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42 THE WEST SHORE.
,Lu make these fonU almost impen- two hundred and ten thousand feet of
lrUl the pioneer cute his lumber daily There are employed on
way inUi thorn It U not uncommon to the wharves about forty stevedores. It
f. , or twelve foot high, and has recently received large orders for
the fin, and cedars sometimes reach the lumber from the interior of our country,
height f three hundred feet which it is sending east by the North-
Hut, notwithstanding the wonderful era Pacific railroad, the track of which
fertility of the region, not enough land has been extended to the mill. A rail
in yet in cultivation to supply the local road contractor from Denver has just
demand. Much of the flour, wheat and placed an order for about a million and
Urky owue from Wall Walla, Oregon and a half feet of bridge timber. The
and California; corn meal, butter, bacon fir of this region is of great value for
and hams from Chicago; !eans from Cal- bridges and all structures in which the
ifornia or Chili; canned tomatoes, corn, strength and durability of the material
jn'iiflip and other fruiU mostly from are essential. It is particularly valua
San Francisco; sheep from Oregon; and bio for ship building. The Tacoma mill
"it from Eastern Washington. The has just been getting out three large
Utal amount of money sent abroad for sticks of timber one hundred and thirty
fl which might be raised at home is feet long, together with all the timber for
very largo. three ships to be built at San Francisco.
From the earliest settlements on the The opening of the lumber trade from
sound, lumber has been it chief pro- the sound to the interior and eastern
duct The business of converting these parts of our country will still further
great tree into lumber is carried on increase this business. As I have shown,
with a system Uiat is nowhere excelled this trade has begun, and if the railway
by the trade. There are now in opera- pursues a wise policy, it will grow to
Uon al-out a down large saw mills, situ- enormous proportions. It is often said,
L at different port, besides several as it has been of Tacoma, that railroads
.malW milk and manufacturing estab- do not make cities; but this is only cavil.
uhmenU of vanou. k.nd. Thus far, The complaint is more truly that they
Ifoo 7 ' 8hir 1 d DOt mRke the all cities'
g tt mTth o V f ,DUN WK the rails has enabled
Xi-fer'' thtanber? Howhavetherail-
. il;;lttebQmber busirLof
u fn.m Tactn. fi n. iv ' clue8 At w by carrying lumber
)e afford-prairies.
have
layout ImI yea, sixty million feeTi frm St inne-
lumUr and fifwn million Uths. makl . te maha at tbe rat of sixteen
ichty.fivecam. T , 6 cents ,w hundred Donnrla With nnr.
Francisco, China, Japan w ETD? hm the can it
inliK the Sandwich IaWU j lQbt1 that the railroads would help
America. Thu ccmpany emsT T Seatt,e?
t-hun,r,. and Uonty men c, kiM' in'l that business of all
,CUU4k,n'18 the .Mind, agriculture, fishing,