Year: 1877

No community ever became opulent
which moderated the value of manufac-
'tures. They build up our cities for two
reasons; first. they generally work up
into money such substances as would
otherwise 60 to waste. and secondly.
they create market for what is grown
by the primary produce-s-the farmers
and cattle-rsisers. No man was better
aware of this fact than the late W. C.
Ralston; but he committed the error of
aiding every sort Of manufactures in
San Francisco. regardless of the chances
for selling them He ignored that
great and inexorable law of commerce
that the supply Elust be regulated by
the demand hence the failure of his
watch factory and carriage business.
But of the manufactures of Seattle it
can be truthfully said that there was
nothing premature in their establish
ment and that they are fully in keeping
with the requirements OF trade. With
thirty-eight steamboats, in active COM
mission, there must be work for boiler
makers and machinists; and the starting
of the Seattle and Wal'a Walla Rail.
road by the public spirited and enter


prlslng Colman. who never allows a
dollar to leave here for anything that
can be made here. has proven au addi-
tlonal spur to locel industry. Passing
mp the city front. We first came to


FOsTLR's BOILER SHOP


Which is situated in the basement OF
the large three story building on the
beach between Marion and Madison
streets. Here is an ineessant din from
sunrise to sunset. deafening the by
stander and causing him to wonder Low
"a man who earns his living in such a
place. could hear his wife calling him
to supper. We find eight men employ
ed here on two large boilers for the
zsteamtug Blakely, owned by Renton
Holmes & Co, The Biakely is hand
some propeller tug of elegant model.
built three years ago at the port whose
name she bears; but her engines and
boilers are those formerly in use on the
old Columbia whose hull now lies on
the beach at Port BiaIely. This ma
chirery having become nearly worn cut
her owners have sent East for a new
pair OF engines for her. The reason
why they do not have them made here
is on account of patent cutoff which
is only to b. had at certain machine
shop on the Delaware. But Captain
Renton believed that just as good boil
zers could be made here as at San Fran
'circo, hence he gave the work to Foster
& King. They have completed the
shell Of one boiler and are now ham
msripg away on the other. BY vessel
(which arrives here soon they will re-
ceise tbs tubes and then they will add
on the fire boxes. Meanwhile the
a
for her owners They will be ready for
her in about forty days.


THE PUGLT FOUNDRY


Conducted by Wilson & Son is cpe of
those concerns which, managed by prac
tical men who can do their own work
at anv time Father than depend npon
inferior labor. makes very little commo-
tien in the world; at the same time, it
gets away with great deal of business
Dropping in there yesterday we found
them at work on a new propeller for
the little steamer Minnie Nay. which
dad just been cooled off and taken from
the monlds. 1t is of thirty SIX inches
diameter and Will greatly increase the
speed of that miniature craft. They
also had jnst cast a large lot of, Car,
bumpers for The new coal cars in pl ocess
of construction by tie Seattle and Walla
Walla Railroad Company. Bnt the
beat job of all was a new. cylinder inst
cast for one of the engines in the Port
Blakely mill. It Is fourteen inches in
diameter with stroke of piston twenty
sei ght inches long. The clean manner
in which .hi. cylinder was turned ont.
goes to prove what an Id engineer who |
designed the engines of the steamer
rChin-dn- Wan once told US. The en-
gines of that boat were built in Stock
ton and in reply to onf question of why |
he did not get them built in San Fran> |
cisco. he replied: r


''PooR MEN DO GOOD WORK.


You give contract 20 one of those large
San Francisco foundries and they don't
care whether they make good Job or a
lbosch. II ey had the whole trade of the
State for ten years before any steamboat
work was done elsewhere, and the ex-
'orbitant prices they charged has made
them all rich and mean. They don't
half clean their castings nor smooi the
rods. But country machinist has a
reputation to make. He begins as q
perfec, drudge and unless he gives q
man full equivalent for his money,
that man won't bring him any more
work. SO be has got to do good work
or he will be but a common drudge to
the day of lis DEATH" We are willing
t. place all the castings turned ont at