The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-05-09

the Columbia river gap-the only
water grade pass in the United States
through the mountains leading to the
Pacific Coasts the signal to ad-
vance.
1t is the biggest traffic game the
world has ever known, and the great
est aggregations of capital the world
has ever known are playing the game.
They have picked Tacoma as the port
of the Pacific. Never since the race
began has so much pressure been put
into a place for the building OF a
great city. The Northern Pacific, Mill
waukee and O.-W. railroads have
bought nearly 1900 acres of terminals
in Tacoma while the same roads have
less then 200 acres in Seattle.
That these empire builders have
bought these terminal grounds must
mean volumes to any one who thinks.
Why has the Northern Pacific and
Great Northern spent $75O,OOO in build
ing depot in Tacoma that is superior
to any other railroad depot west of
Chicago. Why has the Milwaukee just
put in the greatest passenger equip
ment in Tacoma ever put in any termi-
nails by any road on the Pacific Coast?
Why has the Milwaukee had plans pre-
pared for depot in Tacoma to cost
million dollars? Why are hundreds of
millions of dollars being spent by the
great railroad companies to make Ia
coma the place for the rail to meet
the sail?" The answer to all these
questions is that Tacoma is the one
seaport on the Pacific coast without a
mountain barrier between it and the
producing areas to the east. Because
they expect Tacoma to become city
of at least million people-they are
now preparing for city of that size
Don't forget that traffic has no senti-
ment-it is carried on for profit. And
1t costs less at Tacoma.
We have the pressure of the great
est financial men of any age pointing
out the place where money will be
made. 1t is the chance to build the
last great city of the world. There is
no new West The commercial scep-
ter of the world has ever been handed
down from the east to the west, but
the time has come when farther west
Is the enfeebled east. Here is to be
built the greatest city of the Pacific,
and its greatness can be imagined
when we realize that the lands bord-
ering on this ocean hold one-third of
the human race and that these lands
have the most room for expansion and
development of any lands on the
globe. The worlds future commerce
must be done on this ocean.
The Panama canal will be the last
geographical event of the first mag
nitude-there are no more isthmuses
to be cut and no more countries to be
discovered. The Suez canal gave
England enormous advantage, but the
Panama canal will shift that advant-
age to the United States-and it never
again can be shifted. The Panama
canal reduces the size of the earth
one-third; it saves two-thirdst of the
Journey from New York to Tacoma;
it opens to the commerce of the world
those countries ranged around the
Pacific which comprise, excepting
Africa, the only great undevelopcd
and habitable portions of the globe:
1t insures the Pacific becoming the
center Of the worlds population and
commerce.; it insures the commercial
supremacy of the Pacific-and this
commerce will find it's new world
center at Tacoma on Puget Sound.
Doesn't it seem as if Tacoma is the
right town? Land near this city ought
to produce a profit-it is the only city
on the coast where land is still low in
price. The opportunity is still here.
The completion of the Point Defiance
line and Of the Panama canal will
herald the biggest boom this city has
ever known. AS soon as the public
really awakens to what Tacoma
means to the world of traffic then the
boom will be on The public will
overestimate as it nearly always does
and carry values beyond normal lev
els, but the man who is fortunate
enough to own land in or near this
city will emerge with large profits.
1t is the same opportunity that has
made men rich in all the other big
cities of the country. Five, ten or
twenty acres may give a man a life
competency.
Right row the wise ones of other
places are beginning to filter into Ia
coma and it always has been the out
slider who has made the most profit
in Tacoma real estate. Any one who
buys land in Tacoma and stays with |
it till the boom comes, as come 1t
must, will reap the big profits just
as the Astors, Bixbys, Goelets, Rand
alls and the Rhinelanders have done |
in New York, and as scores of others
have done in every other large city
of the country.
But profit is not all-there is the
climate and the productive SOIL If
God ever made country for man to
live in that place is the Puget Sound