The west shore., January 01, 1887, Page 40, Image 33

,n TIIE WEST SnOEE.
in rmhi fully U that 1 11 hnl at years ago a largo hotel the "Tacoma'
or in rr.M. 1 1 oiy Rnd beautlfuny furnished,
XV ttl il k night and .Uci about two hundred thousand
I ' " Port Twl Thence we dollars. During the past season it has
Miit around the inland- into Bel- been taxed to its full capacity to acconi
lingham bay. and ck throngh the up- modate the increasing number of its pa
tino of the archipelago to Victo- irons. It has attracted and held in Tu
rin, where we nnt the following day, coma many visitors who, m the end, have
and thon returned to our train at Taco- made their permanent location there ;
ma. touching at Tort Townseml, Port and so it serves the double purpose of
Ludlow and a few other joints which we stimulating travel to the sound and en
had mil on our upward trip. Inrging the population and business of
Although I had often len on Lake the city. I have no doubt that a simi
Onmplain. which I till think is the lar hotel at Seattle would be a good in
irot beautiful large body of fresh water vestment of itself, and in what it would
in America, ami on take George, the contribute to the value of other things
SI Iiwrence and the great lakes, and in that city.
wa familiar with many parU of the New From Tacoma there are a road and
England crwt, I had never nailed where trail to the glaciers of Mt. Rainier, or
tlie purely natural scenery was so charm- Tacoma, as it is called in that city, of
ing and improve. The Olympic monn- which Senator Edmunds, who visited
tin tm the wct, as varied and pictur- them two years ago, says that "The fin
.ue m the Waaatch range, in Utah, est effect I ever saw during a long tour
and mot glUtening, the Cables on the through the mountains of Switzerland,
t, with the .aka of Kainier and Bak- fell far short of what is seen at Mi Rai
er challenging the ky aa they towered nier." New Hampshire, with its at
aU.t the cloud, and the ever-changing tractions of the White mountains and
foreground of inland and headlands; the Pemigewasset valley, derives a con-
TlQ: Mt T' nDt,er the infln- 8i(lerRble Portion-I think I have seen it
eofd,l.ghtful and stimulating coin, estimated at one-fifth -of the annual in-
T W of its railroads and people, from
1 ! i l7 , , f Ki Rmi 8Ummer boardeV Within
tttl?? .T,, thePW California has received a
UTuS3 Z Z nsU revenue from the whieh the
'I, l et to t mT, faVring rates uPn the raoads have
-ii man eir berore; and the nmn- stimnlnto,! n
l-r w.ll continually increase aa it al S loD8 M tho re"
tW Ea.t, and the Northwest Z J con tanH 1'
in Ration and wealth. Tra Z ft thi8
rlm will make, n4 only the ud t J, T "fe of the Canadian Pa
'TfeYicwS Tf b' -other route,
t dW plac and make eicurl; i t0Un8U 00016 one J and
o the mountain, aa th?iST fish new induce-
andfaoditiforaummerinfionthernd "'fl? visit this l of the country,
and improve. Already TP tmel Alaska hi has only
a. nuoh ha. Aw u lW will make Admiralty inlet a
iat. a. ..II k inrit- auch riiu,ra. Twn ST i .TUghfAre for torts, as it al-
1WO for business.