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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1884)
168 THE WEST SHORE. destined to be an enormous one. for twenty-five miles more on either end then the citi zens of Seattle, aided by those living along the route and the capitalists of Walla Walla, will take hold of the mat- ter and see that the road is DUin. xney sxana reaay to do this whenever the way is opened for them to do so. Another railroad project is the Tuget bound bnore Kail- road to run from Seattle down tne eastern snore ol the Sound to Bellingham Bay. There it will meet the line of the Bellingham Bay & Jintish uoiumoia road, upon which construction has already been commenced, by which it will be placed in connection with the Canadian Pacific. The commanding position oeattie will occupy both as the leading railroad and seaport town will more fully establish her position as the lueen Uty of the Sound. .... T rPHtwwfc to the value of property and the financial condition of the city, much that is interesting may be said- Real estate haB steadily advanced in value, and tne trans fers have been large, though it can by no means be said that the sale of real estate is the leading industry of the people. They do not invite strangers to locate tnere TTnder the expanding i ,11 1nvfilnned. inflnnnoeof capital the mines are om . h --- . ,i ... imiwm'Hhioii of the mining, i..;i l rWimnv. Since that time tne nun Mini" iu""""' i -- , ., ,,UHi,.KK as ImiHllwl by the now n.aiiagmncn has wit , ... : ..i,..ut. 1m.vi.iii1 belief. It is not too ,,,,,,.1, to Hiiy that tho Oregon Improvement Company has Ihm.ii mora instrumental tin... any other agency in .bring- i 1 i. ...i-v.l,.imirr(iwtli and nrospcrity of boattle. Thin statement will not bo surprising to those of our i .. !,, riiiuinilMr w hat our water front was three or four years ago, and compare its then condition with the present splendid array of docks, warehouses and coal L..ra r..innnib(.riiiir that all these structures were """" " . .. U.. ,r,,t,l by the Oregon In, piemen w pa, , y , rf Clumbia & 1'uget h,mi uauroau wn.u " - ilowever an active market for real estate. Town trzz SW The company has other prop- rPTmt 0 ,m;,,d Waslnngu,,,, bit i Seattle holdings investment The rapid and are by h, the most productive and valuable. city has rendered all such investments highly p ofitable ' Oueof the mwl important factors in the futuredevel- and there is no reason to suppose that they will not be opmont of Seattle is it railroad interests. The narrow equally so in the future The city is spreading out wifc .muKfl road of the Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad wonderful rapidity, adding greatly to the .value of out v. ... ..ii C- ...H1. i . i; nnnnvf.v tnnnh rf which was laid off in additions Ijomimnv. widen was projected run iron, atjuuiu w jiv " i . I . . ...... I. . ill .Thoi-a warn ranrwlefl last year, sold ana uuuu upuu. xu during 1883 2,570 separate transfers or properxy uuu fifty-nine additions to the city. The estimated considera tion was $4,000,000, the largest transaction during the !.... 1 ... : 1 ,m- omnintinn tn KT INK). The increase in me railn)iul ruui,in soutl, from tlio city to a connection with property is best indicated by the city assessment roll, the Pacific Division of the Northern Pacific, and this In 1881 the total value of city property as returned by line m now alimmt remly t, le put in oration, and will, the assessor was $1,600,000. In 1882 this advan"j it is announced, lm operated by tlio Orog(,n Improvement $3,958,720, in 1883 to $5,685,575, and in 1884 to $8,932,045. Company. This will render Seattle tlio practical tor- This only includes property lying within the corporate minus of that (,'reat transcontinental road ami all connect- limits, though a large proportion of the actually occupy !.... i: f..n i i.ii -i ii.. ;i i: l J 1U TVio rntft of taX VH iiiK in"'", wiiiR vim iiuuM-hi jKuiii roacniHi uy ran on area oi me ciiy lies ueyuuu vucm. r Puget Sound, and tho nearest and most accessible harbor 1883 was but seven mills, the city revenue from i . 1. i . II. .1 i !. I . liii I i i Ann boo i-t ui mo I'uvriiiini in iiiui greai uuaiui sea readied by rail- sources amounting to iou,ioo.4a. imu1 from the East. The advantages it possesses in this One element which adds to the value of property is rlHM"t will bo vastly increased when a road is constructed the improvement of the streets. During last year across tho Cascade. Mountains to Eastern Washington $250,000 were expended upon improvements of this char mid a connection will, tho Northern Pacific and the whole acter. Ten miles of streets were graded and twenty miles raiWl nystom of that region. The interchange of com- of sidewalk laid. These improvements are being ; con-moditiea-merchandiHe, c ml, iron, lumber, fish, etc, for tinued. Upon a complete system of waterworks $100,000 . whuat, wool, lcot and the other pnxlucts of the great were expended, and twice that sum will be paid out in the Inland Empire -will of itmdf build up a large city at same direction the present year. The system of gns and Seattle; while the cmstruetioi, ,,f 8noh a road will settle electrio lights will also be extended, and preparations are defimMy the iomtioi, of tho city as the great commercial being made for introducing much-needed lines of street lort of Puget Sund and metropolis .if Washington Ter- railway ritory. It this road U not speedily built by the Northern One of tho most important questiona asked by stran 1 a.nuo-and weuty-five miles have been built westward gers is in regard to the condition of society and the edu from Amaworth, while Wntmg surveys have been ordered cational advantages offered by the city, Seattle has been imiii'iiiij , " ... - - - Columbia River and Portland, was constructed to the in ml fields at Rentm and Newcastle some ten years aco. This is now controlled by the Oregon Improvement Com pany, of whirl, Mr. Lhjal, Smith was rocontly chosen all
