The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-07-29

WASHINGTON states consumes something like two
million dollars worth of wagon and buggy harness an
nuay and yet she does not produce to exceed $OOO
worth toward supplying the demand and the most re-
markabe thing of this s the city OF Portland oregon
supplies half of what she consumes, and the goods are
made in Portland Before talking further about Wash
ington making what she uses the first question 49, II
Oregon can make it. why in Heavens name cannot
washington do it just well? for the two states are
side by side and have pretty much the same climatic
conditions To say the least 1t is to the everlasCng
shame and disgrace of the citizens of the state OF
Washington that they permit sister state to manu-
facture the articles she in such great quantities,
and the worst feature of it s the sister state gets
the raw material from Washington at nominal cost
and returns it to her at ten and twenty lines Its orig
inal value There are few small harness factories
operated in the state of Washington but they do not
turn out enough goods to supply the market of Ia
coma to say nothing of the balance of the state.
Having thoroughly looked into this situation Eu-
gene W. Way of Seattle, has begun to lay the founda-
ton for gigantic harness factory in Seattle and ne is
appealing to the pride of the local business men to put
the money behind the proposition to make it a go.
He guarantees those who become interested IN
the undertaking that the plant will not be able for
the next ten years supply the demand for the goods
even in the state of Washington to say nothing of the
Oriental and the Alaska markets, though it be increas
ed thousand fold over what it now is.
The Seattle Spirit has in the past sold good many
corner lots and of them at pretty stiff prices, but
the city that settles down to the belief that she can
always sell corner lots at fabulous prices and make
effort to sell home products to other communities as
well as to herself will later find that the
sheriff will sell the lots for potato patches in
stead of the real estate dealer selling them for sky
scrapers We have argued 10, these many years that
Seattle is the gate way to the Orient and the jumping
off place for Alaska and she would forever and ever
get the trade of both those places and that would al
ways keep her booming but unless we pro-
duce something to sell to those places instead OF
always acting as middle man Seattle will cease to at
tract as she has in the past San Francisco grew like
green bay tree on the kind of food, but at the
first great reverse she found she had nothing which
to fall back and now she lags behind both Los Ange
les and Portland Oregon, and if you stop and think
for minute it will doubtless occur to you that Seat
tie is already showing symptoms of the same kind OF
municipal inertia. The products of all these natural
resources of which so much is told about, that are
found in the state of Washington must be manufact
ured at home and not sent abroad to be manufactured
and then sold to us at fabulous prices.
In the city of Seattle the packing firm OF Frye
Bruhn it IS safe to say has hand today green hides