New-York tribune., 1901-04-22

THE PASSING THRONG.

Seattle remarked William Brown. OF skaxts
yesterday, at the Hotel Manhattan. II the
coming metropolis Of the Pa
THE cifc Coast. It 10 the natural en-
FUTURE OF poffum Of the vast commerce that
SEATTLE will arise between the Republic
and the Orient. and the wealth
ot Alaskan mines and fisheries will centre
tnere. Thirty years ago Seattle was a Ium-
per camp on the shores of the matchless har-
Dor OF Puget Sound. while to-day 1t is a city OF
nearly one hundred thousand people. with
'ierce reaching to all parts OF the world. Ii is
soihe seven hundred miles nearer to Manila than
oah Francisco. and the trade of the Philippines
Wha, yIsc come to the beautiful Puget Sound city
,h Mnen l went West a generation ago Seattle was
now hT miles from railroad transportation, while
WITH hIee iranscontinental railroads connect 1t
trade the ,bs cities OF the Atlantic There
Orient, while to-day four ocean steamship lines
= ply III, rom there to Japan and China. Portland has
has mas Tacoma, and so has vancouver and Seattle,
smG AL those ships insufficient to handle the
IoTs organizer Of railroads ard steamships Is
Oriental trade and not satisfied W with the thss he has
twsen steamboat and railroad connection be-
fresh fruits and vegetables Of the groves and gar
dg than f eval bs in the h Central more
nnow gets its Southern California oranges through
But up TO date Alaska has done the most for
Seattle 1t is the gateway of trade of the grea,
territory the north. Last year
ALASKA Alaska contributed $so.o00.0O0 In
WILL POUR gold to this country, and in 1901
GOLD INTO Alaska will send gold tribute
IFS LAP OF $5o.oo0eoO. And, mind. Alaskan
gold and copper mines only In
their infancy, and will go enriching the United
States and the world for generations to come
Seattle has dubbed itself the Queen City OF the
Pacific win play mighty pars In the hey centnry S1 ary
which has so auspiciousy dawned for this coun-
proc soil tan n the buary ii sns
and when its vast forests Of fir and cedar have
md
meadows mead WIS. and orchards have supplanted them:
contented an industrial population the world
car. can boast Of You folks in the East have abso-
Of Pacific Your Tsrosd Sses
h Of the na me
into hives of industry that is contributing
any other like area and population on the globe
know that We are only on the outer edge of the
that this world has ever seen And Seattle viii
m6y IN c9 nhat Of than the
George B. Hollister of the United States Geologi-
cal Survey, referring the work OF supplying pure
water from the Passaic River. said
AN yesterday:
IRRIGATION The deplorabe pollution of the
EXPERIMENT. Passac River of Eastern New
Jersey. which has become such
menace to health and property to compel legis
lative investigation IS likely 10 be paralleed by
other small streams in the thickly populated dis:
tricts OF the East. The report comes from one OF
have been recently Examined by the United States
Geoogical Survey that the streams even there are
receiving so much imDurity in the form OF sew
age. refuse and harmful chemicals from tanneres
dye works and mills OF various kinds TO be
hardly fit for industrial much less for domestic
in view OF the great need and public utility of
accurate information regarding the water supply
Il represented by Its rivers lakes and we'll re-
sources It seems strange that few OF the states
have made appropria tions to cooperate with the
work OF the measurement and inv estigatton OF the
yearly conditions OF the cou7trys waterways.
Such cooperation would be matter of
prime Importance. furnishing the scientific data
which must form the basis of any work of public
Importance In conserving the purity of the streams
and in the accumulation and distribution of waters
where need may arise. It is also good economy
with its experience and equipment the Govern
ment Survey is in position TO carry forward
such investigation more rapidly and cheap!y tnan
be done by private corporate enterprise
The States which now cooperating with the
Government are Maine. Massachusetts, Rhode ISL
and. Connecticut. New-YOrk. New-Jersey. PENN
sylvania and Maryland.
"A private citizen of Southern New-Jersey VINO
owns considerable land which Is too dry during the
sur mer months for successful farming has deter
mined to try artificial irrigation, which has proved
SO successful in the dry lands of the West, ana
has consulted with the United States Geological
Survey as 10 the hest methods of laying out the
work This experiment will be watched with m
terest There is doubt that many other dis
tricts in the East could be greatly benefited ana
made much productive If the example or the
West were followed and systematic irrigation
practised