ago it was not an uncommon thing to hear of uppOrtuni- | ties for securing eight or ten thousand of these horses in one band at prices ranging from $1 to 8 apiece. In the general upward tendency of prices for all products of land and labor which | has been 50 noticeable for the last four years horses. have received their share of attention. and for the past year or so it has been a common incl dent of western travel to meet great tTainloadS of these Oregon and western horses en route to markets in the mid Gle states. where they found ready sale at prices unhopeI for by the;r owners but a short time ago.
 The extension of the power of the nited States into the Orient has brought with it new business for the Puget sound and Columbia river har- hors While it is true that at present nearly alI of the government transports sail from San Francisco, there is still a large eastern commerce which finds
 it's point of authorization at Seattle. Ia
 coma and Portland. Some Of this is
 through freight and passenger traffic
 which arrives or departs from the
 transcontinental railroads and passes
 at once from or into the steamships of
 the Oriental lines. A great deal of
 this commerce. however. originates and
 terminates on the Pacific coast. Ium-
 Der, grain. live stock and supplies of
 every description can be purchased bet
 ter there than elsewhere. and are ready
 at hand to be brought alongside the
 vessels departing for foreign lands. ItI
 is t. Seattle and Portland that the
 Orient looks for a large part of the
 bTeadstuffs the United States is now
 shipping toward the setting sun. and
 the growth of this line of trade has
 been so tremendous as to have had
 distinctly beneficial effect upon the
 prices of all the products of the farms
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