Year: 1875

pers, who has been writing up the
Sound country, has the following
concerning our town:


"Port Townsend ranks among
the favorite places on Puget
Sound. The bay is FIVE miles
long and three broad; it has deer
water up to its head. Vessels can
enter or leave at any state of the
tide or any art of the wind with.
out towing. The anchorage is
good and vessels are protected
from gales or storms. Being the
port Of entry for the shipping
coming to or leaving the Sound,
the bay is in all respects, admira-
bly, adapted for that purpose. Col.
Briggs Deputy Collector, says
that he has seen within the last
SIX months as many as thirty-seyen
ocean vessels under sail coming
into the bay at one time, and that
there were at the same time as
many as one hundred vessels in
the Straits, onlya few miles from
theentrAnce to the bay,that would
carly an average tonnage of deep
sea vessels.


%The Marine Hospital is under
the care ofDr. I. 7. Minor, There
are thirty patients in it at present,
thatsre well cared for by the doc
tor.a The hospital is located on
the heights above the town and is
admirably adapted to promote the
health Of the patients. Port Town
send being the place where so
much shipping eoncentrates, this
hospital is a great boon to the
mercantile service.


@The Garrison is located near
the head of the bay; il is good
Eve miles walk to it by the trail
but It amply repays for the walk
There are sixty men at the Fort
under the command Of Captain h.
Burton and Lieut.. Williams. The
grounds barracks. hospital and
officers quarters have gone under
complete repair, and are now in
excellent order, At a cost Of ten
thousand dollars. The scenery oI
the bay, the Cascade range and
Mount Baker that come into full
view from the officers quarters il
grand, perhaps mot excelIed on the
Sound, and should be visited by
travellers on the Sound who car
appreciate the beautiful and ths
sublime in nature. Fisi


@The town itself is not as large
as = stranger would anticipate
from the fact of it being the port
of entry for the shipping and





commerce of the Sound. On the
heights above the business par
Of the town there are numerous
beautiful private residences thai
do credit to the taste Of the pro.
prietoU. From these height.
commanding views of the sur.
rounding scenery can be bad thai
addmuch to the health and enjoy.
ment Of the residents.


aTaking into consideration the
splendid bay, the facilities for
shipping and the forests Of lumber
that abound, It seems strange that
capitalists have not selected the
head of this bay for erecting a Ium.
Der mill. To the writer there
seems no place on the Sound bet
ter adapted for such an enterprise.
Had it been in operation this year
the profits on lumber would have
paid for the erection of the mill
That there win be such a mil
built there soon there is little
doubt and the sooner the better.
The tide Of immigration to the
Pacific coast is fully set in; with
it comes the demand for new
buildings, improvements Of all
kinds of which lumber forms ar
essential part. Capitalists who
invest on the Sound judiciously in
this business, particularly those
who understand it themselves, are
sure to make money for the next
ten years. At the head of PORT
Townsend bay a lumber mill could
be built to the advantage of the
owners and to the great benefit of
the town and neighborhood."