The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-21
every way the preferable route Of the
two.
Work Of osartermaster's 0mce.

every way the preferable route Of the
Work Of ouartermaster's 0nce.
AT Seattle the government has mill
.ary establishment OF no mean character.
II includes post named by you Fort
Lawton, at present unoccupied; ofices OF
military engineers. of1ces OF the quar-
termaster and recruiting station. Con-
nected with these Offices are employees
OF trustworthy character. in whose abil-
ity the war department evidently has the
utmost confidence. They have had vast
ofhcisi operations intrusted to them dur
ing the past two years, and that they have
fulfilled every expectation and thoroughly
discharged every duty there Is no quss-
ton. The quartermaster has chartered
a score OF ships In that time. has fitted
them. has bought their carsoes and load
cd them. and has sent them to various
points In Alaska, Hawaii and the Philip
however. but a single regiment has gone
across the Pacific Notwithstanding the
innumerabie ADVANTAGES possessed by this
port and the northern route for their
thia way. why this has been so is be-
yond understanding II may be that the
advantages in favor OF the northern route
are 90 many. varied and great as to be
exaggerated claims Of a booming commu-
nifty III 40, the service the government
and the whole country are the losers In
consequence. At Fort LAwton are admir-
able camping grounds for soldiers In tran
sit. There are other grounds available as
well. There are fuel ana water on these
grounds to be obtained without cost.
There II also health in them and In the
air above them The death rate here Is
only about eight persons In each thou
sand inhabitants per annum.
"The climate IN agreeable ana invignr-
ating. So far this year the tsmperaturs
years II does not reach 20. and only once
there IL ofseial record Of It's getting up
to ~ Last winter the Thermometer but
once get as low as "a desrees and In thirty
only to reach zero. The average the year
around n sbout 50 degrees. There IL al
most entire absence OF thunder and ltgl Z
ming, and of storms OF any Kind. a gale
OF thirty miles an hour 10 a rarity indeed,
occurring not oftener than once year.
Seattle II the only place on the sea-
water OF the Pacific into which entsr the
trains OF threA different transcontinentaf
railway companies. These are the Cana
dian Pacific, Northern Pacific ana Great
Northern. The first named does business
over It's own lines from Seattle TO ~. Paul,
New York Boston and other cities; the
last named 20 points az far east as Buff
falo. the Northern Pacific to different
points on the Great Lakes. Between then,
their systems include heo miles OF rail-
way They furnish competition and facil-
tiles for TRANSPORTATION OF unsurpassed
character The Northern Pacific Is
land grant road BY the terms of Its char
ter the government Is entitled 10 one half
of it's bills on account OF the grant. The
Great Northern of necessity must meet
this reduced rate IL does so, II II DIFF
ferent with che bond-aided roads to the
south, II IL understood they charge the
nun price. hut the department gives them
crsdi. on tho bonds While the war de-
partment pays nothing for It's service ON
those roads. the treasury department pays
for II 100 cents on every dollar, BY using
the northern roads the government saves,
and thereby makes. one-haif OF every
transportation bill The amount OF these
bills for all purposes you know better
than any enc else.
Seattle Ha. Every Facility.
There is every facility here for the
transaction OF this kind Of business Che
records Of the customs service Will show
you that there are more ships on PUGET
sound than e, any other place on the re,
here by the government during the past
two years than at all other places COM
hincd There Is also more here IN the way
az wharves than elsewhere. while docks
and repair shops are numerous ships
of wood iron or steel can be built or re
palred here Railroad tracks extend out
onto the whRrses Tho wharves them
selves are long enough for the largest
vessels anoat. the principal piers having
lengths 81 from 30 TO 100 feet. The coal
output Of King county, OF which. Seattle
IL The seat, was sooso tons In iSas. one
bAAf the NUNit AbNntiAf tNAHs
II /. a good steam coal, and ~ used hy
the transports and merchant vessels from
here 10 all potta
supplies ~ alt kinds can be secured
here as reasonably and readily as any
where Flour sells at lower rate IN this
state than anywhere else, oats ana hay
are produced in iRrge quantities, and sent
TO California. Hawaii and the Philippines.
Here ia the largest cheapest ssld best
house bridge ard ship timber In the
world Horses and cattle are raised here
ana sent 90 Eastern states for sale, IL
l. a grand country fer vegetables fruit.
nah and dairy products. All that IL need
ed IN the army that Ia nos pr0duocd 80 the
country. can b. brought from the Aisst%-
.ippi valley and Atlantis coast as readily
as 10 any ether paint. sud more chrapty-
''Yoa are asked to take these statements
into careful account II you hna them
tyae. and u ven hnd that the government
has In the past been saving money w
aVnfiinx ussI az the advantages oIerAa
pV Puget sound and the northern route,
vcu wih % course direct this NAY laTg'
- share OF the patronage az your com
nnanA II IL ecltexNd here tha; Nod Nili
- fna ana that as result more ~ the
tr,saa~ both going and coming vii travel
this Way hereafter than have 80 Travelled
heretofore