The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-11-08

The Seattle Chamber of Commerce held
its weekly meeting yesterday afternoon
with President j. w. elise In the chair,
assisted by Secretary Prosch.
A letter was read from the director OF
the interior department at Washington,
In answer to a request for 500 copies OF
the census bulletin, In which he says
that owing to the size of their mailing
list and limited capacity Of the printing
bureau they will only be able TO send
about fifty copies 10 the Seattle Cham
Der OF Commerce.
A petition from the citizens of Olalla,
IN Kitsap county, praying for daily COM
munication. was referred to the trans.
portation committee after a motion had
passed asking the government to make
. mall route to Olalla- The petition IS
Is follows:
olaIIa, November 4, 1900:
To the Chamber Of Commerce, Seattle.
The undersigned and
settlers and property owners OF Kitsap
county, together with forty-nine out OF
every Nifty residents not herein named,
mcst rsspsolfaiy ask your assistance in
establishing water communication be-
tween this landing and the city OF Seat
.s wnss9y .. the san nsrs c az srsde
N Seattle and return to their homes the
AZ IL i. persons coming to Seattle to
y
and. indeed. two nights and one, day in
most cases, while from Tacoma they can
return homo the Same day.
al sold and the proceeds thereof, much
q. our dispisasurs. are expended in an
other city.
o.. Z but f,ss n mile; from sssssls
when 4 merchant o.. any one else desires
TO communicate with a resident OF this
section BY mail the letter goes first to
sround-about way through the wood: in
tien Ire third day after mailing. /.
We believe through earnest efforts OF
your influential body the mail route could
from Seattle. thereby shortening the
time to : few hours and contributing
The people OF this locality having re-
Gently expended considerable money In
the construction Of a good wharf and
at present cannot offer cash assistance
but can give their patronage TO the boat
and their trade TO the merchants of your
A. proof Of what would be the I'M
portarce and extent Of our trade to your
merchants, We desire to call your atten-
tior 70 the fact that our postofFice Is a
large circle Of thickiy Inhabited country
tributary to II, Very respectfully.
King. A. Eiholxer, Matt Holur. w. E..
wcsterman, b, L.. Karcher. Charles
westerman. II. r. Skier. John Karcher.
j. J. Van Boskirk, Charles Carlson,
George westerman. Henry Baldie. r. j.
Westerman.
Capt. A. II. wyckoff submitted the
following as q part committee report.
which was laid over for one week:
Resolved. That we respectfully urge
upon the congress Of the United States
that an appropriation OF not less than
e26O.000 be made annually for irrigation
surveys and maps Of irrigable lands with
plans and estimates OF cost Of reservoirs.
canals and Irrigation works necessary
for their reclamation and for sinking
experimental wells by the United States
geological survey, and not less than
tloo,0OO annually for irrigation investiga-
tons bv the department OF agriculture OF
the United States.
Resolved, That we urge the adoption by
the federal government OF a comprehen-
rive policy for the preservation Of the
forests and reforestation of denuded for
est areas as sources OF water supply