Marc 1883.
THE .WEST SHORE.
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WASHINGTON.
WESTERN WASHINGTON.
Seven million bricks will be made in Steilacoom
this scaaon.
La Conner is displaying much activity in erect
ing new buildings.
Plans are being prepared for a large Catholic
church in Vancouver.
A large store is being erected at Hoquiam,
Chehalis county, by the mill proprietors.
Caryville is a new settlement in a fertile valley
on Skagit river a few miles almve the coal mines.
The estimated population of Chehalis county is
two thousand. Property in 188a was assessed 4
$37,62J.
The Bishop cheese factory, at Chimacum, Jef
ferson county, made 28,000 pounds of cheese last
season.
Considerable stir is being made in Steilacoom ;
new families are settling there and new buildings
going up.
Snohomish City is advancing rapidly. With
two additions now being laid out the town site
covers 220 acres.
of San Francisco, for $300,000. The caacity supplies to immigrants to the Dig IlenJ country.
Twenty-five wagons in one day are reported.
The new town of Collon Is to have a flouring
mill, with capacity of seventy-five barrels daily.
The citizens have subscribed $2,500 to aid the
entcrprrsc.
Unlontown is situated In Whitman county, ten
The Nooksack country in Whatcom county Is miles west of lewiston. It has two stores, black.
filling up rapidly, and all the government land ,mith shop and hotel, ami is soon to irossct a
ill prolialily lie taken this year. Anotlier season brewery and Homing mill.
will lie one of the finest and most prosperous Th iml)rov(n.m, nU(e lHyltm dmlB ,h.
year iKKi amounted to $180,000, or an average
will be increased
A large immigration is expected in Wahkiakum
county the coming summer. The timber lands
are very valuable, nnd nre attracting much alien-
on. When cleared, the land is fertile. Stock
of all kinds do well.
A railroad to Iwis river and a large saw mill
in the city are occupying the attention of citizens
of Vancouver.
Schwahacher & (iatzert have contracted for
350,000 brick for their new block in Seattle at
$10 per thousand.
There is a new settlement in Puyallup valley
called Chain of I-nkcs, and a post office with that
name has been applied for.
The works just completed at Iionton by the
Pugct Sound Iron Co., cost $820,000, and have
a capacity of forty tons icr day.
The Vancouver Water Co. will expend $7,000
in improvements this season. Five thousand fret
of six-inch pipe have been purchased.
The real estate boom at Seattle is more intense
than ever. Prices have advanced and an increas
ing numlier of transfers are recorded.
A new town has lieen laid out near Fairhaven,
Whatcom and Schome, and preparations aie be
ing made to erect a large hotel building.
A fine wharf has been completed at Union
Ridge on Lewis river 100x50 feel. S. Sliolwrt i
building another wharf and laying out a town site,
The cash receipts of the Olympia land oiTic
for the last quarter of 1882, were $81,377.46
homestead entries in the same time, 20,900 acres,
Thirty acres adjoining Vancouver on the north
have been purchased by simulators at $500 cr
acre, and laid out in lots as an addition to tin
city.
A new lime kiln has been built on San Juan
Island by the proprietor of the Eureka. The
, , ,
rnmbined canac'ilv of Ixrth kilns is one hundred
barrels daily.
Vancouver has just completed a $22,000 school
house, and a new brick court hous-- is neaily
finished. Other improvements are in conlcin
plation.
The Mattulalh Manufacturing Co. has sold its
large barrel factory at Seattle to Clans Spcrcklet,
farming sections in the west
Seiniahmoo, Whatcom county, at the extreme
northwestern corner of the tenitory, has a line
harbor and expects at no distant day to be the
connecting point between branches of the Can
adian and Northern Pacific roads.
The improvement of Olympia harbor Is occupy
ing the attention of business men of that city.
hey feel the need of it to give facilities for
handling the rapidly increasing business. Olympia
is entering uKn a season of proscrity it has
ng merited.
Twenty vessels are employed this spiing in
catching seals off Cat Flattery. The average
catch per vessel in a season is eight hundred,
valued at $4,000. The Coast Indians also take
the animals in larce numliers and earn altout
100,000 each season.
