The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-30
Our Business Year.

Our Business Year.
The post-Intelligencer presents to its
readers this morning a summary OF tho
material progress Of Seattle during the
year OF which but one secular day re-
mains. II is a business treatment of
distinctly business subject. We have
grown out OF long clothes. We have pass
ed the time when ecstatic and more or
less hystericat generalities about past or
future had power TO charm. Our feet
stand on. the goodly earth. our hands are
strong for labor and for battle. our place
in the band of great cities IS secure. As
careful and competent workers In a tire
less world we want to glance over the
ground traversed and see what has been
accomplished
It has been the business Of the Post-In-
telligencer to make up the most complete
and accurate statistical summary that
was ever offered to the people of this city
and this state. The largeness Of the sub
ject compelled the most rigorous conden-
sation. The resources and the Increase Of
wealth in the state have been sketched
with rapid but vigorous hand In deal
ing with the growth OF the city, more de-
tail In possible. Here we have grouped
commercial and municipal effort in ASSOC
ciated departments. so as to cover the
whole field of material activities.
In every instance we have sought and
given. with all possible pains and accu-
racy. the facts and figures. We shall not
attempt to tell here. even by way of re-
capituIation. the story given elsewhere in
ceiamn after column Of statistics that Pep
resent the patient and unremitting labor
OF many men for many weeks II there
are any inaccuracies. they are incident 10
the subject or to the absence OF records.
and not to careiessness In preparation
There Is absolutely not one word OF ex-
aggeration. The entire study has been
10 ascertain the exact facts and make
them public. Seattle needs and wants no
greater encouragement within or recon-
mendation without than the simple truth
II IL, indeed. an almost unexampled
record that We have 30 chronicle. In
wholesale and retail trade. In manufac-
turing. In transportation by land and
by water. In diversity of interest and nc>
tiviy. in fnaneia, strength. In Increase
OF population In the wonderful creation
each year OF a city of new homes and
In the development OF those lines OF
strength and influence that reach over
continents and cross oceans, we have
leaped forward as few cities ever dld be-
fore And an the details and all the ax-
eregstes Of this unrivaied progress are
written tn the pages OF eur special annual
review this morning To understand anI
appreciate u al. 10 renlise how far We
| have moved within the tweIvemon,a. and
to mark Justly cur prospective place anteng
the great cities of the country. the tate
must be read from the first word 70 the
| last.
The Post-In,elligencer presents the re-
suits Of this labor Of love on their behalf
10 the people of thu community where it
Ia Its happy fortune TO work IN the ln.
teFests % pregrrss. Il Is Tor their Infor-
nation: FOR thsir rnide To tho future for
their uss as means 81 conveying ID an
outer paslio. Interested bu, advised only
/ hy piscsmeai o. what Is doing here "A
the representative newspaper Of the great
Northwest and Of rs chief city IL brings
I 10 thesr service tass complete compendium
I 81 the business year. This record h o.
\ fsrs with iise heartiest good wishes. with
the compliments Of the season, ana with
the hope and confident belief that the
| scar which IL about 70 open will ealipse
IN is contribution 20 ouF fortunes The
memorable season whose annals Il has
written and whose gifts Ii presames "a
hope that lis own iabors have helped 60
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