The business center of the Slillaguaniish river
is SlanwiHxl, near its mouth. The town has tw
good stores and Is in want of other business en
tcriiriitcx. Three thousand acres under cultivation
in the i icdiate vicinity contribute to ltssiipMirt
besides settlements farther up the stream.
Whatcom county is the gtcat agilcultural sec
tion of l'ugrt Sound, and the tide of immigration
has set stiongly in that direction. There are val
uable coal ami Iron lands, while timber covers
of $120 for each Inhabitant. Such Is the recu
perative power of a town whose business street
was nearly obliterated by fire less than a year ago.
A new town named Covello, has been laid out
in Columbia county, nine miles west of Dayton,
on the Ixwlstnn singe road. It has already
school house, sloie, ami blacksmith shop, and
a hotel anil livery stable will toon I elected. A
pmt office hat been applied for.
Pullnmn it the name of a new town laid out
last fall in Whitman county. It Is on the South
Palouse, and on the Moscow branch of the road
now being built fiom the Northern Pacific to
oien up the Palouse country. It will tie a ship,
ping point for huge and frrllle section.
Egypt Is Ilia name ol a stretch of well-watered,
rolling labia land, lying between Spokane river
and Cottonwood creek. Though much of the
government laud has been taken, there tie yet
choice claims of mixed pruliie and timber lands
open to settlement, Radioed land equally g'xxl
can be had by purchase.
The town site of Chenry was laid out In I lie
summer of 1KK0, and ll now covers 275 acres.
650 lots have been told by the radioed coniany,
sud since January I, 88, three hundred build
ings have bren erected. Sxkan county owns
the entire suifarc. ll is one of those regions I u ,,K.k,( KMK1 ,liri t on lilos k, and
where splendid timlx-r stands upon equally
splendid soil for agricultural putKMes.
C. II. Wright, Esq., of Philadelphia, the
ilonor of the $2..nrx St. I.ukt s Memorial
Church at New Tscoma, has assured llishop Pad
dock thai he will donate $100,000 In an Epis
copal college at New Tacoma, if $50,000 are suIh
scrilied by other parties. A laige priqioitlon has
Ix-en promised, and four blocks of land have been
secured for college ground"
The Washington Improvement Co. has Urn
('henry academy eight ami three-fourths acres.
Priqierty In Cheney lhal told for I75 per lot
two years ago, It now valued al $2,500, Many
new brick buildings will I erntcd there this
season, among llitm large agricultural ware
house. The liutlm-M men art preparing for a
grral increase of businrta at soon as the Northern
'eclfic is completed.
Paul Hchulze, Esq., General l-aml Agent,
recently paid Indlsn Enoch $2,000 for his h.
srvtory cltim to a tract of land adjoining Spokane
organized in Seattle to cut a canal connecting (he ,( ( M M,loi (eton im h
purchase wst mailt simply to give talisftcllon.
ll is Mr. Schulre s policy lo deal fairly and even
grneiously with all.
Kjxikane Falls is bustling with lib ami energy,
Two laige brick buildings aie under way, and a
furniture factory It being erected. Much eastern
capital Is terking investment in real eslalt In the
town and vicinity. The citizens havs) (reeled a
large building for iht fret occupation of Immigrant
families while suitable locations are being found.
Thru is much desirable land yet open lo settle.
mcnl in (he region tributary lo I lot enterprising
place, ami much of the emigration lo the Colville
country will make this the final starling ixdnl.
Isaac I. Stevens was Ihe first governor of
Washington Territory, and the first explorer 0
tn overland railroad route near Ihe 4'jlh parallel.
A station namedl Stttens, In his honor, la situated
waters of Union ami Washington lakes, supply
the city with writer, use Ihe walrr power for manu
factoring, and lo run strainers on Ihe lakes. The
canal will Iw only four hundred yards long and
will lower Ihe water in Washington lake sis fcrl,
diaining several thousand acres of valuable land.
EASTERN WASHINGTON.
A large brick hotel Is to he erected in l)ayton
Columbia county hat an etcrst of cash In lit
tressury,
The little valley of Sclah, In Yakima county,
it extremely productive and Is not yet all stilled.
Wenas valley, Yakima county, produced 1,000
Ions of hay, lo.oo bushels of grain, end an
abundance of vrgetahlr last year,
Sprague is doing a large business In furnishing